Minecraft Adventure

Today we are learning how to use a google form. We used google forms to create a multi-choice story with multiple routes.

Please let me know if this story painted pictures in your head of what has been happening in the route you chose. 

Alarm Call

We have been describing a picture of an enormous monster and a teeny tiny kitten. I created a story

"Meow!" The adorable kitten sleeps peacefully on its pink, dotty cushion. The kitten had been playing around with its bouncy balls and is very worn out. While the kitten is sleeping a disgusting, nasty monster creeps up on it trying to plan on how to scare it.

The monster's skin was pale green and it had a white, hairy beard. The monster also had some pink warts scattered in random places on its body. The intimidating monster had gross, sharp, moldy nails that could cut open a paper bag.

The cute, irresistible kitten was as white as snow and was as fluffy as a sheep's wool. Around the tiny kitten were some miniature, bouncy balls that the kitten had been playing with. After the kitten was playing it decided to take a long nap.

But suddenly while the small, defenseless kitten is sleeping and the giant, destructive monster creeped up on the kitten and… They switched roles! The kitten became the enormous, menacing monster and the monster became the tiny, off-guard kitten!

After the kitten had scared off the monster, it never came back ever again. The End

By Sam M

Te Manu Tukutuku Poem

Te Manu Tukutuku Poem

When I walked into the new location of our school I saw no litter at all. I could also see lots of colours in the syndicate spaces. I went to go see the playground, I saw some new and fun attractions to play on.

When I was playing on the playground I heard a small group of other kids playing basketball. The rest of the school were talking to their friends and playing games with them. When the bell went off instead of it ringing the teachers replaced it with Pharrell William’s song ‘Happy’.

I went to my syndicate space and I could smell a small scent of paint.

I could smell fresh, clean air when I got into my syndicate space.

I felt the soft, cosy carpet that was so fluffy I could lie down there and peacefully do my independent work. The floor was as furry as a cat's fur. When I stepped foot into one of the breakout spaces I sat down on

the fuzzy, blue, cafe-like couches, those couches were so fuzzy and comfortable that I could sleep on one of them.

At first when I got to the new school, I was excited, sad, nervous. The reason why I was a little sad was because I would never go back to the old school again. I was also nervous since we were starting at a new school and I might not remember what to do. At the same time I was excited that there were lots of new stuff at the new school.

By Sam M

Stormy Night

This term in Punui-o-toka we have been learning about weather. In art I created a stormy night picture. 

First I dyed my piece of paper with Black starting from the top, so with my dye I used it left to right then right to left, as I did that when I got to the other side I went down a level with my dye. When I was half way I started using Dark Blue for the rest. I didn't get to use Light blue sadly. Second I made a silhouette for shadows of some buildings out of Black paper. Third I dabbed some Black paint for a storm cloud. Fourth I used White paint to create lightning bolts.

Severe Weather

Last week from now Mrs McGuinnetty's Literacy class in Punui-o-toka have been learning about Severe Weather. We chose if we wanted to do a movie, screencastify, slideshow, drawing or a document. I chose a slideshow because its just like a drawing but it has more space to work with. 

Animal Description

In Literacy I am learning about Antarctic Animals. I went to the Antarctic Center for a school trip. In Literacy I researched about Emperor Penguins. I wrote a description about them using all my research. I used the correct structure of a description. It has an Introduction, Characteristics and an Evaluation. I used a hook to make people want to read to the end and I used some adjectives.

Chirp Chirp! Do you really want to know some awesome facts about penguins? There are many types of penguins such as an Emperor Penguin. A Penguin is a type of bird.

An Emperor Penguin is very colourful, they have four colours. The colours of an Emperor Penguin are Black, White, Yellow and Orange. The Emperor Penguins are the tallest Penguins in the world(Four feet tall).

Emperor Penguins eat Krill, fish, squid and crustaceans. I think a crustacean is some sort of crab. A fish is mostly a penguin’s main prey. All Penguins have such spiky tongues that even slippery fish can’t escape.

Emperor Penguins have a big layer of blubber to keep them warm. Like all Penguins they have several feathers on their bodys. Most Emperor Penguins huddle up together to keep eachother warm.

Emperor Penguins are my favorite penguin because of how tall and how colourful they are.

Antarctica Description

In Literacy I am learning about Antarctica. I went to the Antarctic Center for a school trip. In Literacy I researched all about Antarctica. I wrote a description about Antarctica using all my research. I used the correct structure of a description. It has an Introduction, Characteristics and an Evaluation. I used a hook to make people want to read to the end and some adjectives.

F-F-F-Freezing! Ch-Ch-Chilly! I-I-Icy. Did you know that Antarctica has the most of Earth’s snow and ice?(90%) You should know that Antarctica is one of the seven continents on Earth.

Antarctica is the only place where the South Pole is located just like the North Pole is only located in the Arctic. Russia was the first country to discover Antarctica, this happened in the 1820’s. America was the first country to step foot on Antarctica.

The weather in Antarctica is the coldest weather on Earth. This might blow your mind, but Antarctica is actually a desert because it doesn’t rain at all! Antarctica’s coldest area is the South Pole.

Antarctica is twice as big as Australia. Also Antarctica is twenty-five percent(25%) bigger the Europe. Antarctica is as freezing as my freezer. It’s as windy as Autumn. Antarctica has some of the most highest places with lots of ice shelves, icebergs and ginormous, snowy mountains.

I really feel like Antarctica is one of the last places I would want to go to because I don’t think I will be able to survive there.

That Was Summer

Last week we learnt about adjectives.

We also made a poem about summer.