Made to Measure! ~ Maths work :)

Task Description:

In this presentation we were tasked to complete the following slides. It involved math equations like finding the perimeter and area of different shapes, converting units, and adding, subtracting fractions and decimals. We've been put into different groups and in each group we all have our strengths and weaknesses and so that decides where we sit. On the last slide we had to figure out the area of a circle. I love doing those and so I decided to do them :)

Anyways, Enjoy :)

He hākete kikorangi? ~ Te Reo Maori!

Today in Te Reo Maori we learnt about how to say specific objects in maori. We also did a small revision on our colours in maori as majority learnt a song about our colours a few years back. We then combined the two and found out how to say ' a blue hat ' or so :)

Taha Whanau! ~ Inquiry :)

For this task we had to label the jobs everyone in my bubble had done. The roles they did :) 

My brother looked after us while our parents were either working or sleeping because they were tired. He also made us laugh and bought humor to lockdown by telling jokes and showing us many different funny videos. Other then that he also played nice songs to vibe to while we were meant to be doing work :)

My sister did her job in cleaning. She made sure she did her dishes, etc. She turned our lounge into a movie cinema for the twins and entertained by coming up with new things to do almost everyday. 

The twins struggled a lot during lockdown as they weren’t able to see their friends. But they jumped on their calls and even tried to do some work of their own. Asking for lots and lots of help to complete it. They both also had fun times with their toys and cleaned up after themselves. But other then that, they also did a great job of yelling in my ear to wake up every mornings :) 

Dad cooked us all dinner while mum was at work. He made sure we were well feed and on top of that he did his role in being an essential worker. He worked very hard. He also encouraged us to finish our work, to attend out meetings, and to be fully ready in the mornings.

Mum also did some cooking for us too! But as she was at work, she found it hard coming home and making dinner. Which is why she relied on my dad :) As said, she did her part in being an essential worked and worked very hard also :) Other then that, she shopped for the things we needed during lockdown and also cleaned every mornings before she was off to work.
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( I know I wasn't suppose to do as many paragraphs as I had done, but I felt a bit weird as I hadn't finished my work on time so I decided to do a bit of extra work to motivate me to do better next time and to Finish It Off Properly! )

Measurements! ~ Maths!

This presentation is based off Measurements. We are getting back into the system of learning our measurements. But is also based off things we've done in the past. Eg, decimal, converting units and finding the perimeter and area.

Why did Rona blame the moon? ~ Writing :)

Today we were tasked to right 2 paragraphs (max) about why we support or don't support Marama's
choice of blaming the moon for her fall/spilling the water. We talked together in our call as some of us stated our reasons then.

What do you think ?

Before I forget 2.0

Task Description:

Today we did a small revision on what we've been working on for the past few months. We gave our minds a small top up of what we may or may have not forgotten. We reminded ourselves about symmetry, graphs, factors, squared and square root, fractions and more.

Cambodian Myth of Lightning, Thunder and Rain ~ Room 5!

Task Description:

Today in Room 5, we learnt about the Cambodian myths. We watched a video explaining what it was about. Lightning, thunder and rain! Our next task was to complete the Match'em up task. All we had to do was to match the correct items, ways and more to the correct God.

Immersion Assembly~Term 3 :)

Welcome back to Term 3! Today is the first day back to school. We started off with an Immersion Assembly, discussing what this Terms theme is. Which is ' A World Of Difference ' First up was Team 1.

Team one mostly focused on how other people from other countries get to school, what they eat for lunch and what they do after school. Their main focus is to learn more about different countries. What they do before school, after and during. Schools in other countries are different to us and so I think it'll be cool that they're looking at how they work :)

Team Two had a set of the cartoon Dora. It was a cool way to present their movie. They had a look at other places around New Zealand. They had a look at the many famous places like, Rotorua and the mud pools, Queens town and the snow, ETC. They also made the choice to not only explore New Zealand but to also explore the world :)

Team 3 made a movie based off of 'The Amazing race.' Due to covid-19, some people haven't been able to travel the world. So they found a way to travel without getting on a plane. The amazing race had a whole bunch of challenges to complete. Visiting the many well known places around the world. Traveling to Egypt, New York, Rio and more.

