what christmas means to me

 A couple days ago we had write what christmas means to me because the gisborne herald asked schools around gisborne to write what christmas means to me. Here is what I wrote to the gisborne herald

What does christmas mean to me
What christmas means to me. Christmas is a time to celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ, we give presents to each other because Christmas is about giving others gifts of joy. Every year as a tradition my family travels to auckland or hamilton each christmas, and for christmas we have croissants for Christmas. -
-Charlie M-

Year goals update

 This is an update to my term 1 goals setting here are my goals I think I did good

Ice candles

 It was SO fun when we ripped the milk carton apart. We made Ice candles to make ice candles you will need,

oil, milk cartons, Ice, tall candles, stove top, pan and old candles

1st you cut off the tops of the milk cartons and spread oil around every side on the inside of the carton, while kids can do that, the adults can start melting the old candles. (then you wait for a bit for the candles to melt)

2nd stick the tall candles in the cartons and put ice around the candles

3rd The adult can pour the hot wax into the cartons and wait 24hrs 

here is what ours looks like!

POP ART Composition

 Today we made our pop art, we had to use the tool "Art colouring book" it was so fun and quick we had to pretend the we were at our houses in the summer holidays so nobody was allowed to talk.

We had to watch all the videos that were on our class blog and then we started to colour.

This was the site we used Art Colouring Book:

I chose this one at the bottom because it looked really funky and kind of crazy.

It was tricky to choose a photo to colour in.

I found it easy to colour in the photo

The person who made composition was Mohamed Melehi was Born in 1936. he was an art director at the ministry of culture and cultural consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and cooperation.

This was Mohamed Melehi style of the art

This is my style of his artwork

Camp letter

 This week we have been writing letters to Tui Ridge I wrote to Norm who was hosting us there and letting us stay there Tui Ridge was so fun it was the time of life.                                                                                  Here is my letter to Norm.

Charlie M

40 Campion Rd

Gisborne 

5 November 2020

Dear Norm

Thank-you for letting us come and stay at Tui Ridge,

Thank-you for hosting us and having breakfast, lunch and dinner - it was so delicious.

It was fun doing our table sing off to go to bed, I tried singing ‘The wheels on the bus’ but

I couldn't stop laughing so I sat down,

and Corin stood up and sang the legendary “Baa baa black sheep”.

The activities were so fun.

I personally think that paintball was the absolute best and I bet,

nearly everyone can agree. I thrashed everyone in paintball, laser tag and nerf wars.

Flying fox was coming in a close 2nd place for the best activity.

I got so scared when I put the harness on walking up that stairway to heaven just to get to the flying fox

that was creating butterflies in my stomach. Nerf wars & laser tag were 3rd place.

My friend Mya said she would get revenge in paintball because I got her out in nerf wars twice and

she hit me 4 times so she definitely got revenge from sneaking up on me.

St Mary's Camp 2020 was one of the highlights of my life.

So THANK-YOU! Norm for providing the activities we did. It was so awesome.

No one can Thank-you enough.

Ngā mihi Charlie M

x

The Crystal Crescent book review

 Today we finished reading the Crystal Crescent after we finished it we wrote a book review.

This is my book review. 

Lunapic collage

 Today we were doing digital artwork. We were inspired by Andy Warhol to change and swap the colors on a selfie

Today I was learning how to use lunapic

I enjoyed changing the colours

I found it challenging to find the NZ flag

My digital learning object shows that I know how to use lunapic

Next time I would change nothing I like the way it looks

for the NZ flag I did UPLOAD > FILTERS > COUNTRY FLAGS > ART > and choose what art background.

My Speech 2020

This week we have been writing our speeches

It was really fun to write because I was being silly and I still got through it.

I found it tricky to find all the facts. I was going to do a heat comparison with fire and something else but I couldn't find anything so I did how dangerous it is to animals. 

Could you think of a heat comparison?

August Reflection

 This is our August reflection.

I found it easy to find the photos

I found it hard to think of all the words to write

The Pouakai (Haast’s eagle)

This week we have been writing about extinct native animals to New Zealand

Pouakai (Haast’s eagle)

The Haast’s eagle is the largest eagle to ever live.

The Moāri name for the haast eagle is Pouakai. 

The eagles wings were bigger than the a Smart Fortwo the wingspan is 3000 mm the cars length is 2,695 mm.

You would be able to find them in forests and near a lot of bush places. It lived on the South Island of New Zealand, there were no large predators there, until the māori people came.

