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Taniwha name

LI: To understand the Treaty of Waitangi.

LI: To understand how culture connects with your name.

I was challenged to draw a Taniwha but to fade it onto my name. I first looked up for a piece of a design of a taniwha to recreate the picture on a DLO. I then wrote my name and put some designs on it to help it look more like a Tainwha. I also made the eyes bigger to make it look like an O for my name.

I found this activity fun and I also get to be creative with my name and to also designs taniwha’s and more others creative designs.

Lunar New Year

LI: To use smart searching skills to research correct information.

This tasked we learnt about Lunar New Years, The lantern New Year. We resarched and explained about what or why Chinese Lantern Festival is about and why it is important to them. We then wrote down the most importantly part which was the information. Lastly we certainly decorated and added pictures on the slides to represent what it looks like.

I found this activtie enjoyable and amazing because it helps me and others, learn more different parts about Lunar New Years. My other reason is that I get to be creative and show everyone what we have being learning in class.

2024 Vision Board

Our task was to create a vision board about a leader we admire and look up to. I chose Niall Williams, I chose her because I feel to inspire her by her to play rugby, touch, I enjoy playing touch and would someday hope to play in finals when I have the chance to when I grow older.

I found this task fun and creative because it helps me visualise what it would look like when I am out of college.

Film Festival

This week on Wednesday we went to the cinemans to watch other schools movies.

First, group A and Group B had to partner up with the little kids. My little buddie was Peyton.

Next, we went on the bus and we were heading to our location which was sylvia park.

Then, when we arrived to sylvia park we had to hold hands forever with our buddies and go up the stairs.

After, we went inside the movies and we sat in our chairs. But we first had to drop off our buddies to their seat and go to our seats.

Lastly, the lights went off and we changed the schools movie flims.

My favourite movie was from our school called throw the jandal.

Make sure to give positive comments onto our movie.

Comic Strip

This week for Miss White reading groups we learned about how to create a comic strip based on the events of the rainbow fish.

In the DLO we also have to use language features – past tense, adverbs/verbs, written in first person (I, we) , especially nouns.

First, we sat on the mat and Ms Mclean explained to us what our work was to do in the morning. Our task/work was to make a copy of the DLO and make a comic strip based on the book called the rainbow fish. In the big box we had to draw pictures and in the little box we had to write down the events of the story. For example : I drew in the big box a rainbow fish swimming around and in the little box I wrote down what happened or what the fish was doing.

Next, we had to go back to the document we made a copy of from W3 and create a comic strip of the rainbow fish. In the document we had to scroll down and use the summary to help create the comic strip. We also had an option if we wanted to create the comic strip online on the chromebook or on paper. I chose the paper because it would be easier to draw pictures but harder to write down what happened in the story.

Lastly, I had to colour in the drawings and show Ms Mclean. When I finished showing my work I had to go online on a chromebook and write down a recount of what I have learned on my blog.

I enjoyed doing this task. I did well at drawing pictures and writing down stories. I need to improve on adding more details onto the story part.

Narrative Brianstorm

Zurelle is a girl and she’s 11 years old. She has freckles, curly black hair, and brown eyes. In the inside of her life she is kind, smart, and kinda caring especially helpful.

One day, Zurelle went to school and she also takes the bus with her close friend Kalayla. When they arrived they went into class and was talking about crushes. “Whos your crush?” Kalayla said. “My crush is Jake!”. Kalayla was in shock and they started arguing for liking the same person. Her other close friend Layla stopped them and just use their wits because if it still continues it gets even worse. At the end of the day Kalayla saw Zurelle with Zion (her brother) and thought that was her crush. But then she took Jake away from her and Zurelle got mad. But they realised it was unfair. So they apologized and said “Promise we would never argue again and fighting over a boy”.

 

Narrative

This week for Miss White reading groups we learned about how to identify a problem and solution.

What is a problem and a solution? A problem is where something has happened and it is really bad. Solution is where you fix the problem and it is all solved.

First, Miss White explained to us what our task and work was for us to do for today. Our work was to go on the document called Goldilocks and we had to read through the story and answer the questions. We also had to find the problem and solution.

Next, we had to make comments on each question and answer them. For example : the question is “How many people have voted for a national. The answer will be 36. After we finished commenting on each question we had to look through other people’s comments. Miss White looked through them with us all together and read them and gave respect to our comments.

