Last Post of the year! :(

Hello Guys, This is my last post for 2016😩! I am wishing you all a happy holiday! 

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Guys, Thanks so much. It's only been one year and we have got 1,956 pageviews ALREADY! Thanks Again!

Guys! I have BIG news! The last time I viewed my blog (6 mins ago) I had 1,964 pageviews. But just then, I viewed my blog and then I saw that I had 2,007. WOW now I have 2,009! Thanks so much, I wish you ALL a happy holiday. BYE GUYS! 2,011 page views! 2,014!!!!!! 2,017! Sorry guys, I have to go. Happy viewing!

Novel Study: Prezi

From the start of the term, we have been doing novel study. I had to create something that presents my novel study. I chose to make a prezi to present what I've done. It is below, Please comment!

My Prototec

From the start of Week One, Term Four, Rimu Class started doing prototec nearly every day. Prototec is a basic facts site where you can choose what stage you want to do. I think it's best that you record your scores on a graph so you can see if you have been improving or not; That's what I've been doing. Here is the Link so you can have a go!

Here is my Prototec graph for the last six weeks. I did stage 7. I mostly learnt how to convert percentages. This is important for when I go shopping! I think this is an effective way of learning basic facts because it gives you different questions each time, you can mark it yourself so you can see quickly what you got right and where you went wrong. It's on a site so you could you could practise at home too! Give it a try and see how you get on!

100 word challenge.

Hi, This is my one hundred word challenge for the week. This week for the prompt I had to use the sentence 'But where were they going?' Here is my one hundred word challenge.

Hello? I whispered through the door. SHH! My mum yelled. My mum and my aunty pushed the door open and they glared at me. “Shoosh” Mum said. They walked past me then went out the door. But where were they going? It was 3:06am! I waited patiently. It had to be hours now. 8:07pm the clock read. Where are they? I asked myself. The door creaked open; WHo was it? The man I took a glance at was all black. “Your mummy is gone now.” He said. I knew what that meant. I was scared. I ran to mums room to see if dad was there...

100 word challenge

This is my 100 word challenge for the week.
This week I had to use the sentence 'as the smoke cleared.' I used it in my starting sentence. I hope you enjoy :)

As the smoke cleared, I sped off. I couldn’t stand seeing it anymore. I hate it; the cheesy movies that my sister makes me watch. Smoke blows out of the speakers. Ugh, I can’t believe that she actually likes the genre ‘romance’ “I can’t watch it anymore!” I announced. She glared at me in surprise. I couldn’t help it. I had to tell her otherwise I would suffer for years coming. “GO!” she screamed. I could see fire in her eyes. I was clueless of what to say. At least I had gotten out of watching the movies. I just had to get of one more thing...

100 word challenge

Today I did my one hundred word challenge.

This time, I had to use these words: However   Yellow   Gingerly   Discovered   Remarkable

Here it is,

Hello? The voice echoed in my ears, before I could even understand the voice. I opened the arched door to see a girl with Yellow hair. Not blonde, but yellow. She stared at me in a gingerly way. Yes? I replied. “Uh, um, I saw your artwork and I thought it was remarkable, is it for sale?” “I discovered it 6 days ago when I rode past on my bike.” I took a glance at her bike that sat on the corner of my driveway. “It isn’t for sale!” I slammed the door, and was surprised at how I acted. However, I had to get back to painting.

100 word challenge.

The piercing sound of screaming filled my ears. I darted my way across the room over to the cobweb filled window. The cobweb blocked my vision. I could barely see what was happening. That’s when I decided to race to the door to see the dark looming skies outside. My eyes caught a megalithic sized spider. Questions were growing on me. My brain seemed like it was reducing its size. I had to find a way to escape. The spider seemed to be searching for something to devour. I was motionless; trying to process what was going on. I heard a creak. I turned my head to see a gigantic spider...

100 word challlenge

I take off. I don’t know where I am going, but I’ll figure something out. I have a friend across town that I can go to, but that's about an hours walk. Well, I’ll have to do it anyway, No one else will accept me. I am finally here. I knock on the door, though there is a doorbell. Its 10:37p.m but she’ll be awake. She answers and without having to explain why i was there, led me into the spare room. I sprang into bed. The material felt like a hard spiky blanket. She walks out then the door closes. A mysterious voice fills my ears.

This is my 100 word challenge. I hope you enjoyed my story.

DigiAwards

A few weeks ago, I did DigiAwards with my friends, Bree, Evie, And I. 

Our title is Be the change- Stop Bullying. Here is the video, I hope you enjoy, please comment down below.

