Te Reo

In Te Reo we have been learning about whakatauki's this term whakatauki is Ehara tauku toa, he takitahi, he toa taki tini. This means my success is not just for me it's for everyone. We have recently had a market day and this whakatauki is connected to that. We had to make a poster and add a photo about team work, here is my poster.

Athletics Reflection 2016

Yesterday we had Athletics day and here is my reflection and picture of the massy track.

• What was the most enjoyable part of athletics for you? Why?

I most enjoyed participating in the events because I liked trying my best and enjoyed 

cheering on my friends

• What are you really proud of? Why?

                    I was proud of our house because we came 2nd in the relay race.

• What was the most challenging part? Why?

The most challenging part was discs because I'm not good at it 

because I didn't practice discus much.

• Where to now? What are your goals for next time? Why do you want to focus on this?

Next time I think that I need to practice more because it will be more effective.

ET Reo

Every Monday afternoon half of poutama do ET Reo (Elly Troy Reo) with Elly and Troy. This term we have been preparing for market day and we wanted to be able to greet people and tell them about our product in Maori. We got a task to make a movie on puppet pals, imovie etc. I worked with Sophie and Bella to make a puppet pals. There are a few mistakes and next time we would do it to a higher quality, but we ran out of time. Here is our movie...

Book Buddies Term 4

This term we have carried on book buddies and my buddy is still Zara. We are reading a new book called Demon Dentist and it is by David Walliams. We have Nic as our new coach because Troy had to many people. Here is our new slide.

Prep/Market Day

This term we are having a market day. Market day is on the 11 of november. I'm in a group with Bella and Tabitha. Our product that we were selling is soap dough which is a dough that you can play with and you can take a pinch you can wash your hands with it.

Now that market day is done I am going to tell you a bit about how it went. Pretty much everybody sold out including us. We made a great profit of around $66! It was very busy and there were lots of people pre-ordering our product. All together we made $2406!!

 We have filled in a slide of our reflection. Here it is...

Statistics Survey

Last week we had a Crazy Hair Day on friday. In we have been learning about statistics and the teachers made a survey. We all got to do the survey and the survey was about what we want to see at market day. Then we had to make our own survey with a group. We had to make a graph about the info that we collected. We decided to make a pie graph. My group was Aria, Bella and Charlotte. Here I our Crazy Hair Day survey and our graph.

Persuasive Writing

In writing we have been learning how to persuade others to buy our product. We were given a small box, that we made a use for, Tabitha and we decided that it should be a teleporter, then we wrote an add in our book, next we recorded it and here it is.

Risk Taking

This term we had a group of kids work with Elly, Nic, Troy and some teacher from a different school about risk taking. They filled out a sheet about what was there most highest riskiest thing was and there lest riskiest thing. Some of them said that going down a pole was there lest riskiest thing and some of them said that singing in front of an audience or putting your hand in a mystery box. They had to do there most riskiest thing. Then the people who didn't do it learnt about what they did but we didn't have to do our most riskiest thing.

Art Portfolio Sample

This term we have been doing our calendar art and we are doing our self portraits. The first stage was to think about what represents us and draw the ideas down. The second stage was draw our ideas onto A3 card. The third stage was to practiced using paint and pastel for our backgrounds. The fourth stage was to practice drawing our self portrait and after that we had a practice we got some card and drew the real thing. The last thing we did was the background. We used paint pastel and dye to make the background look effective. Here is a slide showing some effects we used and the finished piece.

Feedback/Feedforward: I think you could work on going into more detail In some of your sections but otherwise well done Sophie well done indeed - Tabitha C

ET Reo Portfolio Sample

This term for ET Reo we have been learning about Whakatauki's and that means a proverb. The proverb that we have been learning about is (He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata! He tangata! He tangata) This means (What is the most important thing in the world? The people, The people, The people). Our task was to create a self portrait and then we put them all up on the wall with the Whakatauki. Here my portrait and the wall of everyones.

Feedback/Feedback: I think your portrait was really good but next time you could make it
bigger - Charlotte

Evaluation: I think that did a good job but next time I could make it look more like me and make it bigger.

Writing Portfolio Sample

This term for writing I have been working with Elly. Our focus has been around sentences Troy focus has been around words and Nic's focus has been around planning. We have been learning about simple sentences, Compound sentences and Complex sentences. Elly made a slide about what we have been
learning and here is my slide.



Evaluation: I think that I have done a good job we learning the different type of sentences but I could work on my complex sentences a bit more

Feedback/Feedforward:
I think you could work on knowing the difference between complex and compound sentences as soon as you see them.
- Tabitha C

Measurement Portfolio Sample

This term in maths we are learning about measurement. Before we started the learning we got a rich task and we all did the task in an amount of time. The task was all about measurement and we had a go at the task.We hadn't had any workshops around measurement so I didn't do very well. Then we had some workshops on measurement like, area with Elly, capacity with Nic and weight with Troy. I went to two of the workshop. After that week we did the rich task again and I knew a lot more but if a went to 3 workshops I would have done even better.

