The Brunner Mine Site

           The Brunner Mine Site

         WALT:Ask a question.      

      How many people died??

The answer to this question is 65 men and boys were killed in the brunner mine disaster.If you want more info,check out the book The Mines Afire.Mrs Clark is reading us this book in class,and we have been doing many activities in class based on it,like this post.If you don't know what the brunner mine disaster is,a quick explanation is that there was a gas explosion in the Brunner mine at 9:30 on march 26,1896.Some fun facts are on the drawing up top.

We are reading this book because on camp,we will be going to Westport to look at the mines.We will probably be doing a blog post on that,so keep an eye out!!

Thanks for reading!

Welcome To My Blog

         Welcome to my blog !!

     Hello! Welcome to my blog for 2019!

            I'm your hostess,Emily.

I am a yr 6 student in M1 at Grey Main School and am looking forward to sharing my work with you. So far this year,we have made time capsules,letters to spell Manaakitanga,and made raps and poems about ourselves! My favourite activity was making time capsules,which at the end of the year we will open and see how much we have changed.I look forward to it! I think that you should try making one.They're really cool!

I am looking forward to learning what happens in our book,the mines afire.

My favourite subject is literacy.

         Thanks for reading!!!!!

           

Celebrating My Success

       Celebrating My Success

                    By Emily

Over the last few weeks,we have been working on something called 'Celebrating Success'.The slide above is my finished copy of a slide on 'Celebrating My Success' .This slide is my copy.

So what is celebrating our success?Celebrating our  success is celebrating our own success,not anyone else.The teachers shared this slide with us,and we have been working on it for ages.

What does celebrating your success mean to you??

Kahurangi dance company

The Kahurangi Dance Company

Yesterday,we went to the Kahurangi Dance!The Kahurangi Dance Company is a company were they go around visiting schools and entertaining them with Maori legends,which the act out themselves.
My favourite was the legend of Poutini,the story of a sea creature...

Whenever she was on land,and the sea called to her,she had to return.
One day,she was hiding in the flax,when she saw a handsome chief.He was fishing.She tried to get a closer look at him,and accidentally let him see her.They fell in love.It was 'love at first sight!'
They secretly got married,and he took her to his house.But,when the sea called her,she said goodbye to her husband,and went.He tried to stop her,but she explained that when the sea called her,she must leave otherwise she would die,but Poutini promised that she would always visit him.So they continued life together.But then her husband  went to the priest to ask how he could keep Poutini on shore forever.The priest said that if she ate cooked food,Poutini would stay with him forever.So he tried to make her eat cooked food well she was sleeping.But she woke,and saw what her husband had done.So Poutini spat out the food,and returned to the sea forever.Her husband never saw her again.

I hope you liked the story!The show was a lot of fun,and certainly was entertaining and funny!

 

PReP

For the last week PRep has been our biggest focus.Check the slide above to find out more about it. I will just fill in the gaps.
After reading the slide,you will know my prep group is Rainbow Garden.I like this name because it suits what we make.We hope we win,because we are probably in the lead. We made 191 kiwi,our prep money! One of our products sold out the first 2 minutes!

Show Not Tell

WALT: We are learning to show not tell and to describe.

This week in literacy we have been looking at descriptive writing and how to show not tell.
I enjoyed this because I love making up sentences. Do you like it?
You  should try making up sentences like this. I like how it's a mystery. We had to not tell that the cat was angry. We had to express it.

Problem solving

WALT:Answer problems.

This week in Math we have been looking at problem solving.This is my first one. Mrs P shared it to us and I finished it no prob. Actually,I did the first three questions alright, but the fourth I had to get to understand.Once I got the hang of it, It was easy. I really enjoyed this.It's a good way to get your brain going! You should try.Get someone to quiz you with word problems.Good luck!!!!