PAT Maths test

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Last week we did a PAT maths test for next year when I am a year 7.  I scored 1 higher
than my last time. I think I could have done better. Here is my results.

P.A.T Reading test

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Last week we did a PAT Reading test for next year when we go to High school. I went up a level and got 9 more right than last time. My teacher thought I did a great job. Here is my results.

Organ experiment

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Yesterday, Team Moana got to cut open lamb organs. Our organ was a kidney. We had to use our five senses - sight, feel, taste, hear and smell.
Once we had done our brainstorm on paper we got to chose how to present our writing. My
favourite part was observing the lamb kidney because I was able to think of some really interesting words. We did this language experience because we recently had Life ED at our school and we were learning about the body. I chose to do a acrostic poem. Here my poem.

Limp piece of meat lying on the plate

"Awesome", said some people and "eww!!", said others

Mustard green covered the skin

Bracing myself as the knife dug into the piece of raw meat

Kidney juice drips out of it

"Incredible!", yelled my group

Different colours are inside

Noise rung in my ears as it was sizzling in the pan

Exploring the piece of meat in my hands soft and slimy

Yes would not be my answer if Mrs B asked if I wanted to try some cooked kidney.

Holes descriptive Writing

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Last week and this week team Moana have being reading a book about Holes.

Holes is a movie and a book about kids that did a bad thing and didn't want to go to jail. We made a brainstorm of describing people first. Next, we turn it into a paragraph that described the warden of Camp Green Lake. Here is my work below.

Tall but slim,pretty but bossy, she gracefully walks. Hair is as red as blood, puffy but laid out perfectly down her back. Acts like she’s Number One. Eyes shaped like almonds, green like an emerald sparkling in the sun.  Dark red nails like ripe juicy strawberries. Lips taste like soft pink cherries that have been ripening in the sun for weeks.Sleeves pulled up so high you can see her freckles laid out like a pattern, going down her arm. Sounds bitter and demanding like a grizzly bear looking for food.

Skittles Experiment

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On Tuesday Team Moana did a Skittles experiment.We had to find out what would happen when we put water with Skittles.They made a pattern when mixed together. The flavour and colour got drained out of the Skittles so fast.After the experiment we got to chose how to present our experiment by using our five senses. I chose to do a Thing link.
Here is my writing from Thing link.

The Abandoned Ship

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This week we are learning about the five senses taste,feel,smell,hear and sight. The whole class did this as a test. To see if we were working properly with their writing groups. I wrote mine about a old ship.Here is my one.

Ka Ketie ano

Cross country

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Yesterday we did Cross Country and lots of different schools came to our school to race us.I was so nervous I had butterflies in my tummy. The seniors had to go around the course twice.The juniors had to go around the course once and the middle school had to go around a field twice and the course once.I came 12th. It was really hard because there were fast runners. At the end of the race I was as red as a ripe tomato.Here is a photo of the 10 year old girls lining up but you can't see me.

Science fair in preparation

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Tomorrow we are having a science fair. At the science fair all the kids are going to come and look at everyone's experiments. My group and I are doing static powered dancing ghost. We have to use a balloon rub, it on our head then hover it over the tissue ghost. In my group I have Kate, Braeden, Amelia and Me. We also had to write a scientific report. We were not allowed to say we or I. In our hypothesis we had to tell what we predict will happen when we hover the balloon over the ghost. Here is our hypothesis:


We predict that, when we rub the balloon on our hair, it will charge up the balloon with static electricity, that will make the ghost dance by hovering the balloon over it slowly and carefully.

I hope it works tomorrow at the science fair. Here is some photos of our poster!

Science experiments

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We have been doing science experiments in preparation for the science fair.

Here is a photo of one of our experiments called the flight of the tea bag.

Learning how to read a scientific report.

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We are learning how to read and write scientific reports. We have been doing experiments and writing about them. This is a reading activity we did. We had to be able to match a title for a report with a wondering question.

Zoofari

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This week, we went to Auckland zoo on a Zoofari. We slept in the old elephant house.The Zoo keepers would take out the cheetahs every morning for a walk around the zoo.When the cheetahs were walking past me I was so excited because I have never seen a cheetah before. Here is a picture of me and the cheetah.

I am working on an animal report about cheetahs and I saw one up close! It was bigger than I thought it would be.

Ka Kite Ano

Bon Voyage

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This Week Miss Fletcher was in our class. We were learning how to do opinion writing for our speeches. So we did Bon Voyage which are a series of lessons to teach us about opinion writing.We did this lesson every day. Here is lesson 1.

My Basic Facts progress

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Here is my basic facts progress for this year. In Term 1 I was working on Stage 5 and I got a score of 37/60. In Term 2, my basic facts score for Stage 5 was 58/60 so my teachers said I was ready for Stage 6. So, I did the Stage 6 test and got 23/45. There is some hard stuff on Stage 6 but I’m lucky because we have some expert kids in Team Moana who can help us.

Getting ready for Fun Friday

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Today Team Moana has been setting up their games for Fun Friday. Fun Friday is a day when you get to buy tokens so you can go on the games that the seniors have set up. My group's game is called Minute to win it.a you get to choose 3 activities for one token. There are 5 activities. The people in my group are Willow,Kate,Taylor,Charlie-gurl ,Hollie,Jessica J,Kyra,Lani and Waiorere.

Onsie day 2017

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Today we had an animal onsie day because we are fundraising for the year 1 and 2 zoo trip. Our group dressed up as giant pandas. Giant pandas are members of the bear family.They are mammals.Here is my group.

Cooper's beach

Halo oloketa! Bloggers. Hope you had an awesome week at school. This week we have been focusing on working as a group because learning together is empowering.On Monday some scientists came in to see how we work together as a group. My buddy is Louisa. We created a recount called Cooper's Beach. Here it is: