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Goal: Write an advertisement to sell our chickens

Writing goal

Use poetic language to add description(simile,alliteration,  exaggeration,personification).

CHICKENS FOR SALE!!!

Our school is selling a variety of friendly chickens who have had lots of care and aroha. They are on a steady diet of greens and High Quality grain. They get Two and a half bottles of grain per day. They are drinking fresh water that has to be cleaned every day. The chickens are laying medium eggs with bright yellow yolks. Maybe if you are lucky you may get a double yolk. The chickens all lay except the little ones who aren’t old enough but they are nearly ready. Each lunchtime they get let out to stretch their legs and have a scratch around. They have lived in a big coop with lots of room for them to run around in. Feel free to come in and buy them.

Handwriting 2

Something I did well-I did my sloping really well I think I achieved my goal.
New goal- Show neatness and care in presentation.

  

Interview Questioner

Parent Interead that has got interviews - Yearly Reflections

My writing goal is (have you changed it, why?) - My writing goal is to use poetic language to add description(simile,alliteration,  exaggeration,personification). No I didn’t change my writing goal because I still need to work on using description and personification.  I use description in the stories we write online.

I practice this by rewriting stories that I have read that has descriptive language in it.

A piece of writing I am proud of is - Big vs bigger. Because I used a lot of descriptive language in it.

In maths I am currently learning (how do you feel about this, what are your next steps? Give your parents a rundown of what we do as well) We were learning to add and subtract numbers in the hundreds. Like 284 - 279 =. I feel really confused because why don’t you take 20 away not just 10? Mr Dillon has also downloaded some math games like maths vs zombies and they are really fun. Mr Dillon also makes us work out problems as a group then we come down to the mat and we shark tank a group. Shark tank is where we ask lots questions from talk move card stuck on the board.

Reading - Share your reading work (talk about some of the things you do in reading.) In reading we have been using “I think that means”. I think that means is when we read a part of a book then Mr Dillon asks us what do you think that means? In reading we also read really challenging books with big words in it.

Do you have any other goals you would like to share, what are you doing to achieve them? I have my handwriting goals, My handwriting goals are,

- neatly rule off on the line

- Slope letters consistently.

I am trying to achieve it by each time I write I slope.

Pick 3 more pieces of work from your blog (write why you are going to share them and what you were learning to do)

• Bike safety
• Spelling testing
• Business Reflection

Writing Goal

 Writing Goal

Goal - Use poetic language to add description(simile,alliteration,  exaggeration,personification).

I choose this goal because because - I don't really use descriptive language and  exaggeration.

End Of Year Reflection

End of Year Reflection

What has been the best part of 2017 for you?

My best part of 2017 has been doing Calendar art, because I have worked hard and it looks really good.

What is something you have been proud of in 2017?

The thing I am proud of this year has been doing our Handwriting, because I have tried my best and I have achieved all my Goals.

What do you think that good learners do?

• Good learners finish their work on time.
• They listen to instructions and other  people's ideas.
• Learns from mistakes.

What is one way that you show that in class?

• Getting on with our work.
• Problem solving.
• Asking Questions.

What is one Toko Learning Star that you would like to work on and why?

I would like to work on the Learning to Learn Star by doing researches to find information, because I need to work on looking for the right websites and reading the website to find information.

What is one learning goal you are currently working on, what are you doing to achieve it?

One of my goals for Handwriting is slope letters consistently, I am working on my goal by each time I am writing I try not to over slope my letters but have them perfect.

If you were going to give yourself a message for learning in 2018, what would it be?

I am going to try my best with the math problems such as Five hundred and Eighty Four take away One hundred and Forty Six next year, because this year it has been a bit hard for me.

Bike Safety

This is my google slide about Senior Jono coming to our school to teach us about bikes.

Spelling Testing

Goal-I am learning to improve my spelling by learning my essential list
 words.
My essential spelling level  is Level 11

My Podcast Recording

Business Reflection

Over the last few weeks we have been researching and looking at websites about our business. My group has been looking at making compost. I have learned that you need to use Grass clippings, Scraps/home scraps(tea bags), Garden flowers that have finished sprouting, coffee grinds, chicken manure(chicken poop), hay and leaves. We have decided that we will work together as a whole class to use personal best to work at business so we can get further. We will be trying to sell chickens, make graphs, make grain, compost, building nesting boxes and growing food.

Bike Safety

Bike safety with Senior Jono

Yesterday we had bike safety with Senior Jono one of the stratford policeman. He told us where we can ride and what parts there are on a bike. He also taught us all the hand signals that we need to do on the road if we are cycling. After he had finished telling us all about the bike and the things we need to know he told us to go outside and get our bikes. Most people had brought their bikes but the people who hadn’t got to use some of the ones Senior Jono brought along in his trailer. There was another lady who helped Senior Jono teach us about bike safety and her name was Jody. When we were outside Senior Jono taught us the power pedal. After he had taught us the power pedal we had to go around a course that was laid out on the basketball court. On the course there was a roundabout at the other end of the court. As well as having to go around the roundabout we also had to give way to the people going around the circle. After we had gone around the court a few times we had to walk our bikes down to the back field with Jody while Senior Jono was packing up. We were walking our bikes down to the back field because we were going to have a few races. The first race was called the slow race, we had to go the slowest we can without putting our feet on the ground. If we put our feet on the ground we were stuck in the mud. After we had, had Two of the slow races we had Two fast races. We had to race to the other end, do Five star jumps then hop back onto our bike and then race back to the start. We had alought of fun at bike safety.

