The Hay Park School Journey Ends On This Blogpost!

My Highlights of 2015!!!

My highlights for this year was camp, tool kit day, prize giving, stardome and many other fun events. At camp I had the most funnest time ever. We had surfing, challenges, giants ladder and many more fun and awesome activities. My other highlight was having Mrs Kingston and Mrs Wright as my teachers. I am going to miss them next year.

Learning goals of 2015!

My learning goal for 2015 was to be a helpful, positive, confident and respectful learner. My other goal was to learn how to be a expert coder.

What I am looking forward to for 2016!

Next year I am looking forward to making new friends and learning about my new teacher and staff. I am also looking forward to be learning in Mt Roskill because there are lots of cool new things to learn.

This year was an awesome year. Because I was working with two of the best teachers of the year. I would like to say a HUGE THANK YOU TO MRS KINGSTON AND MRS WRIGHT! I AM REALLY GOING TO MISS YOU!

Happy Goodbyes Hay Park School

Hello people of the internet.

Here is my slide about graduation. This year is going to be the last of primary school. Next year I will be going Mt Roskill Intermediate. We made this slide because all the year 6 will be going to intermediate next year. I wish I had to stay at this school for one more year. This school was just amazing and astonishing. I am going to miss great and wonderful teachers from this amazing and beautiful school. Oh and if you graduated please comment down below and tell me if you have any cool ideas for graduation.

Passion Project Progress Day 2

This is the same slideshow but I have added day number 2 progress. On slide number 3
I typed about how me and Damien are getting so much work done. But our team mates
(Lyle and Peter) seem to not be working on the presentation. So on slide number 3 there
are some important things you need to know about day number 2 progress. Please comment if you
spot any errors in the slide or the blog post.

Passion Project Progress

This is my presentation that has my progress about my Passion Project. This
presentation will be on going for this week and next week (Wk 7 and Wk 8).
On this presentation I will be screenshoting my progress of my passion project.
I will also be writing descriptions of what I did each 3 days. I hope this journey
will be awesome. Please comment and enjoy on my progress.

ThinkBoards - Showing understanding of problems

Here is my Think Board about positive and negative integers. We use think boards
to show that we understand something. For example we had to solve this integer problem
by using what we know and understand about integers. The right side box is how we solved
the problem. For the bottom box you have to write a word problem that is based on the problem.
On the left side you have to write 10 different problems. And for the top you have to make a model
or draw a visual example of how you solved this problem. I hope you enjoy this blogpost please give me feedback in the comments.

Google Expedition Presentation

Here is me and Senes Google Expedition presentation about the Burj Khalifa and
Google Cardboard. We made this presentation because we had a try of the Google
Expedition Program on Thursday. This presentation will give you formal info about Google
Cardboard and the Burj Khalifa. I hope you enjoy.

Student Toolkits

Today we had a Tool Kit day. New Windsor came to our school to participate
in the Tool Kit. We all had a great time. There were loads of different people
and cool prizes to be won. We all got to participate in a Tool kit. It was really
awesome and tiring. I got to present which was pretty AWESOME. Here is my
presentation that I presented to the audience. I hope you enjoy.

Floodland Debate Yes/No

This is a screenshot of my Floodland reason. Our objective was to write two or one ideas down on a sticky note. The question was should Zoe trust Dooby and his eels. My reason was to not trust Dooby and his eels. Because he might betray Zoe her. I hope you enjoy this blog post and please comment down below.

Top 6 Tips of Sprinting

Here is a google drawing that me Hati and Damien made. Its about sprinting. On this google drawing I have 6 tips of sprinting. We learnt these 6 tips from a expert athletics coach. I hope these tips will help you to. If you get stuck check out some youtube videos to help you.

Digital FootPrint HPS

Here is my Digital FootPrint example. So this Digital Footprint is basically based on tips. We created this to help people who has a bad Digital FootPrint. I hope these tips help you when you are creating a digital profile. Also please comment down below if you have any feedback.

SunSmart Video - How to protect yourself from the sun!

Here is a Sock Puppet video that me Damien and Rita created. The key message
of this video is to were a sunhat during summer. Because you might get sunburnt.
Its also really important to put sunscreen on. But thats optional. I hope you enjoy
this video. And comment down below of what you think.

End of Term 3 Relfection

Backward-Looking:

What have been your learning highlights this term?

My highlights of this term would be Writing and Movie Making. This term I think I improved on my writing since last term. Which I am proud of. I also learnt how to movie make. I learnt how to record properly and how to take pictures properly. I also loved learning how to movie (or video) edit. Which is pretty awesome.

