Saturday was my big day!

On Saturday morning, I watched a painter paint his mansion blue  and the colours made me blue. After that, I ate my breakfast and it was vegetables. I was bored after eating my breakfast so I drawed things in the board. I draw about a stick man people’s it was really fun and funny.

After that I took a bath because I was really smelly and dirty after playing the games yesterday. After washing myself, I watched ‘Johnny's Test’. It was an awesome video. And my favourite part was the time Johnny test’s failed. I loved it very much  then it was lunch time and we had cereal and corn.

I played “Chaos Fighter” on my dad’s phone. It was a really fun game. I was a little addicted of the game. I was so strong in that game that I kept passing levels. And got lots of diamonds, gold and achievement medals.

After that I asked my friends, “Do you want to play with me?” My friends replied “Yes, we can... What game is it?” I answered it’s called  “Chaos Fighting”. We played together. I help my friend how to pass the levels of the game so he will be good like me.

I really enjoyed that day because my friends and I played together happily and fairly it was very fun.

WALT use the appropriate language features in a recount.

I know I can do this when I use past tense correctly in my sentences.

Sally, do you want to beat the blink master?

 I 

I know this when I describe the character from the story.

                                WALT use information from the story that I read.

Stick people run!

2.

1.WALT plan and construct a diorama of a Tsunami. I know this when I make  and paint the parts that I need to put into my diorama.




1.The first diorama shows a Tsunami rising over the houses and people.
2. The second one explains how a Tsunami works.
3.  We used a shoe box to make the dioramas.

Paul, are you exhausted from travelling around the world?

 

WALT identify how the early Church communities spread the Good news and recall some of the success of Paul's.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I mark the places that Paul travelled on a map correctly.

1. Paul's first journey started in Antioch and he returned to Antioch.
2. He spread the Good news about God by travelling around world.

Japanese people beware of Tsunamis!

WALT analyse and interpret charts and data.
Success criteria: I know this when I collect data and graphgh the information
1. In 1955 there were only 25 people that died in the Tsunami that hit Japan. This was the lowest number of deaths was in 1955.
2. 1940 has the most deaths it has killed 3,000 people in Japan.
3. The tsunami is created when they have underwater earthquake.

Warning: Beware of fake ads!

WALT understand what we read. 

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write a book review using information from the story.

Do you know anything about Peter?

WALT understand Peter from the early church community.

Success criteria: I know this when I highlight important facts about Peter.

Peter Simon, do you love Jesus?

WALT understand the famous people in the Early church.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write the key notes using information from the scripture references.

Continue the saving work of Christ now!

 

 WALT recognise how the church continues Christ's saving work by celebrating the Liturgy. I know this when I use the bible to choose the right Sacrament for the scripture reference.

Do you want to know why the Church celebrates the Eucharist?

WALT recognise that every Sunday is the day when the Church celebrates that God raised Jesus from the dead. I can do this when I write one sentence about why the Church celebrates the Eucharist every Sunday.

Run to a higher ground as fastest you can

WALT identify how we can protect ourselves during a Tsunami. 

I know this when I can list 6 ways of what to do during a Tsunami.

Want to have a good education?

School is awesome

School is really important because you will learn about a lot of things like  R.E, Maths, Reading and many, many more.  Being educated means you will have a good future when you grow up. At school, you can make great friends too!  There’s a lot of different people you interact with everyday like the principal who is the head of the school,  the teachers who help and teach all the children to learn. Sometimes if a teacher s sick, he or she gets a reliever to handle the class.

A school has a lot of support staff to help the students in their needs and to assist the smooth running of the school. The cleaner or janitor who cleans the school when the school ends in the afternoon, the librarian, the school secretary and the lunchroom lady are part of the support staff.

Here are the facilities every school offers to the students:

• the classroom  where all students do their schoolwork most of the time.
• the staff room where all the staff go during morning tea, lunchtime, and when they have meetings.
• the sickbay where students go when they have a scratch, cut or when they are sick.
• the playground where students plays during morning tea or lunch time.
• the library where students can borrow books and research information for topics.
• the lunch room where we can order food.
• the principal’s office is where the teachers send the kids who are naughty for detention.

Every school is multi cultural because there is a mixture of different kinds of students like Tongan, Samoan, Filipinos, Chinese and many others. The good things about is we get to learn about their culture.

