New Similes

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This week I will be sharing some new similes I have made but first let me tell you a bit about similes.

"a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion )."
- Oxford Dictionary

Here are the similes:

 a rabbit is as fast as The Wind

A Giraffe is as tall as The Eiffel Tower

A Lady Bug is as small as A Grain of Sand

A horse Is as strong as a Rock

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Comment question: Make up a simile!

Lorde Proflie Page

here is a profile page about Lorde.

This is from the taster of the summer learning journey.
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Comment question: Who is your favourite singer?

Reading Create task

Here is my reading create task:

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Comment question: What is an embarrassing story? 

My Haiku Poem

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For the next couple of weeks in our hub we have been focusing on poems. I choose to write a Haiku poem about myself.

Here is my poem. I hope you like it.

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Comment question: Do you like poems? 

Top Team Reflection

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Today I will be sharing my experience with Top Team. Top Team is run by sport Canterbury and your school can get them to come to you and you do heaps of challenges and other cool stuff. By completing these challenges you get points and by getting points your team can win the whole thing.  Some of the challenges include things like building the highest tower, getting water from one side to another, making a pipe not leak using nothing but your bodies and so much more.
My favourite part of top team is when we were doing the water activities and got wet.
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Comment question: Have you ever done top team?

Tough Kids Fun Run Reflection

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Last week was a very busy week for our hub. We had multiple things on and one of the this was tough kids. This is a fun run that is annually held around Canterbury . This year there was over 5000 people involved at the 2 day event. It is a 2.7km run with mud, water and obstacles all the way round. I ran with my friends and it was really fun.
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Comment question: Have you ever done a tough kids run before?

Afternoon Sports

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Today I will be sharing my experience with the afternoon sports we have been doing after lunch on a Thursday. We have played;
Korf Ball
Bowls
Cricket
Softball
So far I have played everyone apart from Bowls. My favorite has been Softball. I liked Softball because I liked watching everyone hit the ball and it was also really fun to hit the ball.
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Comment question: What is your favorite sport?

Reading Create Task

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Today I will be sharing my reading create task. We had to make predictions about the text which was about sitting and standing.  Here is the task:

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Comment question: Do you prefer sitting or standing?

Attitude

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Last week some people came to talk to our class from Attitude. They came and talked to us about friendships and how to make our relationships better with other people.  I learnt about different ways that people can make things worse or better around other people and that first impressions matter. Overall I enjoyed attitude coming in.
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Comment question: What is a way you make friends?

Reading Create Task

Welcome back. Today I will be sharing this weeks reading create task. We read a book called under the sea. We then had to write which was the best option. Here is my task:

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Comment question: What is your favourite sea animal and why?

Free Writing

Here is a free writing I did. I hope you enojy it.

The rain got harder as Bella walked along in tears. It had been a hard week for everyone especially Bella. The rainy days quickly turned into weeks which turned into months. The rain hadn't stopped yet and had been going for at least the past 3 months. “Why?” was a question that everyone wanted answered but no one could help with the answer. The puddles grew larger and larger around Bella’s ankles, soaking her brand new converse shoes. The only thing she could think about was what had happened to her just a few minutes ago.  She thought about the reasons why she was standing there and she thought about the good times and the bad times.

 Slowly the rain got harder and harder until it turned into a full on storm. Bella started jogging then sprinting as fast as she could. There was a glimmering white Cadillac speeding down the road. It swerved past the orange road cones coming at full speed towards Bella. Bella gasped and clutched the bag that she was holding on to so tightly her knuckles went white. The white car jolted to a stop just a few centimetres away from where she was standing. A man in a dark black suit with sparkling silver rimmed sunglasses leaped  out of the car and rushed towards her. He spat out a mouthful of words as fast as a cheetah runs when it is chasing after his prey. Bella put her hand up to stop and asked him to repeat himself but this time slower.

Comment Question: What is your favourite type of writing?

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Recipe For Boiled Taro

Last week we had to write instructions for how to cook and how to do something from a different country. You may already know that I got Tonga. So here is a recipe I wrote on how to cook boiled Taro:

Boiled Taro

Today I will be sharing the recipe to make Boiled Taro. Boiled Taro is a traditional Tongan dish that was introduced into the country in the 1300s. This dish is one that can be eaten at meal times.

