Ruby S-S's Learning Journey

 Hello everyone, Last week My class and I went to Olympia gym. This was really fun and enjoyable. First of all, we went into the ballet room, and we took our shoes off. Then we went into the gym room and warmed up. After that, we got split into groups, and then went and did rotations. For the first rotation, We did swinging on bars and did some other activity using arm strength. The next rotation was rhythmic gymnastics, which including using hoops and balls and learning tricks to do with them. The rotation after that was going on the beams, and we had to hold pom-poms and avoid spiky objects. For the last rotation, It was a trampoline and we had to do all kinds of jumps! I really enjoyed this and thought it was very fun! Here is a photo: Thank you very much for reading. -Ruby

 Character day Hello everyone, Last Friday was character day. This day is about dressing up as a character from a book or movie. I went as Willy Wonka, and my friends went as the kids from the Willy Wonka factory. Maddie as - Veruccaa Salt, Greta as- Mike Teevae, Sam as- Agustus Gloop, Me as - Willy Wonka! This Day was really fun, and I enjoyed going as Willy Wonka, and my friends going along with it.  Thank you for Reading. - Ruby

  Hello everyone,  last week the Hillary Hub and I went to a school camp to Wainui. Wainui is close to Akaroa.  We started off with the bus ride over there. I had a front seat next to Greta ( my friend ).  When we got there we went and had a look at our bunk rooms. Bunk Rooms: I had a very good bunk room in my bunk room I had my friends Maddie, Meg M and Hazel. It was a nice quiet bunk room. We got to sleep well although we did have noisy neighbours running around and giggling on the first night, but we did have good sleep. Activities: The activities were fun the one I was most scared about was abseiling. The one I was most excited for was Kayaking. High Ropes: I enjoyed learning how to belay and to feed to rope out and in, we also learned how to coil the rope. My favourite was probably feeding the rope through. The climbing part was a bit scary although I did not get to do much climbing as we had to take turns in a 4, overall I love learning how to do it all. Kayaki...

 Hello everyone,  This week has been very busy for me, for me the year feels like it's going really fast with Coronavirus and everything that goes along with that. Here are the highlights for this week! ○ As a classroom, we got the "thumbs up" for camp, which is really good, I am so excited about it! I am also really eager to find out whos group I am, and finding out who is in my bunk room. ○ Cantamaths, I think things are coming together. I am doing a Motif, which I will start next week. I am also doing a game with Greta, and Cerise ( my friends )! The board game is coming together well, and we have finished our painting and are moving on to printing and laminating cards for our game, I am very excited to see the finishing product! ○ Bread making - Last week we made bread, in our lit circle groups. This was a really fun science activity to do! My group and I made wholemeal flatbread, this bread I really enjoyed making, because it was cool seeing the bubbles form on our b...

Hello everyone, This week we have started on Lit circles! This has been very fun because I got one of the choices I chose. I chose This Land We Call Home and I got that choice. It is a couple weeks later and I have done tasks and have had meetings with my group. I really like Lit Circles because I am able to read and with my book, I am able to learn about history!  Here is a photo of the book I am reading> So far I am really liking this book. It is very exciting. It's about Pearl Harbour and its also about friendship. I really recommend it. Thanks for reading - Ruby S

Hello everyone, Last week I posted a blog post about my personification poem. But this week I am posting about a new poem. I enjoyed learning about Tanka poem, this was a very different task to a personification poem. For this poem, you need to have 5 lines. For the first line, it is five syllables, for the second line, it is seven syllables, for the third line it is 5 syllables, for the fourth line it is seven syllables, and for the fifth line, it is seven syllables. Here is the Tanka poem I produced: Toucan The toucan screeched loud,  the toucan flew very high. It flew to Rome city, It saw all the sights of Rome, It wanted to stay but could not. Army The soldier stood tall, He was proud of his great job. He loved saving lives And fighting for his country. He was filled with joy and pride! Thank you for reading - Ruby S                                

Hello everyone, This week as a class we made poems. The task was to make one about a forest. I felt that by looking at a few examples I was ready to go! This was a very fun task to do. I went into it trying to make my forest sound as sad and lonely as I could. Writing the poem I actually felt bad for poor forest I was writing about, it was also very creepy and gave me chills down my spine. Here is my poem! The Forest The forest creaks as it awakens, If you enter the forest you will be shaken. The twisty trees twist till you can not breathe, when the twisty trees stop it will make you heave. The leaves will cry for help, as their misery can not be helped when they yelp. The wolves will not howl any more, As their howls are tired out forevermore. When you enter this forest you will feel deep in sadness,   It used to be great but now it is badness. The sorrow of this forest lies forever in the darkness, deep in despair, the forest wait...

