Afrikaans

A part of completing the language milestone we have to do many things.

One is you you must meet with an expert on a different language and find out some of the following things. I meet up with Caliska and her dad. They use to live in South Africa. So they are really good at speaking Afrikaans.

• The name of the language and where in the world it comes from.You need to find it on a world map.

Afrikaans

• Basic greetings-hello, goodbye, thank you, my name is…..

Good Morning=Goeie Mare

Hello my name is Morgan=Hallo my naam is Morgan

Hello=Hallo

Goodbye=Totsiens

Thank You=Dankie

• Counting 1-5

1 gen

2 twee

3 drie

4 viger

5 vyf

6 ses

• Something special/interesting about this particular language-music, food, other?They learn English the language at school in Africa.

They eat many different African animals like the springbok or the buffalo.

• Find a picture of this country's flag

Cross Country

On the 21st of August we had our school Cross Country. I was the last race, so it was a long time waiting to race. I shot off like a gun, running with Brooke and Fairven. We ran through the creek, up the hill (the killer hill). Then to the finish line. I end up coming 4th. It was awesome. I am super proud of myself. 

Food Miles Group Endeavour

 Today in Marama we have been working on curiosity.  Me and my group  are looking at food miles. We came up with a driving question to help us. Why should we support local instead of imported food growers?  From that question we came up with many other questions to help us to answer the big question. The people at the table and I spread out all the questions and sorted them into different groups. I am really excited to learn about it and can not wait to get started.

• What is it I hope I will come to understand more deeply through this inquiry?

I want to have an impact and I want to help other understand more about food miles. But before we do that, we have to learn more deeply. I would love to answer the big question of why should we support local instead of imported food growers with a detained helpful response.               

• What knowledge might I need to help move towards this understanding?

We will need a lot of knowledge to help us. Mostly we will find out this knowledge when talking/investing our topic.

• What is it I hope to be able to do more competently? 

I hope that I will be able to go to the food shop and be able to know the impact of importing

and exporting.

• What learning powers will this inquiry help me practice and develop further?  

The main one is curiosity. We are using this learning power now by asking all the questions. We are also doing alot of connecting as we are in a group. My group and I are really good at connecting, we bounce ideas off of each other and find it easy to work together.

Some of the question me and my group came up with....

• What food can we not grow in New Zealand but have because of importing?
• What country imports/exports the most food?
• What food do we need to be imported in New Zealand?
• What diseases can imported food carry?

• What is the cheapest imported food?
• What is the most imported/exported food in New Zealand?
• Is there a shortage of local food growers because imported food is taking over the market?

• What food do we export in New Zealand?
• How can us as children convince people to support local instead of importers?
• What country supports us and sends us imported food?
• What can we do to support local growers?
• What food is grown locally?
• How does food make it to the supermarket, what’s the process?
• What the difference costs  of local and imported food?
• How does food stay fresh?
• What food do we import?
• What food is the easiest to grow?
• What food is the easiest to import?
• What is the most common imported food?
• What is the most common locally grown food?
• How much does it cost to get imported food to New Zealand?
• How do you know if the food is local or imported?

News Weekly

Dark Chocolate Makes You Happy

Eating dark chocolate, rich in cocoa has been linked with numerous benefits, including stress  reduction and improved heart health, but a new study has revealed it can make your brain smarter and improve memory. Dark chocolate, which is 70 percent cocoa, is full of powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatory things that are known to be good for cardiovascular health. I think this is weird and good at the same time. I like dark chocolate, but I think they are  weird things to say are in chocolate. I wonder how they did their tests?

I had found a word tricky in the article here are the definitions below:

Cardiovascular: The heart and blood vessels.

I got my info from http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org

School Vists

Yesterday some schools came to visit our school.  I am a school ambassador leader so I got to talk to them about what stands out for me in my learning. It is so cool listening and talking to the awesome people coming to our school to help improve theirs. I love my job! Mr Fraser, Mrs Hull and I talk to the schools. Then we show them around the school. This was the second to last school visit of the year! The year has been so fasts.  There was one teacher that had really cool nails for the Olympics, her name is Mrs Colls. Here is a photo of them... 

Commas, Colons and Semicolons Lesson

One of my learning goals is to know what a semicolon is and try to use them in my writing more. I have set this goal from my writing matrix. I know that to be a better writer I need to have more complex punctuation and use semicolons. I have been learning about them, to show evidence of my learning I have chosen to do a blog post about it.

Semi-colons can be used to join clauses in a sentence. Sometimes they take the place of connectives.

John liked jelly and Sam just loved ice cream.

This sentence could be written:

John liked jelly; Sam just loved ice cream.

1. My sister Amy, my friend Kyle and I went to the park.
2. I brought a lot of stuff: food drinks and blankets.
3. My aunt Sally; who is my favorite aunt, talked to my mom.
4. Most fruits are low in fat; they are also high in vitamins.
5. When we left the park;  the one at the end of the block, we went home.
6. The attractions of the park included: roller coasters, shops, shows and the movie characters.

Group Endeavour

 Today in Marama we have been working on curiosity. The teachers had put out different thing on the tables in our space. We had to walk around and brainstorm the different question we had about the things on the table. My favorite table had sand, shells, plants, seeds and farming things. After we had a walk around all the tables and came up with all the different question. Then we sat down on the mat and picked a favorite subject. We all had different things that we enjoyed to look at and were asked to pick what we wanted to do, not our friends.I want to learn about seeds and plants. I what to find out how different plant spread their seeds, which some of my questions were about. Also, I what to know what is in a seed and how some seeds are preserved. The people at the table and I spread out all the question and sorted them into different groups. I am really excited to learn about it and can not wait to get started.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.