Writing Portfolio Sample

Description:
In Writing we got given a picture to write about. It was a picture of a cat in a cage and a bird sitting on top of it.We could chose who's point of view we could write from. I chose to write from my own point of view of about what happened, here is the picture of what we had to write about:

Image:

Big Idea:
In Rebecca's Writing group we have been learning all about ideas my goal specifically is to know who my audience is. I am also trying to impact my audience so that the audience understands what I am trying to get across in my writing. I tried to base my writing on the people around 8-12. Before we started writing we used this success criteria to help us:

• brainstormed precise nouns, descriptive adjectives to describe the image.
• used prompts such as what the character could see, hear, feel, hear.  
• used the mountain planning form to help us leave clues in our story.

Here is my Writing:

Evaluation:
I think that I used a range of short and long sentences to add impact to my story. But I think that I could have used a few more descriptive words. I liked using the new writing success criteria as I could keep looking back while I was writing and check that my writing was up to standard.

Feed back / Feed forward: 

I think you did a great job with adding lots of detail to your story to add impact, good job. But I think next time you could have added more talking between the characters.

From Hannah P

World Of Wearable Arts Out Of Africa

Description:
Every Friday we have been getting right into planning and starting to design a costume for production. For our school production our theme is ora-life, and to show that we are doing wearable art and creating a garment/costume. Each class has a different theme. Poutama's three themes are Elements/ Heros and villains and Out Of Africa. I am in Out Of Africa. After a while of thinking about what I was going to make I decided to make out the savannah.

A ''mood'' is where you look on the internet for lots of ideas about what you are going to do before we started planning we created our own mood board with all the ideas we thought we could maybe use.

A few weeks later we started to plan out what our garment is actually going to have in it and what it is going to look like. On my garment I am going to paint a river, stick on pieces of laminated and fresh grass. stick on small rocks and pebbles and grab a whole lots of leaves and trace them onto a piece of paper and then paint the cardboard in the shape of leaf.

Here are if moodboard and my plan:

3 Weeks later:

What, what have I done so far: 

I have completely changed what I am doing. I have decided I am going to be a tree:

• So far I have: Made the trunk, I grabbed some legging and spray painted my pants gold/brown color. 

• I laminated some leafs and cut them out and then punched holes attached string and I have a leaf necklace!
• I also made  the top half of my tree. It was a long process as I had to cut out/trace 275 leafs (different colors) and then hot glue gun them onto a top I didn't use. 

I now have to do:

• I have started creating my leaf mask (with a GIANT leaf), but have not finished it yet. 
• I also need to do 3 more layers of paper mache and wait for it to dry.

I don't have to do this, but I had some leftover paper leafs so I think I will create a headband with the paper leafs sticking up.

What I need to do:

What I have done so far:

A few more weeks later:

Since we finished our garment we need to evaluate our production costume/garment, here is my evaluation:

1) The materials that I used to create my garment were:

For My Top I Used:

• Lots of different colored paper 
• A top that I didn't use anymore
• Hot Glue Gun
• Pencil/pen to trace leaf shape
• Scissors 
• Paint 

For My Leaf Necklace I Used:

• Old leafs
• Laminated Sheets
• String to attach the leafs
• A hole puncher

For My Leaf Mask I Used:

• A huge leaf I found in my garden
• A craft knife
• Cardboard 
• Hot Glue gun
• Elastic
• Lots and lots of Green Paint 
• Paint brush etc 

For My Leggings/Pants I Used:

• Gold/brownish Spray paint
• Some old leggings I didn't use much anymore 

2) The most challenging thing about production for me was:

Trying to problem solve with my leaf mask because: After I had painted my leaf with 1 coat of green, after it dried the green paint kept chipping of, so I did another 4 coats before it stopped chipping but I had to be carful and be gentle with the leaf because a few bits sometimes still flacked of. I had to do a few touch up's. 

One day when I was trying to put on my mask one of my friends pointed out that one of the leaf pieces had come right of so I had to stick it back on with hot glue and I put a backing of cardboard on it to make it more stable. The only problem is, is that it has  a lump of were the hot glue had dried but I don't think you will see it from far away. 

