News Paper Tower.

Walt: write a recount about our experience.

Have you ever made a tower made out of newspaper free standing? Well guess what it was no ordinary day because, our class got into group’s and made a tower out of newspaper.  It was exciting.

Mr Goodwin was showing us a video. When I saw what the video was  before he played the video, I sneakily said to my friend “I have watched this before”  in a whisper. After the video Mr Goodwin said we have to try make the tallest tower made with newspaper.  It had to be free standing. I was excited and thinking it would be easy. Until we got to building.

Mr Goodwin gave us a paper and a pencil to write our plan. It was crazy and hard to try and figure out how to make it work. When we finished plan happily we thought it would be free standed we were excited to start. I was thinking we were gonna come first place and I liked our idea.

As soon as we started my freind and cut the newspaper in quarters and the others just crunch them up in balls but as my friend was putting it together. I realize it is not gonna work. I turned around and saw the other group’s one and it was tall but I knew it will fall because they were holding it. My group starting to roll up the paper and stack it. TIME was UP Mr Goodwin said “drop the towers” everyone dropped it and the towers fell to the ground but he gave us one more chance just 2 more minutes.

I now know that next time we need something to stand the tower. I also learnt not to roll to thin other wise it will bend and fall. My group came 3rd and the group that came 1st had a tall free standing newspaper tower. The group that came 2nd rolled it up and standed it. I am glad that we came 3rd.

Task Description: We created a tower made out of newspaper. It was a fun experience we had to do a recount about our experience we had. It was really fun. Please leave a comment.

Chicken Flavoured Worms!

WALT: write quality introductions.
 Have you ever eaten chicken flavored worms?

 Well our teacher was crazy, and feed us chicken flavored worms.
 Find out what I had for breakfast.

Introduction Rubric
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Hook	My introduction is boring. It is difficult to read.	My introduction is easy to read and has some interest for my audience.	My audience is hooked into my subject, it grabs their interest so they feel like they want to read more.	When someone reads my introduction they are left feeling intrigued. They can't wait to read more.
Orientation	My introduction does not tell the reader what my writing is going to be about.	My audience has some idea about what I am writing about.	My audience is clear what I am writing about.	My introduction lets the reader know the direction and purpose of my writing.

Task Description: In this lesson we did a writing experience it was fun, and exciting. We were eating chicken flavored noodles we also pretended they were alive slimy worms. We wrote each sentence of our introduction separately. We also marked ourselves against the rubric above. 

Native To NZ

Walt: make connections across multiple texts.
Task Description: I had to explain and talk about Endemic,Native,Introduced, and
my favorite tree in New Zealand. I talked about trees that are special to people in some country's. 

About My Group Cameras

Walt: follow instructions and present work to a high standard Task Description:I have to talk about my group how to use it and look after it.

MALO This Is My Trip To TONGA

MALO THIS IS MY TRIP TO TONGA.

I went to Tonga on the 6th of Jan I was gone for 6 days and came back to New Zealand on the 12th of Jan. I had fun as I was walking out of the plane it was hot and muggy when I got out of the plane. We went to Tonga with my aunty and my uncles family. But my uncles mum and dad lived in Tonga.

We went to Tonga for my uncles B-DAY. My uncles dad knew we were there for his birthday but he did not know that we were gonna have a special dinner and breakfast. We stayed in a hotel it wasn't really far from the Airport. My uncles mum and dad lived in Manuka but they stayed at the hotel with us.

We once went on the boat for a ride. I got wet because I sat in the real front with my uncles brother. At Tonga I saw some pig's and I also saw alot of dogs. The day before we left Tonga we went to the maket I bought a fan and a bracelet that they put my name on. I liked my bracelet very much and I liked my fan be cause it kept me cool. On that day we were leaving .

We left Tonga at 9 o'clock and arrived at NZ around midnight. When we were landing outside the window there was a beautiful view the lights were every where it was really pretty. I got Mc Donalds because I was starving. I had an amazing holiday.