Hello everyone, On Friday as a school, we had a sports day. For the sports day, we got to dress up as our favourite sports person or in sport team colours. I dressed up in a crusaders top and some all blacks track pants. For the sports part of it, we did lots of different sport rotations. The sport rotations were hockey, netball, gaga dodge ball, and teball! My favourite sport we did was hockey, I liked hockey because the people running it showed us drills and we played a game of hockey also. Here are some photos of me playing some of the sports... Thanks for reading. - Ruby

Kia ora, Throughout lockdown school and in normal school we have been focusing on descriptive writing. I think I have definitely improved in metaphors and in hyperboles, smilies, personification and many more. Here is my newest descriptive writing piece..... “Slurp” was the sound of the giraffe placing his purple tongue on his mango ice-cream. When he dipped his tongue on to the luscious ice-cream his heart leapt around his lungs with so much joy! He had never been filled with so much happiness before. His tongue would not let go of the ice-cream as he never wanted this feeling to end, so his tongue looked stuck to the ice-cream like glue. The giraffe was mindfully thinking of what was in front of him.  The children were so glad that the “eternity long line” was worth the long wait to see the giraffe eating ice-cream! The icy feel of the ice-cream on a hot summers day was just melting the giraffe down to his knees thinking about it. The giraffe curled his purple tongue aro...

Hello everyone, I am now back to school. I am enjoying it very much! It is really good to be back with my friends! This week we have been just fixing up the work that we did in lockdown, also we presented our inquiry on oceans. It was very nerve-racking to present, but I just had to get up there and present all my amazing knowledge that I had worked hard on! We are also keeping on track with mindfulness and hui. The classroom is a bit different though, we are split onto 2 sides.... luckily I am with my friends. Being split onto 2 sides mean the teachers have to talk in the middle of the room so the 2 sides can hear. Here is my opportunities and challenges during the lockdown: Opportunities More time to keep fit Catching up on school Learned how to play croquet I had time to try out some experiences I had time to try new art I learned new skills I got to cook dinner for the family I got to try out things I have never done before I taught my dog how to skateboard  ...

Hello everyone, Today My sister and I did a science experiment. It did not really make a big reaction, but you could tell what had happened. It was really cool and to see what reaction we got was good. It was very colourful and it looked like a piece of art! What you need : 2 bowls food colouring - I and my sister picked red, blue, pink, yellow ( but it is your choice ) Oil Water and a fork if you want to use it What the reaction is : The reaction was when oil and food colouring was put into the water the oil from the bottom of the bowl can up to the top, created something that looked like bubbles. Then the food colouring came up and made a colour explosion! Here is the video of what it looked like - - Ruby

Hello everyone, Online school has been going on for 4 weeks now. Online school has been fun to try out. In online school, we have a timetable with our weekly tasks on it. One of the tasks is inquiry. So today I will be sharing about my inquiry and what I have been doing. Inquiry For inquiry, our topic is oceans. Oceans has been an interesting topic to work on. In the area of the ocean topic, I choose to work on sea temperature rise. I have found that is not only caused by glaciers melting and heat but also by greenhouse gases. It has been good learning about sea temperature rise but bad at the same time learning about how it affects our future. Here are some interesting facts I have learned. Global sea levels have risen by 200mm since 1880 It has been causing flood problems in some cities Sea levels could rise another 1.3 meters in the next 80 years It is threatening coastal plant and animal life Over the past 50 years, the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula has been...

The Mapmakers Race                           Book Review  By Ruby The Mapmakers race is a very good book for you if you are looking for a funny, adventurous book! I read this book in class and on an aduio that the teachers made ! The Mapmakers Race is about four kids and their parrot who go on an exciting journey together. The only thing is they left their mother behind on accident at the train station. But the race depended on their future and they need to win. Join them on their adventure, see them make new friends, learn new skills, and compete in the race! 

