Ata Creek Animation

This is my animation about Omaru Creek. We have been learning about it this term. Hope you enjoy.

Easter Celebrations

Do Not Feed The Fish Or Turtles

Yr 5 and 6 Camp Recount

Year 5 and 6 Camp 2015

Do you know where I went from Wednesday - Friday? Well if you didn’t know, I went to the Yr 5 & 6 Camp at our school. Almost all of the Yr 5 & 6’s went to camp, while the other kids had school. My group was The Honest Squad. I went because I wanted to see what it’s like being away from your family for a while. Then I said, "I wonder if camp is going to be boring or awesome."

Furthermore, the first thing we did was practising for the concert on Thursday. The song that we were dancing to was Kung Fu Fighting. In our group we had two leaders called Rosalina and Tj. By the way we were practising our dance and sorting out our positions. After that we had morning tea. For morning tea we had the lunch that we had packed in our school bags.

Moreover, then the Honest Squad went to do the Amazing Race, Mr Jacobsen had set it up. For the Amazing Race we had to have an ipad and we had to go to 5 different places. First we went to the breeze. Our group had to paint two of the people in our group’s faces and the rest of us had to dress up in the clothes that were in the dress up box. The people that dressed up had to stand by the breeze door and the person with the ipad (Rosalina) took a photo of the dress up people. Then the people with their faces painted (Rosalina & Glennes) had to stand by the dress up and I took a photo of them. There were outrageous costumes.

Additionally, we then went to the black box by the kindergarten. For the challenge over their we had to sing a song that we have sung at assembly before. So me and Rosalina sang Nga Waka. Glennes was the one that took a video of us singing it. Nga Waka is a Maori song.   

Afterwards, my group went down to the black fence but their were already two groups there. So we went out of the black fence and we went to the black box over there. Inside were the instructions. 3 people in our group had to spell the word HONESTY with their bodies. I took a video of them forming the letters of HONESTY with their bodies. I wonder what other letters we could make with our bodies. But only 3 people.

Once we did that all of us went to the goal post by the village. There was another black box. Inside were the instructions again. Our whole group except for me because I was filming. The group had to try and shoot the tennis balls through the hoops. Then we went to pick up the tennis balls. It was very difficult.

Then, remember that challenge by the black fence on the bottom field? Well that was our last challenge to go to. Guess what? The lucky thing was that there was no one there. For that one it was called the sheet challenge. We had to jump on to the sheet and try to flip it over and then back. But the hard thing was, we were not allowed to touch the grass and we were also not allowed to use our hands. Only our feet. It was very challenging. Guess what? We won the amazing race. We all worked as a team. When we won everyone in my team shouted, " Hooray for the Honest Squad, we came first". 

I loved to play those games. If you came then I bet you would have loved it. I might go again next year. I felt awesome after that. After Camp I went home and said, "It's good to back home with my family."

Yr 5 & 6 Camp Word Cloud

Best Birthday Ever Marking Paragraph

Marking My Paragraph
	What I need to do:	Explained for me:	My Mark out of 5
1.CONTENT	I have a key idea in the first paragraph sentence - supported by details in following sentences.	The paragraph is about ONE main idea. The idea has detail in the next sentences.	5
2.SENTENCE BEGINNINGS	I’ve carefully chosen vocabulary and clauses as sentence beginnings.	Sentences begin differently. Sentences begin in interesting ways using 'Adverbial Clauses'.	4
3.VARIETY OF SENTENCES	I’ve carefully chosen a variety of sentence types lengths complexities.	Sentences are different lengths (sizes). Some sentences are Complex (long with detail), some Simple (short and powerful).	5
4.VOCABULARY	I’ve carefully chosen clever vocabulary and have used it appropriately.	The right words (key vocab) have been used to add detail and say exactly what you mean, and make sense.	5
5. LANGUAGE	Language uses the right tenses and vocab.	Writing makes sense. The right tenses ( past, present, future) and vocabulary (interesting words) are used in the right place.	5
6.PUNCTUATION	Sentences are clear with appropriate punctuation.	Capitals are used for sentences beginnings. Capitals are used for proper nouns (names of people and places). Full stops are used at the end of sentences. Commas, question marks, speech marks and exclamation marks used in the right places ( . , ! ? " ").	5
			TOTAL 29/30

My Best Birthday Ever

My Best Birthday Ever!

I am going to explain to you about my best birthday ever. It was when I was turning 5 years old. It was a very cool party. I am going to tell you about that.

It was a Saturday on the 28th of November. I tried to sleep in, but my mum woke me up. As soon as my mum left the room I went back to sleep, but she just kept on waking me up. So then I stayed up. I had breakfast with my family. It was delicious.

In the afternoon I had to stay inside because they were setting up my birthday outside. On my birthday we were at our old house. By the way back to the birthday….. everyone was outside setting up and my mum and dad were ringing my uncles, cousins, aunts, nana,s and papas over to come to my house. You know why.

After that they had finished and everyone had come. So I went outside and it was amazing. Everyone was there,everything was set up. There were a lot of presents and my uncle bought me a pool. Guess what I did to it, I popped it with the scissors. It was really funny. I opened all my presents before we had the cake. There were so many it took ages to open them all.

Furthermore, we then had the cake. It was a big chocolate cake. I loved it. if you were there, you would have enjoyed it. everyone went home and the birthday was over. I felt awesome after that. I wished that it could go on forever. But it couldn't. It was a fabulous and fantastic day.