3) One way I demonstrated a growth mindset during production was:

Being persistent when things didn't work out/never giving up. Also trying to come up with better ways I could create something and also putting myself in the pit  and coming up with new ideas because when you are in the pit that is where the best learning happens also the creative learning! 

4) Something I am really proud of about production was:

My leaf garment because I spent the most time on it and kept taking the hot glue gunned leafs on and of until I was happy with it! I also spent a lot of time tracing the leafs and cutting them out perfectically. 

5) Our school vision is to create agency, creativity and excellence. I showed this by:

Being creative and trying to come up with my own original ideas as well as thinking outside of the box. I also showed excellence by spending a lot of time to make things look they way I wanted them to look/how I vishended it to look and if something wasn't right I wouldn't leave it and I would fix it up.

Here is my finished garment with me wearing it:

Reading Portfolio Post Tic-Tac-Toe (Summarising).

Description:
In Class each week for reading we have to complete three Tic-Tac-Toe's. It is a place where we get to chose what 3 tasks we want to complete for the week. We have to complete each Tic-Tac-Toe's to a high standard. For the Tic-Tac-Toe this week I chose to do a "fake" news report.  I  had to read an article, I read the article the World's Bodypainting festival. Then we had to summarise the article like we were a real news reporter.

Images:
These are some of the photos of the show, and the artists designing their amazing art:

Big Idea:
I have learnt that when you summarise a story you pick out the "key" points of the story and write about that I also learnt that it is a good idea to use the
Who
What
When
Why
How
chart to really capture the essence of the story/summary.  Here is my news report.
     NEWS REPORT TIC-TAC-TOE

Breaking News:

In Austria between the 3rd and 5th of July the world BodyPainting competition was held. Models from 45 countries came to Austria to display their art. Here is Hanne in Austria to talk about all the amazing art she saw.

Well the artists compete in a range of activities there is the brush and sponge activity and the head piece and illusion contest. The competition was founded in 1998 by Alex Barendregt and is now a popular event that is held each year.

FeedBack and FeedForward: 

I love your News Report. I think you put all I need to know. That was very interesting. You also included the 5 W's and the H. I really love it. The thing you could work on, would be including more information about what you learnt in the Big Idea. Great Job!!!

Rosalind:)

Evaluation:

I think that I summarised the story well and in depth but as Rosalind said, I think I could have included more information in the big Idea.

Waste Man Tic-Tac-Toe

For my Tic-Tac-Toe today I chose to do the wasteman activity. As my goal is summarising we are supposed to summarise a story but today it was a bit different. My teacher summarised the story waster man  for us and then we had to right the story backwards. ( We got to make up our own story related to my teachers summary).

Here is my teachers summary:

Waste Man was made by a man named Antony Gormley over a six-week period in 2006 out of tonnes of recycled waste materials, it was then burnt a day after it was finished.

My Summary

One  day in 2006 a man named Anthony Gormley decided to make a figure of a human  entirely made out of tonnes and tonnes of recycled materials because he wanted to show the world that they could be creative with recible objects. To create his masterpiece he used some of these objects  like: wooden chairs, ladders, crates and much much more... It took him 2 and a half years to complete the final product, although it would have taken him 1 and a half years if he stuck everything together with cement but instead he just used a regular glue stick! Anthony said that it was a great  2 and a half years of thinking outside of the box and challenging everybody’s own expectations of me. The hardest part was when the sculpture started to get higher and higher I had to get a crane to do the head. Anthony moved the  sculpture to America.

The next day when Anthony woke up he found all of his hard work demolished by a person who lit it up in flames. He was absolutely gutted .  

Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

 The-Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then chart is a good way to summarise a story with it's key points. For one of my Tic-Tac-Toe I read a story about a Bionic eye fitted to a patent who was blind.

Here is my summary: 

Somebody:
The Main character was a Man who lived in UK  and over the years couldn't see things far away or in front of him very easily and then all of a sudden became blind

Wanted:
The man wanted to be able to see again.

But:
He thought that as nobody else has been able to see again once they have gone blind, that he wouldn't be able to be cured.

