Puppies in a Toilet - # Year 4

Once upon a time there was a toilet as big as a house.  In the toilet there was 5 little puppies.  One day the puppies were swimming in the toilet and a little pup accidentally pushed a little button and out of nowhere a red odd bubble appeared and the bubble was turning into a queen. But the queen was in the toilet too. Then the queen brought an apple and put it in the toilet and the 5th dog ate the apple and it died and sunk to the bottom. Then the EVIL queen got string and choked the 4th dog and the 4th dog sunk to the bottom too. After the 4th dog sunk to the bottom the 3rd and 2nd dog got concoction and died and floated around in the toilet. Then there was only one dog left. The queen  got a knife and swung it behind her head to get more power in the chop off, just before she was about to do the big chop... Olaf made a wish and his wish was I want the queen to die and I want the puppies to live. Everyone lived expect for the Queen!

Cinquain Poem

🐼 Panda 🐼

Cute, Fluffy

Climbing, Eating, Sleeping

Splinters in their paws

🐼 Bear 🐼

Project Based Learning

Project Based Learning Blog post

Step One Selecting a context	Lost in the Bush Save the Bush Fun in the Bush
Step Two & Three Create questions and identify one broad question	How would you contact people when you are lost in bush?
Step Four What did I already know about my question?	You would have no cellphone coverage Lose battery life and  you wouldn’t be able charge it Dove Get a mirror and reflect It off the sun
Step Five Design your creation	⇨ Smoke Signal It was tricky to find a topic because what we already knew we couldn’t make and we didn’t have the right materials
Step Six Build your creation and write something about it	Morse Code If it has - long line. Then u do a long pull out.( Like the first one on G). If there is a . It’s a short/little pull out ( Like the first one one A). You can do the Morse code with Lights, Flags, Beeping noises and Using the smoke signal.
Step Seven Reflection	How did it go? It went really good because everything went how it was meant to go. Accepted the wood not going in the right place   What went well? Morse Code, Sort of painting and the bit where u put the burning liquid in.   What was a challenge? Getting the wood in the right place and screwing through the whiteboard
Step Eight Evaluate	What would you change next time? Don’t paint It because Me and Jack both agreed that we won’t paint it next time or just a different color What would you improve next time? Try not to get big drips on the sides
Feedback - ask some other children what they thought?	Henri = I like how you stuck the Morse code on because it is really helpful in case someone actually used it so good job Kalae = I like how you  have put in how the Morse code works. Charlotte =  I love the Morse code  and the materials you used . Livy = I like it how you have put the Morse code in because it is really helpful.

Camp Omatua 2016

This is me just about to go tubing down the river with Henrietta ready for the relaxing ride.	Here I am snuggled in my Mr Whippy van          that I made about to watch the drive in movie.
Kayaking was SOOOOOOOOO fun because sometimes Bevan pulled you back where you began.	This is my dad he was helping with the Kayaks making sure that people didn’t crash into the bushes.
Omatua Stew It was sooooo…. YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	Kauri 89 ready to leave Camp Omatua.

Passion Blog- Term 4 Wk 4

Step 1

Passion Blog

My passion is making Origami, and I will show you how you to the origami bunny 

1. First you would  fold the right corner to the left side so then you will have 9 cm leftover. 
2. The next step is to cut the 9 cm off. 
3. Then you would fold it in half ( Corner to Corner )



Step 2

4. Fold the right bottom corner to the TOP Tip and do the same with  the other side 
5. After that, (from the back) fold the bottom bit up an inch for the bunny to stand up
6. Then fold the top bit down an inch(from the front)



Step 3




7. Then on the front you decorate your bunny with drawing the eyes and the mouth. 

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

Step 7 

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Animal Band Readers Theater - Term 3 Week 7

WALT perform to an audience

Success Criteria:

• Speak Clearly
• Speak Loudly
• Speak with Expression
• Speak together in a group

Animal Band!!!

On Friday the 4th of September, my class ( Room 12 ) did their Assembly item.  The Assembly item was called "The Animal Band". 
My Part was the Donkey with Henrietta, the other choices were Roosters, Cats, Dogs, Readers, Narrators and Robbers.              
I will tell you who was acting what:
Narrator 1 was Kady.  
Narrator 2 was Maiya.  
The Readers were Beau, Thomas and Teague.  
The Donkeys were Henrietta and Me. 
Robber 1 was Tayla, Ella, Liam, Boston and Nathan.  
Robber 2 was Kaedyn. 
Robber 3 was Max, Lachlan and Jack.
When I first saw the kids all sitting down (arriving), I had the butterflies and thought that I might muck up or talk too fast.
The funniest part was Kaedyn's line, "Ah there's a giant coming in the window" because Kaedyn did his line with Expression and Clarity so every one could hear what he was saying.
The Donkey Hats!!
When we were on stage performing, Henrietta and I had Donkey Hats on that Henrietta's mum had made. (They were SO cool) 

Here are some photos.

