Sunday, December 11, 2016

Prep Market 2016!



Come to our Prep market where we sell products designed and made by us!
Where: Rangikura School 95 Conclusion Street  
When: Tuesday 13th of December
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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Friday, October 14, 2016

My Book Review



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My Book Review
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Title: Horton Hatches The Egg
Author: Dr.Seuss
Illustrator:  Dr.Seuss

What I Liked Best: I liked the riming in the story, I think it makes the book more exciting and interesting, because when a word a word comes you’ll be wondering what is he going to rime this word with.     
Storyline: It’s about named a elephant named Horton and a bird named Mayzie.  Mayzie has an egg she has to look after but she is very lazy, so she asked Horton.  Mayzie flew off to have fun.  Hunters come and shoot horton so then he falls asleep.   A few days later he ends up in the circus, Mayzie flies in and finds out her egg is hatching, crack, crack, crack, and outcomes an elephant-bird.
 
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What I Didn’t Like: I loved every bit.  
What Is My Favourite character: Mayzie because I can relate to her, I would hate to sit on that egg all day while my friends are having fun.  
Would I Recommend This Book: I would recommend this book to people who like poetry, learning new words and people who like reading in general.   

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Olympic Artwork



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In term three we were working on a piece for the Olympics, this piece has many different subjects like maths, writing, art and our heads on our chosen athlete.   

For the maths we did a tessellation (a tessellation is a repeated pattern that has no gaps or overlaps).  For the tessellation we used a 3.8 triangle, as you can see I made hexagons and squares out of just using that single polygon (shape).  

We also wrote the three Olympic values respect, excellence and friendship, we chose to put these on our poster because they were related to the Olympics, and without these there will be huge fights during the game.    

We did different similes (a simile is a comparison using like or as), and metaphors (a metaphor is a direct comparison not using like or as)  in the speech bubbles and thought clouds. Can you guess which one is which?

The paper we used was slightly smaller than A3, we cut off about 4cm.  We had to use specific vocabulary that you would normally hear or see in the Olympics.


I enjoyed collaborating with other people and sharing ideas.  Now this piece is laminated and hanging above Room 10’s tables



Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Hong Kong STEM Challenge


Our Materials:
6 x long sticks
1 x  wooden square
2 x pipe cleaners
2 x straws
11 x plastic cubes
1 x bunch of popsicle sticks
4 x wooden small flat pieces



Challenge #1 - Build a structure with a cube as the base:
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In challenge 1 it was hard because you had to focus on balancing the structure so it does not fall and bust down and that happened to us a lot, so we had to make it again.  It was going well at the start but at the end, not so much.

Challenge #2 - Build the tallest structure that you can and your base can be any size:
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Challenge 2 was very interesting because it’s hard to build things on a table when everyone is doing something at the same time.  It was going well until it came to the end.



Challenge #3 -  Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it:
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In challenge 3 you had to make one of your items stick out of the side.  It was hard because you had to make it balance and the pipe cleaners were supposed to be the things that stick out, but they touched the table and you cannot let that happen.

Monday, September 5, 2016

Moment In Time Week 7


Today our teacher asked us to write a ‘Moment In Time’ piece using a picture of a boy in the water.  We planned as a class to make sure we had the 5 W’s and the 6 Senses.  


Before we began our writing in small groups we discussed the importance of using descriptive writing, using similes and metaphors where appropriate, using dialogue and have done our best to make sure our punctuation is correct.  Some of us have even used ‘Show Don’t Tell’ in our writing to provide our reader with more of an experience.


Our teacher gave us 10 minutes for each paragraph and then 10 minutes for editing at the end.  We had so much fun working together!


If you have a moment, we would love you to comment on our writing.  


Boy Overboard!


Jack was heaving on his rod but it was stuck, he kept heaving and heaving he looked down to see where it was stuck, he leaned over to much and he face planted in the icy cold water gasping for air, he could feel sharks bumping into him and he could feel the fins under his feet, Jack was frightened.  He heard the boat slowly moving away from him, “Help! Help!” he cried.


Nobody could hear Jack’s lonely call.  Jack could smell the diesel engine moving further and further away.  Jack started to give up his hopes, goosebumps started forming on the sides of his arms.  He didn't know what to do…he said to himself “I don't want to die this way” with a frown on his face and tear in his eye.


He could feel the sharks getting closer and closer to him, a shark pounced out of the water and bit his shoulder, he could hear the bone shattering into a millions of pieces, Jack sunk to the bottom of the deep blue sea slowly rising up to the top.  “I’m alive!” Jack shouted.  Jack had one arm but he was still grateful that he was alive…    


Written by Havana and Sonia.


Sonia:
I think I did well with giving ideas and fixing our punctuation.  I also learnt new words like heaving and pounced.  I had a lot of fun.  


Havana:
I think I did well with my ideas, editing and fixing our work.  I we both did well making the story interesting.  I learnt words like heaving and diesel engine.  I had fun.


Sunday, August 7, 2016

Tessellation


Definition of tessellation
Tessellation is:
A pattern made of identical polygons:
• the polygons must fit together without any gaps
• the polygons should not overlap


Look to the right for an example of tessellation.
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Regular polygon
Irregular polygon
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A regular polygon has equal sides.  
And a irregular polygon has uneven sides.  
Salzman, L., (1990).  Cool Tessellations.  Creative activities that make math and science fun for kids!  P6-7)



Vocabulary
Polygons = shapes
Vertices = when two or more lines meet
Angles = the amount of turn between two straight lines that have an end point.



