Eotc Week Highlights.

E.O.T.C Week/Education outside the classroom.
Eotc week is basically a week where the classroom kids pay a certain amount of money, then they get to go to fun places like mega air surfing sailing etc.

For Eotc week my favorite highlights were Mega Air and Spencer Park.

Here are a bunch of photos of me and my friends.

At Mega Air the main objective was to have fun but stay safe.
All of us had a great time and we felt incredible.

Mega Air was my favourite place to go in E.O.T.C week. 

At Spencer park our goal was just relax. 

We completed that.

At the end of the day we were exhausted but joyful. 

Onomatopoeia

For reading had to do comic sounds he could not use real sounds so we made our own.

Top 10 Highlights of HPS.

The Lie.

The Lies

W.A.L.T: Write a poem about lies (Stereotypes) that they have heard about themselves.

The lie: They say short people like me can’t play basketball.

They say I won’t achieve anything because i’m short.

People say gamer's like me are wasting time.

Some people say don’t aim for a goal you won’t ever be able to do.

You could never do it, you shouldn’t do, you’ll just embarrass yourself.   

Truth: I’m alive not dead.

Their words are bullets being shot but i’m no target.

Lies like this can hurt but i'm used to it.

What they say will never knock me out my guard is up and ready for the battle’s outcome.

Short people like me can play basketball, in basketball sometimes you don’t need height it matters sometimes. but basketball is more about pure talent then height.

I will achieve lots, The time I may waste is always a good time, I will achieve my highest goal. I will do it, I can do it. I won’t go down without a fight. Watch me and you’ll remember my name.  

By Aron.

Solving Fractions

For this week for maths my group has been working on solving certain types of fractions.

Earthquake report

2016 Sunday night at 12:20 an earthquake had happened. here is an update on what to do to keep yourself safe.

Decimals and Percentages

W.A.L.T Convert decimals to percentages and percentages to decimals.
For week 5 my maths group had to convert decimals and percentages.

Master-Chef Monday

On week 5 of term 4 my class got to create some food/ Hawaiian chicken kebabs, Fruit smoothies, zucchini Parmesan chips and salad.
We created this lunch to analyse the way that healthy food can taste really good.

This is a picture of my group creating the fruit smoothies.

Decimal Subtraction

For term 4 my maths group is focusing on fractions and decimals.
This week our W.A.L.T has been to subtract decimals.
Hope you enjoy.

Health and Nutrition

For this term The year 6's in Ako Ngatahi are learning about health nutrition and hygiene.

My group has been working on Arnnot's Fun sticks.

Here is a picture.

We had to analyse the food groups, sugar, fats, proteins, and servings. We also had to read food labels and see the dimensions of health.

Adding decimals to two decimal places

W.A.L.T add decimals to two decimal places

For this week my maths group has been doing decimals.
Decimals are fun and pretty understandable so every body should give them a try here is a simple technique to add decimals.

Hope you Enjoy :)!

My Recount

Trip to Moeraki Boulders

W.A.L.T write a recount

Success Criteria

I Know I will be successful when I….

• Describe the events in sequence (in order chronological order)
• Focus on one main idea
• Answer who, what, where, when, and why?
• Will include detail
• Will include my senses in my description (see, feel, smell, hear and taste)
• Describe my feelings (Emotions)
• 
  

On the first week of the holidays my family and I had planned to take a long trip to the Moeraki Boulders. We did this because we wanted to get out of the house and create memories. We had decided to go at 5:00am on the first Friday of holidays. I was not excited about getting up so early!

Friday Comes Along…..

My family and I had awoken at 3:30am because the trip would take us at least 3 hours and 40min, we had got dressed into sensible clothing for photo’s. Then we packed up some food and drinks, as soon as the time reached 5:00 am we had left, all of us had felt radiant and drowsy.

Since we would be traveling for 3 hours and at least 40 minutes we brought travel pillows and blankets. Most the time we tried sleeping but when we were awake we would see trees, cows, sheep, dogs and many more animals.

All of us had known we had left at 5:00am, we were very tired so we decided to just sleep like logs but we never could because of the bumpy roads, rocky roads and just unstable terrain. Sleeping felt nearly impossible.

