The Parent Agency

The Parent Agency

Author - David Baddiel

The Parent Agency is about a boy named Barry who lives with a Mum, Dad and 2 sisters he also has two good friends named Jake, Lucas and Taj. Barry hates being called Barry he wishes that his name was something like Jake or Lucas. Barry once wrote down of ten things to blame his parents about. 

One day about a week before Barry's birthday his dad came back from work and said "I've got a present for you and showed him a James Bond CD Barry had a look at it and quickly discover that it was the cheap version. Barry got angry and threw the CD at his Mum his dad sent Barry to his room, Barry raced past the dishwasher and in the process tripped over the sand from the egg timer that he broke with the CD. He the was knocked unconscious and went into a coma. From then on he started dreaming about a Parent Agency. 

At the Parent Agency he thought he recognized people such as Taj And Jake or his two sisters. The way the parent agency works is that children choose there parents. Barry looked at his list of things that he blames his parens for to help him choose. First  he tried to find rich parents. They did not work because they were to cruel. Next he chose to have famous parents but they were to selfish. In the end of five days  witch happened to be his birthday he came out of his coma to find his family and friends all there. In the end he said it was the best birthday ever.

The Adventures of Tom sawyer

The adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Author - Mark Twain 
Rating - **** out of *****
Genre - Adventure

Tom Sawyer is an old classic about a boy named Tom and his best friend Huckleberry Finn. They go on adventures together.  This is a good read for people of all ages.

Epic voyages 40 bc

Epic Voyages 

Robyn Mundy, Nigel Rigby

Epic voyages is a big book with some sailing and some other stories and expeditions in it. Like s the adventure of Sir Ernest Shackleton. It is a very interesting read, It gives you so much information about the adventure. The one I read was Ernest Shackleton's expedition. Ernest shackleton and his crew of about 28 men set of on the 1 of august 1914. They soon found out that they had rough conditions a head. one of the first big problems they came to was a big lot of thick ice. They got stuck in the Ice and basically started to live out on the Ice and they started to make kennels for the dogs out of Ice. They soon started do drift away from where they wanted to go with the flow of the Ice. They soon had to go in little boats so that they used to get out of the flow of the Ice. They were close to dead several times because of pieces of Ice that was bigger than houses. 

Term 3 week 1 Reflection

This week we have been doing persuasive writing about summer and winter. Here is my writing. 
We also did basic facts on the Chromebook here are my results. 

Boom

Boom 
Boom is a book about a boy named James and a boy named Charlie. They are best friends and go to the same school. One day after school they put a recorder in the staff room because James sister had been angry at him and told him that they were going to send him to a military camp. They heard nothing about being expelled but at the end they heard that two of James teacher were talking a different language. They immediately were interested and wanted to find out more. 
Find out what happened to James and Charlie as they find out the secret of their teachers. 

Literacy week 3 Term 4 2017

This week for our numeracy we were finding out about fossils. We did a drawing about what we knew about fossils first and then we read some stuff and did another presentation on what we learnt.   This is
my KVL which shows my prior knowledge of fossils.  As you can see I didn't know much at the start.

Survivor reflection T4

This week for literacy we have started this really fun activity called survivor. What you do is you come up with a team name and you do activities like build a hut, build a stretcher to carry a team-member and other stuff like that. My teams name is Mana Kaha which means Mongrel power. Our activity was to build a tent, build a stretcher to carry a team member and the other one was to make a sling.  We were really good at hut building.

Shanty town reflection

This week we took a visit to Shantytown to learn about what it was like in 1866. We did stuff about court cases and we all had a role to play, I was a jury. The case  was Mr Owen Wright had lost his watch at a hotel  and was drinking at the time. Then his table was cleaned by a lady called Jane Simmons and after that he didn't see his watch . There were lots of other details but over all I thought that Jane was innocent and the jury decided all together that she was.  We found at the end we were right. WE also got robbed by this guy with a gun and he took the gold. We had to tell the policeman the details to track him down.  My favorite thing about going to Shantytown is getting robbed. My least favorite thing was to be dressed up like old people. 

