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