Giraffe Fun Facts

Hello. My name is Elise and today i am going to be sharing with you my slide on Giraffes for my little buddy. 

A Giraffe is my little buddy's favourite animal. 

Here is my video:
Video about giraffes

Fun Facts About Giraffes:

1. Giraffes are the biggest mammals on earth
2. Giraffes can run up to 35 miles an hour over short distances 
3. A Giraffe's neck is too short to touch the ground 
4. A Giraffe only needs to drink once every few days 
5. Giraffes spend almost their whole lives standing up; even standing and giving birth
6. Giraffes only need 5-30 minutes of sleep during a 24 hour period 
7. Giraffes live up to 20-25 years old! 
8. A Giraffe's neck alone is 6 feet, 
9. There are only 35,000 Giraffes left in the world

So they were all my facts about Giraffes. I hope you enjoyed my Blog:).

QUESTION TIME!!!!

Whats your favourite animal?

If you favourite animal was a mythical creature what would it be?

If there was an animal that could do any trick in the world, what would it be?

Fun With The School Fair!!💕

Fun With The School Fair!!💕

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) started with the teachers putting us into groups. In these groups we had to work collaboratively to create Jolly Jars for the school fair. This task helped us to begin exploring our This term, our Project Based Learning (PBL) started with the teachers putting us into groups. In these groups we had to work collaboratively to create Jolly Jars for the school fair. This task helped us to begin exploring our PBL question for the term - How can we build community through our actions? We had to research ideas, be creative with our product, experiment with our materials and write instructions that could be followed by others. 

Here is a link to my instructions.

I learnt that instructions need to make sense, be very clear and easy to read and follow.

Reflection on PBL:

For our Jolly Jar my group did flowers in a jar. I bought poppy seeds and marigold seeds and Quin bought sunflower seeds. 

I contributed to my group by helping with dipping jars in nail polish and packing the jars. 

Our Jolly Jar was creative because we dipped it in nail polish and water.

I learned that working with others is really tough at the beginning but it gets better and better each day. At the end it's really easy to communicate with the people in your pbl group.

How did we build community through our actions? We raised so much money during the school fair. We earned the bike track in the back field and the money we got was over $25,000!!

This is my PBL group

Summer Learning Journey 2019. Activity 1

Hello. I am Elise and I am doing this thing called Summer Learning Journey. I do it in the Summer holidays so that my learning does not go down.
I have been told to bring 10 food items on a boat. It has to feed me for three weeks straight. There are no freezers or fridges on a boat so i have to pack some food that i can not cook, freeze or keep cool.
Here is my list of food that I would take on a THREE WEEK BOAT TRIP!!

1. An Apple x10
2. A Block Of Chocolate x1
3. Energy Gel x4
4. Pistachios x10
5.  A Pack Of Salty Crackers x10
6. A Pack Of Seaweed Crisps x8
7. A Pack Of Dried Fruit x3
8. A Pack Of Pretzels x4
9. Carrots x9
10. A Jar Of Peanut Butter x1

Thank yioiu for reading my blog post

have you ever been on a three week boat trip?

Christmas Poem...💕

Hi! I am Elise and today I am sharing with you my LAST BLOG POST OF THE YEAR!!!!
This week I made a Christmas poem.
Here it is:

The Night Before Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the
house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse!

I heard a jingle, I got a tingle. 

I heard something on the roof, I think it was a hoof!

 I saw some lights, they were very bright!

 He wore a big red suit and big black boots, his beard was
wiry like roots and his face was covered in soot.

He left a present or two, was this night true?

 Before he left he fed his deer, and put a note on a chair!

 Last but not least he checked his map, and put a present on
his lap.

He flew off in a flash, i thought he was gonna crash!

