Would you like to buy a pair of chocolate shoes?

Learning intention: We are learning to understand the text that we read.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I answer the comprehension question correctly using information from the article: These stylish shoes are crafted in chocolate.

Do you know why we celebrate Advent?

Learning intention: We are learning about Advent.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I list down five facts that I have learnt about Advent.

Facts:

1. During Advent, a candle is lit each Sunday for four weeks.

2. The three purple candles on the Advent wreath represents hope, Joy, and love.

3. Advent is the time when we prepare for the coming of Christ.

4. The pink candle represents peace.

5. Advent is the first season of the year.

Can you think of a compound word that is hyphenated?

Learning intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English Grammar.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I can do this when I explain that a compound word is a word that is made when two words are joined together.

Do you know how to say 'investigation' in Te Reo Maori?

Learning intention: We are learning the topic words for flight in Te Reo Maori.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use blabberize to record the vocabulary for flight in Te Reo Maori.

I can hear the trees!

Learning intention: We are learning to understand descriptive language.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that sensing verbs are related to the five senses.

I am so proud of my dad!

On Wednesday 16th of November, my family and I went to to my dad's graduation ceremony in Dunedin. He was becoming a priest. His family and friends came to Dunedin as well to support him. Before we went to church, we all dressed up in our best clothes. I wore a dress that had pictures of nature on it.

When we got to the Knox church, we took some photo before we entered the church. After that, we went into the church and the church was humongous. There were flights of stairs going up to the second or the third level so that the people can sit there if they wanted to.

Soon, the ceremony started. The graduates walked into the church and took a seat. They were wearing their culture clothes except for my dad and his Samoan friend. My dad was wearing a black suit with his new brown church shoes and his friend was wearing a cyan suit with black shoes. We were all singing, praying and praising God.

Later on, it was time to place the lolly necklaces on the graduates. Afterwards, we all sang our last song. Then it was time for my brother and I to say the Benediction. A Benediction is the last prayer for finishing off the ceremony. We both said it loud and clear. Before long, the ceremony ended and a lot of people thanked my brother and I for the lovely prayer that our dad had written for us to say.

My favourite part was when my brother and I said the Benediction because our dad wrote a lovely prayer for everyone to feel the love of God.

Learning intention: We are learning to understand and use descriptive language in our writing.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I describe my recount using adjectives like humongous and lovely in my writing.

Why did they shoot the bird?

Learning intention: We are learning to identify the main ideas from a story.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I illustrate the main ideas of the story 'Horeta and the waka'. 

Simplifying fractions, is when you divide the numerator and the denominator!

Learning intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of fractions.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that simplifying fractions means to make a fraction as simple as possible.

Simplifying fractions, is when you divide the numerator and the denominator!

Learning intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of fractions.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that simplifying fractions means to make a fraction as simple as possible.

That fruit sponge cake was so delicious!

On Friday 28th of October, Saint Patrick's School had a Mission Day. First we walked up to church for a whole school mass. We all sang with our beautiful voices. When mass had finished, we had a coin trail in our classroom.

When the bell rang, Vaughan and Kyle went to Room 2 to set up our activity. It was called 'Hit the target!'. You have to hit a cup using a ball to win  a prize. The number of lollies that you get depends on the cup that you hit. If you hit a cup that had the number '5', then you get five lollies.

After that, the bell rang and people started going visiting the stalls. While Vaughan and Kyle were running the activity, Jayden and I went to the cake stall to buy a cake. I bought a fruit sponge cake.  Then we went to Room 5L to see what activities were there.

When I saw the trivia group, I decided to play it because I wanted to challenge myself. I picked the topic countries. There were some easy questions  and only one of the question was hard. I won nine lollies because I got nine questions correct.

Later on, it was my turn to run the activity with Jayden. Some people came to play and everyone got lollies. Soon it was time to pack up.

My favourite part was when I was running my activity because the people who played it were all very good at hitting the target.

Learning intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our writing.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use adjectives to describe my recount of the Mission Day that was held at our school.

