Fishing Time

Walt: Think critically about what we read



Task Description: So for this task I did a lot of reading I also went on this link Fishing Frugallures to create the lure for the right fish. We had explain what lure is in a paragraph. Then I posted on my blog.

This Week My Number Is 924

Walt: Guess My Number



Task Description: explain in as many ways as you can of the number that you chose.

Immersion Assembly

Walt: use exciting language

As soon as I got to my class my teacher yelled “Line Up” so I quickly jumped into my home class line. Then we started walking to the hall for assembly. Once we got there we had to sit in lines and sit up straight, then our principal was talking to us about our new term topic, and it is Now that’s thinking. I thought that’s a bit weird. But then he he started showing us some wireless technology.

For team 1-3 they are all focusing on kites, how to make them, how to make them go higher and all that, but mainly flight. Then with team 5 they are fixing things that aren’t right around and in our school like making cushions, making a garden with blocks of left over dirt and making more places for bags to go.

Team 4’s topic is “What kinds of technology did Maori use before Pakeha arrived in New Zealand”. All of our fabulous teachers came up with wonderful ideas. There is a lot of history in it, well it’s like we’re thinking backwards into fax machines and things like that. Fax machines are really old but we still have some in parts of New Zealand. People

would have a document and write whatever they wanted, then they would send it to wherever they wanted it to go. It can even travel faster than twelve seconds.

I hope that we learn about waka’s and how they made them, also how they made clothes. I even want to know what type of weapons they used to do hunting. I also want to know how maori acted to when pakeha people came. I don’t know if they were a bit confused of what they look like, they might of thought that their technology was a bit interesting, I have no clue at all but I want to find out.

Overall this term’s topic was interesting I’m very excited to learn about new pieces of technology. Maybe even get to play with some. So I really like this term’s topic and I’m looking forward to all the technology that we are going to be learning about.

Task Description: This term team 4 is learning about what type of technology did Maori people use before pakeha arrived in NZ. So we did this piece of writing to tell people what we want to learn about that relates to the topic.

Inquiry Research For Extension

Task Description: Researching abouta eels and ducks point of view, gathering all of the information and putting it into a presentation.

Emma The Eel & Diana The Duck

Task Description: This was the DLO/Digital Learning Object video for extension. I am Emma the eel. We did the video at Omaru Creek.

Maui And The Sun

Jaedah Maui And The Sun from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Hide-And-Seek Numbers

Walt: Solve multiplication problems.


Task Description: We had this as our maths task. We had to find out what numbers they were, and where they went to.

Eating Crickets

Walt: Engage the reader by using interesting vocabulary.

Have you ever eaten dead crickets before?, and I mean real dead crickets.

I don’t think you have and if you haven't you should try it is scrumptious. Well, today was not a typical Thursday. Mrs Stickland had ordered dead crickets. It had finally arrived. We were going to have our very own Fear Factor.

When Mrs Stickland opened the package I started feeling queasy. Before we started we had some spew supplies just in case somebody didn't feel so good. Luckily we had some chocolate flavoured mud to top it off. When I had my first cricket it was surprisingly really flaky, then I had another. At the end I had eaten 14 dead crickets.

At the end of our experience, it was actually pretty cool. Once in a lifetime I would like to do that again but not any time soon. They were a bit smelly but once you get used to it, it won’t smell that much. So that is the end of our P.E.S Fear Factor.

Task Description: This experience was weird but tasty. I did feel petrified at first but I got over that. Cool experience hope to do it again some day.

Food Web

Walt: Make connections across multiple texts. Task Description: Explain to people what a food web/food chain is. So I was practically just getting lot's of images. Then find out what one eats what.

Create Your Own Spider

Walt: make connections across multiple texts.

This is a species of spider, it is called Hector. Hector is very intelligent but mean. Hector lives in a decaying tree stump. He waits in the stump for something yummy to hop on top, then snap. Hector is a jumping spider. Hector get’s very angry if he is mocked.

Task Description: Creating our own spider. This my spider Hector. We made insects too. So all of the things that we have done all relates, Native trees, Native birds and now Native insects/bugs.

