The Mine

The Mine

Yesterday everyone walked down to the mine. In the mine there are lots of machines there are: 2 loaders, 2 diggers, 1 bulldozer and 1 nodwel. The loaders are for clearing the tailings(which means getting the rocks out the sluice) and loading the pay (which means getting dirt to load the sluice) the 25 ton digger is used for loading the sluice and the other 40 ton digger is used for digging. The bulldozer is used for getting pay. Finally the nodwel is used for testing the ground to see if there is gold. My dad drives the big 40 ton digger.

Here is a photo:

The beaver lodge

On Sunday everyone went down to the beaver lodge it has been ripped apart by an animal I think it was a grizzly bear. All the sticks were very sharp because the beavers have chopped it down with it's two front teeth. We haven't seen any bears, mooses or beavers yet but we have seen ravens, squirrels and cranes. The cranes migrate most nights in the form of a V. Here are some beaver facts: beavers young are called kits also beavers have orange coating on their two front teeth so they will not wear out. If  beavers ever stop gnawing their front teeth will grow into their head. Sadly there are no beavers left in the lodge.

Here is a picture of the Beaver lodge.

The Flight

I would start by writing my blog about leaving New Zealand, riding the planes and waiting at the airport but all that was super boing. So I’m just going to skip that and head straight into things…

I’m only talking about one plane ride, my favourite one… the one to the Mine.   ZOOOOM! Goes the plane as Stella, Mum, Caleb and I take off. The little blue plane zooms “off we go” I say. When we got up it looked super duper cool. The pilot started talking on his microphone and so did mum, they chatted half the plane ride. We started to fly over the cool mines. When we got to Tony Beets and Parker Schnabel (They are off gold rush a T.V show) mines we all  started to wow. Tony Beets mine was going the loaders were working. Stella was sleeping and Caleb and I were laughing . We finally saw the Golden Moose, the mine that my Dad was woking on. The pilot went down to land. “Were back on solid land” I said. 

Wacky Sentence

Kia ora for the last couple of weeks we have been working on Fahrenheit and Celsius. This is a snippet  of my work.

Simple and Compound Sentences

Kia ora

We have been using Pear Deck to help us learn more about sentence structure so that we can get better at noticing where one sentence ends and another one begins. This should also help us get better scores for punctuation. This a screenshot of an activity we did: first we had to highlight the noun and verb parts of the sentences and then we had to decide where the full stops and capital letters should go. 

In the holidays

Woohooo we are finally in Opunake. The family and I jumped out of the car and ran into the house. We were staying at one of my mum's friends houses. She had four kids and a
husband, the oldest child was called Jacob then Dina, Lauren finally Ashley and Matt the husband. We drove to the skate park and the netball courts and played a game it was called levels. After that we payed a game of hand ball It was pretty intense finally we went to the library and went home.

Progress journal

This week we have done a progress journal. This is to show our learning for the year. Tonight our parents are coming to the student led conferences and we can share our learning with them.

Take a look.

Sam's Waitangi Experience

On Thursday and Friday half of the class went the the Waitangi to check out the new museum. We learnt about the Ohaeawai battle and much much more. 

Here's my slide

Environmental Writing

This week we have been writing a poem about Autumn. We went outside and sketched something and wrote a few key words. We used these to write our poem.

Commonwealth Games

Hello my name is Sam and this week we have been making a slide on Commonwealth Games day.

 

Learning Journey

We have been thinking about our learning for term 1  

Similes and metaphor sentences

This week our class has been learning metaphors. here we are changing our similes to metaphors.

Weather poem

We have been learning about similes. We had to choose one element of the weather or a few elements and create a poem using at least 5 similes. I chose to write about wind.

Simlie sentences

Hi my name is Sam. This week the class has been making simlies.

Shadow art

Kia ora 
Last week we did an art activity with the theme of 'shadows'. We made a picture of ourselves and we had to cut it out with black paper behind it to make the shadows. Here is my work:

Reading lesson number 5

Reading Poetry lesson No 5

Learn:

1. Why poets like to use similes in a poem.

2.  The different sentence structures and word types needed in ‘like’, ‘as’, and ‘than’ similes.

Than similes

We have been learning about similes "Than". We matched these pictures to make our own.

The rubbish                           is smellier than	a sock
The girls hair              waved in the wind more than	a flag.
The lion                                  is braver than	a warrior.
The owl’s eyes                     are rounder than	a plate.

The elephant                  is sturdier than

a tree.

Similes

We have learning about similes using like and as. We matched these pictures to make our own.

The rubbish                           is as smelly as	a sock
The girls hair                   swayed in the wind as if it	was a flag.
The lion                                  is as fierce as	a warrior.
The owl’s eyes                     are as round as	a plate.

The elephant                       is as sturdy as

a tree.

Swimming Term1 2018

This year we have been practising streamlining our arms and legs. We have also been practising breathing techniques. We also had swim safe to teach us survival skills.

I can swim a length of the pool
I am good at making bubbles on the top of the water when I kick
I need to on my back stroke arms.

Couplet poem

Learn:

1. How to identify rhythm and rhyme in a couplet poem.

2.  What a couplet  is.

Nursery Rhymes Poetry

Hi my name is Sam. This week we have been doing nursery rhymes. We had to choose a nursery rhyme and change the names and nouns. I rewrote Jack and Jill.

P.A.T Maths Term 1

Here is my P.A.T maths test for term 1.2 I got a score  of 21. I need to work on my Number Strategies. I did well in Number Knowledge.

Colour Poem

Learn: How to write a poem based on a colour using language that suits that colours.

Bio Poem

We have been leaning how to do poems. Here is a Bio Poem I made

Reading poetry 2

Learn:

1: That rhyme is a main ‘clue’ that a piece of writing might be poetry.

2: What rhyme is.

Reading Peotry 1

Learn: The difference between prose and poetry. Create: A DLO which shows short texts sorted  into two groups; prose or poetry and which includes at least one image.

Draft Holiday Recount

Draft Holiday Recount

Yay I screamed as we all set up to start fishing on a massive

boat.

As soon as we stopped we threw line in the deep ocean floor

I started to get some bites l quickly wined up the rods line.

Look I yelled caught two jack macs.

It was Weston and the Wottens on the every single

one of us caught a small fish

at Urupukapuka island.

I was tired because we got up a 6.00 and it was 7.00 so

I took a quick nap.

Ahhhhh as I woke I up every caught lots of jack macs.

Now we are far out you could hardly see the shore.

Now it was time to caught all the big fish like snapper king fish

once again

threw the line down. We waited and waited finally action

my brother is hooked up he wined and wined he caught a big

pink fish but I fell asleep…

when i woke there were lots of in the basket like snapper and rock fish in there and so now we driving back