Yay, Guy Fawkes Day is here!

On Saturday 4th of November, My siblings, friends and I celebrated Guy Fawkes Day at my house. Her name is Anita and some of her friend's were invited as well. They were Alfred and Beatrice.

First we all watched other people's fireworks before we lighted ours. After we watched five fireworks blow up, we all went to our houses to get our fireworks. My siblings and I had a box of fireworks and it was called the 'Big boom box'. Alfred and Beatrice had the same box as us, but Anita only had 3 firework sticks.

After a while, Anita called her brother if he could light our fireworks and spectate us. Anita's brother came and we decided to light the small ones first. We opened up our box first and we lit up all the cascade fireworks. Cascade fireworks are small sticks and when it is lit, it spins everywhere on the ground. It was very cool.

Eventually, we decided to save the firework sticks and light some big ones and do the big ones. There were 20 big ones. When the big ones were finished, we lit the rest of the firework sticks. There were 6 sticks each so we all had one each. Anita's brother lit our sticks at the same time so that the fireworks would appear in the same time together. It was so amazing. We all had a fun and exhausting day.

My favourite part was when we watched the fireworks because we saw a firework that blew up and had ' Happy Guy Fawkes day' on it.

Learning intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our recount.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use sentence openers to sequence my recount for example, eventually and  after a while.

Can you put 4,5, 3, 10, 46 and 14 in descending order?

Learning intention: We are developing our number knowledge.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I give an example for ordering numbers in the ascending order, from the smallest to the largest. 

The antonym for sick is healthy!

 
Learning intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English Grammar.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that an antonym is a word that is opposite in its meaning to another word.   

Do you know your five senses?

Learning intention: We are learning to understand the text that we read.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when describe that sensing verbs are action words that relates to our five senses.

We love Mary because she looks after us!

Learning intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use blabberize to record the Memorare Marian prayer.

Memorare Marian prayer:
Remember, most loving Virgin Mary,
never was it heard
that anyone who turned to you for help
was left unaided.

Inspired by this confidence,
though burdened by my sins,
I run to your protection
for you are my mother.

Mother of the Word of God,
do not despise my words of pleading
but be merciful and hear my prayer.Amen. 

Please Lord, forgive us for our sins!

Learning intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use Blabberize to record the Act of Contrition prayer.

The Act of Contrition:
My God,
I am sorry for my sins with all my heart.
In choosing to do wrong
and failing to do good,
I have sinned against you
whom I should love above all things.

Does your grandma have a magical jar?

Learning intention: We are learning to understand the text that we read.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write a book review for the story 'Bake a wish'. 

You should obey your parents all the time!

Learning intention: We learning to write a narrative.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I follow the structure of a narrative to write my story 'Parker's huge mistake'.

Thank you for this precious day!

Learning intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use blabberize to record an evening prayer.
Evening prayer:

God, our Father, this day is done.
We ask you and Jesus Christ, your Son,
that with the Spirit, our welcome guest,
you guard our sleep and bless our rest.
Amen.

Mary, please look after us!

Learning intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use blabberize to record the 'Angelus prayer'.

The Angelus prayer:
Call: The angel spoke God's message to Mary,
Response: and she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary...

Call: “I am the lowly servant of the Lord:
Response: let it be done to me according to your word.”
Hail Mary...

Call: And the Word became flesh
Response: and lived among us. 
Hail Mary...

Call: Pray for us, holy Mother of God,
Response: that we may become worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray. 

Lord,
fill our hearts with your grace;
once, through the message of an angel
you revealed to us the incarnation of your Son;
now, through his suffering and death
lead us to the glory of his resurrection.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Ava is very generous!

Learning intention: We are learning to write a narrative.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I follow the structure of a narrative to write my story 'Easter holiday'. 

Remember to multiply the numerators and the denominators together!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of fractions.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that multiplying fraction is when we multiply the numerators and the denominators together.

Thank you, my guardian angel!