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Inward-Looking:

What were your Learner Profile goals for Term 3? Have your goals changed? Are you on track to meet your goals?

I am on track to meet my maths, writing and reading goals. I have been improving by practising my addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I have also been following up on each of the strategy's I learn in maths. I have also been improving in my writing by watching educational videos. I have been improving my reading by reading 20 mins every night.

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Forward-Looking:

As you look back at your learning so far, what's one thing that you would like to try to improve upon?

I would probably like to improve on summarising maths. I find summarising hard because its just really hard to remember lots of things at once.

Here is my reflection on term 3. I have really enjoyed this term. I think that this term was one of the best terms I had. On this blogpost you will find my highlights of this term. You also find my goals and my improvement of my goals. The last column is about what I want to improve on. And I hope you enjoy reading and have a great holiday. :)

Blog Comment on May Road School

Here is my comment on May Road School. When we were writing this comment we had to make sure that it reflects on one of school aspects. We also had to do a quality blog comment. So when others look at this blog comment they will see how to write a quality blog comment. I hope you enjoy and please comment on May Roads Blog because they have a lot of juicy stuff like a 3D printer.

Book Club Lllustrator Task

Illustrator

Your name Simeon              Date  21/10/15
Book The Spiral Chrysalis  pg 1 to pg 47

Select a scene and portray it visually in your own way. e.g. an illustration or a labelled diagram or a story map.
Use clear language to write a caption that describes your illustration.
Be prepared to talk about your illustration and why you chose to illustrate this part of the story.

Description

Here is my Illustration of my Book Club Book. Its called The Spiral Chrysalis. This

is the part were Narren, Kelly and Cral were climbing a huge Tree. I also recommend reading the 

Spiral Chrysalis. I hope you enjoy and please leave a comment below.

My RWC Task - My Rugby World Cup Team

This morning Mrs Kingston randomly chose country's for us to follow. My country was
Romanian. On this Presentation you will find the Romanian flag and Romanian Home Strip.
You will also find a Google map with the label of Romanian. You can also find some important info
like who is the President of Romanian. You will also learn about 5 Famous Romanians. You will also
find 5 intersting facts about Romanian. I hope you enjoy this blogpost and please leave a comment below.

My Whai String Game Movie

Here is a the movie I made with my group (Damien, Sene, Jeannet, Rachael and Toto).
This movie is about how people use to have fun back in the olden days. They had fun
by playing hand games and string games. The first thing we did was story board our scenes.
Then we had a session were we recorded which was awesome. At the end we edited our movies in Imovie.
Which pretty awesome as well. Then we watched it. The game was named Whai. Each pattern you make is associated with a ritual story. I hope you enjoy the video and please comment bellow.

Hobsonville Magisto Video

Here is a Magisto video. This video was created was pictures and videos that we took at the Hobsonville. In this video you will see what the places looks like and what we did there and what we learnt. Which was pretty awesome. I would like to say thank you to Mrs Kingston for organising this trip and getting the last tickets to the Conference. I would also like to say thank you to Mrs Fortess for taking us to Hobsonville. I hope you enjoy this video.

Te Reo Conversation

Here is me and Ritas Te Reo Conversation. This task was apart of our home learning. We had to complete it before Thursday but the only person who completed before Thursday was Arnav. 

Sock Puppets - Cloak Bay

Here is me Rita, James and Damiens sock puppet video. In this video we talk about how to be safe in the cloak bay. It was funny because we all had high pitch voices. Each of us had to say one thing of how to be safe in the Cloak Bay. Please comment below if you enjoyed it.

The Viewer - Should Tristan

Here is a screenshot of padlet that our class participated in. Its about how if tristan should look through the machine again. Comment down if you think he should look through again or not.

The Viewer - The Mysterious Junkyard

Description
Here is me Rita and Damiens poem about the Junkyard. Here is were Tristan visited the Junkyard (The Viewer). Well he was here he found a mysterious machine (spoiler alert). If your wondering what is says here it is. I hope you enjoy and please comment below. Also tell me what you think about it.
The Mysterious Junkyard
A ISOLATED AND INFESTED LAND WITH
A RUINED ABANDONED DESTROYED
A ISOLATED 
A CORRUPTED CHILD
OF A FUTURISTIC AGE
DEAD LAND

The Viewer - The Restless sleep

Description

This week we were talking and writing about the Viewer. Its a new topic in McCahon class. This is Me, Damien and Jasmines photo. I am modelling as Tristan from the book (The Viewer). So this part in the Viewer is where Tristan is so curious about a machine he found in the junkyard. He looked at few images and gasped because of the horrifying images he saw. So He went to sleep but he was so curious that he descended into a Restless Sleep! If you enjoyed please leave a comment below. Here is the link for the sound scape

Photos About Camp

Description
This is my collage of a whole lot of camp photos that Mrs Kingston, Mrs Wright, Mrs Archer, Audrey and Veronica took well we were at camp. Please comment below if you enjoyed my collage of photos from camp.

