Culture Club Country Presentation

The past three weeks we have been focusing on our Culture Club Country Presentation. Isabel (my buddy) and I chose India because we wanted to learn about a country we did not know much about, as you will see we included the basic stuff like the anthem, flag and food etc. Enjoy.

Our Memoirs

We Have lately been looking at memoirs and even made some of our own inspired by James K Baxter, we also borrowed some of his structure like the start the 5 nouns the 5 verbs and the ending. Here is my one.

The campsite was usual enough ;

it had a playground, a creek, a beach a kitchen and even a campsite shop. My sister, my friends and I did what girls do - swam in the clear sea, ran madly through the maze of tents, helped in the kitchen, roasted marshmallows on the beach, snuck out to watch the stars  

Doing nothing important

Written By Nellie Varey

Inspired by James K Baxter

My Pepeha

Ko Nellie toku ingoa

Ko Peter Varey toku papa

Ko Sarah Somerton toku mama
Ko Hamanatua te awa
Ko Taranaki te Maunga
Ko Te Poho-ō-Rawiri te Marae
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.

Sensational STRAND and Statistics

In our Early Level 4 STRAND group
over the last few sessions we have been
looking at investigations and even done
some of our own. The first investigation
was to find out which sport was the most
popular in our class, the second one was
to discover which was the most popular
M&M colour which was really fun
because we used real M&Ms. I learnt that
pie charts are used to show percentages.

Run NZ

My Science Fair Project

This term we have been learning about the scientific method. My science fair project is can people tell the difference between fruits and vegetables. My science fair has been challenging but I have learnt a lot like did you know that a pineapple is actually considered a berry.

Tarantula Report

Matariki Puzzle Art

Image Attribution

I Try Timetables

Hi there, today I'm going to tell you about my timetable,
Timetables are new to me I just started them a few weeks ago. My timetable starts when I sign up for workshops on Sunday afternoon or on Monday morning I choose the workshops I would like to sign up for on the on google form that I find in my email. The forms have things like writing, maths, P.E and te reo workshops.  The forms are created by my teachers Koka Ngaire and Matua Fergus. 

Once I have signed up for the workshops I fill in their times and who is going to take the workshop into my timetable. Then I put my links to learning activities that I think I should work on during the week, I find the links to learning activities in our Moana Learning Hub which is our collaborative class website. In my timetable I usually put in activities like chapterchat which is when we read a book as a class and then we answer questions about the book.  I also like read to self and quick write, quick write is when we write a minimum of 5 sentences in 30 minutes, but there is many more things that I put in my timetable, each rotation is 30 minutes long, I mostly have around six workshops each week. Last of all I follow my timetable. I am happy to be taking charge of my learning!  

Welcome to my blog

I'm Nellie I am currently a year five student and Wainui Beach School in Gisborne, New Zealand. This is my first ever blog I am excited to be sharing my learning with you. It would be awesome if you left a comment or some feedback.