So:
So one day surgeons did an operation to put in what you call a Bionic eye. You have to wear these glasses all the time. These glasses  have a sensor that sends video images to his  \brain which helps him see.


Then: 
He can see very well with his glasses on but can not see very well without his glasses so I am guessing that he will have to always where his glasses, although he doesn't now what the future holds...

Image Prompts

Description: 
For one of my Tic-Tac-Toe this week I looked at another quote and thought about what that quote meant.
This is the quote:

 What I thought that this quote meant:

•  If you did something little it would impact somebody else and then that person would learn from you and do something nice to another person and everybody would start doing something nice and  make the world a better place.
• I also thought that if there was a big group of people and something bad happened to every single person except you, you could save one person and then once that person is fine they could help a person and then after they are fine they could help another person so that everybody is helping eachother and impacting each other making the world a better place. 

Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then

Description:
For one of my Tic-Tac-Toe this week I chose to read a Kiwi Kids article " NZ 4th most peaceful country in the world", and then use the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then chart to summarize the story I just Read.

Somebody- Who is the Main character?
There is not a main character in the story as there is no humans, in the story but you could say that the "main " Character could be NZ as it is talking about how NZ is the 4th most peaceful country.

Wanted - What does the character want or what is it's main goal?
I think that the people of NZ's main goal is to be rated as the most peaceful country in the world

But  -What is the problem in the story or what is keeping the character for achieving it's his/her goal?
What is keeping NZ away from it's goal ( To be the first rated country in the world) is the index rates countries on it's level of security and level of safety.

So - What is the solution to the problem or what is the characters main goal?
Nz's main goal is to be rated the peaceful country in the world. I think we could try and achive this by doing the right thing and trying to get along with others.

Then - How does the story end?
It still hasn't ended yet, NZ is still trying to become the first most peaceful country...

Image Prompts

Description:
For one of my tic-tac-toe's this week I chose to review this quote/picture. We had to observe and think about the meanings to the quote. We had to also write down some responses and thoughts about the picture/quote here are my thoughts.  I also wrote what I thought about the quote ( that I thought related to this quote), and what it's meanings are after the dash.

• We are born to be real not perfect.  - We can't do everything and nobody is perfect.
• In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take. - Jump to every opportunity.
• Don't judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. - Don't judge a fish by what it can't  do.

Summarising (Tic-Tac-Toe Term 3).

Task:
For one of my tic-tac-toe's this week I decided to practice my summarising. So I decided to go on to the bitesize website and do the mini test. You had to read the piece of text and then answer the questions. (Just like an Icas test). I got nine out of ten, although I guessed a few.

The Flag I like:

For one of our Tic-Tac-Toe's I chose to chose a flag that I like and then say what I like about and why it should be our new flag. Here it is

ET Reo Portfolio Sample

Description: 

Every Monday we have ET Reo. We do ET Reo so that we can learn a new language and we can have a conversation to people in Maori.  ET Reo is when we learn all about Maori phrases, songs and all about the culture so that we can use them in our everyday life. This term our focus has been to learn some Maori fruits and vegetables and/foods and then how to say them properly. After we learnt how to say the fruits and vegetables  and foods properly we learnt how to ask a buddy what they liked and what they disliked. 

Video:

Big Idea:

We had to learn lots of different fruits and vegetables foods and then ask a friend what they liked and disliked in a video. I think that I know all of the fruits and vegetables and foods really well and I know how to ask what they liked and dislike but I think that I need to keep practicing trying to pronounce the words properly. 

Feedback/Feed Forward:

WOW! What a great movie you guys have made!  You guys have really added depth and detail to your movie. I can really see your improvement in the Maori language. What I think you could do better next time is to show more of what you have learnt. I'm sure you have learnt a lot about the culture! You can also work on pronouncing the words :D Aye 

Evaluation:

I was successful at projecting my voice so that the audience could hear what I was saying and I was successful at learning all of the fruits and vegetables/foods. But next time I think that I could improve on pronouncing the words properly because I sometimes didn't pronounce the word nga and I didn't pronounce koe and ae right.   

