Rocketeer

In room 1 we have been watching a clip of Rocketeer. We wrote about it. What I enjoyed was learning about Rocketeer.

War planes practiced their loops in the sky. George copied the moves with his wooden toy plane. His mother and Grandfather proudly watching him.

Not far away a police chase was happening, Bad Guy (that’s his name) was zooming towards a brick wall and smashed through heading straight for George! His mother screamed, Grandpa stared in horror. Suddenly… Rocketeer swooped down and scooped George up and put him down safely. George adjusted his glasses and caught a glimpse of his hero.

Bad Guy stopped and hid in the chicken shed. Rocketeer zoomed in and punched Bad Guy in the stomach, Rocketeer won.

Sam Gibson's visit

On the 28th of November Sam Gibson came to visit. He is a trapping man. What I enjoyed was learning about trapps. here is the slide show about him.

Ghost tasks

In room 1 we have been reading Ghost by Jayson Reynolds.  These are some of the words in this book that have been explained. what I enjoyed was learning the meanings of the words.

Phishing and Scams

Today I was learning to make a G.I.F.

I enjoyed creating the slides.

I found it challenging to make it a G.I.F.

The Case Of Carmen Sandiego

This week room 1 was robbed by Carmen Sandiego now we are spies. I have made a slide show of the spy code of ethics. I enjoyed making these slides. I found it challenging to spell some words.

Parihaka

In room 1 we are learning about Parihaka. Parihaka is a town that showed kindness to their enemies. An albatross landed on their leaders roof and left a feather this means that their leaders have great mana and spiritual power. I enjoyed creating this google drawing. What I found challenging was finding the right font.

Kimi and Ben

In room 1 we are reading space race. I enjoyed making my Google drawing. I found it challenging to make hair. 

Ghost tasks

In room 1 we are reading Ghost. What I enjoyed was creating Ghosts running team the defenders flag.

Smart Media

In room 1 we have been learning how to know how to verify online information and analyse the construction of digital media 
making fake photos look real. What I found challenging was removing the background of one of the photos. What I enjoyed was making the photo at the end.

How To Pray The Rosary

In room 1 we have been learning how to pray the rosary. What I found challenging was finding the right picture.

Politeness Pays

In room 1 we are learning about kindness. We made comics. What I enjoyed was making a comic. 

The Dance

In room 1 we are learning to describe. I tried to include some long and short sentences, adjectives, adverbs, juicy verbs to start a sentence and a simile or a metaphor. What I found challenging was writing a good hook.

Butterflies swarmed in my tummy. The heat close to melting me. Then it happened… My jazz dance teacher asked us to line up in the hallway. My jazz friends and I were in the dressing room.

 As we lined up we wished good luck to each other. As we walked down the hall, I felt sick. Handfuls of butterflies whizzed around in my tummy. I slowly padded to my starting position backstage.


The curtains slowly rolled open, my friends on stage held their pose. They were perfectly still. Then the music played… still nobody moved. The person at the music desk played the wrong music. The music was quickly corrected to dear future husband. Then we began to dance.

What is Media?

In room 1 we are learning about media. We made slideshows about how we use media. What I enjoyed was making the creative slide at the end. What I found challenging was finishing it in the time we had.

Sploosh

In Room 1 we have been reading Holes by Louis Sachar. This is one of the tasks I have completed so far. What I found challenging was putting it onto my blog. What I enjoyed was designing my sploosh add.

10 Doors

In room 1 we have been learning about putting links in slideshows. What I found challenging was finding the right pictures and What I enjoyed was seeing the finished slideshow.

The Amazon's a'fire

In room 1 we have been learning about the Amazon fires. What I found difficult was finding information and what I enjoyed was learning about climate change, global warming and how it effects our planet.

Maths quiz

In room 1 we have been learning about being cybersmart. This week we created a maths quiz slideshow. This is designed for year three kids however everyone can give it a go. What I found difficult was puting the GIFs on my slides (a GIF is a moving picture.) What I enjoyed was finishing my slides. I hope you enjoy.

Caging Chickens Should Be Banned

In room 1 we have been learning about persuasive writing. What I found difficult was inserting an image. What I enjoyed was learning more about chickens.

 Would you like to be a caged chicken? I firmly believe that caging chickens should be banned.

One of the main reasons is that caged chickens are squashed. Eighty two percent out of three point two million egg laying hens are caged. In sheds forty five thousand hens are caged. In cages one chicken has a space of one A4 paper to live on.

Another reason is caged chickens get diseases. One of the diseases is rickets, this is caused by lack of vitamin D from no sun in the sheds.

My final reason is chickens can’t act natural. They can’t scratch for food, have a dust bath or stretch or flap their wings. They can’t build nests or perch so they get aggressive and peck each other so their beaks are cut. When a male chicken is one day old he is killed and eighteen month old hens stop laying eggs and they are also killed.

In conclusion I believe hens should not be caged because they are squashed, get diseases and can't act natural.