10 Facts About ME! - Week 5

1. My name is RUBY
2. I like playing outside with my friends.
3. My favourite subjet in school is mostly everything.
4. My favourite colour is RED
5. I love reading the Thea Stilton books
6. I love listening to CD's ( That's what I call music )
7. My favourite programme is RDMA ( Radio Disney Music Awards )
8. The colour of my eyes are GREEN
9. M Birthday is on Christmas day
10. My hobby is Netball, Rippa Rugby and MORE!!!!

THANKS FOR READING!

The Summarising Strategy - Week 4

Key words!

Key words help you make up a great sentence.

You choose a Key word from a book and then make a sentence or  all what you know about the Key word.

You have to write in your own words or you have just plagiarised.

Here is an example

Key words - Birds and Extinct

Sentence -  NZ have lots of amazing BIRDS and now they are all EXTINCT.

Match Sticks Week 3

On the 30th of April we did some maths and it was about Match Sticks, we had to get 50 Match Sticks and make our name.  We could choose that we could do our name 1 metre long or 20 cm tall.  I chose 1 metre long because I wondered if one metre long would be easier.
Once I got my match sticks, I went to my table and made 1 metre and then I made my R, and then I made it too big and and then I shortened it and then it was good.  After that I made my U and it was perfect how I made it.  After I made my u I done my B and it was way too big in the length and then I took a match stick off and it looked good. My last letter was Y, finally I had done it and I still had space at the end.  So I asked Mrs Miller if I could put an L in because I'm Ruby.L, and Mrs Miller said "Yes you can".  So I went back to my name and did an L and then I was done.
The learning in the activity was about measuring accurately, you have to make sure that your ruler is straight that you have a good starting point and a good finishing point. The number learning in the activity was you had to count up how many yellows. Count up how many purple, green and red. Then this is the learning, say that there were 5 yellow Match Sticks and on the page it said that the yellow cost $10. This is the learning 10 x 5 = $50 or 5 x 10 =.$50.

Here is a picture of my Match Sticks.

Deadly Monster - Week 2

One day when my class was writing on our computers, out of nowhere came a big deadly monster.  
I ran up to Mrs Miller and said, ”There is a big scary monster outside the window”. 
Mrs Miller said back,“There’s no such thing as a monster” 
Then I said, "Look outside” and then Mrs Miller saw the monster. 
“OMG” said Mrs Miller. 
I thought in my head, we’ll be fine because we are in a classroom and then the monster put its hand in the window and the glass broke. 
“Ahhhhhhhhh” I shouted.  
Then Mrs Miller fainted, and my class screamed, even the boys because we didn't have help. After Mrs Miller fainted, the monster put his face through the window and took Mrs Miller and ate her.  When the monster ate Mrs Miller it took all the boys and Bradley said, "I’m too pretty to die” and the monster ate them in one gulp and burped in the girls faces and the girls screamed really loud.

After the monster burped in the girls faces,  the monster picked up Kady, Kalae, Talya, Jasmine, Maiya and Ruby.H.
The deadly monster said, "I’m going to eat you up!” 
Ruby.H shouted in a mean way, "No you’re not!” and then kicked the monster and the monster screamed and let go all the girls. He burped up Mrs Miller but didn't burp up the boys. 
“Ha ha ha” the girls said to the boys.
The boys heard and said, "O golly gosh”.

Rotorua - Week 1

“Yeah day 2” I said as I was rubbing my eyes after a long day.  

“I’m staying in my bed” I say.  There we are playing on our i pods and phones. 10 minutes later we’re still playing in our PJs and so is mum and dad. 

5 minutes later I was reading a book.  One hour later we’re in the car going out to do some shopping and some fun things.  
First we were heading to the agrodome.

We went on the shweep and that’s when you race each other on a bike around this loop but you aren't on a bike, you were in this capsule with pedals and gears.  Sophia ‘s time was one minute and 45 seconds and my time was one minute and 46 seconds. Sophia bet me by a second.

Next we did the big swing and you're in these sleeping bags, you go up about 40m in the sky. When you're 40m up in the air, someone will pull a yellow rope and then SWING! A way you go swinging in the sky, I was screaming my lungs out.

After that, we did the Free Fall Xtreme and its like you're flying because you lay down on this square mat and you have this suit on, when you fall on the mat you blow up and the wind is so powerful that you can see your cheekbones and my cheeks are so chubby. Someone is holding your legs so you don’t float away and a man is saying what to do.

After that we went to the bike tracks and there were lots of bumps and I fell off my bike. Then we went up to grade 3 (intermediate) and it was down a mountain of woods and there’s this track that you can go on (around the mountain of woods) and when I went down it I got a sore bottom. After that we did the Dipper and it’s a smaller version of grade 3. When we were at the finish we washed our bikes.

