Reading

Today for reading we read a book called Ching ming it is a Poem. here are some photos and questions we thought i was about day of the dead but is was about a man and his dughter saying good bye to their loved ones. it was an good book looks like it had good storys in it.

Today is halloween and we have had a helloween day it has been fun we had 4 atvites and one of the actives we did was a card game it was called hollow woods it was cool her is a story we made.

term 4 2019

This term in whanau time we are focusing on tall poppy syndrome. tall poppy syndrome is where some stands tall and does there best but someone goes and cuts them down and make them feel bad about there self.

u13s girls leauge

on Friday the first day of the holidays I didn't go to school because me and some other girls went to Dunedin for a league tournament. it took 9 hours for us to get there as we had a lot of stops on the way it was really fun from Grey Main school there was me Skylah,Indie and Neve. in the house that we stayed in it was me,Skylah,Indie,Neve and Maya. on Saturday we had our first two games we versed south land. They were very tall probably  about the 2x the size of us the first game was a friendly game it was not friendly we versd them again and we won it was cool to win our game.  Came first and we came second and south land came last but they we good players. 

japan kimonos

This term we have been leaning about Japan and today our teacher brought in some kimonos for us to try on. There where boy ones and girls one the first photo is Rowan and he's is in a boy kimono. The second one is with me Nyah, Charlotte, Rykar and Riley. Next we have Jake, Riley and me. Then again we have Jake and Riley .I hope we can learn about this again in the future. The kimonos  were really cool to try on. I hope you can get to try a kimono on some day.

maths art

DLO

wearable arts 2019

Its 2019 and where doing wearable arts our focus is the West Coast in my group there  is me Charlotte and Shakeira. we are making a flax dress we haven't done anything so far but we have got our flax and are leaning how to weave.

perp 2019

Hi my name is Shilah and I am the CEO for my prep group Truly tye dye. This year we are making scrunchies and as you might of guessed they are tye dyed. In my group there is Martin, Charlotte, Riley, George, Shakeira and me. Shilah. I hope that my group can make more money then previous years but if we don't we will still be ok.

This is what going to try and make.

Enlargements

reading rotations

Hello these are my reading rotations that I have done over the last couple of weeks.

basic facts

This term in Totara 4 we have moved down to 5 mins from 7 it has got really challenging because. It was hard for me to complete it a 7 mins. this is not really increased my learning but it is helping. My average is around 50 to 80 

Jake Bailey journey of cancer

Today we had special guest at our school names Jake bailey he is a cancer survivor he was told he had only a couple of weeks to live but he was at our school today. and he told us his story about his battle though cancer it made some of us sad. I nearly cried of talking about cancer because i lost my cousin to a battle of bowel cancer. he said not to worry about the small things and dont let them get to you. he had the cancer for about 3-5 months and he was 18 years old when he found out he had the cancer.

school journals 2019

This our reading that we have been doing for the term.

camp 2019

Wow what an amazing camp we went to Hanmer springs. I loved it was such a fun experience for us. here are some photos. We went on Wednesday and came back on Friday.

This is me on the Superbowl at the thermal hot pools and waterside

This is me helping Nova up the tree

This is quiz night we came first place and got a Moro bar.  

The group photo before we went back home 

Concert night 

Dog made out of wood in the sculpture park

More wood sculptures  

and more this one was of my favorite 

These were so cool there were three of them 

This one was my most favorite 

My group

Me

and me again 

One of the hexagon thermal pools there are three 

At the top of Conical Hill 

Briea tree climbing up the tree

At the Cemetery. 

 

2019 camp

Next week Totara 4 and 3 are going on camp and we are going to be doing a bunch of fun activities like going to the hot pools.

this week in Totara 4 we have been working on our Easter art. our goal was to be making self portraits this was a week long but I got. It finished in the end and I am happy with the results. 

term 1 week 9

This is my Brunner Mine poem. We did this with having to use one of the poetry language features witch I used onomatopoeia and alliteration.

week 9 term 1 book review

technology 2019 term 1 week 4

Year 7 and 8 technology this  year me and friend are doing technology and i am doing sowing. Today we sowed paper to get stared soon we are going to be sowing fabric and making dresses and stuff like that for wearable arts in term 3 or 4.  I want to make a lite up dress or something like that. my teacher is Mrs Chapman and we are doing sowing for 4 weeks then moving on to something difrant.

What am i ??????

                  What am I ?????

I challenge you to try guess what this is using my three clues that I have given. you. 



1) I am soft.

2) normally I am square

3)I am filled with something fluffy