Japan

Kia ora,

Hey guys... you know its 2nd December. I've just finished my slideshow about Christmas around the world. So I chose Japan. I've got a few slides, the sites I went into it gave me a lot of information about Christmas and Santa.

 I didn't really add a lot of facts it's just mostly how Japan celebrates Christmas.

  Japan Celebrates Christmas

Smart Media

Kia ora,

WALT: Identify different forms of Media In these past few weeks. 

For this type of Media we have been looking at what Media is and what do you think it might be. My class has to picture the different types of media they've seen in the last 24 hours.

In my media, I made mine about what I think media is and what I've been 'on' lately...I hope you like the Media I've made about 'myself'!

Fake news

Kia ora, 

 WALT: Ask questions that help judge the quality of media products 

In these past few weeks, our class has been learning about media and all sorts of Media. Media is all about like ads with information or like a advertisement.

In my media, I have done fake news about Justin Bieber...you need to search up the 'URL' to hear about the 'news'.

Article; Athletics Day

Kia ora,

WALT: Recognise how authors' choices help convey a message when constructing digital media

In these past few weeks, our class has been learning about media. Media is all about like ads with information or like a advertisement that makes us keen to do!

 In my media, I made a newspaper thingy about St Bernadette's Athletics Day! Please press on the Iphone photo to get your Iphone.

 Also make sure when you're clicking to get your free Iphone, go into full screen. 

St Bernadette's Athletics Day!

Golden Rule

Kia ora, 

 

 Today in class we learnt about "The Golden Rule". The Golden Rule is from Luke 6:31, which is; "Do to others as you would have them do to you". Our teacher read Luke 6:27-31, once we learnt about The Golden Rule; our task was to create a DLO about The Golden Rule. I came up with different quotes for The Golden Rule instead of "Do to others as you would have them do to you" I used a google drawing for my DLO 

Here it is:

Popes of the 21st Century

 Kia ora,

This week in class for R.E we have been looking at the Popes and Bishops. I have been learning about the Popes!

Here is mine:

Koru's

Kia ora,

Recently we've been learning about Koru's (Raewyn Harris)

Koru's have many meanings, In Maori design the greenstone koru has a dual meaning. It is commonly used in Maori art as a symbol of creation due to its round shape. The English word for koru is loop. Koru symbolizes new life, growth, strength and peace. Koru's is an integral symbol in Maori art, craving and tattoos. 

Based on unfurling fern fronds of the native New Zealand Silver fern and of the ponga plant. Pongas grow wild and are found in damp bushes, parks and reserves throughout Aotearoa.

If you don't know what Koru's look like...look at the picture down below!

I hope you learned something from this :)

Cipher wheels

Kia ora,

This term, we having been looking at pirates. This term our work is based on Pirates...what they do & how they do their Cipher wheels. We had to look on our class site to see what a Cipher wheel is, how they use it and create one of our own!

Cipher wheels:
Cipher Wheels are these really creative way to talk to someone or communicate. Which is very interesting! So in these past three days we made a cipher wheel and found a way to talk to someone and count. Cipher wheels were made in 1470, by an Italian architect. It was a way that pirates could talk or send letters too.

 The ways of using a Cipher is by setting up a letter and a number to be able to unlock the code.

 Maybe you should try it one day :)

Great bears - Pleiades

Kia ora, 

 This week our class has been looking at Pleiades another word is Matariki, around the world. We   have a slideshow that's on the class site, and there's different types of Matariki I choose Great bears:  The Inuit people. There was: The seven sisters, The seven maidens, Flint boys, Onion wives, Orphan  boys, Great bear & Matariki!

We had to make a DLO about what we have learnt! I've made a slideshow!

I hope you like my slideshow! Comment if you want IDC!

 

Matariki!

  Kia ora,

This Week, We have been learning about Matariki! It is our theme for this week, to learn about Matariki and what it does that to effects us.

 I have explained it in my slide but I'm gonna tell you a bit more. Matariki is the Maori New Year. It is a new beginning and starts a new harvest. There are a few stories that connect to Matariki. One with the mother who cried out tears, the children separated by fighting and another that I don't remember.

 I hope you like my post/slide. What have you learned about it?

 

Pōha

Kia ora,

 This week ( Week 10 ) Some reading groups have been learning about Pōhā. It is a bag that Maori people other cultures store their food in. Especially Mutton birds. I think it is creative and better than wasting money on a refrigerator or cans since you still have to pay for those refrigerators.

 I enjoy learning about Pōhā and it was the most interesting thing to know from books than the other books I've read. No offense but this was interesting/engaging.

Things I can work on:

Spelling etc... 

Term 2!

