Lily and the Rockets Novel Study

Kia ora bloggers,

In reading at school we have been given a novel each to read each day. My novel is called Lily and the Rockets by Rebecca Stevens. In the story Lily and the Rockets, Lily is the main character.  Lily is a footballer and she is in the Royal Arsenals football team and her team is called the Rockets. All of the players in the Rockets are girls and Lily plays goalkeeper in the story. This story was placed in the year 1917 and all the men had gone to war so, all the women had to take over all of the men’s jobs like being a football player or working in a factory. All of these are examples of Munitions, if you still don’t know what a Munition is here is a better meaning of it. A Munition is when all of the men goes to war they leave their jobs so they can’t go back and finish what they were doing. But some men don’t go to war so they can keep doing what they want to do. But if all the men go to war they leave all the women to do all their jobs. We also did a novel slideshow which is a slideshow about our novel. This is one of our slides in the slideshow. Lily Dodd (main character) plays football. She plays for Woolwich and Royal Arsenals football team.

Thank you for reading my blog.

In The Small Trenches

 

 

kia ora, Dear readers,

Last week on the 27th April, all of the Te Waka Ako student’s had a big surprise, the were strings everywhere!

Then we found we were doing Under The Wires, and learning how it will feel like if we were in a real trench and at war. We still did lots of learning, our first subject was reading, which was a little hard because we had to find a group of four or five. It was very hard to move and bend down at the same time because, we couldn’t touch the wires. If we touch the wires we would get shot (that is just pretend.) Next thing we had was maths, which is one of my favourite subjects of the school day. But today it was not my favourite subject because we had to find our maths buddy’s and do the maths handout the teachers said we had to do, but the maths work was still fun to do. Our maths was to to do about ANZAC day, so was our reading.  After reading was writing, and writing last week was really strange because we had to move to a spot with our kits (our pencil case and a glue stick) around  to find a spot. Then we started writing a poem, we could make it any poem but it had to be about ANZAC Day. My story was about a horse running out of the war with a rider on the horses back, running into the forest.

 

Cats VS Dogs

In writing we have been learning about persuasive (which means like you are getting someone to like the same thing as you)

people think dogs are better them cats. Others think that cats are better then dogs. But I think dog are the best. have a read of my writing then you will think dogs are better.

 

The Great Museum Trip

Hello, bloggers. yesterday, Te Ana Ako went to the Auckland Museum to continue learning about: Volcano, navigation and to also to explore the Auckland Museum.

First we went to the volcano class room and learn more about volcano in Auckland. My favourite was seeing Peter the T-Rex for the fourth time and we also we got to to a True or Fuse game. I learnt that there were a lots of volcanoes just in Auckland!

 

Thank you for reading!       Ella

Athletics Day

Howdy, On Monday it was athletics day at school. We had activities like high jumps, long jumps, shot put and sprints. My favourite was long runs because I came first place in the 40m race. I would like to get better at shot put because the shot put ball did not go really far.

Fast Cross Country

 

Malo e lelei,

my name is Ella and my school is Waikowhai Primary School. On Thursday it was Cross Country at school. We were in groups of two I was in the year 4 group 1. When we were waiting for our turn we did some activities with the year 6 leader’s, they were so cool!. My favourite activity was hand ball because it was my first time playing it so it was a bit of a challenge but my friend Eliza helped me so it was still fun. Then we played Dodge ball and it was very fun too, I did not get hit by the ball which means I had won.