Coding

 

 Task Description: Today room 4 had came into room 1 and we did some coding with a codyrockie’s which are little robots that you need to code to make it  move.When we need to connect it on the bluetooth to our chromebooks, and had to go on this website which is called “Mblock” for it to make the Codyrockie move itself and  you need to make codes for e.g move to the left,or right,up or down and many more. I worked with Precious, Jasmine and Victoria!.

Art Alive, Animation

 

Task Description: This is my Term 4 Animation about Art Alive which is our theme for the Term. The Three photos I had was a Family photo, an Andy Warhol Photo, and also a Among us Photo 

Pastel Art - Art Alive

Task Description:  this is my pastel art, the emotion I was showing was like a  Comfortable emotion how I was showing this emotion was like from the technique/texture I did/used with all the colours. 

I used the colour red because of passion, Yellow was because of happiness, Blue was because of calmness, Black was the coldness ( used for outlines of clouds )  

Reading / Writing

 

Task Description: Since it's almost the holidays here in New Zealand, Rm5 Literacy class is doing a summer learning journey for our Reading and or Writing. The story I read was about Setting Sail. After I read the story I had to list ten items/things to take out to sea

Story: 

People from Pacific nations have always been expert explorers and navigators. In the past, they used the stars, sun and ocean swells to find their way (navigate) around the Pacific Ocean. Master navigator, Nainoa Thompson, has used the ancient Polynesian wayfinding skills to navigate around the world. In 2013, Nainoa led a crew across the Pacific Ocean on two large canoes (Hokule’a and Hikianalia). The crew stopped off in Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2015 on their journey and visited the Manaiakalani Schools in Auckland.

Here is a short video about Polynesian navigation. It describes the different ways ancient Polynesian navigators used the natural world to find their way around vast oceans. Incredible!

I think that it would be difficult to be ‘at sea’ for weeks at a time. I would miss my family but I would also enjoy the adventure. Let’s imagine that you were invited to join Nainoa for three weeks at sea. As part of the journey, you have to pack your own food.

Duffy Book - Dawn and the impossible three

Task Description: Today the whole school got a duffy book, the book i got was Dawn and the impossible three

 

Colour Pallet

Task Description: Yesterday we did an fun activity using different types of colours such as - secondary colours and primary colours. We also learnt that the artist Edvard Munch was the first artist to use colour in his artwork to represent emotions.   

 

Writing - 5 senses prompts

 

Task Description: This week for writing rm 5 literacy is doing 5 different senses. 

Maths - Amazing Algebra

 

Task Description: This task is my amazing algebra task, this task was a little bit easy and also hard 

Maths - Solving Equations

Task Description: This week for maths we are learning about solving equations this task was fun to do and also a little bit hard.

Rolling Dice Task - Maths

 

Task Description: This week  for maths I worked with two people named Saane and Jasmine we had to roll a dice and what ever number we get in type it in our google drawing we also had to highlight the doubles we got 

Art Alive the Scream

 

today rm1 did art on paper and we did the scream from edvard munch

Art Alive - Georges Seurat Room 3

 

Task Description: On the 4th of November Team 5 did our last rotation and Room 1 went to Room 3 which was with Mrs Tele'a

Reading - The World's smallest boat

Task Description: Today in Room 5 in Reading, We got to choose an article to read and I read the World's Smallest Boat. 

Maths - Probabillity

Task Description: Today I worked with a Partner and his name was Antzel we had to pick out 3 blocks to make the number 6 and we were only allowed to choose 2 colours in our bucket we had 3 blacks and 3 greys, we swapped with Nahea and Quincess. We had to pick out one of their blocks, they had 3 blue blocks and 3 grey blocks

Reading - How big is your footprint

Te Reo - He aha te Taima

 

Facts about Niue

Task Description: Happy Niuean Language Week!!, this week is Niuean Language so Team 5 is going to learn more about Niue, many countries of the world haven't heard about Niue because it is not really known around the world..

HAPPY NIUEAN LANGUAGE WEEK!!!

First Week of School

On Monday the 12th of October it was the first day back of term 4 we had an immersion assembly.A immersion  assembly is when we get told what the theme is for the term e.g Something in the water,and more.

So when all of pt england had all gotten all settled down, Mr Burt proudly had said ‘’We’re Back In The House ‘’ you must be asking yourself why is he saying that? Well the reason he said that is because it has been a long time since covid that we all could be gathered all together since it is level 1.So first Ms Nua, Mr Somerville, and Mr Jacobson had gotten up on stage with some paint in their hands and then they had been painting all of the children were very curious of what they were painting. And We finally had found out what the theme was: it was drumroll Please ART ALIVE!!

After all of that painting that the teachers had done

 Team 1: had introduced what they were learning about and they first tried to create some of the famous paintings such as The Monalisa, unibrow lady and such more, well that's what they are doing and going to be learning about. After Team 1 it was Team 2 to present what they are learning about/doing for art!.