Book Buddies Portfolio Sample

This term we have started I reading program called book buddies. Book buddies is when the teachers give you I buddy and you both pick I book from the selection that the teacher gave us. My buddy is Zara and we are reading a book called paper planes. Paper planes is about I boy who is in the middle of a war and he is with his best friend and his family. The teachers made a slide everyone and copied and here is Zara and I's slide.



Evaluation: I think that Zara and I have picked a great choice on what book we are reading because I really like the book and Zara is a great buddy to work with.

Feedback/Feedforward: Wow Sophie, you have come really far in your reading, you could work reading more of the book-Tabitha

Excellence Portfolio Sample

Every Monday Poutama and Poutokomanawa have discovery time. Discovery time goes till lunch. There are lots of different activities like finger knitting, making pompoms, skipping, tents, sewing and pogo sticks etc. Last week I did skipping and then I came inside and did some finger knitting and making pompoms. We tried to make a giant pompom but it didn't work so we jus made small ones.



Evaluation: I think that I have done well in discovery time because I have been showing panekiretanga but I could work on discovery a bit more.

Feedback/Feedforward:
Sophie you have done great at showing excellence in discovery time next time I agree with you you could discover a bit more and go out of you comfort zone -Bella M

2nd Discovery Time

Today I first attempted to make a house out of the imaginz but there wasn't enough bits to make it. So then I went outside and did some skipping with Zara and Yassmine. After that I went inside and did some sewing. I was going to make a quilt and then I didn't have enough time to finnish so I'll finnish at home. So today I learnt how to make a quilt.

Discovery Time

Every monday from 9:20am till 12:40pm we do discovery time with Poutokomanawa. The teachers chose a lot different actives like making goo, sewing, finger knitting, tents, marbles etc. I made tents and we put blankets, white boards and books in the tents. After we made the tents we did some finger knitting. This was challenging because we didn't know what type wool but in the we had to experiment and thick wool work the best.

SLC Reflection

Yesterday I had my student led conference with Nic and my Mum. Today the teachers gave us some questions to answer about my SLC.

1) How do you think you did on your SLC? What was the highlight?

I think that my SLC was good because I don't normally get time to share my learning with my Mum. 

2) What did you do differently to make your SLC stand out?

I think that I made mine stand out by sharing my learning from the heart not from my post. 

3) How will you make your Home Led Conference in Term 3 be awesome? What things might you do to make it awesome?

I could go out and not get distracted from my brother and other family members and ask my Mum if she has any questions.

Sea Turtles Writing

This term our writing has been around Sea Turtles, First we watch a video so we could learn about them. Then we took notes about the video and then we made a plan so we knew what we were going to write about. Then we did our first draft and then we conference with a teacher. Then we did our second draft.

Here is the video we watched.


Here is my writing.

Sea Turtles

The Sea Turtle is a threatened species that has been on earth over 150 million years. It takes approximately 20 years for the Sea turtles to grow into the adults.

Eggs

When the eggs are lay approximately 1000 are laid.When the eggs are laid they are the size of a ping pong ball. Their Mum will dig a hole and lay the eggs in there. Only 800 will hatch.

Babies

When the eggs hatch they are the size of the palm of your hand. Getting to the water is hard for the little turtles because there are many obstacles like crabs, birds and rubbish that can kill the turtles because they can’t defend themselves. Only 400 make it to the water.

Growing Up

Growing up is still hard for the sea turtles because there are Sharks, big Fish and Birds that will eat the turtles. So only 200 tune into adults.

Adults

When they grow into adults they are the size of a table. When the Mums grow fully into adults they go up to the beach. Then dig a hole and lay their eggs, but only 2 survive to breeding age.

Science Seed2Table

Today in Seed2Table we found lots of different seed packets and we didn't know how old they were so we germinated them. First we got two paper towels and put them in water. Then we put 6 seeds onto the paper towel and folded it in half. Then we sealed the edges and put it into a snap lock bag and wrought our names on the bag what seeds we put in. Here is mine.

E Te Reo

Every Monday afternoon Poutama splits into two different groups. One group goes to kapa haka and the other group goes to E Te Reo. I go to E Te Reo with Troy and Elly. This term we had a task to create something about helping others to learn how to say to food in maori. We got into a group of 4 or 5 people and my group has Tabitha, Bella, Charlotte, Rebekah & Myself, Sophie. We made flash cards and on one side the food was in  English and the other side was maori. We also have been learning a new song called Aotearoa by Stan Walker. Here is the song and photos of our flash cards.

Feedback/Feedforward:
Good job Sophie, you are doing really well, you could work on being more fluent and
confident-Tabitha C

Evaluation: Thanks Tabitha for the feedback and will work on that next time.