Maori Language Week!

 Kia Ora ;)

Last week, as you may know, was Maori Language week! Since it was Maori Language week in our reading tasks we had to make a DLO of some sort teaching about Maori and the different things to it like the alphabet for example. This was also when our class learnt about a site called book creator which we use a lot now!

I was going to do it on book creator but then I kind of got annoyed and ended up doing it on google slides which was also fun to do as well!

Something I enjoyed about this was being able to put whatever I wanted in it and I think I did better in this then I have done in my other DLOs and something I found hard was really nothing, it was a fun experience!

                          

Reading Activites!

Kia Ora everyone!

This week in school we could do what ever subject we wanted to do and complete our work in that subject so I mainly worked on doing reading work most of the time.

Our teacher decided to change the way that we were doing our activities because before we would do the same activities every year and it was getting boring, so now we have cards that have different texts on them. I chose mainly the drawing ones!

Something that's also new to reading is that if we do some work and we really like it then we can ask Ms Wilton if she can hang it on the wall and so we have a lot of different activities that people have done, hung on the wall and I think that it looks really cool.

I did an activity where we had to change the cover of the book and make our own and include the author and illustrator and Ms Wilton already hung that up on the wall! I did another activity where we had to make a house for the main character in the story that we were reading. In my house I kind of made it messy because the character in the book has a car and the car is really messy and he never has the time to clean it or is just too lazy to clean it so, I feel like that would also happen in his house as well. 

It's really blurry but I added a bedroom, lounge, front door kind of looking in and a kitchen!

Something I liked about this was the drawing part I kind of gave up on colouring but I still like the way it looked.

I didn't find anything hard doing this activity and actually really liked it!

Hope you liked this post ;)

Reading Activities

Hello again!

 I am posting my reading work and in our reading work we had to just try and finish as many activities as we could in the amount of time that we were given! After that we had to choose one activity that we wanted to post onto the blog so I chose the activity that I did that was supposed to be like an interview!

Here it is!
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BREAKING NEWS!!!

News Reporter: There have been reports of an unwashable truck that was finally defeated by a young boy who´s name is Sam. It seems it was a normal day for Sam until his dad came and asked him if he could wash his truck. Sam would get 10 dollars for his reward. As he went outside he was shocked at this monstrous truck. It seemed as if it was unwashable even. But it was no match for Sam and he conquered the truck!! 

 We have reached out to Sam and he is here with us today to have an interview about how he felt at the time fighting with this unwashable truck.

 Interviewer: Hi Sam! How are you today? 

 Sam: I´m feeling good! 

 Interviewer: That´s great! So you know why you´re here today right? 

 Sam: Yes I do. Because I deafeated the not so unwashable truck? 

 Interviewer: Correct! So shall we get started with the questions? 

 Sam: Sure! 

 Interviewer: Great! Okay, when you first saw the truck how did you feel? 

 Sam: Well at first I didn´t even see the truck until I realized the big mountain of mud and dirt WAS the truck. When that happened I was shocked at how gigantic it was but that didn´t stop me from not giving up on trying to clean it. I was really driven to getting that 10 dollars! 

 Interviewer: Wow! I feel like you should have gotten more than 10 dollars for that. So how did you feel while battling the monstrosity? 

Sam: I felt really optimistic with this and it was like slaying a dragon to me! Every time a tactic would fail I would try a different one until I finally got it. My SoakMaster 6000 never lets me down!

Interviewer: I wish I was as persistent as you! Was there anytime you thought that you couldn´t possibly defeat the truck? 

Sam: Actually yes. The only thing that I had left was my SoakMaster 6000, I had no other plan then that and I was praying it would work and just like that it did! In the end I got my 10 dollars and I turned into the mud mountain because all the mud transferred off the truck and onto me for some reason. 

Interviewer: Wow that must´ve been hard to wash off, a challenge right after another challenge. Well thank you for your time and we´re so happy that you could make it today! 

Sam: It´s no problem! 

(Interview Ends) 

News Reporter: Well that was our time with Sam. He's the boy who defeated the not so unwashable truck! If you ever need help with your truck or vehicle call on Sam, he´ll come with his trusty SoakMaster 6000 and will make sure the job is done!
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Hope you liked this post and will stick around for more!

Remember to wash your hands and stay home as much as you possibly can!

ANZAC Activities!

Since ANZAC Day is coming up our class was set to do some ANZAC Activities while at home due to COVID - 19. In these activities we had to make different DLOs for the activities that were set and we had to post 2 from the activities that we have completed. There were 8 activities that needed to be done. 

The first activity that I did was to try and come up with a creative way for people to still acknowledge the ANZAC´s  because since the COVID - 19 has spread very quickly and we can´t go into big groups all ANZAC services were cancelled. So I decided that we should dress up in red on the ANZAC day! I made this poster on Canva.

Here is my poster.

