Category: Hanga | Create

 

Last term for extension we have been researching all about New Zealand’s timeline.

 

Organisms	An individual plant or animal.	Endemic	Lots of our plants and animals can only be found here in New Zealand.
Species	A kind of animal or plant.	Continents	a large continuous mass of land conventionally regarded as a region.
Linnean Taxonomy	a classification system for the natural world to standardize the naming of species and order them according to their characteristics and relationships with one another.	Gondwana	one of the two ancient supercontinents
Geography	Studying physical features of the earth.	Adaptation	Getting used to your surroundings and adjusting accordingly
Biodiversity	All life that you find in a specific area.	Extinct	No more animals left of their species or kind.
Photosynthesis	The way plants and some organisms use the sunlight to synthesize their nutrients from carbon dioxide.	Evolution	The way plants, animals, and humans develop do to their environment.
Pedosphere	The soil mantle of the Earth	Climate	Weather conditions prevailing in a place for a certain amount of time.
Decomposition	the first stage in the recycling of nutrients that have been used by an organism	Environment	The surroundings that a human or animal lives in.
Ecosystem	Interacting organisms and their physical environment	Dispersal	the spreading of things over a wide area.
Niche	The unique ways they interact with their environment.	Canopy	cloth covering hung or held up over something.

team 5’s WALT: How can I use the Elements of Drama to express myself?

Our Point England way is to always kick start the term with an immersion assembly. Today was no difference our senior management team started us off by introducing our theme: Transformers – Which is all about drama. Team 5 is learning to use the elements of drama (EOD) to express ourselves.

Team 5’s play was about Cinderella with a plot twist. Team 5 had created a skit using drama to portray events in the movie.

my highlight in the immersion assembly was team 3’s skit/musical because they’re skit was based on Matilda and they had a chocolate cake and in the end they shoved cake in miss Moala’s face.

Drama is all about using theatrical arts to express ourselves, some ways we could do this is create or act in a play, or even join a drama club, drama helps spark our imagination and creativity skills and helps us to build our confidence.

 

 

This term for DLO we had to create a animation about how our family came to Pt England. I created my animation using google slides. I enjoyed this task because we had a lot of choice on how we were gonna make our animations and it was all different because everyone is from a range of different countries. My dad was born in New South Wales, Australia so that’s what country my DLO is based on.

For this task we had to explain the difference between independent and dependant clauses to a year 6 student.

In the long weekend I went to my cousins house and we went to KaKamatua Inlet beach with our dogs for a couple of hours this beach is located in Huia in West Auckland. Me and my cousin Lucy also went window shopping at Lynn Mall. On  Sunday morning we had a Easter egg hunt throughout the front in the back yard.

On my mums side of the family Easter means spending time with your family and the crucifix of Jesus Christ.  For my dad’s side of the family we don’t usually celebrate Easter because they are atheists. This year I spent the long Easter weekend with my mums side of the family.

In the school holidays I am looking forward to being able to sleep in longer and going out places.

This week we had to pick a book out of the library to read for enjoyment and finish it by the end of this week. After we finished reading our books we had to pick out of a few activities to go along with the book we read.

Rewrite a well known nursery rhyme but add a plot twist:

Once lived a girl in a small village named Ella, Ella had a fine life until one day this all changed. When Ella was a young girl her mother had gotten very ill and tragically passed away. This deeply affected Ella and her father for many years but this didn’t affect her father as much as it affected Ella. Ella never got over the passing of her mother and mourned her by every passing day, but her father slowly got over the loss of his wife everyday.

One day Ella’s father had called Ella into the dining room. For he had some so called great news to tell her. Ella was intrigued by this information and asked what his great news was. Ella’s father then continued to tell Ella that when he went to a ballroom party a couple of weeks ago and had met a gorgeous woman who went as Lady Tramaine. Her father had claimed that she was a good woman who had 2 daughters around Ella’s age. Ella thought she would enjoy their company and hang out with the girls each day, but boy was she wrong.