Serves 4-6

Equipment: 

Pot and Lid

Knife

Bowl/Plate To serve

Veggie Brush

Sauce Pan

Ingredients: 

1.5 Kgs of Taro Root

1 Teaspoon Of Salt

Water

1 Can Of Unsweetened Coconut Milk 

Step 1: Take the Taro Root and the Veggie Brush and scrub the Taro Root

Step 2: Get the pot and fill it up with enough water to fully cover the Taro

Step 3: Place the Taro in the pot and cover with the lid

Step 4: Boil for 1 ½ hours (Make sure it is cooked very well because it can scratch the throat if not)

Step 5: Remove from the heat and cool

Step 6: Using the Knife Peel away the skin of the Taro and cut into cubes

Step 7: Put the Coconut Milk and Taro in the sauce pan and heat thoroughly

Step 8: Add salt

Step 9: Pour into the serving dish and enjoy!

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Comment question: What is a country you have always wanted to vist?

Camp Reflection

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Last week our school went on school camp at the YMCA wainui camp. We were there for a week and It was really fun! The camp was about a 2 hr drive away from our school so the bus was one of my favourite parts. There was 8 people in my cabin and 9 people in my activity group. This was hard because not all of them were my close/ good friends. We had to write a reflection. Here is mine?

What did I learn?
I learnt that sometimes working in groups can be hard. I learnt this because a lot of the time we were working in groups. most of the time we were with the same people  and working with the same people for 1 week can be hard.

What did I like?
I really enjoyed Kayaking because even though i have done it before it was fun and doing it in the sea and worrying about falling into the freezing cold water. I also really enjoyed looking in the caves with my friends.

What am I grateful for?
I am grateful for the new opportunities I had at camp and the chance to have a go at things out of my comfort zone and things I normally wouldn't be able to do.

What did I find challenging?
I found coasteering hard because I was afraid to jump off the big rock even though I had support from my group. Another thing I found hard was the tramp to camp. It took a long time and because it was so hot it was really hard to do it. I am glad I did it though because the views were amazing.

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Comment question: Have you ever been on school camp if so where did you go?

Writing Instructions

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This week we had to pull out a country out of a hat and write instructions on how to do something from that country. I got Tonga and wrote instructions on how to draw the Tongan flag.
Here are my instructions!

How To Draw A Togan Flag

Today I will be giving you the steps to draw/make a togan flag. 

Materials:

Red Marker/Paint

White Marker/ Paint

Piece of  White A4 Paper

Ruler

Step 1: Take your Paper, Pencil and ruler

Step 2:Put your paper landscape way In the top left corner of your paper draw an 11cm horizontal line

Step 3: Now draw a 6cm line to the top of the page

Step 4: You should now have a rectangle in the top left corner of your paper

Step 5: In the rectangle draw a 2x2.5x2 cross

Step 6: Colour the cross in red

Step 7: Colour the rest of the rectangle in white

Step 8: colour the rest of the page in red

 THE END!

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Comment question: Can you try my instructions out?

Reading Create Task

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Today I will be sharing my RE task. We had two include some links. One of these links had to be an article about a country that we pulled out of a hat and the other one had to be about the book we read. Here is my task:

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Comment question: Can you guess what country I got?

PBL - Driving Question T3

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If you live in NZ I hope you had a good holidays. Today I will be sharing this terms PBL question. Our PBL question this term is: How can I celebrate who I am?

We unpacked the question and made some sub questions.  We talked about culture and where we come from. The way we will be displaying this is by making two objects. One could be anything such as food, a drama etc. The other one has to be something to do with music. 

 

That's all for today! See you next time

Comment question: How do you define culture? 

PBL Website

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Today I will be sharing my main artifact for PBL. We had to make a main artifact that would be the main thing we share. Mine is a website. My partner and I worked very hard on this website so feel free to visit it. The link will be below:
Website

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Comment question: Have you made a website?

PBL Sub Artifact

Welcome back. This term for PBL we have to make 2 sub artifacts for our PBL. My group made 3. Here is our smoothie recipe cards:

Feel free to try the recipe out!
Comment question: Do you like smoothies?

PBL Invite!

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Today I will be sharing my PBL invite! Here it is:

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PBL Planning

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As we get  closer to our PBL sharing day (2 weeks away!!!) we have started to focus more on PBL and what we are doing. My partner and I have decided we would make a start up company. We are going to be making foods that are based around the future as we imagine it in 30 years.  We are making 2 different foods. One is a smoothie and the other is a sandwich. Here is my planning doc:

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Comment question: What do you think the world will be like in 30 years?