Our Visiting Poet:Judi Billcliff

About 3 weeks ago a famous poet came to our school for a visit. Her name is Judi Billcliff. She read us some of her best selling books and did some plays with us. Judi came because it was book week at our school and we were looking at poetry. We also had a poetry competition. Some people volunteered to join a play. Judi Billcliff is a really funny poet. Below are some photos of us having fun and bonding with Judi.

We had heaps of fun with Judi. We learnt heaps about her and her background. If you would like you can visit one of her websites at http://www.rainbowpoetry.co.nz/ . Please feel free to comment and check out the rest of my learning blog! 

Mountain Subjects

On Thursday the for inquiry Senior Syndicate paired up and made a padlet. We wrote down a list of things we thought we wanted to research. Our suggestions had to be relevant to mountains. Take a look the padlet we made. 

Since we were in groups, we came up with lots of ideas. My topic is skiing and snowboarding. I chose this because were going camp in a few weeks and we are going to be snowboarding. So I want to learn about it and be prepared. Feel free to comment and check out the rest of my learning. 

Building a Tent Model

Hi bloggers,

yesterday for maths we had to build a tent model out of tooth picks and modelling clay. Our task was to build a small tent model with shapes. I used a rectangle, squares and trapezoids. I also built a little camp fire. 

During the making of this I had problems. One of the problems was that my model kept on falling down because the modelling clay wasn't holding the tooth picks together in place. I  found out that after a while the model collapsed because of the modelling clay. 

This is my model!

I found it hard trying to make it stable so it doesn't fall. I think my shape was really good and strong. You also needed to be very focused and patient. Overall I think I did really well and I had great shapes. I would love it if you left a comment and checked out the rest of my learning blog!