Maths Portfolio Sample

Description:
In Class for maths this term we have been learning all about strategy maths. I am in Stage 6.  We are learning to use the best strategy for each problem. There are four strategies that we are learning about. Rounding and Compensating, Reversibility, Equal addition and Place Value partitioning.
I think that I am good at Rounding and Compensating and Equal addition but I think I need to work on Reversibility and Place Value partitioning.

Big Idea:

In class our teacher told us that we had to work out this sheet of questions. Since I am in stage six we had to work out each question with two strategies. There where objects with the price and then there where questions we had to answer we also had to show our working out: 

• Have a sum more that $550
• Have a difference between $ 40 and $60
• Have a sum of exactly $426
• Have a difference of $134

Feedback/Feedforward: 

Well done you have done really well and it looks like you have put a lot of work and effort into it because of the lot of detail you have and all the right strategies it looks like you really know what you are talking about-Bella M

Evaluation:

I think that I am good at Rounding and Compensating and Equal addition but I think I need to work on Reversibility and Place Value partitioning. I think that I always work out Rounding and compensating really well! 

Writing Portfolio Sample

Description: 
In class I have been learning about complex sentences. We were given a video to watch  called ''Mouse For Sale". Then my teacher said that we had to write about the story but we could change parts of the story. Example: ( I changed the storyline and also the characters within the story). The Mouse for Sale video was like our motivation!
The Video: "Mouse For Sale".



Big Idea:
A Complex Sentence is when you have a simple sentence and then add a sentence to add on to it. ( The sentence that you add on shouldn't make sense on it's own). Example: Hannah is a girl. That makes sense on it's own but it is quite a boring sentence. To make a complex sentence you could say: Hannah is a girl, with long flowy hair. If you just said 'with long flowy hair' it wouldn't make sense.
Here is my Writing, ( The red is where I have put a complex sentence).

Feedback and FeedForward:
Wow Hannah! I am very impressed on how many complex sentences you can fit into one story! You should be proud. I have one question for you. "If you had no idea what a complex sentence was, would that affect the quality in your writing?" -Aye :D

Evaluation: 
I think I did a good job using complex sentences, I tried hard to use complex sentences and I found it quite hard. I think that if you didn't use complex sentences and you didn't know about them your writing would be ok but if you did use complex sentences your writing it would be much more interesting.

A few days later we did some collaborative writing I did it with Alyssa. It was the same type of writing, watching a video and then rewriting it with our own twist.
This is the video that I watched Peck Pocketed:


Here is my collaborative writing:
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Science Portfolio Sample

Description: 
I have been In Troys science group this Term. In Troys Science group we have been learning about Webs. Native Webs a Marine web and our lunchbox food web. The 'Native food web was when we looked at what was in our NZ bushes and what were the predators for our NZ birds. The second web was our Marine food web we learnt what fish eat what. The last web was our lunch box food web we grabbed what was in our lunch box and then investigated further.  At first thought I thought that my food came from the supermarket!

Big Idea: I learnt about how our food is processed and connected to the sun. I also learnt that we need to the sun to live. Our food goes through a lot of care to get to us.... All thanks to the sun. Without the sun we would not have food, such as fruits, nuts and vegetables and chocolate because chocolate comes from a cocoa bean that comes from the ground, which comes from dirt and dirt comes from the sun.  

Feedback/FeedForward: I love your poster. What I think you could have done better is putting pictures instead of just writing what it is. I also think you could have added more colour to it. Great Job. Rosalind:)

Evaluation:
I agree with Rosalind, I think that I could put pictures instead of writing it ( for all the visual learners). I think that I put a lot of detail in my poster going deep down explaining all about the foods that I had in my lunch box.

Reading Portfolio Sample Comprehension (Tic-Tac-Toe)

WALT: Make connections

Description: This Term my reading goal is Comprehension. In Comprehension I have been focusing on relating to the text or to myself  - text to text connections/ text to self connections and text to world connections. Text to text is when you can relate to one story and then relate to another novel that has the same message/ storyline. Text to self is when you can relate to the book and to yourself (example: Something that has happened in the story and to you). Text to world is something that has happened in a story and then in the world.