As soon as we got to the Moeraki Boulders we had ate lots of food, it was like humongous feast, there was at least 3 bags of food, it was amazing. Once we finished up eating we had got rid off all of our scraps, I felt energetic after the feast. Now for the photo’s.

We were going down a wooden path, it was as steep as a cliff. As soon as we finished the path we sprinted to the the boulders, we then whipped out the camera’s and created memories, we took a lot of family photos and solos. About 30 minutes later we jogged back to the car happily.

We finished creating memories and got back into the car, we then started traveling back home, it was fun while it lasted.

Conclusion

I felt like I was bursting with energy and satisfaction. The trip was intense, especially the part where none of us could sleep. But in the end we finished up happy and glorious. My family and I can’t wait for another fun day to create memories.  

By Aron.

Movie T.S.C/Trick Shot City !!

In Term 2 the teachers let us choose a theme for Sandpit term/Term 3. Someone said film festival, and the teachers chose it for Sandpit Term. We got listed a bunch of films like music films, Mockumentary and many more. My group choose a short film so we did a film about Trick shots. In the movie we had to be a communicator, participator and resilient. Please leave a comment, feed back would be nice and goodbye.

Reflective Comment.

Creating a film is challenging but fun. It takes time and effort to create a good movie. This sandpit term was incredible. But I don't know if I would do it again. Overall it was a challenging and phenomenal sandpit term.      

Movie Poster

This is the poster of my groups movie.

T.S.C/Trick Shot City.

Is a movie about for boys doing a movie about Trick Shots.

We do multiple Trick shots.

I wont get into detail because that would ruin the movie.

Also this our invitation.

Film Festival Movie Teaser

For Sandpit term we have been creating movie's.
We get choose what type of movie we do.
I'll give you a hint of what my group did.
"Cool Shots".
These are photos of us trying as hard as possible to get our movie edited and filmed.
Hope you enjoy.
By the way this was a challenging task to complete.
Especially since our movie was insanely hard to shoot the scenes.

This is when we had to edit the scenes.

This is creating one of the scenes.

Bledisloe Cup Presentation

W.A.L.T : Gather information then create a presentation.

For Reading we have been given information and then had to make a presentation.

Final Draft.

Lost and found

First draft

W.A.L.T write a narrative

Success Criteria

I know I will be successful when….

• The title is suitable for the text.

• The orientation tells who the story is about, and when and where the story happened.
• The complication describes a problem and explains what happened next.
• The resolution explains how the problem was solved.
• Seeks feedback and makes changes to texts to improve clarity and meaning.

It was 1961 at the (RSC) Russian Space Core. All I heard was the countdown. I was nervous and scared, my heart was beating like a crazed drum. The feeling of stage-fright had kicked in.

Transmission says.

“3, 2, and 1”

Kaboom! I was whizzing on the scurrying rocket crashing roughly through the air.  

On my way to space  I was thinking of all chimps, why me? Did I have something the other chimps didn’t, or was it the other way around? Why couldn’t the other chimps take the training I did? Was Reznov not able to tutor the other chimps?

Transmission turns on.

“Hello it’s Reznov. You’ve reached space and will be put to sleep soon. Good bye”. I tried to respond but I knew he wouldn’t apprehend.

65 years later…..   

I awaken dazed and confused, I look in the window and recognized myself , seeing my brown eyes, my moustache and my old wrinkly face, it gives me all my thinking space and memories. I see space glaring towards me like a shiny polished emerald. The pitch black space covers my eye’s, the stars guide me through space.  I feel the gravity in space pulling me out of my chair trying to make me drift away. I notice a glimpse of earth, my home. Earth it illuminated brightly.

My space shuttle started drifting towards earth, I was gratified.

I was descending, crashing roughly threw the air, I grabbed the photo of Reznov and clenched it, I closed my eyes thinking I wouldn’t make it. I hear a giant Clunk! I open my eyes seeing an obliterated earth.

Terra Firma !!   

I walked around feeling like there was life around the area, there was nothing.

I shrieked, “Reznov!! Why couldn’t you survive?”

I grabbed the photo of Reznov and eradicated it.

