Day 1/activity 1 (What we would take on a three day trip) Day2/activity 2 (About ourselfs and our culture)

Kia Ora, Bonjour and Hello. How are you hope you are amazing. 

This blog post is a summer learning Journey activity. We did this yesterday but I didn't realize that we had to post it on our blog. We had to think about the food that we would take with us on a three-week trip in a canoe. Takutai came to our class because Takutai was learning how to blog post. We registered a buddy that we choose and I choose Alyssa. I enjoyed this because it was fun to think about the food we can bring. This was difficult because we had to think about what could actually last in three weeks. 

Hope you enjoyed :) 

Today we have done another Summer Learning Journey activity. Takutai came to our class again today. Before we did the activity we had to choose our buddies and Miss Farr (our teacher) explained the activity we were doing today. The buddy I choose was Asha. We decided to right our cultures on google slides, she had her own slide and I had my own as well. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to learn that my last name actually comes from Scotland. This was difficult because I couldn't find that many pictures of my family.

Hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.

Key word hunt - Fly me up

 

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour everyone. How has your day been? Hope it has been good.

This is another Diwali (said like Divali) activity. We had to read an article about this girl called Tiffany and about the art that brings people together. It is called fly me up. This activity is to help us with summarising and make us be better at understanding the text. We had to write what was said in the article in order with our own words. Then we had to think of keywords and phrases. Then we had to use those keywords and phrases to make a brief summary. I enjoyed this activity because it feels like it has helped me to understand the article a bit more. This was difficult because it took a little while. I decided to put a picture her because this work is basically about her and her heroic act.

Hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn

Palindromes Poem

Unicorns

Fluffy and pretty

Powers with horn

Amazing

horn with powers

Unicorns

This is a palindrome poem. These poems are when you write something in a poem style but it is backwards with the wording. I decided to make a palindrome poem about unicorns because they are my favourite animal. I enjoyed making this poem because I like how I did it and how it turned out. This was difficult because it still needed to make sense both ways. 

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Quatrain Poems

In libraries there are books
You can get out or return
There are so many things to out-look
Bookworm is what you can turn

The butterfly
Fly through the sky
Its wings spread
Then the caterpillar will try

I like fries
They're much better than guys
Fries are nice and crispy
But guys are too talkie

Calendar art galore
Pencils and Pens
Paper and card
The summer begins

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello everyone! How is your day?

In class, we have recently been learning how to make different kinds of poems. This is a quatrain. The key thing to make it a quatrain is to have it rhyme in different kinds of patterns. It is usually four lines. My favourite poem is probably the library poem. I enjoyed this activity because it was really fun to make poems because I like the way it sounds when it rhymes. This was difficult because I could not think of words that rhyme. 

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Limerick Poems

There once was a unicorn
She was always scared of corn
Magic Powers that she do
She did a colourful poo
She had clothes that she outworn

There once was a girl named Elise
Her friends Dad is a police
She loves to draw lots of cats
Once she has seen rats
She sometimes and usually says please

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour everyone! How is your day?
Recently we have been learning how to write different kinds of poems. This is a limerick. A limerick has 5 lines. The pattern of what words ryhme is AABBA. Which means that the two top lines and the bottom line rhyme and the third and fourth lines rhyme. I enjoyed making these two poems because it is really fun in general. It was hard to try and think of things that can rhyme though. Soe of the sentences don't really make that much sense, but it rhymes.

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Cleirhew Poem

Katelyn
Her Dad loves bacon
She was born on Thursday
She wears hearing aids.

Little red riding hood
Her Mum sent her with a basket because she could
She wore a red jumper
To visit her Grandmother.

The three little pigs
Their names were youngest pig, middle pig and oldest pig
They have twisted tails
Going on trails.

Garfield
He doesn't like running on fields
Lasagna is his favourite food to eat
He has ginger feet.