Today in class for one of my Tic-Tac-Toe, I chose to read the story the Hare and the Tortoise. After I read that there were some questions that I had to answer about the story, Here they are:

Who won the race and how? 

The Tortoise won the race, because the hair sprinted at the start and was so far away from the tortoise that he thought, I’m just going to have a quick nap. The short nap turned into a long sleep. While the hair was sleeping the Tortoise passed the sleeping hair and won the race. The hare  woke up to the crowd cheering well done Tortoise you won the race!

What was the moral (or lesson that can be learned) from the story? Believe in yourself, anything is possible if you dare to achieve. 

Write one text to self connection you have made with the story. 

I am not the fastest runner, and this year in cross country I came 7th which last year I came 11th so I think I did much better than last year. How I can relate to the tortoise is because the tortoise believed in his her/self and kept going and won the race When I was running I kept going and going and I did much better than last year.

Write one text to text connection you have made with the story.

In the book Charlie and the Chocolate factory, all the contestants who had  won a  golden ticket bragged that they had found a golden ticket and they weren't being very nice about it, but when Charlie found a golden ticket he didn’t brag and he asked his parents if they wanted the golden ticket! I can make a connection between the hare and the tortoise because the hare bragged to the tortoise that he was going to win but he didn't.  

Big Idea/ Success Criteria:

I need to be able to make these connections:

• Text to Text
• Text to World
• Text to Self

Feedback and feedforward: 

I think you did an amazing job on your moral on the story. You seem to know all about Comprehension. It really relates to integrity.......  Your text to self connection is a good start to your story. Maybe next time you could do your description a little less BIG.  Good Job Olivia B

Evaluation:

I think that I explained the questions really well (In depth)  I think that in reading I need to keep trying and reflecting on text to world, because sometimes I struggle on finding an example. 

Connections

For one of my tic-tac-toe activities I chose to listen to some different stories and chose what connection the children had made... There was No connection, text to text, text to self, and text to world. I did 30 questions and got 22 right, so I got 8 questions wrong. Here is the evidence:

Pool Party For Pups

I  read and watched an article on a pool pups party. After I had read the article it said that there was some recall question for us to answer so I answered them. If you want to read the article than the link is here: http://tinyurl.com/muskyre Here are the questions I answerd:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? The dogs are the main “thing” in this article they swam around in the pool jumping in and out of the water and splashing about. 

What was the key event from the news article?

It was an awesome pool party to raise money for a dog organization.

3. Where did this event take place?

It took part In Auckland, and it was called bark in the pool. 

It looked like all the Dogs had heaps of fun playing in the water, chasing all the other dogs, chasing balls and owners could even hop in the water and swim with the dogs to!

Catch Me If You Can- Defense

Description:

Every week we learn about skills and movement that will help us play sports. This term’s focus has been around defense. We made a video showing some of the goals we have been practicing. I have highlighted the thing I think I have done well YELLOW and one thing I would like to work on PINK.

WALT: Defensive skills and movements

Success Criteria:

Body Movement

• Weight on balls of feet
• Feet shoulder width apart
• Knees flexed
• Concentration and eyes on ball, head and eyes up
• Push hard off outside foot and go forwards to attack pass
• Quick small feet, stay on balls of feet
• Arms within confines of body
• Take feet to ball
• Land with a SBP

Intercepting

• Body angled to see player and ball
• Anticipate pass and player movement

Restrictive Marking

• Meet player as they start towards the ball/where they want to go
• stay close to the attacking player
• Head and eyes up, arms close to body to avoid obstruction/contact
• Angle body so attacking player is ‘pushed’ away from where he/she wants to go
• 0.9m from ball carrier

Here Is My CMIYC Video:

• Evaluation:  I think that this term and a half I have done pretty well mastering the skills because I have got more yellow than pink, but next time I think that I could get better at Angle my body so that attacking player is 'pushed' away from where he/she wants to go because I have achieved this goal before and I think can achieve it again quite easily!
• Feedback and feedforward: Well Done Hannah you have done pretty well mastering the skills the skill I think you need to work on maybe is SBP (Stable Body Position.) Well Done you have done a great job! Grace

Discovery Time

Description:
Today in Discovery time I created a origami cat. I found making the cat quite easy but then when I drew the cat face I didn't like it so I kept having to start again I tried three times until I got it looking ok but I still didn't like it so I tried again the 4th time and I was happy with it. I think that I showed creativity because at the end it looked really good and I thought that it was creative. Here I am working on mastering the "cat".