Another activity that I did was 10 items that I would miss if I were a soldier having to go to Gallipoli.  Here we had to give detail about these 10 items that we would miss if we had to leave. So I made my poster on Piktochart for this one because it´s a big space that can be used when Canva is a very limited space if you want to just use one box and fit it in. 

So here is my poster! 

Something I found hard with making these is on Canva I had a bit of trouble with the space and it was a bit hard trying to fit in everything. Something I found hard with my other poster was trying to make it able to read what was on it because I wanted the background to have a war theme but you couldn´t really see the writing properly so I was trying to see what I could do for that. 

Something I liked with making these poster was doing all the fonts and the backgrounds and just designing it mostly.

I hoped you liked my blog post and remember to stay home,wash your hands daily and don´t touch your face!!!

Do You Know What An ANZAC Mascot Is?

Kia Ora! 

These few weeks we have been learning more about ANZAC Day and writing about how it was and reading stories. This week we have been reading and learning about ANZAC Mascots which were animals that soldiers brought to war for many different reasons e.g comfort.

This week we were given 2 activities and the first one was to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) on what we have learnt about how mascots were used in the war and the second was to make our own ANZAC Mascots and we had to show how it could help the soldiers while they are fighting in the war!

I put all of these things in a slideshow because it all related together and it was easier to do.

Something I enjoyed with making this was definitely tracing my Mascot because it was so CUTE!

I didn´t actually struggle with anything and enjoyed doing all the tasks!

Snakes And Ladders

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

This week we were reading a story called "The Game" and it was about kids fighting aliens in space for real but they were doing it in an arcade! Our follow up for this week was to make a Snakes and Ladders game about the battle between the kids an the aliens. We also had to make instructions for the game.

This was actually really hard for me because I couldn't come up with anything to do with the rules and I still don't think that it's good but here is my Snakes and Ladders board game!

I'm sorry that it's not really easy to see but the colour improves it!

RULES!!

You will need the following to play this game: 1 dice, 2 jellybeans that will represent the alien and human!

1) When the second person goes if they land on the same square as the other person that means that the other person gets to move up the ladder and the second person needs to go down the snake or if there is no snake stay in the same place and if there is no ladder near then the other person can move 3 squares forward!

2) When someone is close to the end then you need to have a game of paper, scissors, rock and the one that wins, say the person close to the 100, they are the winners but if they don't win they have to move back 10 squares while the other person gets to move up 10 squares and that's the only time they can do paper, scissors, rock!

(I'm sorry if my rules are really confusing because I didn't really know what rules I should put and  I just came up with this while writing it) :)

In The Picture: Gus Sinaumea Hunter, Illustrator

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

This week my reading group was reading "In The Picture: Gus Sinaumea Hunter, Illustrator"

This book was about his life and how he came to be an illustrator and in the last page he has some tips for drawing, so in our Synthesis work we had to illustrate a picture and use some of his tips!

I illustrated a picture from my Hansel and Gretel story where the Step mom (Delilah) comes and saves the kids from the Witch.

Tips I used: Visualize a picture in your head before you start drawing. Draw what you see, not what you think you see and When adding colour, work your way from the background to the foreground of a picture.

At the beginning I thought we just had to draw a picture so I drew a cupcake but then my teacher told me what it meant and I drew this!

I'm sorry that the picture isn't really clear but this is the best I could make it 

The Stag

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

This week we were reading a story about a Stag. Our groups task was to make a device that would trap Stags without killing them. 

The last time I made something the writing didn't come out clear so this time I put in text boxes over them so that you could see it more clear.  I hope you like it and that it is much more easier to read!

More Than A Mountaineer

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

This week we were reading about Sir Edmund Hillary! If you don't know who this person is, look on a 5 dollar note. Yes he was the first man to climb Mount Everest and got a lot of fame for doing so. 

This week our Synthesis question was to use modern technology to design a more efficient system for getting building equipment up the Himalayan Mountains. This was actually out of 10, 10 being really difficult, 10 because I really didn't get what the question was asking me to do and I still think I didn't do it right but after asking heaps of people this is what I came up with. I hope you like it.

Lava Proof Safe House!

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

This week we read a book "A Bit Of A Bang" which was about the Big Bang and volcanoes and lava. After we read about it one of the activities that we needed to do was make a volcanic eruption proof shelter for us and our family.

Something I found difficult to do was sow the labels because when I kept taking pictures it was really blurry so I decided to write it with permanent marker instead and it came out a little bit more better.

I hope you like it!

The Big Jump

WALT increase speed when unpacking sentences using ITTM

Here we had to rewrite the ending to the story that we were reading, which was called "The Big Jump".

 Our teacher said that when we do this we could just write it onto the post so that it would be faster. I didn't find anything hard with rewriting it and I actually liked it a lot!

Here it is :)

Climbing up the stairs it felt like going up stairs to my doom! I thought this was going to be exciting but really I nearly peed my pants when I kept climbing higher and higher...

