At reading time the green group have been doing passion projects. To find the passion you had to find one on a news site. I picked the mars rover. Then you had to get a template of your passion and put it in. We write down lots of stuff about the passion. I’m pretty sure that we learned this because we are going to do it later this year. I learned how to make passion projects.
Did you know about passion projects?
We have been learning about how to play cricket. The people that taught us were Cameron and John. We learned to play continuous cricket, also how they bowl. To play continuous cricket you have one wicket and one bowler. There is a team of fielders and batters, in the bowler's team there's a backstop and bowler, and you can bowl whenever even if the batters are not at the wicket. You have one hit each for the batter then pass it to another person. We learned that because the cricket tournaments are coming up.. I liked it because it was fun and I like playing cricket.
Do you like to play cricket?
Last week on Friday Kereru and some of Piwakawaka, went to Clued Up Kids. Clued Up Kids are teaching us about safety drills. Safety things we did, was about trains, fire, earthquakes, safety around your house, Saint Johns (Hospital), a person from Search And Rescue, safety around quads, and horse safety. We did a rotation. Some people did each station. We spent 15 minutes on each one.
My favorite was the fire workshop, for that they blew up the inflatable house and we had to crawl through it, there was a map of the house there, I did it in somewhere around 5 seconds. For train safety we had to look at a video that showed what would happen to your car if a train ran into it, so you have to stop not the train, also it takes about 30 seconds for a train to stop. For the earthquake drill, we just did a drill, and the girl there also told us what we needed to in case of an earthquake. For the safety around your house, they set up a fake house, we had to spot problems on the fake house, like clothes over a heater, and other stuff like that. For the Saint John's one, we got a buddy that we worked with, we had a fake knife and put it on our arm and our buddies will bandage it up, we took turns. For the Search and Rescue, there was a police officer and a search and rescue person, they talked about stories about lost people, they also talked about staying where you are if you're lost and some of the gear that they use to find lost people. For one safety around quads, he told us we had to always have to wear a helmet, and to ride an adult quad bike you have to be 16+. For the Horse one, the girl there talked about safety around horses, they had a horse that was trained so it won't get scared. She said not to shout around horses because they could kick you or mush you, and if you were biking behind a horse call out then pass, we also pet the horse. Clued Up Kids was very fun.
Do you know all the safety things?
About two weeks ago our class made an all about me poster. That was a poster that told the teacher about us, we had to write stuff about us, like, it had our full names, our favorite food, Tv show, colour, book, age and some more. After we filled that in, we had to colour in the poster. Also, Mr Abbott told us we couldn't have any white. It took me a long time to colour it all in, and fill it up. It took about 4 days to do it because we only did it for a certain amount of time.
Do you like my poster?
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For a while, we have been doing an E-Book for writing. We started this a week ago, but we did two days of it. First, we had to find a picture on Pobble 365. It has an image to write about each day, or you can scroll through the days and pick one, the picture is the one I did. Next, we had to start writing our E-Book. Once we did that we started to recraft it. We recrafted it by making the words better and using show me don't tell me. Show me don't tell me is where you be really descriptive you can picture it in your mind. My E-Book was about a fictional creature, called Dreamgiver's.
