Numeracy Week 1 Term 2 2019

This week in Numeracy, my maths group the Galileo's have been working on Perimeter, Area and Volume. I found Perimeter and Area easy because I already knew how to do it, but I had to think on how to do Volume. We also looked at a little bit of circumference of a circle, which is like Perimeter, but instead around the outside of a circle. We had a workbook to complete this week and here is mine:

Holiday At Nelson 2019

In the 2 week holidays between Term 1 and Term 2 2019 I went up to my Aunty and Uncle's house for 5 days. This is a diary of what I did when I was up there.

ANZAC Day Service In Nelson 2019

I was in Nelson when I helped at the ANZAC service, here's a google drawing about the service.

Hot Rock Mountain Book Review 2019

Title: Hot Rock Mountain and other short stories.
Author: Elizabeth Laird.
Genre: Traditional/folk tales, Short stories, Fiction.
Age rating: 10+.
Star rating: 8/10.
Originally Published: 2004.
Summary: I really liked reading this book because before Elizabeth wrote down a story, there was always a traditional/folk tale from any place around the world which she tells us in the book, which is what she uses as something like a base for her story. 

Give Peas A Chance Book Review 2019

Title: Give Peas A Chance.
Author: Morris Gleitzman.
Originally Published: 30 July 2007.
Genre: Collection of short stories, Humor.
Star Rating: 10/10.
Age Rating: 9+.
Blurb from the book: Give fun a chance! Surprise your mum with a chainsaw, be a bigger star than Tom Cruise, save the world with a plate of vegetables, start your new life in a taxi, rescue your family with a tomato, send your dad into a panic with a tractor, do a good deed with a paper bag on your head, pack your suitcase for a trip to the spleen, upset your auntie with ten kilos of chocolate, swap a bomb for three ice creams on a steam train . . . and lots more.

Summary: I really like reading this book, or collection of short stories because all of the stories are very weird but funny in their own way. Each story is 10-15 pages long and for some I wish they were much longer because the are big page-turners!

Term 1 2019 Reflection

The first term of 2019 has gone so fast for me in my class Totara 2, with my teacher Miss Hines! I have had such a fun first term and I have already learnt lots. I've also made lots of achievements so far this year. At the start of the year, in the reading PAT test I achieved a stanine 9 and in the maths I achieved a stanine 7!  This year we are also doing a school production (a play), the title of the play is called "The Amazing Adventures Of Superstan". We auditioned this week, and I got a part playing Max Volume, the news reporter. He has 27 lines in the whole productions and he is somewhere in every scene. I also made it onto the school's kids lit team, which in May we will be competing in a competition. I was also awarded the Overall Excellence award for my class for term 1 2019, along with gold Main Star award. Tomorrow it will be the 2 week Easter holidays where we can relax, but I really can't wait for the next three terms ahead for 2019!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

Oranges In No Man's Land Book Review

Title: Oranges In No Man's Land
Author: Elizabeth Laird
Genre: War, Fiction
Originally Published: 5 October 2006
Star Rating: 9/10
Age Rating: 10+
Blurb:

After her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her two younger brothers. The city has been torn in half by civil war and a desolate, dangerous no man's land divides the two sides. Only militiamen and tanks dare enter this deadly zone, but when Granny falls desperately ill Ayesha sets off on a terrifying journey to reach a doctor living in enemy territory.

Summary:

I really liked reading this book because it was short but very detailed and well-plotted. It made me want to keep reading until I finished the book because it was such a page turner!

Diamante Poem 2019

Tomorrow Totara 1 and 2 are walking down to the cenotaph in the morning to put some poppies on the gate. We had to make a diamante or colour poem to go on the back of some paper poppies that will be laminated and then hung at the gates tomorrow. This is my Diamante poem:

Colour Poem 2019

This is my colour poem that I made that will be laminated and then put on the gates at the cenotaph along with the rest of Totara 1 and 2's poppies.

Put A Poppy Poem 2019

Along with my other two poems I did for Anzac Day (Diamante and Colour), I made another poem. It is called Put A Poppy, and the last part is a little sad, but I hope you enjoy it!

Life At Home

For my second activity for ANZAC Day 2019, I looked at what Life At Home was like for the women and children in world war 1. 

Red Rover Red Rover Game Instructions 2019

For one of the activities for the Life at home topic I am doing for ANZAC day, I had to find out a game that schoolchildren played during the first world war. I found a game called Red Rover Red Rover and here is the instructions to the game.

ANZAC Activities Venn Diagram 2

As part of the activity I am now working on, Life at home in the first world war, I had to make a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting life now and life back then. 

School Journal Reading

For part of the ANZAC activities we re doing, we had to read 8 or more articles/poems around ANZAC day. WE had a document in which we wrote down what article we read and what journal it came from. We also had to write three facts that we learnt from each article we read.

What not to do if you turn invisible book review

Title: What not to do if you if you turn invisible
Author: Ross Welford
Genre: Adventure fiction
Originally published: 29 December 2016
Star rating: 10/10
Age rating: 10+
Blurb:

Twelve-year-old Ethel Leatherhead only meant to cure her acne, not turn herself invisible. But that's exactly what happens when she combines herbs bought on the Internet with time spent in a secondhand tanning bed. At first it's terrifying to be invisible . . . and then it's fun . . . but when the effect doesn't wear off one day, Ethel is thrown into a heart-stopping adventure. With her friend Boydy by her side, Ethel struggles to conceal her invisibility, all the while unraveling the biggest secret of all: who she really is.

Summary: I really loved reading this book because there is always a new mystery on every page. I also loved reading Ross Welford's other books like 'The 1000 year old boy' and 'Time travelling with a hamster' along with this one and I am now currently reading one of his other books, 'The dog who saved the world'!!!

Nevermoor Book Review 2019

Title: Nevermoor, the trials of Morrigan Crow
Author: Jessica Townsend
Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Originally Published: 10 October 2017
Star rating: 10/10
Age Rating: 9+
Blurb:

Morrigan Crow is cursed. Born on an unlucky day, she is blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks - and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on Eventide. But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. It's there that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organisation: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart. Except for Morrigan, who doesn't seem to have any special talent at all. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests - or she'll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate.

Summary:

I really loved reading this book because it is such a page-turner! It has odd but wonderful  twists and turns in the book and characters themselves. Jessica Townsend works with magic and (if you've read the book you'll know what I mean by this next part) has a knack for making up creatures, words and places in her book.

ANZAC Activities Venn Diagram

As part of my research on the battle of Gallipoli, I had to make a Venn Diagram comparing what a soldier carried in the First World War and what a soldier would carry nowadays. Here is mine:

ANZAC Activities 1

This week, we are focusing around ANZAC Day.  Totara 1 and 2 are doing this topic together. There is many different activities based around ANZAC Day. Yesterday, we also got to make Anzac biscuits, in which we will take to Granger House and Dixon House (retirement homes). One of the activities was to find some facts on one of the battles that happened in World War One. I chose to do it on Gallipoli.

Numeracy Week 10 2019

This week in Numeracy we have been doing a whole class focus. We looked at Adding fractions with different denominators. To do this we had to find the common multiples of the different denominators and then multiply them together. Here is my workbook for this week: