Writing Learning

At the moment in writing the boys class are writing to our role model. The role model i chose was Brendon McCullum because he shows  many characteristics of a good role model like empathy and resilience and many, many more. First we planned our writing using a describe map. Afterwards we wrote a paragraph on why we chose our role model and justified our reasons. Next we were given either a cyclic planner or a hamburger plan to plan our writing. It took me a while but I finally found out how to use a cyclic planner once I did I showed Mr brown and he told me to change a few things then start my draft. I am almost finished my draft and i looking forward to see if i get a reply when I finish my good copy. Role model writing has been a new experience for me in the way of writing and i hope there are many more opportunities like this one.

Reading Learning

 in reading the boys class have just finished doing comma worksheets from a google docs sheet that Mr Muller and Mr Brown created. Our first task was to complete a task called 8 comma rules. There were 8 comma rules and a series of questions we had to complete under each rule. The easiest part was working out where the commas went the hardest part was getting it all down on paper. My favourite rule was to separate complete and incomplete thoughts. My least favourite would be the rule of separating day, date of the month and year.Overall it was a challenging but simple task and i really enjoyed it.

Mathematics learning

For maths in room 26 Jack,Tim,Jonathan and I were set a task to create any graph about any topic that could be made inside school. First off we decided we would all do a double bar graph of the favourite pets of boys and girls in year 5/6. We made five categories Cat, Dog, Fishes, Rodent/hamster like animals and Other. We went to the classes and collected up the data that we needed to make the graph. At the moment we are all drafting our double bar graph. It was very interesting that none of the girls voted for fishes and 30 boys voted for dogs. So far it has been very fun working with these boys on the set task. We should have it done by the end of the week to present to the class.

Integrated learning

At the moment Oaklands school is doing a keeping ourselves safe program where we learn about how to handle certain situations that will give us the least amount of  emotional and physical loss. Today constable Ross came in to our class room and showing us a video. Then we paired up and discussed what happened in the movie it was wierd because all of the children were split on what decision they would make in that situation and we struggled to come to a fair agreement. Afterward constable Ross gave us a card to share Between two people. He laid some cards on the table and our goal was to find out what type of abuse the situation on our card was. At the end we talked about the reasons and why we chose that type of abuse. Just before he left we had a Q 'n' A about any questions of how we can keep ourselves safe. Overall i found it really exciting getting to have a police officer come and help us on outlr keeping ourselves  safe program.

50th Jubilee Writing

In 2014 Oaklands School had its 50th year jubilee. Now I will tell you about the Uniforms over the years.

When the school first started  in 1964 the girls wore green gym frocks, a white t-shirt and sometimes a red tie.The boys wore green pants, a white t-shirt and a red tie.

In 1974 Oaklands School stopped wearing uniform and started to wear mufti to school. This was good because in summer the children could wear t-shirts and in winter they could wear thermals ect.

In 1983 they decided to change it back to gym frocks with a white t-shirt for girls. For boys it was a white t-shirt, green pants and a red tie.

In 1996 they changed the uniform. The uniform had a range of outfits. Green,red,grey tops and jerseys and green,red shorts and pants. There was so many combinations to choose from it would have been quite hard to pick.

IN 2014 we have red t-shirts, green jerseys and sweatshirts, green pants, shorts and culottes for year 0-6. For the year 7-8 students they have a special green and red t-shirt with a jacket.

Overall Oaklands School has had some interesting uniforms. Oaklands school has grown quite a lot in 50 years.

Manu Taratahi

On Thursday 6th November the Tawa reading group made some kites. Here is the step by step diagram guide to show you how to make one.

our WALT was to follow an example of procedural writing.

This is the equipment you need to make a kite.

The first step was to cut out paper to make an 11 inch by 8.5 inch piece of paper

(some examples of the steps to make the 11 inch by 8.5 inch piece of paper)

In this step you folded the paper in half vertically.

(the finished fold)

In these next steps you mark 1 inch from the top left corner and the bottom right corner and fold one half across.

(folding one half across)

In this step you fold the other half over so it looks like this

now you have the base of the plane on top,

and on the bottom.

In this step you tape the folds on top together.

(the finished version.)

now punch a hole at the bottom a third of the way down the paper on the shorter side.

the hole to put the string into.

feed the string through the hole and tie it up tight so it looks like this.

A video of the backflipping kite.(The real name is uncle jonathan but it backflips)

100WC Week 8

I was sprinting through the forest on a fine summer's day when suddenly...An image appeared to my right. little did I know it has just my hallucination of a shadowy tree. I froze on the spot,I trembled for what seemed like hours. Soon after I ran for cover but the image appeared in front of me.It was wearing a golden metalic cloak. As I was sprinting, I smacked into a tree.I was unconscious. Seven hours later I woke up from my coma. I gazed over to where the image was standing, only to find it was a strange looking bronze tree.