While I started sprinting in this hellish area I started thinking there was nobody here.

I felt an overwhelming presence darting towards me. I turned around cautious and aware.

I black out……

I awaked bleeding and bruised, I try walk away but the pain overwhelms me, I hear a voice saying.

“Move and you will die, simple as that.”

I said.

“Who are you?“

“Just a huntsman.”

I said.

“Why do you do this?”

He shouted.

“To SURVIVE!”

120 minutes later……….

The hunter was asleep gun in hand.

I had a chance to grasp freedom and I took it, I slowly walked away trying to survive.

I felt an unexplainable feeling, I felt like a burning pain that was curing me from my misery but it felt like a sensational power no one could master, but at the same time it felt like it would kill me. I didn’t know what to do I panicked and fell, my soul screamed.

“Goodbye cruel world.”

Then sadly he awoke and bolted with a knife I tried escape but my deceased legs couldn’t survive he tied me and decimated I couldn’t bare the aching pain.

He asked for my last words.

I said.

“I’ll see you again Reznov.”

By Aron

	Punctuation	Vocabulary
Self	R4	R4
Peer	R5	R4

This is a writing table.

We use this to upgrade our writing, by cooperating and choosing ranks.

Their are certain ranks to choose from R1 to R7

R1 being the lowest and R7 being the Highest.
R7 is you have few mistakes.
R1 is you've got a lot of mistakes.

Bledisloe Cup information.

W.A.L.T : Gather information and then Present it.

For Reading two groups have had to make a presentation of the Bledisloe Cup. This the information they have given us. In the future I will post My own Presentation about the cup.
Hope you enjoy.
This was very fun.

Division in parts.

W.A.L.T : Divide in parts.

For maths we have been doing some division strategies.
I have made a video to show you one of them.
This is one of them its called dividing in parts.

Aron's First Draft.

Lost and found

First draft  

W.A.L.T write a narrative

Success Criteria

I know I will be successful when….

• The title is suitable for the text.

• The orientation tells who the story is about, and when and where the story happened.
• The complication describes a problem and explains what happened next.
• The resolution explains how the problem was solved.

Include a twist to add interest.

It was 1961 at the Russian space core. All I heard was the countdown. I was nervous and scared, my heart was beating like a crazed drum. The feeling of stage-fright had kicked in.

Voice says.

“3, 2, 1”

Kaboom! I was hasting on the scurrying rocket crashing roughly through the air.  

On my way to space  I was thinking of all chimps, why me? Did I have something the other chimps didn’t or was it the other way around? Why couldn’t the other chimps take the training I did? Was Reznov not able to teach the other chimps?

Transmission turns on “Hello it’s Reznov. You’ve reached space and will be put to sleep soon. Good bye”. I tried respond but I knew he wouldn’t hear.

65 years later…..   

I awaken dazed and confused, I look in the window and remember myself , seeing my brown eyes, my moustache and my old wrinkly face, it gives me all my thinking space and memories. I see space glaring towards me like a shiny polished emerald. The dark space covers my eye’s, the stars guide me through space.  I feel the gravity in space pulling me out of my chair trying to make me drift away. I catch a glimpse of earth my home , Earth illuminated brightly.

My space shuttle started drifting towards earth, I was gratified.

I was descending, crashing roughly threw the air, I grabbed the photo of Reznov and clenched it, I closed my eyes thinking I wouldn’t make it. I hear a giant Clunk! I open my eyes seeing an eradicated earth.

Terra Firma !!   

I walked around feeling like there was life around the area, there was nothing.

I shrieked, “Reznov!! Why couldn’t you survive?”

I grabbed the photo of Reznov and ripped it to pieces.

While I started sprinting in this hellish area I started thinking there was nobody here.

I felt an overwhelming presence darting towards me, I turned around cautious and aware.

I blacked out……

I awaked bleeding and bruised, I try walk away but the pain overwhelmed me, I hear a voice saying.

“Move and you will die simple as that.”

I said.

“Who are you ?“

“Just a hunter  .”

I said.

“Why do you do this ?”

He shouted.

“To SURVIVE !”

 3 Hours Later…….

The hunter was asleep gun in hand.

