Community Clean up

I went down to the Blaketown flood wall with Mum, Dad and Kenzie and did my community clean up I got a whole bag full of rubbish.

My gift

For my gift I have been working with Mum to make handprints for my family. 

We pushed out hands into play dough then used plaster of Paris to make a mould.

Once the mould had set I spray painted them silver and gold.

Here is a mould of my hand and Kenzie's hand.

Week 7 - What I learnt for the week.

this week we have to do some sheets for literacy
and we have to some sheets for maths

cycle safety week 6

On Thursdays in had constable Jos came in and taught us to ride our bikes propeller. and showed us that we need and helmets.


1.first he showed us that we a red reflector on the seat
2.then we need two little orange reflectors on each peddle.
3. then we need a helmet a bight yellow jacket and to tuck our pant in our socks if they are big and because they could get stuck in the peddle.        

Week 5 - What I learnt for the week.

Week 5

this week i did  math. In math we did backwards and forwards in numbers.

and in literacy we did lots of work sheets.

Week 4 - What I learnt for the week.

Week 4...

We had Ms Lagan as our teacher n Thursday, we did some pastel art.

For literacy we got Ms Lagan and we did a play about 5 birds where a tui was mean and didn't let them get in the tree.

Week 3 - What I have learnt

Week 3...

We had Athletics on the Tuesday.

We did calendar art on Friday, my colour art has a picture of me and patterns I think I need really well.

book i am reading for the week

 I like this  books because  is good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my book for the week

this book is a good book you should read it!!!!!!!!!

Week 2 - What i learnt for the week...

During the week I learnt how to draw our house in maths we drew our yard and bed rooms and the kitchen and the lounge.



For art we had started our calendar art to do on our calendars and we had to draw a bubble and put pastel in the middle it was lots of fun but I got mine finished.

My Christmas card for Courtney

I choose to make a Christmas card for our new neighbour. Her name is Courtney. 

Book Character Day 2015 - My class

For book character day I chose to go as Clara the cookie fairy, I wore a black sparkly dress with a wand and wings. I had a basket with cookies in it, I shared then with my class. My hair was coloured red as Clara has red strips in her hair.

I am in this video, please watch it.

Week 1 - My Learning.

This week I have learnt about athletics we did polo we did sprints and long jump. I have learnt that when I do long jump that I keep my feet together because I keep jumping with my feet apart.

In maths I had to subtraction for basic facts.

On Friday we had book character day. I dressed up as Clara the cookie fairy. We had a full assembly and everyone in the school had to go up on stage to tell them who they were.

Christmas food (Main Star term 4)

My favourite Christmas Food is "Chocolate Chip Pudding"..

Mum helped me to make it today, the ingredients we needed were:

Chocolate chip cookies

Raspberry fizzy

Cream

Kiwi fruit

Chocolate hail

We had to mix the cream and a little bit of icing sugar with the mixer to get the cram thick.

We then put the cookies in the fizzy to soak

Then we made a layer of cookies in a bowl and then a layer of cream on top, we did this twice.

Then put the kiwi fruit and chocolate hail on the top.

Now it is in the fridge ready to eat for pudding tonight... YUM!!

Christmas in Canada! (Main Star -term 4)

Christmas in Canada is celebrated in lots of different as there is lots of people from other countries who live there.

Many traditions come from the French, English, Irish, Scottish and Germans.

Eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia is known for its fir and pine Christmas trees.

One of Canadian traditions is to send the biggest best fir tree to Boston USA for their help during the disaster, Halifax Explosion.

Mummering/Jannying takes place in the province of Newfoundland. People dress up in costumes and knock on the doors of homes and in disguise say "Are there any mummers in the night?" Then sing and dance while having Christmas cake and a cup of something before moving to the next house.
Going mummering is a fun Christmas season activity for the adults, this usually happens at the 26th December to the 6th January.

Over the South shore of Nova Scotia, the tradition is Belsnikeling where people dress in funny costumes and go house to house until the homeowners guess who they are. This is popular in West and East Green Harbour.

People in Canada open their gifts on Christmas Eve, some people only open their stocking.

Canadian children believe in Santa Claus and are proud to say their country is the home of Santa Claus.

The Santa Claus Parade in Toronto is one of the oldest and largest Santa parade in the world. It all started in 1913.
It's been taking place for over 100 and now is huge event with over 25 animated floats and 2000 people taking part!

"Sinck Tuck" is a festival started by the lnuit that is celebrated in some provinces of Canada. This celebration consists of dancing and gift exchanging.

Labrador city in newfoundland holds a Christmas light-up contest each year.

Many Canadian families have cookie-baking parties. They bring a recipe for Christmas cookies,bake them and then exchange them with the members of their family.

 In South-western Nova Scotia ,many families eat lobster, shellfish caught off the shores of Nova Scotia in North Atlantic Ocean, on Christmas eve.

At Christmas Canadians eat sweets called Barley candy and chicken bones! They are really sweet made by local candy companies. Barely candy is usually on a stick and is shaped like santa, reindeer, snowmen, a tree and other symbols of Christmas. Chicken bones are pink candy  that tastes like cinnamon.

The Seven Sisters (Main Star myth)

The Pleiades also known as the seven sisters is near the earth between 434 and 466 light years away.

The names of the seven sisters are

Maia

Alcyone

Asterope

Celaeno

Taygete

Electra

Merope

Their parents were Atlas and Pleione.

The seven sisters were also known as the  water girls or the ice maidens as they loved water including the sea, river, rain, hail, snow, ice or frost. 

My safety poster(main star)

I made a poster on Road safety it says about bike/wheel safety, car safety and road safety.

See below for poster

New chores!! (Main star)

I asked my Mum and Dad what chores I can be doing around the house. They said take the recycling out every morning and do the tea dishes every night.

I even had to do the recycling in the rain. 

See photos

Making stilts (main star)

I'm On the weekend Dad helped me to make stilts for my prep items.

The things we used were:

Formula tins (recycled from Kenzie)

Rope (dads van)

Drill (dads van)

If we were to make this for prep we would only need to by the rope and borrow the drill from Graeme. 

The formula tins could be recycled from school families.

See the photos below for making them. (At the end, Dad had a go on the stilts and tried to jump with them and they crushed. Was very funny but I wasn't happy.)

Making a blanket (main star)

For my birthday this year my Nana Vicki brought me a blanket in a box. I have been sitting down at night time and after school to make it. 

To make the blanket I had to tie each piece of material together to form a knot. 

I had to tie 6 pieces across then stop and start again tieing another 6 across. 

Then I had to tie them all together to do 8 down. 

It was very tricky, Mum had to sometimes help me. 

Here are some photos of me working on it: 

Finished product!!

Scarlet and Ivy

This is the book of scarlet and Ivy it is the story how Ivy became scarlet and at the end Ivy found scarlet.