Bedmas

Inquiry - Term 4

The tree

While walking through a forest I heard echoing of someone screaming. Immediately without thinking I start climbing a tree, But the higher I got the louder it was. I looked down searching for the unusual sound. I failed to find it until I felt twigs falling on my shoulder. Looking up I see a dead body hanging above me. My body filled with fear, was frozen. I couldn’t move, think and speak. I let go and fell all the way down landing on leaves and twigs. Taking my last breath I hear footsteps come closer behind me. 

BEEP BEEP BEEP. I banged the alarm and fell off my bed. I stare at the roof realizing it was all a dream. Sitting up, I look at the time. “Rangi time to get ready for school” yells my mum. “ Ok be out in a sec” I  yell back. As I reach out for my glasses I hear smashing from outside. I wriggle my glasses onto my nose and peek outside my bedroom window. At first I see nothing but my neighbour walking down the street, but then the unexpected happens. He begins walking into my driveway with his hand behind his back. 

I scream my heart out, trying to warn my parents of a intruder. But as hard as I yell, nothing comes out my mouth. My whole body froze as I hear the sounds of my parents screaming. I panic and hide in the closet, reach in my pocket and search for my phone. I then remember that I had left my phone on my bed. I cuddle myself hoping nothing bad will happen, hoping it was all a dream. Footsteps approach my bedroom, coming closer and closer. Louder and louder. The sounds of nails scratching the wall, make me lose hope. Looking up i see the door knob slowly twist. I take a breath and close my eyes. Facing head down I hear the door open “ Take me, I don’t care anymore, I understand why you’re doing this, I deserve it”. As i look up my face turns blank.

“Ahahaha you should’ve seen your face”. I wipe away my tears and punch Tj’s arms “You retard that wasn’t funny” I say “Your prank was worse what are you on about?!” yells Tj. I go quiet and just stand “Haha shame told ya i’d get you back”. “Wait how did …” “Honey you ok?” says a voice from the door I look to my side and see my mom and dad standing there, Laughing. “I get it, you want the pranking to stop, dont you?” They all start laughing and nod their heads.

Writing test - Colour code

S - Statement - YELLOW
E - Explanation - GREEN
E - Example - BLUE



Friends. You can trust them and know that they’ll always be there when you need them. Those types of friends are good friends they don’t tear you down or back stab you when chatting to other people. If you wanna have friends like that or be like that, then in the following paragraphs I will explain to you how to be a real friend.



One way is to listen, really listen. Listening is one of the best things you can give a friend. Listening demonstrates that you really care about what they’re talking about and in the future they’ll be able to trust you and share more with you. For example when a friend is weighed down by struggles such as material needs or a loss of a dead loved one, real friends truly listen to their struggles, and you’ll be showing them that you care about their situation and it shows them that they’re not alone.



You also need to cultivate forgiveness. With forgiveness you prove to your friend that everyone makes mistakes and that you can’t just hold a grudge forever. So when a friend says something without thinking a good friend will forgive them instead of holding a grudge and disliking them forever.



Good friends never use put downs in conversations or mocks people because of their looks, culture or about the way they talk. True friends care about what in the inside, your personality, humour and much more. Unlike fake friends real friends let you be yourself and dont judge you for being you. 



When being bullied or teased or laughed at, good friends are there for you. They support you in every way and make sure that your okay. They don’t just stand there and watch you get hurt they jump in and help you along the way. That’s a real friend.



That’s majority of the quality’s good friends have. These are the type of qualities nearly everyone wants and needs in a friend. So being a good friend contains listening, forgiveness, kind words and support. Thanks for reading     

How to be a good learner

Education is vital in most families. Education leads you to have a safe and happy life, But in order to have a safe and happy life you need to be a good learner. In the following paragraphs i will explain to you how you can be a good learner.

To be a good learner you need to pay attention. Paying attention requires focus and no mucking around. For example in order to get high marks on your report then you need to pay attention to your teacher so you understand whats going on. And paying attention can show the teacher and others that you really care about your grades.

But what if no matter how much you keep eye contact on your teacher you still need to ask questions if you don't fully understand. So paying attention isn’t the only thing you need to be a good learner, you also need to ask questions. So like when you get sent off the mat after the teacher explains and you still don’t understand then you need to go to the teacher and ask her in order to understand what she is teaching you.

Good learners need to attend to school everyday. Attendance is one of the important things you need to do. Attendance enables you to get  assignments done on time and at prize giving you’ll get awards for your attendance. 

Being prepared is all about being a good learner. So making sure you have everything ready for the following events coming up. For instance if you have a upcoming test or assignment you need to prepare for it and be ready, this is similar if you have a sports event coming up.

There you have it - 4 reasons as to be a good learner. Paying attention, Asking questions, Attendance and Being prepared. With all these qualities you can become a good learner and succeed in the future.

Man and sea

WALT: Test Ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests    

Task description:

Our group has been reading the book 'Man and Sea' this story is about why Samoan's get traditional tattoos such as the pe'a.

Immersion assembly - term four

It’s the start of the term it’s time to find out what our study will be.  As usual our teacher’s are playing things down, keep things under wrap so we won’t know until our immersion assembly.   Immersion assemblies are the Pt England Way! Let me explain to you in the next 3 paragraphs why we love having immersion assemblies.

Being excited - eager to learn!  That’s us - that’s what the immersion assembly today has us feeling. Waiting there patiently for the assembly to start. New term, new topic a good start for this term. Art is the best way to finish my last year in intermediate before i head off to college

Like every immersion assembly, we’ve got a new topic for this term. Te wå toi, and our focus for this term is art. During the assembly Mr Jacobson and Mrs Nua were transforming our principle into …… Although i wasn’t that interested - At the time - Since it was the first day back at school i was feeling kinda tired and couldn’t really focus on the assembly.         

