Comment On Rimu Team Blog Ka Piopio - Kapa Haka & Kiwileles.

Hello Rimu Team, I am Havana from Rangikura School

I really enjoyed watching your Ka Piopio - Kapa Haka & Kiwileles.  You had some great moves/actions and very nice singing.  I saw that you made some mistakes but that's ok because it's normal and also everyone makes mistakes.  Lastly, I heard some background music it sounded nice and relaxing.


 

Kind regards

Havana

http://rangikura-sb-havana.blogspot.co.nz/  

My Book Review

 My Book Review!

Title:	Diary Of A Wimpy Kid The Third Wheel
Author:	Jeff Kinney
Illustrator:	Jeff Kinney
Story Line:	Greg Heffley is struggling to find a date to the valentines dance.  He gets his best friend to be his wing man to help him find a date.  He is worried that he will be left out and won't get a date.

What I liked best: My best part was when Greg Heffley got his dad's old leather jacket and wore it to school when his mum wasn't looking and later on at school he got all the attention suddenly his mum pounded on the door and took it of him and he had to go home in his mums dressing gown.

What I didn't like: There wasn't a part that i didn't like.

Favourite character and why? My favourite Character is Greg Heffley because he is funny he likes to play video games and he is weird.

Would I recommend this book? Yes I would recommend this book, in fact I would recommend all of the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid books/movies because they are good kids books easy to read funny.

Swimming Cerificates

 

These are my swimming certificates, I came first in breaststroke and second in backstroke.  We had to do freestyle and backstroke and if you wanted you could do breaststroke and butterfly.  I did breaststroke freestyle and backstroke some people had to do flutter board but I didn't.

On my first race it was freestyle I had a little bit of a sore tummy.  As one of the teachers blew the whistle (that meant go) I took a deep breath I freestyle all the way to the end racing my opponents.  The next race was backstroke I heard the whistle and race my appointments all the why to the end.  Now its my final race Brest stroke.  I hoped it the pool and waited for the whistle to go suddenly I heard it so I swam to the end and I was supersized because I came first.

Tips For Swimming:
Just race to the end
Do not look behind you

Moment In Time Week 7

Today our teacher asked us to write a ‘Moment In Time’ piece using a picture of a boy in the water.  We planned as a class to make sure we had the 5 W’s and the 6 Senses.  

Before we began our writing in small groups we discussed the importance of using descriptive writing, using similes and metaphors where appropriate, using dialogue and have done our best to make sure our punctuation is correct.  Some of us have even used ‘Show Don’t Tell’ in our writing to provide our reader with more of an experience.

Our teacher gave us 10 minutes for each paragraph and then 10 minutes for editing at the end.  We had so much fun working together!

If you have a moment, we would love you to comment on our writing.  

Boy Overboard!

Jack was heaving on his rod but it was stuck, he kept heaving and heaving he looked down to see where it was stuck, he leaned over to much and he face planted in the icy cold water gasping for air, he could feel sharks bumping into him and he could feel the fins under his feet, Jack was frightened.  He heard the boat slowly moving away from him, “Help! Help!” he cried.

Nobody could hear Jack’s lonely call.  Jack could smell the diesel engine moving further and further away.  Jack started to give up his hopes, goosebumps started forming on the sides of his arms.  He didn't know what to do…he said to himself “I don't want to die this way” with a frown on his face and tear in his eye.

He could feel the sharks getting closer and closer to him, a shark pounced out of the water and bit his shoulder, he could hear the bone shattering into a millions of pieces, Jack sunk to the bottom of the deep blue sea slowly rising up to the top.  “I’m alive!” Jack shouted.  Jack had one arm but he was still grateful that he was alive…    

Written by Havana and Sonia.

Sonia:

I think I did well with giving ideas and fixing our punctuation.  I also learnt new words like heaving and pounced.  I had a lot of fun.  

Havana:

I think I did well with my ideas, editing and fixing our work.  I we both did well making the story interesting.  I learnt words like heaving and diesel engine.  I had fun.   

