Ruby S-S's Learning Journey

 Character day Hello everyone, Last Friday was character day. This day is about dressing up as a character from a book or movie. I went as Willy Wonka, and my friends went as the kids from the Willy Wonka factory. Maddie as - Veruccaa Salt, Greta as- Mike Teevae, Sam as- Agustus Gloop, Me as - Willy Wonka! This Day was really fun, and I enjoyed going as Willy Wonka, and my friends going along with it.  Thank you for Reading. - Ruby

  Hello everyone,  last week the Hillary Hub and I went to a school camp to Wainui. Wainui is close to Akaroa.  We started off with the bus ride over there. I had a front seat next to Greta ( my friend ).  When we got there we went and had a look at our bunk rooms. Bunk Rooms: I had a very good bunk room in my bunk room I had my friends Maddie, Meg M and Hazel. It was a nice quiet bunk room. We got to sleep well although we did have noisy neighbours running around and giggling on the first night, but we did have good sleep. Activities: The activities were fun the one I was most scared about was abseiling. The one I was most excited for was Kayaking. High Ropes: I enjoyed learning how to belay and to feed to rope out and in, we also learned how to coil the rope. My favourite was probably feeding the rope through. The climbing part was a bit scary although I did not get to do much climbing as we had to take turns in a 4, overall I love learning how to do it all. Kayaking: I really enjoye

 Hello everyone,  This week has been very busy for me, for me the year feels like it's going really fast with Coronavirus and everything that goes along with that. Here are the highlights for this week! ○ As a classroom, we got the "thumbs up" for camp, which is really good, I am so excited about it! I am also really eager to find out whos group I am, and finding out who is in my bunk room. ○ Cantamaths, I think things are coming together. I am doing a Motif, which I will start next week. I am also doing a game with Greta, and Cerise ( my friends )! The board game is coming together well, and we have finished our painting and are moving on to printing and laminating cards for our game, I am very excited to see the finishing product! ○ Bread making - Last week we made bread, in our lit circle groups. This was a really fun science activity to do! My group and I made wholemeal flatbread, this bread I really enjoyed making, because it was cool seeing the bubbles form on our b

Hello everyone, This week we have started on Lit circles! This has been very fun because I got one of the choices I chose. I chose This Land We Call Home and I got that choice. It is a couple weeks later and I have done tasks and have had meetings with my group. I really like Lit Circles because I am able to read and with my book, I am able to learn about history!  Here is a photo of the book I am reading> So far I am really liking this book. It is very exciting. It's about Pearl Harbour and its also about friendship. I really recommend it. Thanks for reading - Ruby S

Hello everyone, Last week I posted a blog post about my personification poem. But this week I am posting about a new poem. I enjoyed learning about Tanka poem, this was a very different task to a personification poem. For this poem, you need to have 5 lines. For the first line, it is five syllables, for the second line, it is seven syllables, for the third line it is 5 syllables, for the fourth line it is seven syllables, and for the fifth line, it is seven syllables. Here is the Tanka poem I produced: Toucan The toucan screeched loud,  the toucan flew very high. It flew to Rome city, It saw all the sights of Rome, It wanted to stay but could not. Army The soldier stood tall, He was proud of his great job. He loved saving lives And fighting for his country. He was filled with joy and pride! Thank you for reading - Ruby S                                

Hello everyone, This week as a class we made poems. The task was to make one about a forest. I felt that by looking at a few examples I was ready to go! This was a very fun task to do. I went into it trying to make my forest sound as sad and lonely as I could. Writing the poem I actually felt bad for poor forest I was writing about, it was also very creepy and gave me chills down my spine. Here is my poem! The Forest The forest creaks as it awakens, If you enter the forest you will be shaken. The twisty trees twist till you can not breathe, when the twisty trees stop it will make you heave. The leaves will cry for help, as their misery can not be helped when they yelp. The wolves will not howl any more, As their howls are tired out forevermore. When you enter this forest you will feel deep in sadness,   It used to be great but now it is badness. The sorrow of this forest lies forever in the darkness, deep in despair, the forest waits for som