How to make desks.

I have chosen to put this blog up because it may persuade some people to build their own tables with the instructions. In our class we have been learning about instructions. We wrote instructions for how to make a table. We all had to write the instructions for what we did on that week. I enjoyed sanding and filing. Filing was the complicated thing I found hard, but I overcame it by working together with my buddy and trying to get it done. 
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Simple shortcuts

We have been learning about instructions and what we would need to put in our instructions. I enjoyed working with my buddy and participating on our work. What I found complicated was how we had to remember all the shortcuts we have learnt. I overcame it by trying it out on the keyboard. I have chosen to put this work up because it may help you on your work and to get to places your Chromebook faster.

how to dress for cycling

Room 3 have been learning to ride bikes with the help of Bigfoot.  I have enjoyed most of the skills we have learnt from the two leaders. What I found challenging was trying using the brakes because every time I pressed the brakes I'd always think I would fall down. But I overcame it by getting help from my buddy. I have chosen to put this post up because it shows how much we've learnt about biking. 

Shared Lunch

Our task was to make a shared lunch with the ingredients that was bought with the New World voucher. I put this up to reveal our learning and how we enjoyed this special event. It was fun. We enjoyed making the food and consuming it after. The kumara was the difficult thing I found hard to do. I overcame it by swapping jobs with the boys or just leaving it for an adult to do.

                Room 3’s shared Lunch

Room 3 were making food. It was for our shared lunch. We went to staff room to produce our food and then devour it.

As we go to the staff room we rapidly settled down to get prepared for our instructions to make the food. Our teacher chose several students to make a dish with a group,while some made smoothies. It was very messy and crowded. I pondered and thought that the room was a concert full of random people carefully gazing at us cooking. It made me feel like a real professional chef. Our dish and drink had to be healthy,because it was a healthy shared lunch.

Because we were so busy making food,We were so concentrated. It was like producing food was learning and working in class.My job was to cut and peel kumara chips. It was really cool and complicated. Cutting the kumara was the difficult thing to do, because it was firm and thick.

At the end of our cooking we set up the table and heard a prayer from Annie. Then it was time for us to eat one of the edible food. The one thing I was really going for was the pineapple and cheese on the stick.It looked really yum so I just went for it.

After one of the most delicious feast I've ever had, we all cleaned up and got prepared to go back to class.

I felt happy, excited and sad at the same time because the food was yum and my thumb was throbbing with hurtness as I got cut with the knife. “OUCH!!!”. It was a little cut so don't panic.

What went well was helping each other and a lot of co-operating with the members in my group.

What I found challenging was trying to slice the kumara in half. It was very difficult and tiring.

Breakfast

In room 3 our task was to persuade others and our entire school to go to breakfast club. I chose this to put up because I never knew that breakfast was so important but by the time I learnt more about it, I started eating breakfast every morning. I enjoyed writing about my ideas and working with my friends. I found using the voice typing complicated because it kept on typing the wrong word. I overcame it by editing it and fixing my mistakes. I checked with my 3 friends before checking my teacher.

                                       Why is breakfast so important??


 My name is Lucy and I am a student from Wesley Primary.I am writing to say that people should eat breakfast. It is healthy and very good for you and your body.

Firstly  people and children should eat breakfast because it helps you concentrate a lot on your work and learning instead of thinking about food and being hungry. Some children can lose their memory when they don’t have an early lunch.

Secondly breakfast is good because it really helps to not put on any more weight. If you don’t have anything to eat in the morning you will be so hungry you will eat heaps in the afternoon. You are putting more weight in your body. By the time you eat breakfast you wouldn’t be so hungry.

The last reason why breakfast is very important because it will give you less trips to the nurse. It is affecting your learning because you are absent from school just to go to the doctors with your sore stomach. It is wasting the nurses time trying to figure out the the problem in your stomach. But really you are just hungry.

In my opinion, I believe that is why breakfast is good for you.

What is a ...... star?

