Dirty Dishes. W3 Synthesis Drawing

Finally we are reading a fiction story! This weeks story is called Dirty Dishes. It's about a boy called Peter and he hates doing the dishes, and so he got a new dish washer, usually his Mum does the dishes but his Mum was going to be back home not soon enough so Peter had to do it, and his Dad was doing some other jobs so his Dad could not do it either. 

And I mean he should be dong some chores in the house but not this chore! Everyone else in the family didn't have a problem with the new dishwasher but Peter did. Every time he used it something would go wrong, like too much maybe water or soap into the dishwasher or like maybe Peter did something wrong.

So what we had to do instead of making a Story Map we had to choose one of the Synthesis questions and I chose the one that said that one of the things in my kitchen are not working properly and so I have to explain or draw how a thing in my kitchen is not working so I decided to draw and write, and I chose my Refrigerator. 

So here it is:

Something I enjoyed was drawing this and like imagining if this would actually really happen!
Something I found difficult was trying to thing on how the refrigerator would refuse on cooling the food down.

Stay tuned for more fiction storys!

My Culture and Traditions

For Intergrated Learning this Term we are Learning about our Taonga and I think I already explained to you what a Taonga is but here is a little re-cap of what a Taonga is: Taonga means that you lie have something that is really special to you or like something that feels like treasure to you. So if you didn't see my other Intergrated Learning post that is what Taonga is. But anyways for this week we had to think about what Culture and Tradition means to us. So Mrs Lee our Teacher gave us two post it notes to write what Culture means to us on one note and then what Tradition means to us on the other note. After that we sticked our post it notes to two different pieces of Card board, one for what culture means and the other for what tradition means! 

After that we had to answer 5 different questions and we had to answer those 5 different questions on a DLO so here is my one:

My Culture is Filipino!
What is your Culture?
Do you have any Traditions in your culture or in your family?

Vanilla Ice cream, Please! W2 Information Web

It's the second week for term 4! And for reading this week my group Danny is reading a story called Vanilla Ice cream, Please! And it's another non-fiction book and I thought it would be a fiction story this week because last week was a non-fiction story but at least I get to learn some interesting facts.

This Information story was about a girl called Veisinia and she lives in Vaini on a Island called 

Tongatapu. She really likes Vanilla Ice cream! She has always been thinking about where that vanilla comes from, so she went to a place called a vanilla plantation and there is where they make the vanilla Ice cream and like the flavor.

She also got to help with the process of making a vanilla Ice cream, which I think would have been have been really awesome. She like did a lot of cool things and I didn't even know that some of the things would even be there or like would be an Ingredients. Now I really want to know how to make Vanilla Ice cream, just like Veisinia!

So she saw all the things you had to do, to make a Vanilla Ice cream! I think that you would like to know some more about how to make vanilla ice cream! For our information web we had to write some facts from the story so here is mine:

Do you think you could make your own Vanilla Ice cream at home?

Celebration of learning!

WALT share what we have explored with our Whanau.

We're going back to Term 3! I don't know if I told you guys about this but in Term 3 like close to the end of Term 3. It was Celebration of Learning. On that day the three senior classes, Room 4, 5, and 6 decided to do like something to celebrate our Learning. I don't know what the other classes did but Room 5 was making different experiences. But first before we did all of that stuff, Mrs Lee told us to go and look some stuff out about experiences, after we did at we were learning about Acids and Bases, and Mrs Lee was teaching us this to help with our Experiments. Then we tried out Mixing a type of base with some acid but it was like really acid that could like burn you it was just like Red Cabbage. It was really cool because like the colors changed but it kinda smelt really weird.

The next day after that we tried other experiments, like one that makes like a balloon really big, one that makes a rocket with just a plastic water bottle and one that is like a volcano. Mrs Lee told us to get into groups of three or four and my teammates were Zipporah and Jorja. Then we had to discuss with our group on which experiment we wanted to do.  But first we had to try our experiment. My group decided to do the balloon one. In our Topic books we had to write what we would want to change or like what we would not change. We also had to write who brings what to do the experiment, then we had to make a poster to write like the steps, Rules, what you need and we also had to write the hypothesis and the observations.

