Cross-country!!!

"Go Xanthe Go Xanthe" I heard cheering mud Splashing people huffing and puffing very loud like an bull. I went past 16 girls and I started to sprite my hardness to try and get past the other three girls in front of me. The time I got around the lake I saw six girls past me. So then i had started to sprite again but not so long after i had twisted my ankle two times it was so saw and painful. My best friend piper catched up to me and helped me out and thats how i became 9th place and she came 10th place 
 What did you come in cross-country!!!???.....

Making bread and butter!!!!!!!

Last week we had made some bread and some butter to top up the bread. We made bread and butter because... It had lined up with our local history. Because we had found out how they made bread and butter. WE had to listen carefully to the instruments. We had to do. we needed to have a large plastic lock bag and some salt,sugar,milk, hot water and then we needed it. After that we gave that to one of our teachers and they had needed it together. After that we put it in the oven and ate it after it was cooked!!!
Have you ever made homemade bread and butter.

Mental maths

This term we had started a new thing for our mat'hs and literacy contracts i love it so much it helps me more in math's then in literacy.
Sometimes i really don't want to do it but when i have done about six to seven questions I really get into it.
My brain turns all on and i really try my best but when i don't understand it or I don't know the answer to the question we have to highlight it or you can give the answer you think is correct.
Here is a picture of it!!!

We do one column each day until we have finished the four column's
I think everyone in the classroom loves this new active now!!!
Have you ever done mental math's before in your life cause i have????

SANDRA SILBERZWEIG!!!

Last week in Kakapo class we had researched about an young lady named Sandra
Siblerzweig she was born in 1960 we had not found out what her month of her birth and her date of birth either only the year.
She lived with her two older sons and her husband.
She was an Artist.
She had used a lot of different things like on one check it would be an love heart and on the other side it would be an circle.                                                                                                                                     Her noses would be connected to her eyebrow like how smart is that !!!!.
But what I had found interesting in her pieces of art was that she uses warm and cold and bold colors.
Her eyelashes were the same as her checks they would have a different thing on her other side.
Question: Do you know Sandra Siblerzweig real date and month of birth.

Lines and Right Angels

This week for math contracts we had some practice equals progress book work we had done some lines and right angles. At the start i didn't really know what i was doing but then i went back to the reading were it tells you what it means by lines and right angles. Their was a very difficult one that i couldn't understand that much. here is a photo of it.........






This had told me which one lines up in these parallel?
Then other had also told me that which one lines ups with a perpendicular?
But then a few minutes later i had gotten my answer and i was very proud of myself. What i loved about this book work was that it had challenged me a lot and i believed in myself and i had gotten though the whole thing by myself.
Here is a photo of the book i had used?
It was also one of the most important must do on the contract.
I love it when we get to do some challenging things like the book work. Sometimes i really dont like doing book work but once when i get into it i would turn on my brain and think not race because i want to get it correct sometimes.
Have you ever done book work like this one before?
                                                                                             

!This end of term writing!

This week we had to write a end of term writing about this therms learning. This term we had Literacy contracts we also had math contracts. We had gotten to pick what we could do first or second. We had a lot of sports like kio-rahi, Netball and fitness/cross country and athletes training. We had also had science these last four weeks. we had made olden day popcorn and honey crunch with Mrs Dromgool, then we made ice-cream with mrs Watson  and burned all different kinds of fabric with Mrs Jyken and we also made borax crystals with Mrs Nketalls This term was amazing.
What did you do this term at school that you loved?...

!Our Matariki session!

                                               Our matariki session!

Today at school we had a matariki session with Whaea Ali. Whaea Ali had talked to us about how to make lip balm/medicinal balm. She had also told us stories about the seven matariki stars. Some tribes tell stories about the seven matariki stars and some other tribes tell stories about nine matariki stars constellation. We had also learnt a new song called No te Houhonutang. The ingredients that we had used was coconut oil and lavender essentials oil and kawakawa essentials oil and lucky but not last bees wax. Whaea Ali had also told us that you could use coconut oil for when you have fake eyelashes to remove them. This was a very very fun day with Whaea Ail.

Have you ever made lip balm before?