Team 4! Team 4 looked at the different foods in other counties. They ate and discussed about where it comes from. They explored Google Earth and explored their food. I reckon this would be an amazing way to learn about different countries as many people do love food.

Team 5 based their movie off Sina and the Eel. We'll be looking at different Myths and Legends that link to different traditions and countries. We'll be showing our learning through, movies and animations. Although I know a few Myths around the polynesian area, it'll be cool learning more about different legends all around.

I'm very excited to learn lots this year. A fresh start to the term! Lets make the most of it :) 

Winter Learning Journey ~ Activity one! - Explore your roots :)

Exploring your roots: Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, director, actor and comedian. He has produced and/or directed a number of popular films including “Boy,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok.” As a child, Taika Waititi lived in Raukokore (a small town on the East Coast of New Zealand). When he graduated from secondary school Taika moved to Wellington to study drama at Victoria University. Despite moving away from home, he has never forgotten his family or his roots (where he comes from).

Speaking of roots, Taika comes from a culturally diverse family. His dad is Māori (Te Whānau-a-Apanui) and his mother is Russian-Jewish. I, on the other hand, am Pākeha (New Zealand European). Most of my ancestors come from England. When I talk about who I am, and introduce myself to others, I sometimes use a pepeha.

For this activity, we would like to create your own pepeha. You can write the pepeha in any language that you wish. If you need some help, please visit this pepeha website or use this template.

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Happy holidays! Today was the first day to be able to join in on the Winter learning Journey. Today's first activity was to learn and share our pepeha! I have a few pepeha but the pepeha I used is from my grandmother's side. I learnt my pepeha around last year but every now and then it's a good idea to go back to it :) I was actually think of just posting normal blog posts of daily diaries, etc. But I find this more interesting. More activities coming your way Team 5 teachers! Enjoy :)

Matariki ~ My Wonderful, Tragic Day :)

Today was one of the most wonderful yet tragic day's I have ever experienced!

Today we celebrated Matariki! Matariki is in fact the Maori name for the cluster of stars called the pleiades. Matariki is about celebrating Maori new years. The Pleiades are a seven star cluster. Many people debate on whether there are 7 or 9 stars.  The Maori constellations states that there are 7 stars. Waiti, Waita, Waipuna-rangi, Tupu-a-nuku, Tupu-a-rangi, Ururangi and Matariki!

After our school assembly we set off to our groups. The previous week, we got the chance to choose what group we wanted to be in. The options were, Cooking, Arts and crafts, Movie making and sports. I wanted to be in either sports or cooking but I got put into Arts and crafts :/ Due to some, uneven groups.  I was with Mrs Stone and Mrs Carruthers in room 4.

Our task was to decorate some printed off stars. Seven of them! We could use any design we wanted. Our next step was to use dye to create a background for our stars. 'There's no wrong awnser to art." Just go for it! :) I first started off with completing my seven stars. The supplies we were able to use were colored pencils and coloring felts. I chose some pretty unique designs. I also sat on a table with some of my close friends, John, Kitione, Brendon and Kobey. We talked quite a lot. And the classroom was pretty noisy too, so it wasn't just us :)

Once I finished decorating my stars, I went outside and got onto my background while Mrs Carruthers cut out my stars. I used purple, light and dark blue for my backdrop. I started off pretty well. Until one of my friends Nina accidentally spilt water on me and Pauline's masterpiece! How sad, I was doing so well :( Mrs Stone got both me and Pauline a new piece of paper and we started all over again. I used the same colours and was able to redo my background. In my opinion, it turned out better than the last. I then used white paint to make it look like tiny stars. I got the paint everywhere but my paper. My face, hands, arms, uniform, and legs! It was an absolute disaster, but I'm still happy with my creation. We let our backgrounds dry.

