Character Trait Description

Over the past few weeks for writing we have been focusing on character traits. Mr Billings set a task for us on character traits, when we had to describe three emotions - happy, angry and an emotion of our choice. Here are mine:

ANGER

His eyes blazed. His friend had lost another rugby ball! This time he had taken it too far. “Umm… You ok?” His friend had said. No, of course not! You lost my favourite rugby ball! I just stared at him. I clenched my fists and picked up a rock. I glared at him and turned away. Lifting up my arm, I threw the rock at the wall. My friend winced behind me. “I need to go, but… I found the ball…” He placed something on the ground and ran off. I didn’t turn around until I was sure he was gone. When I did, my face went stony. I turned around again and picked up my rugby ball. It was flat. And broken. And I didn’t know what to say. I was just too mad to know.

Happiness

Jessica smiled her cheesy smile as she skipped down the pavement. She reached her arms out and hugged a tree. Nothing could get her down. Today, she was getting a kitten! She laughed. “Today is the day!” She sang. She jumped into her mums car and they drove to the pet store. As they strolled down the many isles of cats, she finally stopped at a grey and white fluffy kitten. Her smile grew from one ear to the other.  “This one!” Jessica announced. She and her new kitten were inseparable. Nothing could tear them apart.
Jovially

Perry smiled cheerfully as he opened the door for his teacher. “Thank you Perry! You are a very kind boy,” she would say every morning when he opened the door for her.

Perry would reply, “the pleasure is all mine!” He would then follow her into the class and help her carry things. Perry is a very friendly boy. He had lots of friends and was very perky. He would always try hard during class, and he had tons of gold stars! He would always help. He would return money to people, open doors, carry things, clean things and many more.

Catapults

Lately we have been making catapults. We originally wanted to do something with the catapults that I am not allowed to mention, ( When I say that I mean try them out on Hillary ) but instead we decided to measure the distance our catapults can go. We had to fire two different coloured beads, a stone and one other object. We needed to measure them in metres and centimetres. After we finished measuring, Mr Billings said we needed to make a graph on Google Sheets about how far the objects went, converting it into centimetres. Here is how my Graph turned out.

House Design

As part of our aim in maths, measurement, Mr Billings set us a task. We had to design a house! He shared a doc with us that showed the minimum of what we had to have in our house:

1 Living room  

1 dining room

1 Kitchen

1 bathroom

1 laundry

2 bedrooms

A hallway of some sort to join rooms together.


After we drew it out on a draft we drew it out on a piece of gridded paper. We showed our working out on another piece of paper. We finally had to work out the final area of our house. It was really fun, though it took a few weeks to make! Mr Billings also set another challenge for us -  to use triangles! Just to make it easier for us, he taught us how to work out the area of a triangle. But the biggest challenge
he set, which was for the very good mathematicians, was to use circles! As much as I would love to learn how to work out the area of a circle, I don't think I would like to learn it just yet.

The Great NZ Road trip!

Lately in Room 11 we have been working on our inquiry - The Great New Zealand Road Trip. We could choose one New Zealand Tourist Attraction. It was either Waitomo Caves, Hobbiton, Napier Art Deco, Cape Kidnappers, Rotorua, or the Weta Workshop. You could also choose something else with Mr Billing's permission.  I chose Waitomo Caves. Next we did Flora and Fauna, when we had to choose and endemic ( Meaning only in one place ) animal or plant of New Zealand. I chose a Grey Warbler. The week after that, we had to do one about NZ History. We could choose between Pink & White Terraces, New Zealand Wars, Cape Kidnappers and ANZAC day. I chose to do Pink & White terraces, which I am still finishing.