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.