Term 3 Highlight

My favourite part of term 3 was swimsafe. For that, every day we walked to the swimming pools and had lessons on things like survival strokes. Survival strokes are strokes that can be used for long periods of time without using too much energy. I really enjoyed it and I hope I can do it again next year.

Reading

For reading I have been reading a book called Super Finn. It's about a boy who wants to be a superhero. Despite being told by teachers, family and friends, Finn never stopped trying. He has been told many times that if he failed one more time during a project that he would have to redo the year. Finn is determined to get an achieved on his careers project, and when he based it on being a superhero, he had everybody lining up with questions. Super Finn is a great example of perseverance and expressing. The fact that when someone tries something and really puts their mind to it, they can achieve anything.

PJ Day

On Friday the 16th of May room 15 had a pj day. We got dressed into our pjs and watched Monster's University. I was wearing a hello kitty onesie that had a white fluffy tail.

My favourite part of the day was when we watched the movie because I drew lots of pictures of the characters.
We had a pj day because we achieved our class goal.

Anzac Day

25th April is ANZAC day. On ANZAC day we remember the soldiers who fought and died in the battle at Gallipoli  peninsula in 1915. We wear poppies because they are a symbol of hope and remembrance towards the soldiers. Over 11,000 ANZACs were killed in WWI. On ANZAC day we remember the soldiers who fought for our freedom.

Here is a monument of the trenches where the ANZACs stayed for over 9 months.

Maori phrase of the week

This is the maori phrase of week 10. We learn a new phrase every week.

Tennis

For the past 3 weeks room 15 has been taking tennis lessons. We have learnt forehand, backhand and volleying. For forehand you hold the racket in your writing hand and stand side on. Backhand is the same except you use both hands and stand on the opposite side. Volleying is when you stand in front of the net front on holding your racket in your writing hand.You have to hit without the ball bouncing. My favourite part was learning volleying because it was easy. I could improve on my backhand because I always forget to use two hands.

Statistics Graph

In room 15 we made a graph about everyone's favourite snack food. This is a pie graph. We found we could change the type of graph just by moving the squares around. We had different colours for each different category. Green was fruits and veges, purple was drinks, pink was sweets and desserts and blue was other. The most common food was fruits and veges and the least common was other.

Swimming

Here is everyone at swimming sports. They had to wait for the clappers to go and then swim as fast as they could to the finish. I was sick on the day but I wish I was there.

Swimming with Kelly sports

  

Here is my group practicing freestyle.

My favourite part of swimming was learning all the strokes because it was helpful.

I need to improve my freestyle breathing. The thing I improved the most was backstroke because now I can go straight without crashing.

2014 Already

Wow. It is 2014 already. This term my goals are...

• To master my 12x table
• To organize my things better 
• To read at least 2 novels

Also I would like to make lots of new friends.
Please remember to comment on my posts.

Blogging Reflection

1. If I could tell a class who wanted to join quadblogging I would say that quadblogging is really interesting because you get to comment on someone else's learning. Not only that but you also get lots of feedback on your learning.
2. I think a good comment is to start a conversation by asking lots of questions.
3. My favourite  part of blogging is getting to share my learning with others.
4. Blogging helps with my learning because when I receive comments I get lots of feedback.
5. If I could make any changes to quadblogging I would probably make it that you comment on all the  blogs instead of just one blog a week so you get comments on your blog every week.

Vinegar+Baking Soda Experiments

On Thursday the 14th of November room 12 did some cool experiments with Mrs Demchy. First we got a glass bottle and filled it up with vinegar. Then we filled a balloon with baking soda and carefully put it on the bottle. Mrs D shook the bottle and all the carbon dioxide created blew up the balloon. For the second experiment we got two plastic bags. we filled one up with vinegar an another with baking soda. in the second bag where we put the baking soda we cut a hole in the corner so the baking soda could escape. We shook the bag and after a while the bag popped and squirted all over everyone! For the third experiment We got Mr Peachy to nail a few holes in the cap of a bottle. Next we filled a bottle 3/4 full with vinegar and a bag full of baking soda. We dropped the bag in the bottle and screwed the cap on. Mrs D shook it and it squirted all over us.

100 word challenge (Gumboots)

Beep beep. I can never get that noise out of my head. It’s the sound of my alarm at 3:30 every morning! It’s the holidays and dad loves to get fishing by 4:30am every morning. One day dad woke me up at 2:00 am! We were on the boat by 3:00am. “I hear there are some pretty big snapper today.” Dad said. I threw out my line and immediately I felt something tugging anxiously. I pulled and pulled. Suddenly I fell in! Splash! Dad tugged me out. I was drenched from head to toe. I will never forget that day.

The hundred word challenge

 The last thing I remember was seeing the thrashing tornado whizzing towards me. I shrieked as it hit .Then all went black. I woke up in hospital a few days later. I sat up as Mum popped a piece of chocolate in my mouth. I looked around and saw my baby cousin with a sheet over her head. Tears sprung to my eyes as I realized I wasn’t the only one affected by the storm. The tears rolled down my cheeks. I asked where Dad was but suddenly I didn’t want to know any more. The violent storm was tragic.  

QR code

This is a QR code to my smore on the American segregation. If you would like to view it all you have to do is scan it with an ipod. ENJOY!

Qr code tester

Project Energise

In the past few weeks Project Energize have been coming to room 12 to teach us about  healthy eating . Did you know that there are about 9 teaspoons of fat in the KFC quarter pack? Shocking! But there is only 1/4 of a teaspoon of fat in subway! How is that fair?

haiku

This is my haiku about a car trip to the beach.

What am I?

Here are 3 haikus. Can you guess what they are? P.S. I could cause tooth aches. Whoops!

Our sumatran tiger project

For home learning over the holidays we had to research facts about Sumatran tigers. I finished mine before the holidays even started! We also had to create a name, gender and background story for our new class mascot. We decided it's name would be Lee-Lee. Did you know that the stripes on a Sumatran tiger are closer together then on any other subspecies of tiger. I enjoyed this project because it was fun to make a poster.