Year 6 camp 2017

On tuesday 21 2017 september at 7 am we were in the hall waiting to go on the bus. When it was time to get on the bus we went groups at an time and had to out our big bags on an compartment in the bus. When we where finished we went on a ferry to get to kawau island. I was in mansion the other team's where katz, kawau and bentzon.

They first day we went hiking up killer hill and go to the other side. Before we went to the other side we watched hopa put an rock on top of killer hill which is a thing we do everyone year 6 camp.. When we came back we didn't do much we went swimming then had lunch. that night we watched a movie call the prince's bride pt england year six camp have been watching for 14 years then we went to sleep.

On they first day we went on our daily run, when we got back we waited for breakfast then we started our activities. The first activity I did was kayaking with mr somerville, then I went raft building, than bivouacking which is making a hut then I went sailing. After each activities we had morning tea, afternoon tea, lunch than dinner. We played a game called spotlight in the night, the teachers had flash lights and had to find us before we got onto a deck, I won twice.  

On they third day we went on our daily run again and waited for breakfast. They first mansion b (my group) was doing was concourse short for confidence course after that we did they burma trail, we were blindfolded and had to get through a hill by holding a rope then we went orienteering we had an compass too find letters and decode than into 4 words. the last thing we did was abseiling, we had to climb a ladder than hold an rope and “walk” down a wall. Than we had dinner and did a performance that we practiced for 3 days. Mansion came 4th bentzon 3rd kawau 2nd and katz 1st.

I would like to thank the people that could makes year 6 2017 camp possible. I like too thanks they parents that came along and help us with the activities.

I enjoyed doing all of the water activities mostly kayaking. I learnt to go sailing in a sailboat and how to use a compass properly.

Task description: write what we did on day 1 2 and 3. Include pictures of what we did.

Limericks

Walt: write our own limericks.

Task description: making our owns limericks that rhyme. telling the reader what a limerick is. including a image on our limes ricks.

Alien description

Walt: use describing words when writing character descriptions  
Task description: write a description explaining the aliens. write some things that describe them like there colors. 

Star dome trip

Walt include a variety of sentence types in our writing

On thursday we were going on a trip to star dome it was three dollars to go, 2$ for the bus and 1$. We were in groups too. On the way me and my friend (we were in they same groups) and played games on the bus while waiting to get to star dome. When we got to star dome we sat down in our lines waiting to go in.  have you ever been in star dome before?

Our teacher said that we arrived 10 minutes early so we got to play on the park. They park had an flying fox an tire spinning thing ( I don't know the name of it) and an spider web there was more to the park. After we were finished we got back into our lines than we went inside. What park have you been too?   

Inside the building near the entry there was a rocket figure made of lego. In the building there were rocket figures made of lego. There were telescopes, rockets, screens (with info about space shuttles) and other stuff. After that where went too do an quiz with our groups then we went into a dome to watch an short movie. Have you done a quiz about space before?  

In the dome  we sat on some seats I sat with my friend and we looked up at the dome and watched what happened. Before they movie we say we're jupiter and saturn was at night. When we watched the movie it was about finding a new place to live. When the movie was done we went onto the bus and went back to school. Have you seen a movie about space before?

During our trip I have learnt that we should take of earth better so we don't need to move planets. I also learnt that when making rocket figures it's easier too use lego instead of using a lot of money. I have learnt about titan have methane rain and methane slush rivers.

Task description: write about our trip to star dome. write what we did there and what we learnt. ask question about some things we did.

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My astronaut

Walt: make connections with what we read, and what we have read before.
Task description: Fill in an image on pixlr editor to make our character. write what his name is, how old he is, whats his country, what is his languages and his skills. write a reason for him to join the mars one project.

Mars One Project

Walt: make connections with what we read, and what we have read before.
Task description: put images on our slides with attribution. Write when there going to mars who goes what they will do on mars and more. research about the mars one project so we can write down our facts.

