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Global Warming

In Room 5 we read an Infobyte about global warming. We were asked to make a slideshow about global warming. Here is my slideshow.

Pet day review

On the 21st of October 2016 Awahono School we had Pet Day.  In Room 5 we had to write a review about Pet Day. Here is my review.

Pet Day Review

Today I’m going to talk to you about Awahono Schools Pet Day on Friday the 21st   of October 2016. Pet day is a day when everybody brings a Pet to school. At Pet Day we have a lot of things to do like Pet parade, judging and the work shops.

The first thing that I’m going to talk to you about is the Pet parade. The Pet parade is held on the school court in the middle of the whole school.  All of the children walk their pets or carry them around the court once. I think that the pet parade is a really good idea because then everyone got a chance to see all of the pets.

The second thing that I’m going to tell you about is the animals. At Pet Day most of the children bring an animal. There were many different kinds of pets at Pet Day like dogs, cats, chickens, birds and lots of other animals. I think that all of the animals behaved well and didn’t try to run away except for my chicken.

The last thing that I’m going to talk to you about is the workshops.  There were a lot of different kinds of work shops like arts and crafts, outdoor activities and a few other ones. In the arts and crafts work shop they did origami. They made little cats, dogs and a few cows. I think that the workshops were really fun and most of them were really creative workshops.

Overall, I think that Awahono School Pet Day was a really fun day because none of the pets tried to run away because the people would have tied them up or held them.                                                        

Life Cycle of a Frog

Last term, one of the children in Room 5 brought in some tadpoles. We had to write a factual explanation about the tadpoles . It includes three stages in their lives. Here is my piece of writing.

Life Cycle of a Frog

Today I’m going to talk to you about a frog’s life cycle. A frog is a small amphibian that spends half of its life underwater and half of land. Here are the three main paragraphs that I’m going to talk to you about: eggs, tadpoles and a frog.

Eggs

Eggs are the first stage in a frog’s life. The eggs look like a little black dot with jelly around it.  The frog egg get laid in a group with lots of other eggs. There are sometimes more than 700 eggs in one group of eggs.

Tadpole

Now I’m going to talk to you about the second stage before the tadpole becomes a frog.  A tadpole looks like a head with a little tail and eyes.  In about 6-7 days the egg becomes a tadpole. The tadpole grows its front legs first, then they grow their hind legs. After the tadpole has its legs it spends a little bit of time out of water.

Frogs

The third stage after the tadpole has spent a few weeks under the water it becomes a frog.  The frog eats many different things when it’s an adult, for example blood worms, ants, fruit flies and small crickets. Finally when the frog has fully adapted into a grown up frog, he spends a lot more time out of the water.

My opinion in a frog’s life they always have three different stages eggs, tadpole and a becoming a frog.

Cricket

The other day in Room 5 Paddy, a cricket teacher, came and taught us some cricket skills. I think that something that helped me hit the ball was the cones that Paddy put the balls on. We had to make a slideshow of some of the pictures that Jo one of our teachers took. Here's my one.

Dr Dischord

In Room 5 our teacher Mrs Idle has been reading us a book called The Phantom Tollbooth. The other day we had to start to write a description about Dr Dischord. Here is my favourite sentence from my description. This sentence was the first sentence that I wrote in my description.

One day Dr Dischord was sitting in his little wagon making medicines, and suddenly he heard a knock at the door.

St John

In Room 5 a lady from St John came and showed us what to do when we find someone unconscious.  Everybody in my class had to make a drawing about what we learnt.

Self-Portrait

This is my self-portrait. I used oil pastels for colouring in my face and my background.  One thing I found difficult was putting the eyes in the right place.  One of the things that I learnt was where to put the lines to show where to put features like eyebrows and eyelashes.

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At Awahono School each year we have a Pet Day. In Room 5 we had to write an explanation about Pet Day. We had to write about 4 or more different paragraphs that we thought of. We also had to make notes about those paragraphs that we had chosen.

