Poetry

At writing time We have been learning how to do poetry we did haiku poems and acrostic

Haiku poem sunsets

5. As the sun goes down

7. A sunset crosses the sky

5.a ravishing sight.

Haiku poem blossoms

5.They are my favorite    

7.pink and white charming flowers

5.makes me feel happy.

Acrostic poem. Word is blossom

Blooming in spring

Lovely blossoms

Other flowers are

Sweet and

Sincere but blossoms are

Overwhelmingly charming,

My favorite flowers

Acrostic poem Sunset

So beautiful

Undeniably radiant

Never been this thrilled to see a

Sunset.

Elegant and 

Tall orange sunset covering my town

Sweet and sincere 

Top teams

Top teams
Luckily on Friday afternoon, half the school was able to take part in a organised event called Top Teams. it is an event with water involved and  some other fun activities. Most of the school took part in it. My favorite event was the school bus activity, mostly because it had water involved. It was really fun and enjoyable. Sadly I don't have a picture but it was in our schools back paddock. it was really fun. We had to bring spare clothes for afterwards because we got wet.

In conclusion I really enjoyed this and hope to do it again sometime.

Have you done this activity as well?

Over the past few weeks, we have been learning to write formal and informal letters here is a letter I wrote about our political event in new Zealand

It said:

 My name is Holly Kirk I am a 21 year old women in Christchurch when I was 3 I dreamed of being a firefighter, but my Mother said I have to be a housewife but my two brothers could be anything they want to be. Because there men. How do you think that's fair? why aren't Women able to vote why does our gender assume who we are and what we do?

please give us a right to vote

did you like my blog?

                            do you agree with my argument?                              

Writing task: The trench

learning Kohfball

Learning Korfball 
For a new change with our weekly sports we have been learning how to play Korfball Its really fun its kind of like netball and basketball....But it is a little bit different

1. In a normal court put a line inline with the middle of the circle in the court
2. you have Defense and attack on each team but its a group of defense and a group of attackers the groups aren't aloud to cross the line.
3. then one team starts of with the ball and you just pass the ball to each other (to the people who is on the same team as you)
4. Have fun!

If i'm being honest Korfball is a lot of fun its a new sport Learnt and i'm exited to learn more things! 

Ferrymead heritage park.

Ferrymead heritage park
to relate to our PBL the Tumu hub went to Ferrymead, Ferrymead is a place in Christchurch were you go to learn about the new Zealand history. To educate about our past, It also gave me a good reflect of how lucky we are today in our lives. Gosh those poor girl wearing those itchy bonnets. Anyway, I will tell you the subjects we did, In-fact we had to role-play. We went to a fake school based in the olden days we got the ink out and had to write a sentence we went able to talk or even look at your friends. It may sound bad but it was actually fun!.
here's the sentence we had to write : A apple a day keeps the doctor away in a cursive text with a proper ink quill. Then we went to the movies the movie was in black and white. and in a small space it was really cool

I enjoyed my trip.



Questions!
Does this sound fun or bad?

our new PBL

Our new PBl question is: How has new Zealand's past influence today and our future.

So for my follow up i have to write something about the war so I write a diary of a little girl called peggy when it was the times where Hitler roamed the earth.

If you're reading this you just be lucky because I will be telling you what life is like as a child from 1914 during the times where Hitler brainwashed people and tormented them and then he made my father all my brothers fight in war. Since I am a little girl I will be at home practicing and working how to cook, Clean and do all the housework. And we sew blankets, Pillows, I am Peggy brandella I have 5 brothers and 4 sisters I am the 4th oldest  And I am at home with my grandma my grandma Elizabeth Teaches me all those things. My mother is at war being a nurse and healing the wounded. My father and 5 brothers are at war. But me and my grandma Eliza are waiting for the telegram boy to come. The telegram boy is coming in an hour my Grandma said. And then there was a knock on the door.

Turns out My father and my 2 brothers, Gareth and Tyler died in the war. Its heartbreaking but how could the telegram boy just knock on the door and announced that someones loved one is dead and walked away whistling and smiling! I cant believe there dead!. I wish Hitler wasn’t in charge why is he in charge anyway? Oh yeah i forgot be brainwashed people to believing if he got rid of all the Jews then breed the perfect germans than he could create a world of beautiful perfect people but really the germans are not perfect I mean…. He’s killing people he's literally taking the children away from their parents and then and putting then in a gas chamber to die! How is that even being Beautiful you need to be perfect inside and out to be %100 perfect. I hope the country's fight back maybe other countries will take Hitler into a gas chamber and kill him he deserves that and if my grandmother or anyone finds this diary I  am dead……..Thanks for reading I pray that I will get out of this horrible century alive….