I had a chance to grasp freedom and I took it, I slowly walked away trying to survive sadly he awoke and sprinted with a knife I tried run but my old legs couldn’t survive he tied me and broke me I suffered.

He asked for my last words.

I said.

“I’ll see you again Reznov.”

By Aron

	Punctuation	Vocabulary
Self	R4	R5
Peer	R5	R4

This is a writing table.

We use this to upgrade our writing, by cooperating and choosing ranks.

Their are certain ranks to choose from R1 to R7

R1 being the lowest and R7 being the Highest.
R7 is you have few mistakes.
R1 is you've got a lot of mistakes.

Aron's Vocabulary word wall

For reading we have been doing independent activities .
hear is one of them.
This reading activity we had to find a word that we didn't know and then we researched it, and put it into a sentence.

My Escape Activity.

I am reading a novel with a group and our teacher gave us some activities on google slides, this slide we had to connect the other characters to the main character.

Aron's Space chimp.

This is my planning of the story im gonna call "coming back home" I hope you enjoy my planning.

Aron animal adaptation: Wolf paw

Front view

We have been looking at animal adaptations and how they help them survive in the wild! I chose the wolf paw for my adaptation. I created a clay model of a wolf paw. I have also found some information about it.  

Side View

Facts 

• Wolf tracks can be found in almost any terrain (except on rocks..) Usually a wolf would keep it's tracks in a straight line if it's deep, usually only in snow.
  • Wolves have pads to keep their paws safe, pads are an extra tough skin so they may go where they please. A wolf pad could be cut, it is possible, but if it does not get fixed it could get infected.Adult wolves have large feet.
  • A fully grown wolf would have a paw print nearly 13 centimetres long and 10 centimetres wide
• A wolf track is not as big as it's paw, because they have pads.

My Midyear evaluation Learning goals.

Today I will be showing my parents my learning goals.

Aron's Metaphor and Simile.

W.A.L.T. understand the messages of metaphors and similes.

We are learning about the difference of metaphors and similes.
One of our activities was to match song metaphors to the metaphors area, and song similes to the similes area.

Aron's tion and sion.

W.A.L.T: Can you add -tion or -sion to base words like act and impress.

Operation Calf Rescue

Operation Calf Rescue
W.A.L.T recall  events through the eyes of an animal.

It was at least a 20 degree day, in May on the African Plains. My herd and I were migrating south when I caught a sudden whiff of danger! I told my herd to slow down because the area felt suspicious.

We took 4 steps forward, when suddenly a few lions jumped us, a few seconds later we were sprinting away.

We had to protect the young but our bodies only felt the need to run.

The only thing on my mind is, will the young die, will I be blamed? No, maybe if I keep running they won’t die, BAM! One of the lions isolates the calf and wrestles him down into the water. I felt sorrowful that I couldn’t save the young. I could hear the calf scream in my mind. I couldn’t bare the screams, it was as loud as a psychotic fire alarm, I had to make it stop, all the shrieking and loud noises.  As soon as we got back I saw a vision, the calf was being devoured by the blood hungry lion’s. Every bite they took got more disturbing, their razor blade like teeth puncturing the calf’s body, I needed to stop it, it must go away at some point it. If it won't stop, I’ll have to stop it. I go around looking for men worthy to fight against the ruthless lions.

Almost every buffalo joins me for the rescue mission. We set out to fight the lions and rescue the calf A.S.A.P.  We wouldn’t rest until the deed was done, that was our mission. We arrive staring at the lions while they try to sink their scalpel like teeth and bite with their dinosaur like jaws. We started ramming, charging, bashing, and battering the lions. The pride of lions looked frightened, scared, afraid just like the calf, you could see it in their eyes. At last the brawl ended.    

We were successful at the rescue operation. We saved the young, the herd felt so proud, we rescued the calf from the brink of death.  The look on the calf's face was tremendously happy. It was like a new year's day party, we were as loud as 10 fire alarms celebrating joyfully. I heard victory, I heard cheers, moo’s , and stomping,  the area felt satisfying like we owned it. Life appeared and almost  disappeared for the young, this is a moment he will never forget.    

By Aron.