(Quality BlogCommentating) On Sinead's Blog

This is my comment on Sineads blog. I think this a quality blog comment because I gave respectful thoughts about her relfection and told her that her goal was a really good one and she should work on it.

Week 4 Term 3 Reflection

Week 4 Term 3 Reflection 2015

Backward-Looking:

What have been your learning highlights so far this term?

My highlights for this Term is having an AWESOME TIME AT CAMP! It was really cool doing camp there's lots of fun and great activities to do. My second highlight was going to the google educators student conference. It was really great because we learnt lots of new learning skills to share at home.

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Inward-Looking:

What were your Learner Profile goals for Term 3? Have your goals changed? Are you on track to meet your goals?

To be a communicator and a contributor. My goals haven't really changed. I am actually on track to meet my goals. I am actually on track because starting to speak in public with other people. Also my goal to be a contributor is really begging. I participate in the ukulele group.

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Outward-Looking:

If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about your learning so far this term?

I would say that I am showing really good leadership in camp. I also would say that I am really independent and very organized.

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Forward-Looking:

As you look back at your learning so far, what's one thing that you would like to try to improve upon over the next few weeks?

My Maths

Description
This is my Week 4 Reflection. The 4 columns are Backwards Looking, Inward Looking, Outward Looking and Forward Looking. If you wonder what are the descriptions for all these columns there is sentences at the top of each column. Hope you enjoy and please say something in the comments if there's a mistake.

Quality Blog Comment on Rita's Blog

Here is my comment on Rita's blog. I think this is a quality blog comment because I asked question. Gave some respectful thoughts about her writing. I also linked my blog so she can check out my blog. By the way if you want to check out Rita's blog. http://hpsritat.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/remember-poetry.html

Remember Poetry About Camp

That Was Camp.

Remember when I did Waka Ama and almost fell of the boat but then the paddle saved me?

Remember when I hit the blue bit of the board and got 20 points it felt amazing just to hit the board and get some awesome points?

That was Camp

Remember when my group had one of the tightest knots on a raft and it never fell apart.?

Remember how I was really terrified to climb down the giants ladder. But I manned up and went down anyways but I felt something cold go down my spine?

That was camp.

Remember how cool it was to catch a big wave with Dave and Harry while surf kayaking?

Do you remember how awesome it was to get the opportunity to go to camp?

That was Camp

This is my remember poem about camp. For this writing activity we were giving a template to write on. The first thing we had to do was brainstorm. I didn't brainstorm because I went to a student conference. Once we finished brainstorming we came up with a success criteria. After that we started to write our poem. Then we self and peer assessed. Then once we completed every single piece of our success criteria 

 we post on our blog. By the way here is a collage of camp photos that you can look at.

Sir Peter Blake Factfile

Here is my fact file presentation about Sir Peter Blake. Here you will find some
key info about Peter Blake. I hope you enjoy learning about Peter Blake. If
you find a mistake in this factfile please tell me in the comments. Also theres
link for the sites I used so you can learn more about him.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori Presentation

Here is my presentation about "Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori". We are doing work on these
because it is Maori language week. We also doing this to support Maori language. If you
want info on why people celebrate Maori language week here is a link. If you spot any errors
please tell me in the comments.

QuadBlogging on Kereru School

Here is my QuadBlog comment on Kereru

School. I commented on there sleep over 

because it look pretty cool. Plus it was a good idea that 

they had a 

sleep over at there school. If you want to 

check out there blog heres the link.

http://kererucreators.edublogs.org/

Parent Teacher Confrences

Description
Here is my presentation about After School Parent Conferences. Here you will find my reading, writing, maths and key competencies goals. There are examples for the goals so you don't get totally lost about the goals. So hopefully you enjoy my presentation. Also if you have any feedback please put them down in the comments.

My 4 Sentence Holiday Recount

This term we are going to be writing about all sorts of different texts. Here is my 4 sentence recount. Its about my boring holidays. I hope you enjoy my piece of writing.

End of Term 2 Reflection

Backward-Looking:

What have been your learning highlights this term?

