cool quick write

The king's bite

Dear mum and dad this is my cool quick write.

This has a lot of good information about lions

that could possibly save your life.

I am sharing this piece of learning with you

because you might think well it's

one in a million
that ill get attacked by a lion but you could be that one

and I don't ever want that to happen.

You may say that the lion is just a big cat

But don’t underestimate the power of

It's teeth. Its tongue isn’t made for licking people

Truth be told that a lion's tongue is made for Licking meat off an unlucky prey/hunter.

Lions teeth can be up to 10 centimeters in length, you might think that's small but think

About a 10-centimeter tooth lodged in your arm.

Just like a panther they only attack if they are being attacked first.

Also if something is roaming in their territory.

You might think “what's it like to be attacked by a lion”.

The first thing to know about surviving a lion attack is to not run. ... Lions that are feeling
threatened will swish their tails back and forth, much like your cat does. Lions that are
hunting try to stay as still as possible, holding their tails rigid. If a lion is hunting you.

Well, let's just say it's very unlucky for you.

Camp Makahika

Camp Makahika

Camp is the only place where being considered weird is a good thing.

Dear Mum and Dad this is my Camp Makahika learning story.
I am sharing this with you because you've both asked me
the experience about Camp Makahika and I haven't properly
explained so hopefully after you read this, all of your
questions will be answered.



Orienteering
Dear mum and dad, on the first day at Camp Makahika we did some orienteering.

This was a really hard activity to do because
we were in the bush and didn’t
know where we were. Oh, and did I mention me and my partner got lost for quite a bit.

Finally, after being lost in the bush, I would say in 15/20 minutes one of our amazing teacher
aides came and found us. As much as I love the bush I wouldn't want to be trapped in the bush
whatsoever.

My Key Competency was Thinking. I had to think of a strategy
to get us out of the bush without getting
ourselves even more deeply in the bush.
Something that challenged me was going inside the bush because
I would think whilst go in the bush that it would be easy but actually, it was pretty challenging
because it wasn't only two people going into the bush it was also, two people going into the bush
and having to navigate our a way to number to the number.
My next step is to remember the skills that I learned at camp
so if I'm in a situation like getting lost in the bush,
I know that you stay where you are and yell for help
because if you keep moving you could get even more lost in the bush
and getting more lost is not helping yourself.

High beam and low beam

Climbing up the high beam I learned that I am not a person that likes to put themselves out there and I also learned that I am not an adrenaline lover. I would even say that I’m most likely not ever going to go 5 feet off the ground ever again.

In this activity, my Key Competencies were participating and contributing because I took a lot of risks doing this activity even
though it was hard. Another one was participating in the activity because this was so hard for me to climb up all those handles. It was so hard for me I only went halfway and I regret that.

The most significant learning in the challenge was learning about myself. I learned as soon as I got back on the ground that I was never doing anything like that ever again. I also learned that sometimes I need to think about the challenges in an activity because it might be more challenging than it looks.

My next steps are to know that if I ever get to have an opportunity like this is to take

it and ace it because I do regret not doing the whole high beam.

Susana's book talk

Dear Mum and Dad this is my book talk.
I want to show this with you because
I think doing the book talks
in the library was pretty important
for my learning and I want to show
you also since I'm a librarian I
think it's important to know

how to express emotion through
movement.

I want to share this piece of learning with you because learning how to express emotion
through a piece of text is challenging and in this snapshot of learning,

I was learning how to do that.

Every Monday Room 12 goes into the library to do a book talk. A book talk is when you
read a book and you use your voice to entertain the listeners. also using a lot of movement
and changing in your voice can make the listener more entertained. Also in a book talk using
a lot of expressions and movement is good for the readers not to get bored. The learning I've
found out doing the book talk so far is yeah you can read a book normal to a group of kids but
to really get the kids involved and really excited about reading using different voices for different

characters and maybe if it says "we were walking through mud" you can maybe use the
motions of your legs to represent that also if you really want the kids to really love reading
stand up so your voice is heard more and don't hold back if it has exclamation marks. If you
really want the kids to be engaged don't hold back on anything in reading if you think you
should shout a word out do it.


my next steps are to not puff myself on just one piece of text
I need to remember that it's not only one piece text
that I am reading.
My key competencies were participating and contributing
because at the start of the lessons I wasn't keen on
putting myself out there and using my voice to make the
texts more powerful.

