Christmas Holidays & New Years

YAY! 5 more days until the christmas holidays! I can't wait for new years! Its been an awesome year at Pt England! This will be my last post until 6 WEEKS!! MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I can't wait until next year. I'm gonna miss everyone (mostly my chromebook!) Have an phenomenal holiday, I wish you all the best! Stay safe and good luck for 2015!!! 

The Victorian Era

Here is an animation of the Victorian Era a.k.a The 1800's. Enjoy and leave some feedback in the comments.

Christmas Diamante Poem

WALT: Write a diamante poem using nouns, adjectives, verbs, synonyms and antonyms.

Holiday Activity Poster

We are learning to summarise and combine information from across multiple texts.

How to make a toilet paper tube butterfly.

Today we are learning how to convert youtube videos into step by step instructions.
Click here for the youtube link

My weekend

Last week on Friday I didn't go to school, so instead me and my sister stayed home. It was really boring because we had to do all the chores. Later in the afternoon we started watching movies. We watched House Of Magic, Insidious Chapter 2, Gravity and Rio 2. My favourite was Insidious Chapter 2 because it was really scary.

The next day on Saturday me and my family went to Papakura to watch one of my family members play softball. I think they won because after the game everyone from her team started celebrating. We stayed at the Papakura Softball Club for a really long time but there were other kids there so we weren't that bored. There was also a shop across the road from the club so we never got hungry.

The very next day on Sunday my brother visited us. He needed to catch the bus early to work on Monday and we had the closest house to the bus stop he needed to go to. But he left really early in the morning so I couldn't say goodbye, but thats ok because I saw him on Tuesday, he went with my mum to come get us from the shops.

Dimante Construction Poetry

Here is my diamante construction poem.  

Flash Trash

This is a presentation about how to make a 3-D peace sign made out of cardboard. Please comment and tell us what you think.

Vocab Task

This is a Presentation about Kawau Island and the interesting sights and birds that you may see during you holiday there.




I am excited to see many of the native birds because some of their feathers are really fascinating. The other reason is because the activities there look fun!

The History of Kawau Island

Kawau Island is one of the largest islands in the Hauraki Gulf. Kawau was named after the Kawaupaka. Did you know Kawau is one of the most beautiful islands of the Hauraki Gulf and one of the richest in history. Kawau Island was purchased by Sir George Grey in 1862. Sir George Grey had an interest in the natural sciences, and was an enthusiastic collector of plants and animals from around the world. At the time Sir George Grey was serving his second term as governor.

Kawau Island / Camp Bentzon Vocabulary Task

This is a Vocabulary Task about Kawau Island / Camp Bentzon

Kawau Island / Camp Bentzon Postcard

This is a postcard of where we are going for camp.

Map Work

Being A Good Friend

WALT: explain to your reader what being a good friend means

Friends are the people in your life that treat you differently, they make you laugh, they make you cry, but when it comes to friends they're always by your side. Life isnt easy your always gonna get knocked down but remember you’re friends will be there to lift you back up and keep going.

Finding friends isnt easy but in a few years of life you’ll find the perfect ones. They could be tall or they could be short but no matter who they are they’ll always support you, especially when you’re going through rough times. Some of your friends can be a bit unusual but that doesn’t matter, what matters is on the inside not the outside.

When you have friends you don't talk about them behind their backs, and you certainly don’t mock them just to show off in front of others because if you do or have done that nobody would want to be friends with you. If you don’t have friends you’ll never make it through life, you could be all alone because of the stupid mistakes you made as a kid.

The best qualities to find in a friend is respect and honesty. If you want a real friend one thats nice and friendly look for the respectful ones, the ones that listen to the teachers and do the right things on their chromebooks. Honesty is another one, people that tell you the truth or more importantly the ones that don't lie to their parents just because they don't want to do what they say. Honesty is always the best policy.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain, its not something you learn in school, or something that you parents taught you. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship then you never had any real friends.

Breadfruit

Breadfruit Chips

Here are my steps on how to make breadfruit chips, breadfruit are usually found in the cook islands or Tonga.

elisabeth and brooklyn Breadfruit chips Explain everything (1) from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Paragraph Doctor

WALT Recraft a Paragraph

Being Fit.

Dictation

Did you know your body is an amazing machine? It just needs to be used everyday to keep it working well.

Exercise keeps your body strong and fit. Fitness means having the energy to work, play, and do all the things you want to do easily. Your body can not store fitness, so you need to exercise regularly to stay fit.

Exercise makes you feel and look better. It keeps your body a healthy weight, it helps you relax and sleep better, and when you exercise your body produces chemicals called indorthams which go to your brain and make you feel good.

