Inquiry - My email to Corning Glass

The Year Six’ at Sherwood Primary are learning more and more about our upcoming exhibition. Recently we were talking about taking action and learning more by doing so. I wanted to inquire into learning about glass because I liked the video that I watched, called ‘A Day Made of Glass’. 

There is a company called Corning, who make awesome videos about how glass might be used in the future, which I was particularly interested in. I took action by emailing the company, saying that I admired their work and wanted to find out more. I asked if they were making any more “Day made of glass” videos, and got a reply from the Corning company all the way in New York, America!!!!! They said that they appreciated my enthusiasm in wanting to know more. They wished me luck in my future endeavours and introduced me to new resources  to help my learning, such as their youtube channel. Taking action is the key.

Writing - Stu Duval’s writers workshop

On Thursday the 4th of July, I went to the multi talented Stu Duval’s writers workshop. Stu Duval is so talented. He can draw cartoons, draw amazing pictures with pastels and my favorite quality about him, he can write awesome stories. Stu Duval’s workshop is like a small meeting, with three selected students from classes in the school. Stu Duval taught us how to stock our brain with ideas, just like you would stock a pantry with food. He told us the special key to writing the “why” key. Just look around the room and find an object. For example a chess game. Ask yourself why, why is there are chess game there. Maybe a magic wizard waved his wand and sent it there. Then ask again, why , why did the wizard send it there and so on until you're done. Voila, you have a fabulous story!!!! Next minute you could be writing a story about explosions and world war one, and to think, it all started with a chess game. Stu Duval is my hero.

Inquiry - My Epic Body System Presentation

In term 1, my class and I learnt about body systems and now in term 2 we could choose how we wanted to present what we have researched, so I made an awesome mobile about the integumentary system. The integumentary system is simply just your skin, hair, nails and your sweat glands. If you don’t know what a mobile is look at this picture of me presenting my work.

I'm really proud of my work because it is very different to everybody else's and it was the first time I  created the mobile but it turned out great. 
Nola

Music - The Arts Festival

The arts festival is a group of kids specially taught by our music teacher Mrs Davison. There are 14 schools performing as well as us at the Bruce Mason Center. At the end of the show we sing Aotearoa together.

Over the past lunchtimes, a cluster of approximately 30 students practiced a dance, we dance to “Life in Sunshine” by Jamie Mcdell, with an added in rap about our multi cultural school.

I’m really happy with our performance, and hope everybody else is too.

 

Our arts festival group consists of a maximum of 17 schools and our teacher Mrs Davidson. The arts festival group will be singing and dancing to the song Life in Sunshine with an added in rap about our multi-cultural  differences. I believe joining the arts festival was a great choice for me to make because the arts festival allows me to share my feelings through singing and dancing and its so much fun.

Rebecca

Arts festival is a cluster of schools who have joined a group. We are all performing at the Bruce Mason center on the 26 of June in front of more than 2000 people. My school is doing a dance to “Life in Sunshine” by Jamie Mcdell. We all  get to wear clothes that represent our  country. We had a really hard time choreographing it all but we're finally finished.  I bet we're all terrified for the big night. I feel sorry for our amazing music teacher Mrs Davidson. She gave up all of her lunchtime and so did we, she is tired and so are we. - By GYPSY

In Term Two, 28 awesome student in year 6 chose to do a show in Week Eight in front of 2,000 people. We have practised so hard and so long it has been so tiring but fun. I think our awesome music teacher Mrs Davidson has worked really hard so I am really proud of her because she has had a lot of success. - by Tyllah-Rose

Here is a link to a short video of a rehearsal 

Reading - The Cupcake Club Series

Lately, I have been reading an awesome series called the Cupcake Club by Coco Simon. Bite into the lives of four cupcake crazed girls who all share a love for cupcakes. Join them on their journeys to fighting bullies, dealing with annoying brothers and running their own cupcake business. I love these books because of the humour and delicious cupcake recipes. I highly recommend these books to people who love to read friendship books and of course people who love cupcakes. 

Inquiry - body systems

Zach, Zeke and I (Sam) created an awesome Weebly - a website that is free to get and you can share your ideas. I had made one about two years ago, when I was in year 4. It was about floods. Back to body systems. This year, I made mine about the Muscular System and Zach and Zeke did theirs on the Nervous System. We made our headings colourful by using Flaming Text. The good thing about publishing on a Weebly is that its not like a poster because for that you have to print in colour to make it colourful. I felt excited because I remembered how to do it and discovered a lot of things I couldn’t do before. I think Weeblys are fun.   Here is a link to it.

Inquiry - My Body System Poster

When my class started our new inquiry, we had to choose what system we wanted to research about, so I decided to find out “All About The Respiratory (Res-pi-ra-tory) System”. I was  so bored at first, but that was only because I had to read books and go onto the computer to get all my info and none of them had the right information that I needed. Then I wrote down my information on paper for a draft, after that I drafted it on the computer in Google Drive. I edited my work with some help from my classmates and my amazing teacher,‘Mrs Willemse’.  I started publishing my work on Comic Life, but it didn’t turn out like I thought it would. Instead of it being a comic, it looked like a poster, that’s why I changed to publish on a poster. I went onto Pages to copy my work off of Google Drive, then my teacher printed my work with the copier. While Mrs Willemse was printing my work, I started creating my poster. On the front, it looks so boring because all it says is“The Respiratory System”“ By Flynn Ivatt”, but inside,  it looks so cool! I put all my published work on it and I drew my own lung picture, it may be 2 things inside of it, but it is awesome! While I was making my last paragraph, it was tidying-up time and it was Tuesday and while I was doing the date for the teacher, I realized I was supposed to present the next day and I wasn’t finished, so I didn’t get to present. Next time I wish I could have more time and make up my mind about how to present, earlier.

Reflection: I may not have finished, but I’m proud of my work and I had fun. :) :} :] :D :/ :>