Math 😁

Math

This week in math I have been practicing my square roots my squared and my to the power of. 

Square roots are when you have a number and the answer is what gets multiplied by itself to get to that number, squared is when you multiply that number by itself, and to the power of is when you have two numbers and you multiply the first number by the second number until you have multiplied the first number by the second number the amount of the second number.

Dangerous sea animals.

This  morning we started learning about oceans.
I found out that Lion Fish are the 10th most dangerous fish in the ocean. Lion Fish stings can be cured by putting the wound in some HOT water, and add balsamic salt. Sting Rays are the 9th most dangerous fish in the ocean. Sting Ray barbs can penitrate human skin and can potentially kill.
Later on, I want to find out all 25 most dangerous fish in the sea.

Math🤗

This week in math I practiced LPG's 14 15 16 and 17 by using different strategies for multiplication division subtraction and addition.

Writing Blast

This week in my writing I practiced LPG 12 by planning my writing. Here are the photos of my work.

Reading 📖

This week in reading 📖 I used LPG 3 by skimming and scanning and finding the right information for the topic, I did this by getting info for my tiger brain wave writing.

Writing 😄

In writing this week I focused on LPG 24 because I wrote my letter in the correct format.

Math 😁

This week in math I practiced stage 6 numeracy progression LPG 13 equivalent ratios. I did a lot of practicing and made up questions for my friends and they made some for me. This photo wasn't the best because I did more after.

Fathers Day

Today 1/9/17 I made a Farthers Day card I will show you the writing for it.

Reading

This week in reading I did LPG 8 witch is reading something a little harder and I practiced it by doing a know your character.

Writing

This week in my writing I did LPG 23 witch is writing my writing in the write format and I did it in my writing.

Math

This week I worked on LPG 9 because I worked on my multiplication and division I got my high score on both.

Division 1.

Multiplication 2.

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Writing

This week in writing I used LPG 23 because I published stuff. Sorry but the highlighted areas didn't show up.

New Zealand's ocean Environment. 

(All highlighted areas are important parts of real document.)

Visit http://www.mfe.govt.nz/marine/marine-pages-kids/nz%E2%80%99s-ocean-environment  to see where we got the info from.

This page for kids gives an overview of New Zealand’s ocean environment.

The New Zealand seas have around 15,000 species of sea creatures with about 7 being discovered every day so they think New Zealand has about 35,000 unknown species. New Zealand’s ocean have half of the world’s dolphins and whales and have the biggest variety of seabirds in the world. The NZ ocean is about 1000m deep.in most areas. Most areas of NZ are surrounded in water even mount Cook is surrounded in estuaries and rivers. Most marine environments have creatures like fish that will go to the beach and then go away again but some environments have creatures like crabs that will come then hide under rocks and stay. Nearly ⅖ of the world's sea creatures have been sighted in NZ’s and Australia's waters. But it's all polluted so help by recycling and putting rubbish in the bin.

By Taine Middleton 

Reading

In reading this week I have been working on LPG 23 because I have been forming my letters properly 

Writing

This week I worked on LPG 17 because I have been doing paragraphs 👍

Maths

This is a photo of some of my maths I was doing LPG 13 Equivalent Ratios it was fun.

Maths

In maths this week I have been focusing on LPG 9 because I have been practicing my multiplication and division.

Writing

This week in writing I have been working on LPG 23 because I have been doing publishing.

.        .       03/08/2017

Tom was walking down the road until he came to the happy dragon Chinese takeaway restaurant. It had a sign saying “ help needed”. He walked into the restaurant and came home with happy news that afternoon.

3 years later Tom was in the same shop, like a fish going back to the same estuary. Tom was in the kitchen with pots dotted all around the place like stars,

 a pot of chop-sticks while he was cooking some nice long noodles like cooking rope, by the light of his green lamp.

 Tom was also cooking a beef casserole in a slow-cooker. He walked out of the kitchen with a plate of noodle stir fry and serves it to a 16 year old boy named Simon who’s a regular customer, and then serves the beef casserole to an unknown octogenarian. Later Tom does the dishes and cleans up, then collects his weekly paycheck of $225 and heads home for the night. Back home Tom puts his Kids to bed and falls into his comfy bed.

By Taine

Reading

This week in reading I practiced LPG 14 by working out what phrases are key parts.

Writing

I have been working on LPG 17 because I have been adding paragraphs in my writing .

