Graduation dinner

Kia Ora,
On Tuesday year 6  had there graduation dinner in the rugby club. We all got a graduation certificate a yearbook and a necklace. We had buns, chicken, rice, ham, salads and beans. We all got photos taken. Here are my photos.

Geometry

Kia Ora,
For the last few weeks we have been doing geometry tasks. I put all of the activities that I did into a google slide. Here it is?

Reading test

Kia Ora,
We have just got our math PAT reading test scores back. I got 29/35 and Stanine 6. My Scale Score was 58.6 +. Here is my result sheet.

Math test

Kia Ora,
We have just got our math PAT test scores back. I got 39/41 and Stanine 9. My Scale Score was 80.2 +. I got 6 more answers correct this year. I got one answer from number knowledge and Geometry/Measurement wrong. Here is my result sheet.

Comic Strip

Kia Ora,
We have made a comic strip. We got the idea from a book called The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Here is mine.

Explanation writing test

Kia Ora,
I have just done a explanation writing test. Here it is.

Name:Antonio

Explanation Writing - Term 4

Prompt: - - Write to describe one environmental problem and explain what people do to reduce its impact on the planet.

Start Writing Here:

Environmental is the natural world and things humans do with the planet. Problems are something that is unwelcomed and need to be overcome. I have found out some solutions to help stop environmental problems. Here they are. Firstly, pollution. Pollution is a toxic and is bad for the environment. You can help stop pollution by using reusable bags. Another way to help stop pollution is to conserve energy and remember to turn off lights, computers and electric appliances when they are not being used. Secondly, Deforestation. Deforestation is when a wide area of forest is cut down. You can help this by planting trees. Another way to help is by not wasting paper. You can also help by buying recyclable products and not products which will go to the waste. Thirdly, Waste Disposal. Waste Disposal is when you dispose of thing that can be reusable. If you have clothes that you no longer fit you can donate them. You can also buy stuff with less packaging. These are three things that I thought of that will help stop environmental problems. If we stopped these three things we can have a happy healthy planet. Thank you for reading. Good bye.

How Grandparents Cope with Weak bones

Kia Ora,
We have been doing a lot of writing for Greats and Grands activities. I made a explanation for Grandparents with Weak Bones. Here it is.

How Grandparents Cope with Weak bones.

A grandparent is a person who is old enough for their baby to have a baby. When people start to get old different parts of their bodies start to get worn out and they can no longer do what they could do before. This is called aging and it causes many problems. One aging problem that a grandparent may have to deal with is having weak bones.

One thing that a grandparent can do to cope with weak bones is to make sure that they do exercise. A 10 minute walk everyday will help strengthen your bones.

A second thing they can do is eat vegetables and have lots of protein and eat high calcium foods throughout the day.

A third thing that a grandparent could do is to have medicine. You should ask your doctor about having a medicine. These will help strengthen your bones.

Weak bones can be a difficult aging problem for grandparents to deal with but people are hopeful that improvements in medicine will be a big help for this in the future.

Greats and Grand day

Kia Ora,
We have been doing a lot of writing for Greats and Grands activities. I made a poem for my Nana. Here it is.

Tongariro National Park Facts

Kia Ora,

We have been making a facts slide on Tongariro National park. Unfortunately I didn't go because I had
appendicitis. But I still new facts from before I left to go to hospital. Here are my facts.

Hospital Trip

Kia Ora,
We have been doing diary's on the Ski trip. Unfortunately I couldn't go because I had appendicitic. So I wrote about my hospital trip. Here it is.

Kia Ora, 

We have focusing a  lot on maths lately. We have been working on Fahrenheit  and Celsius.

Here is a snippet of my work that I have made with Mrs Dixon. 

Matariki

Kia Ora,
today we did our Matariki activities. I went to room two. We made flax flowers and star plates. Here is a picture of me.

Learning Journey 2018

Kia Ora, we are making our Learning Journey. We are having our parent and teachers meeting tonight and tomorrow night so we had today and yesterday to update our learning Journey. Here are my results.
 

Writing to persuade

Kia Ora,
We have been doing writing to persuade using different writing styles. Here is my work.

Speech Writing

Kia Ora, we have been making speeches for a competition. I wrote about why smoking is bad. I also was doing a project on Taiamia Rock so I didn't get as much time to make my speech as some people did. Here is my work.

Have you ever wondered how bad smoking is or are you a smoker? Hi, my name is Antonio. Today I’m going to tell you how bad smoking really is. A smoke is something that people have. It has over 4,000 chemicals including tobacco, nicotine, tin, carbon monoxide and much much more. I believe that Smoking is bad and here is why.

Firstly, Smoking is bad for your health. Smokes are disgusting,dirty and death causing.You can get 43 different types of cancers from it. You can also get over 400 different diseases. That is a lot of diseases. Yet, some people think that smoking is healthy for you. Come on guys think about your own safety. Over half a million people die per year. In New Zealand 13 people die per day from smoking. I never want to smoke. That’s for sure.

Secondly, Smokes are super expensive. Governments are raising the prices instead of banning them. Everybody is buying them even though the prices are going up. People are becoming poor because they are buying smokes. Think about that. You could be poor from smoking. Over 6.5 trillion smokes are sold per year. That means if everybody in the world smoked including babies and kids we would buy over 84000 each, every year. Now that's going to far.

Thirdly, Smoking is addictive. People can’t stop smoking without any help.   Lots of the chemicals make smoking so addictive like nicotine. Man those chemicals are bad.  Most people that are trying to quit have to have pills or a needle or even patches. Even google is saying to not smoke, GOOGLE PEOPLE!

