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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

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. IMG_0665.JPG

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.

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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.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

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.


Tuesday, September 1, 2015

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                                 
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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.