CV for PREP

Prep is coming up at our school and we had to do a CV.  Here is mine. 

Damian McKenzie

This week we had to describe what Damian McKenzie was thinking when he smile while he is kicking.
I did it with Kaleb, here it is.

Free writing

For free writing I decided to do it on the game my awesome tennis coach taught me. He taught me how to play coin rugby, when I got to school a taught my friends how to play and we made a presentation about it.

here it is

My speech 2017

Last week I did my speech, I did my speech on child should play a sport.  I was really nervous and did not want to do it. 

Here it is. 

literacy week 9 reflection

This week we started to make our speech. We have not finished it yet. 
 

Literacy reflection week 8 term 2

W.A.L.T - Describe a Family member. 
This week for literacy we did a family description.  I chose my granny because she is really important to me. 

Literacy reflection week 7 term 2

This week I had a art work shop all Monday and Tuesday and on Wednesday we were out in the garden for the day and on Thursday I had music during literacy so I haven't got much work done. Here is my description of Miss Riesmann. Here it is. 

This is my What we did and learn't at the Art workshop.

This week there was cross country and I came second.  The top 8 in our race were all in Blake town rugby.  The top 3 were really close together.
We wrote a story about it and we had to mark it our self. Here is mine.  

Typing test week 4 term 2

This week for typing I did the typing test here are my results.

Numeracy reflection Term 2 Week 4

This week we did long multiplication this is a couple of the questions and answers I found them quite easy. 

Literacy reflection T2 Week 4

This week for Literacy this women callen Mrs P came to help us with our Writing. This is the writing that she helped me with. 

Literacy reflection T2 W3

This week for Power writing I did profiles with My friends.  Here it is. 


This week we read a book about harakeke and we did a doc about it. 

40 bc Bad guys

Bad guys is a funny easy read. 

Author -Aaron Blabley
illustrator - Aaron Blabley
The bad guys is a book about a gang of 4 animals a Wolf, Shark, Parana and a Snake. The wolf is sick of being bad guys so he try's to convince his friends to join him. They think about and they join him.   


Read this funny book to find out what happened. 

reflection term 2 week 2

This week for literacy we did Anzac diamante poem here's my diamante poem. 

40 bc reflection

Title - Diary of a track and field titan 
Author - Shamini Flint
Illustrator - Sally Hienrich
Rating - ✡✡✡✡ out of five. 
Summary - 
Diary of a track and field titan is a book about a maths whiz named Marcus Atkinson. He is no good at sport but he has a dad that is a self help author and believes Marcus has magic in his muscles and would be great at track and field. Read this book to see what he gets up to in track and field. 

Numeracy reflection T1 W9

This week for the first ten minutes of numeracy we have done prototec maths. I tried stage seven and eight. I got 70 percent. Here are my stage 7 results. 

This is the first step to long multiplication. 

Literacy reflection T1 W9

For literacy this week we carried on with our camp reflection. I haven't quite finished it yet. 

This is what it looks like so far. 

Diary of a super swimmer

Title - Diary of a super swimmer 
Author - Shamini Flint
Illustrator - Sally Heinrich
Rating **** out of *****


Diary of a super swimmer is about About named Marcus Atkinson. He is rubbish at sport but is a Maths whiz. His Dad is a self help author and is sure that he will find the right sport for his son. So far his dad has tried Cricket, Rugby, taekwondo and track and field. 

Read this hilariouse book to find out what happens to Marcus. 

Dairy of a tae kwondo master

Author - Shamini Flint

Dairy of a tae kwondo master is about a boy named Marcus Atkinson he is a maths whiz but is no good at sport. It doesn't help that Marcus's dad is a self help author and thinks he he can achieve anything he sets his mind to.  In this book there is a boy who is strong and is a bully he forces Marcus to enter in a tae kwondo comp the boy is a black belt and Marcus just started. 

