Sponge Throw

Walt: In this task we were asked to write a successful recount.

Have you ever got the chance to get your teacher soaking wet?

Well this morning I certainly didn’t expect to be throwing freezing cold sponges at my teacher.
This was so exciting and at the end Mr Goodwin’s face ( Mr G ) was red from the hard slaps of sponge.
If you want to find out what happened read on.

On a normal school morning Mr G told us we were going to be having a lot of fun. He explained our
instructions and told us that we were walking down to the field. As we were walking he was holding
flippers, scuba gear and big fat googles. It made me think would he be swimming somewhere, but then
where would he swim. After a long walk to the field it was already boiling hot but you won’t believe what
we saw. Mr Sommerville ( Mr S ) and Mr J were all geared up with smiles on there face, and it didn’t
look good for the teachers one bit.

Firstly we got told our instructions and what the game was called. The name of the game was target
your teacher. We had to throw freezing cold sponges at our teacher so they could get as soaked as
possible. Than the fun began. Mr S said “executioners ( us ) are you ready”. We said yes than hard
chilly sponges went flying in the air and smacking our teachers. Loseti dipped his sponge in the freezing
water, then he chucked it so hard it hit Mr G’s face and made it red the entire time, but that’s not it the
story get worse.

Paschal was so excited to target Mr G that when he threw the sponge it hit a part of Mr G, that you
don’t want to know about. The game paused for a couple minutes, and everyone was laughing and
cheering Paschal on, because it was just so hilarious. Finally the game continued and it was my turn.
I looked Mr G in the eye and said I’m going to get you so bad. So I dipped the sponge in the cold Ice
water, aimed at my target and fired with all my strength that I hit his stomach so hard he was sore the
rest of the time. I wasn’t finished yet I grabbed the wet sponge and rubbed it all over his face so that he
could have a nice freezing cold wash.

After all of that our exciting fun time had ended and it was prizegiving. Three students got chose to
get there bucket and tip it all over their teachers head. Our winners were Chance, Loseti and
Paschal of course. They were all amazed when they got chosen and one by one they each tipped
the Ice cold water over Mr G’s head. He was soaked compared to the other teachers.

I had such a fun time with my friends. I recommend your class should do this activity to because
you will build a lot of friendships like we did. That activity was so fun and I wished it had never end.

Task description:
In this task room 7 had to create a successful piece of writing. Our writing Included us throwing freezing
cold sponges at our teachers so it could hit them as hard as possible. This was really fun when we
did it.

Here's a video from the day.

Silver decimal problem

Walt:use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problem

Task description:
In this task room 7 had to solve this tricky silver decimal problem. We did this same task last week but Mr Goodwin made it different so it would be harder for us. This was way harder than last week but I still finished it in one day.

Decimal Bronze medal

Walt: use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problem

Task description:
In this task room 7 had to complete a decimal chart. This was written in words so some people had trouble with solving it. This was a bronze medal task so it was the easiest task for us.

Tricky decimal Gold medal problem

Walt: use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems.


Task description:
In this task room 7 had to complete a tricky decimal problem presentation. We had to use add don't subtract for a lot of our tricky decimal problems to solve them. This was a bit hard for most of us but we all worked together to complete it.

Decimal Silver medal

Walt: use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems.


Task description:
In this task room 7 had to complete a decimal problem presentation. This was a silver medal problem, so it was a bit hard. Some of us struggled with this presentation so we all helped each other to get it done.

(Term 4) My Goals and expectations

Walt: use correct sentences to help structure our writing.

The school holidays are over and I’m really sad, but on the bright side I get to come to school and see my friends. I also get to share my work with everybody. The amazing theme for this term is Te Wa Toi and it’s all about what different kinds of art there are. I am really bad at art so I’m a bit excited to improve my art.

This term is so exciting because we are learning about what types of art we can use. Some other exciting things happening are The Manaiakalani Film Festival and Athletics. I am really excited because I can’t wait to see all the cool movies, and run my hard out at Athletics. Another exciting event happening this term is year 6 camp. I can’t wait to have a fun time with my friends.

One of my goals this term will be becoming a year 6 camp leader. If I want to become a camp Leader I have to step up and take leadership in everything I do. Another one of my goals is becoming sports women of the year. I want to become sports women of the year because I look up at my role models who are achieving so much in sports. My role models are my uncle and aunty who both represent the wallabies in rugby and the black ferns.

What I want to learn this term is about why art cost so much money and what’s the story behind that. The reason why I want to learn about that is because the Mona Lisa costs $ 810 million dollars and it’s not even worth that much. Another big thing I want to learn about is calligraphy writing. I want to learn how to hand write like that because I’m a bad hand writer and I want to improve on my hand writing skills.

Te Wa Toi will be a great term because I am excited for the exciting upcoming events. There’s a lot on this term with events like the Manaiakalani film festival, Year 6 camp and prize giving, so I can’t wait for that and to accomplish my goals I have set for myself. Overall this could be the best term I’ve ever had because of all the exciting events, and I can’t wait to blog about all these cool things.

Task description:
In this task room 7 had to write about the new term and what our amazing goals were going to be. We all had a big lesson on how to write a proper conclusion with Mr Goodwin. I thought this task was really fun, because we got to learn how to write a proper conclusion, and I also got to share my Goals and expectations to everyone. I enjoyed this task a lot and I hope we get to do this task again.

Bronze Medal Decimal place value

Walt: use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems.


