Writing workshop

Writing Workshop

Today, just like any Tuesday, I had a writing workshop.  Whenever I go to a writing workshop I alway think I will learn something,but I never do.  When I leave a writing workshop I think that I will learn something next time, but I never do.  Today we were learning about using different sentence structures for effect. By looking at other peoples faces,I could tell some of them knew that it is putting in commas and finding things that make the sentence a compound sentence. It is also finding a way to make a long sentence to a simple sentence that makes sense,we learned that  some sentences can only be made to a shorter sentence that make sense if you  use  different places in the sentence put together. 

The teacher explained what it was and gave as a worksheet.  The worksheet was titled, 'Your turn'.  I could tell that we were going to find the commas and that stuff by ourselves on this worksheet.  Before the teacher said go I started to work as fast as I could.  I was done before so many people because I didn't listen to the teachers talk about each question.  Again,I left the writing workshop thinking I will learn something next time, so I have just got to wait and see.  

Even though I always know what to do every single time that I come down,it is sort of fun. Bye, thanks for reading my blog.

Math Number

Math number 

On Wednesday and Thursday,I have Number.  In Moana Learning Hub,we do 2 types of math. One is called Number and the other is Strand.  Today I will be telling you about what I do in number.

 In number you do things like times tables and division but in strand you do thing like telling the time,using calendars and patterns.  Today I finished my reading workshop and got out my math book.  The teacher had a slide up of something we did a couple of weeks ago.  'Koka Rosie,we have already done this in Koka Pips workshop.' We said.  She found something different for us to do and it was one of my favourite skills. Division.  There we 8 questions on the board and I started to answer immediately.  The hardest question on the board was 48 divided by 8 =6. That was not that hard for me because I knew the 6 times 8 =48 so that is how I got my anwer.

I finished all the questions in no time and soon enough we were finding out the answers.  I all along threw the workshop knew my times tables so all along knew my division.  Every question on my paper had a tick on it.  Even though I was not surprised I got them all right I was still pretty proud of myself.  

That is what we do in number workshops,thanks for reading.

Action Day

Action Day

It was the 2nd of June when I was late to action day which I was not pleased about.  When I arrived at school for action day, everyone was doing different  stuff. I had no idea what to do because just as I said I was late. I did not think I would miss out on so much action but the people at the beach arrived and I said 'I was late' I joined the beach group and counted the rubbish that the group I chose to join had collected. They got so much rubbish!!!  When we got in from morning tea the teacher said most of us left there mess and disqualified some teams from the competition. Oh did I forget to tell you it was a competition. It was, and the winner got a japanese prize.  I could not win the prize if my team won because I did not collect the rubbish, but I had hoped that the rest of my team would win it instead. 

We started to cleanup our messes. When we were finished ,we went outside to play games and have a game of touch rugby.  A few girls and I played some tag ,our own game of touch rugby and then until lunch we talked about what type of school we want to go to after Wainui Beach. At lunch I had hockey practice. It was good because it seemed so fast.

After lunch we listened to our shared book. After a few chapters of shared book the teacher explained about take 3 for the sea posters that we would do.  We were let off to get started and my one looks amazing. (It only has a background.)

B Grade Gymnastics Festival

 B Grade Gymnastics Festival 

Yesterday  the B grade gymnastics team went to the gymnastics festival.  The day started off normal until my friends came up to me to said "we had to go to the school hall to get our leotards on".  First, we sat down and talked about what cars we were going to travel in to the Gisborne Gymnastics Club and who was doing rhythmic gymnastics.  I was in my Mums car with my sister and some girls  from my class.  We only had girls in the car because the boys did the festival way before us.  When we had gotten dressed we lined up behind the person who drove us to the festival. 

 Finally we had arrived at the GYM Club.  We lined up at different events that we thought  we needed to practice before we performed.  I chose beam and box.  Box is actually the vault but since we are younger it is called box. It was time to line up and get into our rotation  groups that I do not think are necessary because Wainui Beach School was together for the whole festival.  I had done the festival before in C grade but for some reason I was way more nervous this time.  All of a sudden   the teacher said "walk in, your going to start". The man announced our school and we sat down in front of the floor.  I watched and saw everyone else's score get  higher. I got the more nerves .  The person in front of me had faced the judges to say she was finished witch meant it was my turn!  I stood up and started my routine. I could hear my mum cheering which  made me almost muck up.  I had done it! When I sat down I was so eager to see my score. My score was a eight which is a pretty good score if you did not know that.  After seeing my score the other events were pretty easy.  Even though I made a few mistakes I still had a great time.      

       

Code Cracking.

 Code Cracking

This term moana syndicate is trying something called code cracking.  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and thursday after Morning tea, we will go to a different class to learn a whole heap of new sounds.   We will be tested in week five to see if we need to move up a list.  In my group we are learning, long e, short e and the long a. I know all of these sounds but I am learning how to use them to make my sentences better and more interesting. 

My favourite part of code cracking is when we make sentences with the picture dice.  How we do it is we get a dice that has pictures and role it. The picture that it lands on you have to write a sentence about that picture using the sound we are learning.  Another thing I like is when we get creative and make our own sentence with our own subject and our own words.  The teacher tests us on our sounds that we are learning each week but the test in week five will be everything we have learnt. 

After morning tea each day this week I have raced to class so that I will not be late and I never am. Right now I am list 4 but is I pass I will be list five.  I love code cracking and hope we do it every year so that my brothers can do it as well.  If not then the will just miss out but if they do lucky for them.  

      

 

The strikers will always win

 

Strikers will always win

back to school 2021

Back To School 2021

Getting to school

When I started school in 2021 I felt really scared. I didn't  want to start a new year. Most of my friends are in room 3 or room 4. I would have to meet new friends.   

Our pepeha

 

In week two we walked our pepeha.  The photo below is what it looks like.

Wainui beach school pepeha

                                            

What is a pepeha?

  A pepeha is a group of things that you are close to.  That mostly includes the closest mountain,river and mare. It hast to be in the place we live, New Zealand .  My family comes from America but does not really have a pepeha. Now we live in New Zealand and our pepeha is the same as the schools.

 

Hamanatua

The first place we walked to was our stream Hamanatua.  Here are some pictures of the beach by the stream where we played.We had some discovery down by the stream and had a snack.  When we walked back my friends and I talked about the amazing things we did and how much fun we had.

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Maungaroa

Next we walked up Maungaroa, our mountain.  It was long and made me very tired.  So much pain in your legs, it's just like writing but instead of your hand hurting its your legs. Trust me,you do not want to climb that mountain.(It would be way more fun if the mountain had snow or an escalator) We walked there on the road and walked most of the way back on the beach. What a boring day, kind of.

Te poho o rawiri

In week three we rode the bus to te poho o rawiri, our marae.  I want to make it clear that we did not walk there, we drove on a bus.  We heard many stories about the te poho o rawiri's past. What fun everyone had.

 

plain old weeks

We had swimming sports, and finally we are  back at school. Doing all the great things.  Things that are way more exciting, like math,reading and writing. Back at school I can relax while doing all the good work that we missed out on. If you do not like school work do not come to Wainui Beach School.

 

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