A week later after her father had told Ella the news about Lady Tramaine and her 2 daughters Ella had been informed that they were going to move in with them and the 2 daughters were very excited to meet Ella and her father. The next morning when Ella woke up she made sure to prepare a delicious meal to welcome Lady Tramaine and her daughters. Ella had spent all morning cooking salads, pastas, all sorts of food hoping that they would greatly appreciate it when they arrived. This was a big deal for her father and she wanted the best for him. Meanwhile her father was cleaning the house and making sure everything was tidy so they could make a good impression.

When they arrived Ella made sure to politely introduce herself to Lady Tremaine’s daughters, Their names were Anastasia and Drizella. Although Ella was well mannered and very kind to Anastasia and Drizella they did not show the same attitude towards Ella, forgetting Ellas kindness towards them they were actually very rude and short tempered. Ella just thought to herself they were probably a bit overwhelmed with everything going on in that moment so she just brushed it off. Out of luck this was not the case for Ella.

Each day that went by Lady Tramaine, Anastasia and Drizella slowly became more self centred and rude towards Ella. Ella kept her emotions to herself and pushed them down whenever she felt like expressing them, but she could only do this for so long until she eventually couldn’t anymore. Ella did not like to create issues so she tried not to bring up how she felt around her stepmother and sisters.

One Friday evening Ella’s father had to go abroad for a work experience and due to this Ella would be left alone with her stepmother and stepsisters. Before he left for his work trip he asked each of the girls what she would want him to bring back for him, while everyone was asking for expensive corsets and laces, Ella had asked for her father to bring back the first branch that brushes across his shoulder on his journey. He promised all the girls what they had asked for and went along.

4 days had passed, and there was no sign of Ella’s father returning. Deep down Ella was worried for her father but she had prayed each night that he was OK and well. Oddly enough her step family were completely fine and had not brought him up since he left unless they were talking about how excited they were for their corsets and laces when he returned. Little did they know they were not going to receive what they asked for.

On the 5th night, a man was standing at Ella’s front door with a sorry and discomforting expression on his face. “Are you Ella?” Asked the odd man. “Yes” she hesitated when she replied. “Ella, I’m so sorry but your father unfortunately got very ill on his trip. Before he took last breaths he told me to give this to you, this was the first branch that swept your fathers shoulder. He said you would want it” Tears streamed down Ella’s face as she processed the devastating news. “Are you okay Miss?” Questioned the man “Yes’ ‘ Ella lied to the elderly man, smiling  while she slowly shut the door.

Ella felt completely empty that night, as a void, she felt as though she lost everything in such a small amount of time. Until she completely lost touch with reality and lost her sanity.
She didn’t want to keep living as a servant for her step family. Ella thought her only option was to commit familial homicide. Each night Ella conspired a plan on how she was going to pull the murder off and after thinking it through, it was time for her to commit her crime.

When her “family” fell asleep Ella had planned to stab each of them brutally in the temple of their head and then once she had killed each one of them she would slowly decapitate their heads off their body and gut their insides and use their intestines as a rope to tie the heads to a anchor and sink them to the bottom on the ocean. And with the remaining body parts? She would burn them into ashes and sprinkle them like pixie dust as she fled the scene.

As Ella stood in the middle of the result, her hands painted a dark red with the blood of those who had made her suffer, she felt a strange sense of comfort despite her actions. The silence of the scene then hit her suddenly. She knew that there would be consequences to her actions if she got caught. She would lose her freedom and all this would only be for a moment of freedom. Ella didn’t want to live from then onwards. The comfort from her actions slowly became a hollow emptiness, she felt like she was drowning in guilt and loath towards herself. All Ella meant was to mute her torment, but instead it became louder, echoing in her mind, slowly getting louder and louder by every second. Ella found herself in a position she would have never imagined herself in. and all she wanted to do was end her suffering. So, she did.

For literacy and the book we were reading “Mata I Pusi” we had to create a word art using significant words from the text.

For maths we have been learning different strategies to figure out math problems.