My pedal ready progress

Something I want to share to you is my Pedal Ready learning. I wanted to show this to you to show my progress from not being able to ride a bike to being able to ride a bike. This is a photo of me learning how to ride a bike in Pedal Ready. Pedal Ready is a bike-riding organization. This part of my school education was one of my favorite parts because for me learning how to balance and put my feet on the pedals is really hard but I liked it because it was challenging. My learning in Pedal Ready was learning how to balance and actually pump my legs to get moving. That was hard because learning how to glide with the bike is hard enough but trying to get your feet on the pedals was really hard but I managed to do it with the help of one of my favorite teacher aids Karina. The progress with the Pedal Ready organization was Jurassic because not knowing how to ride a bike to be able to ride was just so big for me because I had no confidence in myself learning how to ride but as soon as I got my feet on my pedals I got more confidence in myself thanks to Pedal Ready.  

Matariki writing

For miles there was only darkness, everywhere you turned nothing but a blank space of
darkness.

One dark night Ranginui {the sky father} moved his arm and the 7 sons caught a glimpse
of a beautiful bright sky with a very bright yellow sun after that they discussed what was
beyond their father.

”Let's kill them so we can see the light¨ said Tumatauenga {god of war} they all disagreed. They  said,

¨It is time to separate them.¨ Well not all of them. There was only one son that disagreed
and that son was Tawhirimatea {god of the wind and storms}. He didn't want to split his
parents apart. He flew up to his father and whispered in his father’s ear and warned him
about the separation. One at a time the brothers tried with all their might to separate their
parents but nothing would work.

Then Ranginui said,

¨You cannot break us for our love is too strong, Ranginui said amused.

¨I am strong enough¨ said Tane mahuta. {god of the forest}.
He pushed and pushed but Ranginui wouldn't budge,  Tane mahuta lay
on his back and pushed against Ranginui with his strong legs as his branches grew
longer and the earth started to quake and the grip between Ranginui and Papatuanuku
weakened. From Ranginui, a rain of tears and stars came down as they lost their grip
suddenly a warm bright light  flooded the land and they saw the light of the blue sky,
as that happened Ranginui raised to the sky, Tawhiri shot lightning bolts of anger to the
sky and Ranginui split them into seven stars the mother Matariki and the 6 sisters Waiti,
Waita, Waipuna Rangi, Tupu a rangi, Tupu a nuku and Ururangi.

Susana Reading Learning Story.

I chose this Library book to read at silent, sustained reading time because I like the author..   He is the author of a book I read called Gangster Granny.

I located information in the story that told me that the grandson relates better to his grandad than he anyone else.  In the story it says, ¨ Jack relates better to his grandpa then any of his friends even his Mum and Dad¨.

I worked out that Dad was crying.  I used the clue, ¨With the sleeve of his dressing gown, Dad wiped his eyes.”

I found out that an important idea in the story is the grandson related to his grandpa better than anyone else because he doesn’t have a lot of friends.

I used what I know about the story so far and my prediction for what's next from the story about the great escape to work out that the retirement home is suspicious about Jake( the grandson) and grandpa.

I enjoyed this book because it is different from other books I usually read. It was not challenging at all because I knew most of the words in my book and plus I sometimes use the 5 finger rule.

Here is a screencastify of me reading some of my books.                                           screencastify

Susana.Maths Learning Story.

Susana’s Maths learning Story

The Maths problem:  

The Te Rito community gardens in Porirua are thinking about developing a new vegetable garden. They have 36 meters of thick string to ‘rope off’ a rectangular area for the new garden. What different options do they have? They want the garden to be a rectangular shape. What is the largest rectangular garden they can make?  How can you prove this?

The story of the Maths problem: (use your own words)

The Te Rito garden people are making a rectangular garden. They have 36 meters of rope.

What we were trying to find out:

What is the largest rectangular garden they can make with 36 meters?  How can you prove this?

How we solved the problem:

First, we remembered that a rectangle has 2 long sides and 2 short sides and 4 corners. Then we drew a rectangle and we remembered it has to be exactly the same on each side. Next, we knew that the perimeter has to equal 36 meters. Then we tried drawing different rectangles like this: So what  did was I drew a rectangle and I was like thinking in my head well maybe if I made it 12 on every side but then Miss Trish came and said well what is half of 12 and then I said 6 so then Miss Trish said well maybe you can try that so I did and then Miss Trish reminded me you have to find the area so then I thought well maybe I can 12 x 6 and that = 72 and that was plan A but I have one more and that is plan B and this is how plan B works. So if you split 36 then you can split it in to 10 and 10 and then 8 and 8 so then I drew a rectangle and put the two 8s on the top and bottom and t hen I got the two 10s and put it on the two sides and I x the 10 and 8 and that = 80 so plan B has the bigger area.

Working as a group is important:  

I am good at listening to advice because I try the suggestions. I am getting better at explaining my thinking because I have been able to do it here.