How much do you love your family?

Why do families gather?

A family to me is a group of people who relate to others like siblings, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents and parents. A family has a lot of members.

When a family gathers together, they celebrate, pray or praise, chat and ask questions about their activities and/or what they've been up to. Family gatherings are an important part in making happy and great memories and this will keep them to be in good relationship with one another.

Families can also have misunderstandings with one another. They fight and hate each other at times, they make excuses for their wrongdoings and sometimes, they hurt their family members.

Our family is special. We cannot choose our family so we have to love them unconditionally, accepting and loving them for what they are and embracing their talents, strengths as well as their weaknesses.

Learning Intention: We are learning to follow the structure of an explanation writing.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write an introduction, followed by the explanation, then the effect and a concluding sentence about family gatherings.

Don't touch lava because it will burn!

Why do volcanoes erupt?

A volcano is a mountain with vents through a molten lava, ash, cinders and gas eruption, sometimes violently.

The volcano is caused by the movement of the plates in the Earth's crust which causes the lava to burst and ash, gases and rocks to come out of the volcano.

Volcanoes erupt when the magma chamber flows up the mountain when the Earth's crust cracks and makes a hole at the top. When the lava bursts out of the volcano it leaves lava and ashes on the mountain.

When the volcano erupts lava flows out of the volcano leaving ashes and rocks to fall. Lava bursts out from the top of the mountain causing a lot of lava to flow out.

Lava can burn buildings, kill people, damage cars and trains. Try to avoid going to areas that has an active volcano.

Learning Intention: We are learning to follow the structure of an explanation writing.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write an introduction, followed by the explanation, then the effect and a concluding sentence about volcanoes.

It's hard to serve over the net!

Learning intention: We are learning to understand the sports of Rio Olympics.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write down the technique(skill) of how to hit the ball over the net for the game of volleyball.

What would you use to make your blog post more interesting?

Learning intention: We are learning to interact with others online and make smart decision about what information we share.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write down 6 quality blog posts.

The view from the top was beautiful!

On Saturday 23rd of July 2016, my family and I went to Rotorua for the school holidays. We packed up our bags the night before and  we went to sleep at 7 o'clock in the evening so we can all wake up early in the morning. We were all excited to go for a great adventure. My alarm clock went off at 4 o'clock in the morning and we all woke up and got dressed. Just before the sun rose, we were already on the road.

I slept in the car because it was still too early for me. Our dad used a GPS to guide us to get to Rotorua. Along the way, we stopped over for breakfast. I ate two Joseph Parker burger combo from Burger King. I had a crispy chicken burger and a big Hawaiian burger. Altogether they cost five dollars. Not bad eh!

Later on, we arrived in Rotorua and my dad parked our car outside our hotel called, "The Freshening Hotels of Rotorua." At the back of the hotel, there was a large swimming pool for kids and a spa pool for the adults to relax in. We checked in and deposited our bags in our room. I couldn't wait to get changed into my swimming gear so I could jump into the pool.  My siblings and I were in the pool while our parents went to the spa pool. We were having so much fun!

Then, my family and I decided that it was time to get off the pool so we could go to the Sky line. We all took a gondola to get up the mountain. However, I felt frightened that the gondola wires might snap when we're way at the top. I used my bag to cover my eyes from looking outside but my dad told me to just relax and enjoy the view. He reassured me that we will all be fine then I started to feel calm. Eventually, we got there! Yay!  I was amazed seeing the beautiful view of the forest down below and the spectacular view of Rotorua from the mountain top.

After a while,  my family and I went on the luge. I grabbed a medium sized green helmet for head protection. Then a man showed us how to ride the luge safely. First we had to push the lever forward for it to move and then pull the lever backwards for the brake.

When I was ready, I drove past the woods that had tall trees, and some willow trees(a kind of tree that has branches spread around and you can build a treehouse on it because it is a very  strong tree).  I took 19 sharp turns before I suddenly had to slow down due to a steep track which can be dangerous. When I got to the finish line, I took my luge back up to the top of the mountain by travelling on the chair lift. When my family and I got back to the top, my mum took photos of us again on her samsung S7 phone and I used my android ipod to take photos as well.

After that, I went to the jelly bean store and bought 5 triangle packets, two of the packets were filled with raspberry jelly beans and the three others were blueberry jelly beans. I gave some to my family and they all said, "Thank you for the jelly beans!"

As we were heading back to the hotel, we said, "Thank you for the rides!" Then we took the gondola down to the bottom of the mountain. It was an extremely fantastic day full of so much fun and adventure!

My favourite part of the day was when I rode on the gondola because the view from the top was magnificent and awesome!

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and follow the correct structure of a recount.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write an introduction, followed by the events, then a conclusion about my family and I going on the skyline.

What is the sign that we use if we want to swap a player out?

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand the game of basketball.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use Wevideo to record the four signs that are used in basketball.

Yay, I knocked down 10 pins!

Learning intention: We are learning to talk about our visual brainstorm.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I draw a brainstorm using pictures about my holiday and record my description of it using Blabberize.