Pet day

Today my school are having a pet day. Today we bring one of our pets from home or if someone doesn't have a pet they would bring either a soft toy or a pet rock. The night before pet day we had to make either a sand saucer or vegetable sculpture. We are only at the start of pet day, and yet to come is bringing our pets to school and doing gumboot throwing, sack racing and seed moving.

If you do a pet day can you please comment below and tell me what pet you brang and if you enjoyed it.

link-ed

Today my class all went on a site called link-ed. We did this so that we could put work that we were proud of on link -ed so that we could show it to our parents. It took a while to put all the work on because we had to upload the picture of what we were proud of and then we had to write about it and why we were proud of it. I posted 4 maths things, 3 reading things and 2 writing things.

I am proud of all the work that I put on link-ed. If you do anything on link-ed please comment below and say if you enjoyed it or not.

Hooked on books

This week my class had a hooked on books week. When we have a hooked on books week we read part of a book each day. On the first day we read a book called Liars, this was my favourite book we had read and it was really interesting. On the second day we read a book called laugh your head off 4 ever. We only read one of the funny stories from this but it was really funny. On the third day we read another book called goldfish boy. This book was very different from the others and I hadn´t read a book like it before. On the fourth day we read a book called spellbound. This book wasn´t my favourite but I still enjoyed it. Then today we are reading a book called cool nukes, which at the moment is interesting but strange.

I am really enjoying hooked on books week at the moment and I am excited to have another one.

Attitude

Today a person that works for Attitude called Tamatia came to our school. First he started talking about some funny stories from when he was a kid and then he talked about a embarrassing story from when he was a kid, which was funny because he had needed to go toilet but his teacher hadn´t let him go to the toilet because he had been chatting through assembly, so then he peed his pants, one of his friends saw that he had peed his pants and had yelled out  Tamatia peed his pants!  which made him more embarrassed because everyone was looking at him.

After that he talked about 4 different categories of personality. The first one was an Otter, If you are an Otter you are a person that is always doing funny things and is kind of like a class clown. Next is a Lion, If you are a Lion you are very good at leading the way. Next was a Golden retriever, If you were a golden retriever you were very kind and always put others before yourself. I thought I am half Otter and half Golden retriever

While he was talking about the different personalities he talked about some other funny stories one of them was about his friend. His principal had said they were going to have a friday funday, and said that they had to bring their togs. For the funday he brought firemen to Tamatiaś school and the firemen started spraying all the kids, but they had to stand quite far back because the hoses were so strong. But then Tamatia´s friend ran in front of the hoses. When he ran in front of the first it was so strong that it pushed him over. Tamatia came to his house a while later and his friend had a massive bruise because of the hose.

I had a really fun time and Tamatia was so funny.

reading test

Today I did a reading test. For this reading test there were lots of different texts (storys), I had to read a text and then answer different questions. We had about 45 minutes to do the test. I found some of the questions quite hard but also found some of the others hard. I took a while for me to do the test but I still found it fun. I think I did well on my reading test. If anyone has done a reading test recently please comment and say if you enjoyed it or not.

Prime numbers

For the past few days a have been learning what prime numbers are. To figure out what prime numbers are, you need a piece of paper that has numbers up to 100. To start off you need to cross a 1 then you cross out any multiples of 2, after that you cross out any multiple of 3, then since 4 was crossed out you can´t do multiples of 4 so you have to do multiples of 5. Then it keeps going like that. I found this quite easy because I have done lots of timetables. Here is a picture of the slide that I did the prime numbers on. What are you doing in Maths?

Novel study

For a few weeks my class have been doing a novel study. As one of the activities, I made a poster about antonyms. To make this stand out I coloured the corners and also used black for dark and yellow for light.  An antonym is a word with the opposite meaning of another word, for example, ´dark´ is the antonym of ´light.´ I liked making this poster partly because I like colouring and drawing. Have you ever made a poster about antonyms? Below is the poster that I made:

Sailing

On friday the 2nd my class Rimu went sailing. I also wrote a recount about it which is below.

Sailing.

On friday I had one of the most fun days of my life.

On friday Rimu class went sailing at Lake Rua.

After we had gone on the bus and we turned up at lake Rua I saw lots of boats and over to the right had been sailes.

Before we started sailing one of the helpers had talked us through how to build up the boat. They had taught us how to put the sail in the boat and how to put the sail up. Then he had taught us how to tie the rope into a hard not so the rope wouldnt go out of the hook. After the helper had taught us how to build up the boat we had had to pick a partner to build up the boat with, I had chosen Zack as my partner. It was fun building up the boat partly because we had to think of how to do some of it ourselves, we had to do this because there had been so much to remember and it was so hard to remember it all. After we had built the boats we got to have a snack while the helpers had been taking the boats to the other side of the lake. After we had had a snack we had had to walk to the otherside of the lake and go towards the boats. The first turns had been pretty easy because it hadn been that windy. On my second turn another boy called Jonathon had bumped into my boat and my boat had nearly capsized. After we had had about 2 turns each we had to walk back to the otherside of the lake to have some lunch.

Next after lunch we had gone to the otherside of the lake again to have more goes at sailing. That time the helpers had let four boats go at once. I knew it was going to be much harder that time because the wind was much more powerful than earlier. When I went my boat nearly capsized again. After I had gone about three times I watched one of my friends go, and just as he had been going well his boat had capsized. One of the helpers had had to go on their lifeguard boat and get him. After him there had been another boy thats boat had capsized, But when the helper came to get him in the lifeguard boat the motor from the boat had gone to close to his leg and he had gotten lots of scratches. He had had to go home.

After I had had about 12 turns we had had to go back onto the bus and go back to school.

Zack and I  had both said we had a great time !!!

Athlethics

A while ago I did a recount about athletics day. It was a bit tricky to put it all in past tense. But it was still fun writing about athletics. My goal for next time is to use more descriptive words and use similies and metaphors.