My highlights for this term was probably learning how to code in JavaScript and HTML and CSS.

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Inward-Looking:

What were your Learner Profile goals for Term 2? Have your goals changed? Are you on track to meet your goals?

My learner profile goal for term 2 was to be balanced and manage my time also to be a communicator. Some of my writing goals have changed but not all of them. I am on track on using place value in maths so yea.

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Outward-Looking:

If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about your learning so far?

For maths I would say I am doing good but I have to keep practicing on my strategies. For writing I would have to say to practice putting punctuation in the right places. For Reading I think should read for two books every 20 mins.

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Forward-Looking:

As you look back at your learning so far, what's one thing that you would like to try to improve upon?

Maths. Because most times I find maths a challenge but I have to master the math skills of a year 6.

Here is my end of term reflection. Read it and tell me what you think in the comments. Tell me what I need feed back on.

My Comment on Room 8 blog

Here is my comment on Room 8 blog. The blog post I commented on was Kaleb Division Xtramath Certificate. If you have been checking out some of our blogs you will see that we are posting comments on blogs. We are doing this because we are quadblogging. Quadblogging is were your class is teamed up with two other classes. So what we do is comment on other people classes blogs that we are teamed up with.

Here is the blog post I commented on.

Home Work Challenge Learning how to code.

Here is my homework challenge about coding. I learnt how to code by using a site
called code avengers. So I hope you enjoy my presentation hopefully you learnt anything new
from my presentation and have a nice day.

SP Place Value Division Problems

This is my explain everything about place value with division problems. I decided
to go through the strategy again for more clarification and I wanted to make it again
so you can nail this strategy.

SP Place Value Division

Here is my explain everything about place value and division problems.
Hopefully this help you understand place value much more better and
by the way this is a stage 6 strategy.
Sorry for the bad dialogue.

DLO Week5 T2: The Lunar Phases of The Great Moon

Here is my solo presentation about the phases of the moon. It has great information and links
to get more info and a great video about how the moons lunar phases are created. It facts about the
lunar phases and I hope you all enjoy. We were learning about this so we can tell the phases of the Moon
and teach younger kids. Remember to check every week to see what blogposts I have uploaded.

Mars one of the deadliest planet known to mankind but how is so dangerous? Information Report 21/05/15

Description

In Week 5 of Term 2 our class focussed on how to write great information reports. 

We wrote about the planet Mars as we are in the middle of learning about Planet Earth and Beyond. Learning how to write a geat information report will help us with our self-guided topics in a few weeks time.

Here is my writing, after I have self-assessed and peer-assessed my work.

Mars one of the deadliest planets known to mankind but how is so dangerous?

Introduction

Mars a big Martian red planet that is the 4th planet of our solar system. This planet is one of the deadliest planets in the solar system but there could be life or any resources where life can be stored but how can life be stored with the horrible natural disasters of Mars and if you wanted to know some key information about Mars then this is the place for you (By the way Mars is named after the Roman God Of War). 

The Appearance of Mars

Mars is a red planet that is really frosty and cold. People thought Mars is a boiling hot planet  because of the colour but actually Mars is cold we're just deceiving the planet is boiling hot because of the color. Mars has drylands, canyons and mountains these surface disabilities we're caused by huge hot meteorites and asteroids coming down like the hadouken from Ryu. Thats how Mars has a very horrible appearance and surface so if you would have the chance to travel to Mars be careful.

Natural disasters of Mars

Mars has natural disasters which means that this planet is really dangerous. A  sandstorm is a storm that can be caused on Mars and can last up to months so that means those sandstorms might rage for months so imagine living on a planet with never ending sandstorms (but sandstorms aren't the only danger). Their are also volcano(Mars has one of the most hugest   volcanoes of the solar system) that can erupt and it could destroy lands and mountains on Mars. Mars is uninhabitable planet without warmth, Earth has a magnetic field but Mars doesn't which means Mars isn't protected from the radiation flowing like wind from the sun which is really bad. So that means danger is close and these dangers can kill you if you are face to face with them.

The Orbit of Mars

Even though Mars is our closest neighbour, its orbit is very different. A Martian day (or how long it takes to rotate once on its axis) is longer than an Earth day and equals 24 hours and 37 minutes. This is because it spins slower than our planet. Moreover, a year on Mars is the same as 687 Earth days! Imagine if you lived on Mars, you would be almost half the age you were on Earth!