Lisa Carrington Visit.

A few weeks ago, Lisa Carrington came to our school. She is an olympic medalist. We all got to shake her hand, and she brought her medals she has one bronze and one gold.

UC biology trip

A few months ago, I went to Canterbury University for a biology trip with my class. I saw a lot of fish and sea animals. Here are some photos so you can see more of what we did. I learnt that people put ink on cardboard then put food on the cardboard so then animals smell the food, then they go onto the cardboard to get the food. When they go on the cardboard their pawprints show on the ink. Then the people collect the cardboard to see the pawprints and identify the animal. I found this interesting.

Cantamaths

For cantamaths, I did a brochure on how much it would cost go for a trip to rio. This includes accommodation, transport, flights (really expensive business flights, bed, tv, food.) This is what it looks like.

Year 6s @manual

On thursday, the year 6s went to manual with the year 7/8s  and we decorated cookies with different colored icing and then in the next class we did  a challenge we had to build a bridge with newspaper, sellotape, 7 popsicle sticks, 10 straws and some string. It had  to hold 500 grams and last for ten seconds. The group who had the longest bridge and held for ten seconds won. Bree and I won and we got a HUGE bag of popcorn each. Then, we went another class, in this class we sewed our own emoji badges, if you didn't want to make an emoji badge, then you could sew something else.

Here are some pictures, I hope you enjoy.

How to write a Quality Blog Comment!

This is How to write a quality blog comment. I hope you enjoy.

Do you think that smoking should be illegal?

The past few weeks, we have been learning how to write persuasively, the topic is about how smoking should be illegal. I think that I did well looking up while talking but I think that I need to work on speaking a little more clearly. Also, I think I need to work on using gestures while reading. Do you think smoking should be illegal? Please let me know in the comments.
Here is my speech:

Cycle Safety.

The past three days I have been doing Cycle Safety with my year six friends. On Monday we biked half the day practicing how to indicate and getting ready for the road. On Tuesday we biked all day on the road stopping at signs and learning how to use them. On Wednesday, we biked half the day. I learned how to indicate and to give way. I found it challenging when I had to do my lifesaver look before I go onto the middle of the road.  My next step is to control my bike on the road and don't weave. It's scary for drivers.

This is my certificate. 

This is the back of my certificate. It tells me what I did well on and it tells me what I need to improve on.

These are my animations that i've done for the past 1 and a half years, The top two are my first two animations. With these animations you can't hold the arrow button down because then I didn't really know how to do proper animations. But the bottom two you can play and hold down the arrow. I hope you enjoy.

My New Animation.

The Past few weeks i have been working on an animation. This one is called 'In the real world' By Ariana Dale. I am working to get my animation to 1000 slides and then i'll make a new one. Now I know how to make my animation play without you having to press the arrow button, just press the play button and it will play!

My Timetable for term 3

Here is my timetable for Term 3! My goals are written at the top. I achieved last term's goals so I am hoping to achieve them this term as well. This term I am looking forward to creating my DigiAward. I am in a group with Bree and Evie and we are making a movie. It's fun!

My Haiku Poems

Today we have been working on haiku poems. They are poems with three lines. The first line has to have 5 syllables and the second line has to have 7 syllables the last line has to have 5 syllables. Syllables are how many beats go into a word for example, My name (Ariana) has four syllables. Here are my haiku poems. 

My first poem is called 'The Hike' 

Walking on the ground,
Slowing down and speeding up,
Having fun with friends. 

My second poem is about netball. 

Catching the netball,
Running fast around the court, 
Yell to get the ball. 

My Mid Year Reflections

My animation, 'My story'

The past few weeks I have been working on an animation called 'my story' and it is also part to do with our cybersmart because we have been looking at animations and we thought it might be fun to do our own ones.  I will be working on this for a long time and my goal is to make it up to 2000 slides. I have worked out how to do play mode so you can press the play button and it will play.  

100 word challenge week 9

This week our 100 word challenge had to be based on being in a cell. I wrote about how it felt to be in one. The picture below is what picture I got given to write with.  My story is below the picture, please comment! The title is 'Jail for life'

I heard a siren outside my door. The door was open and The first thing I saw was a police officer. “You’re under arrest.” 

Next thing I knew, I was in jail. 
Days and days went by and one hour felt like 50 hours. And the food was disgusting. The sausages tasted like plastic.

And now was the time to speak up. I didn’t actually murder anyone, and if I didn’t murder, then how do they have proof? 

I tried to speak to the police officer, and he didn’t believe me. 

