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Sunday 25 June 2017

Butterflies are so beautiful!


Learning Intention: We are learning about ecology by studying about the living creatures in our school environment.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I display 6 facts about butterflies using thinglink.

Friday 23 June 2017

Wow! We are going to have a brand new deck at our school!







Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our observational skills.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use Pixton to describe my observations of the building of our school deck.

Thursday 22 June 2017

I can feed the hungry!



Leaning Intention: We are learning to develop the understanding of who Jesus is for me.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use screencastify to record a script of who Jesus is for me.

Wednesday 21 June 2017

Wow! I didn't know that ladybugs come from a phylum called Arthropoda?

Ladybugs come from the kingdom of Animalia. Their Phylum is Arthropoda and their class is insecta. The order of the ladybugs are called coleoptera. They belong to the family of coccinellidae.
Their common name is Ladybug, their scientific name is coccinellidae. They are found everywhere around the world.

They are carnivorous, which means that some creatures eat other creatures. There are 5,000 ladybugs species in the world.
Ladybugs live on leaves or in the bushes.

Ladybugs bleed when they are threatened. They also pretend to die, when they see their predators. Their predators are people, birds and spiders. They find their food by flying around and when they find food they go and get it before another ladybug gets it.

Image result for ladybugsSome ladybugs have different coloured spots but some of them don’t have any spots. Ladybugs are beetles they are not bugs. The “ Lady” in the ladybug refers to Virgin Mary. A ladybug’s bright colours, warns their predators to stay away from them. Ladybugs practise cannibalism and can eat up to 50 aphid a day.
Ladybugs lay their eggs on a leaf, the colour of the egg is yellow but as the egg matures, it turns white.
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Ladybugs are Insects that help our environment because they eat them so that are not attacking the plants and vegetation.

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I can follow the structure of a description: introduction, details and conclusion.



Monday 19 June 2017

I wonder where do spiders get their silk from?



Learning Intention: We are learning about ecology through using the Inquiry process to study about the living creatures in our school environment.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I ask eight key questions about the facts that I have found about spiders.

Sunday 18 June 2017

The geysers in Tonga shoots up so high!

On the 11th of May I left New Zealand to go to Tonga. When we arrived to the airport, it took a long time to check in because there were so many people in the queue.

After we went on the aeroplane, we had to find our seats. My dad, my cousin Dora, my aunty and my nana sat together. My cousin David and I sat together but then my nana came and sat with us and then my dad came and sat with us as well.


When we arrived in Tonga, I had to stamp my ticket, get my luggage and lolly bag. My uncles came to pick us up from the airport. My nana didn’t travel with us, she went with my other uncle so she could go to her brother’s house while my dad and I went to my dad’s nana’s house.It was really fun meeting my dad’s aunties and uncles because it was my first time meeting them.

The next day was Friday and I went with my aunty Eleni and my cousins Lily, Lita, Vi-vi, my aunty Eleni’s baby Moana and also my aunty Fitu to the market where my aunt bought us each a coconut and I drank some of the coconut water but then I gave it to my aunty Fitu to finish it all so I can  eat the meat. In Tonga some people crack coconuts open by throwing it on the floor.

Image result for tongaThen we went to visit my dad’s aunty Ana and she had a lot of boys. When we got there Lily was crying because she thought her older sisters stole her socks but she had it the whole time. When we got home my dad took me for a little walk and we saw a school and a mango tree. The mangoes were nice and ripe.
The following week we went for a little tour all over Tonga. Our first stop was to the geysers. In Tonga we call geysers blow holes because their are little holes that blows out water that are on the edge of the ocean. We are not allowed to to swim in there because if you jump in you will drown and die because it’s really deep. Then we searched for a beach and I fell asleep while they were searching for one. When they found a beach, when I woke up my family have already had a swim  and they were changed back into dry clothes.
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Then we went to a village in Tonga called Ha’atafu. It was a very small village. We went there because it was the last village that we hadn’t had a chance to visit yet. After that we went to another beach in Ha’atafu. It had a beautiful view of the ocean.


I liked all of the places in Tonga that I visited because I saw many things that I haven’t seen before.
Learning intention: We are learning to add more details in my writing.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write the introduction, followed by the events and conclusion about my trip to Tonga.

Tuesday 13 June 2017

Do you know if ladybugs can survive in winter?


Learning Intention: We are learning about ecology through the Inquiry process of studying about the living creatures in our school environment.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I ask six key questions about ladybugs from the information that I have gathered.

Monday 12 June 2017

Oh no! There was an attack!


Learning Intention: We are learning to identify key information from a piece of text..
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I answer comprehension questions correctly using  information from the article "Attack at Ariana Grande Manchester concert".

Sunday 11 June 2017

Wow! They are beetles, I thought they were bugs!



Learning Intention: We are learning about ecology by studying the living creatures in our school environment.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I can find eight facts about ladybugs.

Thursday 8 June 2017

Those emojis are so cool!



Learning Intention: We are learning to develop my critical thinking skills by answering the thinking questions.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I answer the thinking questions about the article 'Twitter adds all 69 new emojis' using information from the article.