Ski Trip 2020

Last week we went on a trip called, the ski trip. This photo is from the 1st day we went skiing which was Tuesday. Tuesday was also the day we got ski lessons. we also did rock climbing and went to a National Museum at New Zealand. My favourite time at the ski trip was when we were skiing at Mt Ruapehu.

Launching Off Into Space Writing

Hi,
Today I have started my rocket writing that I wrote in my book to start off with. Then I copied it onto my Chromebook. Heres my work.

Rhyming Couplets

Hi,
Today I am going to put my rhyming couplets together. I have finished my Rocket couplet poem and my Matariki couplet poem. So now I'm going to blog both of them in the same blog post. I enjoyed illustrating the pictures. I didn't like thinking of the rhymes cause I'm not that good at rhyming. 

Rocket Couplet Poem 2020

Hi,
This is my couplet poem about space and rockets. A couplet is a rhyming poem that has 2 lines. For example here is my couplet.

Fake whitebait fritters

This term for our novel study, Mrs A read us Whitebait Fritters which is a novel written by a Kiwi author Kingi McKinnon.  My favourite part in Whitebait Fritters was when: Wiremu fell into the water and got caught up in the net.

To wind up our learning we decided to make some fake whitebait fritters because we can’t afford to buy real whitebait. We used grated potato to take the place of whitebait and mixed it with eggs and onions. They were really tasty. Then we had to write out the recipe, put it on a Google Drawing and add some images. You can see my work below.

Team Moana Hangi

Today me and my buddies did an animation for our up coming hangi we're going to do on the 6th of December 2019.  In this animation we had to write down and picture the procedure of a hangi. My buddies were Buster and Cameron. What I liked about this is we had the choice to make an animation. What I found hard is making the characters.

Christmas Decorations

Kia Ora, my name is Tristan McKain from Ohaeawai Primary School. This week we have been doing Christmas Decorations. I did a toilet roll snowman. And I think it’s worth $1.50 each and I also did another snowman, but with my friend buster. What I liked about it was that we could choose what we could do. What I didn’t like about was that we had to wait for the paint to dry. 

How To Make: 

1. Toilet roll
2. Hot glue gun
3. White paint
4. Googly eyes or drawn eyes
5. 4 paper strip

Stucture of the Earth

Structure of the Earth Facts

We are learning about the structure of the Earth.

I learnt that the Earth is made up of 4 layers. They are the Crust, Mantle, Outer core and
Inner core

Facts about each layer:

Crust - the thinnest layer on the Earth and also it is the closest layer to us.

Mantle - the mantle is a very squidgy layer/ squishy layer holding the Earth. It is the
thickest layer.

Outer Core - the outer core is like the crust because it is shielding the inner core.
It is so hot - 4000-6000' C that it is runny liquid even though it is made of rocks.

Inner Core - The inner core is the most solid layer on the Earth and also it is the hottest layer.
It is solid because of all the pressure from the other layers around it.

Our group - Buster, Me/ Tristan and Cameron 

First we created a 3D image of the earth using clay.

We then cut the shape in half to show the different layers.
After waiting for it to dry, we identified each layer by painting them in different colours

Below are some pictures of our work.

The Living World Unit

Hello,

This is my living world slideshow. For the next 5 or 6 weeks we will be choosing our own activities to learn about the living world.

We did a multiple intelligence test to see what our highest categories for intelligences are.

My top three ways of learning intelligence are;

1. Musical

2.Visual

3. Kinaesthetic

I am looking forward to learning more about the living world.

Earthworms

This week we have been writing about something called digging deeper we do a simple sentence the we start to do harder sentences and that where the name came from because your going deeper into the information. And we also did an earthworm study to see how they would react to different things and what phylum they belong to. I prefer doing the earthworm study because we get to see their reactions to objects.

Earthworms 1. Earthworms prefer the dark instead of the light.

