My Goals For Term 1 and Term 2

Here are my goals I was learning  were i'm at and what i'm working towards in term 1 and term 2.

Q & A DLO

I am learning to find the answers to my questions.
What I found easy was finding the answer to my questions.
My next step is to have deeper questions.

Tikanga at Tautoro school

WALT think about creative ways to promote and teach our values

I think our movie was creative because we dressed up and used imovie. This movie is about us teaching what Our hoe Tikanga (Our school hoe values) My next steps are to know how to edit movies using Imovie. Enjoy



What I thought about the movie was that it was funny and I think it might teach what tikanga is.

Freaky visit at Grandmas

Here is my recount writing. I have tried to proof read my own writing But enjoy

Freaky Visit at Grandmas

One day I went to Grandma’s house. I walked Inside and I politely said to Grandma, “Hello Grandma how have you been?” She replied, “Good good” ahhhhh I yawned out loud. It's pretty late so I better go to bed. Good night I tiredly say to Grandma.

The next day I look out my window and see  some of the headstones in the graveyard had moved. I dashed to grandma and said, “Grandma Grandma the headstones in the graveyard had moved”

Grandma replied, “Ahh you must be dreamin” I replied back, “No” Next thing i see is a ghost floating in the hallway. I asked the ghost, “Why are you here”

but no reply. Then Grandma loudly said, “What do you mean I live here” “Ahh” I groaned. She thinks I must be talking to her. All of a sudden the ghost shoots upstairs.

I had 2 choices. Choice 1 I run out of the house and go straight home.

Choice 2 I can go investigate where the ghost went upstairs. Then I decided to go upstairs and investigated where the ghost went. So when I got  upstairs to investigate where the ghost went the ghost dashed again and went into my room. the moment I take a step into my room the ghost slammed the door. I backuped, stumbling, fallen onto my bed. Then the ghost gazed around the room, “Yes yes” the ghost said, “This will do perfectly”, “Wh-what do you mean” I mumbled.  The ghost floated towards the bed, “I can sleep here for plenty of years” The ghost said. I asked the ghost, “Why are you going to sleep on my bed for years and Years”, “Because I need a good Sleep” the ghost replied, “So go away” the ghost loudly said. So I listened to the ghost

and I slowly walked out of my room. Next thing I see when I get out of the room is a ghost horse.

I asked myself, Is  that a ghost Horse? Then I decided to mount the horse.

I slowly approached the ghost horse. When I got to the horse I quickly mounted the horse. Then, the horse shooted down the hallway, “Ahhhhhh help” I shouted out loudly, “Oh no the horse is going to go through a wall”, “If the horse can go through the wall what about“Me? CRASH, BANG, I hit the wall hard.“Oww” I said in pain. I am taking all my stuff and I’m getting out of here. I got all my stuff and ran out of the house and said goodbye to Grandma. She replied “Bye”. But I was already out the door. I say “I’m never coming back here again!” I furiously said.

Today I learnt how to create a survey using google forms. Please fill it in so I can make a graph

Room 5's Fears

 W.A.L.T create pie graphs using google spreadsheet

Here is the results Tell me about what your fears are?

What I learned was what every ones fears are and learning to use google spreadsheets. My next learning step is understanding percentages

Eels are an endangered species

I was writing an explanation and this was what I had to do to be successful in my explanation writing.

Here is what my introduction had to have:

• Background information (hooking reading)
• End with a focus question

Paragraphs that explain they will have

• Lead sentences or subheadings to focus my ideas
• Technical language
• Sequencing words such as firstly, because, so, as a result, another reason, in summary
• End with a conclusion

Here is my explanation writing. ENJOY!

Eels Are An Endangered species

By Ricci

Sloppy, floppy, slimy, These words are how I, describe an eel. Eels are native to New Zealand. Eels go way back when the Maori came to New Zealand. But now….. They Are

An endangered species. Which means they could go extinct. My focus question is what is making a long fin eel threatened? That's, what i’m going to explain.

Commercial Fishing

Well, commercial fishing is when fishermen catch big fish for money (profit)

But what is endangering eels is that they are catching the older eels that are ready to spawn. But the thing is that if they catch a female eel  that is ready to spawn that means that they can’t spawn. Spawning means that when an eel or something is going to have their babies they spawn a bunch of them. Pretty cool aye? Plus, another thing is that  fishermen are catching  tons and tons of big eels that are ready to spawn  and they don’t care about the eels or they don’t know that they are actually a endangered species.  But anyway they just do it for the big cash.  

Spawning Problems

I’ve already explained what’s commercial fishing so here are some other things that are preventing them from spawning.  Another reason that is preventing eels from spawning is hydro dams. Well when they are going to spawn sometimes there can be a hydro dam in the way. So this means that they get sucked into the propeller of it then die. So what they need to do is help the eels to get around it. Right?  

How can we help?

Well what we can do is that if and eel get stuck or something we can catch the in a net and get them out of the dam. That is one thing we can do. Another thing we can do is  that if you’re just a normal person fishing for eels  and  you catch a big female one. What do you do? You would put it back into the water, because they are making their way downstream to spawn. Another thing is, keep our creeks clean! because some creeks have polluted water and that’s not good for the eels. What you can do is keep the water clean.

Well, I have explained the things that I know that are preventing eels from spawning such as commercial fishing and hydro dams.  I hope you take my advice and do the right thing if you catch an eel that is ready to spawn.

Comment down below to tell me what else you think that is preventing eels from spawning.