What is Pet Day?

Every year Awahono School has a pet day for all the pets. Most of the kids from the school bring a pet to school to show them all off.  

Pets

At Pet Day children bring a lot of different kinds of pets.  Some of the animals can be house pets or farm pets.  The house pets can include cats, birds and mice.  The farm pets can be some different kinds of baby calves, sheep and even baby goats.

Judging

At Pet Day some people that volunteer to be a judge come around and ask you about your pet.  When you get judged the judges give you points for different things like for the posters and all of the queshon about your pets.  With all the points that you can get a prize for first, second and third.  When you get first, second or third you get a bag that has some prizes inside of it.

Activities  

At Pet Day there are some different activities that you can choose from. Most of the activities are run by the teachers from Awahono School.  They are also run in the class that the teacher runs most of the time.  At the end of those activities you have a break and then move to the other activities that you have chosen.

        Conclusion

In conclusion, I think that Pet Day is a fun way to show off your pets and to try and win some prizes for the best pet and for best poster. This is a also a fun way to learn a bit more about your pet.  

Improper Fractions

In my group in maths we have been doing improper fractions.  Our teacher Mrs Idle made one to show us what to do  and she said that we had to try and make one too . Here is mine.  Scroll down when you have figured it out to see the answer.

The History of the Olympic Games

In Room 5 we had to do some research on the Olympics. We had to get information about the history of the Olympics. Here is what I found out about the history of the Olympics.

The History of the Olympic Games

The Olympic Games originated in Greece as many as 3,000 years ago.  The Olympic Games were firstly a part of a religious  festival in Greece. In the first Olympic Games only men could compete in them and married women could not watch the Olympics. The Olympics would only go for a few days like 1 to 4 days. After a long time the Olympics were banned because the Emperor Theodosius saw the Olympics games, which represented the Greek God Zeus, as an offense to Emperor Theodosius’s Christian religion.  

The Olympics came back in 1894. The man named Baron  Pierre De Coubertin was the man who was responsible for reviving the Games.  Baron Pierre De Coubertin was from France.  The first modern Olympic Games came in 1896 two years after Baron Pierre De Coubertin wanted the Olympics to come back.

Every four years the Olympics are held in a different place like in 2020 in Tokyo.  The 2024 Olympic are going to be held in Los Angeles and so on.  Most countries compete in the Olympics, some don’t go but they are welcome to come and play at the Olympics. This year (2016) the Olympics were held in Rio De Janeiro.

What are the Olympic Games?

In room 5 we had to write an explanation about the Olympics. We had to write in paragraphs. Here is my explanation of the Olympic games.

What are the Olympic Games?

At the Olympics people from all over the world come to a different country to compete to win a medal.  The countries send their top athletes to compete.  Every four years it is held in some other country. The first ever Olympics were held in Greece.

At the Olympics there are some different medals to win like gold, silver and bronze.  Gold is for first place, silver is for second so that means bronze is for third place.  The gold medal is not solid gold - it is silver with a coat of gold over it.

There are lots of different sports to do at the Olympics.  Some of the sports are rowing, shot put, shooting, cycling and many more different sports.  In the rowing New Zealand won a gold medal in 2016.  The two people that won it were Hamish Bond and Eric Murray.

In conclusion in the Olympics people from all over the world come to do different sports, every 4 years. They all try to win one of the three different kinds of medals called gold, silver and bronze.

By Coby Stott

Awahono School Mini Olympics

On Friday the 19th of August Awahono School held Mini Olympics.  We had a lot of different fun games that Room Six put up for us like tug of war, moon hoppers and a lot of different ones.  In this photo it has most of Room 5's kids in it most of them have a medal we won.  We had gold, silver and bronze medals that we won. 

Typing Tutor

I have been learning in my touch typing to do short paragraphs. I want to be getting on to my next thing that is Advanced punctuation in intermediate. I did one of the paragraphs and it is called Tracy's flag and I was trying to not look down at the keys while I was doing it.

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