Student Summit Toolkit!

ANNYEONG!

For about 2 weeks now a group of students have been getting ready to present for the Student Summit Toolkit;) This day included all the schools in the Uru Manuka cluster! They had to prepare a slide, showing how to use different sites for learning, and the other schools were also making their own slides for it as well. They also had to be prepared because they would be presenting it on google hangouts!

The day before this we had to fill out a form picking which ones we wanted to learn about and we were also told we had to bring our head/ear phones or else we wouldn´t be able to join in! We had it today and we had to go onto the sessions at certain times and after the session we were to fill out a form giving feedback!

One of the sessions I joined was learning how to draw shapes on scratch! I had to join this call twice because on the sessions it said that for me;( In the video we learnt how to code it to make the pen draw the shape for us. I also had to ask them to slow down a couple of times because I kept getting confused but then it was ok! After learning how to code it we had to make 2 shapes of our own but that was kinda hard...

Another one of the sessions was learning how to use stop motion animation which was pretty fun and easy as well! All we had to do was get an object like paper and then move it around while taking pictures of it and it came out really cool! 

Something I liked about this was being able to interact with other students and something I found hard was trying to follow what they were doing without getting lost.

Hope you liked this blog post and ciao~

Pope Inquiry!

 Aloha!

Last week for one of the R.E lessons we were doing we had to make an inquiry about the Pope and these were the 5 different topics that we could make it about:

Important events in the life of Pope Francis - Popes of the 21st Century - The Pope’s Home (The Vatican) - An Encyclical written by the Pope - Pick your own topic

After picking one of these topics ( I chose important events in the life of Pope Francis) we had to make three question using When or What for the first one, How or Why for the second and Is, Could, Would or Should for the last. After making the questions we had to give three answers for each question. I made my Inquiry on a slideshow!

Something I found hard about this was I didn't really what kind of question I should've used but I think these are good;)

Something I liked about this was reading all the info about what the Pope had done in his life!

Maori Art

 Kia Ora!

This week and the following weeks our class will be focusing on art for topic! The first thing that we needed to do was learn about the kind of art that we will be doing and so we are learning about Maori art ;) Maori art includes specifically Korus and Kowhaiwhai so we had to learn about the different things they are used for and what they signify. After reading about the different things we had to answer the questions what, how and why they are used as well. 

QnA

What are Korus and Kowhaiwhai used for? : They are used to tell the history of Maori and the tribe that you are in and Koru's are used for the Kowhaiwhai design.

How are they used?: They are usually used on ceilings in places like Maraes and they are also tattooed on which is the kind of design used for a Moko or it can be carved and also for Maori art!

Why are they used?: The Koru is used because it symbolizes peace, new life, growth and strength and it's name means loop in Maori because it uncurls while it is growing! 

Venn Diagram about Pirate Jobs!

This week and last week we had to make a Venn diagram about pirates and their jobs on deck. On one side we had to put pirates that work on land and on the other side we had to put jobs of pirates that work at sea and then in the middle it was the jobs that were on both. 

Something we also had to include was what job we would want to do if we were a pirate. I would be a Cabin Boy ;) I don't really know why I would want to be a Cabin Boy but that was the one that I was most interested in! 

Something I found hard about this was that I was kind of confused on which one they went on and I still am but I tried ;) 

Something I liked was reading about the different jobs of the pirates.

What pirate job would you choose to do if you could?

Piracy Throughout the Years :0

Hii! This week and last week for topic we had to make a timeline about piracy throughout the years. It had to be from the 15th century to the 20th which is now. Me and a lot of people were writing down notes about each century and the different pirates because we had to include where exactly they would operate and we could include famous pirates in that century. It was kinda hard to find pirates in the 19th and 18th century but I completed it so that was okay. ;)

 Something I enjoyed about making this timeline was putting all the info onto the timeline because it was fast and easy. Something I found hard was like how I said it was kinda hard to look for info about the 18th and 19th century and it was also kind of hard to write about a bunch of different pirates but yea. 

Here is my time line ;w;

Cipher Wheels

Hi! This week we were learning about codes and mostly cipher wheels ;) 

We had to make our own cipher wheels on Tuesday and we had to make some codes and give it to our buddy and with those codes they had to try and crack it using the cipher wheels and then find the treasure that we hid which was a crunchie bar :)

 

Something I found hard about this was at the beginning I didn't understand it but it was OK because Ms Wilton explained it to our class so it was algoods after that.

Something  Iliked about this was finding the treasure that Tweeny hid for me because I thought it was fun having to crack the code before hand. 

Here's my cipher wheel.

Subaru

Aloha ;0

This week for reading we were assigned more Matariki work! This time we learned about Pleiades around the world and we had to pick a country and learn about what there kind of symbol for Matariki is;)

I chose Japan as mine and we had to make a DLO to teach other people about what we learnt from this and so I did mine on canva.

Something I like about this activity was the learning part because I liked learning about what symbol of Matariki they used to represent it. Something I found hard about this was I was kind of confused at the start about what we actually had to do but it was much easier once someone explained to me what it was that we had to do.