At St. Patrick’s School, there are a lot of events and programs such as Kiwisports (such as softball, ripper rugby, netball and soccer). We have events like cultural festival which is very exciting for the students because different classes practise a specific cultural dance for 8 weeks and then they get to perform on stage in front of a big audience.  Another event that happens at St. Patrick’s School is called APOPS. APOPS invite schools to watch their performance at the Aotea Centre. They put on a wonderful show because they use all the musical instruments in the orchestra to impress the audience. There is also Mission day where students prepare games and they also sell some products. After Mission Day, the money is collected and donated to an orphanage.  St. Patrick’s day is a day when people switch class to play games with the other teachers.  There is also the Duffy show and that is a performance by the Duffy book people. They perform for the kids to encourage them to read books.

St. Patrick’s School is a school with lot of great opportunities for students to get a good education.

WALT plan and write an explanation.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write an explanation writing about school and use at least 2 sentences to describe each part.

Japanese people prepare for the next wave!!!!!!!!!!!

WALT identify ways of survival during a Tsunami.

I can do this when I write a list of things that are needed to make an emergency kit.

Watch out for the next wave!!

WALT write a history timeline about Tsunamis in Japan.

I know this when I can create a timeline about all the Tsunamis that happened in Japan from 1900s.

What will you do with all the gold?

WALT extract the information from the story that I read.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I find 5 facts from the article about Martha gold mine.

Can you find the heart?

* The colours must be repeated.
* There has to be an even number of shapes.

WALT understand about colour patterns.

Success criteria: I know this when I can repeat different colours and shapes.

Does your spoon have a partner?

A spoon is really useful because you can take the food to your mouth instead of your dirty hand. It is made out of stainless steel and there is a handle. The stainless steel will not rust. People uses it when it’s mealtime. Chefs uses the spoon to stir the soup or to taste the soup.

A spoon has partner called fork. Fork is used to help the spoon to take the food. Spoon can be combined with for and its name is spork and it is used to feed babies with the baby food.

To restore or clean the spoon you need to use the dishwasher to clean it, then dry it for a few mins and place it in a safe place where insects can not get into. If the spoon is dirty and you eat with it, you will get sick so you need to clean it properly.

WALT understand how something works and why we use it.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain all about spoon and why it's important

I want an indoor dad!

WALT extract information from a story.

Success criteria: I know this when I use key words from the story to describe my character.

Run, a Tsunami is coming!

WALT understand about Tsunami.
Success criteria:  I know I can do this when I complete KWL chart about Tsunami.

Jump rapati, jump!!!

WALT celebrate and incorporate Maori creation stories into our lives.
Success criteria: I know this when I illustrate the important elements from the story of Uma Rapati.

I will adopt the rapati, don't kill it!!

WALT appreciate and celebrate the Maori culture.
I know this when I perform a Maori song with my group. 

Song:
Uma Rapiti 2x
Uma, uma, uma
Uma Rapiti 2x
Uma, uma, uma
Bang 3x
Run rabbit 2x
Run, run, run
Run rabbit 2x 
Run, run, run

Tell me a good name for my new pet!!

WALT understand the importance of money and how best to utilise it.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write a family goal and set up a savings plan.

You can survive if you can't go shopping!

WALT understand our needs and wants. 

Success criteria: I know this when I can identify the items in my shopping list as a need or a want.

Fancy things will not help us to survive!

WALT identify our needs and wants.
I know this when I cut out 5 pictures of needs and 8 pictures of wants and place them correctly on a 'Needs and Wants' chart.

Prove that you have the Holy Spirit in you!!

WALT identify ways that we can express the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Success criteria:  I know I can do this when I write 5 ways that people can show Hope, Faith and Love.

Go and show off your karate kicks Billy!!

He is black, he is big

And round like a pig;

He is smart and barks with delight

Every time he see us all bright.          

 

He lives in a kennel

Down by the dark tunnel

Together with his pups

They drink water with their cups.

He was a fast runner, a ferocious fighter

Friendly but can be nasty and scary

He comes in through the back door

Because he is a Labrador.  

He behaves well and we treat him well

Not bad at sitting still and eats much he will.

Great at fetching sticks

And shows off his karate kicks.

He is….. my pet dog

My Sweet silly Billy!
WALT write a poem about my dog
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write a poem about my dog.

Did you know that Brazil means 'Brazil-wood'?

WALT to celebrate and understand the Brazil culture.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write 6 facts about Brazil.

Do you know everything about the Tongan Culture?

WALT to celebrate and understand the Tongan culture

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I can write down 6 facts about Tongan.