1 year had gone by...

100 word challenge week 7

100 word challenge

The sound the Violin made satisfied me. I went to sit down on a chair to see the man playing the Violin. I had ordered a burger but found that somebody else had already eaten it.

Since I couldn’t eat my burger, I went home.
I wanted to make a cheese sandwich instead, but the cheese wasn’t yellow, it was blue, Yuck.

The wind from the Airplane passing by, had swept my pot of flowers over. I couldn’t be bothered cleaning it up, so I turned the T.V. on and slept.

The police siren woke me...

Ingrid Visser My ANZAC hero

The Past few weeks, I have been working on my ANZAC hero. This hero is connected with my matchbox I posted earlier. Her name is Ingrid Visser and here is a slide about her.

100 word challenge week 5

This is my fifth week of 100 word challenge. I had to write exactly 100 words and I did it again! My story is below, 

‘Matthew Flanders Cat’ the man read. “That sounds good” The man thought. He sat down on a bench with a statue on it. The statue was silver with a brown hat superglued to his head.

The man read for about 10 minutes and then he heard the statue talk. “Hello” The statue said. “I must be mad” the man thought. “Are you going to answer?” the statue said. “Oh” the man said. “Sorry I can’t do this, people will think that I am crazy!” Said the man.

The statue stayed silent, and the man read his book happily. The End

Match Boxes

This Term, We had to choose an ANZAC Hero or a NZ Hero. I chose Ingrid Visser. We had to get a matchbox, then we got paper and measured the outside of the matchbox so we could decorate the matchbox. Then, we had to ask questions about the person we chose, and put the answers on a piece of paper and put it in our matchbox. My Matchbox is Below. :-)

The Amazing Race

Rimu Are doing something called the 'Amazing Race' The Amazing race is where whenever you read a book you move a different country then when you move to a different country, then you have to find out a fact about the country you moved to. right now, I am at the starting line because I haven't fully read a chapter book yet.The book I am reading right now, is called 'Matilda'. Each time I read a book, then a fact will be on one of these countries. My padlet is below. (Please do not edit my padlet)

100 word challenge

In class, we have been working on something called the 100 word challenge, It is where we have to write a story that has exactly 100 words in it. We are doing this because it helps us improve our vocabulary. This week my story is called 'the stairway to the sky'
Hope you enjoy,  


The stairway to the sky
I was lost in the forest and then suddenly I saw a very bright light. I walked towards the bright light and when I came closer then I saw a golden staircase and It led up to the sky so I started to walk up...
When the staircase ended, I figured I was in the sky. It was so bright It took me about five minutes to get used to the brightness. I walked around and I saw a very big lion with a bright shiny golden main. Then there was a dark tunnel I decided to go through it.

Edna Pengelly's Timeline.

The last two weeks, I have been working on a timeline for a character in my book. Heer name is Edna Pengelly and she was a nurse. My timeline is below, hope you enjoy,

100 word challenge week three.

This Is my Third week of doing the 100 word challenge, I need to write a story that has exactly one hundred words in it. I have to use this sentence: As the flame flickered and then went out...  My story is called creep. The story is below, Hope you enjoy.

As the flame flickered and then went out, I Jumped into my bed. My eyes started drifting to sleep, I heard a knock at the front door. "Mum!" I yelled. She came into my room, and asked me what I called for. I told her what I had heard. She went to the front door then opened it, "nothing is there, go back to sleep!" As soon as she got back into her bed, I heard it again. I yelled out to mum again and she checked one more time. I heard her turn the handle, and then a scream...

100 Word Challenge week two

This week I did the 100 word challenge. I had to write exactly 100 words. This time, We could write about whatever we want, but we have to use five specific words. The words are: Silence, Thunder, Pyjamas, Orange and Swam. I have put the words bold so you can see them.
Here is my story, It is called, What next?

I was watching t.v, I had just swam 4km.
I had to put up with the brutal sounds of thunder. It was so loud, but I eventually fell asleep...
My mum had put me to bed. In the morning, I only heard silence. I looked at the clock and it read, 5:58 a.m. It was sunrise, The clouds were orange and pink, and the sky was a soft light grey. I decided to get dressed out of my pyjamas and into my clothes. I had swimming at 7:00. Now It is 6:00. The alarm rang...

ANZAC reading activities

The past 3 weeks I have been working on ANZAC activities. I had to do poetry and I did my own 'Jack and Tom' animation. I also wrote my own poem. I learn about the nurses in the war and thought they travelled a lot. I found it difficult trying to think what to say in my poem. Please have a read and I hope you enjoy my work!