Then he yelled “MERRY CHRISTMAS    TO ALL AND
GOODNIGHT!!!!   HOHOHO”

I hope you enjoyed my Christmas poem. It is cringy, but oh-well

About my poem:

I spent about 3 days working on a poem. It took me quite a while to start off my poem but eventually it came to my head. I was thinking, 'hmm. What should it start off with? OOH! I KNOW!! I heard a jingle. Wait. But what rhymes with jingle?' So i searched 'what rhymes with jingle' so this little website came up called 'Rhyme Zone' so i clicked that and it helped me a lot. My word was tingle. So i continued. At the end of my poem i thought it could be Before He Left He Fed His Deer, And Put A Note On A Chair. So i thought i had finished but really, no.

On the second day i added something. I added I Saw Some Lights, They Were Very Bright.

Thank you for reading my Blog Post

Have you ever Redone a Christmas poem?

CHRISTMAS POETRY!!

Hi. I am Elise and today i will be giving you a snippet of my Christmas Poetry...


Acrostic

1.

Milk
Elf's

Rudolph

Reindeer

Yay

Cookies

Hooray

Reeth

It is hot

Santa

Tiz the season to be jolly

Mistletoe

A pohutukawa tree

Sun is shining

2.

Reindeer

Up, up and away

Deliver

On our way

Lift off

Presents

Hurry

Haiku
1.

Santa gives me presents

The cookies and milk are made

Tuck up in your bed

Thank you for reading my poems

Have you ever done a Haiku or Acrostic Poem before?

MUSEUM DAY FOR TUMU HUB!!! WOOHOO!!!!

HELLO!!!! I am back!!!!! To start off my post, here are a couple of pictures of me and my friends at the museum:                                                                                                                                                                                                   Here i am having lunch with my                                                                                                                friends and talking.
                                                                                                                            ⬇                                                        ⬇ Here is me doing cave
                                                    arts with crayons!!!!!!!

              

                                                                                       Here is me listening to a story!                                                             once upon a time...

                                                                                          ⬇ 

Those were a couple of pictures to start off my post. 

I had so much fun at the museum. I wish we could go back there, or stay there longer. 

There were so many cool things there. I went in the hurricane storm thing. I used to think that it was scary!! My parent helper was Abby, Travis' mum. I was in a group with: Corinne, Dakota, Oliver, Travis, Lara, Lincoln B and James. We had a little muddle up with the classrooms. Me, my sister and Charlie L thought our class was at the front but it really, it was at the back. So we walked to the door for nothing. 

We got inside and sat down with our bags. Next we had to put them in boxes. It was tourist season so we had to do X's with our arms like this:

The trip was great fun. Like I said earlier I would like to stay longer. We got to walk around with our class for a while. Corinne, my twin sister, scared a boy called Oliver, and it was so funny!!!😆😆😆We were laughing for so long!!! I didn't manage to get onto the horse, I'm afraid of heights so that is why I did not go on it. I would've gone on it if I weren't afraid of heights! We went over to the mummy's. I got a bit scared because I did not want to get the whiff of disgusting dead person smell! But I did not. Corinne was a bit scared too. But anyways. There was some sort of mirror thing. It was changing pictures.They were fading away and then appearing again. It was weird. My friend Lara was scared too, it was kind of.... funny!!😄😃😁!! We got a bit worried so we ran out and huddled!! Then we looked at the dinosaurs!

Then we moved on to the Under Water Animal Sounds!!

That is kind of a bad picture but anyways...

We had a great time there! I used to go with my family and that was ok but when I went here, IT WAS GREAT!!!!!

Have you been to the museum before?

NZ Disaster!! TRAIN CRASH!!!!!

On the 24th of December, 1953, a tragic train crash happened. We did some learning on the subject. Me and my sister, Corinne, did an animation on it. It was called the Tangiwai Disaster. Here is the link to our animation. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mBLnt6lDwwB-vl3cbBM3o6TQK61Yx9VqZy1CPGQFVmI/edit#slide=id.p

I hope you like our animation. First we made the title, NZ Disasters, then we put a background on it. Next we made another slide. We made a railway for our train. then we made it break. and the train came ZOOMING past. The first carriage fell, then another, then the next one, but thankfully the last carriage was safe!! We did lots of fun learning!! 

What tragic disasters do you know about?