I chose to put this post up because it shows my learning and how I used metaphors and alliteration. We were making poems of our own and learning how to use metaphors. We compared it to other stuff that were similar to our thoughts. I enjoyed trying to build up some interesting vocab to make the poem sound amazing.  What I found challenging was comparing the stars with other objects. But I combat it by thinking hard or just getting help from a friend.

What is a star?

The star is a light,

thrown in the sky.

It is a bouncy blue ball of fire,

sparkling with excitement to explode the plain sky.

The star is a spark,

Zooming across for wishes.

It is a cookie,

That has been shot from a cannon.

The star is a flower,

Grown with petals.

It is a silver lightning,

striking with anger.

The star is a campfire,

lit up with ferocious ashes.

It is the youngest sister,

glistening with brightness.

Tongan Clothes

I have chosen to put this work up because it is Tongan language week and it shows how we learnt new words about clothes. We had student teachers that knew Tongan words. The student teachers had to teach us the words about the word we had. Our group's word was CLOTHES. I enjoyed learning new words that I never knew. What I found difficult was how we had to try and correct the spelling on the internet, because we spell some of the words wrong. I combat it by searching it up on the internet and the choices of the spellings came up.

spectacular sluggish slugs

I have chosen to put this work up because it shows how I learnt to write reports and the different subtitles. Our class was learning to make better reports of the insect we found in the gardens. What I enjoyed the most was how we got into groups to classify our garden creature. I found finding the insect difficult because there were not that many to find and they are very tiny to see. I overcame it by working together as a group and using magnifies to see closer. 

 Spectacular sluggish slugs                                 

picture from: museumvictoria.com.au 

Family

Slugs belong to the molluscs family. There are different kinds of insects and animals that live in the sea that belong to the molluscs family. Molluscs are the largest marine phylum comprising about 23 percent of all the named marine organisms.

Nutrition

The food that slugs eat are meat. They are high and protein 12 to 16 percent. You can not eat garden slugs because they are not escargot.

Movement

As you see slugs do not have any shell or any legs. Although it does make slime. Slug move by their foot. They have a body part called a foot. A slug moves by rhythmic waves of muscular contraction on the underside of its foot.

Adaptation

Slugs have tentacles to feel. Their upper two tentacles have two eye spots at the very top, it helps them to detect movement and shades of gray.

Enemies

Slugs have many enemies their enemies are : ground beetles , snakes, toads, turtles and birds. Slugs might have many enemies but they can camouflage into brown stuff such as logs, woods, sticks and other obstacles that are brown.

Body parts

Slugs have many body parts.

Slugs have two pairs of tentacles also known as feelers.

They also have a body that is shaped in cross section.

The mantel of the slug is the mantelpiece of the shelf.

The part behind the mantel is called a tail.

Slugs are slightly different to snails because they do not have a shell that they carry at the back.

Habitat

Slugs live in the garden. They like to live in damp places where there is enough water to drink from.They like damp places instead of warm places.

Death

Many slugs do not hibernate like snails do. They die in Autumn after laying their eggs. Some slugs survive in the winter frost but many other slugs die. When it is the next spring new freshly baby slugs hatched out from their tiny eggs. Some slugs are deeply dug into the ground to be safe.

Glossary:

marine - relating to or found in the sea.

phylum - a category that ranks above class and below kingdom.

comprising - consist of.

organisms - an individual mammal, plant or single life form.

escargot - an edible snail .

muscular - relating to or affecting the muscles.

contraction - the process of becoming smaller.

detect -  discover or identify.

mantel piece - a structure of wood, stone or marble above or around the fireplace.

damp - wet.
cross section - straight line shape like a triangle.

The Open Day

I have chosen this blog because I wanted to put this post up so that it could remind me about how we went to the open day at Wesley intermediate. We went to Wesley Intermediate because we had to choose if it was the right school for us. We also went there to see what it looks like inside. I enjoyed playing P.E with Mr Ball and cooking in the cooking room with Mrs Dunne and the helpers. What I found difficult was how we went to the workshop and cut out the shape of our letter. I overcame it by getting an adult or a helper to do it for me.                              