Up there, there was a girl named Sandra, she was the instructor. I hated the idea of going down and everyone seeing that I was scared! She tried to comfort me but it just kept making me think about if something did go wrong, if something did happen to me. She practically just made me more scared to jump off.

Then came Timmy. I embarrassed when I saw him because he would know that I was afraid of heights. I heard them talking but my thoughts were drowning them out. The little voices were saying things, things that didn't really help at all. Things that were to terrifying to even think about. For example DEATH.

Timmy volunteered to go down with me, but I didn't know at the time... I didn't even realize that they were attaching him to me and I finally stopped spacing out when I felt wind on my face and heard someone going "YAAAAYYYY".

I woke up and faced reality. We were going faster than I had ever gone in my life. I felt like I was about to actually pee myself now and I had proven that. By actually doing so...

I got down and didn't realize I had. I blamed it on Timmy for being up there for so long, but everyone saw. Thing is I didn't. Until night time. When Timmy told me himself.

Have You Weaved Before?

WALT increase speed when unpacking sentences using ITTM (I think that means)

This week we had another Information Web to do and our story was called "Willow Weavers". This story is about a class that learns the process of weaving with the Willow branches and the things that you have to do to complete this. I tried to use all the feedback that was given to me but the one thing I couldn't do was make a picture because I didn't know if I should but here is my Information Web!

Do You Want To Be A Zookeeper?

This week my reading group was reading "Zookeeper For A Day". After reading this we had to make an Information Web kind of summarizing the story, so we can see how the author of this set it out. 

I found it difficult at the beginning because I was confused but when they teachers explained it with more depth I found it much more easier than before and finished my work quickly. 

Here is my Information Web

What Is The Water Cycle

Do you know what a Water Cycle is?

This week our reading groups passage was on a Water Cycle and since it was a non fiction piece of writing we had to do an info graphic on it. 

When I was making this I found it not that hard to write about because we have learnt about Water Cycles before. I still have the same feedback on adding more pictures and i think this weeks info graphic has improved with that since there was more space for me to put in pictures as well!

Here's my info graphic! What did you learn from it?

How Do Waterspouts Form?

This week is a little different. Our teacher decided that now we won't have anymore shared slideshows. We will just post our things to our blog and the people in our group will just comment on there for feedback.

 This week we read a non - fiction piece of writing about how waterspouts form. Again we had to make an info graphic. 

Here I found it difficult to finish it on time because I was sick but I got it finished! I tried to add in more pictures because that is usually something that I need include more in my info graphics most of the time. 

Here is my info graphic! Do you think you have learnt anything? If you have, comment what you have learnt.

Maori Language Week

This week is if you didn't know Maori Language Week!

So for this week our teacher set up a doc with 7 tasks that were linked with learning Maori or having something else to do with Maori language that we had to do. 

We only had to complete 3 -4 tasks and if we had time could do more.

I chose to do Tasks 1, 4 and 6. 

Here is my slide!

The Machine ( Story Map )

Here you can see that there is no shared slideshow anymore.

Our teacher told us that we will not have shared slideshows anymore and that we have to just post our things on our blog by itself then people in our reading group will have to comment on it. 

Here my feedback from last time I did a Story Map was to be more specific and split my examples and here you can see that I did try to do those things as well.  

The story we were reading this week was called The Machine. What did you think it was about when you saw the title?

The Amazing Fat Spider Man

On Thursday we were put into groups to make a piece of writing. For this writing piece we were already given a character, which was a spider, a setting, which was a shoe and a problem, which was the shoe lace. We had to make up our own solution and we all got a slide each to write on. At the end we had to put it all on one slide but it was really hard to fit so it will be kind of hard to see because we tried to make it fit in. There was 3 people in my group. Me (Siale), Manuk and Jorja. This story was easy to come up with but it was kind of hard to write about.

Our problem was that the spider turned into a fat Spider man and got captured by the shoe lace of the shoe.

Shared Slideshow Wk 6

This week our teacher decided to give us our reading passages before we could see her so that we would have more time to finish the activities because there is a lot of them, and in this time I got to finish this weeks shared slideshow. In this slideshow it is another  Story Web on the passage "Hot Plasma On The Rocks" We also had to comment and give feedback on our Story Webs and my feedback was to split my examples if they are different and to also be more specific when I'm explaining things. What do you think?

So here it is.

Shared Slideshow

In our class for this weeks shared slideshow we had to make an info graphic about the non fiction piece of writing that our reading was reading. Before making an info graphic we had to watch a video about the different types of info graphics there are. An info graphic is like a poster but it has a lot of information in it and pictures. I found it confusing at the beginning and kept on asking people in my group but after a while I was okay. I also had to rush because the people in my group were already finished and wanted to post it. Something that I didn't really get to do was put some pictures in : (