Exercise for strength makes your muscles stronger so you can work different parts of your body without feeling weak. Exercise for stamina makes your heart and lungs stronger, and helps blood flow easily around your body. Stamina is the ability to exercise for longer without getting tired or out of breath.

So you need to move it!

Full stops	10
Capitals	10
Commas	6
Question marks	1
Explanation marks	1

How To Answer a Multi Choice Question.

1. Read the question carefully.
2. Write down what you know and don't know.
3. Look at the answers and see if your answers were correct, and if their not right then keep trying.

Capitals

Capitals - what are they and when do you use them in writing?

WALT: Write an explanation telling people what capital letters are and when you use them in writing.

People often don’t use capital letters when they are writing emails or other messages, but it’s important to use them in stories and newspaper articles because when other people read your work they want to see tidy and quality work.

Capital letters start the beginning of names, so for example. My name is Elisabeth. The capitals are used in names because when you write your name on paper some people usually forget to use capitals.

Capital letters have to be used when you write I, I’m, I’ll and lots more. Its important to do that because its makes your writing look tidy. Its also important because when people see that you use capital I's they will know that you are a proper kid and take writing seriously.

Capital letters are also for the days of the week. Monday has a capital in it because it’s similar to a month. It’s similar to months because their both dates. People usually use capitals like this. On Thursday my cousin is coming over to my house.

• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Sunday

The names of cities and countries have capitals in the too. This is an example for how to use capitals in these kind of sentences. Next week me and my family are going to Brisbane, Australia to see my sister. Here are a few countries and cities.

• Auckland
• Christchurch
• New Zealand
• Australia
• Perth
• Brisbane
• Sydney
• And many more

There are many more reasons why people use capitals. I hope you learned something new and remember KEEP USING CAPITALS!

Clauses Poem

This is a poem that me and my friend made on imovie hope you enjoy 

WALT: make a rap or poem about compound and complex sentences (Clauses)

A complex sentence has two or more clauses

in them are commas especially for the pauses

in a simple sentence there are one

they are small just like run

a verb is a doing word

like a flying bird

thats the end of our rhyming fun

remember not to play with guns

Uniform Upgrade

Uniform Upgrade

Pt England School - Elisabeth

Pt England School’s year 5 & 6 students are going to intermediate and want to find out why the Intermediate students get jackets.

The idea of the schools uniform came from the students, they all agreed on the jackets to make the seniors stand out and feel all grown up, the students also agreed on the juniors uniform. This was chosen by prefixes and discussed by the prefixes  when Point England was turning into a intermediate school. 98% (nearly every child) bought the jackets.

Here is Lucy from class 6 to tell Pt England what she thinks about the uniform upgrade, “I like the jacket and I think they are cool, I also cant wait till i'm older so I can wear the jacket and feel older and more mature”, then Lucy said how she would wear her new jacket when she gets one “When I get the new jacket I will wear it with pride and not around my waist”.

This time is Katareina also from class 6 who tells Pt England what she thinks about the prices for the jackets “I think the prices are a little bit too high but still really cheap, I would still buy the jacket even if it’s a high price”. Also Elizabeth from class 8 answered the same question “I think the jackets so great, but the price is really high but its kind worth it though”.

In 2029 the jackets might evolve and people might sell them all around the world. The government might use the jacket as a sponsor for other schools learning with chromebooks. Even movie stars might wear them in their concerts. The jackets might be such a big hit everyone would want them…but that probably wouldn't happen.  

The United Kingdom Quiz

Dimante War Poetry

This is my poem explaining war using adjectives, participles, nouns. Hope you enjoy :)

Canada quiz Answers.

Canada quiz answers. 

1. 4

2. 1930


3. 34.88 million

4. Maple leaf

5. Ottawa

If you haven't tried our quiz here is a link.

Let The Games Begin!!

“YAYY!!” The 2014 Commonwealth Games is starting tomorrow in Glasgow, Scotland.

“LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!” The 2014 Commonwealth Games is one of the biggest, most exciting games of the year!!

Its a chance for people to come together and celebrate games.

The Commonwealth games has many different kinds of sports, like shot-put. It was one of the hardest events in the games and it still is, but not for miss Valerie Adams because just this morning she won the gold medal for New Zealand. You could tell she was proud because of her body language. She really enjoyed the attention.

Swimming is one of the sports that take part in the Commonwealth.

One of the medalist was Sophie Pascoe, she is 21 and comes from NZ Christchurch. She won 2 gold medals! isnt that cool.

Netball is also a sport in The Commonwealth of of the contestants her name is Anna Harrison. She is 31 and has won a silver medal for NZ. Did you know she retired from netball to focus on her Beach Volleyball career.