Kia ora,

 During term 2 we have missed 4-6 weeks of school when we came back from lockdown we were rethinking about the C.E.R.R values: (Compassion, Excellence, Responsibility & Respect), fruits of the holy spirit: (Love, Joy, self-control, etc, and we can also receive. So we have been learning about those for a couple of days now! The class hasn't been doing much work for the past 2 weeks now because our teacher (Ms. Wilton) and the class has had a crap 2 weeks of school because of 2 boys who didn't do much work and distracting the class at the end of the week!!! Which the class found it annoying and some people (like me) wanted to punch the crap out of him! But I couldn't :(

 C.E.R.R CAFE:
 Some of the class and Ms. Wilton have thought about making her office into a Cafe which the name is: (C.E.R.R Cafe) But we also have some good times now.  My favorite highlight/thing of this week is that we got to some fun times and also some work. In-Room 6 we have got a cafe and we have some rules for it. We use these rainbow tokens to get something from it e.g toast, hot chocolate, breakfast, etc: These tokens have a meaning and each one of them means our C.E.R.R. Values. Once we get them we get to choose whatever we want to get!

 This week has been super 'good' except for a couple of days that scared me! I appreciate those who gave me fun times and calming times. Also, another big thank you to our teacher, Ms. Wilton for awesome job x! But I'm also scared that Ms. Wilton is gonna get hurt in a way that I have no idea, so from now on I'm going to be her bodyguard (kinda)!

 Enjoy your week/weekend! :) This week has been amazing with my 2 best friends: Zipporah & Lauren!

Go Gorilla Go

Kia ora,

During lockdown, we were put in writing groups. We had to create some pick a path stories, a pick a path story is where there's a part for each scene, you either pick to do this in the story or do that in the story. For example, in my story you can trust the Snake and ask you for help, or you can choose not to. This took us about 6 weeks or more to complete! My story is about a Gorilla, Snake, you'll find out soon!

I found it really confusing and difficult. This was also pretty hard to think about your topic when it's over a picture cause some could have had the same writing.

 For my pick a path I made a google form! Hope you like it!

                     

Tidy Numbers

Kia ora,

 This week or last few weeks we've been learning about doing tidy numbers. The work that were given was kinda easy...maybe you should try it out one day!

 We all are split into groups, i'm in: Mercury

 What I found easy: Adding and Subtracting! If I could work on something, probably is to make more sense or be more understandable :)

Please don't cheat! :) So here is my DLO about Tidy Numbers!

Tree hut :)

Kia ora,

 In class for week 4 we have been doing reading groups online with Ms Wilton, we have to be on the hangout certain time. My group is Venus and we're reading: Rain Stopped Play

 For one of our reading activities we had to 'Make a poster about the things you need to build a really good tree hut' So here is what I made!

 This story was about: This boy called Josh, he is going to stay at his uncles house for a couple of days in the holidays. He always wants to go outdoors. Josh wanted to sleep in the tree hut in the backyard, so Josh asked his cousin to help him build it. He was not an outdoor person, he always plays video games.

The Last Post

Kia ora,

 Last week was ANZAC Day. Our class had to do something about ANZAC day. So for our ANZAC Activities, and some different activities that were on the slideshow were to make ANZAC Biscuits, make a ANZAC Wreath, make a DLO about our learning for the "Last Post" and this one is just a an Idea for our Family's which is to set up prayers and do a bunch of these things that are related to ANZAC things for example listen to the last post. And I will say the answer but everyone has to be truthful and so the answer is..... I chose one to do! And the one I chose to do is make a DLO of what I have learned about the "Last Post".

 And the main thing about ANZAC Day...so I know most people would know that we go to a place to celebrate ANZAC Day (I forgot where it is.)  This is why the people who prepare ANZAC Day have tried their best to make it work. So what they are going to do is it on live TV so everyone is New Zealand can watch it and participate on ANZAC Day.

 Sorry I had to post this last :( Here is my slideshow about the "Last Post"!

'Please don't go'

Kia ora,

In class for week 2 we have been doing reading groups online with Ms Wilton, we have to be on the hangout certain time. My group is Venus and we're reading: Biscuits for the teacher

For one of our reading activities we had to 'Make a poster for Miss Thomas's new pupils about how to make her happy'. So this is what I've made :)

Stephen: He loved his teacher Miss Thomas,  he likes dogs…. it was her last day so he made chocolate mixed with dog biscuits.

Miss Thomas: She was moving to another school, she loves chocolate, Stephan is special to her.

Mum's Healthy List

Kia ora,

 In class for this week we have been doing reading groups online with Ms Wilton, we have to be on the hangout certain time. My group is Venus and we're reading: The ice cream truck.