Tessellation

Tessellation Definition of tessellation: A pattern made of identical shapes: • the shapes must fit together without any gaps • the shapes should not overlap Vocabulary/Glossary                   Polygon-Shape Verdace-corner Angle-The amount of turn between two straight lines that have a common endpoint (the vertex). These are some tessellations... A tessellation is a when the is a pattern and it  has no spaces and not over laping each other...  Regular Polygon Irregular Polygon A regular polygon is when the side and angles are even. A irregular polygon is when the sides aren't even. Reference List: Definition of tessellation: https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/tessellation.html Definition of angle: https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/angle.html

My Cross Country Run 2016

Yesterday the 11th of may the whole of pohutukawa and the seniors did cross country.  First some people were feeling nervous that includes me, I had a sore tummy.  My classroom got called to line up outside of our classroom.  When had to go out of the school grounds but not far.

The year five boys were at the start line.  A teacher said GO!. The boys raced off down the hill and across the road and around the corner then disappeared out of sight.  The year five girls lined up at the start. We had to wait a few minutes for the boys, my tummy was still sore like it was full of butterflies but I was also excited. GO! said a teacher, the girls and I raced down the hill but I jogged and paced myself so I save some of my energy  

At first I was coming 4 but then I started to catch up, I passed one of them.  Then the other two kids started to slow down I past them too I was coming first.  I started getting a stitch, but I pushed myself and said to myself “Never give up”.  It started to get hard to breath so I walked for 5 seconds then carried on.  

Now I was by the down hill bit some people said “you're the first girl keep it up”,  so I pushed myself a bit more. I past most of the boys I looked back I saw my friend so I jogged a little faster.  A few minutes later I saw the finish line but I hadn't gone past it yet so I kept going.  There were people clapping and cheering.  When I past the finish line I was so glad it was over.  I was First.

I felt surprised but happy because  last year I had come second and it was my friend who had beat me, but this time I bet her.

Matariki Celelbration

      Matariki  

What Is Matariki

Matariki symbols the Maori new year in june.  People celebrate it in New Zealand.  Matariki is the seven brightest and clearest stars in the sky, there is actually 100 stars but you can only see seven.  They're in a group/bundle.  You can only see the stars when its is about half an hour to dawn before the vanish or disappear

How do the people celebrate Matariki

The way people celebrate Matariki is some people have a kite festival.  A kite festival is when lots of people go somewhere and fly kites (you don’t have to fly a kite).  Some people have a pukana chellong or a powhiri to welcome people and they can have lots of other things.

How my class celebrated matariki.

My class and my teacher Miss Hill's celebrated matariki by making a manu tukutuku we had buddies but my buddy Navaron wasn't here so I did it all by myself it was hard and challenging.  We used Harakeke, toe toe, wool and a little piece of black paper for the top.  We go to decorate our black paper so it wasn't plane and boring.  We have to divide our toe toe into 3 equal parts mine was 32 each part.  Then MIss Hill’s cut my toe toe.  Once she had cut it I had to put the middle stick on the table and put the other two on a side each so it went up diagonally (it looks like a triangle now) Then I got a piece of white wool and tied the top of my toe toes together so it wouldn't move and so it was stable.  Then I had to cut some pieces of harakeke to put across my manu toku toku.  Then I had to tie it to the toe toe so it would stay.  I tied it with two pieces of wool I chose purple and black for my middle one.  For my sides I chose  black and white wool.  When I was done I was so so so tired.  I was thankful that I had finished.  With the leftover pieces of the harakeke and toetoe We cut up and put it under the other harakeke bushed for nutrients and because it would help it grow.

The hardest part for me was when you had to tie the top of the toe toes together because I didn't have a buddy to hold it for me.  The easiest part was the black piece of paper because all you needed to do was decorate it and hot glue gun it to the manu tukutuku.   I had fun making my manu tukutuku.