2017 cross country

On Friday last week we had our cross country race. All the teams where sitting from year one to year 8. The girls and boys were separated in different lines. Once we got into our lines Mr Burt told us what was going to happened. Teachers were going through the lines giving kids some sun cream.

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Task description: write about what we did in cross country. Put a Link to our full story if we want. put a picture that has something to do with our story.

Mars postcard

Walt: think critically about what we read.
Task description: write a letter to someone like our friend or celebrate. pretending that were on mars and what its like to be on it. put there blog address name who its from and a picture.

Problem solving

Walt: solve decimal problems
task description: figuring the answer in our book then taking a snapshot. explaining how we got it in a sentence.

7 planets 7 men

7 men in 7 rockets ready to blast off into space to explore the 7 other planets and see which one is good to live on. The 7 men got into their rockets suited up and got in there seats and waited go.

All the rockets were big and small to get to certain planets. 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...BLAST OFF!. 7 men blasting off into space in different directions going to different planets, all the men have found their location and stopped to stand on them

bob stood on mercury with his water bottle staring at the gray rocky ground picking up some rocks throwing them in a sack ‘living on this planet is impossible it's to close too they sun, we can't live here’ said bob throwing the sack in his rocket. Now he's blasting off again.

Donny got out his rocket standing on venus staring at the rock and dust, sweating off his hair cooling himself down in his rocket. ‘It's way to hot here it burned my lunch welp I got what I wanted, Man they second planet is way too hot’ said Donny Blasting off again and away he

The planet near the earth the third planet from the sun mars is the one, the forth from the sun, small and red can be seen at night. Mar colors is rust people say it red. ‘Mars is to cold it even froze my water we can't live here we will all be turned to ice ’ said damon getting into his rocket. Now he's blasting off again and away he went.

Jupiter the fifth from the sun, it's also a gas giant the biggest one to. It has lots of moons and their all big. Kooper landed on one of jupiter's moons and threw a can at jupiter. the can fell threw jupiter and got crushed. ‘We can't live on here we all will get crushed and the storms here are dangerous’ said kooper, now he's blasting off again and away he went

A rocket flew around uranus circling it while throwing things into it. ‘Nope not living here it's too cold we can't stand on everything and they sun looks like an little white dot, wel time to go back. Said damion. Now he's blasting off again, and away he went.

Neb went to neptune circled around it's for an while be decided to throw some old junk in it taking an picture too. Neb didn't bother to say anything he just started shivering and now he's blasting off again. Off he goes back to earth.

All the 7 astronauts in their rockets going back too earth the all landed getting out. They all realized that earth

was the perfect planet for them and they didn't need to leave.

Kayaking dangers

Walt:write about warning for kayaking
Task description: write a warning for people that are going kayaking. writing 4+ warnings and 4+ precaution.

My Waka

Walt: make connections

Fishing lures

Walt: Think critically about we read.
Task Description: designing Fishing Lures of the colors the fishes like. Explaining whats the difference about Fishing lures and Fishing Hooks. Explaining what Hooks and lures are for.

This week my number is...

Walt: choosing a 3 by 3 number 
Task Description: choosing a 3 by 3 or 4 by 4 number.

Deavay emersion assemply term two 2017

Walt: Using exciting language

On they first day of term 2 on monday we had an immersion assembly. At they hall there was a table that had a pc and different kinds of laptops/chromebooks. All the team's had a short movie to show what they were doing and what the will be learning about..

This terms topic is Now That's Thinking. Team 1/3s movie was about kites. Team ones movie was about 4 kites for matariki and four female teachers. Team threes movie was about the stars and how the got there. Team two's movie was making kites like team ones movie. Team fives movie was about fixing and they were building a garden for their class.

Team four was learning about what technology the maori people used in the before they pakeha people came. One of mr goodwin's Ideas (In the movie) was learning about a flux capacitor for a time machine. In team fours movie all the teachers in team 4 discussed what they were going to teach the kids.