How many ways can you solve a division problem?

WALT find the answer to division problem using the repeated addition and multiplication fact that I know.
Success criteria: I know this when I write 4 different ways to work out the answer.

Wow, being old is boring!

Article summary:

A 111 year old retired teacher from Japan has been recognised as the world’s oldest living man. Sakari Momoi received a certificate from World Records after the death of  Alexander Imich of New York. Imich died in April at the age of 111 years and 164 days old. Momoi was born Feb. 5, 1903, in Fukushima. He later moved to the city called Saitama, north of Tokyo, and served as a high school principal. Momoi enjoys reading books, has five children and lives in a nursing home in Tokyo. There is another world’s oldest living person is also Japan named Misao Okawa a 116 year old woman from Osaka.

My opinion on this article:

If I survived until 111 years old, then I will be very bored because I wouldn’t be able to move or do anything. I would prefer to choose be dead at 90 years old. I would also find hard to just lie there and my children will have to feed me.

WALT understand and form an opinion about a current event.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write my viewpoint on a article in my own words.

Non-living thing vs Living thing! Who is the connection?

WALT understand our ecosystem.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain the relationship between the living and the non-living.

Why do we need Baptism?

WALT what faith, hope and love means.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I can explain the meaning of the faith, hope and love in my own words.

Cheetah vs Greyhound? Answer me!!

WALT we are learning to extract facts from a non-fiction text.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write 12 key words about Charlie from the article.

How many blocks are there?

WALT understand area and perimeter.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write the definition for area and perimeter.

Bee thankful for what they've done!!

              
WALT identify ways to increase the chances of bees' survival. 
Success criteria: I can do this when I write three ways on how can we help the bees to survive in our environment.

Holy Spirit, where are you?

         





          
WALT identify the three symbols of the Holy Spirit.
I know this when I match the symbols of the Holy Spirit to the scripture references.

Peace be with you Waero and Namu!

WALT encourage others to read a book that I have enjoyed. 

Success criteria: I know this when I can create a poster that gets people's attention to read my story. 

Give me more presents than Dhon!!

On Sunday morning my family and I went to attend the 10 o'clock mass at St.Mark’s. When the mass ended we went home then we waited for the afternoon while having lunch at home. Then we went back to St marks church to practice for our first holy communion.  After the practice we went straight to our cousin’s house for his birthday party.

While the adults were busy preparing for the party, my friend and I raced to the computer to play games. Moments later, Dhon’s friend called Caleb Elijah  went in and tried to play with us but we did not allow him. He became sad and upset and was inflamed with anger and his face was as red as a ripe tomato. He was mad and almost cried when my friend and I were having fun.  He had a temper tantrums but he still asked nicely again if he can play the computer with us. He was asking Dhonde if he can play.  Then my friend gave him a chance to play for a little bit  while my cousin, who was the birthday boy was going to blow  his birthday cake.

Caleb’s emotion was like a roller coaster ride because he was having fun but at the same time feeling sad when he was losing the battle with counter strike. We were battling our friend and we  won the game because my friend was versing with Dhon’s little brother who was not good at this game. When I was getting bored I decided to play roblox. I played with my friend we were playing Miner Tycoon. Tristan did not get a VIP pass so he cannot go inside to acquire flying powers and rainbow path and $1000.00  But I did so I felt that II was so rich!  I tried to buy anything I wanted. After I bought a lots of things my friend and I were trying to chase the train. We tried to prank each other and he got annoyed with me so he stopped the game and played the Death Run Summer fun. Five minutes later my mum decided that we should be going home to prepare for school the following day.

It was a fantastic weekend for me and my cousin because we had so much fun together. I wish that we can do the same things when my birthday comes in January next year.

 WALT use appropriate language features in our recount. 
Success criteria: I can do this when I use similes and metaphors correctly in my writing.

Someone, Please Reply!!!

WALT  write a friendly letter using the correct structure.

                                                  I know this when I write the body and closing for a friendly letter.

Bee Thankful For The Bees!!

  

WALT understand about the relationship of bees and our environment.

Success criteria: I can do this when I list ways to help bees survive in our environment.

Weekend, Don't End!!!!!

I woke up early on Sunday morning to get ready for church to attend the mass. We prayed and we listened to the priest. After the mass we went home and changed our clothes and played xbox 360.  Then, a friend visited us and we played some games and later on, we went to our cousin’s house to play nba2k14.

