Isolation Nearly Over

    Isolation Nearly Over!!!

Hi guys I'm so glad that isolation is nearly over! 1 more week left, then I can go out!

Last Sunday, it was my birthday. Birthdays in isolation are the worst!

Hoping that no one reading this has also had a isolation birthday!

Anyway, this week so far has been really hard. School is much worse from home! But then I don't really want to go back to school with other people! What do you prefer?

I think that next week when we can leave, one of the things I really want to do is go to my friend Mia's house, and play with her! We have planned it by Skype without really asking our parents... we'll get onto it soon!

Have you ever wondered what you're going to do once your isolation is over?

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Isolation In South-East Asia

     Isolation in South-East Asia!

Greetings from South-East Asia!
As you all know, corona virus is still spreading. As a result, we are all forced to stay at home. Now, this may be boring, but I like telling myself, " this is for the greater good!"
When we are in college, there will most likely be lessons on "corona virus of 2020"
Our  kids will learn about this in school, and 2020 is a year that will go down in history.
That's what I like to think.
Corona virus is also letting me relax, after almost a year of learning french. I think it's going pretty well. Whenever you move, be it to another town, another country, or another continent, you have to make new friends, go to anew school, and settle down all over again.
I never wanted to move. I loved my life in greymouth. So when mum and dad said, "we're going to SEA!", I was less than enthusiastic.
But now, after almost 8 months, life has started to become normal. I have seen my brother wrap a python around his neck. Anyone would be more calm around snakes after that!
I say this, so that those of you who have people from a different place in your school can sympathise with them. Try think about what you would feel in their place.

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South East Asia Coronavirus

         CoronaVirus: In SEA

Hello from South East Asia!

As you know, things have changed since my last post.

For example, all schools have shut down!

For me, this is not a problem. Less french the better!

But there is not only bright sides. I am a outside-world person. So the fact that I can't go outside the house is really annoying.

Also, my school is still sending work at home with Skype. I can't wait until the holidays next week!

Do you like CoronaVirus?

Other than that, my world is good. Here in my remote province, there is mountains and few people with Corona. Still, cautions are being taken even here.

The awesome market shut, and so did all the cafes. Only a few food shops are open, and to go into them you must wear a mask and have your temperature taken! I mean, COME ON!!!

How are things everywhere else? What are you doing to keep away the boredom?

Hope you all keep well!

Catch you later!

Hello from south-east Asia!! :)

  Hello from south-east Asia!!!!

Hello!

This is Emily Hutson posting my first blog for 6 months in south-east Asia!
I have been in SEA for 6 months, and after a rocky start, have started to settle in. I go to a multilingual school that is mostly french, and have learnt most of the language quickly, and while missing NZ have to much stuff to do to dwell on it much lately.
Almost every weekend we go somewhere, and this weekend it was kuang si waterfall, a beautiful place to swim with little fish that eat your dead skin( which tickles! )
I have seen snakes and lizards and other animals here in SEA. We are still settling in, but quicker now we have been here for a while.
I don't know if anyone still visits this blog, but if you are, I hope you enjoy catching up on my soon-to-be-weekly posts!
Hoping your having as good a time as me, sitting in school with a new friend beside me!
Bye!

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Maths Multiplication

WALT:present our different strategies.

This is my activity that we had to do.The teacher told us we had to show her 2+ strategies that we use to solve multiplication problems.
What strategies do you use?

How long?

How Long?

For this activity we had to get in groups, and then 1 member had to jump as far as they could,and we would try and guess how many cm they jumped.After that we would measure how far they jumped. Once we jumped 1.94!

I really enjoyed this activity.

Chapter Chat Task

          Chapter chat task.

WALT: Experience what it's like to be dyslexic. 

This week we have been doing chapter chat on A Fish In A Tree. Chapter chat is when you read a book as a class, and then you have different activities on that book each week. The image is a picture of the Must Do activity I did with my friend Arliah. We had to decode a paragraph which was spelt as dyslexic people see words. It gave me a whole new look at dyslexic people!  

 Maybe one of those schools is yours!

              

            

What Would You Do?

        What would you do?

        The mines afire!

                WALT:Make predictions and inferences.

                     

Goal setting

     Goal setting Term 1 2019

Today we have been creating goals on our maths and reading PAT test we did earlier this term. Above are my goals, plus  my personal one. FYI, my sound on steps web doesn't work. 

What are your goals this year?

Bye!

       

         Thanks for reading!!!                  

Current Events

Super sized cat!!!

A cat named Omar who weighs 14 kg and measures 120 cm was what me and my friend chose to write about.

The purpose of this activity was to find a article on kiwi kids news and do six thinking hats on it.

Thanks for reading!!

Waiho Bridge Collapse

Waiho bridge collapses in the rain!!! !!!!??????

WALT: write a recount.

On the 26th of march 2019 at 5:30 p.m, at waiho river, the waiho bridge was cut in half collapsed in the rain. Torrents of rain have been bucketing down, and now there is nearly nothing left of the bridge. There are is now only half of it a few pieces left. of the once long bridge.

It did not wash away quickly. One piece of the bridge was slowly leaning and not connected with the bank. It slowly leant down and then crashed in the water and just like a domino bridge game, one by one the other bits of the structure the bridge fell to the depths too.

The citizens of waiho, the police, tourists, and people with the camera.They would have been feeling pretty worried. Luckily, no one was hurt. The construction works now include raising the bridge.

In conclusion I think that it is bad that the waiho bridge has collapsed because it is nearly the school holidays and people will need to travel go on it. Hopefully the builders will work quickly. That bridge is important where holidays are concerned.

By Emily E. Hutson

This is the activity that we were to post to our blog.The words with lines through or blue highlight were words I deleted and purple colour were added.I really enjoyed this activity.

Blog you later!!

From Simple Sentences To Extended Ones

  Writing interesting sentences!

WALT: Add detail to our sentences to give detail to the reader.

Today Mrs Clark gave us an example of what detailed sentences look like in 5 simple steps.1st, we added an adjective.2nd, we told the reader when.3rd, we told them where.4th,we added how.5th,we put why.Afterwards,she gave us the choice of a simple sentence and then using the 5 steps to make it detailed.This is my sentence:

I waited for the bus.

I waited unhappily for the 

bus.

This afternoon I waited unhappily for the bus.

This afternoon I waited unhappily for the bus at the bustop.

This afternoon I unhappily shivered waiting for the bus at the bustop.

This afternoon I unhappily shivered waiting for the bus at the bustop because there was a breakdown.

That is what I wrote.

How detailed a sentence can you make?

  Thanks for reading!

Poetry Anthology

      

                   Poetry Anthology

Welcome to my poetry anthology blog post!!
We have been learning to write different forms of poetry this term,and we put all finished poems in this slide!
 My favourite one is probably the Acrostic poem because it was the easiest to write about because it was about me, and I hopefully know a lot about me!!

The hardest poem was the rap, because I don't know a lot about rhyming and I don't write songs a lot.
How many types of poems do you know?

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Westport Camp 2019

                  Westport Camp!!

This years camp was at Westport! It was at Westport because we are looking at mining this term,and Westport is based a lot on mining.
The slide above explains heaps, but an other favourite thing of mine was awards night, when everyone got chocolate for real or made-up things. I was little miss Kindness, and Nova was little miss Nosy-Parker, well Victoria was little miss Onezie!
My favourite part out of all of them was probably Denniston or awards night.
I think you should go to Westport. There is a lot of interesting stuff there!
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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.