Our last step was to paste our stars onto our backgrounds. Using glue sticks we pasted our stars onto our creative backgrounds and we were finished. A day filled with long conversations, messy art, paint all over the place and a lot of tragic uniforms. Today was all about having fun and celebrating Matariki and at the end of the day, I was happy I got put into Arts and Crafts! At the moment, no photos of the day but once I find some, they'll be here :)) A special thanks to all the teachers and staff members who made today a special and possible day.

 A day filled with fun! Happy Matariki!

First Assembly Back!

Today we finally had assembly. Not a digital assembly but a real life assembly. I had the opportunity to stand in front of the school with the prefects and run assembly. As a Rangatahi, that's a big role. It was somewhat nerve racking but at the same time, it was pretty easy. We said the school karakia, listened to Pisirina say the mihi and sang the national anthem. We also gave stickers to those who were sitting up. A bit later on in the assembly, we had the opportunity to acknowledge our principal and his lovely wife. Mr and Mrs Burt. Mr Burt had recently been noticed by the queen. He was awarded the queen's award for being kind, talented and for his services at primary schools. Mr Burt is now a Member Of The New Zealand Order Of Merit.

 Mrs Nua started us off and introduced our little ceremony for Mr and Mrs Burt. Pisi then said a heart warming speech to both Mr and Mrs Burt. Aj & Freedom blessed them both with a prayer as Me, Tha-Zin, Marika, Aj, Hunter & Freedom gave them necklaces/Lolly leis. After the prayer, we sang Ufiufi Mai, a samoan hymn. We also sang Ka Waiata a Maori waiata. As the last couple lines of Ka waiata was being sung, Levi, Mrs Haree and the year 8 boys started off one of our well known hakas. It felt wrong for me to not join in so of course I joined in :) As some of my fellow friends know this saying, 'Go big or go home.' :) Y'all will understand!

After the haka Mr Burt thanked us all, as we played a big part in his special award.

Thank you Mr Burt and Mrs Burt for the massive impacts you've made in so many children's lives. You've provided Chromebooks and technology for us to learn on. You've made camps possible and a whole lot of events possible for us children. Thank you for helping families in need and for always being the hard working people you are. We all love you lots!

Ofa lahi atu!

First day back! (Immersion assembly)

Walt: Write a recount
We are finally back to school! The school holidays are over and lots of schools are back and learning! This morning I got welcomed into my class by my friends. We talked about what we did and what happened in our school holidays!

We started as usual, at 8:30 we have a team 5 assembly. After our team assembly we made our way to the hall for the immersion assembly! As sitting down on the chairs I looked up to see the new theme for this term! “I Like Your Latitude” is theme for this term! Latitude means how far  east and west we are in the world. Then, longitude means how far north and south we are in the world!

Team 1 was the first to share there movie! Team one shared a movie about our bees dying and, why we need them in our world. The movie that was presented included CCD which means, Colony collapse disorder. Team 2 presented a movie about finding Easter eggs. They looked up and down, left and right and all around. They looked under tables to find the Easter eggs.

Team 3 shared a movie about pick a paths. Team 3 made a movie about walking to school, there were different pathways to walking to school. The options were walking through a forest, walking through the beach and also, going to the shops. Team 4 made a movie about finding their own way back to school from Pak’n save, without google maps, or a car, just each other and a compass. Mr Goodwin set all the other team 4 teacher on this trip and at the end they found their way back to school.

Team 5 presented a short play. The play was about travelling around the world and was also about longitude and latitude. Miss Tapuke had to choose continents to travel to. She used a magic stick called a “fly swatter.” The first country she went to Europe. She went to Paris, France. Instead of going to countries they went to the continents. They missed two continents. Those continents were, Australia and Antarctica.Team 5 mad this play enjoyable with some funny parts too!