If you want to try out this experiment here are the steps to making this balloon experiment: 1. Half fill your bottle with vinegar. 2. Add a few drops of any color food coloring. 3. Use a funnel to put in half a cup of baking soda into the balloon. 4. Put the mouth of the balloon into the mouth of the bottle. 5. Shake the baking soda into the vinegar. Wait for it to blow. 7. Stand back!

Here are the different things you will need: Vinegar, Water Bottle, Baking soda, Balloons,Food Coloring, Spoons and a Funnel.
Those are the steps, and things you will need if you want to try out this experiment!

But anyways, while we were trying out our experiments, Mrs Lee took some photos of us trying it out so here are some photos:


There are the photos!

The thing that I enjoyed was trying the experiment with my group members and like actually finding out what we changed worked or made it worse and I thing it actually made it better cause it didn't pop or anything like that.

Something that I found difficult was trying to make the balloon a little bit more bigger so then it will look really cool and like you can have a free balloon and you don't need to blow it rally big with your mouth!

My group decided to just put all the information straight on to the poster because we thought that it would be more quicker even though the other groups decided to put there ones on a slideshow first before the poster but I think everyone did a great job!

Stay tuned for more experiments!

My Taonga

WALT define and identify our own "Taonga".

In term 4, for Integrated Learning, my class has been talking about what a Taonga is. Taonga is a Maori word that means like something is your Treasure and like someone or something that is prized to you and something that like means a lot to you.

In term 3, in the last few days we would go to a Life education van and there was a girl called Amanda and she talked about having a strong core and having a big flex. And that means to have nobody make fun of your core and your core is like your "Taonga" and that is what makes you have a big flex!

Mrs Lee showed us some pictures that could be our Taonga, so we had to think what was really important to us and what is like Treasure to us. After we thought about what our "Taonga" was we had to make a poster about who or what is our "Taonga".

We could make it a digital poster or hand written poster so like on paper. I decided to make my poster on paper cause I though that it would be good to show what my "Taonga" is if I written it with like my hand and show that it's from the heart!

Here is my Poster:

Instead of writing our "Taonga" we had to draw what our "Taonga" was.

One of my Taongas was my family because like my family means a lot to me because they help me with everything I do they make me food. They all also help me have a good life, they make me healthy and last but not least they love me!

My second Taonga is is a pink blanket because I have had that since I was born and that blanket I sleep with every night and I can't sleep without it, and even though it might be a pale pink blanket now I still love it.

My last Taonga is my country and that is the Philippines so I just decided to draw the flag but I love my country and if someone makes fun of my country I will get really mad and probably smash you but I'm not mean so I'll probably just tell you to back off my country!

What is your Taonga?

Return, Ticket Please! W1 Information Web

It's Term 4! And for reading we have changed groups but I'm still in Danny but, there has been some new people in my group. But anyways the first week of Term 4 each group read a non-fiction book and my group's one was called Return, Ticket Please! It was about Space, and it taught us about who was like the first person to step of the Moon which was Neil Armstrong, it also told us about Venus and Mars and why we should not go to Venus. It told us about a lot of things like if someone is in danger and they're in Space they give Radio Massages and those travel by lights and it like takes about 4 minutes and 20 seconds to travel to Earth and like about 9 minutes to get a Reply back. On the last page it told us about like what is at Mars. I'm not going to spoil anymore so maybe find a book about Mars or search about Mars so you can know more about Mars or maybe even more about Space.

But anyways after we finished our other tasks we had to make an information web about what we know now after we read the Information. So here is mine:

What I found difficult was trying to understand because I was like really confused and also amazed because I don't know how like people get to that Planet but then when I started to read it more I found it easier and easier.

What I enjoyed was putting all the facts together and sharing my knowledge.

We also still have to comment on two people's blog on their information web just like last term and if you want to see who commented on mine go check the comments and maybe you could comment as well.

We'll see what we will read next week!