Omaru Creek metaphor poem

Rebecca is the old wooden bridge that helps people get across to the other side.

Rebecca is a calm and lazy old eel sleeping inside the water.

Rebecca is the strong trees trying to prevent the soil from getting washed away.

Reciprocal Fractions

Today for maths I was learning reciprocal fractions. I finally understand reciprocal fractions. All you have to do is swap the denominator with the numerator. I found it easy to understand this and move from each question.

Swimming 2017

Today we had our swimming competition. I didn't swim but I enjoyed watching. Everyone yelling and cheering for the people swimming builded up their confidence. Watching the people swim made me want to swim.

Tamaki River Famaily Tree

WALT: Draw a Family Tree.

We are studying the Omaru Creek so we drew a family tree for the Tamaki River. Omaru Creek is part of the branch of the Tamaki River.

Silhouette art

For our art we did a silhouette of a cabbage tree. We used a orange and pink coloured die as our background and black pain for the cabbage tree. Silhouette cabbage trees and bulrushes on the banks of the Omaru Creek. There a cabbage trees and bulrushes in Omaru Creek as you walk down.

Investigation into volleyball skills in Room 8

This morning we were investigating into volleyball skills in room 8. We calculated what the scores are in graphs and average using the tools on the spreadsheet. I found this easy and fun to do.

Get New Zealand Writing - Opened package

Today we received an exciting package from Grey Main School. My favourite part of it was their longest word and there longest word was “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”. My favourite part on the postcard was corian Kitchen is a dolphin defending her territory. The thing you did different to ours was that you coloured yours in and it made it look pretty and colourful.