The Commonwealth games it an opportunity for countries to come together and have fun, there will be many people from all around the world that will be competing against each other in this spectacular event.

Things About Me.

                                   

This is Me & Antonia's Titanic Movie (DLO) that we explained how the Titanic sunk.

E.A. titanic DLO from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

The Tragedy of the Titanic

My Boat

 

I designed a boat and it floated because it had no marbles in it.

Island Canoes

Elisabeth's News On Boats

Wanted Poster

On the Titanic

I woke up from my horrible cold dream to hear somebody screaming, I looked around my little messy room and saw ice cold water everywhere.

I shrieked in terror and tried to escape then when I got to the metal door a little girl floated past me.

So I try to swim as fast as I could even though I'm only good at dog paddling but I finally caught  up to her she tried to reach out to me but she couldn't reach me so I tried to get up closer and I got her.

I swam up to safety and tried to find her mum.

I found her mum and swam back under to save other people, I probably saved about 2 or 3 because I can’t swim very well but when I saved the last person I tried to get up to safety but my foot got stuck in some rope.

I tried to break through but it was no use, I suddenly realise that I have just enough time to free myself so I opened my eyes and scanned them around the room to find something to cut me loose then I saw a pocket knife and reach for it, I used all my strength because I know that this is my only chance to live.

All of a sudden I feel the pocket knife touch the tip of my finger and I grab it.

I start to cut the rope and I finally break out and swim to safety.

A man sees me and pulls me out he lifted me and took me to the last life boat. Then I suddenly realise that the man that saved me died. I felt guilty about it and I prayed for him to live.

Who's fault was the sinking of the Titanic

THIS IS THE REPORT OF GABRIEL TUKARIRI.

On the 31 of April,1912 the day of the titanic’s launch.

most people called her the “unsinkable”.

At night as Gabriel was getting up out of bed she heard screaming down the hallways.

As she ran down the halls she saw some water running up the hall she ran slowly and anxiously through the waist high water she got to the stairs where there were locked gates.

A man furiously ran past .

She begged him for the key he tried to open the gate he replied and said “sorry I dropped the keys when that girl came up.” After that pathetic answer Gabriel angrily held her breath and went under the freezing -6.1 Celsius cold water water and was looking for the key’s. As Gabriel swayed her wrist around to find the key she grabbed the key from the floor next to a room. By the time she got back up the water was already up to your shoulders she yanked the gate open and swam up to to the stairs and called for a life boat. She noticed that there were only a little amount of lifeboat’s.

as Troy (my brother) was running round the halls scared like a crazy chipmunk when he realized that he was running down to the water. In one breath he quickly turned round and ran to the deck’s. noticing again that there were not enough lifeboats for everyone on the Titanic, he panicked again but this time it was louder.I ran over to calm my little brother down .

I said ‘brother calm down everything's gonna be fine I promise’

‘ok’ he said

Once I got him calm we hurried over to the deck where there were only a few women left on the deck ,the man let me hop in the last life boat and said that I could take my little brother with me.

I thanked him I said everything to please him then

he said ‘its ok I want your family to be safe’ I grinned at him and pleaded once more

but that was the last I saw of him.

I found out his name was, Mr John COLLINS.

The Revenge of Slade Wilson

    The Revenge of Slade Wilson.              

One morning at the crack of dawn something strange happened. I was sitting on the floor near my messy bed holding my popcorn watching a horror movie.It was getting to one of the scary parts of the movie when all of a sudden I hear a glass cup smash downstairs in our kitchen, then the hallway lights start to flicker, I looked around and then the t.v turned off.

Then I began to freak out!

I keep thinking that my mum is in the kitchen and my little brother is playing with the hallway light but then I think how did my t.v turn off?

I yelled out “ MUM ARE YOU UP?” no one answers.

I reach for my phone and call my friend Keisha I dial her number but no connection, I try to contact everybody I know but I still have no connection. When I calmed down and pretended that all of this was a dream when I suddenly see a shadow it was a man but this was no ordinary man

it looked similar to the man on the horror movie

[ it was based on a true story] I was watching his name is Slade Wilson he got murdered 13 years ago by his father when he was 18 because he was a very psycho his grave was right next to our house!

Maybe he doesn’t like the music I play on my radio or maybe he doesn’t like my moms singing.

I try to figure out quickly before he saw me but then a thought came to me what if I scare him away but then what if it doesn’t work what if instead he eats me or kills me or cooks me I think constantly, well its worth a shot.      

“I wanted to I really did but if I do then I might die”

TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR PART 2

                                              

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