Turtle Descriptive Writing

I.A.L.T: Use Complex sentences.
Description: In class we have been learning about complex sentences. There are two types of sentences that you can use a independent sentence and a dependent sentence, a independent sentence is a sentence that can stand on it's own. A dependent sentence is when you have a sentence that can stand on it's own but you can add another sentence to the same sentence.

After we learnt about independent and dependent sentences we watched a video about turtles. We then had to write down what we learnt and we had to use independent and dependent sentences in our writing. Here it is:

Sea Turtles are amazing creatures! Sea Turtles way up to a thousand pounds, thats as much 10 fully grown men. Sea turtles grow up to 6 feet tall they are really big creatures. Sea turtles eat crabs and jelly fish. Guess What? Sea Turtles lay their babies in the sand, exactly were they where born. They remember where they where born in their turtle brains and then when they are about to lay their eggs they move towards where they where born, sometimes they have to go further than 2,000 km.  Turtles swim very long distances, in half a year they can swim from Hawaii to Japan. Some of them can even travel around the whole ocean in a migration, that’s around 10000km without stopping. It’s sad, if a sea turtle laid 200 eggs only 10 of the sea turtles would live, if a sea turtle laid 100 eggs only 5 would live...

                                                                The end 

Blockers and Drivers For my Learning

In Reading we had to create a post about our Blockers and Drivers, a driver is something that helps us with our learning and a blocker is something that Blocks our learning. I found it quite hard to chose between my Blockers and Drivers because sometimes at a different time a blocker helped me.

For Example:
Drawing my Ideas is sometimes quite hard because I'm not the best drawer but sometimes it could be a driver in my learning because it could help me complete a task to do with drawing so it depends.

Another example:
Presenting to a group is another one because I sometimes get very embarrassed explaining my findings but sometimes it's a driver because after I have presented to a group I can get feedback/feedforward.
Here is the poster:

Animal PhotosVisualization

Description:

In Class I am learning about comprehension. In comprehension I am learning to visualise. When we are not having a reading workshop we have to do a Tic-Tac-Toe board. We get to chose a task that we want to do. This week I chose to do a task called animal photos. We had to describe the  animal what it looks like, and what it's features are like. After that we had to ask a friend to draw the animal. While we give out the instructions.

Here is what I wrote about my  two animal's...

1st piece of writing:

I look sneaky, I’ve got a kink at the end of my  tail. I've got eyes that glare at you.  My left paw at the front is pointed straight up. I've got whiskers. I’m a burnt orange color with a mix of white. I've got  razor edged claws.  I've got pointy ears. WHAT AM I?

2 Stars And a Wish T1 2015

Description: In class we did a two stars and a wish for T1 2015.
Here it is.

Te Ahu a Turanga Noho Marae

 Description:

 In week 7, we had an overnight stay at the local Marae in Woodville.  We were immersed in Maori culture and participated in a range of activities.  We set two goals to focus on during our stay.

Big Idea:  

1.  Did you achieve your goals?  How do you know?

I achieved one of my goals completely which was to sleep in a room with other people. I didn't really think about this goal because I was really tired and just wanted to get to sleep! I completed half of the second goal which was to share my story and when I am sharing my story to not get embarrassed. I shared my story but I was really embarrassed and I could feel myself going bright red!

2.  What are you most proud of from the marae stay and why?

I am proud of giving everything a go even when I was nervous and scared. I am also proud of myself by working with my friends to solve problems and to give each other support when they needed some. 

3.  What challenged you the most and why?

Making the pancakes challenged me the most because I had to flip them all at the same time and I had to make the pancake batter and I didn't know how to read grams.  

