Victoria's Blog

 This week for we are reading a book called Code name: Bananas! We have been doing these tasks and they are really fun to do in my class! I did a drivers Licence and it's looking pretty good and I've finished it so far. I have my first name my last and surname. This is the front and back of it. 

 This week In Whetu we have been reading this book called Code Name Bananas! It's about a boy called Eric and he's best friends with a gorilla Gurcude. In the book so far that he has saved her from getting the 2 shots. And he's living with his Uncle Sid but sadly his Gramma died from a nasty bomb that hit and she passed away. I did for my Chapter Chat was a Tortise with a basket for a shell I put the basket shell, not on the rise but when I read the story It was opposite to not be on the Toriste. But I've had fun being in Whetu! And when I leave this class I will miss all of the students and my teachers too. 

Who: Mrs. Taaffe.   What: She did a crime in the Whetu Milky way. She stole 18 missing chocolate bars, Took the cable to the  TV broke some things and left a scrunchie behind. She confest she did the crime that she did.  Were: Whetu Milky way Room one The corner closet to the TV.  Why: Mrs. Taaffe had trouble casting her laptop and she saw the chocolate milky ways and took them and ran out.  How: She was in the Milky way near Whetu and then she saw a jar of milky ways so she took about 18 of them then she took the cable and ran out of the classroom but she stopped at the bush to check if it was still opened or not.  When: October 11 Sunday at 3am,. 

 This term I did a comic strip about my annoying little brother taken from me so I have to find him and figure out some clues so I can help him escape from the UNKOWN! I like doing sketching because it's my hobby to do it and I've enjoyed my time in Whetu and I will miss my teachers and year 5's. 

I have learnt about what Guy Fawkes is and why we celebrate it! It is about in 1605 Gidou Fawkes had a plan while fighting the Spanish, It was called the GunPower Plot. I have had fun learning in Whetu while I can before I move classrooms. 

This week I have done some number of the day and I have learnt so much about maths that what Odd and Even is. I have enjoyed doing this task so far on the year 2020! 

 This week I have done a Grammer cop and it's about fixing up the mistakes. There are Capital Letters and Commas. I have had fun doing this whoogle for this year!

 On Tuesday, was athletics! I had so much fun! In my 800 meters, I came last because I had the stice but I keep on going! Every Staff member, Teachers was so proud of me and everyone at athletics! I felt very nervous I just tried my best! In one of my races, I think I came fourth but I can't really remember though, still very fun! I went to Shotput A, Long jump, 200 meters, and 600 meters race. I learned this saying from my dad" Never give up and you can practice so you can get even better! 

 This week since yesterday was a long weekend.  I have done some fingerprints and we have learnt in PekaPeka doing lifting our prints.  All of us have different prints on our fingers. Even twins just have the same DNA but never the same prints on their fingers though. We have only 4 days of school this week. I have enjoyed this strange mystery so far. In my group, we figured out that they are all women. Now I know how to do the fingerprints. A Policewomen, Sally taught us how to see and get prints of anything such as glass plates, tables, phones, screens, and also on our school computers too! My print is a loop. I worked with my best friend Lara. And we both had loops too, which is pretty cool. Here is my left print: 

 This term on our whetu case. I have done 3 activities and they have been really cool! I have my fingerprints and we did it with this type of ink stuff. There are 3 fingerprint patterns called: Loops, Whorls, and Arches. On my left hand, I have 1 loop,1 arch, and 3 whorls. The most common fingerprint is the loop. On my right hand, I have 4 arches and 1 whorl. 

 This term back at school. Just on Monday, we saw this tape and it said: Crime scene and do not cross. I was very worried. I didn't know what was going on but then I saw a cracked window with blood! There were also footprints and Milky ways scattered all over the ground. We got to do 3 things witch was: Make an ID avatar, do a paper about the scene, and doing a team logo!  My team's name is The MYSTERY MASTERS! Now Tuesday. Today, we got our ID avatars. So that's for this term! 

 This term I have been doing some Chapter Chat and its really fun this is our last one for the term and I did a book cover for the book we are reading called Wink!

 This week I did a mystery and it was really fun I worked and worked and I did it really! I got it...  Hugo. Cooper. And it was right!

 This week I and Sophie worked together in a maths challenge and it was really fun! And the missing Moji was: Yellow, Happy, Smiling, arched, and has a halo!  Just like an angel emoji!

 This week I've done a letter of the week I have enjoyed it very much and here it is now! I have been working on it for quite I while now and now I have tried my best to make it a SUPERNOVA!

This week. I have been doing workshops and its so fun! I did Chapter Chat!  The book we are reading is called: Wink. And it's about a boy Ross. He has eye cancer. He lives with his Dad and his step Mother. The learning on how to play the guitar and he's getting really better each day! In a chapter we just read yesterday morning. Sarah. Kennedy, Rosse's crush. He finds out that she made a couple of memes. And he is really mad, sad at the same time. 

 This week I have finished something called the letter of the week and its really fun I have done mine and the letter was G! Heres the Letters I did!

 This week I have done another challenge and I worked with Lara. We have found out who stole the meadal and it was... 

 This week I have been doing some challenges and since it is Maori language week I did a challenge about it and I did some words to represent Maori language week. This is my flag I also tried to make about the New Zealand flag and redid the colors so here it is!  Here is a link about me saying it. 

