Until we meet again

Dear Donovan,

Thank you for being such a great student. I will miss your positivity and all your help and support.

I hope you have a great Year 6.

Here is our video so that you never forget Room 32.




-Miss Cooper

Stop Walk Talk

Here is my group's video from our Year 5 Movie Afternoon:

 

Squiggle story

One day there was a guy called 9. He only likes games with 9 in them. But one day they stopped making games with 9 in them. So 9 went to the factory to ask why they stopped making games with 9 in them.

It turns out that they don't have any plans because an evil villain named 7 (we asked him what his name was) and he told us to put our hands up or else he will shoot us. So we put our hands up and he took all our plans for the games. “Can't you just redraw it?” asked 9.

“No we can't because he also took our cartoonist, paper and pencils.”

“Should we call the police?”

“Yes, yes please do.” So they called the police and the police came to investigate but they said that this crime was even worse than they thought; so they got to work on investigating. First they checked the door handle for fingerprints second they they checked for footprints third they brought in a sniffer dog. They saw that the suspects footprints led to a special garden and the sniffer dog sniffed out the suspects sent . They both led to the same place. They saw a pacific tree that had a lever on it. So they pulled it and was surprised to find a little room filled  with 9s.

They asked the 9s “why are you hiding in here?”

they replied, “we are scared of evil villan 7 because 7 ate 9!” but then one of the police caught a glimpse of 7 in the corner of his eye and said “there he is let's get him.” After  what felt like forever they finally got 7 and arrested him.

EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

THE END

Dear 2016 year 5 students

Dear 2016 year 5 students…

I have a few words of wisdom I would like to share with you regarding your time in year 5.

The teachers are awesome especially Miss Cooper as she encourages us to use our blog and use loads of ict.

During the first term you get to participate in EOTC week which involves lots of fun outdoor activities!

 This will be your last garden to table in year 5 so make the most of it. This is the part I will miss the most.

 If you are lucky you will be chosen to join robotics club and learn cool tricks on the computer in a special robotics programme.

You get an opportunity to apply for different year six jobs by filling a proper job application and hope you get in!

Hope you enjoy being a year 5!!!

Yours sincerely

Donovan

MY bucket list

Here it is my bucket list!!!

Drop Cover Hold

 Or Drop and Cover

If there is nothing to hold on to!

AFRICA!!!!

Once upon a time in a land far a way called Kakapaka. There was a boy/man/beast/awesomeness Lachlan he went to a school called Hakapakamaka. Everyone teased him BECAUSE HE WAS THE this list will go on for ever. OK, be warned people teased him because he was the fastest, the smartest, the coolest, the skinest the best behaved and the teachers most favourite. In Hakapakamaka there is a bully there his name is Turkey. He always picks on Lachlan but he doesn't care. One day every one in his class had an idea they have a class blog acount and at 11:45 at lunch time the whole class except Lachlan. Turkey was about to delete all his post on his blog but Lachlan for got his top trumps and he saw what Turkey was doing and went to go tell a teacher and he did Turkey was band from the school for ever.

Everyone lived happily every after!

The story of 9!!!!

One day there was a guy called 9. He only likes games with 9 in them. But one day they stopped making games with 9 in them. So 9 went to the factory to ask why they stopped making games with 9 in them.

It turns out that they don't have any plans because an evil villain named 7 (we asked him what his name was) and he told us to put our hands up or else he will shoot us. So we put our hands up and he took all our plans for the games. “Can't you just redraw it?” asked 9.

“No we can't because he also took our cartoonist, paper and pencils.”

“Should we call the police?”

“Yes, yes please do.” So they called the police and the police came to investigate but they said that this crime was even worse than they thought; so they got to work on investigating. First they checked the door handle for fingerprints second they they checked for footprints third they brought in a sniffer dog. They saw that the suspects footprints led to a special garden and the sniffer dog sniffed out the suspects sent . They both led to the same place. They saw a pacific tree that had a lever on it. So they pulled it and was surprised to find a little room filled  with 9's.

They asked the 9's “why are you hiding in here?”

they replied, “we are scared of evil villain 7 because 7 ate 9!” but then one of the police caught a glimpse of 7 in the corner of his eye and said “there he is let's get him.” After  what felt like forever they finally got 7 and arrested him.

EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

THE END

My speech

speach

Hi my name is Donovan and today I am going to tell you about sloths! Did you know scientists found out that sloths were the size of elephants? I find sloths an interesting topic so that is why I am going to tell you about them!!!!

