Year: 2024

This week is Samoan language week. When have been learning simple greetings. Here is a link to my work

Kia Ora

For Action Stations  I have been learning Dance

The first week we learned a hip hop dance to  7 rings by Ariana Grande. I found this difficult remembering the steps

I  enjoyed it because I like learning new steps.

The second dance we learned was a folk dance called Heel and Toe Polka. What I found difficult was keeping in time and my legs were getting sore

What I enjoyed was being able to have a break and being able to carry on dancing when I was ready.

From Dante

First I got on the bus and went to Te Aratai Technology Centre.  This term I am cooking.

Today we made pizzas. We used burger buns for the base. First we put tomato sauce on it and then I grated the cheese

I cut the mushroom and capsicum into pieces. I had salami and ham too. When everything was cut up I put it on the pizza bases. Next Bella May put the pizzas in the oven. It was in the oven for 10 minutes.

My job was drying the dishes. And then we had our pizzas

Today I went to dance. We learnt a hip hop dance. We watched a video. There was a man showing us the dance moves.

I was copying the dance moves I followed the instructions I found it easy but I got tired

At the end the next one was called. Just Dance 2021 I remembered this dance when we did it in my class.

I enjoyed it  because it’s cool to dance.

From Dante

Today we learnt about changes of state.

A solid becomes a liquid when it is heated with gas.

On Friday afternoons, we do Action Stations. This term, I chose to make Dragon Eyes.

First, we read some descriptions of dragons and identified their characteristics.

Then we completed a planning sheet, considering what we wanted our dragon to be like. We thought about personality, colour and features.

I decided I wanted my dragon to be a boy who lives in the mountains.  He is a nice friendly dragon. He is enormous with blue scales and orange eyes.

After, we used the clay. I smoothed it out and I molded it into an eye shape. 

I pinched the clay around the eye to make it stand up. I rolled little bits to make eye lashes. I pushed my finger into the clay to make dents along the bottom of the eye.

Finally, we painted them. 

 

I have been learning to write to persuade to convince my point of view

 

Doesn’t everyone know that smoking is bad.

It can make you very sick. 1 in 5 NZders die from smoking every year. It can make your asthma worse because you can’t breathe. The fact is that smoking causes pollution.

Cigarette butts take years to break down and are full of toxins.

Most people would agree that smoking is bad 

because it smells. Your clothes, your hair, your house, food and your car.

Most people would agree that freedom of choice is 

important because living with clean air is better than  second hand smoke from a smoker.

So smoking is bad for you and you shouldn’t start smoking.