This week I'm doing whoogle and it has heaps of things we can do! First, we have to do all of the must-dos then when we have done all the must-dos we can go on to the can dos! This term has been amazing and I love it that way! This is the whoogle I have been doing this term! 

 This week. I have been doing some workshops and they are really fun!!! I did Chapter Chat and I made a board game and its called V.I.O.O.C Game! Its only two-player. There are two characters who are a boy and a girl. So here is my task I've done. 

This is my person I think who stolen the treasure is... LELLA SHELLY, Female, Evil Delight, boatswain and has no parrot or an eyepatch. 

 This week I have done Co-ordinates and it's really easy for me now because I've learned how to do it. These are my pictures of them. 

 This year in Whetu I have been doing something called Workshops and I had to do...  CHAPTER CHAT!!! If you don't know what it is? Chapter Chat is something that you either: Make, Art, Create or so yeah!!! I did draw Sarah in the story called Wink! It's about a boy named Ross discovers he has eye cancer. And his mother went through with cancer and died. Ross is living with his Dad and his step Mother. Ross has two well used to I guess in the story it says he has a friend and her name is Abby and there's another friend named Issac. He is not talking to him at the moment so that's why I'm writing this on my blog. Here is a photo of Sarah I did.

 This week I have done this maths Mahi and its kind of really fun for me and it also challenges me a lot.  I get help from my teacher Mrs. M or Mrs. Kennedy.   Here is the intvsgaston  I also did along with it. 

 This year I have been doing something called TTRS! If you don't know what it means it is Times Tables Rock Stars and It is about learning all of your maths so you will be really smart and you can memorize them all without using your fingers like I do because I sometimes forget some of my time's tables and that's ok. You can learn from your mistakes. I have enjoyed school for this year and this is why I have chosen to put this on my blog. 

 This week I have been having fun because I did create a guitar because I like making things so yeah!!! Here is my Chapter Chat I have done for these workshops every week we do either 1 workshop from 4 of them.  

 This week I have been doing Hero writing. I have chosen a person who is world-famous. I chose Lorde/ Ella Marjiga! I have discovered a lot about her! She is 23 years old. So that's my Hero's writing happing at my school.  Here is a photo that I took and drew on because I was allowed to do it.  I took my time doing it so here it is! THE MASTERPIECE!!!

  Whetū Workshops Reflection During Term 2 and 3 the Whetū students have had the opportunity to be involved in a range of different workshops. The workshop that I have enjoyed participating in the most has been drama because I love being able to be involved in plays.   The new learning that I have learnt is how to use scratch because before I did not know how to use it but now I know how to and I really enjoyed it very much. What I have most enjoyed about the workshops are origami, drama and pom, pom birds art.  I am interested in learning more about what other types of beans so I can learn more about them.   

 This week I have been doing a Maths Mahi Investigation. I had fun doing this Maths Mahi so far this year. I have learned about: Reflection, Translations, and Rotation. Here are the activitie I had to do. 

 This term in whetu I have done some art and I enjoyed it very much. I did a coke bottle. And I had to add heaps of pop colors. If you don't know what they are. Pop colours are about bright colours so yeah! Here is the art I did.  

 This is my inquiry that I did about zoos. And this is a question that we had to answer: Should animals be kept in zoos? I had fun doing this very much. So this is what I did for it. I made a poster online. All of Whetu did this and we all did some things differently and that's ok.  So yeah here is my learning for: Should animals be kept in zoos?  Should animals be kept in zoos? Yes they should be kept in zoos. Because if there were not any zoos all of the animals would be endangered.  2. Do we need zoos? Yes, we do and they are amazing for all of us? Including animals! 3. Some people think that zoos are really good and others think there bad but I think that they are good for animals that are also endangered. 4. Did you know that some animals are endangered and also my favorite bird the Kakapo! 5. Did you know that there are 10,000 zoos in worldwide! I know right? Crazy! 6. Here are a link about a popular zoo in New Zealand.  Hamilton zoo

  This week I chose to join the cooking workshop option.  On the first day, we planned what was going to be in the vegetable soup. On the second day, we brought all the things that were going to be in the soup. On the third day, we ate it and I think that IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD AND YUM!  The part I like the most was making the soup because it was really fun making the soup.

 This week at school I had to do a Maths Mahi and It did not have that many questions. But there were pluses and Times. I had fun doing this Maths Mahi etch week I  do it. I did some activities on it. I had trouble but I made it in the end. And I also learned about Enlargement too and I had to make it the same shape but It was really hard but I had fun doing it so much! Here are the activities I did for this week!   

  Cross Country Reflection 2020 This year I participated in the NPS Cross Country held at school on the Ngatea Domain.  I ran in the 10 age group. I am most proud of how well I have done in my training because I was very tired from running at cross country. I think my effort towards our training at school was really good because I tried really hard for training. I tried to do 3 laps around the domain. But I could only do 2 laps. I showed the Learning Power of Resilience by trying my best at training and on cross country day. And I had to do 3 laps! Two big laps and one little lap. 

 This week I did the first Chapter Chat again! It has been a long time since Whetu has done Chapter Chat or Chapter Challenge! This week the book we are reading is called WINK! And I like it so far. I have met in the story is Ross, Abby, and Issac of the main characters. I chose to write and I did Abby and I wrote heaps of things about her. I think that this is a SUPERNOVA WORK! Here is the activitie  I designed!  

 This is my Maths Mahi I did for this week and I had a lot of work doing this and it was really fun. Here are the actives I did in Pekapeka!