First I’m going to tell you about sloths and what they are. A sloth is a cute and cuddly medium sized mammal. There are two types of sloths, there is the two toed sloth and the three toed sloth. Sloths have two cousins, the anteater and the armadillo. They are related to the anteater because the two toed sloth sometimes eats ants and they are related to the armadillo by their back bone. The sloths back bone provides strength and the same for the armadillo. All sloths have three toes but the two toed sloth only has 2 fingers!!!!

Are you wondering what a sloth looks like, well, I am going to tell you!!!!!!! Sloths have a brown and black nose and a white and brown face like a panda. The sloth has very long and sharp claws to help them climb trees aswell as getting food. Sloths aren’t very big, they are only about the size of a small dog. They have short flat heads. They have grayish brown hair but sometimes it looks grey green. This is because they have green algae on their coats which helps them camouflage.

Now I’m going to tell you about where sloths live.

Sloths are found in small areas of tropical rainforests along the coast of eastern Brazil. This habitat is disappearing because the rainforest is being cut down to create plantations, have space for livestock and the production of lumber and coal. Sloths have very long and sharp claws that they use to hold onto tree branches. The claws are their only natural defence against preditors. Sloths are also found on one small island off the coast of Panama, they live only in the mangrove forests surrounding the island, not the island itself.

Now I’m going to tell you about the foods that sloths eat. Sloths mainly eat tree buds, new shoots, fruits and leaves. Some two toed sloths eat insects, small reptiles, ants and birds. Sloths eat from 50 or more types of trees in the tropical rainforests.

Did you know sloths have a four part stomach that very slowly digests the tough leaves they eat, it can sometimes take up to a month for them to digest a meal. Digesting this diet means a sloth has very little energy left to move around making it one of the slowest moving animals in the world!

Now I’m going to share some interesting facts about sloths with you. Two toed sloths are nocturnal, being most active at night. Three toed sloths are diurnal which means they are most active during the day. Did you know that sloths only go to the toilet once a week? When they go to the toilet there is a chance that they could get killed by their preditors which are jaguars, the harpy eagle and snakes. It was thought that sloths slept for 15 to 20 hours a day. However, its now believed that they only  sleep around 10 hours a day. Sloths can move along the ground at just 2m  per minute! In the trees they are slightly quicker at 3m  per minute.

Well there you have it, if you did not know too much about sloths, I hope you learned something today. Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoyed my speech.

homework

Why are dog years different to human years?

Dog’s age at different rates compared to humans, but the simple rule of 7 dog years to 1 human year is far from accurate. If humans aged seven times slower than dogs, then many of us would be able to reproduce at age 7 and live to be 150

The Three Billy Trolls Gruff

Writing goal

My writing goal is to use advance punctuation e.g. !`?.,"':;()&<>  

I think I am good at this goal because...

I use it a lot in my writing.

cloudy lesson

There was a boy called Charly and his grandpa called Chicken. One day Chicken had a saprise for Charly but he said it is on a platform in the blue sky. So they started to clime as they were Chicken was caring a puciler case. When they got to the top they had a look around and Chicken put down the case to open it.

He pulled out a meatle object called the cloud maker and he shoad Charly how to use it and he made a humages cloud. Then Charly had a go but he only made a tiny cloud and then Chicken told him to take a deep breth. So he did but it didint work so he kept on trying but he also was leaning on the cloud maker. He tryed once more but Charly acsadently brok the cloud maker and bent it.

Chiken helped him up and Charly rubed his cheek but then Charly looked at the cloud maker it was all bent. Chiken started to cry but Charly had an idea he picked it up and looked thrue at the cloud that his grampa blue. He started to bend it into a star shape and gave it to Chicken he told him to blow it so he did. And suprisingly it made a star he gave it back and asked if he could make a bunny so he did. Then Charly gave it back and Chicken blue it and it made a bunny then Charly asked if he could have a go. Chiken let him have a go and he made love hart to blow!

THE END 

The Catch

One day there was a boy named Tamaki who lived in a village called Three Stars. His village wanted him to go fishing for food but he didn't want to. They argued for what seemed like forever but finally he decided that he would just go fishing and get it over with.

Tamaki was sad as he didn't want to go fishing; he walked to the small little pond by his village. But after a little while his fishing rod started bobbing. He pulled it up and found a little fish. He looked back at his village and in his mind he said "I hope this will do." 

Suddenly he heard a fox trap go off. He went to go and see what it was and he found a tiny little fox trapped trying to get away. He pulled out his pocket knife and the fox covered up his face with his paws. Tamaki was only trying to cut the fox free. 