Thursday, June 30, 2016

Matariki Reflection

Matariki is time for refection.  Yesterday with Whaea Toni we took the time to reflect on our year and set a new goal.  Here is the goal set.  





We made a matariki star.  We used our algebraic thinking.  We had a pattern to follow: 
1, 2 and down
1 up 
We repeated this pattern until we got this pattern

























Monday, June 27, 2016

Matariki Celebration





In my class we have been doing mānu tukutuku( kite making )for our school Matariki celebration, every class is doing something different.  Every year māori people celebrate Matariki.  Matariki comes in late may and early June, they are also known as the seven sisters.  Matariki is the māori new year they celebrate it all across New Zealand.  My teacher put us into groups my buddy is Ben

Now let's talk about the celebration and what they do.  They have feast, they make mānus, they play knuckle-bones and do kapa haka.  And to celebrate our school is having a Matariki celebration and I wish I had been there.  

The materials we used toe toe, raupō and wool for a modern contemporary look.  We used a black piece of paper and a design to cover up the gap at the top.  We got the toe toe and raupō from the hill across the road from our school.   

We also had to show tikanga.  Tikanga it is about respect, culture and why we do what we do.  We also do it to show respect to the plants and this is how to do it, after you have use the plant cut it up into small pieces and put it under the plant.  

Now we are talking about team working as a team.  Ben  did the weaving on the left, and I did the right and the middle, he held the mānu while we had a few bumps and we didn’t agree on everything but the mānu turned out great.  

The easiest part for me was the weaving because it's kinda like plaiting hair, and the hardest part was tying it up at the start (Ben did that part) because it was messy.

I hope you enjoined this piece of writing and understand the meaning of matariki.  

Here is our bit of the celebration, we did this with room nine.









Thursday, May 5, 2016

Matariki...

This week me and my group have been learning about Matariki.  I drew to share my understanding





Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The Show !!!



Jaxs fish ‘n’ chips


Thank You note


Dear Jax


Thank for coming to Rangikura School to share your opera show.


My favourite part was when the salesman sold the the elixir but he lied to Nemo and gave him L&P.   I also really liked it when the salesman and Nemo did their handshake it was pretty cool.


I would really love it if you would come again.


Your sincerely


Sonia
Rangikura school
Sonia @ Rangikura

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Book


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These are my books.   The book on the left is called Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000, and the book on the right is called The Impossible Quest Wolves of the Witch wood.

The Author of Captain Underpants is Dav Pilkey, and the Author of The Impossible Quest is Kate Forsyth.

The Impossible Quest is about two kids that go through crazy adventure's and challenges through out the book.

Captain Underpants is about a guy ( aka Captain Underpants ) who tries and save his school from the Turbo toilet 2000 he goes through all these silly and weird  adventure's just to save his school.


Monday, April 11, 2016

About Me


This is my art. I've been working on it with my class for nine weeks.  It shows all the things about me.  It has my mihi ,whanaungatanga ,definitions for whanaungatanga and manaakitanga, identity and my face art work.


Now lets talk about manaakitanga and whanaunngatana. Manaakitanga is the steps to whanaungatanga, for example  hospitality, protection , partnership ,participation and many more.  Whanaungatanga means having a sense of belonging to a group and feeling like you belong.


If you can not see my Mihi says the name of my Principal  ,School ,my first name ,my last name ,teacher ,my classroom number and my age number.


If you also can not see my work is in different sections.  My mihi top right corner ,my identity in the top left corner ,my face artwork in the right bottom corner ,my definitions left corner and the whanaungatanga art in the middle.


Thank you for reading my post please leave a comment .

Sincerely Sonia    
How To Weave


Equipment
  • Scissors
  • Ruler
  • Cellotape
  • A3Paper
  • pen/pencil


  1. Gather all your equipment so you're ready to start.
  2. Measure your paper 10 cm long and 1 cm wide.
  3. Repeat step two 9 more times.
  4. Take five strips and put them on a flat surfaces about 2 cm apart.
  5. Now grab the five remaining strips and weave them into the other five strips do it one at a time.
  6. Make sure you go under and over under and over.
  7. After you have done that push the strips altogether so it makes a square in the middle.
  8. Now you tape all your sides together so they stay in place.
  9. To make the sides fold the outside strips over the base.
  10. Cut out 4 strips 24 cm long 1 cm wide.
  11.  Take one strip and fold it into quarters (to give it edges)


  1. Now get the same strip and weave it through all four sides. (keep it tight)
  2. Repeat step 12 and 13 for the 3 remaining strips.
  3. Make sure you sellotape any strips that are sticking up.

                        

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Venn

This is my Venn Diagram 
A few weeks a go Room 10 Learnt about Venn diagrams . A Venn diagram is a way for people to understand the differences and similarities. My Venn diagram is about Fijian fishing and Tokelauan fishing .The things that are the same between these two stories are they are both about fishing , the things that are different are that there two different island .



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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Just Macbeth!

 This week in Room 10 we were making posters about our favourite book. I chose just Macbeth a book about three kids thinking about a play Macbeth , but some how end up being Macbeth they end going through all these adventures to get back home.We worked on this project with Mrs Ploughman.


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Just Macbeth!

Monday, February 22, 2016

Whanaungatanga

Whanaungatanga family but not just family friends too. It Does not matter who your are where you 
are your friends will always be family.

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