My goals for the term

My maths goals are:

• Solve a word problem involving writing an equation.
• Working out algebraic equations. Solving word problems using a given rule.
• Understand place value of decimal numbers.

Some of my literacy goals are:

• Use the correct tense.
• Use language features e.g similes & onomatopoeia; and visual language features e.g. illustrations and diagrams.
• Independently choose a ‘hook’ for my audience.
• Add and delete punctuation.

One of my personal goals is to get a 1st place ribbon in calf club. I am on track to achieve my goal because I do lots of brushing on my calf and I will soon start leading it. My favorite part of this year has been iDrive. I am look forward to Impact this year because we are giving the art room a makeover.

The Olympics

This year the Olympics are being held in Rio De Janeiro. It is summer in Rio so it will be the 2016 summer Olympics. The opening and the closing ceremony will take place in the Maracanã Stadium. Maracanã Stadium is found in Rio and it has held lots of soccer games. This year there are 56 sports that are represented. These are some of the sports swimming, boxing, athletics and lots more. The sports we don’t really do in New Zealand is handball and water polo. I am looking forward to watching the gymnastics, swimming and most of the other sports that are in the Olympics.

Holiday Recount

In the holidays I went to see the BFG in Hamilton with my Mum. It was a really good movie and it is like the book too. My Nana, sister and brother went to see Finding Dory. We did some shopping too. We got to have a ice-cream after as well at Mcdonalds. We went to Hamilton to do some more shopping. After to a museum and it had lots of cool things like. different types of paintings that were painted in the 1990s. On Friday I went to the doctors to see what I did to my ankle. The doctor said that I have to have a X-ray. The day after I went to the doctors I went to Thames Hospital to get the X-ray done. She said that it was not broken but I can't run on it for a month. After we went to get some food.

PMI for the week about our Learning Powers.

Resilience, Being Me, Curiosity, Connecting and Creativity.

Our team was called the Crazy Minds!

Plus	Minis	Interesting
This week we did something different. We used all our Learning Powers in one week. 1. I liked this week because we got to do something different to normal. 2. We got to work with different people and not just our friends. 3. That we win points and at the end of the week the team with the most points gets a prize.	The stuff I did not like was... 1. When people didn't get along very well when they didn’t listen to their ideas. 2. When some of the people in the team are not being positive. 3. When they keep on arguing with other people because they thought i was not work.	The things I found interesting was… 1. That we could pile lots of balloons on top of each other and it would stay for some people. 2. That we could build a boat out of recycled things and it would float in water. 3. How we get to know more stuff about the people in the group and how others react to the people in our group.

Ice Skating

Last week most of us went ice-skating on Thursday at school. I went at 1:00pm-2:00pm. On the side of the rink there was inflatable walls that we could hold onto and there was bunting above the inflatable walls. There were three groups because the rink was to small for all of us. For ice-skating we had to wear gloves and boots. At the start I fell over heaps but I got better at the end of it. When you fall over some of the ice got on you. I had a great time there.

String art

For the last six weeks we have been working on string art. The silhouette I did is three hearts in a row. First we had to plan what we were going to do. Second we had to find a photo of what we are going to do. Third thing we had to is get a piece of wood. Fourth we had to nail in the nails on to the piece of wood. Fifth we had to put the string to do. The thing I found challenging is putting the wool on because sometimes it fell off. The thing I found the easiest was choosing the silhouette because I had something in mind. Here are some photos: