Ruby S-S's Learning Journey

My Week Highlights It would have had to be Inquiry. After Morning tea we (My partners for Inquiry and I) went out of school and put letters in peoples letterboxes. My partners for Inquiry and I just got one response and we only put the letters out before lunch. I think another highlight is going to be Saturday netball. Netball is my favorite sport. My favorite thing about netball is intercepting it feels so good grabbing the ball off the other team. My sisters birthday (on Saturday too) Chapter Chat (Twitter) the 10 questions every Friday I have really enjoyed this week and I am looking forward to more weeks like this! Ruby

Hello everyone, This week I did something called cycle safety, it is something that the council does for children my age to learn about the road rules on a bike. We got split up into groups and my Cycle coaches were called Tony and Meghan. Before our first break, we did some practice about road safety and how our bike should be riding on the road. We got our test results on our helmets and bikes. By the time we finished practicing it was our first break. After our first break, we did more practicing and learned about signals and turns. Then it was lunch. After lunch, it was time to go on the road. I was so excited! While we were biking we learned about if we were on the main road we had the power. We also learned about T intersections. We learned about the lifesaver look  My legs were very sore after. The next day we spent on the road now that was more tiring than the day before. We got to have a lie in the park, we learned about stop signs, traffic lights and we got to have a ...

              Hello everyone, Yesterday the Batten team and I had a Refugee day at our school. The reason why we were doing all of this donating and having a Refugee day plus having rice for lunch, was all for South Sudan. In South Sudan they have conflict and they all run away to the refugee camps because their village was getting destroyed so they run and run until they get to the Refugee camp. So what the Batten team did was make a hut out of cardboard. Everyone had all day to make it. My team and I went and started making something out the cardboard. We were too worried about how we were going to fit everyone in the hut and did not think about planning, so we failed many times but kept on going. It was morning tea and our hut was standing up before we left but then it fell over with the wind. After morning tea we came back with a plan to move our hut over to the fence and we had it in a sort of in a teepee shape. It turned out re...

Hi, I am Sami and I am Amani, We are best friends we play together and we have a lot of fun after school. This is what our life is like. At the crack of dawn we meet up with our friends called Alia and Kadem and we go down to the water pump and we swing on the pump until water comes out. You might see the water when we swing on the pump drip them, swoosh the water comes rushing out of the pump. We do that until we have got enough for our families to drink. Our buckets are full and we have lots to share with our neighbors. When we get back to the tent we hop in the side and try go back to sleep, it is not very comfortable for us but it's better than nothing every family woke up to a clattering of pots. It was a new family that had just arrived, the girl had scrapes on her leg from what it looked like, sharp bushes. She looked in pain like she had been running very far. The Caritas came to help the girl with bandages. People are crowding around the family assisting them with...

Hello everyone, By the title you might be a bit confused, Korfball is a sport it is mixed between netball and basketball but more netball. So if you know how to play netball and basketball and you start to play korfball you will pick up the rules pretty quickly. Well lucky for me I know how to play netball and I find it enjoying. I did not know what Korfball was but when My class and I got to the rules I was very happy. Here is a picture of me and my class playing Korfball! The game was about good defense and if you had a good defense then the other team would be not able to shoot or find it hard to pass. I really liked this sport and I found it very different and interesting overall it was fun. Some of the rules are ..... 1. Defense is very good 2. You can not step with the ball 3. Girl mark girls Boys mark boys 4. You can shoot from the other side of the hoop That is All the rules you need to know about korfball   I very enjoyed this opport...

Hello everyone, Eels can move back and forwards, moray eels are a big group of eels. Here is a picture of him holding the size biggest eel he has found!  IT'S HUGE!  WOW! What's sad is Eels eat lots and lots of prey, they eat ducklings, other eels, crabs, invertebrates and lots of other harmless creatures! Here are some facts! Australian longfin has spots 19 species of eels worldwide Eels can see really well Eels can sense blood Eels do not have horns and so many more facts! Thanks for reading Ruby

Hello everyone, On the 21st March we, The Batten Team had a talk to some people who live in South Sudan and are missionaries in South Sudan. They are called Phill and Janet. So I will tell you about the facts I learned from there amazing experience. The capital is Juba, Juba is so hot, Juba's water is filtered, Nile river runs through South Sudan, the water is salty, 1 road, unsafe to travel on the road, Toilets are just a hole in the ground, Kids swim in the Nile river, crocodiles are in the Nile river, there are electric fish in the Nile river, Water is very deep, South Sudan there are 65 languages, it takes a long time to build a house, doors are so low you have to crawl, they plaster houses with mud, rooms are very dark to keep it cold, schools are made of concrete, 100 dollars in South Sudan is  30 cents in NZ, pounds not dollars .   In South Sudan, to them, cows are really special and this is what they look like! Thank you for reading! Ruby