Amelia's Learning Zone

WALT use poetic verse to recount an event we participated in.

The Run Bike Run event was usual enough; it had the

The bikes and helmets, the Nervous students , the Cones , the bags , and even The supporters of students.

My friends, my classmates and I did what kids do -

(6 actions – verb, adjective, noun- about the run bike run)

Daphne’s legs were going up and down like the needle on a sewing machine

My Legs struggled to keep up with the pedals

People huffed and puffed like the wind

Butterflies rushed around in people’s stomachs full of nervousness

hearts pumped blood around bodies ferociously

Butterflies disappeared and happiness replaced it

Doing a sigh of relief

my learning goals

]Term 1 2017 Goal Review and Next Steps

Name:

Parent Goal(s)	Strategies I can use are:	Review Eg What strategies have you used to improve? Have you made progress? How do you know?	Next Step Eg My next step is……...
I want to work to my best ability and get the best possible score using my ability.	Read more books and write more stories to learn what I need to do to make it better and get better at it.

Student Goal(s)	Strategies I can use are:	Review Eg What strategies have you used to improve? Have you made progress? How do you know?	Next Step Eg My next step is……...
I would like to achieve my gold certificate this year.	Use the care values and get ticks on my chart.

Multicultural week blogpost

This week I have participated actively in a range of learning experience around ‘Multicultural week’

WHAT: I was involved in a range of learning experiences for Multicultural week. I did spring origami snowflakes and I learnt how to use chopsticks. I also got henna on my right hand. I also learnt about Israel and Russia.

SO WHAT:

I learnt that in Russia there is a building that was built from wood and doesn’t have any nails in it and that it has been there for centuries and it hasn’t been damaged or knocked down.

I enjoyed learning about the different cultures in the school. I also enjoyed getting the henna on my hand.

I was most fascinated by the coldest temperature in Russia, it is -71°. When it is that cold if you have a bucket of water and you chuck the water over the balcony or out of the window it instantly turns into snow.

NOW WHAT

A question I have is…. How many people are from countries other than New Zealand in the school?

Learning Plan Review

Statistics

WALT Follow the statistical inquiry cycle and conduct my own investigation

Conclusion:

The majority of the year 6 Hub’s most popular sport to play is Soccer/ Football with 22 people.

In second was other with 20 people.

The third most popular was netball with 8 people, then rugby with 6 and the least popular sport was Basketball with 3 people.

CARE values

I know how to show my CARE values in the classroom. I think we have CARE values at Oaklands School because then the children can earn care ticks for doing good things and so that the children can earn their bronze, silver and gold CARE certificates. I think the most important classroom value is Be aware of others. Here is a picture of me showing that value.

Integrated Learning

WALT describe ideas about school design.
The school idea I am presenting is a silent room.
I am presenting this by making a model.
I think the school should use this idea because It is great for learning space.

Swimming

For two weeks in a row the Kauri team from years 4-6 have been going swimming at Star fish swim school. I was in lane two. I learnt how to do freestyle stroke with the breathing part and I learnt how to roll to the side to breath. The thing that I found the most challenging was doing the streamline on my back for the whole length. The part of swimming I now know how to do properly and for the whole length is probably my freestyle because I can swim a whole length breathing to the side and I can swim doing the circle with my arms softly so I don't splash.

Reading The BFG

I would use the word smart to describe Sophie. I think Roald Dahl wrote this story because he is trying to say that you don't have to see something to believe it.

Persuasive Writing

We are learning to write persuasively. Some places I would find persuasive writing are in the newspaper, Online news, Movie/game reviews, in people's speeches and in letters.

Strand Maths

We have learnt how to measure different objects. Three u

Visual Art

Last week I created a collage showing the ocean habitat. The three animals I chose were a Yellow eyed penguin, a Bottle nose dolphin and a Seal. The feature of my art I am most proud of is the bottle nose dolphin I drew.

My Writing Goal

My writing goal is to use different sentence starters more often.
Something I will do to achieve this is to read through the story and see what other words I could use to start the sentences.

Reading Our Class Novel

As a class we read the novel Best Mate by Michael Morpurgo.
The best thing about this book was that Bests Mate got to see Patrick again.
A question I have for the author is what inspired him to write most of his books about animals.
I am feeling excited to start reading the BFG.

Intergrated learning term 2

Our focus this term is on animals and habitats one question I have about animals and habitats is... how, where and why did Elephants get their name?

Reading food labels

we can use food labels to make healthy food choices by:

Reading the nutrition information to find out how much fat and salt is in it.

INSRUCTIONAL WRITING

15.3.16

The four features of instructional writing are:

1. Title

2. Equipment

3. Instructions in the right order

4. Picture or diagram

Reflecting on my instructional writing

I felt great about when I checked my work that it had all four of the features to make my instructions successful.

I noticed that I made a few spelling mistakes.

My Reflection

I was really excited about getting to bring food from our cultures on Tuesday 23rd and we also got to dress up in clothes that represents our culture on Thursday 25th.