The Magic Of Nania

The Magic Of Nania
Last term we have been making a fun movie I hope you like it!!!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Thank you to all whanau and Kaikohekohe Cluster  students who have participated in Room 5's learning by commenting on our blog and on individual students' blogs. A special mihi to the students and teachers from Room 22 in Owairaka District School, Mrs Waho and Gliberthorpe School in Christchurch. I wish you all a safe and Merry Christmas. From Whaea Lana and Room 5 students.

Classification

                       The past few weeks we have been classifying different kinds of animals

Te Reo Maori

               Last week and the week before we have been learning Te reo maori using Ka, E and I

Explanation

Bats are mammals right? Well yes. They are warm blooded mammals. Have you ever seen a bat before? I haven't but I wish to.  Are they an endangered species, yes. They were almost extinct from all of us from taking over the land. That’s why they were almost extinct. How can we save the lesser short tailed bats almost from becoming extinct?

Paragraph 1 is going to be what is killing the bats.

Paragraph 2 is going to be about their habitat loss. ( their forest are cut down )

Paragraph 3 is going to be how can people help the bats.

One reason why our bat are in danger of becoming extinct is because there are predators killing them such as, rats, stoats, cats and possums those are the predators that killing them. They are easy to kill. Possums climb up trees into the roosts (nest) to eat pups.

Habitats loss

Another reason.

What is harming the bats? Predators are harming the bats  because they kill them and eat them.

What’s keeping the bats Safe

Supplies food and water.

How can you help save the bats

You can help bats by doing, do not leave your cats escape, find the predators then kill them and keep them safe if you find them.

Endangered

Sadly the bats are endangered because they are almost extinct and their loss habitats.

Where they live

The tiny lesser short tailed bats live in the forest, “you know, I think so”. Well they live in the hollow trees or in a cave’s.

What they do

Bats look for food on the ground, they scuttle around to find some food like insects and seeds.  

They also scuttle like a rat.

Endangered too

What is endangered too is a wood rose. When a bat is extinct the woodrose would be extinct as well. The woodrose lives on the ground, it grows on the roots, native trees and shrubs.

Well that's enough stuff I can tell you all about bats well some of it.

Afew weeks ago we have been learning about different kinds of animals but I did a bat.

Aroha Poster

I am learning to use similar color hues and layering them so they can stand out.

Athletics

Yesterday 1st of December we were doing Athletics. It was a hot sunny morning. We went to Kaikohe East school to complete the challenges and we went to east to have our big Athletics day. We came outside to wait for the bus but suddenly it came, so went on the bus and got our gears on. We quickly went up in town and we arrived to the school, it was huge. Kids were coming out while we were walking down the field. It was nerve racking. I was so nervous I couldn't move but then we put up the tent then waited. Then all the schools came and they sat down as well. The time was ticking and we were still waiting but then the lady came and she                                                                                        yelled and she said " come in your school lines so we can get the morning started" so went in  the lines and we started. The best thing was i did high jump but I only jumped a little bit over 97cm. I was versing the bestest people from different schools, it was just me and sweyde. I was jumping so high but I couldn't make it but had a second chance and I made it it was scary. like other people they made it but some did not make it. thats enough word that can say.

My strategy work

This week I have been working on my strategy work. what is helping me is using my fractions and my times tables. 

Katydid Book Reveiw

This week I’m learning to learn to surmise the text and respond to the text. My favorite part was they camouflage and also their ears a down the bottom of their legs. What I not know about the katydid is they sing but now I learnt about it.

The Singing Leaf book Review

I have been reading an awesome book could the Singing Leaf this article and photographs by Briar McMahon this book is about katydids and what they do and what they look like. What interested me was

katydids ears are down the bottom of their legs, did you know that? Do you know what a katydid looks like, here is an example of a katydid.

I learnt a lot from this artice like what they eat they camouflaged into that color like if they eat a

colorful rose they turn into that color. How they sing they rub their wings together and there sound is like this zick, zick, zick. Do you know when they eat they eat at night during the day. Katydids split their skin nearly five times.

