SLJ Week 2 Day 4

On your blog tell us which of the three options you would take to explore Milford Sound. Be sure to tell us why you have chosen this option.
I would like to travel around Milford Sound on a boat cruise, because I love boat cruises.

On your blog, give us a list of three to five options for the name of this geothermal pool. Put a star (*) beside the name that you like the most.
Geo Pool
*Geolatic thermal
Geogreen

SLJ Week 2 Day 3

On your blog, tell us whether you are a night owl or an early riser. Then, tell us about the rest of your family. Are they the same as you?

Me - Early Riser

Mum - Early Riser

Dad - Early Riser

 

On your blog, share a list of the ingredients that you need to make this food. You must type out the list of ingredients yourself (and not simply copy and paste it from a website) to earn full points.

Pizza Dough

• 1 1/2 cups (355 ml) warm water (105°F-115°F)
• 1 package (2 1/4 teaspoons) of active dry yeast
• 3 3/4 cups (490 g) bread flour
• 2 Tbsp olive oil (omit if cooking pizza in a wood-fired pizza oven)
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar

Pizza Toppings

• Tomato sauce
• Grated cheese
• Mushrooms
• Onions
• Ham

SLJ Week 2 Day 2

On your blog, tell us whether or not you would like to try flax weaving. Does it interest you? Why or why not?

I would not like to try flax weaving again because I didn’t like it. Why? I tried weaving and found it wasn’t one of my ‘I love doing this’ kind of activity.

On your blog, tell us about this person. Who are they? Why are they, in your opinion, so strong and tough?

Who - The Masked Man

From - The Land Of Stories Series

Strong and Tough? Why - The Masked Man is a strong, tough person, but not heavy weight lifting way, instead in a powerful way. The Masked Man is an evil literary character who wiped the lands of the fairytale world and captured all the villagers and royals using his late mother's (Fairy Godmother) portal potion that can make any book into a portal to go inside the book. Using the potion he went into The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Peter Pan. Using all of the evil characters from the books he transported them into the fairytale world and used the evil armies and rulers to wipe the fairytale world.

SLJ Week 2 Day 1

On your blog, post a picture of yourself doing one of your favourite summer activities. Below the picture tell us what the activity is and tell us why it is one of your favourites.

On your blog, post a picture of yourself doing one of your favourite summer activities. Below the picture tell us what the activity is and tell us why it is one of your favourites.

SLJ Week 1 Day 5

On your blog tell us whether you think logging should be allowed in New Zealand. Be sure to provide at least two reasons to support your argument.

Have you ever wondered what logging in New Zealand can do? Well, I have and I think logging in NZ should not be allowed. Kia ora, I’m Louisa Joyce and I’m here to tell you why logging should be banned in New Zealand. My reasons are as followed.

First off, logging should be banned in NZ because of what we’re doing to animals habitats. Imagine if the animals were breaking our houses so they could have more space, would you like that? The animals probably don’t like us cutting down their homes either.

The final reason, trees provide oxygen for us to breath, so the more trees we cut down the less oxygen we have to breath. Really the trees are doing us a favour by giving us oxygen, so we should give them the will to keep growing.

So now do you agree with me? We should ban logging in NZ because we cut down animals habitats and trees do us a big favour. So let’s ban logging in New Zealand!

On your blog, write a letter to your best friend or a family member telling them about your trip to the tundra. To earn full points your letter must have a greeting (eg. Dear…) followed by 5 – 6 sentences of information about what your experience.

Dear Mum,

The tundras were pretty cold, my classmates and I could barely survive the chilling temperature. Tundra is an area of land (biome) that is quite cold. Did you know that the tundras average temperature is -25℃. I didn’t know how we could breath if the tundras were tree less. Sadly in the last few years the tundras temperature have been rising and the weather has been changing, soon no one will be able to visit the beautiful sights tundra has to offer.

Love from Louisa

On your blog, post a description of life in New Zealand in 2018. Please remember that the people who read your post will have never been to New Zealand or even seen a picture so it is your job to ‘paint a picture’ of New Zealand using your words. You can also post pictures, if you wish. Be sure to fully attribute the pictures.

New Zealand is a beautiful country with nice beaches and great skiing fields. Since I have travelled all over New Zealand I know pretty much everything. There are to islands that create New Zealand, the North Island and the South Island. The North Island is a simple island with lots of greats things to see and do. One of the North Island's greatest activities is Tongariro National Park, with great skiing fields it is located near Lake Taupo, the center of the North Island. The South Island is a scenic area with lots of things to do like go on the TranzAlpine express in Christchurch. Overall New Zealand is a great country to visit!

