Rebus Puzzles

Kia Ora,
We started doing rebus puzzles in the morning before we started reading. Our teacher said it is to get our brains working in a fun way. Initially, we were all just like, “What does that even mean?”

Now we have been doing it for a few weeks to show you how much better we are I am sharing 9 puzzles to start with remember we hadn’t done them before we were lucky to solve 3 while we waited for the extra Chromebooks to arrive, now we can do at least 9, sometimes more.

What do you think of these, write your answers in the comments.

 

Hatchet Ponder 7

Kia Ora,

The Ponder this week is whether we would rather starve or dehydrate.

I would rather be suffering from dehydration because you can get water and liquid from food. If you don’t eat you can get liver cancer. You will die faster because you are dehydrated. I would rather die faster than slower.

What would you prefer and why?

Favourite Books

Kia Ora, we have had a big focus on Reading and what we like to read. We did a survey and discussed the results. Each week we read silently, in fact, we had time nearly every day. The teacher tries to out loud at least 4 times a week too. That book this term is Hatchet and that is why our ponder is based on a book. – See the post 2 back.

This week we had to pick our current favourite book of all time, take a photo of the book and us, and add it to a class set of slides. Then we have to sell the book to others. Talk about why we think it is the best book EVER! (They are also printed and up on our wall just outside our class so the class next door can see what we recommend as great books.)

Check out our Favourite Books –

What is your favourite book? Why?

Idioms Week 4

In reading time one of our tasks is learning about idioms. My favourite idioms from this week is ‘In the driver’s seat’ – it means to be in charge.

 

Our idioms page starts like this –

Then we complete the idioms and find the meaning of at least 5.

When we have done that we have to highlight one we know and could use in our writing and one blue that we didn’t know that we might use in our writing.

 

In our class, the teacher is the top banana and calls the shots, although some of the children would like to try to be and end up playing second fiddle.

Can you see which idioms I have used?

Have you tried using idioms in your writing to make it more show and not tell?

Hatchet Ponder 1

If Brian survives the plane crash, guessing by the book size he does. He could use the Hatchet he has to survive, use the Hatchet to cut down trees, that doesn’t take much skill, just knowing where it’ll fall. Guessing how slow trees fall, it also matters on his reaction time. If the tree would head in his direction. Yes, reaction time would matter. He can also use the Hatchet to hunt, bears are pretty hard. Smaller animals could work. But there aren’t many other meat sources in the forest. I’d reckon he’d try to find a river, lake, or ocean nearby. If he survives walking around the forest. With the Hatchet, he’d be fine. At night it would probably get a little harder. So it would also depend on his hearing. Bears footsteps or any other animal other than animals of the Felidae species. But it’s uncommon for tigers or lions to be in a forest. Unless it’s on a mountain. Which is a problem. But in the book, it doesn’t say the trees are on a mountain. But it also didn’t say the ground was flat. So the crash would not be good. He could also be injured from the actual crash. So it would be a miracle if the arm he uses to swing the hatchet would work. That could or will slow him down but I’m guessing he would be fine. The temporary or permanent shelter could be the plane itself if it doesn’t get inhabited by something else. Like another animal or small insect. Or a virus. Which could cause a big problem. But a plane also has necessary needs in case of a crash. Like a flare. But we don’t know where Brian is. Let alone how far he is from a city. But it could work out. So this is why, I believe Brian would survive the plane crash. – Rizwan

Our Whole Class Thinks! What is Media?

WALT understand what media is and how it impacts our lives.

Media can either help us or destroy us! There are positive and negative impacts of Media on our lives and these are some of the discussion points we spoke about. Media is a form of communication using several ways to either find information or to provide something, like a service.

The Media is full of truth and lies because we never know if its true or not. So search the internet and ensure that the sources they have are valid. The most trustworthy information you can get is possibly from the libraries and in books because you can’t change the information in the books.

Of course, we will still need to validate what is written in these books.

Media can come in all kinds of ways;

Photo sourced from: University of Minnesota Libraries.

In the Media recently, we have heard a lot about ‘The Elections”. This means we heard about who was going to be the next Prime Minister of New Zealand and which government party would be leading our country. Some of the debates and information didn’t really make sense to me, but I know I will need to take an interest in this soon. In some Media posts we read, there were some negative comments about the different leaders of the parties.

 

Skills Time

We learned how to create a piece of instrumental beats using ‘Drumbit‘.

Follow our individual blogs to show how it works.

Tyson Reo Kupu

Todays cybersmart session we made this at first i didnt understand why we are getting a image but after understood we did this on Google slides i like how it makes the word look nice and contrasted so i really enjoyed doing this activity you could add any image u want like the sea ,the sun anything

Confidence!

Kia Ora!

WALT: Create an outfit based on Matariki out of recycled goods

 

Today we have added and taken away some things from our priorities and progress because some of our items for the Trash to Fashion outfit is just almost complete, because the main thing we have been working on for Friday is the speech and presentation we have to do. We have to explain a story about the star we chose. We also have to explain and show all the progress we have been doing for the past few weeks, the speech is supposed to tell others about the challenges we have been going through during this project. Our star that we have based our outfit on is Tupuarangi. Here is some of the progress we have made!

 

What Do Science Help To Stay Tupu a Nuku Aive

 

Today I was searching: what does science help Tupu a Nuku alive? What does science help Tupu a Nuku be alive? Science help Tupu a Nuku be alive 

Is by keeping this soil clean keep out rubbish from soil out and keep the dirt  fresh.This is facts to keep the dirt fresh

Test your soil.

Add organic matter.Incorporate compost to compacted soil to increase air, water and nutrients for plants.Protect topsoil with mulch or cover crops.Don’t use chemicals unless there’s no alternative.Rotate crops.