Hello everyone, This week we have cracked into online learning and scheduling the week out. So today I am going to share my thoughts on online learning and am going to tell you highlights of being in self-isolation. Online learning I think online learning has been good and fun to try out. Online learning is working out and I am glad we have it so we can keep track of things. It can be tuff not having that same kind of learning that you would get at school, but I think doing it online is still good. Highlights Chalk Art: My sister Eva and I have done chalk art on our driveway. It was very fun to make. We were also happy that we did it because lots of families and people around the area stopped and looked at our artwork. We were so happy that we made other people happy by doing our artwork. We loved watching people stop and look at our chalk art and make them smile.                              ...

Hello everyone, As you know New Zealand is in Level 4 of lockdown.  So I have been staying safe at home.  I have been doing lots of walking and biking around the neighbourhood, and keeping up my fitness in any way possible! Painting My sister and I have also been painting. Painting has been very fun.  We have painted lots of boxes and making them into 'Letterboxes'.  Which has been very fun to try out. I painted a big yogurt box lids, and I also painted two boxes, one of the boxes was really thin and really long it was used to hold the lining in, and the other box used to hold bottles, it was the box I made into a letterbox. The decoration on the yogurt lids and the lining box was rainbow and on the other box, it was splashed with different colours! Decoration Easter has recently been too as you know.  So we decorated the house Easter themed. It was very fun to decorate the house! As a family, we decorated with old stuff that was in the attic, in the a...

St Patrick's day! Kia ora everyone, On Tuesday it was St Patrick's day! As a school we all dressed up in green and white, it was very fun to dress up! As it was St Patrick's day I am going to share some information about Saint Patrick!  Saint Patrick's birthday is on 17th March. His full name is  Maewyn Succat He was born in Roman Britan  When he was 16 years old he was sold in slavery St Patrick was born in a Christan family He brought Christianity into Ireland Green is the national colour of Ireland, so that is why we wear that colour on St Patricks day Thank you for reading - Ruby S

First post of 2020 Kia ora everyone, Welcome to my first blog of 2020, this year I am in the Hillary Hub, and so far I am really enjoying the Hillary Hub! The theme in school for this year is "  Be the change you want to see in the world! "  this theme is really good and it describes how if no one is making the change then you should make the change that you want to see. This term our value is Respect, this vaule shows us to respect property, people, and everything else!  So far this year we have completed and started alot of things , like the weekly quiz. The weekly quiz has been very fun and intersting to do, as I learn lots of facts about what is happening around the world. We have also started taskmaster, taskmaster is something every Friday we have to do, it is usally a challenge, it is very fun to. Last week for taskmaster we did a water realy, and the week before we made alphabet soup. On week 3 we started Chapter Challenge and we as a class are reading T...

Hello everyone, Today's blog is about my class's science challenge! We had 20 spaghetti sticks, 1 marshmallow, Tape, and string. Out of the stuff we had, we had to build the tallest tower! I was in a group with 2 of my friends and our tower was not the tallest, in fact, it was the shortest! It didn't turn out exactly how we wanted it but it was fun to make! Here is our beautiful creation:                                   Thank you for reading, Ruby

Hello everyone, Today I will be telling you about the Batten team visit to the Air Force Museum! On Tuesday the 5th I went to the Air Force Museum, it was so much fun. We learned about the Air Force, everyday heroes, and planes. I learned so much interesting stuff! One great fact I learned was you can drive a plane when you're 16 (after your training course). My favourite part of the trip was sitting inside one of the planes and then jumping out of the plane onto a blue mat. Thank you for reading, Ruby

Hello everyone, Last Friday I and some others represented my school at the Eel painting reveal. This a very exciting event, the few that I went with from my school we painted an Eel together... This is what it turns out to look like... At the Eel Reveal, we had biscuits, apple juice, and we played activities like drawing, running, making poems, and making decoration with chalk. I really enjoy this trip it was so much fun and our Eel paint turned out really well! Thank you for Reading, Ruby S-S