Marvelous Ruapehu

Hi it's Miriam again, I hope you have hade a wonderful holiday over the summer? I know I have. 

Today I am going to tell you about my little holiday this week. Yesterday morning Mom, Dad, Nathan, Grammy and I drove from Taupo to Mount Ruapehu and settled down in the cozy hut that we were members of on the mountain. That night we watched the magical moments of the sun setting over the world. Mom took some photos of the the family and Dad didn't think that I was responsible enough to take photos with his high-tech camera. My Favorite photo is the one of me kissing Grammy on the cheek what is yours? 

Today we did the Tongariro Crossing up to the South Crater, which isn't actually a crater it is glacier valley surrounded by volcanoes which was formed 3,000 years ago. The valley was more like a large flat surface of very sharp volcanic stone that got spewed out of one of the volcanoes during an eruption. On the South Crater we could see people climbing Ngarahoe the volcanoe next to Tongariro.  On the top of the South Crater we saw some beautiful flowers called Gentiana. These are some of the photos that we took from on top of the Southern Crater and the photos from last night:

Culture Club Finale

Hi, it's Miriam here. Today I am going to tell you about our Culture Club Finale. This terms focus is Culture Club. Culture Club is when we learn about other people's culture like learning dances from that culture, creating art from that culture, doing plays about that culture, or just playing with people from another culture. For our Culture Club Finale we can ether go on our own or with a buddy. You have to choose a country and then do a report on it. We had to answer questions that we found on our class hub and put them into our presentation. This is mine and Sophies presentation on India. Me and Sophie did this together so we hope you enjoy!

Week 6 and 7 Word Work

Hi it's Miriam here. Today I am going to share with you my Word Work for Week 6 and 7. The learning behind our Word Work is reading an article on Kiwi Kids News, Dogo News or Tween Tribune and answering questions about that article in your own words.

An example question is: Who was the main person in this news article, when did this news article take place, why did the news article take place and rewrite this news article using your own words but those are just a few of the 12 questions you need to answer. Also along with all the questions you have to answer you have to do an activity about that news article the thing is, you have to do a different activity each week until you have done all of them then you can do the same one again. The activities are on a google that is on our class learner hub along with the questions we have to answer.

The activities are not art or drama activities they are activities that have you explain your learning, learn new words, write down what you think you know about the story, what you want to know about the story and what you learnt from the story as well as finding different articles in different categories with certain people in a certain place. Now I am going to show you my Week 6 and 7 Word Work. I hope you enjoy it.

My Word Work Helps Me With...

• Rewriting sentences in my own words
• Understanding what I am reading
• Rereading  
• Time management
• Knowing what is going on in the world
• Learning new things

         
Week 6 Word Work


Week 7 Word Work

Cafe Day

Hi, it's Miriam here. Today I am going to share with you some writing about our Cafe Day that we hosted a couple weeks ago for the elderly of Gisborne. The main reason that we had Cafe Day was because of our last terms focus Actions Speak Louder than Words. Actions Speak Louder than Words is instead of just saying something nice to somebody you would do something nice for them like bringing them a cup of coffee or helping them across the street, pushing their trolley/shopping cart in the supermarket so that they can get around much easier or getting something off the shelf. Even just something small like giving them a hug or pulling out a chair for them so that they can sit down can change someone's day from a bad one to a fantastic one. My learning from Cafe Day was that you can do anything you want if you just put your mind to it and not give up. So without further to do I will let you read my amazing writing about cafe day I hope you enjoy it:

Granville Island Vancouver, Canada

Hi again. Yesterday we went from Forks to Canada. When we got to Canada we did a little hike and dad fell over and tore some ligaments in his ankle. Today we got dad some crutches and athletic tape. After we did that we took a little boat to an island called  Granville Island  where there were lots of shops. We went to one place where it had lots of shops inside it. Me and Nathan walked around to all the shops and trying there taste testers. When it was time for lunch we walked around to see what our options were for lunch. I couldn't choose between a spanakopita or a bagel. Everybody else was getting bagels so I got the spanakopita. Dad took me to get the spanakopita while mum and Nathan waited in the log line fore there and dad's bagels. Then we went to Kids Market. After kids market we watched somebody blow glass. Then we went to a place and I got a gelato. The two flavors that I got were mango and raspberry. Over all it was an awesome day. 

Poem Inspired By James K Baxter

Hi, it's Miriam here. Today in my writing group we copied down our poems that we wrote last week that were inspired by James K Baxter a New Zealand poet that wrote the poem 'This Town'. When we wrote our poem inspired by James K Baxter we had to: Select a place where we want our poem to take place, pick 5 nouns related to the place, pick 5 strong verbs and then end it by saying "Doing nothing important." I hope that you like my poem I really enjoyed writing and reading the poem so I hope you do as well.

BEDMAS

Hi, this is a video on how you use BEDMAS.
BEDMAS stands for: Brackets, Exponents, Division,
Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction. But I better
not tell you any more before you watch the video.