   

   2. Earthworms do like to wet surfaces because if they’re moist they will dry up.

3. Earthworms have 100-150 segments on their body.

4. How earthworms do MRS GREN because they move, eat, excrete and sleep.

5. Earthworms prefer to live under grass because it’s harder for their enemies to see them.

6. An earthworm belongs to a phylum family called annelida. This is a category for all WORMS.

My animal MRS GREN

We have been learning how to write explanations and also

doing research about the living world so our teachers gave us this writing task.
We learned what a fishbone diagram is and how to use a completed one to
make our own using a life form of our choice.
We had to organise the fact boxes by using MRS GREN which is an acronym
which reminds you about what life forms do.
Here is mine.
I chose to write about: venomous sea snake.

What I liked about this task: we got to write about an animal of our choice.

What was easy: inserting the picture.

Acrostic poem 2018

On Tuesday we made a acrostic poem about Christmas or Summer.

How to make a acrostic poem: Making a acrostic poem you must put a existing word and turn on caps and spell out the word in a big size downwards then you must write words or short phrases that starts with that letter .

Here is my acrostic poem for 2018!!!.

Christmas poem

This morning we made a sketch of a Christmas tree as well  as writing a poem describing your Christmas tree. Then after we cut out our sketch then we printed our poem then we glued our sketch onto our poem. Here is my work of 2018 November 22nd.

Yuck soup

Last week we have been learning about procedural writing. One of them was writing the instructions for yuck soup. Here is my yuck soup writing.

Leap Frog 2

We have been learning about writing instructions for procedural writing. Here is my work about a new game I learnt called Leap Frog 2.

kauri tree writing

The tree leaves float around in circles

leaving white trails through the wind.

The roots grow from the ground to the tree,

its strength and power to grow higher and wider.

These kauri trees should be loved more

than how they are loved now.

By Tristan.

We have been learning about kauri die-back. We sketched a kauri tree and wrote a poem about it. Here is mine.

Golf

on thursday we met this guy that we called mr golf he tought us how to launch a ball up in the air with a golf club here is a pictures of what it looked like at golf.

Animal town

“ This seat must not be revealed to the world.” I said. I am a big orange orangutan that likes this This week we have used another picture as motivation for our writing. We had a story starter and then we had to carry on the story.

What I like about my writing is that i humans invading there land.

I need to improve on that i need to write a story not just the animals talking.

Here is my writing about Animal Town.

comfortable seat I don’t think i'm meant to sit here though It says VIP only seat wow seats are really rare in our animal world but cars they cost animal dollars animal dollars are known to humans as money for them money Is rare but for us It’s uncommon my name is bow the orangutan.

“I don’t know where to go so I’m just gonna walk to the van for a ride”. I said.  “You big monkey ape thingy you are too big for this thing!!” shouted the lion. “We don’t want monkey thingy's here,” said the sloth slowly crouching down into his hatch.

“Let’s drive this thing to the moon,” I said. “But we can’t that’s impossible to do,” said the sloth. “He can’t do that anyhow he’s not aloud in this van he’s too fat! For this hunk of metal”. said the parrot. “Squawk! Squawk! Squawk! Squawk!” said the parrot.

“Oh come on this can’t go to the moon!” I said. “Yes it can’t go to the moon,” said the lion. “Then can it go to the sun?” “No it will burn us to bread crust in one minute OK!,” said the sloth and the lion. Then the lion went sprinting down the road to get his animal car.

Lion came back with his animal car with weird shaped towels named clothes. “I don’t think he is cool with those weird shaped towels on,” said the parrot. Since I’m an animal I can do anything except for swimming because I’m too fat to float on my own. “Humans are invading our territory, get cover!” “Quick hide guys we don’t want to end up in something called a cage or zoo thingy,” quietly whispered the parrot. And the parrot slowly sneaked across to its home. “I hear dinner!!”  shouted the human. “Why can’t we use my animal car?” asked the lion. “Nope we are going to hide we won’t just run out of here! They will see us uh i think they heard me,” said the sloth. “I hear a sloth,” said the human. “Yup they heard you, next time just whisper.” I said. “I also didn’t know that humans existed this is my first time seeing one of these creatures,” said the sloth. “Guys this sign is a lie this is an animal free place,” said the human. “Um there's a lion in the van looking at us furiously,” said the three brothers. “Anyways why would we wanna eat a sloth if there was one or a lion, that’s just wrong.”

hot air balloon writing

If I built a car

We read a story called If I built a car. We had to create a car then we wrote a story about what we would do if we built a car. Here is my story.