So, I’m sure you will totally agree that smoking is super bad, it’s really bad for your health, it’s way too expensive and it’s really addictive. So cut to the chase. Call the quitline if are still smoking and if you’re not, help people you know, to stop. Thank you for listening.

Waitangi Experience

Kia Ora we have just been to Waitangi. We were learning about the battle of Waitangi. We were asked to make a slide with writing like alliteration and moment in time. While doing this we did the 90 minute challenge. It was fun but challenging. Here is my work.

Golf

Environmental writing

Kia Ora,
We have been doing a lot of writing lately. We made a environmental poem. We went outside and we looked at all of the stuff around us and sketched about it. Here is mine.

Kia Ora,
Recently we had our school Commonwealth Games. We all made a review on how the day went. Here is mine.

Common wealth games activities

Kia Ora,
We have just finished our school Commonwealth games. We all had a great time. It was so fun going around all of the activities. We all had to do a activity. Mine was called the Athletic Run. We were representing New Zealand as our country. I had a really fun time. I hope we can do something like this again.

Learning evaluation

Kia Ora,
We have been doing a lot of  stuff this year. Mrs B and Mrs H sent us a presentation for us to fill in.
Here is mine.

Five Minute frenzy

Kia Ora,
Recently we have been doing five minute frenzy. It is to help you learn your times tables. You have 5 minutes to answer as many questions as you can. Today I got 67/100 today.

Weather similes

We have been writing lots of poems lately. We have been learning how to write similes. Here is my weather poem.

Simile

 We have been learning how to add a sentence into three simile.

Reading Poetry lesson No 5

Reading Poetry lesson No 5

Learn:

1. Why poets like to use similes in a poem.

2.  The different sentence structures and word types needed in ‘like’, ‘as’, and ‘than’ similes.

The dragon’s eyes are as round as dinner plates    A

Its mouth is dark and wide like a cave  L

Than similies

Kia Ora, We have been learning how to use similies. Mrs B and Mrs H  gave us some random pictures and we had to match them up and write a than simile for them. Here are my than similes.

Simile

Kia Ora, We have been learning how to use similies. Mrs B and Mrs H  gave us some random pictures and we had to match them up and write an as simile.

Swimming T1 2018

Kia Ora,
This year we have been practising streamlining our arms and legs. We also have been practising our breathing skills. I am good at freestyle. I can swim a length of our pool. We also had swim safe in to teach us survival skills.

Couplet poem

1. How to identify rhythm and rhyme in a couplet poem.

2.  What a couplet  is.

Lunchtime showers, wind groans,

2                     2 1 1

Grab a parka, hailstones.

1       1 2            2

Nursery Rhyme

Kia Ora,
We have been learning how to change the nouns and names in nursery rhymes to create our own version.

PAT Maths Term 1

Hello,we have done a math test for number knowledge and number strategies. I think I did good. Here are my results.

Reading poetry #2

That rhyme is a main ‘clue’ that a piece of writing might be poetry.

Antonio's Bio Poem

Hello, Mrs B and Mrs Craig have helped me create a Bio Poem. Here it is. 

Antonio’s Bio Poem

Antonio

I am caring, sporty, energetic and helpful.

I am the son of Shona and Stanley.

I like my nana and blue vein cheese.

I miss my nana.

I fear spiders and heights.

I have won a Rippa Rugby tournament.

I want to see my cousins over in Wales.

I live in Skudders Beach

Spadotto

Published holiday recount

Hello, I have now fixed all of the mistakes in my Recount. I Hope you enjoy my published version more than my draft version because I turned all of the start of places into capital letters.

Published holiday recount

Yay! I said as I woke up. I was down at Taumuranui with my
nana and poppa. My poppa and me were going tobogganing on
Mount Ruapehu.

We both had our own toboggans to use. My nana put really hot
clothes on me. My poppa and I headed for Mount Ruapehu.
When we finally got there it wasn't as cold as we thought it
would be. It was really hot actually. I was sweating like a pig.
My poppa and I went down the slope a few times. I went down
the slope a bit more than my popa. After we finished
tobogganing we rode up the ski lifts. When we looked down it
was like looking out the window of a plane.

Me and my poppa had lunch. Then we rode the ski lift back
down again. We walked down to our car, we got in the car and
started driving back. While we were driving back we stopped
and played some mini golf. I won the game. We hopped in the
car and finally went home. In conclusion I had a great day.

Reading poetry 1

Learn: The difference between prose and poetry.

Create: A DLO which shows short texts sorted  into two groups; prose or poetry and which includes at least one image.

Draft holiday recount

Draft Holiday recount

Yay! I said as I woke up. I was down at Taumuranui with my
nana and popa. My popa and me were going tobogganing on
mount ruapehu.

We both had our own toboggans to use. My nana put really hot
clothes on me. My popa and I headed for mount ruapehu.
When we finally got there it wasn't as cold as we thought it
would be. It was really hot actually. I was sweating like a pig.
My popa and I went down the slope a few times. I went down
the slope a bit more than my popa. After we finished
tobogganing we rode up the ski lifts. When we looked down it
was like looking out the window of a plane.

Me and my popa had lunch. Then we rode the ski lift back
down again. We walked down to our car, we got in the car and
started driving back. While we were driving back we stopped
and played some mini golf. I won the game. We hopped in the
car and finally went home. In conclusion I had a great day.