Thomas' ePortfolio: 2017

City trip

What? On Monday the 20th hub 5 went into the city on 2 buses. we went to the Canterbury museum we also went on a walk around the city and we went to the art gallery

So what? when we went to the art gallery we got to look at all the panting/sculptures we had to do lots of activity some were easy some were hard.The city walk was just a big scavenger hunt over the WHOLE CITY there was a lot of walking.At the museum there was a tour guide with us and she made us do lots of activity's it was really really fun.

Now what? If I went back I would have spent more time in the gallery because it was my favorite destination on the trip.

athletics

On Tuesday and Wednesday we had Kauri athletics.

A challenge I faced on athletics day was getting over the bar in high jump.

My favorite event on the day was discus because I am good at it and came third

Something I am proud of is that I came 4th in sprints, 4th in shot put, 4th in long jump and 3rd in discus which is really good because there was 48 people in my group.

C.A.R.E Values Blog, Week 8-9, term 3

WHAT?

My goal is to develop the consistent use of our CARE Values towards all the people I interact with and for myself .

SO WHAT?

My strengths are in being a being a respectful person because I am nice do jobs without being asked and say good morning.
I have achieved my bronze certificate.

NOW WHAT

I am going to work towards silver because its the next and I think I am going to get it.
I am going to do this by consistently showing my care values such as the respect value.

Art Attack Blog, Week 5, term 3

WHAT?

For art attack my goal was to produce a piece of art related to our local landscape using either paint, water colour or pastel.

With Mr Rule I looked at the different landscape features of Canterbury and Banks Peninsula.

SO WHAT?

somethings I included were trees mountains flowers a river and birds

NOW WHAT?

I would like to try water colours if I did another landscape because I want to see the difference between water colours and paint

My learning Goals for Term 3

What?

I have been identifying my literacy goals for the start of term 3

My reading teacher is Mr Rule

My writing teacher is Mrs Marsh

So What?

My handwriting goal is to slope all of my letters in the same direction

My spelling goal is to complete list 8

My writing goal is to identify the structure and features of a moment in time/descriptive writing.

My reading goal is to understand what the author has written in a paragraph to help us make a sensible prediction what will happen in the next paragraph.

My blog goal is to proofread and edit my blog post before publishing

Writing

What is my learning goal?
My goal for the year is to get to and finish list 8 / commonly misspelt words.

What have I learned?
I have learned how to spell list 4 and words, like people.

What is my next step?
My next step will be to complete list 8 fully

music lessons

what? My learning goal is to learn a rap of by heart.

So what? I have learned how to rap.

Now what? My next step is to be able to memorize a rap.

Dancing

WHAT?

IHBL: a hip hop routine and a cha cha routine

So What

My favorite movement / dance was the hip hop and my favorite part of the hip hop routine was

the robot

Now what?

I would like to do further dance lessons

Mathematics

What?

I have been learning to solve times problems using the standard written form (algorithm)

So What?

I am learning how to solve problems like 469 X 7 in a algorithm

Now What?

I feel confident with this strategy.

Reading Goal`s

What is my learning goal? My goal is to read the Harry Potter Books properly by the end of the school year.

What have I learned? I have learned to read all the "Big Nate" series of books.

What is my next step? My next step is to be able to read a "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" in under in hour.

Reciprocal Reading

What?
I am learning about Reciprocal Reading

So what?
I have learned that Reciprocal Reading involves students being leaders. everyone is expected to contribute

Now what?
Two areas I want to get better at are predicting and questioning

te reo maori

what?
we have been learning language about ko au which means me myself and I

so what?
something I have learnt to say is what is the maori word for ------- maori is he aha te kupu maori mo

now what?
my next learning step is to say my hole mehi of by heart

ANZAC Blog

What? I am learning about Anzac Day as it is an important part of our learning about ‘Being a New Zealander’

So What?

Two things I know: That at an Anzac ceremony they have an minute of silence

and were poppy,s because they grew on the battle field

Two things I would like to know: what guns they used and how long it took to make the guns ammo and grenades for all the solders

One things I have learned: That some people had to go to war if they liked it or not

Now What?

what I would like to know is who were famous people in the war

Keeping Ourselves Safe

This week,s post is about keeping ourselves safe.

What? I am learning to make safe decisions.

so what? I am learning this because it will help me be safe.

now what? an example of a safe decision is if some one asks for my full name on a game or to put up the webcam and I will say no.

Multicultural Week

what?

I learned about different countries and cultures

so what?

I was learning about

Israel with Cheryl

now what?
i want to improve my skill to use chopsticks