Pollination Animation

In room 1 we have been learning about interdependence. The bee gets nectar from the flower and the flower gets pollinated. What I found interesting was making the slides and what I found difficult was spelling pollination. 

interdependence

In room 1 we have been learning about interdependence. I chose the honey guide and the honey badger. What I found challenging was putting the google drawing on my blog and what I enjoyed was making my google drawing. Here is my google drawing I hope you like it.

Tom Fedro art

In room 1 we have been painting Tom Fedro art.
Tom Fedro is an artist born in Chicago. When he was a child, drawing and painting were his hobbies. He was interested in paintings of women with a pop art style and bold colours and lines. What I found challenging was blending the purple hair. What I enjoyed was mixing colours.

Saint Mary MacKillop

Saint Mary MacKillop
This Thursday my school went to mass. It was saint Mary MacKillop's feast day. At mass our principal answered these 3 questions. Now I will answer them in my own way.

Who is Mary MacKillop?
St Mary MacKillop's name is Mary Helen MacKillop.
She was born on the 15th of January 1842. Her parents were born in Scotland but she was born in Melbourne Australia. She was an Australian nun.

What did Mary MacKillop do?
St Mary's first job was as a clerk at age 14. then she worked as a governess for her cousins. She taught her cousins as well as other farm children. She loved them and later on she became a teacher.

How did she become a saint?
In February 2010 and Australian Woman shared a testimony that after praying to Mary MacKillop her

cancer was healed and that October Mary MacKillop became a saint. 

Action selfie

                   


In room 1 we are learning about action selfies. What I found challenging was fitting all of me in my selfie.I enjoyed making my selfie slide.

Bee alert 5 facts about bees

In room 1 we have been learning about bees. I enjoyed learning new things. The challenge was making the slide portrait.

Saint Patrick

In room 1 we have been learning about saints, what I enjoyed was finding out new things about saints. What I found challenging was writing it in my own words.

Born: 385 AD, Britannia
Died: 431 AD, Saul, United Kingdom
Feast: 17 March (Saint Patrick's Day)
Full name: Maewyn Succat
Nationality: Roman

Saint Patrick has a special day called Saint Patrick’s day. It is on the 17 March, a day Irish people like to celebrate.

How he became a saint

His real name is Maewyn Succat and he took on the name when he became a priest.
When he was a teenager he was kidnapped by pirates and sold to slavery in Ireland to herd sheep.

In the 6 years he was in captivity, he learned to speak fluently in Irish and he turned to God in prayer. He escaped after having a dream sent from God in which he was told to leave Ireland by going to the coast where he would find a ship waiting to sail to Britain.

He is believed to have met up with his parents in Wales before travelling to France where he became a priest and bishop. Saint Patrick was sent another dream in which the people of Ireland were calling out to him to come and walk with them again.  He was set the task of teaching Christianity to the Irish. He travelled throughout Ireland, preaching the Gospel. He and his disciples preached and converted thousands and began building churches all over the country.

By Timiah

Winter

In room 1 we have been learning about painting pictures in peoples, minds. I hope you see a picture too.

Outside wild, ice cold waves raged along the shore. Frozen grass crunched  beneath my feet. Gray sky still and silent waited for company. Faraway frosty trees looked like toys. 

Fizz,foam and froth

In room 1 we are learning about chemical changes. I enjoyed making things fizz foam and froth. What I found challenging was writing the explanation.

Have you ever wondered what makes  things fizz,foam and froth? A physical reaction is reversible and a chemical reaction is irreversible. A physical reaction is when you turn water into ice and then turn ice into water again. A chemical reaction is when you change the properties forever.

When you add vinegar to baking soda it explodes and creates a chemical reaction. But why? Because the vinegar changes the properties of the baking soda forever.

Science fair

The nine stars of Matariki

In room 1 we have been learning about the nine stars of Matariki.

What is Matariki? Did you know Matariki has nine stars? Matariki is a group of nine stars that mark the beginning of the Maori New year. The stars names are Matariki,Tupu-a-rangi,Waipuna-a-rangi,Waiti,Tupua-nuku,Ururangi, Waita, Pohutukawa and Hiwa-i-te-rangi. The dates of when Matariki is celebrated always changes because the stars appear just after a new moon in June or July.Matariki is important because it tells when to harvest the kumara and other things. Matariki is celebrated by having bonfires and dancing and games, you could do this at home to celebrate Matariki as well. Matariki should be a public holiday because it is the maori new year and we have a public holiday for the 1st of January new year.

The challenge  was finding information about nine stars instead of seven.I really enjoyed learning about the eighth and ninth stars.

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My name is Timiah. I go to St Mary's School and I'm in year 6. I live with my mum, my dad, two sisters and my brother. My cat is called Muppet.  I was born in Auckland. I live in Tairāwhiti in Gisborne.

I am good at reading and kind of good at maths. I enjoy reading and using my Chromebook. My challenges are learning my 7, 8 and 9 timetables. My goal is to get better at dancing. I am in grade 2 Ballet and I do jazz dancing as well. I am excited about sharing my learning and I enjoy science and  art.

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