“BOOM, BOOM , BOOM!!!!!” as we played basketball with the P.E teacher (which is Mr Ball). We were playing basketball in Wesley Intermediate. They were hosting the Open Day. As the number was called out, the number of people were running for the bouncy, black, brown basketball ball. Mr Ball split us into 2 groups. We were given names for our groups. My team was called the All Blacks and our opponents team was called the Wallabies/Wannabes. The game was on. We zoomed into the center of the indoor court and made our way across the blue circle towards the ball that was tumbling on the floor. It was like a journey to find the secret ball that was hidden in the blue circle. I was so relieved when I got the ball. It was like a dream come true. I threw the ball but it was caught in my friends hand, Annie, I was so so frustrated because they nearly got a goal. I ran with all the speed in me. I’m a bull running towards my worse enemy, the color red.

“AAAAAAHHHHHH!” As I ran. Then suddenly………..

“BOOF!”

I got the intercept and started dribbling towards my goal.

“Nearly there, Lucy you can do this,” I kept the message stuck in my head. Then all of a sudden…………………

Dun Dun Dun “GOAL!!”

I got the last goal and ran towards my team.

“YAY !!” we were so happy. We lost the game but it was still a good game. The Wannabes/Wallabies were ecstatic. They were cheering and singing their chant they made up. It was like they were an overwhelming group that has just won a trophy for the first time in forever.   

                                          The End

Luminous Ladybugs

I have chosen to post up this blog because I want to show how much information I know about my insect I have chosen. 
 We were learning to write a report and give information.
What I enjoyed the most was when we had to search up facts.
What I found challenging was when I had to put it in the write tense and edit my work to make it better. 
I would combat my challenge by looking at our class poster about how to edit our work and getting use to spotting mistakes.
Luminous Ladybugs

  picture from http://www.giantbomb.com/ladybug/3015-1897/

                                 Types of ladybirds

There are more than 500 kinds of ladybirds in the United States. Ladybugs have a shell that protects their wings called the elytra. They have 2 pairs of wings one of them is at the top and the other one is tucked underneath. Ladybugs belong to the beetle family which is the insect family.

                                       

                                       Nutrition

Ladybugs eat up to 50 green flies a day. They eat with their strong powerful jaws. Their bite are painful. Ladybugs mostly drink water and is sometimes fed aphids. They can’t survive without water. Ladybugs also consume nectar, flower and honeydew.

                                       Excretion

Ladybirds excrete some of their blood as a defence. It is yellow and it smells bad. They also excrete poisonous gas. The gas is black. As you see ladybugs don’t have any enemies because they excrete gas.

  

                                    When you see ladybugs

You only see them in the long warm days and when it is a cold season. When it’s cold they huddle up  together or hide in cracks or in windows. They use their 6 legs to travel around to where they are going.

                                  

Glossary:

aphids - it is a type of bug that feeds by sucking sap from plants.

elytra -  it is a two wings of a beetle (ladybug).

consume - when you eat something that a producer makes.

excrete - when you take out the waste from you.

poisonous - It causes danger to other animals because it makes them die.

defense -  to protect yourself.

Sanitarium cooking

Sanitarium cooking

I have chosen to put this post up because this is the bit I really enjoyed the most and it is really important to keep it in my memory forever and ever, and It will remind me when I learnt to cook something quick to eat. On a sunny and cold season of Winter, Room 3 was going to a program that was called  Sanitarium it was also called the “Eat your words” program. We went there to cook patties. What I enjoyed the most was how we made our names out of vegetables and fruits, and how we ate the burgers at the end.

I felt amazed  when we were making  the same food from last year because it means that we could learn from our mistakes and make better patties. What I felt challenging was when we had to cut up the vegetables and fruits. I didn’t feel comfortable on holding the knife, I kept on using the knife the wrong way. Instead of slicing it, It looked like that I was stabbing it. The more I clutched the knife the more I get frustrated.  I would combat my challenge by trying to get use to holding it the right way and learning to cook at home with my mum.

Welcome

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