Task description: In this task room 7 had to use a decimal chart and turn written decimals into number decimals. This task was easy for me but not for others so I helped them to get it right. This task was all about solving decimals.

Takeaway shop Gold

Walt: use subtraction strategies to solve tricky problems.

Task description: In this task room 7 had to use the strategies that we already knew and solve the tricky subtraction and addition problems. Most of the questions were hard for all of us so some of us got in pairs to solve the questions out.

Takeaway Shop Subtraction Silver

Walt: use subtraction strategies to solve tricky problems.


Task description: In this task room 7 had to solve tricky subtraction questions with different types of strategies. This was really hard but most of us worked in buddies to complete this task together. If you want to see my learning read the presentation.

Healthy Advice for everyone

Task description: In this task room 7 had to create a healthy advice column. We also had to write to the famous Julian Dennison about what calories are, what they are used for and what's the best way used to burn calories.

Who Gets Invited? Bronze Task

Walt:  solve problems using Ratios


Task description: In this task room 7 had to sort multiples of different numbers into the right group. The numbers included multiples of 5, 4 and 7. If you want to see my learning read the presentation.

One day on the beach

Walt: Consider multiple perspectives when reading the text.


Task description: In this task room 7 had to use screen cast to read our book. My Book was named One day on the beach. I then wrote my review and explained what it was about, what I liked and what I learnt.

Rubbish pick up

This morning room seven went out to do something really fun that included rubbish. The best part is we’re helping our school, our area and our community. If you want to find out more read on.

In the beginning we all went out onto the reserve, as a small tight bunch. As we were walking I could feel the freezing cold breeze, flowing towards me. After quite a walk we finally made it to the reserve, and Mr Goodwin ( Mr G ) told us to get into five groups of five. After awhile of sorting kids into their groups, Mr G finally told us what we were about to do. He held up rubbish bags and said “you will be having a competition to see who can pick up the most rubbish out of every team, also the winners prize is ten minutes of something cool”. We were all so excited because we knew what the cool prize was.

Finally it was competition time. We had a lot of boundaries that we had to stay inside of, but that didn’t hold us back from trying to find every single piece of rubbish that we saw. Mr G blew his whistle and everyone raced to this one spot where there was so much rubbish. After that there were many more rounds, than it came to the last round in our own school on the field. We all saw lot’s of yucky rubbish around us, but we knew it was for a good cause. Mr G said “ On your marks, Get set, Go!!!” and we all dashed to the furthest corner, raced to where we could see the most rubbish and we even looked in the class bushes.

We all had to come in and find out who the winners were. I had no hope that my team was going to be the winners, after I saw Toby’s team’s rubbish bag. It was filled up to half way, but if they had a jandle in their bag they would’ve been disqualified from the competition. Than we all lined up in our teams sitting down, and Haare checked the bags. She said she wasn’t quite sure at first because all the bags were so full, so she went for the last bag check. Then she said the winning team is Toby’s team.

Overall even though my friends and I didn’t win I still was proud of all of us because we picked up so much rubbish. We also did it for a great cause to help our school, and our community. I would really like to do this again because it would help our area get cleaner and cleaner.

Task description: In this task room 7 had to write about our experience with picking up rubbish. We went around our area to pick up rubbish and the winning team got a prize.

Write the scene

Walt: think about dialogue between characters


Task description: In this task room 7 had to write in the boxes a
conversation between two people. Read my presentation
to find out what I did for my conversations.

Family fact of 6

Walt: solve problems with multiple elements.

Exercise Wise

Walt: find relevant information in the text.

Task description: In this task room 7 had to create a poster about why
exercise is wise. I explained What I do to stay active, Ways I can stay
flexible and why exercise is wise.

Parking meter

Walt:build a stronger knowledge base around time.


Task description: In this task room seven had to calculate and see what time
the parking meter would expire. Read my presentation to see what happens.

Immersion Assembly writing

As soon as my class walked into the hall my face just lit up with joy. There were teachers

wearing silly costumes, wacky wigs and other sorts of weird things. Has your school ever
had an Immersion assembly?

Our school theme for this term is called Move Ya Body. I think this term’s theme is all about
being active. What being active means to me is dancing, staying fit and going for daily runs
each and every day. Ways to move ya body could mean eating healthy meals so you get all the
nutrition you need, keeping hydrated so drinking water everyday and also you could do a
workout to stay active.

Team 4’s topic is all about being active but having amazing fun at the same time. To stay
active we will be creating amazing fun games all together. The movie that our team 4 teachers
created was really amusing to me but first when the movie started I didn’t quite get it. Until
the movie got was about to end I finally got what we were learning about.

What I hope to do this term is to play sport at least 3 times a week at school. The reason
why I want to do this activity is because it fits in with our school wide theme Move Ya Body.
Sport will also helps our bodies to get exercise. At the same time we will be staying active
while we are playing sports.

Overall I think that this term will be a great term for everyone in our school. We will not only
be learning about our bodies and how we can eat healthy but we will still be staying active
and always getting some exercise.

Walt: using exciting language.

Task description: In this task room seven had to write about our time at Immersion Assembly. We also had to explain what we are learning about this term in team 4.

Reading task

Walt: find relevant information in the text.


Task description: In this task room 7 had to read the text and then Answer
what Mr Goodwin had to say. Some of the questions were Is this person
getting enough sleep and Do you think this person is getting enough
exercise.

A Thousand seconds Gold 1

Walt:  build a stronger knowledge base around time.
Task description: This task was all about calculating the time to see
what time you would get. This was a really hard presentation. See what I do.