Save The World From Pollution

Task Description: So this topic is about pollution. We have been doing tasks and persuading people to stop littering. There is already too much rubbish in the ocean. There is 8 million tonnes of rubbish going out to sea, every day. So please stop littering.

Hector Spider vs Roddy Insect

Walt: Write a narrative

One misty morning in a deserted jungle there was an insect and a spider. The insect’s name is Roddy, Roddy is a very quiet insect. He likes to hide in flax bushes when other bugs come near.

He likes his colony but he also likes to wander. Roddy is a camouflage bug. Roddy has horns he

uses them to stun his enemy enough to scare it away. Roddy also likes to eat ants and aphids.

If the enemy looks really scary for Roddy then he will camouflage into something else.

The Spider’s name is Hector, Hector does not like to be nice.

Hector is a jumping spider he likes to jump. He is very colourful, he is green and blue. Hector lives in a rotten stump. He catches his prey by waiting in the stump, and while he waits something yummy is outside. He is a very different subspecies of spider.

Roddy was out looking for food, but he saw Hector and Hector looked very hungry for Roddy. So Roddy tried running but Hector kept jumping along beside him, Hector stopped for a while because he could not see Roddy. Roddy is very lucky for being a camouflage bug. But jumping spiders have great eyesight, so after a couple of minutes Hector spotted Roddy camouflaged into a rose.

So the chase went on Roddy got tired of running so he stopped. Hector had him cornered. But luckily there was a big pray mantis. That jumped down in between them, the pray mantis was facing the jumping spider. Then the pray mantis chased Hector far far away. Roddy lived happily ever after. But unfortunately Hector did not.

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Task Description: Today we writ a narrative. We were creating insects and spiders. So we did a narrative about our two bugs versing.

Mihi For Extension

Kia Ora,

My name is Jaedah, I am a student at Pt England School. I am turning 11 very soon. My cultures are maori and and pakeha. I enjoy playing with my family and friends. I like to go to different places with my family. I like to do lot’s of reading and writing at school. My favourite foods are sushi and butter chicken. My best sport that I play is Volleyball. I really enjoy it because it is challenging and you get to make a lot of friends too. The place that I would like to visit is Paris, because I really want to see the Eiffel tower.

Rounding Numbers

Walt: rounding big numbers to even numbers.




Task Description: This week for maths we were learning about rounding numbers into even ones.

Opinion Weta

Walt: make connections across multiple texts.



Task Description: insects have 6 legs. This task was to ask some people whether they like this insect or not, and why.

The Dung Beetle

Walt: to write about interesting vocabulary.

 The Dung Beetle

A dung beetle likes to collect dung. It collects the dung, and then some how moulds it up into a nice round ball. They are known to be a very strong insect because of the amount of dung, poop, manure it collects.

Task Description: We have been learning about insects, we had to write a paragraph about a bug that we chose. I chose Dung Beetle. It also had to describe our bug.

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Create Your Own Insect

Walt: make connections across multiple texts.


Well, this is Roddy he is a very rare insect. He has Black Horns that he uses to try and stun his enemy enough to make it go away. He has yellow dots on his abdomen so he can blend in with things. He has a very big colony that live near some shrubs. But Roddy likes to live near creeks in Flax Bushes. In his colony he goes there help out with different jobs.

Task Description: This Week we will be learning about insects. We had to create our own insect but it still had to be within the lines of an insect. Like having three pairs of legs or 6 legs.

This Week My Number Is... 532

Walt: What is my number.

    

Task Description: We did the this week my number is... task. We did that and this week my number is 532. We had to explain in as many ways as we could, on how we could make out this number.

Cinquain Poem

Walt: Write a proper cinquain poem.


 

Task Description: We have been learning how to write a cinquain poem. In a cinquain poem it has 5 lines which describes the topic, that you have picked. I have chosen Kayaking.

Insect Cicada

Walt: Create something using bugs.

   

Task Description: This week we will be learning about bugs, so this is my bug the cicada. The bug that we chose also had to be native to New Zealand. We learnt Native Trees, Birds and now native bugs.