Last Week at Vardon School

This week is my last week at vardon school and I am so sad. I will have to leave most of my friends, My teaches, the safe community when I move on to Maeroa. I am excited to move on because my teacher at maeroa is awesome and one of best friends is in my class. I am in the DLU which stands for the differentiated learning unit. This will extend my learning. I have enjoyed my time at vardon and I will miss this school.

Kiwi kids quiz

Today I did the kiwi kids quiz and  I got 11/11. I thought I did really well.

This weeks words

In room 12 some children have been using a spelling app called weeks words.In room 12 we use it as a substitute for teacher testing. On the app there are some special activities to help you learn your words. They are listen to your words and tap the correct one, filling in the correct words and a practice test. Then you click on test time and do your actual test. then it comes up with a page that shows if you got them correct. Here is a fotobabble on what I think about this app.

Algebra

For maths we are doing algebra.  Today for algebra we had a problem solving activity involving a shortage of tent pegs.  Here is the problem.  

The youth group are having a camp. they needed to put up tents for each team. Usually it takes eight large pegs to hold up each of their tents. This time they have a problem. They are very short on large tent pegs.

Leader: "Find some ways to put up tents that will save pegs" (Talking to the groups).

We had to work with a classmate to find a least three ways to put up ten tents.  Then we had to find out which of the ways used the least amount of pegs.

Katie and I made a way that only used 39 pegs but then Brooke came and looked at our layout and suggested that we could take some pegs away and join them to others.  Our second layout came to 36 pegs. The white bits of paper is the tents and the green counters are the pegs.  We had the least amount of pegs in the end and some people got up to 60 pegs altogether.  

Picture one is the first design:                                    Picture two is the second design:       

    

100 word Challenge (Week 10)

I woke up early in the morning and lay in bed thinking about the fishing trip I was going on. When I was ready I scampered into the passenger seat next to dad and we drove to the wharf. When we arrived I started carrying the equipment to the end of the wharf. Dad ­­helped me  cast my line  and immediately I got a big bite, My line started shaking and the fish edged me closer to the water then SPLASH I fell into the  sea head first, Dad had to haul me out of the sea. I was drenched!

Trial QR code

This is my trial QR code, Try scanning it.

Speeches

3,2,1 I'm unique let me tell you why there is no one like me or is there! Kia Ora my name is Emily and I am going to tell you what happened behind the senecs in room 12 vardon school (speeches). Last week we did speeches, we had three topics, Culture and me, my Cultural discovery or I'm unique let me tell you why. The maxim time for our speeches was 3,minutes 30 and the minim was 2 minutes 30. We all presented our speeches in front of our classrooms, I did my speech on I'm unique let me tell you why ( The first line in this post is the first line in my speech). The top four speeches went through to the semi-finals against the senior syndicate. For my speech my score was 100/100 Yay! so that meant I went through to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals I got 177 points out of 200 that meant I came first and now I am going to the finals Yay again.

Gymsport

Last week we had a gym-sport competition at the Hamilton city gymnastics. I was part of the Hip-hop team The "Fluoro  Mob". You could compete in gymnastics, Hip-hop, Cheer-leading or Aerobics.

We did really well, we came 1st. It was awesome.

Here is a photo.

Culture and Identity glog

This is my glogster on what culture and identity means to me and my family. It was part of last weeks home learning.
Here it is.

Culture and Identity

This is a glogster on what Culture and Identity means to me and my family.
This was the last two weeks homework.

Sleepover Haiku

What Am I Haiku's

To answer my "what am I" haiku's comment below this post, What do you think they are!
You don't have to awnser all of them.

Sumatran Tiger

Recipe for a Nice Kind Friend

Here is a recipe on how to make a nice,kind friend.
I made it on smore.

Waste To Wow Animoto

Hope you like my Animoto.
This is about our Waste To Wow Show.

Kiwi Kids Quiz 3

This week I got 100% Yay.
I got this score because I read between the lines.

My Sock Monkeys

This year Team 12 has been making sock monkey's.
We sew our sock monkey's every Friday afternoon.
Everyone has to finish there sock monkey by Friday.
The easiest part for me was sewing the tail and arms.
I have all  ready finished I was one of the first finished. It is so cute!
The hardest part for me was sewing the ears because I had to use the toe so it was weird shaped.
When I had finished I used a spare sock to make new ears.
Here is  a photo of me cutting my old ears off so I could sew the new ones on. Sock Monkey's were so much FUN.

Kiwi kids quiz 2

Boo Hoo,
this week  for my kiwi koids quiz I only got 60%.

Kiwi Kids News

Today I did the kiwi kids news quiz and I scored 100%.

Ode to Nachos

Last week it was poetry week. We had to write an ode to our favourite food. I choose nachos.
Here is my audioboo.
Hope you like it.

listen to ‘Ode to Nachos’ on Audioboo

ANZAC Home Learning

This week's home learning was to complete challenge questions on a website called "Wicked".  Here are the answers.

1. Why we have a dawn parade before dawn is because this time is peaceful and was significant to the Gallipoli landing.
2. Gallipoli is a place in Turkey
3. ANZAC stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corp
4. What happened on the 25th of April 1915 is special to us because a lot of service men and woman fought bravely and died for our freedom.

This is what my family knows about war.

The ANZAC's fought for peace.

The ANZAC's drifted off course and ended up at ANZAC cove by accident. Because of the exposed beach access and the enemy defences a lot of men were killed. 

Many people died on the both sides of the war fighting for what they believed.

Our family links. My Mother visited Gallipoli and Anzac Cove. She visited a number of the cemeteries on the peninsula and noted that some of the "men" that died, were only 15 years old.

Both Mum and Dad's families had Great Uncles who fought in the Second World War. Some returned and some were killed. One of Mum's Great Uncle's was a Japanese Prisoner of War. He was rescued by the Americans. Another Great Uncle is buried in Italy. My Great Grandfather was part of the "Home Guard" in NZ which was part of the NZ based defence force during the Second World War.

Word collage

This is a word collage about rock climbing at camp .I used 10 adjectives. I hope you like it.

Emily Camp Glog

 This is a glogster about "Why we should go to school camp"

Camp senses poem

Here is my senses poem about the overnight Camp at Camp Karakariki


listen to ‘Emily's Senesce Poem ’ on Audioboo

Camp photopeach

Emily's Camp photopeach!

New Zealand drought

This is my drought audioboo. It is about the North Island drought it shares some key information from a kiwi kids article
Hope you like it.


listen to ‘Emily's drought activity audio boo ’ on Audioboo

Abseiling Fotobabble

Here is a fotobabble of
abseiling. It is a practice for my post camp project

2013, a new school year

Hi,
My name is Emily, I am in room 12 as a year 6.
This year, so far we have been doing a lot of art!
We have gone swimming and done jump jam.
I am looking forward to reading and all the responsibilities.  2013 is going to be an awesome year, and
 choc-a-block full of fun and exciting learning!



Here is a little game for you, so you can learn a little more about me.  I have wrote down two truths and one false you have to guess which one is false.


I love reading
I love goody goody gum drops
I would like a dog

Have a guess I will post the answer soon