When he set the fox free, the fox ran into the bushes and came out quickly trying to duel Tamaki. The fox pushed Tamaki down but then luckily he smelt the fish that Tamaki had caught. He jumped off Tamaki and went to the fish. Tamaki was relieved for only a second because then the fox picked up the fish in his mouth and ran into the forest.

Written by Miss Cooper - told by Donovan

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Tamaki was annoyed at the fox because the fox took the only fish he had caught for his village. So he decided to chase the fox. He chased the fox for a while and finally the fox ran into a log. Tamaki jumped on top of it next to the other side to try catch the fox. But he didn't because the fox found a hole in the middle of the log and jumped onto Tamaki again. 

Then the fox ran up a hill and started to climb a mountain. Tamaki looked up the mountain and thought "Is this really necessary?" because it was only just a little fish. He decided that he would just carry on. While he climbed he felt nervous and scared. Halfway up the mountain he lost his favourite hat but he didn't climb back down to get it. He was so determined that he just kept on climbing.

When he got to the top, he saw the fox sitting at the edge of a foggy area. Suddenly the fox threw the fish and it landed with a loud splash. The fog suddenly disappeared and the bright sun blinded Tamaki. Then he saw the gigantic lake where loads of big fish were living.

The fox nudged Tamaki and gave him a stick which surprised him. Then he realised it was for him to fish with so he pulled out some string and a hook and started to fish. After a little while, he had finished. He caught loads of big fish for his village and as he was leaving, he gave the fox one of the smaller fish. 

Tamaki was excited because he had caught loads of fish and had not let down his village. He started heading back home. Once Tamaki was out of sight, the fox suddenly faded into the air up to the skies. 

Reading goals

Reading goals 

1. I can read a lot-a voracious reader.


2. I can choose good-fit books by using the five finger strategy.

I think I have achieved these goals because...

I think I am good at being a voracious reader because I love reading.

I all ways choose good books with the five finger.

My maths goals

My maths goals

1 I want to know groupings with in 1,000 fast. 

Eg 655+ 345  =1000

2 I want know how to subtract facts to 20 fast.

Eg 16-3=13

I think I have acheved all of them because...

I know all of the facts to 1000.

I know all of my subtraction fact from 20.

Key competency

Key competency goals reflection 

These are my key competency goals.

My goal is to manage myself.

I will contribute. I will also be quiet at the right time

I think I have achieved two of them becuase...

I always contribute when the teacher Miss Cooper askes a question.

I am now all ways quiet at the right time.

Autumn Leaves

Here is my Autumn Leaves Poem:

Autumn Leaves

Week 5 clock tower

One day there were two happy people, one was a prince and the other was a princess! They lived in a humongous castle.

But one day an evil witch sneakily got into the castle. She crept around corners and took out the guards. The witch got in to the throne room and hid behined the enormous statue that was a dog. But the prince could smell her because she smelled horrible! The guards looked all over the room but couldn't find her, that was because she had moved to another hiding spot behined the thrones!

But before the prince sat down the witch wouldn't let him because she wanted to have a battle
and she said "if I win you will be cursed for life and the princess will be too. But if you win I will never leave her house again!" They fought for what felt like forever but finally the witch won and turned the prince to stone.

 The princess got cursed; she was forced to live in a clock tower for the rest of here life . But one day there was a festival where all of the villagers had to release a balloon. The princes wanted to join in but she couldn't because whenever she went outside it became Gray and time froze. She tried to uncurse  hereself but it didn't work.

She was sad and lonely. She wished she never was a princess to begin with. She wished that the prince could save her.

Dogo news!!

Hi guys! I have a news article that I have to share with you.
If you want to read it for your self the link is below:
http://www.dogonews.com/2015/4/8/scrunchies-may-save-birds-from-natures-fiercest-predator-your-cat



Did you know that cats kill 8 billion birds a year. Also small animals like meerkats!! In the stats at least 80 million homes have cats and them alone kill 2.4 billion birds and animals.

Hope you like it!!

holliday blog bingo

I have found the following blog which I would like to share:

http://room19phs2015.blogspot.co.nz/

It is a blog from a year 5 class at Pakuranga Heights school
I like the blog because they have some cool poems on it. They also used  some thing called Thinglink which allows you to add cool little icons to images I thing we should try and do that next term. I think it will be fun.

Term 1 reflection

We are in Week 9 and we now have four more days until the end of term. I thought this was a good time to reflect on our term.