A day after our Marae stay we made book marks about our experience at the marae and what our favourite parts of the Marae stay were. My 3 favourite parts of the Marae stay where sleeping in the Marae, crossing the Manawatu river and doing the Gorge walk and to represent the Gouge walk I  drew pohutukawa flowers.
Here is my book mark:

Our Pepeha

Description:
A Pepeha tells people about how you connect to a place. This is my RSS pepha.

Big Idea:
I worked with Georgia and Sophie, we had a bit of difficulty filming each other because we didn't fully know our pepeha. We also kept laughing at eachother when we made a mistake!

Triangles With Troy

Description:
We have been learning about Geometry for Maths for the past few weeks. We looked at all the different types of shapes and in particular triangles. We have learnt that there are 4 different types of triangles and we created something to share our understanding about each of them.
Big Idea
I created a poster with my friend Olivia. It explains to you all about the different triangles a Right Angle Triangle, an Equilateral Triangle a Scalene Triangle and lastly a Isosceles Triangle.

Evaluation
I think that Olivia and I worked really well together, I think that our poster explained all the different types of triangles really well. I think next time we could maybe use less text because a few people have said that our poster is got a lot of information that is not needed.

Feedback / FeedForward
Well done Hannah and Olivia! You guys have really done well explaining the types of triangles. You have added lots of detail and information in your poster. What I think you should work on is maybe trying to add all the information in but not in a long sentence or paragraph. Other than that your poster is MAGNIFICENT!
Aye :-P

Story Telling

Purpose: create a story to share orally

Description: Oral storytelling is a Maori tradition. We have been planning our own story to tell on the Marae in Week 7.

Evaluation:
I was very embarrassed when I  performed my story, because about 7 people where watching me and mid way through when I was performing one of my teachers came in and watched me perform which I was embarrassed about. If I could do this task again I would not stop when my teacher came in and also I would try not to look at the audience so that I don't start laughing!

Writing

Description:
In class we did some writing about a bus stop. First we had to look at the picture of the bus stop and then we did a plan describing what the bus stop looked like, and what it's features were like!
Then we did our piece of writing. Here is mine plan and piece of writing: 

Mum, I can’t be bothered walking, i’m so tired, can’t we catch the bus? Umm ok Hannah, i’m pretty tired of walking to. Lets go and find a bus stop. “Ok” I replied and we kept walking down the road to find the closet bus stop. We walked for about 15 minutes. Suddenly I looked up. It was one of the coolest sights! Mum I screamed look how cool that is. Wow she replied! I ran up to it. 

It was bright, unique, windowless, Original, Colorful, Amusing, Shiny, Decorative, Suspicious it was also a type of shelter and then I clicked, it’s a half bus and half bus stop, and it was cool...

By Hannah

Star Test

Description:

We have done a star test to inform our teachers what we can do and what we need to work on for reading. There where 4 parts to the Star Test.

• Word Recognition
• Sentence Comprehension 
•  Paragraph Comprehension 
• Vocabulary

Here is a photo of my test:

Big idea:

Since getting my star test results back, I have chosen a goal. My goal is Comprehension, paragraph Comprehension I can try and achieve this goal by using prior knowledge to connect with text and to make and adjust predictions: use text to confirm.  

Stuck on a escalator

On Monday, we watched a really funny movie about 2 people who get stuck on an escalator. 

   

We think that we can relate the message in this movie to our learning...Its like being stuck in our learning, we need to ask for help and we need to look for ways to solve the problem ourselves. We thought it would be fun to make our own movie to get this message across. We had 2 groups of criteria for our movie...

Criteria: (Content)

• Video - 30 seconds long, time is limited. 
• Scenario - Show someone being stuck and not using the ability to act. 
• Clear Message - Short sharp clip. Can the watcher get the point of your video?
• Unique - Coming up with something funny that gets a laugh from others. 
• Time Passing - Do you need to show time passing in your clip to emphasise your message. 

Criteria: (Movie)

• Light - Make sure the sun isn’t creating a hard to see clip. 
• Voice Volume - Needs to be louder than other background volume eg Noise, Kids.
• Frame - What’s in the frame to make your message obvious. 
• Steady Hands - Make sure the camera is still. 
• Individual Clips - Don’t do one continuous shot of 30 seconds. Make a range of short clips and join together.