I want to learn about technology and how it's works and what kind of technology we used in the past. I want to learn how planes and cars worked in the past. I also want to learn what kind of weapons maori people used in the past. I want to learn how maori people lived and what they did to entertain themselves.

I'm like the topic for term 2 but I thought it's was about drawing because there were drawings of car, people, helicopters and more. I wonder what next term's topic will be and they next thing we're gonna do.

Task description: writing a recount from the first day of term 2 on 2017. explaining what had happen and what was there. explain things the happened in the team movies and what happened in the movies .

Eating insects

Walt: writing a recount

On Thursday I thought it's was gonna be a normal day but no. Mrs Stickland was our teacher and she said we were eating insects and they were real! But they were dead. We all got into groups and Mrs Stickland gave us a napkins and put crickets on it with mud.

The kids in my group are Lepa, Justice, Arthur, Hopa and Awathan. All of the kids in the group had a cricket but me. I wanted to try the mud and it was disgusting and then I tried a cricket leg and it was crunchy but I spat it out than I had another one and spat it out again. I really didn't like bugs or insects so I didn't eat a full crickets.

In the end I felt sick and Mrs Stickland took the napkins with the crickets and told us we had to write a recount. This was a fun and yuck experience and I never want to eat a bug or touch it. It also tasted like burnt toast. That was a one in a lifetime, I hope!

Task description: we had to write about the experience about eating crickets. adding detail so the reader knows when, what and who ate bugs. writing a recount about eat crickets with mud. explaining what had happen and how we felt about doing this

Food Web

Walt: Making a food web

Task description: if you dont know what  food web is its like a food chain but different. a food web is about different animals or bugs that eat the same thing. The last two weeks we made our own insect and last week we made a spider. later story about them having a fight or something else like saving each other. the arrows you see are to show what eats what or what eats it. we had to add pour made up insect and spider and put in what it eats or what eats it.

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Insect vs spider

Insect vs spider

Walt: writing about our spider and insect

BURIEL vs BLUE BACK SPIDER

In the middle of the forest, up in an tree the burial is enjoying eating bugs but out of the corner of it's eye it can see an spider just staring at the buriel without moving. The blue back spider backs away only to jump back at the buriel trying to grab it but the buriel gets out of it's way. The buriel charges at the blue black spider and rams it with his horn knocking each other off the tree.

Both of them fall to the ground but the spider grabbed on to something and the buriel just fell to the ground horn first. The buriel struggles to get it's horn free while the spider falls and rushes towards it's. The spider knocks it off it's horn allowing the burial to smash it's horn on the spider.

The buriel smashes it's horn into the spider making the spider weak than the burial stings it too kill it. The buriel started eating the spider. all that's left of the blue back is the blue blood on the ground. The buriel climbs up the tree only to be eaten by a bird.

Task description: writing a battle about insects vs a spider we made up. we had to write a problem and an ending and who won and how the problem started. last thing we had to do is add our picture of our insect and spider

Deavays blue back spider

Walt: create our own spider

The blue back like the red back spider but it's not poisonous and doesn't bite. The blue back spider lives high in trees and it's ears beetles and small bugs. It's enemies are wasps, red back spider, and birds. It is 1.9m wide and 3.2m long. the blue back hunts for its pray by find a hole were it can fit in them grabs the pray and eats it. if on the ground the blue back digs a hole and waits for a bugs.

Task description: we had to draw a spider and it had to be like one. we had to give it a name show how big it is if it has venom or not and were it lives. writing whats its enemies and what colors.

Mosquito sentence

Walt: explaining a bug

Mosquito

Mosquitoes are a tiny stinging insect but a big nuisance. Female mosquitoes bite everywhere they go. The are annoying bugs that suck our blood, like a tiny Vampire. They make us itch, like we are dogs with fleas. Mosquitoes are a doctor’s worst nightmare because they spread disease.

Task description: writing a paragraph about a bug we choose and we could choose ladybug, mosquito, bee, or a dung beetle. we had to come up with nouns to make our paragraph better. doing research on the bug we chose then add things it can do.