READ THE BOOK TO 
FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED

Diary of a rugby champ

Author - Shamini Flint

Diary of a rugby champ is a book about a boy named Marcus who is not sporty but his dad is certain that he will find the sport that he is good at. Marcus's dad is a self help author and Marcus never seems to relate to his dads books. One day his dad signs him up for the club rugby team Marcus was not happy because he thought he was going to get hurt badly. In the end he manages to get the school bully on his side and manage to end up as a rugby champ. 

My favorite bit in the book is when Marcus scores the winning drop kick and then his dad says rugby is dangerous but the way you kicked the ball makes me think you world be great at taekwondo.

Mid nightgang

Author - David Walliams
Rating out out of five- ✡✡✡✡
The midnight gang is a book about a boy named Tom. His parents are rich and work along way from where Tom boards which is a expensive boarding school. One day Tom was playing cricket and he got hit in the head with a cricket ball. He went  to hospital and made his best friends ever. 

From then on his adventures begin. 

Read the rest to find out more. 

Dairy of a soccer star

Dairy of a soccer star 

Author -  Shamini Flint

Diary of a soccer star is 1 book out of quite a big series. 

The main character is a boy named Marcus Atkinson and he is really not what you call a soccer star. But his Dad is determined to find the sport that Marcus will be good at. 

I recommend you to read this book and find out how Marcus scores a goal  in a way that nobody will have seen before. 

Spine poem

This week we learn't a different type of poem. It was really fun and easy. The point was to make them funny and try to make them make a little bit of sense. 

Numeracy reflection

This week for literacy we focused on using long multiplication to complete easy equations.  I chose to do some slightly harder ones like these. 

Literacy reflection

This week for literacy we created a drawing about shanty town. Me and my buddy only had one day to do it. WALT: write a clear and detailed introduction using the 5 W's.

literacy Reflection week 5 Term 1

This week for literacy we were focusing on goal setting. For literacy we had to do two writing goals and two reading goals.

For literacy we also had to choose a topic to write facts about . I chose to write about the Wahine disaster because I know a tiny bit about it.  

For numeracy this week we also 
focused on goal setting. We had to set goals based on our PAT test.

Term 1 week 4 electronics session

This week on Wednesday we had an electronics session with Andrew. We learnt about positive and negative sides of a battery. We also did some things with led's. In this photo I am testing my strength.

Dairy of a basketball hero

Dairy of a basketball hero 

Author - Shamini Flint
Illustrator - Sally Heinrich

This is a good book if you like the dairy of a wimpy kid series you would probably like it

Summary - 
Dairy of a basketball hero is about a boy named Marcus. The thing about Marcus is that he is a very non-sporty boy but his dad is a self-help author and he thinks that his son can be a good sports player if he sets his mind to it. Later in the book his Dad says that he has signed him up for the girls basketball team. From then on every thing turns to custard and he makes a fool of himself but he ends up scoring the winning goal. At the end his dad says "the way you were handling the ball on the courts make me think that you would be great at tennis".  I will look forward to reading the others.

W2 T1 reflection

This week for our numeracy we did a tally chart with a buddy, my buddies were Oliver, Callum and Kaleb. We chose to do it about Mamaku's favourite super rugby team. In the end the favourite team was the Hurricanes. For literacy we did a list of 10 things. My list was about my favorite ten rugby players.  My favourite rugby player is Beauden Barrett. In class our teacher is reading holes we did an activity where we had to set the seen by drawing it. 

Typing reflection W1 T1 2017

Typing reflection W1 T1 2017

Welcome to 2017
This week for typing the year sixes got a student that didn't have a Chromebook so the year five got to share my Chromebook. My two buddies names are Kash and Seamus. Kash is a year six but his Chromebook has broken. Seamus is looking forward to taking his Chromebook home. My favorite thing that we did this week was draw on a mamaku fern about the things we like. Here are the results for our typing test.

My buddies is on the left.