I learnt that katydids sing with their wings and they split their skin nearly five times and I liked learning about this katydid life cycle.
Here is my question for all you readers, what do you like about this book reveiw?

                   

In my own words this article is about?

it’s about katydids

Gives info about what katydids look like and what they do.

Who- katydids.

Where- katydids live in south america and the amazon rainforest.

What- they eat they camouflaged into that color.

Recount holiday

This is my recount i have been working on this week. I hope to get ideas on what i did well and how i can write better. My next step was to learn how to use speech marks and comes in the right place.

     

                                     Auckland zoo!

                                                                             

It happened in 6th of October 2016 by Zephaniah

I had the most exciting and amazing holiday  going to Auckland Zoo. “I have never been there before” I say to myself, I was really blown away like a bomb exploding. My whole family went to  Auckland Zoo, except my mum and dad. I went with my uncle, aunt,  Nan, papa, cousins and my brothers and sisters.

Once we got there we first had to get our tickets to enter the zoo, while we were waiting for the tickets to come, we already saw some animals, it was a very tall giraffe like an very tall tree. Five minutes later we got the tickets then we entered the zoo so we can

see heaps of awesome animals that we haven't seen before. Sadly We didn't see all of the animals because we had to travel back home after that, but anyway here is some animals I want to shear. Just kidding, I meant like share with you. (shear means like saving something that is hairy like a sheep)

We saw really awesome animals like red pandas, tigers, spider monkeys and apes. My favorite part was the macaw bird because when we were watching the tortoise this lady name Lizzy popped out of nowhere and called out to two zoo keepers to get two macaws out so they could have a train. So one of the macaws had really colorful feathers and a sharp round beak and sharp claws. One of the macaws came on our side to see up close, so the zoo keeper put the macaw on one of the bird stands and the zoo keeper stand all the way to the chair and he put his hand out and he said “come on” and the macaw came to him, and then he got a treat for the macaw, the treat was a peanut. The macaw was quaking like a duck while we were looking at them.

After seeing all those awesome animals we had something to eat and then we traveled back home. I will never forget that day going to Auckland Zoo.  The best part i liked was having a great day and getting a chance to see my brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles and aunties.

Assonance

This week I have been learning how to make poems using assonance. We learnt homophones using there, their and they're. I learnt how to make awesome poems by my teacher whire lana.                

idream

Today Ray Bishop came for dufy books, he talked to us about dreams. And he sang a song for us and it was called chase your dreams. my dream was to be a Artist, I loved art when I started. when I grow up that's what I am going to do.  ART!

Place Value Strategy.

Bok choy

This book is written by Paul Mason and the story is Bok Choy.

It is about a little boy named Jacob and a Chinese man Ah Sum. It is in Otago in a gold mining village in 1865.It is about Ah Sum saving Jacob when he was drowning.Ms Bishop was racist to A sum, Jacob and his mother were very nice to Ah Sum. But Jacob did not like Ah sum.Mrs bishop’s son name is william. He wasn't nice too. He was following his mother being racist. He was saying chinaman and tamping the carpet.

My favourite part is when Ah Sum saves Jacob.

Something that surprised me is when william is racist to A Sum.

Something I have learnt is commas and hard words.

Something interesting is when Jacob nearly drowned.

Whangarei Trip

Going to Whangarei.

On the holidays me and my family went to Whangarei. We went to go and get clothes shopping. And guess what? I got a tablet. I was so excited to go. “Yay, we arrived at Whangarei”. First we went to kmart to get clothes shopping. I got a pair of slippers, plus they looked warm. They were gray. And I got 4 thin t.shirt. They were cool but they weren't warm. And then I got a fluffy warm jacket it was blue and white. After that we went to harvey norman  to get our tablet. It was dark black. For lunch we had my favorite, Burger king. And then we went home again.

My next learning steps are

To know how to use a question mark and an exclamation mark correctly

To finish my writing with a reflection (what I thought about the experience)

To add more interesting language (adjectives, similes)

Here are my goals I am working towards

This is my hoe that I want to focus on every year.

                  ZEPHANIAH

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