Pbl blog

PBL blog
For our PBL question it is "How can innovation improve our lives" and by that we go in groups and and create a invention we create CUTLERY KEYS its like cutlery set on a round circle that detaches.  here's a pic:

In my group there is Jin-hee, Gianna, Oliver and me,Holly

I loved my group we had no drama and we got along very well.

Trip to the Museum
On the 16th of September 2019 the Tumu hub went to The Christchurch museum It was a lot of fun. I learnt a lot of stuff especially back in the Maori/Europeans times. Here are five things I learnt:

• Did you know that the expected life span in those times were about 27 years old?
• By the time you were 14 you'd be an adult.
• Since there were edible berry's and then poisons ones the elderly's would be the testers.
• The Maori's made small but high tree house's to keep there food in so animals and rats don't eat their food.
• Moa's were like number one of the biggest pray to the Maori's 

And then we learnt some stuff about Antarctica, Dinosaurs, Insects and Olden day equipment.
Here's a photo of us when we were learning about Antarctica

See that blondey? Thats' me 

And that's me, again looking physco with an Axe

when we were trying out what the Maori's equipment was like.

So in conclusion it was really fun I learnt so much and I hope you did to.

Thanks for reading my blog!

Questions:

Did you learn something new?

Have you been to the Christchurch museum if you did, did you enjoy it?

Winter sport!---Netball

Winter sport 
Hello, for winter sport this past season, I have been playing Netball with my team. Our team name is called "The Tranchulars". In my team there is Pieta, Lucas, Grace, Holly--Me, Molly, Lydia and Eilish.
And This year I think I have improved my defense. In the last 4 games I have got amazing intercepts! 
They are all very talented players and  I'd Like to thank them for being fabulous Netball players. I couldn't get through the season without you Guys!.---And thank you Chantelle--My coach, Thank you for being a great coach!! 
Here's our picture of our team:

Anyway....
Our team is un-deafeaded for this WHOLE season (Sorry if bragging) I'm so proud of myself and everyone else. 
We had 0 Defaults and 2 byes. 
I loved this season of winter sport so much.
If I could choose a different sport to play next time i'd either to do Soccer or rugby.

Thank you for reading my blog post!.
Question time!! 
If you could play a different sport from the one you are currently playing, what would it be?
Is your team Un-Defeated? 

Math boards #post 3

Math boards #Post 3

This is my 3rd post on Doing math board is your not familiar with these I suggest you read my post. Math's boards are what our hub does we have to do one every week. Our hub has a site called "Tumu hub site" on it has learning tips things to do. Math, RE, Writing &reading and more. On the math part of it it has math question you choose one of those questions and on google slides you put the question in--And try to figure it out

Here's my math board I did this week:

Personally I find it fun. 

I hope you enjoyed my post!!!

Questions:

You think these are fun?

Does your school do these?

Did you enjoy this post?

What can I do next time to improve???

Math's boards Post #2

Math's boards Post #2
At st Francis school The tumu hub likes to do these things called math's boards. They are presented on google slides and on then you write down a math question answer it, show your working out, solve it another way and make a word problem! we have to do one every week.

Here's mine I did this week:

Question time:

Does your school do things similar If you do please answer in the comments!?

Our math boards

Math boards

For math we do these things called math boards.
Another week of school means another math board to complete. Math boards are things we do on google slides. Our teachers give us a list of questions on our hub site we chose one question and work it out on google slides
the question in kinda easy so I can show it easily. 
3 times 30 I knew the answer straight away because 3 threes are nice but just add a zero or another way 10 + 10 + 10 = 30.




Question time!
Do you do math boards at your school or at least something similar?
if you do please share in the comments

Thanks for reading!

Our PBL challenges!

Our PBL Challenges!

For our PBL pour focus is "How can we use innovation to improve our lives" So our teacher thought we could do Mini challenges, so each home base had an activity. Our home base had to create a boat that will stand on water and the teacher puts marbles on the boat to see how many marbles it would hold--The one that held the most marbles -WON. 

We had to make the boat with:

• Tin foil
• Straws
• Plastic cups
• Tape 

I was in a good group we created it with tin foil as the base (obviously we had to use a lot of tin foil to get the boast structures and stable) Then we used the tape to form the boat and to get the tin foil base stay together.  

We used the straws as decorations at the front of the boat.

This is our picture:

Sadly we did not win. But we can 3rd I'm happy with what we made it went REALLY well.

Next time I would made The walls of the boat much higher. Because the walls on the boat is kind-of what let us down.

In-conclusion: I really enjoyed making it, It was really fun to do I hope we can do something more like this again!.

Question: Have you made anything similar or done anything similar?

If you have please share your answer in the comments  

Our article reading's about climate change

In reading this term our focus has been looking at articles  around climate change.

I have learned that: Methane gas and carbon dioxide Cause climate change and we cause those gasses so we are the cause for climate change.

New words I have discovered are:

• Smog (it's a toxic form of fog)
• Ozone (Form of gas. It is high up in the atmosphere)
• Bauxite (Its used to make a light, A strong metal called aluminium)

I have even made a poster about climate change 

No challenge is a greater threat to future generations than climate change.
---President Obama.


Question time: Do you understand the meaning of climate change?

climate change hurts animals

Climate change

Climate change is caused by carbon dioxide, Nitrouse, Methane gas and more... It lets the sun come in to warn up the earth but it doesn't let it back of either. the climate change is rising and rising each year

Ava launches of snow and ice can fall on the animals! is sad and it is caused by us!



ANIMALS DON'T HAVE A VOICE WE HAVE GOT TO SPEAK FOR THEM

tell us if you are doing anything in anyway to try and stop climate change?

Cross Country run!

Cross country Run!    🏃🏃🏃 

We were Getting ready to walk down to Walter park. Because our school is right down the road from it. I was lining up with my friend, Grace and we walked down to the park we were last to race it went Seniors juniors then us! therefor we had to wait 2 or 1 hour's I was playing a game with my group of friends

the time came to race we were at the starting line. 

''ON YOUR MARKS...''there was a long amount of a wait which made me get the butterflies                    ''GO!'' Honestly i'd say I had a pretty good start I was up the front  But I remembered last year that you shouldn't burn off at the start and lose all your energy. so I jogged the WHOLE THING NOT STOPPING ONCE! I was so proud of  myself 

in the end I came 5th and That means I made it into zone's because its the top 6 that get into zones!

Kindness has sprung in to action!!!

                   ❤ KINDNESS for PBL in my hub! ❤

We created and Action plan and It went very smooth sailing. 
We had It rough at the start and we wanted to do a bake sale but out teacher's said we can't do things then make people pay us money for it because remember, ..... KINDNESS IS FREE!!!

For our final product we did A FUN ZONE

What is the fun zone?

well...it is when five students from each hub get to go to fun activities if they have been kind and respectful---and just well behaved.

they get a ticket and then they go to the front court to play! (only if their kind though)

How did our action build a sense of community?
It is rewarding those who have been respectful! (so they don't feel like being good is a waste of time) and I also met new people.

I contributed by...
Well..I actually came up with the idea of the fun zone. I also helped come up with the date and organised where it would be held.  On the day, I ran the sniffing game and people loved it! The sniffing game is where you blind for them, hold something up for them to smell and they have to guess what it is.

I think the PBL might impact on other by
Maybe the people that got to do it will come up with a idea to help someone else #paying kindness forward 

What I learned about working with people is...
Don't raise your voice and try to let everyone have a say in things 💬


Thank you for reading
what activities would you do if you runned this?
Do you think the idea was good
(reply in the comments)

Writing In My Hub!

Hello and welcome back! 🐸

For this Writing we have to do a Information report About anything we want!. BUT! It has to be about a animal or a country For my report I am doing it about Italy and Italian Language!. If you are wondering why I decided to do It about Italy...well I just always found Italy so fascinating just..The food, culture I just find it so beautiful so let me show you my Report here

is a Link to my Report!

Italy Report❗❗❗

I hope you Liked my report!

(for the comments)

Do you Know some Italian?

Does any of your family know some Italian

is any of your family Italian?

(reply in the comments)

Term Four Project Based Learning

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about design and the big question was; How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product?

First we learned what STEAM stood for.

S for Science

T for Technology

E for Engineering

A for the Arts

and M for Math's

Then we were given challenges. The first to make a chair using newspaper, string and straws that was able to hold a figure made out of multi-link blocks.

Then make a table that was able to balance M&Ms for the team. We were much better at the second challenge because the materials was great we used the news paper as table legs it was very stable

In Literacy we learned to write up science experiment to write a technology report using the design process of ask, imagine, plan, create, improve and share.

Our next step was to form teams and ask ourselves the big question again.

How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product? Our aim was to create enough products or experiences and sell it to raise money for charity.

My team made this…

Reflection

My highlight from this PBL (project base learning)was working as a team and  Next time I
would try to make the bath bombs less crumbly

Please comment and let me know what you think :D

have you ever sold thing at a market?