SLG Week 1 Day 4

On your blog, post five questions that you would like to ask Sir Edmund Hillary about his life.

1. What made you decide to climb up Mount Everest?
2. Who was your hero when you were young?
3. What was your feeling when you made it to the top of Mount Everest?
4. What were your hardest times during your climb?
5. Did you have second thoughts while climbing?

For this activity you are asked to choose one of your favourite foods. On your blog, write the name of your favourite food and then tell us how to make it. You may need to ask a family member, friend or Google (!) for help, if you do not normally make this food for yourself.

My favourite food is sushi here is how you make it,

Ingredients

RICE

• 1 cup white rice (sushi rice if you can get it)
• 2 cups water
• 3 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt

EVERYTHING ELSE

• 4 sheets nori (dried seaweed)
• 1 cup chopped veggies (carrot, cucumber, red pepper, avocado)
• Soy sauce/tamari, pickled ginger, wasabi (optional // for serving)

Instructions

1. Start by preparing your rice. Rinse rice in a fine mesh strainer until your water runs clear. Then add to a medium saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Once it boils reduce heat to low, cover and cook until water is completely absorbed – about 15 minutes.
2. In the meantime, add vinegar, sugar and salt to a small saucepan and heat over medium heat stirring occasionally until sugar and salt are dissolved. Place in a jar or dish and cool in the fridge until rice is ready.
3. Once the rice is done, kill the heat and add the cooled vinegar mixture and stir with a rubber spatula or fork as to not overmix. It will appear wet but will dry up as you lightly stir to release heat. It should be sticky and completely dry once it’s ready.
4. In the meantime, prep your veggies by chopping them into thin pieces. If they’re too bulky they won’t allow the sushi to roll well.
5. Now it’s time to roll: grab a thick towel and fold it over into a rectangle and place it on a flat surface. Top with plastic wrap, then with a sheet of nori. Using your hands dipped in water (to avoid sticking), pat a very thin layer of rice all over the nori, making sure it’s not too thick or your roll will be all rice and no filling.
6. Then, arrange a serving of your veggies or preferred filling in a line at the bottom 3/4 of the rice closest to you (see photo).
7. Start to roll the nori and rice over with your fingers, and once the veggies are covered, roll over the plastic wrap and towel, using it to mold and compress the roll (see photo). Continue until it’s all the way rolled up.
8. Slice with a sharp knife and set aside.
9. To make the inside out roll, follow this awesome tutorial. See photos for how to apply a layer of avocado on the outside.
10. Serve immediately with pickled ginger, soy sauce and wasabi.

On your blog tell us where you would build your hotel and what you would use to build it. For an extra five points, use Google Drawings to design one room in your hotel. You can also use a paper and pencil to draw your room, take a picture of the drawing, and post it on your blog.

SLJ Week 1 Day 3

On your blog, post a description of your beast. Use interesting adjectives (describing words) to tell us about your beast.

My beast has got a dragon face, like a night fury with horns. It’s middle area is robot body. Finally, it has scaly dinosaur end to its interesting body.

On your blog list three pros (good things) and three cons (bad things) about working as a DOC ranger. At the bottom of your post, tell us whether you would like to be a DOC Ranger or not.

I only did one for each.

1 Pro about being a DOC employee

1. Different jobs to do

1 Con about being a DOC employee

1. There are only some places where you can work

Once you have watched the video, go to your blog and, using full sentences, tell us:

1) The name of the animal the WWF is working to save.

2) What the WWF is doing to help the animal.

One of the animals that WWF are saving are freshwater seals. WWF are building snow banks on the lakes for the seals to use.

SLJ Week 1 Day 2

On your blog, tell us whether you would like to go and visit Tāne Mahuta one day. Be sure to tell us why you do (or do not) want to visit this endemic tree.

I would like to see Tane Mahuta in real life because he is a New Zealand god and a piece of a puzzle which brings New Zealand together.

On your blog list three sports teams that have the word ‘fern’ in their title. Beside each team’s name, post a picture of their uniform. Then, at the bottom of your blog post tell us which of the three uniforms you like best and why.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 1

To learn more cool facts about New Zealand, check out the Tourism NZ website. Read the fun facts posted on the website and choose your ‘Top 3.’ On your blog, post your ‘Top 3 Fun Facts’ about NZ in your own words.

My Hometown - Ohaeawai, North Island, New Zealand

What's special about my hometown?

Well, I have a list of excellent things, here is the list

1. There are a couple of shops, like - a dairy, a mechanic, a cafe. Basically your simple needs in a small town.

2. There are two preschools, one backs onto the primary school and the other is behind the car park for the primary school. They are both great preschools for any child to go to.

