ANZAC

A couple of mouths ago we have been learning about Anzac and why we remember The people who risk their lives for our freedom and our way of life.

We read stories like Silas the stretcher bearer,das piano,the Maori battalion and more.
We had a special visitor named Mavis who came in to the class room and talked about the war she talked about the soldiers penny. also known as the death plaque We watched some videos about the ottoman army or now called turkey and we watched about 5 videos.
some of the activity's are making a poppy and making a poppy mural,making ww1 dog tag,Anzac button necklace and a Anzac dawn parade timeline



                                             

That was summer poem

A couple of mounths ago in writing we wrote a summer poem that had lots of wow words, adjectives and similes in it. the process of this work was we brainstormed some wow words to help us when we wrote our story. then we started to write and once we finished we had to go back over the poem and put in more details.

Doodiling on Designapp.io

I have been learning to draw on an app called Designapp.io. I made different shapes and colors.
Today we doodled on Designapp.io and I made a Kiwi. First I put in a massive circle and copied it so i could use another circle as the head then I put in a moon and stretched it out to make it look like a beak. Then lastly I made feet with squares and different colors. Here is my Kiwi

Coding

For this term we have been learning about coding on scratch. scratch is a website were people can make things like mazes and songs. First we had to make the characters move with codes heres a link to scratch if you want to try. The most challenging part was trying to make my live counter go down. Then the easiest part was making the character Heres a slide show with a link to scratch

#Day 6 New Zealand road trip

Today in literacy we did our sixth part of the New Zealand road trip. We went to shag point, visited the Matariki festival and listed 3 Hakas from meh to best. First we visited shag point and write a poem about what it would be like being one of the first people to arrive on New Zealand. Next we visited the Matariki Festival and chose three thing that I would want to take part in and about it. then we had the BONUS, we had to list three Hakas from meh to best here is #day 5

#Day 5 New Zealand road trip

In this activity we got lost in a forest, we researched about famous New Zealand people and deciding to do the Otago central rail trail. In the first activity we went to a forest and I spotted an interesting tree but when I turned around and my group was gone we had to write about what happened next. then we had to write about a famous new Zealander and two facts about them. Then we had the BONUS activity were we had to decide whether or not we do the Otago central rail trail and why. Here is day 5

#Day 4 New Zealand road trip

Today we did our fourth New Zealand road trip this time we went to Nelson to help beached whales, watch a movie and explain why we should ban fishermen from fishing at farewell split. First activity we had to write some reasons on how locals helped beached whales to live. Then we had activity two that didnt work as we couldnt watch the videos. Then theres the BONUS activity were we had to explain why we should stop fishermen fishing in the farewell split as every year Hector dolphins get caught in fishermen nets. Here is my #day 4 of New Zealand road trip.