(Shared writing with teacher and group 19/05/15)

So that concludes one thing mars is a deadly planet and has no sign of life living on the planet and that's why mars is one of the planets you don’t want to live on and if you want more information about mars for you information report heres a website: http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/planets/mars.html

My Information Report Success Criteria:	Self	Peer
My heading:
is an interesting title (I might have phrased the title as a question.)	✓	✓
My opening paragraph:
says what my report is about in a clear way	✓	✓
gives a general “classification” – and maybe a technical classification	✓	✓
outlines the main features of the subject	✓	✓
My main paragraphs:
have sub-headings where helpful	✓	✓
have clear topic sentences  (topic and main point)	✓	✓
are organised so that each paragraph is about a different aspect of the subject	✓	✓
give detailed information (factual descriptions)	✓	✓
include specific, technical vocabulary	✓	✓
are generally balanced (have a similar amount of detail about the different aspects I write about)	✓	✓
may have helpful: tables, pictures and/or diagrams to add information
My end paragraph:
draws the report together/sums up my main points	✓	✓
may give a personal opinion; ask the reader a question and/or tell the reader where further information may be found	✓	✓

Addition Certificate For Xtramath 18/05/15

Here is my addition xtramath certificate and now I am working on subtraction I can't wait to see how subtraction goes.
Tips
If you haven't achieved addition I would do the placement quiz and if you get any wrong write them down so you can practice your them at home.

SP Cut and Paste Mutiplaction.

Here is my explain everything about cut and paste. Its a new stragety I learnt
last week and I hope you enjoy.

Space DLO 15/05/15

Here is Me, Lyle and Lekis presentation. Our presentation has information about
each planet. It has great facts about planets and the site we used was http://space-facts.com/
I hope you enjoy our presentation and for more info click the link.
Be sure to comeback to see what I am up to.

ANZAC ThingLink

Here is my ThingLink the title name of this interactive image is the historical ANZACs great title right. This ThingLink has images, websites, my DLO and videos. It has appropriate videos, websites and images the sites are really good to use and the videos are really packed with facts.

ANZAC Reflection 24/04/15

What: This week we have been learning about World War 1 and the ANZACs. The ANZACs in world war 1 dug trenches to keep them safe from enemy fire and artillery. There we're stretcher bearer to help and bandage the wounded. There were also conscientious objectors would deny going to war because of their beliefs or they are just too afraid to go to war.

So what: We have been learning about this because it is the 100th year of the landing at Gallipoli and because all the men and women who thought bravely in the war. The ANZACs was one of the armies to fight in world war 1. Australia and New Zealand worked together and that's how the ANZACs we're born.

What now: Now I need to use my Inferences skills in reading to up level my reading skills.

Explantion: How To Survive your first night Minecraft

In Week 6 of Term 1 our class focussed on how to write great explanations. We wrote about how to survive your first night in Minecraft (the game a lot of us are obsessed with!).
Here is my writing, after I have self-assessed and peer-assessed my work.

Have you ever wondered how to play minecraft? If you have you then I’m going to write about. Minecraft is popular game around the world. Its made by a swedish programmer named Notch.  

Always, when you spawn in the world of minecraft you have to start mining wood with your hand. Once you've mined your wood (Must be 8 blocks or you can just use the first 4 wood blocks) use your little crafting system and create some planks. Next make some crafting tools (pickaxes swords, shovels and hoes). Harvest more wood to make a little shack once you have some tools. Then when you have lots of wood start thinking about where you are going to make your shack.

Often people start thinking we're their going to set their home so thats what you are going to do. you are going to start thinking we're you going to make your house. You can make your house in the Jungle, Caves, Mountains, Swamps, Snow forest and forest. I would prefer to live in a Jungle. But besides its your choice. But live in a place where you can see your surroundings. Make sure to gather food and resources and get some coal to make torches (mobs can spawn in your house if its dark). If a village is near you could live in the villagers house. Make sure to make a chest so your food can fit in your shack. Make sure to smelt your food (Make sure to create a furnace if you have time).

Eventually, you would have found a place start building your house but wait make sure you get a sleeping station aka (bed). Make sure to gather some food from the animals around you and resources (you could have a companion to help you). Also you have a roof because those murderous spiders will climb up on your house and sneak attack you like whcha! Your house has to be 3 blocks high and the sides have to be equal to your roof. If you have time get some cobble stone (so you can upgrade weapons and make a furnace).

Now when the sun is set you can finally sleep in your cozy bed and thats how to survive your first night minecraft. Once you practice surviving the night and you'll become a pro. Also once it morning you smell and hear zombies and mobs burning and you can smell the rotten flesh. BUT BE CAREFUL OF CREEPERS!!!