Math

This week I used LPG 14 because I was using many ways to find out addition problems like adding in 25s to get to the answer of one of my problems too $1:75

Spelling

In spelling this week I had words like octogenarian and transatlantic they were pretty hard but I got tham in the end.

Reading

In reading I have been doing some handwriting ( tell me how good it is in the comments) I'm trying to get better and I think I've improved.

Maths

In maths I have been doing LPG 12 because I have been doing fractions like multiplying and dividing my fractions here's one 1/2 x 3/4 = 3/8.

Writing

In writing I have been practicing LPG 1 by doing some planning for my writing.

Here's a photo.

Art

Ms Hacket (who is our new teacher) did some art with us about the Legend of Lake Ora this is my finished work. I just haven't put my writing on.

Writing

This week I finished my story Cane it was really fun to write soon I'll also have a second story called Cane the Underworld. In this story I used LPG " 21 " because I wrote this story in a different way.

Anyway this is the finished Cane

Cane

Splish splosh. Logan ran into the garage. Logan is at work while it's raining and he has the feeling something odd is going on. “You need to work harder to get that Mazda working,” yelled out Logan's manager Josh Sower. Later at Logan's lunch break he went shopping, when he turned into the vegetable section he saw an old lady that seemed to be talking to her cane. He edged closer and asked “ is everything ok mam”? The old woman quickly hid her cane but not fast enough for Logan to see a small, beady, orange eye at the end of the cane. “ ah yes young man just trying to remember if I needed kumara or not, by the way the names Patty what is yours”, said the old woman with a bit of an anxious look. “ Logan”, Logan replied. When Logan got back to the mechanic shed he told Josh all about the old woman and the cane with an eye. “ Nothing to worry about, you're probably just hallucinating from working to hard, how about you just take a day off ”, said Josh. Logan obeyed but thought that it wasn't right because Josh always said you can't work too hard. The next day Logan decided to ask his manager a few questions like why was he acting so strange and why did that old woman's cane have an eye. The answers were “ oh it's just I'm feeling a little under the weather and I don't know anything about patty”, later at my coffee break I realised something how did he know the old woman's name. Logan ran to Josh's house even though it was 8:20pm. He was just about to go in Josh's gate when he saw a flash of bright green light and a scream before complete silence. Logan went inside even though he was a bit startled but the scream and green light he was hoping that it was just a green flashlight his wife had dropped because she saw a rat, Rose was terrified of rats. Logan went into the kitchen and saw a knife on the chopping board it had something red on it Logan didn't know if it was blood or just the beetroot they had in a salad. Logan slowly walked up the stairs to Josh's bedroom just to be sure he just peered through a gap between the door and the wall.

Logan was terrified at what he saw Patty was standing there in the room with what seemed to be a wand and a giant ugly worm like creature crawling out of her cane feeding on the blood of the now dead Josh Sower. Logan ran out of the house and back to his bed where he lay saying “ it's all a dream, it's all a dream,” over and over.

Logan woke up at 7:15 in the morning he went to his calendar and looked at the date it was 16/07/2017. Logan had nothing to do now that his boss was dead, at lunch time someone rang him, his phone said that the caller was unknown. “ Hello Logan I know what you saw”, Logan dropped the phone and fled. He went to his old work but suddenly the petrel tank exploded, and a voice started echoing through his head saying “ I know.” Logan was running around in circles until his eyes opened he was in his bed it was the start of the day 16/07/2017. Logan peeled himself out of his sweat drenched bed and went to the phone there was a voice mail left on it he listened it said “ hi Logan Patty here and I know what you saw and because of that you’re next”.

Logan nearly wet himself. He decided to head to his auntie Lucy’s house, his antie was nice anyway she had a black and white GSP named Ash,a GSP is a type of dog. When Logan got to his auntie’s house he knocked on the door, no answer he tried again, no answer he decided to take a look inside just in case the back door was wide open Logan walked in. “Get out”! Said a wheezy voice coming from the living room, “ it's me Logan, antie”, an old woman in a maroon red cloak came running out with a shotgun “ Logan it said is it really you”, said Lucy they went and sat down for a talk and Logan asked why Lucy was acting weird. Lucy’s story was that a few days ago she went to a store to buy a new cane with her friend Patty and the cane that Patty picked had an eye and it started to possess her and for days Lucy had been running from creatures with big orange eyes, she said most of them were giant worm looking monstrositys. That night Logan went to bed and had horrible nightmares of giant worm like creatures with big orange eyes and blood soaked fangs feeding off his aunties flesh. The next morning he woke up to a blood curdling scream he ran out and saw the same vision he had in his dream. Meanwhile back in the city Patty had taken over and had managed to create soul sucking creatures with dark cloaks that can feed on fear. Logan fled from the house he grabbed Ash and ran for his car but there were tiny little glowing slugs infesting it so he kept on running. Soon he realised that it was a good idea not to hop in the car because there was a massive explosion and car parts went flying. The End 