BYE FANS.

Hi Fans this will be my last blog post at my school. Also Happy early Christmas because it is my holidays coming up and I will try my best to do some more blogging at home in the holidays. BYE FANS I WILL MISS YOU.

Ash the Christmas Tree's HOLIDAY.

WALT: Merry Christmas

Ash lived in a shed until Christmas came. His family pulled him out but with no decorations. He was lonely because the family has gone. He heard  a car “it must be them he said”.  His family had decorations a put them on him. 2 o'clock in the morning Ash sneaked out and ran away because he was bored.

That day it was cold snowing Ash couldn’t feel a thing because he was just a tree. Until he started to have a holiday. He was walking in the cold with a Santa hat. On Christmas eve Ash saw a flying deer with a bright red nose and leading behind them Ash saw a big shiny red sled with boxes in it and in the front seat he saw a person and he looked closely and he couldn’t believe it because he saw SANTA! It was silent until he heard “HO HO HO merry Christmas everyone” yelled Santa.

Ash's eyes sparkled like crystals it was magnificent to see Santa. “Excuse me SANTA can I have a ride with you and help please” YELLED ASH! “MEET me on the top of the sky tower” said santa. “Oh YES YES I WILL BE THERE SOON” ASH replied. “Bye see you there” said Santa “Oh yes you to” said Ash. Ash ran into the elevator and he was on the 3rd level he went up the stair to get on the top. He was there Santa. “Oh come in hop in I do need some help” said Santa.

Ash was in Santa said “let’s go to the north pole I will show you around” said Santa. Ash couldn’t speak he was excited and he was even frozen until they got to the north pole. Ash saw a circle around Santa's sled and a ipad on a stand. Santa pushed this red button and said “OPEN UP” said Santa. “Stay in the sled tree” said Santa. “Oh my name is Ash by the way” said Ash while he was going down. Santa jumped in one spot and he got sucked down a tube it was extremely fast.

“WOW” said Ash while going down in the sled. He got to the bottom and just saw a bunch of elves wrapping presents making presents getting present all sort of stuff. Ash's eyes sparkled like crystals it was magnificent he was so surprised and he never knew Santa Claus and elves were real be cause normally in Christmas eve he is asleep and he thinks that family’s  buy presents for each other. But no he was wrong. “Oh Ash can you be my Christmas tree helper please I need you” said Santa.

Now that Ash saw Santa properly because he was frozen on their way to the north pole anyway he saw Santa's big thick white beard Santa's hat Santa's buckle with SC that stands for Santa Claus. “Wow” said Ash. “Hi Welcome to the north pole why don’t I show you around” said one of the elves. “My name is Creek I love Christmas because you get really cool presents from Santa everyone get’s a present in the world” Creek said. “What about you” Creek said to Ash. “Oh my name is Ash and because I am a Christmas tree I love watching people opening presents” Ash says.

As they were walking down the hallway Ash saw big present’s and they were like a kayak with a paddle and a few go karts and Ash said “can I get a present on Christmas day”. “Oh yeah sure I will tell Santa” said Creek. “Tell me 5 things you would like” Creek said. “What I only want 1” Ash said. “Oh no we will just choose one out of those five so you won’t know OK” said Creek “OHHHHH OK” replied Ash. “So tell me what you would like” said Creek. “Ummmmmmm” Ash said. “Oh we don’t have anything called ummmmmmm” Creek said “No I am thinking” said Ash. “Oh I know what about a go kart that is one and a ipad with ipad case and a laptop please” Ash said.

The next day Ash opened his eyes seeing a steering wheel 4 wheels on the ground and a seat. He opened his eyes wider to see what was he actually seeing. His eyes were opened wider and he saw a GO KART and he hoped in it and drove it away. Ash was never to be seen again.

Task Description: I wrote a Christmas story it is about a Christmas tree seeing Santa and his name is Ash. Ash is also having a holiday he went to the north pole why don't you go with him. He is having a lot of fun I suggest you see what he is up to.