solving number problems

WALT: solve number problems using a known strategy.

My weekend

Have you ever been to rainbow end? In the weekend’s Me and my family were celebrating my nanas birthday over my aunt's  house. Do you know How amazing it was celebrating my own nanas birthday oh and she’s 73 years old this year. In two more weeks it well be my brothers birthday and we will be celebrating it with my uncle because my uncles birthday is in two more weeks but on a different day my brothers birthday is on Tuesday and my uncle birthday is on Thursday we have to celebrate my uncles birthday with my brother birthday because my uncle we'll be leaving to Australia.

This year my brothers turning 18 and my uncles turning 45.My mum and my dad is planning to have all the adults in my family to have their own stuff and Time.My mum always says that at night is their night because at night where sleeping but in the morning its our time so pretty much we have the mostest time to play or something.My brothers just play or kick back and mostly they mock us girls but not when my dads around or my big brother,my brother mocks them instead of the girls my brothers the man at bombing people out.

Do you know how much i like going exploring with my brothers? Hey guess what it’s nearly time to go exploring i said to my brother where are we going to explore now he said just wait and see,okay then man that was a long walk my legs were so sore but the walk was so amazing i would of told you the place but i didn’t know were we were only my brother know’s where that place is there was a beach it was so so clean i wanted to go for a swim but i didn’t have swimming togs.     

Toys from the Solomon island

Anzac day

WALT: explain and find the missing words for a paragraph about ANZAC

Fill in the missing spaces

Anzac stands for Australia and New  Zealand Army Corps.  It marks the day were soldiers served in World War One in 1915. That is one hundred years ago, this year. Some soldiers died and others came back home. They went to gallipoli to fight against soldiers from Turkey.  
Now in New Zealand and all over the world, people have drawn perades. It is where people can go and remember what happened. this takes place on 25th of April. Poppies were sold in 1922 to raise money for soldiers and their family.  These are sold before Anzac Day and the money goes to RSA’s.  RSA stands for the Royal New Zealand Returned and Serves Association.

holiday highlight

I’m going to tell you all about my school holidays.For my amazing school holidays i went with my dad to see my sister my niece and my inlaw brother in warkworth. i didn’t expected It so far away. When we arrived my sister ran out the door like she was turbo, well i was excited to so was my dad it was so nice to see my sister and my niece.After that we slept there four like only three days on the last day we went with my sister to the movies wow it was so awesome hanging out with my sister and she bought me a big easter egg as well it was yummy.   

Do you know how amazing i felt?I felt like i was spoilt and yeah well my niece she was way too spoilt she got anything she wanted well not anything only what she grabbed,my sister would still buy it for her or me i had way too much fun i can’t even remember oh yeah and we went to rainbow end for my niece birthday when we arrived home.I liked it when my dads part of the family had came to visit us its funny how our family talk in there own coulters  

Then me and my dad had to go home we had way too much fun there but it was time to go home it was good to be back at home,home sweet home. I was so excited being home and nearly my whole family was home i guess it was fun having nearly my whole family, it was my dads part of the family my dad had lots of fun when my dads part of the samoan family arrived but i didn’t like it when they spoke samoan to me i can’t even understand them or talk samoan only understand a little.

Yaaaay!!! were going to the beach, today we are going to mission bay to have fun and to celebrate my cousin and my sister birthday we had so much fun we went swimming and we went to the swimarama pool i liked it when me and my brother jumped of the diving board me and my brother went to the high one and i loved it when we went for a swim out the outside pools and the inside pools then we went home what a fantastic day we had my mum said then it was time to go to sleep before we went to sleep we brushed our teeth and the my dad said the pray in samoan.

Term 2 Inquiry. Tinkering tools and toys

This term our topic is all about technology.We are trying to solve a problem that relates to our everyday life at school.we are going to create a game that we are going to play during rainy days at school. 

Hoku le'a and Hikianalia.

Have you ever seen a Hoku le'a waka before? Well yesterday on a beautiful sunny day the 12  manaiakalani school’s went down to the pt England beach to see the two amazing waka’s. The name of the two waka’s are Hokule'a and Hikianalia.

Do you know how amazing it was yesterday?I’m going to tell you how amazing it was seeing the two amazing,beautiful wakas yesterday.When we got there we sang Na waka,eho,He Hone and powhiri.It was so fun at the pt England beach greeting the people that was coming at of the waka’s.

The weirdest part was when i thought there was going to be a Maori waka and when i thought that i was going to fall of the hill because when you're up so high on a hill it felt really scary.I liked it how the whole school was singing.

Did you shake your tail feather?

WALT: Inferring and interpreting underlying meaning of text. hello have you ever seen a wake before? well I have, in a book but not in real life. Did you know that a wake is a nosy bird and she like's to poke among the ferns. Would you like a wake for a pet?

The school picnic

Have you been to pt England beach? Imagine a beautiful day with birds singing above the sky.Last week Friday the whole of pt England school went down to the point England beach.Before we got there we sat down in the hall for assembly that was weird because we never had a assembly before the picnic.

Do you know how amazing it is to go to a school picnic? I’m going to tell you about how amazing it was having a school picnic.This is how much amazing things we've done volleyball,touch, rugby,tee-ball,cricket, softball, tag and ripper rugby and soccer. what’s your favorite sports? My one would be softball and soccer.

Did you know this year picnic was the best?What a fantastic day last week and what a cold swim to.Do you know how beautiful pt england beach is?This is how beautiful pt england beach is.It’s clean it’s beautiful lovely amazing and yeah.If you went to a school picnic what would you say about your school picnic writing.

My favorite part would be when me and my friends were singing and when we were making a sand castle and when the little kid’s made a sand castle all by themselves as well.