Then, after we finished the document and commented on every question, we had to scroll down to the bottom and write down a problem that happened in the story and the solution that fixed the problem. For example : The problem will be the teacher was being unfair to the other students. The solution will be the teacher realised it was so unfair to the other students so she apologised and took them too.

Lastly, we had to make a copy of the problem and solution DLO. DLO also stands for digital learning objects. In the DLO we had to click on the link called stories for kids. I had to choose 3 stories and read or watch through it. When I finished reading one of the stories I had to go on the DLO and write down the problem and solution and do it for the rest of the 2 other stories.

The end… Remember to be positive and respectful to school. Negative actions have negative consequences.

I enjoyed doing this task. I did well at commenting on each question on the document. I need to improve on adding more comments.

Figure it out

This week for Miss White maths group we learned about how to use our problem solving skills to work out the gala set up.

First, Miss White explained to us what we are learning for today. We are learning about solving skills and how to use our problems. For example :  the problem is “The goldfish is selfish and never wants to share anything with us”. The solving part will be “Until the goldfish realises he was a selfish fish that won’t share anything with other people or creatures so he decides to share and make everyone happy again.

Next, Miss White told us that we have to make a copy of the google slide that talks about figuring it out at the gala. There are 14 slides to complete. When we finished making a copy of the google slide we had to look at the slide and work out each question. We also had to use different partners each slide. My partner for each slide was Armani, Hasna, Ziv, Valencia, and Sila. Those are the partners I used for each slide.

Lastly, we had to go through each slide and answer the questions. One of the questions was date dilema. In the date dilemma we had to go look at the calendar and see what date suits most people and way. I picked the 29th because there is a 50% (percent) chance that there is a strong wind and there’s another 50%  chance that it would or could be weak. When I finished some of the slides we had to draw a bar graph on a book or a chromebook to see which one is the best and who has the most votes.

I enjoyed doing this task. I did well at answering all of the questions on the google slide. I need to improve on doing more bar graphs about the school gala.

Designs

This week for Inquiry we learned about how to design ideas for the brief and to idapt the design.

First, each member of our group needs to create their own 2 designs for each product, then after that we had to design 2 pencil cases and 2 bookmarks. We also had to link both of our designs to the spreadsheet. We also had to make sure Miss White and Miss Tele’a can access our work.

Next we had to put our designs into a DLO called label the marks of each part of design.

Lastly, when we are finish we had to create another extra pencil case and bookmark design.

 

Narrative Planner

This week for Miss White’s reading groups we learned about how to unpack a narrative.

What is narrative writing? Narrative writing is telling stories, and stories help us connect with each other. They have written to entertain and to share experiences with a reader. Narrative writing can be written in many mediums, such as novels, short stories, poems, diaries, and even biographies.

First, Miss White told us to discuss in a group what narrative writing is. A narrative writing is where someone is telling stories and it also helps us connect with each other. For example : I am telling a story about the three little pigs. In the story it talks about the three little pigs building different types of houses made out of metal, brick, or pastel.

Next, Miss White explained to us what TOPES stands for. T – title, O – orientation/setting, P – Problem, – E is events, and S – solution. We also use language features – past tense (jump – jumped), verbs/adverbs, written in first person (I, we) and nouns. For example : We went out to the shopes to get us some salt and vinegar chips. or I went out to the shops to go get me some salt and vinegar chips. These are some of the examples.

Then, Miss White told us to make a copy of a document and watch a video called the rainbow fish. In the video called the rainbow fish it talks about a rainbow fish not sharing one of his scales. When we finish watching the video about the rainbow fish you have to go on the document and write down the title of the story, orientation  (where they have set the settings at), Problem (what was the problem in the story), events (first, next, last), solution (how did the problem get fixed).

Lastly, after you finished writing your plan of narrative about the rainbow fish we had to scroll down to the bottom and summarise 20 important words (or phrases), pick 6 most important words, and sentences that flow. In the story I picked 20 important words which were beauty, rainbow fish, blue fish, special, scale, cry, upset, friend, whizzed, share, anymore, share, shiny, mean, green, deep, sea, amazed, please, swam.

I enjoyed doing this task. I did well at writing down lots of events. I need to improve on adding more details onto the event.