After the immersion assembly we went off to class and started the first day of school! How was your first day of school?

Task Description:

In this piece of writing room 3 had to write a recount about the immersion assembly we had on the first day back to school. We had to talk about the movies that were shared in immersion assembly. I had written about teams 1-5's movie's/ play.  This was a writing about a recount and so we had to write about what had happened in immersion assembly.

Last day! [Concluding the Journey]

Day 5: The sky's the limit
Activity 3: Concluding the Journey
(LAST ONE!)

Mario Writing

        

The person who created Mario was Shigeru Miyamoto. Mario was first in the game donkey
Kong, He was one of the villains. Mario's first name was called jump man he got his other name
from getting named after their landlord Mario segale. Mario has appeared in 28 titles and Super
Mario bros sold more than 40 million copies. Mario was first a carpenter (a person who makes
and repairs wooden objects and structures). When he appeared again in Mario Bros it was
decided that he should have been a plumber because a lot of the game is played in underground
settings.

Super Mario bros first came out in 13 September 1985. Mario's main antagonist is king koopa
(browser). In one game called super Mario RPG-(legend of the seven stars.) Koji Kondo is a musician.
He created the song ground Theme song, Mario first appeared in the Guinness book of records. Guinness
books of records is known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in
previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book.

Animation voice over.

You know what it was like back in the day, right? Well, do you know enough about sailing? Sailing is one of the known hobbies that you would find Maori doing. So this is what I will be talking about. Did you know when Maori arrived in Aotearoa, they only had materials that would keep them alive. One of the common materials that Maori and Islanders use is wood. Wood is very useful, if making a boat it would be possible for water to stay out of the boat if using wood. You must be thinking how sailing has changed over time? Well now our boats are faster because they have engines. Back then they only had oars and waka. A waka is a wooden boat. It uses wind to get through water and also uses oars.

Land boat designing

We are designing a land boat for the purpose of racing other students and to help us learn more of other technology. Room 10 is designing a land boat. We will be working in our reading groups.

Me and my friend Chance are thinking of what useful things we could use for our land boats. These are some of our ideas: caps from water bottles for the wheels and to make it move, water bottles for the body and so the land boat won’t get wet and straws help the land boat move.

When we finish making our land boats we will be racing our boats across the concrete near our class. It is going to be lots FUN!!

Coin Flipping Challenge

Starting the day off was totally hilarious!!

Coming into school ready to do some learning, Miss West said that “we are going to do something exciting like a challenge” The class shouted in joy. Miss West showed us what we were going to do. she placed her hand on her shoulder, also placed a  counter on her elbow and flicked it up in the air. She said use 1 hand to catch the counter when you flick it up in the air. So after Miss west stopped talking she demanded the class to form a circle outside.

The class went outside to form a circle. I walked outside and smelt the fresh air, I heard the birds tweeting happily and could see people from Pt England trying to do their work while we were playing outside. Miss west talked through the instructions one more time and we were off. We started off with one counter. If we flipped the counter in the air and caught the counter, we had to place another counter on top of the first one that we had.

The coin or counter flipping was really fun. I would really love to do this one more time just for fun. You should try this challenge because it is very very fun.

Netball game!

This was my netball team (PRINCESSES) second game for netball season. It was lots of fun!!!  The score for this NETBALL game was 22 to us and 2 to them.

Netball GAME!!

This was my netball team (PRINCESSES) first ever game for 2017. It was lots of FUN!!!! The score for this NETBALL game's score was 3 to us and 1 to the other team.

My Creative Animal!

This is my creative animal blog post. So what I had to do was explain what my animal eats where it live and more. My beast name's is the cold and long beast. The reason why I called my animal the cold and long beast is because it is a polar bear witch lives in really cold places, and is spider witch has long leg! Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more of my holiday BLOG POST!

BYE