 For one of our reading activities we had to make a poster about Mum's Healthy List that she goes on and on about it. For this poster I've made a google drawing. This is my poster:)

Family Roles and Time

Kia ora

 In Class recently, for RE we've been learning about different roles and times people have! As a class, on the mat our teacher, Ms Wilton was teaching us about Tuakana (elders) and our Matamua (first born). For this activity, we had to write down the roles for our own Family's. For example what my roles are for times in the days. Like one of the times was at school, and at school my role was to be a role model!

 For my google drawing, I did my some of family that I used to live with.

Anzac Mascots

Kia ora,

 In Week 8, my class has been learning about Anzac Mascots like animals. We read out an article about the Anzac Mascots and I chose one Animal Mascot from the war. What I learnt was about the animals that were included in the war. Like Donkeys, Horses, dogs etc. The donkey and horse were to carry heavy stuff on their back like buckets of water. Dogs were to find wounded soldiers. I have my information about the Anzac mascots down in the slide and about a dog named Caesar.

 What something that you learnt about Caesar?

Māori Meanings

Kia ora,

This week we have been researching some words in Te Reo Maori. We were told to find out the meaning of the Maori words that are on my biteable! In this video, I tried my best finding out the meaning of the words on a Maori Dictionary because google translate is you know... sometimes a lie. So the words are down below:)
Stay Safe

Maths DLO

Kia ora, 

For the past few days my Maths group has been learning how to jump into a tidy number on a number line. We learnt it all in Maths time and for once we actually understood the strategy so we made a DLO how to use it and so we can teach other students how to use them.

I made a slideshow to show some of you how to do it. I have not finished the slideshow...in my Maths time I'll be working on it!

Francis Douglas

Kia ora,
 Wanna learn about Francis Douglas?

    Last week my class read a story about Francis Douglas & Maximilian Kolbe. We all had to choose out of them both. I chose Francis Douglas. We made a DLO about them and told what they are and who they are. This is my work about Francis Douglas

ANZAC writing

W.A.L.T: Use descriptive language.
 
Kia ora,
 In week 5 my class have been looking at descriptive writing, out teacher Ms Wilton read us a book called The ANZAC Violin by: Robyn Belton. This is some facts/stuff about him, more than 20 years after publication of the classic NZ story, the Bantam and the soldier, Jennifer Beck and Robyn Belton have joined forces again to produce another heartwarming story from the first world war.
This book was about the soldier named Alexander Aitken, one day he had to leave his violin and left a note to take care of my violin. He was sent back home because he shot, and another day his violin was sent back to him.

 Our class had to make a paragraph with describing words about the war in Gallipoli.

 As I fainted, the memorable sound of the engines roaring at me. The horrible sound of bones cracking in my old DISGUSTING ear. Gunshots, start haunting me down in the muddy and dusty mountains. The muggy air is sunny and wet, as sweat drops enter down, to my dirty rusty skin. Now you can see all the bloodstains from the cold soldiers who were pushed down the rolly mountains by the hypocrites to get. There’s only one place I could hide during the pathetic war…..

 This is my paragraph. The words I used was dirty skin, fainted, memorable, gunshots, hypocrites, bones cracking, DISGUSTING, we have to have up to 6 sentences or more!

 - Diary entry: Alexander Aitken
 - Attributes chart; See, hear, location, movement & temperature
 - Which part my diary is about : My part of my story is about Alexander Aitken and other soldiers  getting shot in my mind
- What I enjoyed: The book, and the describing words
- What I found hard:  The words were hard to explain with my writing

7/8 Technology

Technology: Friday 14th February 2020

 Today is our first time going to tech on Fridays we go to Hornby high School. This is my second year going to tech, this year we have the year 6s from last year with us, we have year 7 & 8s Last year we went on Mondays afternoon but now it's Friday which is good.

 Before the bell we lined up to go to the bus outside our school, the bus only takes not even 5 mins to Hornby high. We waited for the Hornby teachers to collect us then we have our first period which is 40 mins. In that time we had Mr Heath for science it was exciting for me first we had to go through this sheet for safety things, then Mr Heath electrocute us by this box thing. He winds it and the whole group expect for some people held hands and Tyler & I were holding the medal thing that gave us pins & needles's feeling. It went thought everyone's hand they thought it was scary.

 After science we had Mr Rees for medal, we only had 10 mins until Morning tea, For medal we have to make something a key ring out of something I made a wave shape with my name on it , others made a whale, a shape. We did all the things we were supposed to do. Cute, file, Drill & ingrave. We didn't need to bend ours but bending was an option.  

Tech was really fun at the end. 

I was kinda getting distracted with all the noise but overall i'm proud of my work! :)

 What I enjoyed: I enjoyed when I got electrocuted in science 

What I've found hard: I found the coping saw a bit hard when I was trying to make my design 

What I would do differently: I would make my name or a different shape