Celebrating Be Us Poem

WALT: Identity, sensitivity, and respect ! Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.

Number Cruncher's

This week in maths we made number cruncher's .We will have met the success
criteria when we Show our understanding of how a rule can be applied to create a sequence of numbers.

Kupu O Te Wiki Comic Strip

Learning Intention

We are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language.

Success criteria:

Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of the week.

Road Safety Week

WALT: write within the persuasive writing structure.

Kea Patrol

I strongly believe that Kea patrol should remain in the afternoons. I think this
because Kea patrol helps people cross a State Highway which is extremely busy,
Kea patrol keeps everyone safe when crossing the chaotic main road and stops
accidents from happening.

Firstly, No one could disagree that kea patrol helps people cross a State Highway
safely.  I think this because kea patrol lets everyone cross at the same time so
traffic doesn’t have to keep stopping. Kea patrol also makes sure everyone crosses
the main road at the same time. Everyone would agree that  having primary school
age children cross anywhere and pop out from between cars is unsafe. Many schools
are on main roads so it is important that kids cross the road safely. Many cars,
motorbikes, gigantic trucks and camper vans come flying past our school. This is
dangerous! Students are still learning about road safety so they have to be
extremely careful. When we are on Kea patrol it is a good chance for the older
kids to be responsible role models for the juniors

Secondly, Surely you would agree that kea patrol keeps everyone safe when crossing
the threatening State Highway. Kea patrol keeps everyone safe by stopping the
traffic completely with the signs so that everyone can cross safely even if they
are excited or not paying any attention. Children  are excited to leave school and
go to sports events or after school activities with their friends. Even if someone
trips over at kea patrol they can get back up without getting run over. Without kea
patrol kids could run across the treacherous road and be hit by cars who are
pulling out from the side of the road and turning from Rata street. People also
have to watch for cars doing U-turns and cars pulling out from outside of the shop.
We also have to watch that cars are parked on either side of the road to pick up
their tired children.

Finally, Everyone would agree that kea patrol stops accidents from happening.
 Kea patrol stops accidents from happening by stopping the traffic and makes
sure everyone crosses the treacherous road at the same time.The signs we use
for kea patrol are big and bright so you can see them if the sky is dark.  
For example, if there wasn’t kea patrol and it is raining and it is harder to
see the road be because the sky is dark. If a child tries to cross a road and
the driver doesn’t them this could cause and accident. Last week an accident
happened outside of our school because the weather was raining and hard to see.
There was no kea patrol and a kid ran across the dangerous road then a car
stopped and the next car rammed into it. Having kea patrol in place would have
prevented this accident.

In conclusion I strongly believe that schools should keep kea patrol in the
afternoon. We should do this because kea patrol helps people cross the
treacherous main road, kea patrol keeps everyone safe when crossing a State
Highway and kea patrol stops accidents from happening.  

Kupu Hau O Te Wiki

Learning Intention

We are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language.

Success criteria:

Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of the week.

Draw the comic strip.

Comic Strip

Learning Intention

We are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language.

Success criteria:

Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of the week.

Draw the comic strip.

Here is my comic strip.

Callaghan's Ridge

On the 11th of April 2019 Rooms 1 and 8, Mrs Truman, Ms Kemp and 9 other adults walked Callaghan's Ridge. It took us four and a half hours. On the track we budded up and did a scavenger hunt. I did the scavenger hunt with Dakota and Rebekah. We found everything in the end. We also found a kea but it wasn't on the list. Some of the things we found were: A sand fly, a blue mushroom, a cute tomtit and bracket fungi. 
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When we started the track it rained for a few minutes then started to rain lightly for a bit. When we got to the lunch spot we got into our afternoon groups (I was with Lily and Eamon) and built a bivouac to eat our lunch under. To make our bivouac we hung the tarp of a leaning  tree then tied our rope to four small flaking trees. When everyone had finished lunch we packed up our bivouacs and kept walking. The track was muddy in most places and where it was muddy it was really slippery. We had to watch our step otherwise we would trip over.Quite a few people fell over.  

 One thing I liked about walking Callaghan's Ridge was that we got a day off school doing something I enjoy. i also liked that it didn't rain the whole time. Next time we could try build our shelter with what was around us. I thought Callaghan Ridge was fun and I can't wait to do our next activity.