My timetable for this term!

This is my timetable for this term and for next week. This term's goal is to self manage and run our own timetable. This links in with our school value this term of Enthusiastic Learners. It is important to learn to manage our own time so we can do it better when we are older. What do you think? Any tips for me?

100 word challenge

In class, we have been working on something called the 100 word challenge, It is where we have to write a story that has exactly 100 words in it. We are doing this because it helps us improve our vocabulary. This week my story is called 'the stairway to the sky'
Hope you enjoy,  


The stairway to the sky
I was lost in the forest and then suddenly I saw a very bright light. I walked towards the bright light and when I came closer then I saw a golden staircase and It led up to the sky so I started to walk up...
When the staircase ended, I figured I was in the sky. It was so bright It took me about five minutes to get used to the brightness. I walked around and I saw a very big lion with a bright shiny golden main. Then there was a dark tunnel I decided to go through it.

Top ten ways to look After a Chromebook

Last term we had to make a movie about how to look after your chromebook. We need to look after our chromebooks because most of the work we do is on chromebooks so we don't want to break them. I like to use ReadWrite to read out my writing that I've done. I like the site Night Zookeeper because it's creative and it encourages me to write more. Enjoy the video!

Is the story True or False?

On monday,

We had to write a school holiday report,

And I wrote this:

The Hill

I had sore knees.  I had just fell off a really steep hill.  My knees were bruised.  I was in so much pain. I had tears rolling down my cheeks. I had to go home early. I was at a friend’s house and she has this really steep hill that she likes to run down. So we had a competition. The competition was, ‘who can run down the hill the fastest?’ I was winning until…

The problem was that I was going too fast. So I fell and started to roll down the hill. I was going so fast that I was going to be sick. I heard my friend calling out to me, “do you need help?” “Yes!” I replied. But by the time I had  said that, I was very close to the ground.

Then I hit the ground. I felt dizzy, and sick. My mum took me home. I was really lucky that my brother wasn’t with me. If he was, then he would have been so annoying! Once I arrived home, I sat down on the couch and watched T.V. When my brother returned home, I didn’t tell him anything.

But he saw the bruises on my knees, and he asked, “what happened to your knees?” “Nothing!” I yelled. If I did tell him, then he would of started being annoying. Mum did’nt know that I was hiding it from my brother, so she told him. And that’s when it started.

What do you think? Is it true or false?

Van Gogh's Starry Night Painting.

Over the past six weeks, we have been learning about van Gogh's painting called ‘A Starry Night’. We cut up his painting into 6 pieces and we chose a piece each. It was only the Year sixes. I painted a bit with stars and a moon at night. We used van Gogh’s techniques like using small swirly strokes to make the sky look windy and swirly. I chose a medium sized brush to make my painting look like his. The painting was a picture of a nighttime sky with a little village and a big black curvy mountain. I used a sponge brush to use the night sky then the swirly bits on top. I had lots of fun doing MY unique painting. :-) We used SOLO to describe our thinking. My thinking is Multistructural because I can describe several things about van Gogh’s painting skills. My next step is to describe several things about van Gogh paintings and explain why I used this skill in this way.

Maths with friends.

A few weeks ago,
I did a times table puzzle with
Bree and Evie. It was based on the three times tables,
we completed it in 10 minutes, and enjoyed doing it together.

Camp Recount.

Camp Recount.

I got to camp feeling excited.

I read the sign “Hanmer Forest Camp” I saw my cabin. My mood dropped as I saw it. Then I looked at the other side of the camp. And my mood got worse. The other school got the flash cabin and we got the scody ones. But I tried to keep my mind on the positive things like “We are going in the hot pools tonight”, and other exciting things.

We got out of the car and went on the big field. There was a tree outline guarding the field. Nearly everyone went into the tree/forest Including me. “Dead Body, Dead Body!” Everyone was screaming. I got freaked out.

I didn’t believe that there was a dead body though. After a few hours we did some activities. Our group did hiking. Later on we went in the hot pools. I loved the hot pools, We got to go on the hydroslide. I was so happy, I went on the super bowl, The hydroslide, And the black hole.

I hated the food provided for me. I know I sound a little ungrateful but it was the WORST food I had ever had in my life. As for other people, they loved it. But everyone who was at my table didn't like it so I wasn't the only one.

MihiMihi

In the first two weeks in Rimu, we have been doing something called Visual mihimihis.

We share our personal information in māori to introduce ourselves to people who don’t know us well.