3. The primary school, my old primary school, I’m going to high school in 2019. This primary school has a lot to offer, also it is a device included school. At year four children will get a chromebook to prepare for their future. From then on most work is done on their chromebooks.

Venn Diagram

Hello bloggers
This week we had to create a venn diagram. Venn diagrams compare and contrast two different things. Our venn diagrams are based on Christmas in New Zealand and Christmas in either Sweden, Mexico or England. I chose to base mine on Christmas in New Zealand and Christmas in Sweden
Here is my venn diagram.

Graduation Dinner

Hello bloggers
On Tuesday all the year 6's had a graduation dinner at the rugby club. I am happy and sad at the same time to leave Ohaeawai School. At the graduation dinner we all got a necklace. Here is my graduation dinner photo.

Pet Day

Hello bloggers
In November the school had a Pet Day. Every student had an opportunity to bring a pet to school. For pet day we made vaseline saucers out of flower petals. I brought chickens to school and they won second place!
Here is a photo of my vaseline saucer.

Geometry

Kia ora
For the last few weeks our focus for maths has been geometry. We got to choose geometry tasks to complete.
1. I made a fox out of shapes
2. I made a digital learning page to describe the different angles
3. Sara and I made a movie about the shapes in our school
4. I traced diamonds and coloured them in

PAT Reading Results

Kia ora
Yesterday we did our PAT Reading Test. There were 35 questions, I got 33/35, my stanine is stanine 8. I am happy with my score. Here is a screenshot of my test results.

PAT Math Results

Kia ora
Yesterday we did our PAT Math Test. There were 41 questions, I got 33/41, my stanine is stanine 7. I am happy with my score. Here is a screenshot of my test results.

Comic Book Making

Kia ora,
Today we created our own comics after reading 'The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors'. We had to choose either to create a comic using two characters from the book or use two other classroom tools. The items had to duel each other and one would have to win. I choose paper and a pencil to duel each other. Here is my comic.

Explanation Writing Test

Hello
Yesterday we had to write an explanation on an environmental problem, I chose rubbish in schools. I am still waiting for my results. Here is my writing.

Explanation Writing - Term 4

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Prompt: - - Write to describe one environmental problem and explain what people do to reduce its impact on the planet.

Think about:

• What your reader needs to know about the topic
• How you are going to introduce the topic
• The order of your ideas and how you link them
• What to include in your summary

Remember to:

• Choose your words carefully
• Take care with your spelling, punctuation, and sentences
• Edit - add or delete words or sentences to improve your work

Start Writing Here:

An Environmental Plastic Problem in Schools The word environmental means it is relating to the natural world. Plastic is a synthetic material made from a range of organic substances such as polyethylene, nylon, etc. The word problem means a situation needing to be dealt with. One problem the schools in the industry have are plastic wrappers flying to a faraway land, in other words the sea and farms. One way to stop this plastic problem is to take containers with food in in them not plastic wrapped food. Containers are to be used more than once so, instead of having plastic wrapped food in your lunchbox everyday you can use your container each day instead, don’t forget to wash it after school! At home say you had a little packet of chips, open the chip packet, put the chips in a container, put the rubbish in the bin and boom problem solved, now your plastic packet won’t be dropped on the ground at school and fly to the faraway land I talked about before. If you have plastic in your lunchbox remember to always put it back in your lunchbox. Some kids can open plastic wrapping at school, eat whatever the food is inside the wrapper, put the wrapper in their pocket and go off to play on the playground then, the wrapper falls out of their pocket and gets swept up by the wind into the drains and goes out to the ocean where the sealife can eat it. Always put your rubbish in your lunchbox. To help your schools rubbish problem go around with a recyclable bag picking up all the rubbish you see. This can be a big help to the environment, sealife and farm animals because if the sealife and farm animals eat it they can simply die within a couple of hours. The plastic problem in schools is increasing slowly because of the big habit plastic has become to us humans. That's how plastic is a problem in schools.

Grandparent Writng

Hello,
This Friday at Ohaeawai School is Greats and Grands Day. This day is when every student invites one of their grandparents and their grandparents get to see what the students have been learning about. We wrote two pieces of writing an explanation piece of writing and a piece of creative writing. The explanation writing is about a problem that grandparents might be facing because of aging. The creative piece of writing is about your grandparents and how much you love them! Here is my writing.

Grandparents not being able to interact with other family members

A grandparent is a mother or father who has had a baby and the baby of the mother or father has had a baby. Aging is the process of a person growing older and more fragile. This so called ‘aging’ is a problem for people growing older and one of those problems are not being able to interact with other family members.

Firstly, grandparents may have a problem that prevents them from hearing or seeing their family members at important moments. The grandparent could talk to one of their family members and go get the problem fixed.