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello Everyone!!! I hope your day has been going great, amazing, fantastic, wonderful, splendid and magnificent. 
In class, we have recently been learning how to make different types of poems. This poem is called a Cleirhew poem. This poem is a poem that has two lines at the start that rhyme and the bottom two lines that rhyme. Miss Farr (our teacher) said that we have to make four poems. One about ourselves and three about made-up characters. I choose to do little red riding hood, The three little pigs and Garfields. I choose Garfield because when I was little I watched Garfield all the time. I enjoyed this because it was fun to make it rhyme. This was difficult I could not think of anything that rhymes with Katelyn, I finally thought of bacon after a while. I kept on wanting to write woods for the little red riding hood but that does not rhyme because of the s.

I hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Epitaph Poem

Here lies a man named Garry Bositions

He always spills positions

He's really smart 

Until he does a great big fart

Here lies a man named Borey

He went to a stream and was swimming

He found a fish named Corey

He realized he was underground dreaming

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour. I hope your day is amazing!
We have recently been learning how to make different kinds of poems. This is an epitaph poem. It is a poem that is usually serious for people's gravestones. Miss Farr said that we were going to make funny epitaphs. I am not sure if the poems I made were funny or not, I tried to make them funny. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to make the poems in general. This was difficult because it was hard to think of funny words that rhyme. 

I hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Acrostic Poem

One Word UNICORN POEM

Unique

aNonymous

Incredible

Cute

pOwers

hoRns

aNimal

Sparkles

Best friends around

I get cake

Ready to party

Today is someone's birthday

Happy birthday song

Do fun party games

Awaiting for guests

Yummy cake

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour. How has your day been? Hope it is going well.
For the rest of term 3 this year, we are going to make different types of poems. This is an acrostic poem. It is when you choose a topic and choose different words that go with that topic word. You put the topic word down the page. I choose to do one of my poems about unicorns becuase I like them and my other poem is about birthdays, I choose thsi word because my birthday is coming up. I nejoyed making these poems a lot. It was fun to think of words and sentence's for unicorns and birthday. This was diffiuclt becuase sometimes I couldn't think of words for them.

I hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Paralympics - Lesson 6

 https://sites.google.com/paroagrey.school.nz/williamstedman-tiffineyperry/home

New Zealand is in level 2 now but the schools are getting ready for us students to go back to school so we are still at home.

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello. How are you? How has your day been?

This is another lesson with the Paralympics. This is Lesson 6. We had to write 4 athletes from the Paralympics that we know the name of, then if we know, we write what sport they competed in. I remembered four athletes but only two of them with their sport. Then we had to choose an athlete, one male and one female, then research about them. I choose to do William Stedman (Athletics) and Tiffiney Perry (Wheelchair tennis). I never knew that these two athletes were even athletes because I have never heard about them, but now I know about them and can tell others about them. I made a website about these two athletes. It took me a while but I tried hard. The link to the website is at the top of this blog post. Then we had to pretend that we worked at stuff (news report website) and make an article about the Paralympics. We also had to put information about one of the athletes that we researched about. I choose to do William Stedman. At the bottom of the stuff report I wrote, stuff.co.nz, I am not sure if that is even the website link but I just put that there because I could. 

I hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn.M

Paralmpics - Lesson 5

 

New Zealand is still in lockdown.

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello. How are you? How is your day going?

This is the 5th lesson of this Paralympic stuff. The first thing that we had to do was, answer questions. The questions and answers I wrote are on the bottom left of the picture up top. We had to write a two-page spread about Paralympic sports. This was fun writing the two-page spread because it was fun and cool putting the pictures on the page. It was difficult to put the two pages together because the Paralympics logo I made was not attaching right so that the picture wasn't whole, I ended up with what you see in the picture up top. 

I hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn

What do you meme?

 

New Zealand is still in lockdown.

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello. How has your day been? I hope it has been amazing.

Miss Farr (our teacher) has given us this slide to fill out. It has pictures of animals and we had to try and make a caption that is funny to go with the picture. I don't know if these are actually funny. Write in the comments if you liked it and you thought it was funny. I enjoyed this because it was fun.

Hope you enjoyed :) 

By Katelyn.

Paralympics - Lesson 3 - Accessibility

 

New Zealand is still in lockdown.