While my cousins were playing nba2k14, I was playing mineblox in the computer. I tried seed 38851, it was a lucky seed and I found lots of diamonds. I called my friends to tell them that I was very  lucky. They were shocked! They could not believe what they were seeing! Then they continued playing nba2k14 and my brother came to play with us and it was 3 players in the game.

We ate lunch of rice and hotdog while  watching tv and talked about funny things. When we finished eating we continued with our game. Finally, our friends went home but my cousins stayed. When the internet went down, I joined the nba2k14. It was 2 vs our enemy who was my brother and he was good at playing this game so my cousin and I lost the game.

After losing the game,my cousin decided to practise the ‘real basketball’  while my winning brother was still playing nba2k14. I played with my cousin’s little brother because he started to feel bored. We were playing with lego toys together. Moments later I was feeling bored too so I went home.

My sunday was full of fun activities and I really enjoyed it especially the time that I spent time with my cousins. I wish that my cousins and I will have more banding times with each other so that we become more closer as closer as a family

WALT a recount using language features.

Success criteria: I know this when I use appropriate adjectives and adverbs correctly in my recount.

Don't Worry, the Duffy Heroes will help you to READ!

Duffy came to visit St. Patrick's school

“We need to go to the hall for Duffy Theatre and I want you to be on your best behaviour,” said Miss Chao to our class on Monday afternoon. We walked fast to the hall and sat quietly on the floor waiting for the show to begin. When the show started the Duffy king grabbed a guitar and danced like a rock n roll star! When Rosie came on stage, Mr Bingo, the Duffy king stopped and lay down on the floor. We all laughed!

Bingo and Duffy king asked if we can sing the full song of Duffy kid.  We happily shouted “YES!!!!!”  They started singing the song and we all followed. After the singing, they started to get really funny. They were talking about books and reading books and how fun reading is. When Rosie and Duffy found out that Bingo does not read books they decided that they would help him learn how to read because they think that he couldn’t read at all and they felt so sorry for him…..

When they told Mr Bingo about their plan to help him, he said to them, “I know how to read but I simply don’t like reading. I like sports not reading! Reading is boring!” Duffy king thought of another Idea to make Mr. Bingo to like reading. “The Very Best Book, a made up book by Duffy King should encourage him”, Duffy muttered to himself. He made an empty book and told us to put our great ideas into the book. When all our Ideas  were in,  it was time to give it to Mr. Bingo!

Mr Bingo started reading the Very Best book but he still did not like reading it.  He was still not interested at all! He said to them that he prefers to ride on an aeroplane than doing reading. When he got to the plane, Duffy and Rosie decided to make the airplane to fly so slow so Bingo would feel bored then he had no other choice but to read the book. He started reading and before he knew it, he finished reading the whole book as the plane was landing on a rugby field.

They got to the stadium just as the rugby tournament was starting. He was one of the rugby players. While playing, he suddenly did ballet moves and he looked cool like a real ballerina. He scored a try and won the game! Rosie and Duffy knew that Bingo read the Ballet Book. Duffy made Rosie the queen of books because it was her book that made Mr. Bingo finally able to like to read books.

The Duffy Theatre was amazing! I wish that there will be many people like Mr. Duffy and Rosie who help kids to love reading because Reading is Fun! I also wish that there will be another Duffy Theatre happening in our school again soon!

                                               WALT a recount using language features.
              Success criteria: I know this when I write about Duffy theatre using appropriate adjectives and verbs correctly.
 THE END!

              

Don't worry, the yellow flower will save the day!!

 WALT understand the importance of daffodils. 

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use yellow to colour in my daffodils for Daffodil Day.

Mana's favourite day!!

read closely 
WALT read closely to text and use information to describe a character.
Success criteria:I know I can do this when I can use the information from the text to describe Mana.

Make honey and you will bee impressed!!

WALT understand about bee's process for making honey.
Success criteria: I know this when I write 3 steps on how bees make honey.

Bee happy!!

WALT understand representations of God in our lives.
Success criteria: I know this when I write 4 sentences about how a bee represents God.

Find a rock when you're upset!

WALT understand representations of God in our lives.
Success criteria: I know this when I write 4 sentences about how a rock represents God.

Room 6 Mintie Challenge

1. Whose Mintie Wrapper was the longest?
    It was Lanoa because he was being so patience.
 2. Whose Mintie Wrapper was the shortest?
    It was Julius because he wasn't patience enough.
 3. Whose measured the same?
    It was Cheska and Aiden because they had the same patience
 4. What do you need to do next time to improve your measurement
     Be very patience next time.

