Spectacular Snowmanotron!

This term my writing group has been looking at the snowmanotron. The snowmanotron is a contraption that can create snowmen.  We watched a video about it and then we drew a diagram of the snowmanotron. After we drew it we labeled all the parts and then planned all the steps it does to make a snowman.

We are writing an explanation of how it works, so far we have wrote an introduction each. I hope you enjoy it and comment your feedback on how I can improve on it.

Refugee!

Huia reading: Refugee

In my reading group (early level 4) our activity is to read a book and answer some questions. The book is called Refugee. Each week our teacher (Koka Ngaire) lets us read another part of the story. So far it has been very interesting. I hope you enjoy seeing what i've done so far. I'll make sure that I post updates.

It's about three different characters, Joseph, Mahmoud and Isabel. Mahmoud is a boy who lives in Syria. His home used to be safe but now, nowhere is safe with all the war going on. Joseph is a Jewish boy. The Nazi's do not treat Jewish well, so Joseph and his family have been forced to flee Germany. Isabel lives in Cuba. Isabel and her family are escaping the country and planning to head for America. Her family must escape before the soldiers arrest her dad. They are all different but there's one thing they have in common... They are Refugees. 

These are the questions we have to answer

This is what I've written down as the answers

Terrific Term 2!

This Term has been an amazing experience. We did so many fun and exciting things. Firstly we had the gym festival. Our school (Wainui) did very well. I was in the rhythmical team, we did a great job and our team placed seconded overall. We've also been doing a activity called discovery every Friday. Discovery is filled with many different things to do. I enjoy it lot's cause you can explore many different things. This Friday we are not doing discovery because we had the Term 2 assembly. 

Our term inquiry topic is Retro tech. Retro tech is all about how things worked when they first came out and how much they have evolved. We went on a trip to the Tawhiti museum and learnt many new things. Two or three students from each class got a certificate. The jump jam team also came up and performed a routine for us.

In this term mostly every 2 weeks on Friday we go down to the Hamanutua stream to weed and mulch it. When we go down there, we moved discovery down to the second block so we didn't have to miss out. Overall we fitted in many activities and had a terrific Term 2!