After that we went back to our cabin to get ready for a spa. When we were in the spa we saw a teapot, and then when we were having lots of fun when we looked up and there was a kind of pink smoke covering all the stars. 

After we had a swim we went to bed.

Pirate Ship

This is the Pirate ship from splash planet, it got burnt down by these silly boys. It is sad because it was made in 1967 and now it's 2015.  My mum was walking the dogs down the park at six o’clock like usual and she saw a big ball of smoke in the sky and then she saw fire.

She went around this walk that we always do and she thought that the jungle jeeps were on fire but the pirate ship caught on fire. They cut a hole in the fence and went in and then put it on fire. This man saw four boys running away from it and laughing and he told my mum.  Once my mum told me I felt like crying because it was made before I was born, it was closed all the time because it was direlect and the owners at Splash Planet thought it might break.  I think that the canoes were underneath so they probably caught on fire is well.

On Monday during Easter, I went to Henrietta's birthday party and we went to Splash Planet and when we went on the train we went past the pirate ship and it made me feel sad because all you see is burnt wood and then you make a connection that silly boys put it on fire.    

My Dogs

This is my dog Sam and he is sleeping in this picture. Sam barks a lot, I mean a lot and he is a little cute fluff ball at the moment. On Tuesday 7th of April, he got his fur cut and now he isn’t that much of a fur ball.  When you give him a treat he gets sico and he will jump up on you and follow you around, even if it’s for Jackson.  Sam likes lots of hugs and Sam is a LAZY dog.

This is a photo of Jackson and I, but Jackson isn’t looking at the camera because he is too busy looking at Sam.  Jackson is really cute.  But when a visitor comes that jackson doesn’t know then he will jump up on you just for fun.  Jackson is a fun dog because when I’m on my bike, Jackson will pull Mum to try to keep up to me.  Jackson is a FUN dog.

I LIKE MY DOGS!

All about this year...

This year my teacher is Mrs Miller. We have had a fabulous year in room 12.  I think you would like to be in Mrs Miller's class next year because she helps you with whatever you get stuck on, like if you go up to her and say that you are confused she will explain it to you but not tell you the answer.

Mrs Miller is fun at camp and when your just about to go to bed she will read you a story.  At camp it was really fun because we played spotlight, went tubing down the river and we caught eels in the hinaki.  We cooked our dinner at the fire-pit and on the billys. It was very FUN at camp.

Mrs Miler is in KEA house and I'm in there to.  My sister Sophia is a KEA house leader and Mrs Miller's daughter is a Kea house leader as well.  KEA HOUSE ROCKS!

White Pine Bush

Driving down the road heading to White Pine Bush over the bridge. It had a sign that had a picture of a dog with a cross over the top.  So we walked over the bridge, then we saw a toilet. We looked in the toilet and there wasn't a hand basin and any soap.  Sophia and I said uh. 
After that we kept walking and we definitely saw lots of trees, me and Sophia ran ahead and hid behind a huge tree and then I poked my head around the tree. I think my dad saw me and I heard him say we must of lost the kids or they ran ahead. 
Down the road heading to White Pine Bush.  Finally we get there, I was excited but Sophia wasn't.  After a while we started walking...

And then the next minute my mum took a photo, I have a feeling that she is taking lots of photos, it is like she is all about photos.  Because when I looked on her gallery I saw a picture of me Sophia and Dad walking but we didn't know. Then we walked along and opposite us there were people and Sophia said lets catch up to them and then dad was like no, and then about five minutes later we were behind them.  Then I saw a little track, as you would say, a dangerous track but it wasn't a track, it was like a passage but you couldn't go down there.

The lady in front of us I think was a person with good eyesight because on this little piece of string that you couldn't see at the bottom of the string was a little tiny caterpillar and when she showed us we were looking at the trees. Then we saw the tiny caterpillar, after we saw it dad said that lady must have good eyesight  because I couldn't see that because that was so tiny that nobody could see it.

Then we came back to the start and on the board it said that the time was an hour but it was only like half an hour and then we had lunch and sat down and ate it quietly.  
After that we went back home while dad was biking home.

Me, mum and Sophia went to the Tongoio walkway.  We were going to go to the Tangoio Falls Lookout and it was 50 minutes return.  So we went across the bridge and the bridge was wobbly, so when ever you moved, the bridge would wobble.  I was like dancing away and the bridge moved side to side and I felt butterflies in my tummy from when the bridge was moving because the bridge was moving very fast.  
After we went over the bridge we went down the the path and you couldn't see anything, because, all that you could see was probably the ground, there were green leaves and green bushes and the pathway was yellowish and the tree trunks were brown, yellow, green, brown like the same colour of a bush so that is why you could really only see green.  
Next we only took about 20 steps and then mum was like lets go and get in the car.  Then I froze and stopped because I wanted to go further. After that mum said come on. Then I followed them.  There was a little river below us when we were on the bridge and we found the way down to it.  There was a lady down the bottom and she asked us, is the water cold.  So we felt the water and it was cold.  Then we answered back and said yes it is cold. After that we went back to the car and drove back home. When we were in the car I felt carsick.    

