Week 8, my baby brother Ike

This is my baby brother Ike (which is short for Isaac). He is special to me because he is my little brother and he is very cute.

Some people say that he looks like me! (but I have more hair !!)

He laughs and smiles a lot and gives me nose goobes.

News article - Animal lover adopts 1,500 dogs and 200 cats.

Hi,


This is an awesome news article about a lady who started an animal shelter. Hai Wenjin started off looking after a few dogs in her spare time but more and more kept coming in so she had to quit. After that she spent her whole day looking after dogs and cats that need it. She then started an animal shelter with ten volunteers. Luckily most of the food is donated by people. Things were just starting to look good when the government wanted the land back. So Hai Wejin had to relocate to Honyu village, far away from other people so they couldn`t complain about the noise.

Here`s the link.
http://www.dogonews.com/2010/12/16/animal-lover-adopts-1500-dogs-and-200-cats

EOTC week-garden to table

It was so much fun on Thursday because we got to go to garden to table and make the things to deliver to the Waimarie hospital the next day.

We got our hats and lined up outside in the hot sun,then walked to the garden to table room and got our green apples/red tomato nametags. Everyone got told what they were doing and scrambled to get there.

My group went into our cool quiet classroom with Mrs Masters and Mrs Elmore to make nice and smelly lemon verbena bags with white or yellow ribbons. First I made one with a yellow ribbon, then I 

went out with Mrs Elmore and my friend Emily to pick half an ice cream container full of lemon verbena.

Me and Emily had a competition of who could find the biggest lemon verbena leaf. Every time I found one that looked humongous Emily just ruffled through the container and pulled out one even bigger! On the neighbours side of the fence there were tomatoes and we didn't realise they were the neighbours until Mrs Elmore told us, so we picked three from our side of the fence and hid them in the lemon verbena so you couldn't even see a tiny patch of red. Walking back, me and Emily picked a bit of rosemary and hid that in the container too. When we got back Charlotte pulled out one of the tomatoes and said "Why is there a tomato in here? What else have you hidden?" "Just three tomatoes and a bit of rosemary!" Me and Emily giggled. After that I made another lemon verbena bag with a white ribbon.

Next we went inside the garden to table room and made lemon barley water for the Waimarie hospital. We had to read the recipe and get everything we needed : measuring cups. Also all the ingredients: boiling water, six lemons and two cups of sugar. We mixed all the ingredients together and divided the lemon barley water between two jugs,we would water the mixture down and pour it into all the bottles later.

Now it was the end of garden to table and we all had to tidy up. I helped to wipe down the tables and take things to the dishwasher to be cleaned.

That garden to table day was so much fun, especially hiding tomatoes and rosemary in the lemon verbena!

My key competency goals

My key competency goal is managing myself. 

I will do this by keeping my writing tidy. I chose this goal because sometimes my writing goes all over the place. 

I will also do this by setting higher goals for myself. I chose this goal because sometimes my goals are not high enough for me.

My writing goal

Hi, 

my writing goal is to use language features.

 I will do this by using metaphors,alliteration and similes.

EOTC week reflection.

1. How are you feeling after EOTC week? Explain.
I feel very happy because I got to do some really fun things and activities. But a bit tired.

2. What did you enjoy most during EOTC week? Explain.
I loved every day and on Friday it was really nice to go in the pools because it was really hot.

3. What was your least favourite thing about EOTC week? Explain.
At the top of Rangitoto, there were heaps of wasps and I was a bit scared.

4. Tell us about something new that you learned.
I learned how to shoot a bow and arrow. You have to stand side on, straighten the arm that your holding the bow in, clip the arrow on the string under a little gold piece, aim and pull the sting back so it was nearly touching your chin then let it go.

Week 7, A-Z paragragh about me

I am an active and bouncy child who likes to be creative. Dancing is something I enjoy. I also really want to look after the environment. Having fun is something I think is important. I am friendly and gregarious. Horses are my favourite thing and I am very inquisitive. I like to jump around as I am very energetic. I am kind and loving to everybody.  I like to be merry and nice. I love swimming in the ocean. I play the piano. I enjoy quietly reading. I do not like to sleep even when I am tired. I am unique in my own way. I am very vivacious. Sometimes I get a bit wild. I am never going to be a xylologist.I think it would be cool if the world was filled with yellow striped zebras.

EOTC week reflection

1. How are you feeling about EOTC week? Explain?

I'm feeling really excited because all the activities look really fun and I think all the year 5 teachers will make it even more fun.  


2. What are you looking forward to most in EOTC week? Explain.

It`s hard to decide because I`m looking forward to the whole thing but I am really looking forward to delivering our baking and going to the pools on Friday because I want to share the things we make with the public. When we go to the pools it might be hot outside so it will be really nice and cool in the pool.


3. What are you not so excited about in EOTC week? Explain.

Nothing. I'm excited about everything but it might get REALLY hot on Rangitoto.


4. Is there any activity that has you feeling a bit anxious/worried? Explain why.

No nothing, everything is going to be really fun.


5. In Room 32 we are working on managing ourselves - that means being responsible and making good decisions. Tell us how you could make good decisions and be responsible during EOTC week.

I could help the people who don't know what to do.

6. Make 3 goals for EOTC week. They could be simple goals like I will listen to my team leader or they could be something like I will take care of my belongings.

1. I will help people that are struggling.

2. I will have fun!

3. I will share all my ideas.

Eve's reading goals

This term my reading goal is expanding vocabulary and tuning in to interesting words and using them in my writing and speaking. I already do this a bit but I need to work on it a bit more.

Eve's maths goals

Hi, these are my maths goals for term one.

1.  Groupings within 1000 FAST. 

2. Subtract facts to 20 FAST.

An example for groupings within 1000 is: 1000-635=_________

An example for subtracting facts to 20 is: 16-______=9