1. What did you enjoy most in the term? Why?
I enjoyed EOTC week most because we did lods of fun activities 

2. What did you enjoy doing most in the classroom? Why?
I enjoyed ITC skills most because we learn new skills 

3. What have you found hard in your learning this term? Explain.
I have found maths hard because we have to learn louds of diffrent skills at once 

4. What are you most pleased with in your learning? Why?
I am most pleased with writing because I am in the booster writing group

5. Tell us one thing you would like to learn about in Term 2.
When technology was first made and what the first ever car  in the world was and what it looked like 

EOTC story

On Wednesday day we did Yoth town



Before we started Miss Cooper did the roll then we got a quick drink and snack.



Then we went onto the grass and so did room 31. We got our groups ready and we meet the teachers. We fingered out that most of them are from a different country!!



Next we did the activities first we did the flint stone car (the first ever car made). Then we did problem solving after that we had morning tea. Next we did walkie talkie after that we did ti pe building (my team made the biggest) then we had lunch. After lunch we did archery it was fun we had a compaction boys v girls the boys won.



Once we did all the fun activates we sat in our groups on the field and we thanked them for giving up there time to be with us and letting us have a fun time. then they thanked us for being a good group

We could finally relax because it was home time!!!! Time to relax from a tiring day!!!!!!!!  

Something special

My dog Gizmo is special to me because she loves me. She is good company and she likes to lie on my bed and lap which keeps me warm. She is easy to train and we love taking her to the school field so she can run around and follow our commands (rewarded with treats). She is a great pet to have around!

NEWS ARTICLE Smart Labrador Hops On City Bus Solo, To Visit Dog Park

Hi guys,
 I just read this article and I have to shear it with you!!

This labrador can hop on the city bus solo. It was never supposed to do it because its owner would normally stop for something before they got on the bus to go to the park. But one day his owner was taking longer than usual so the dog got on the bus and it knew when to get off, it is so cool. I wish I had a dog like that. But I am fine with my dog!!!!


If you want to see it for yourself click the link below:
http://www.dogonews.com/2015/1/19/video-of-the-week-smart-labrador-hops-on-city-bus-solo-to-visit-dog-park


HOPE YOU ENJOYED

writing goal

Hi  guys this is my writing goal

My writing goal is to use advance punctuation e.g. !`?.,"':;()&<> 

key competency goals

Hi guys,

these are my key competency goals.

My goal is to manage myself.

I will contribute. I will also be quiet at the right time.

Hi these are some cool words about me

I am a very athletic person and I love going to the beach. I play cricket, soccer and tennis.

I care for the environment and I have enrolled in the enviro fernz group at school.

I spend most of my free time on technology. I am a computer expert at games like Minecraft and tanki.

My family is important to me. We have a cat and a dog that I love playing with. I am an animal lover.

I love going to zoos like the Auckland zoo. Just recently went to Africa and visited a game reserve. It was a cool experience to see animals in their natural environment.  

EOTC WEEK

1. How are you feeling after EOTC week? Explain.

I am feeling tired because it was hard work.

2. What did you enjoy most during EOTC week? Explain.

Yoth town because there were lots of fun activities.  

3. What was your least favourite thing about EOTC week? Explain.

Nothing because everything was fun.
4. Tell us about something new that you learned.

How to tie lots of different  knots.

reading goals

Hi guys, I have some cool reading goals

1. I can read a lot-a voracious reader.
I choose this goal because I love reading.

2. I can choose good-fit books by using the five finger strategy.

EOTC week

1. How are you feeling about EOTC week? Explain?

I am feeling excited because it will be lots of fun!!!!

2. What are you looking forward to most in EOTC week? Explain.

I am looking forward to Rangitoto the most because I have been there before.

3. What are you not so excited about in EOTC week? Explain.

Nothing because I am excited about everything.

4. Is there any activity that has you feeling a bit anxious/worried? Explain why.

No because I bet every thing is going to be fun.

5. In Room 32 we are working on managing ourselves - that means being responsible and making good decisions. Tell us how you could make good decisions and be responsible during EOTC week.

Not mucking around and listening

6. Make 3 goals for EOTC week. They could be simple goals like I will listen to my team leader or they could be something like I will take care of my belongings.


goal 1.Listen

goal 2.Not muck around

goal 3.Have fun

My maths goals

 Hi guys these are my maths goals

1 i want to know groupings with in 1,000 fast. 

Eg 655+   =1000

2 I want know how to subtract facts to 20 fast.

Eg 16-3=13