Secondly, grandparents can live far away from others important to them, one grandparent could live in London and the grandchild could live in New Zealand. To prevent this problem both of the family members could write to one another each week like writing buddies.

Finally, grandparents sometimes don’t interact enough with their grandchildren, the grandchild could be playing on his or her phone all day when they are with their grandparent, how would you feel if you were the grandparent then? Now it’s up to the grandchild to do things that you and your grandparent can do together like gardening.

Family members are important to grandparents and not being able to interact with you can be a problem to them, so take on my ideas and be a good family member!

Holiday Daily Diary

Friday, October 12th 2018, Day 14
สวัสดี, (Hello in Thai)
Today I am having a boring day at home, well actually Mum and I are going out to Kerikeri to have a operation done on my adult k-nine tooth that is to far forward behind the gum. I am not looking forward to my operation but, I am having a funny juice that makes me feel like everything's fine but it isn't.
Wish me luck!
Bye!

Holiday Daily Diary

Thursday, October 11th 2018, Day 13
Well hello, 
As you may know I have been learning SPANISH! It is very easy to learn surprisingly. I thought it was going to be hard. I've decided to learn Spanish because if I go to Springbank School I have will have lessons on Spanish! Here is my sentence in Spanish:
Spanish: Soy Louis y como pescado.
English: I am Louisa and I eat fish.
Bye!

Holiday Daily Diary

Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, October 8, 9 & 10th 2018, Day 10, 11 & 12
Day/Days: Monday
Hola,
Today I went to Springbank School for a day to check it out! It was really fun! I enjoyed moving around classes and having more subjects like Spanish and science. Here is the monday timetable That I followed.
Assembly
English
Interval
Science
Spelling
Lunch
Art
Spanish
End of day
Day/Days: Tuesday
Hola,
Today I had a boring day. I thought I was going to have an action packed day but it turned right around. I started to read books, then I tried on my roller skates and had a spin.
Day/Days: Wednesday
Hola,
Today I stayed at my Nana's house and played out side AKA doing jobs to get money. In the afternoon Nana showed me a cool site when you can learn any langue. We started to learn Spanish!
Bye!

Holiday Daily Diary

Sunday, October 7th 2018, Day 9
Salve,
For the past hour I have been tidying my wardrobe, putting things in boxes and shoving them to the back of my wardrobe. Previously I have been reading a spy book and doing all the activites and quiz's. One of the quiz's was about you and your ability to be a spy. Every question was out of five, the more higher you rate yourself (make sure your telling the truth) the better chance you will get a better response from the book. I scored 43/50, the book says if you get 36 - 50 points: You were destine to be a spy! Here are some famous spies.

Holiday Daily Diary

Saturday, October 6th 2018, Day 8
你好 (Hello in Chinese)
I have liked my holidays so far. Sometimes boring, sometimes fun. Today I am playing at my house doing this and that so... Today I decided to do some vegetable creative writing and math! Here it is.

Holiday Daily Diary

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, October 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th 2018, Day 4, 5, 6 & 7
Day/Days: Tuesday & Wednesday
Xin chào,
For the past two days I have been at my friend Depla's house. We had a sleepover after our drama practice. The play is almost done and ready to go on stage!

Day/Days: Thursday
Xin chào,
Today I stayed at my Nana's house and played with my friend Cerys. We had a fun time running around playing.

Day/Days: Friday
Xin chào,
Today I went to the movies with my Dad to see 'Teen Titans Go to the Movies!' It was half interesting half boring. Now Dad and I are at home waiting for our new bull to arrive!

Bye!

Holiday Daily Diary

Monday, October 1st 2018, Day 3
Kia ora, 
Today I went to work with my mum. It was quite boring but fun at the same time. This time I have made a back story of my down and out character for you to read. Here it is.

Once a boy named Bob had a dream to become a businessman.
At twenty years old that dream became a reality. A couple of
years later Bob became filthy and spent to much money on
himself. He asked his butler to tell his workers that the business
had become bankrupt and that they should pack their stuff up
and go home. Bob walked the streets of New York wearing a rag
for clothes. One day he heard a miserable phrase that sounded
like this ‘Down, down, down and out’. Bob followed the sound and saw a line of people like him getting bowls of soup. There were two ladies standing at the front of the line holding a sign that said ‘The Lord Will Provide’. Bob went up to the ladies and asked if he could join the group. The ladies replied with a shrug and pointed to a bin of clothes. Bob ran over to the bin, put on some clothes and joined the group to get soup. To this very day Bob still say the miserable phrase ‘Down, down, down and out’ although his story may have a change…