To find out more read Cane the Underworld

Sport

On Thursday I did winter sports the sports you can do are Netball,Hockey,Turbotuch,Tabletennis and Basketball. I did basketball my team was Hurupaki yellow we won all our games throughout our five games I scoured four baskets it was really fun I enjoyed it.

Maths

I did a maths actuation it was 888x88 my answer was 78,544 but the real answer was 78,144

Reading

This week in reading my group ( named Lilac ) read the story king and country it is a story about a Maori boy who wants to live life to the fullest.

Writing

This is a story called Cane that I am writing I haven't finished it yet but hopefully I do soon so here it is.

Cane

Splish splosh. Logan ran into the garage. Logan is at work while it's raining and he has the feeling something odd is going on. “You need to work harder to get that Mazda working,” yelled out Logan's manager Josh Sower. Later at Logan's lunch break he went shopping, when he turned into the vegetable section he saw an old lady that seemed to be talking to her cane. He edged closer and asked “ is everything ok mam”? The old woman quickly hid her cane but not fast enough for Logan to see a small, beady, orange eye at the end of the cane. “ ah yes young man just trying to remember if I needed kumara or not, by the way the names Patty what is yours”, said the old woman with a bit of an anxious look. “ Logan”, Logan replied. When Logan got back to the mechanic shed he told Josh all about the old woman and the cane with an eye. “ Nothing to worry about, you're probably just hallucinating from working to hard, how about you just take a day off ”, said Josh. Logan obeyed but thought that it wasn't right because Josh always said you can't work too hard. The next day Logan decided to ask his manager a few questions like why was he acting so strange and why did that old woman's cane have an eye. The answers were “ oh it's just I'm feeling a little under the weather and I don't know anything about patty”, later at my coffee break I realised something how did he know the old woman's name. Logan ran to Josh's house even though it was 8:20pm. He was just about to go in Josh's gate when he saw a flash of bright green light and a scream before complete silence. Logan went inside even though he was a bit startled but the scream and green light he was hoping that it was just a green flashlight his wife had dropped because she saw a rat, Rose was terrified of rats. Logan went into the kitchen and saw a knife on the chopping board it had something red on it Logan didn't know if it was blood or just the beetroot they had in a salad. Logan slowly walked up the stairs to Josh's bedroom just to be sure he just peered through a gap between the door and the wall.

Logan was terrified at what he saw Patty was standing there in the room with what seemed to be a wand and a giant ugly worm like creature crawling out of her cane feeding on the blood of the now dead Josh Sower. Logan ran out of the house and back to his bed where he lay saying “ it's all a dream, it's all a dream,” over and over.

Logan woke up at 7:15 in the morning he went to his calendar and looked at the date it was 16/07/2017. Logan had nothing to do now that his boss was dead, at lunch time someone rang him, his phone said that the caller was unknown. “ Hello Logan I know what you saw”, Logan dropped the phone and fled. He went to his old work but suddenly the petrel tank exploded, and a voice started echoing through his head saying “ I know.” Logan was running around in circles until his eyes opened he was in his bed it was the start of the day 16/07/2017. Logan peeled himself out of his sweat drenched bed and went to the phone there was a voice mail left on it he listened it said “ hi Logan Patty here and I know what you saw and because of that you’re next”.

Logan nearly wet himself. He decided to head to his auntie Lucy’s house, his antie was nice anyway she had a black and white GSP named Ash,a GSP is a type of dog. When Logan got to his auntie’s house he knocked on the door, no answer he tried again, no answer he decided to take a look inside just in case the back door was wide open Logan walked in. “Get out”! Said a wheezy voice coming from the living room, “ it's me Logan, antie”, an old woman in a maroon red cloak came running out with a shotgun “ Logan it said is it really you”, said Lucy they went and sat down for a talk and Logan asked why Lucy was acting weird. Lucy’s story was that a few days ago she went to a store to buy a new cane with her friend Patty and the cane that Patty picked had an eye and it started to possess her and for days Lucy had been running from creatures with big orange eyes, she said most of them were giant worm looking monstrositys. That night Logan went to bed and had horrible nightmares of giant worm like creatures with big orange eyes and blood soaked fangs feeding off his aunties flesh. The next morning he woke up to a blood curdling scream he ran out and saw the same vision he had in his dream. Meanwhile back in the city Patty had taken over and had managed to create soul sucking creatures with dark cloaks that can feed on fear.