The bill for the bird was up to 130 mm long.

The male eagle was smaller than 

the female eagle.

It preyed on large flightless birds like the moa which is 15x its weight the haast eagle weighs 17.8 kgs, and the moa weighed 230 kgs.

The māori hunted māori the moa to extinction due to the Haast’s eagles diet which quickly went extinct.

They also went extinct because of the burning of the south island about 500-600 years ago.

 

Maths times table

 Today I went on a maths times table website.

This my graph on how good I did red means wong and green means right my some of my classmates got orange which we think means you didn't press enter in time. I am still learning a lot of times tables

I just learnt my 3x and 6x tables for this website

July Reflection

Today we have been doing our July reflection.

I found it easy to write the words on the reflection

I found nothing hard

my digital learning shows I know how to add a picture to my blog

R.E Challenge

This week we were making a poster on our term value which is faith.
I made it on google slides.
The success criteria was these.
You must have the value written somewhere easy to see.
You could...
Use a picture of what this looks like, feels like or sounds like.
Use a Bible quote about this value.
Use a synonym for this value.
Let your imagination run wild.
This week I was learning about faith.
I enjoyed creating this slide.
I found it challenging to do nothing.
My digital learning object shows that I know how to put a Google slide on to my blog in publish it.
Next time I would change nothing.

Lion Report

This week we have been learning about lions and how to write a report. The report was cut up into strips and we had to put it back together. My group did not get it correct because we didn't know where the sentences should go.

I enjoyed learning .

I found it challenging to stick the right sentences in the right place.

My digital learning shows I can take a photo of my learning and post it on my blog.

Next time I would change where the sentences were put.
I now know our success criteria for structuring a report.
*To use a title
*To write a classification
*To write about their habitat
* To write a dynamic fact

Matariki star

This week we have been learning about Matariki we made Matariki stars and every side represents a star there are 9 sars in Matariki I only did 4 because we chose how many we did

Manutukutuku (Kite)

This week we have been creating flax kites during this we learnt about perseverance means not giving up if your frustrated
This is my kite!

Matariki Breakfast

This morning we had a shared breakfast to celebrate Matariki.
It was DELICIOUS.
I enjoyed baking our giant pancake.
Eva and Catalina help me the most.
Catalina helped me flip the giant pancake.
Catalina and anonymous made scrambled pancakes.
The big pancake is in the frying pan.

Matariki

What is Matariki? 

Matariki is a Māori new year. Matariki is a time

to plan your future and to get ready to
harvest crops. Matariki is
visible in June or July.

How Many Stars are in the Matariki Constellation? 

Are there 7 or 9 stars? Matariki has 9 stars

according to Dr Rangi Matamua.

His tūpuna (ancestors) could see 9 stars with

the naked eyes. This is a map of the Matariki stars.

The Nine Matariki Stars

Matariki

Matariki is the star that represents consideration, hope, our relation to the environment and the gathering of the public. Matariki is also linked to the health and prosperity of people.

Pōhutukawa 

Pōhutukawa is the star associated with those who have passed away.

Waitī

Waitī is linked with all water bodies and foods within it.

the naked eyes. This is a map of the Matariki stars.

The Nine Matariki Stars

Matariki

Matariki is the star that represents consideration, hope, our relation to the environment and the gathering of the public. Matariki is also linked to the health and prosperity of people.

Pōhutukawa 

Pōhutukawa is the star associated with those who have passed away.

Waitī

Waitī is linked with all water bodies and foods within it.

Waitā

Waitā is linked with the tide and food sources within it.

Waipuna-Ā-Rangi

Waipuna-Ā-Rangi is connected with rain.

Tupuānuku

Tupuānuku is the star associated with

everything within the soil to be harvested like

beets and carrots and potatoes.

Tupuārangi

Tupuārangi is connected with everything that grows up in trees like fruits and birds.

Ururangi

Ururangi is the star connected to the winds.

Hiwa-i-te-Rangi

Hiwa-i-te-Rangi is the star linked with granting

our needs, and realising our endeavor for the

new year.

Mrs Naden’s Comment: You have written an excellent explanation of Matariki. Next time: use your own words. If you are just finding synonyms you need to be careful.  Use lower case and capital letters correctly.

Public Holidays

Times Tables

we are learning our times tables.

We are learning 2 each week.

This week I am learning 9x8 and 9x7