Lava House!

There I was walking down the forest, in the distance I saw a weird looking house. So I kept walking up slowly, well, very slowly and then I saw a lava house. I screamed really loud so that the whole world could hear my scream even from space. I was so scared that I was shivering at the door.
I touched the door handle, on the door handle it was really puffy and it had snail slime on it, ew I screamed. I knocked on the door and out of no where there was an ugly troll, he smelt like rotten eggs, he had untrimmed nose hairs, a wart on the side of his nose and holes in his clothes. The troll told me his name is Roofus. Roofus was really just naughty and greedy. He invited me in to the lava house I took a deep breath and walked inside.

Roofus showed me the kitchen,  Roofus said this very loud,  this is the blood room but it was the kitchen. I said  excuse me and then Roofus said sorry the kitchen, and I whispered to myself, I shouldn't come here because It is getting freaky. Roofus invited me into the Lava pools. Roofus hopped into a Lava pool and shouted come in here. I shouted back Roofus no I'm fine. Then he shouted are you sure. I shouted back I'm sure, and then Roofus showed me the killing room.
I looked around and there were massaging tables. I looked in a cupboard and in the cupboard was lots of knives. After that Roofus whisperd to me, well we better get going to the next room. So we kept moving to the next room down the hallway where there  were very scary pictures. Then we got to this room, Roofus said this was his bedroom. Roofus just smelt nice and then he had to lie down in his bed and then Roofus smelt like rotten eggs again. Now I have solved the mystery of rotten eggs. Then Roofus shouted LET’S GO TO THE KILLING ROOM. So I took a risk and followed Roofus. After that Roofus whispered loudly, lie down on the massaging table. So I lay down on the massaging table, Roofus open the cupboard of knives and got one of the knives out and on the knife it had BLOOD. 
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! and as quick as lightning I ran out the door, but there were so many rooms that I couldn't find my way out. But then in the fog I saw a door and on the back it had a sign that said WAY OUT. Roofus couldn’t find me in the misty fog and I shot out the door as fast as lightning. There I was walking down the forest in the distance.THE END.

My Swimming Reflection

I learned how to…tread water with clothes on because we had to wear jeans and a top, you weren't allowed to wear shorts because it is just like togs . I also learned how to do Breaststroke properly with frog legs.

Something I found challenging was…putting on a life jacket because it always had to be tight. Because if you don’t have a life jacket on you will sink to the bottom.

At the end of the year I would like to improve on…Swimming a longer distance.

Mrs Miller, Mr Kenny or Mrs Lowe could help me by…Mrs Miller was a good teacher and she told things to us along the way . So I don't reckon that Mrs Miller has to teach me anything else .

The best part about swimming was...everything.

Ormie the pig

Our class watched a video and it was about ormie the pig, we watched it three quarters the way though and this is what I think happened .

Ormie was walking around the fridge slowly and then in the corner of his eye he noticed cookies on top of the fridge, he couldn't reach them so he sat down to think and then he had an idea of getting in a plane and skydiving down to the cookies.

So there he was holding the sides of the door, ready to jump out, then he tripped over and fell out of the plane and he didn't have a parachute, he face planted on top of the fridge and his face was squished up and when he felt it, he said it felt like a piece of paper.

He showed determination and kept on trying. The next event was the trampoline, he was jumping up and down and the next minute he broke the trampoline and he said my bottom hurts, it feels like its not there any more.

Ormie sat down crying and then another smart pig came and he said my name is Smelly, Ormie smelt around the room and it smelt like rotten eggs. Smelly thought of an idea to ride a  bike, over a ramp and get the cookies. So Ormie rode a bike over the fridge but still didn't get the cookies.  So he gave up and just didn’t get the cookies, poor Ormie.

My buddies from room 6 & 7

Today we went to our buddy class and found out our new buddies .  Mrs England and Mrs Kelly were the teachers in Room 6 & 7.

My buddies names are Greer and Ella.  Greer is a girl and she is five, Greer has an older sister at this school and her name is Ella and she is in room 9.

Ella is a girl and she is five years old, Ella has two brothers at this school and their names are Toby and Curtis, Ella likes coming to school, swimming and reading books.

After we took our photos we went to the playground and Ella played on the monkey bars, she might be like me because I like to swing on the monkey bars too and Greer likes going down the slide because she came down with me, but Ella didn't want to go down the slide.

Here is a photo of my buddies and I.