WALT read and interpret data to make a chart. I can do this when I write four statements about the Mintie Challenge.

You want to know my secret?

One day my cousins and I were playing one piece in my PS2.  We had a fantastic time playing together and we tried to kill the bad guys in the game. A moment later my mum brought  us ice cream for snacks. I excitedly took a big bite but it tasted  like a muddy dirt. Disgusting! I tried to take another bite. Still,  it tasted worse that I had to spit it out.

I asked my mum,  “Why is the ice-cream taste so yucky?”  My mum said,  “It is because the flavour was hokey pokey”. I do not like hokey pokey but my cousins did not care because they love hokey pokey. We continued playing until the end of the day.

I had so much fun playing with my cousins that we did not know that it was already night time. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. I quickly got up to open the door and saw my cousin's mum standing there. She came to pick them up. It was almost 10 o'clock in the evening. We all said “Good bye”.

I felt really sleepy so I brushed my teeth, changed into my pyjamas and went straight to bed. Sweet dreams!

WALT write a recount. 

Success criteria: I know this when I write events in order about my weekend.

My own personal prayer to God!!

I pray that Jesus will forgive all of us and help us when we do our school work. I pray that Miss Chao’s sore throat will be cured by Jesus Christ so she can have voice during the interviews. Please look after my cousin Greshka because it is her birthday in 4 days. God, please protect me from bad things and help me to stay focused during class time.

Please make everyone good and kind to each other. Jesus, we are sorry for all that we have done wrong. Please lord, forgive those that bully others. Please help the poor and the sick.

God and Jesus, please look after my big brother and my sister who are still in the Philippines. God, please look after for the people who are sick, poor, lame or blind.

Amen

WALT write a personal prayer.

I know this when I write a prayer in my own words to express how I feel.

Welcome to the climb zone!!

On Saturday morning we were planning to go to Climb Zone and the party starts at 1:00 pm.  It was still early so We went to basketball training first which would  end at 12:00 pm.  We practised while waiting for my brother . After the practice, I played manhunt with  my friend. And my friend  was the “ it”. We hid and ran all the way around the basketball court. THen,  we went to the climb zone to  celebrate the birthday party  of Sandra.

A climbing expert introduced herself to us.  She told  us how to climb properly and how to keep ourselves  safe while climbing. After the tutorial we tried to climb the easiest climbing area. When I almost made it to the very top,  I looked down and I felt so  scared  for my life. So I went back down to find an easier climbing area.  My big brother made it to the very top and my aunt took  a photo of him.

We climbed  the big skull which was really hard and very high and dangerous .  I tried it and I only managed halfway.  Then, we were told to go back to the party area  and ate some chips and watched the people climbing. I saw a I little girl who  almost made it to the very top of the climbing area. After eating I tried to climb one more time. This time, I made it to the top! Yay!!!! I’m super proud of myself!!

When we got home we opened our goody bags.  I got a ring that lights up, some loom bands  and lollies. We played with them and ate the lollies .  After a while, we got bored again so we shared some funny jokes, played phones and played rock, paper and scissors. Finally, we all felt tired so we got into our pajamas and went to bed.

It was  such a fantastic Saturday because I had a lot of fun. I wish we could go back to the Climb Zone again soon.

WALT write a recount. 

Success criteria: I know this when I write events in order about my weekend.

Protect yourself from getting hit by the noise!!!!

WALT identify solutions to minimise sounds.  
Success criteria: I know this when I list 5 ways to keep noises down. Created with Padlet

Be strong in your faith!

WALT identify ways to strengthen our love, faith and hope for God.
Success criteria: I know this when I draw and write the ways I can strengthen my love, hope and faith for God.

Sunny-side egg to brighten your day!

Ingredients:

Oil

egg

Salt

Materials:

Frying pan

Plate

spatula

What you need to do:

1. Take an egg from the fridge.

2. Place the frying pan on top of the stove.

3. Turn on the stove to medium heat.

4. Pour a little bit of oil onto the frying pan.

5. Break the egg and place it in the heated frying pan.

6. Put a pinch of salt on the egg.

7. Take the egg out with a spatula and place it on a plate.

A sunny-side-up egg is great for breakfast and it is nice on toasted bread.

Was your egg delicious?

WALT use the correct writing structure of a procedural writing.

Success criteria: I know this when I can write the steps in order, followed by an evaluation on how to cook an egg.