Each team presented something related to art and explained to the whole school what their team has to look forward to this term. Each one was kinda entertaining, although one did take a while to finish, but the ending results were quite good - even though they traced it. Team 3 didn’t quite understand art and instead they just had fun and put paint on themselves and painted the paper with their bodys.

There you have it - 3 reasons as to why we love having immersion assemblies to kick off every term of learning at Pt England School.  Maybe you could use my explanation to help you set up something similar in your learning

Follow up activity

NZ ranked as the 14th laziest country

Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?
New Zealand
What was the key event from the news article?
The laziest country
Where did this event take place?
World’s health organisation (WHO)
When did this event take place?
On 11th of september 2018

Thinking ….

 Find a quote from the main person in this news article?
The laziest 20 nations in the world have today been named and shamed!
In your own words describe what happened in this news article.
New Zealand has been selected as the 14th laziest country
 Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.
World Health Organisation (WHO)
 Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.
It started this year and it’s telling us that we have been selected as the 14th laziest country and maybe if people change and be fitter we could go down or even get off the list
 Explain in your own words why this event took place.
Because 42.4% of New zealand's population fails to hit recommended targets.
Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.
 (THERE IS NO DICTIONARY)

Move your body - Week 9

My Mother

My Mother gave me comfort

And feed me everyday

They say be grateful you have mother

Cause mine was never there

My nana never seemed that bad

And neither did my papa

But i never really knew them well

Not as good as my mother

Poem

As the wind whistled past my ear

I looked in the distance 

And stared at the figure

That I thought it went out of existence 

But now I realise

As I gazed at its eyes

I took a step back

And jumped back in the car 

Then drove silently away 

Without even knowing 

That it jumped in the back

And came home with me

Fernitickles - Podcast 2018

WALT: Connecting - I make sense of new information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself, texts I know and my world





Task Description: For this task we had to do a audio recording about a book that we have been reading. The book at we had to read is a book that is written by a NZ author. The book that me and my partner read was a book called Fernitickles! Written by Mary Peace Finley and Illustrated by Anita Vink. The we had to write a script about the book and record it on Garage Band. After that we sent it to our drives and the published it on our blog. If you would like to please listen to the audio recording that me and my partner Chastyti recorded. Thank You! 

Here's the script

Too tired

This morning I felt the feeling normal kids feel, tired. Waking up this morning felt impossible.  I repeatedly pressed snooze on my alarm and fell asleep. I regret doing that when it was 8:00.

I swung my legs off the bed and quickly got changed into my school uniform. For a minute i did think ‘I should just wag’ but my mum and dad wouldn’t be home today.  They were too busy sorting things out for the upcoming wedding for my uncle D.

I rushed out the door and hurried to school, then , something caught my eye. I slowed down and stared intently at the figure. “Hello!” I shouted as I walked closer.  In my mind I felt like this was a bad idea, but I didn’t care, it’s not like I was in a horror movie.”Hello!” I walked and reached out to see what it was then … I jumped back frightened. I then see a squirrel running past me towards the tree.

I feel stupid, Dumb, Immature. As if i was still a little kid, pretending to be movies. But I just shrugged it off, i was too tired to think about it. I just wanted to finish off the day so I could go back to my bed.

As the day came and went, I started to feel sleepier and sleepier as the days go by. And nearly everyday that memory pops in my head. And as each day pass, I realise … It wasn’t a squirrel.

Teachers go on strike

This Wednesday teachers all over New Zealand are going on strike. Why? Because they believe that they need more time to teach their students. Everyday teachers waste most of their time just writing about 10 reports on just ONE student, just imagine 31 kids. But this isn’t the only reason why teachers are going on strike. If you wanna know more just read on . . .

 The 2nd reason why their going on strike is because they need resources for additional needs , meaning they are desperate to gather more resources for the children who have nothing. Or for example, there is one particular student who is mucking around while the teacher is trying to teach their class. This would annoy both the teacher and the students who are listening to instructions. With the resources they need they could help the student and continue teaching the rest of the class.

 Lastly, nz teachers deserve more pay. Meaning Teachers should get paid more. All the teachers in new zealand spend majority of their time preparing for school, and they hardly ever have time for their family. And when they work from home they don’t get paid even if they spend like 2 hours working.

 That’s all my opinions of why the teachers in nz go on strike. Thanks for reading :p

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What to do in the holidays

Holidays - What to do

When the school holidays start I know i'm not looking forward to it.There’s just nothing to do, and don’t just say ‘fortnite’ cause we broke our game console. And I broke my phone, so ‘hello boring holidays’.To be honest the only thing i’m looking forward to is sleeping in. If your like this, let me tell you what you can do to improve your holiday…

Don’t just sit on the couch all day, go out and play sport. Like soccer or cricket. It’s way better than just sitting on the couch all day. And it’s not boring either, heaps of times i see kids play soccer, rugby,basketball and more, Also being outdoors can improve your health and you won’t be known as the ‘couch potato’ in your family.

If you’re not athletic and don’t care about being known as a ‘couch potato’ then do something you like - besides watching netflix all day, for me , it would be dancing even though i’m not good at it. For many people dancing can be enjoyable, especially in my family, even shopping can be exercize -kinda- you walk everywhere in the mall to find shops that have clothes that you like.So if your terrible at sports there’s always shopping.

Whether it’s dancing or sport or anything that includes movement can be enjoyable and good for your health.And it’s the holidays for two weeks so make the most out of it and don’t be lazy and do nothing for the whole time.