Learning intention:We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use Blabberize to record the Guardian Angel prayer.

Thank you God for everything!

Learning intention: We are learning to write a personal prayer.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I choose a title to begin my personal prayer.

Tania is so lucky to have a treasure hunt!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our critical thinking skills through questioning.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use the ideas from the story:Tania's treasure hunt to write five critical thinking questions about the story.

You have to make sure that the denominators are the same when you are subtracting fractions!

Learning intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of fractions.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write the three steps for subtracting fractions.

Are you brave enough to go bungee jumping?

On Friday 16th of September, my family and I went bungee jumping of the Auckland East bridge to celebrate both my brother and my graduation from camp art. First we got dressed. Then I helped my brother to pack up a yummy lunch. We packed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, five bottles of flavoured sparkling water, some strawberries and a couple of chocolate bars.

Then we were off. When we arrived at the mountain that was next to the bridge, we parked our car next to the playground. Then we walked to the man to pay for the parking ticket. After that, we went to the store to buy what we needed.

Before long, we walked to the bridge and a woman clipped a wire onto my belt. I felt really scared so my brother and I held hands and we both jumped off the bridge together. It was so cool and scary. Then the woman used a pulley to bring my brother and I back up onto the bridge.

My parents and my little sister were getting ready as they were next in line, while my brother and I ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a chocolate bar each and we also drank sparkling flavoured water.

We were all so tired after our jump so we drove back home.

My favourite part was when my brother and I jumped into the air, we went down really fast and it was really amazing because I could see the view from high up.    

Learning intention: We are learning to use descriptive language in our writing.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use different sentence starters, for example before long to start a new paragraph.

The Marco Polo satellite was launched by the Americans!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the interactive systems in outer space.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I research and locate information about man-made satellites.

Do you know John Pahulu from Fresh?

Learning intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I organise keywords about John and use them to write information about John Pahulu.

Do you know how to add fractions?

Learning intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of fractions.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write 3 easy steps for adding fractions together.

My house is shiny like the stars!

Learning intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of descriptive language.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that adjectives describing texture are words that describe objects and people.

Baseball is fun!

On Saturday 27th of August, my siblings and I went to my aunt's house because our parents had to go to a wedding. First we all got dressed up and then we drove to my aunt's house in Panmure.

When we arrived at my aunt's house, we said, "Goodbye mum and dad!" Then, we sat down on the chairs and watched a movie. We watched Ice age collusion course. It was funny and very interesting. The movie was about was a mammoth who had to save his daughter and wife from the big snow storm. 

After we watched the movie, we were called to go and have some breakfast. As we were about to eat, my little cousin Jerome, came out to hug my siblings and I.  His little baby sister, Mackenzie did the same.

We all had coco pops and some toast for breakfast and then we all went outside to play. We played Volleyball. I was on my uncle's team with my little sister. When the ball was flying towards me, my uncle said, "Do a spike!" so I did it and the other team couldn't hit it because the ball flew to the back. Our team won by six points and my auntie's team won by four points.

Soon, we went back inside to take a nap. At 12 o'clock, we all woke up. My auntie asked us if we wanted to go to the park so we all said, "Yes please!" We packed up some chips, cookies and peanut butter jelly sandwiches and a large bottle of coca cola. Then we drove to the park nearby the house. When we arrived, I ran to the swing and I lifted my legs up and down so that I could swing high into the sky.

Later on, we played a game of baseball using the bouncy ball that my younger sister had. We used our hand as the bat to hit the ball. When it was my turn, I hit the ball with my hand and I ran past all the base until I reached the last base. Soon it looked like it was going to rain so we had to go home.

Eventually, we arrived home. When the doorbell rang, my parents arrived so we said, "Thank you for looking after us!" and I gave them a kiss.

My favourite part was when we played baseball because I won by touching all the bases with my hand.

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use descriptive language in our writing.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use adjectives in my writing to describe my visit to my auntie's house.

Would you like to design a mascot?

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of time, continuity and change.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write down five facts about mascots.