Going for Green Gold!

 So if you've read some of my other blogs you would know that as a school we are going for Green Gold. If you haven't, well I can tell you about it. For about 7 years my school has been working to be awarded the great honour of being a Green Gold School! First of all there's bronze, then silver and last but definitely not the least, GREEN GOLD. The way to accomplish that goal is to follow the guiding principles to be Kaitiaki.

The guiding principles are, Learning for sustainability, Respect for the diversity of people and cultures, Empowered students, Sustainable communities and Maori perspectives. If you know what these mean and how to use them in everyday life, well then you mostly have that award under your belt. So what I'm going to do is try to explain what all of them mean and how we incorporate them at my school.

Learning for sustainability means learning how to make a stable and lush communities for the native flora and fauna to live in. At my school we have a lady called Kauri that comes in to show us how to improve our  gardens and life. Respect for diversity of people and cultures means understanding and being ok with things that can be different or new. In my class we like to be ourselves and show how we would think or do things.  Empowered students means taking matters into our own hands, while getting supported with what you choose to do and how you do that. An example of this for ME would be that I've made my own kawakawa balm out of our school leaves and students brought in old containers to put it in. Sustainable communities means that the community is healthy with bird-life and flora. How we do this at our school is  we go down to Hamanatua stream, and our whanau comes to help out. Maori perspectives means watching and learning how Maori used to do things and how they used to live off the land.

If you ask me, I think I did a pretty good job. Thank goodness for that, because yesterday we were awarded the GREEN GOLD AWARD.

L3 Math

Kia ora, this week my math group and I have been learning a new goal. Our goal is called, Solve a fraction of a whole number question, like 5/8th of 24. At first I found it extraordinary hard, but wanted to figure it out. Our teacher likes to hear how WE figured it out, and if we disagree or agree. She also likes to hear why and how we solved a question. One of my classmates used division, and I used timetables. Any way I thought I might make a video on how I would solve a question.

So my question is 4/8 of 50.

When I looked at the number, I immediately new that 1/2 of 8 is 4 . 

So that means that 1/2 of 50 is 25.

Which means that 4/8ths of 50 is 50 

Please tell me how you would have done it and if I got it correct or wrong.

Margos Story

Hello this week I thought I would publish my draft for Margos book. I have written all about her and the bundles of blues jonny. I hope you enjoy.

It started out just like any normal day. Margo woke up, had her breakfast, went to work , and then came home to go to sleep just before the cold frosty gisborne night settled in, but what she didn't know was that 2 little blue penguins were wadding up the bank of her house. They were getting ready to fluff up their feathers and settle in for the night. Poor margo was in the middle of her beauty sleep, and the little blues liked to talk about their day.(''REALLY LOUDLY,'') Margo added!

Margo felt very honored that the penguins chose her house, but she couldn't stand all of the late night gosip under the floor joust. So Margo thought up a canning plan. She said to herself, what if I drop the penguins at Mahia. It's far away,... and a nice environment. Margo told her husband, and he was all for it, cause he had also been woken up by all of there fish stories. The next day was moving day...

Margos husband wanted to wear soccer gloves, because he had read that penguins BIT! Once the two bundles of blue were in the black container, they were headed for Mahia. The ride was long, because it was very loud, margo husband said.  They all arrived at the beach, and said goodbye to the penguins. Margo was really relieved that she would finally finish her beauty sleep but still a bit sad, because the beast was know longer full. The nights and days past. Almost a month past, but then.....

Margo and her husband  thought that they were going crazy or something, because they thought they heard the little blues penguins discussing the journey back home from Mahia! The only problem was  the blues nest under the floor jost was now sleid up, so the penguins keeped and keeped on tapping on the window, to try see if Margo, or her husband would let them under the floor gout. Margo didn't come. So they tried and tried  to get to their nest. After a lot of skwuking and pushing they finally made it under. Now they come and go from the floor gout, to the sea.  

THE END

My 6 Sentence Story

 Hello, this week I was scrolling down all of the quick writes I could do, and I found a title that said, (6 Sentence Story, and in a blink of my eye , I had already started.) You might be asking yourself, what's a 6 Sentence Story? Well basically it's what it sounds like. You can only write 6 sentence, but you need to make sure you don't overuse commerce and things like that. Now, in my writing workshop, we had already done one of these because our teachers were wanting us to try use a broda and more meaningful rage of vocabulary. So here's My Six Sentence Story,and make sure to try one yourself!

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