This is the 3rd lesson of the Paralympics slide. I had to explain 3 things that I learnt from lesson 2 Paralympics to someone. Then I had to find the distance and how much it would be to get to Tokyo/Japan from different places in the world. After that, we had to read this article about cars/buses/scooters that people with disabilities can use. Then we had to choose one of the vehicles and write about it. Next, we had to bullet-point 10 changes that improve accessibility. After that, we had to choose somewhere in our city or town about where one of these cars/buses/scooters, we also had to make a sign that tells people that there is one of these vehicles.

I hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn

Paralympics - Lesson 2 - History of the Paralympics movement to Japan

 

New Zealand is still in Lockdown.

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello. How are you today? Hope you are all so amazing.

The New Zealand Paralympics team made this slide for schools around New Zealand for kids to complete. It has questions and articles and videos and lots of cool stuff. It teaches us about the Paralympics in different and fun ways. Yesterday I did the first lesson. Today I did the second lesson. This lesson is all about the history of the Paralympics and the movement to Japan. We had to think of three things that are different compared to the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Then we had to read this article. We had to find words that we didn't really understand and didn't know what it meant. We had to google it to find out. The words that I did not get were Impairment and Rehabilitation. It made a table that had a box for the word, a box for what I think it means and a box of what it actually means. After that, there were some questions to answer. I am not so sure that I think I got all the answers right but I tried. When all the questions were answered, we had to choose one from the bottom questions and explain why we choose to do disagree or agree. Then we had to make a paragraph on how the Paralympic Games were set up. I enjoyed this activity because I learnt a lot of interesting facts. This was difficult because it took a while and one of the activities was to have a class discussion. We are in level 4 at the moment so when it is level 2 then we can have class discussions again. 

I hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn

Word of the Week - Commit

 

Hi, Kia Ora, Bonjour!

How is your day going? I hope it is going good, amazing, fantastic, wonderful, extraordinary! 

This week the word of the week is commit. Commit means doing something bad or never giving up. I made a picture of two people sitting in a jail. I could not find a picture so no fair but picture I made is here! I found a lot of synonyms and antonyms from the website https://www.thesaurus.com/. I thought that it was a shooting star, but now I know what it means. I enjoyed this because it was fun to make the picture and this was actually just a really fun word of the week. This was difficult because I could not find a picture but luckily I problem solved. 
I hope you enjoyed :)

Made by Katelyn.M
See you later!

5 Jobs from the top 20 jobs in New Zealand

 

Hello, Kia ora and Bonjour to everyone today. How are you? I hope you all feel fantastic. I hope everyone's school holidays are going amazing!

This is an activity that was at school but on the last week last term at school I was not there I was driving with my family to go on a holiday. So I am so excited to share this work with you. We had to read this article about the 20 jobs that are in New Zealand. After that, we had to choose 5 of those jobs and make something to tell other people what the job is and what you have to do in it. I enjoyed this activity because I learnt something new about these jobs. I don't know what job I want to have when I am older, I will figure it out when I am older in the future. This was difficult because there were so many to choose from, but I settled on the ones I want to teach others to put on my blog. I decided to draw one of the picture's on the first page. I drew a chef. I just drew it on paper then took a picture and put it on the front cover. 

I hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn.M

See you next time!

Octopus Information report

Octopuses/Octopie are sea animals they have 9 brains and 3 hearts! They have a habitat of many oceans in the world. Octopuses eat lots and lots of sea animals during their 1 to 2 years of living in the wild. They are very talented and smart creatures who can squeeze into small spaces.

Octopuses live in many different places under the ocean.
Octopuses live in kelp forests and coral reefs. Octopie finds to prefer warmer water meaning they live in the sunlight zone. They also live in tidal rock pools where they can easily disguise themselves as oddly-shaped rocks to capture prey. Octopie has no skeleton so they can squeeze into small and tight spaces.

Octopuses eat a lot of different sea creatures.
Octopuses feed on crabs, clams, snails, small fish and other octopuses. Octopuses are one of the most intelligent creatures in the ocean to catch their prey. Octopuses have venom and different octopus have different levels of toxicity which means they can kill they prey easily.

Octopie has a range of predators.
Here are some predators of Octopie. Seals, Fish Conger eels, sea otters, Moray eels, Dolphins, Many birds, Sperm Whales, Sharks. Octopuses have clever ways to defend themselves, they swim head first and in times of danger. They can expel out of water.

There are a lot of different species of octopuses all around the world.
There are 300 species of octopuses around the world. For example, Mimic octopus, coconut octopus, blanket octopus and California two-spot octopus. Some species of octopie are rarer than others different species live in different environments such as the pressure as you get deeper. Here are some other types of octopie! Blue ring octopus, giant pacific octopus, common octopus, Caribbean reef octopuses.

In conclusion, now you know that there are many different octopuses and their habitats are different from other animals. Their prey and predators are different from other sea creatures out there in the world.

Caption:
How are you today? I hope you feel AWESOME! I feel AMAZING, thanks! (if you asked me.)
In class, we have been learning about octopuses. we researched about them and put them on a sheet of paper, then we put it in full sentences on a plan sheet. We had to write the Introduction and Conclusion by ourselves but the paragraphs were already written on the plan sheet. So it was easy, well only if you had a decent plan with big sentences and information. I enjoyed this activity because we already had the information on the planning sheet so all we had to do was copy from it (it was from our own words). I like doing information reports in general too! This activity was difficult because it was hard to see the paper because our whole group could not all look at it at the same time because we were the biggest group. We problem solved this by putting it up with a Chromebook case and some books, so it was alright.

Hope you enjoyed :) Have a good day!
See you next time !
By Katelyn.M

Suffixes

 

                                      Hi, bonjour, Kia Ora! Hope you are having a good, lovely day!

Through the past week we have been learning about suffixies. We had to complete and fill out these different sheets to learn about what a suffix actually is because you can't teach and make something if you don't even know what it is. A suffix is a sound that you can add on a sentence like -est or -er to make it more of something. This was really fun to learn and I can understand how to write a few more words. We had to make a DLO about suffixes so that others can learn too! I choose to put a picture in there aswell because I thought that it would pop a bit more on my blog (the website you are on right now). I choose to do a picture with a small dog and a big dog. I wrote smallest and biggest on the dogs because those words have suffiexs. I enjoyed this atcivity because it was fun to write what are suffixes and look at the cute dogs. This was difficult because it was hard to find a picture to represent what suffixes are that I could use, but then I was like, why don't I have dogs to represent that. And that is the picture that I found on google to put there. 

Hope you enjoyed!
By Katelyn.M
See you next time!

Torty the luckly tortosie

 

Hi Everyone, Kia Ora Tātau

This is another activity for anzac. This activity is to make a new book cover for the book you are reading. I am doing Torty the lucky Tortosie for now. This is the third activity that I have done so far. I could not find a pciture of Torty so I used the one that I drew. I choose to write that it is by David Chadwick. The story is but I made the cover. I enjoyed this activity because it was easy and fun to move the colors around. This was difficult because as I told you I could not find a picture of Torty, but that is fine, I compromised.
Hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.M

Podcast Map of Paroa School - Katelyn Podcast

 

Kia Ora Everyone!

This is another activity for energy. We had to make a model of our school. (Paroa School) I choose to do it in cardboard. I have labeled everything if you can not see it that well. I have also made a podcast explaining what facts are on this and where we could put solar panels. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to make the model, researching and making a podcast. So I basically liked the whole process. It was difficult because I had to move all of the solar panels because I had the solar panels all over the school but then Miss Farr (our teacher) said that it would be best if all of the solar panels were in one place in the school. When I was taking it off, since I had tape over the paper then it kept on riping. 
Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn.M

Beneifits of Exercise

 

Hi These are the reasons why excersie is good.

That was my caption that I did write. I write such a bad caption because this was actually a timing post. Our class and Taiao (the older kid class) ran the 4Js (a track to a shop and back) then when we all got back we had 25 minutes to research, make and post on our blog about fitness. I fixed it but the title used to be Benfits of Exercise. I spelled it wrong. I enjoyed this because I found out a lot of cool facts like if you do exercise then that makes you sleep better. This was difficult because I was pressured by the time limit.  Maybe next time I could write a better caption. Eden (My friend) and I think Grace (someone from Taiao) both won, The teachers (Miss Read and Miss Farr) could not decide. They got 2 little blues and house points. A little blue is something you get if you did amazing work or showed the 4cs. Connected, Confident, Creative and Caring.
Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn.M