Maths Blog Reflection

The name of my fraction is: One Eighth - 1/8


I know my answer is correct because: If you have a whole and you make lots of the Eighth's then you put them all together and it makes One whole.

Chicken Business

This is our slides for our chicken business. Just  tap the link and open it in  new tab.

My life as a chicken named Storm

My life as a chicken named Storm

Chirp,chirp,chirp that’s the sound of a black chicken. Well it’s no ordinary chicken, it’s a pitched black chicken whose name is Storm. When I was born I looked like an Ostrich. The people in Room 5 put a Yellow bande around my leg to identify me. They named me Storm because I am as black as a thunder cloud. I am still quite young, only four weeks old. Each day I get taken out of a little brooder box and get put onto a plastic mat. They look after me well. They also get kids from other classrooms to have a look at me and all the other chickens. There is one little boy one Room 5 who looks after me well. His name is Leslie. He keeps me really cozy. I sleep under a heat lamp that keeps me warm when I am not in his arms. Each morning some kids come out and put me onto a plastic mat and start cleaning my home. I usually hang out with Chicken little and Inky the other two little chickens. We don’t hang out with the big ones because they peck and bully us. Sometimes Room 5 are a little too noisy and and we cuddle up to  our babysitters. There is no other chicken that looks like me so that makes me special. Once someone turned off the heat lamp and I thought I was going to freeze. Luckily enough a boy called Harrison came to the rescue. My crest is growing very fast. I think that I am a hen not a rooster. My life at Toko school is awesome I never want to leave.

By Charis

Dai Henwood's story

Runaway Robot Rampage – Complete story animated video from Ministry of Education on Vimeo.

Goal :

• Retell a story in my own words.

• Use poetic language to add description(simile,alliteration,  exaggeration,personification).
  

     Hemi hated doing the lawns,his dad asked him every weekend, every weekend to mow the lawns. One weekend Hemi walked outside looking glum. His dad had just said that if the lawns weren’t mowed by the end of the week Hemi wouldn’t get any pocket money. Hemi pulled out his wallet and opened it, all that came out was three red fly’s. Hemi looked down at the long, green grass that was as wet as a swimming pool that was up to his knees. He felt really annoyed. He kicked the grass and it waved back and forth for a few minutes. All Hemi felt like doing right now was making one of his latest robot inventions. Suddenly Hemi had a bright idea. What if he made a robot lawnmower? Hemi walked off to the shed. He looked in boxes, cupboards and old sacks lying here and there. He found, a pair of old scissors, a blender, some old steak knives, dad’s nose trimmer, a laser pointer and some old guitar strings to tie it together. “Now I will make my own lawnmower invention to mow the lawns” Hemi happily danced  around the place. That night Hemi stayed up late to make his robot. He had just finished when there was a lightning streak and Hemi yelled “ he’s alive!” The next thing he knows is that the robot has blown up “oh no, false alarm” was Hemi’s next statement.It was going to be longgggg night.

The next morning Hemi wheeled his mysterious invention onto the lawn where his dad had asked him to mow.  Hemi took the purple blanket off the mysterious machine and without looking threw it behind him. He pulled out a pitched black remote that was in his pocket. “On,start, mower, set” Hemi mumbled to himself. The robot lawnmower jumped out of the trolley and raced to the start of the lawn. The steak knives going round and round as fast as a rocket hurtling into space.  In no time the lawn mower had finished mowing the front lawn. The next day was the same. While the lawn mower was mowing the lawns at the back of Hemi’s house Hemi fell asleep to the hum of the mower. Hemi woke with a start,what had woken him? In a distance Hemi heard a crowd yelling and his mysterious robot was nowhere to be seen. He raced out of his back yard and sprinted towards the village. To his surprise he was running through his neighbor's back yard. He looked back and saw that all the fences were lying on the ground except for there stumps. As Hemi got to the village it was even more bizarre. There was cats and dogs running every with half leashes on. What had his robot lawnmower done? Out of the corner of his eye Hemi saw a large crowd gathering around and there was the humming of his robot lawnmower. When Hemi reached the crowd he was out of breath there in the middle of the crowd was the lawnmower in a deep hole. There were people looking very mad everywhere. Hemi noticed that his Mum and Dad’s car was parked outside a hotel room and they were coming out looking very mad. Suddenly the noise died down and Hemi couldn’t hear the humming of his robot lawnmower. Hemi pushed through the crowd and made his way towards the hole that the robot had made. To his surprise the robot just lay there doing nothing. It was dead. Now Hemi does the lawns by hand.