Here is my movie that my friends and I made.
Enjoy!♡♥

Feedback and Feedforward: Good Job Hannah you really have worked hard on your movie, the one
thing that could be fixed is the 1 hour later at the start does not really fit the movie. The one thing I really like about the movie is time passing turning the chair. I love it! Grace

Term 1 Swimming

Description
Yay! It's Term 1 and that means Swimming. In my Swimming group we have been creating a short movie to show our skills. After we had created the video, we looked back at our video and observed what we could get better at. The we made a goal.

My goal is:

Since looking back at my videos I have made a goal. My goal is to get faster, I think that I can get faster by kicking harder and when I am doing freestyle pulling my  my hands through the water continuously! I will try to accomplish this goal by swimming sports so that I can showcase this goal in the water. Also how I will know that I have accomplished this goal by someone filming me, and then I watch it and compare my goal with the two videos I will have filmed!

Here is the link to the youtube video: 

(I am the second person swimming).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la2hfosypFk&sns=em

Evaluation:
4 Weeks later:
I have been practicing my swimming goal, a few days ago it was our last day of swimming so my friend filmed me swimming to see if I have achieved my goal.

I think I have achieved my goal as well as my technique. My swimming teacher said that I needed to not splash down my hands on the water so much, because every time I do that it makes me slow down. Also at swimming sports I got into the finals for 2 of my races which I was proud of because I am better at long distance. So therefore I think that I have achieved my goal. Here is my second video.

Maths Knowledge Test

Description
In class we a doing a maths test all about our knowledge skills. I started of by passing Test 4, then test 5 and then it came time for the stage 6 test, it was really hard! I didn't pass but I though I got quite a good score. After we had completed our stage 6 test, we got a chance to redeem ourselves by getting a buddy to call out a similar question to the one we got wrong, and then we had to answer the question in at least 3 seconds if we got the question right the the time frame of 3 second's we got to put a tick next to the cross to show that we got the question that our buddy asked us right!
                                                                       
Here is all 3 of the maths test's:
                                                                          Stage 4

                                                                           Stage 5

Stage 6 

Big Idea:

I think I did really well in the first test and I thought it was quite easy, the second test was much harder, but I think I did pretty well, (Although I did guess a few). Stage 6 was definitely the hardest! I tried hard to think about what I knew and what I didn't know, and I answered the question from there!
My current goal at the moment is to write numbers in order to 1, 000, 000,  including fractions.

Here is an example: 
Write smallest to largest
111 985, 111 987, 111 978, 111, 999

Going Back

In class I have been working on some writing about my school years and some of my memories at school.

Purpose: To share memories of my childhood

Here is my writing,

Remember back in year 5 when I was anxiously waiting on the hard rigid ground? Patiently waiting for my name to get called out... Then Hannah Kiwi house leader for 2015.

Remember my first year in Poutama? Not knowing were to go, not even knowing were some of my friends were. Not even knowing what classes I was in for reading, writing, spelling or math!

Remember scrambling up some bars at school then falling and plunging onto the ground and breaking my nose? I didn't want to go home because I  knew that we where doing art after brunch!
                                                     

                                                           That was me growing up!
                                                 

Athletic Goals

Every Wednesday and Friday we have been practicing for athletics. Every 15 minutes we go to a different rotation. By now I have gone round every rotation and I have chosen some goals that I want to accomplish on the REAL athletics day!

My goals for athletics are:
To jump at least 100cm when it is my turn for high jump
When it is time for dicis I want to use the right technique when I am throwing the discus.
My last goal is to jump at the line when I am having a go at long jump and leading onto that when I am jumping that I fall forward not backwards!

                                                                             AND WIN!!
Hope you liked my goals! LOLZ

Two stars and a wish

Every term we do something called two stars and a wish. The stars are when you reflect on what you are proud of and the wish is something you can work towards the next term.

Here is mine

Term 3 review

WALT: Term 3 review 

Task: To complete the survey:

Here is my review:)