Maths

This Tuesday I did some multiplication with Mr Buckland we did the answers like this, 

34x16 = 30x6 30x10 4x6 and 4x10 and add the answers together. 

Maths

I did a basic maths test it was my best one because I got 100/100 in 6minutes and 20seconds

Ora

This is my Lake Ora recount

The Legend Of Lake Ora

Do you remember the legend of Lake Ora?

Sure you do. Remember when the taniwha appeared on the full moon with its big teeth and scaley tail. Remember how the taniwha was splashing and writhing on the edge of the lake.

Remember the warrior that rushed down and saw the taniwha wriggling around. Remember that the warrior went to the taniwha to show the Puhi tribe he was brave. Remember that the taniwha fled before the warrior could get him.

Remember how the taniwha appeared exactly one year later on another full moon. Remember when the cheifs daughter was found by the taniwha. Remember how the cheifs daughter screamed as she was being dragged away.

Remember how the warrior grabbed his biggest spear and raced after the taniwha. Remember how the warrior searched for two days and two nights turning up the water so the lake turned brown. Remember how the warrior came out of the water with no girl but a portion of the taniwhas body stuck to the spike on his spear.

That is the legend of Lake Ora.

By Taine Middleton 

Read

I did this thing called word work and its when you read a book and write down the words you don't understand and find out about them ( the only reason I didn't know these words was because they are Samoan)

Toast

I worked on LPG 14 I can include visual features such as labeled diagrams, headings, maps, and charts because I did some writing showing how to make toast.

Flower

This is the cover for my Mother's Day card it is a hand bokay 

Forest

We did a mind map with Mrs B (but I did a popplet) about why are forests important.

Totara

James and I did a report on Totara trees because we found one in the wet lands and because it is James's house.

Myrtle rust

This is myrtle rust the info is in the photo

Story Map

On Monday the 8th of May we did a Story Map that is a piece of paper that you draw the path of the story on. In my picture it's the path of the book The Gruffalo.

Picture story

This week, one goal I worked on was " drawing pictures to tell a story", in reading 

Mr B read us a book it was Room On The Broom then we had to do some writing and drawings to go with it, as you can see here.

Dad

Dad 

My dad has red hair and is usually wearing either his work suite witch is just a black suite with black pants and black shoes or his crossfit clothes. He has a joking attitude but he can get annoyed at times. My dad has a short red beard that he trims into place. He also uses beard oil on it to keep it smooth. Dad has bright blue eyes that turn turquoise in the centre. Fiddling with his beard, he ruffles it out of shape. My dad's tattoos of flowers birds and other things are like fish swimming all over him. 

Dad works at sport northland so he helps in things like the beach to basin and some marathons. Stuart  is my dads name and he is a tough man because I've never seen him cry in my entyer life. In the weekends and some times throughout the week my dad goes to crossfit witch is a place where you get fit. I've always thought of my dad as a kind person, and that's the right thing to think because he is. I love my dad, he is the best dad I could ever wish for because he is just awesome.

Letter

03/04/2017

Dear Mum 

Last Thursday I creeped out of my drey to collect some acorns from in The piles of leaves. 

Then I heard a swoosh and a creaking of branches. I jumped up and managed to dig my short little claws into a tree trunk. I tried to scamper up the tree as the hawk’s talons scraped the branches behind me. 

I leaped into my drey and watched the hawk through the gap in the leaves. For a few seconds I thought I was safe until the hawk grabbed my drey and started tearing it apart with his talons. 

As quick as a flash, I jumped out of my drey and into another tree. Scampering around for about five minutes, I find a hollow in a tree. So I climbed in and hoped the hawk couldn't get me. The hawk came and stuck its beak in, I thought it was the end until the hawk realised it couldn't get in so gave up. 

The downside was I had to rebuild my whole drey. 

Yours faithfully Squirrel Taine.  

This is my writing I did about a video I watched it was called Squirrel vs hawk.

Maths

This is my maths I did this week. I was learning how to use equivalent ratios and I did a basic facts test I got 84/100