Team 2: is doing art with shapes and different types of colours such as dark colours and bright colours. They’re also doing art on their i-pads, Mrs Gaston was colouring and drawing one of the teachers with dark and bright colours e.g  The bright colour was representing like a happy vibe, with the dark colour it was representing like a negative vibe. 

Team 3: is painting walls and also painting on sheets to create a their own painting using dyes and different colours of paints and mixing the different colours to see what  they make e.g red and blue makes purple

Team 4: They forgot to do their show/video to show to the whole school but luckily Mr goodwin had recorded their google meets so this Term they are learning more about maori patterns and the story behind them.

Team 5: We had done a show that Ms Moala had her first day at her work and she had to hide the people through the museum.So Team 5 is learning about all of the famous artists.

Facts about Andy Warhol

 

Task Description: On Wednesday the 14th of October the whole of Team 5 rotated to a different class room to do different art/learn about different art. Room 1 went to room 5 and we learnt about Andy Warhol and we also drew Tomato Soup for our art. 

Line Graph

Task Description: This week for maths Room 1 is learning about Line Graphs, for our Create Task we had to pick some items and walk around the class and ask people/kids to pick a item for our create task

Line Graphs in Action

Task Description: This is a poster about Line Graphs in Action I worked with a buddy named Jasmine, we both took a turn to write a fact down about the poster we were given. 

Edvard munch poster

 

Today we had to make a poster about a famous artist his name is Edvard munch he was the creater  of the painting called the scream.

Book Worms!!

 

Task Description: Happy Holidays!! Today for the Spring Learning Journey My first task/activity to do was to make my own Book Cover for our favourite book!. 

For this activity, design a book cover for your favourite book. You will need to think about what needs to be on the cover (the title, author, illustrator). 

Ann M. Martin is the author of the book

Writing/Google Drawing Task

Covid Well-being

 

Task Description: Yesterday Rm 1 started off with a piece of cardboard to write down some ideas for our Covid Well being. We had to make a poster about some Covid I've put different types of things to help with the Covid 19 when you are going back in isolation

Equivalent Fractions.

Task Description: Today for maths we investigated equivalent fractions, we had papers and coloured in 2/3s of the paper, we then had to shade in some of the boxes and add the answer. We also had to make a video

 

Reading ~ Rata and the Tree

 

Task Description: Today for reading we had to choose a Myth to do, I chose Rata and the Tree, this Myth was about Rata chopping a tree to make a waka so that his people can be safe. Tawhirimatea and Tangaroa were going to battle each other.... the creatures weren't happy in Rata so the creatures rebuilt the tree.. the creatures then built the waka for rata because he apologies

Maths Theseus and the Minotaur

 

Task Description: Today for maths Rm 3 did a Maze maths we had to answer questions about will it be interesting or how many ways are there to go enter...  

Taha Whanau

Task Description: Hello and welcome to my blog, this week is Sign Language week, our theme for this week is Sign Language is for everyone. I also put a picture on so you can learn how to do your own name in Sign Language. Sign Language is the main language in New Zealand

Tuvaluan Dance

Task Description: Today in the morning Rm 1, 5 and 4 did a Tuvaluan Dance with two ladies named Molia and Mary Ann, We learnt new words and we also got to learn some facts about Tuvalu

He aha te tae?

Writing - Kia Kaha Te Reo Maori

Te Horeta's Nail

Taha Whanau - Whare Tapa Wha

Task Description: Today for Te Whare Tapa Wha we did Taha Whanau, we had to match the English words and Maori words this task was pretty easy to do, I also enjoyed it! 

Taha Tinana

 Task Description: Today for the Whare Tapa wha we did Taha Tinana which is also known as fitness or exercising. We had to do 5 different exercises.

Level 3 - Maori Stage Polyfest.

Task Description: This is another maths task for today, this task is about a Maori Stage, it was a bit hard, but at least i finished. 

Level 2 - Finding Fractions of a Whole

Task Description: This week is Maori Language Week Room 1 maths has been given a task that was in Maori, we had a slide with the English words so that we understand what the instructions are.  The task was pretty easy but also confusing because of the Maori Words. 

Tongan Story

Task Description: This is a Tongan story when a man went surf  and fell of and got taken away from the current.

Tongan Language Week

This week is Tongan Language Week, we are learning more and more about Tongan Identity and what they are like, we've also been watching some videos to discover more facts about Tonga and what has happened in the past, some of the videos are based on what Tongan people do on the daily basis. The theme for Tongan language week is "Fakaloa 'o Aotearoa Aki 'a e Lotu Mo' oni" which means enriching Aotearoa new Zealand through prayer and faith Tongan people use wisdom spirituality and collective living  as a bases which to contribute to society.
Tonga is the only country in the south pacific to never have been colonised by a foreign power and still has it's own monarchy.

He hakete kikorangi

Task Description: Today for Te Reo we were learning about colours in Maori, and we also learnt some other words in Maori, I really enjoyed doing this with Ms Tapuke.

Writing

Traditional Tongan cooking and food: Coconuts and the Umu

The Coconut is an indispensable ingredient in Polynesian life, it is also dried into cobra or used in cooking oil or body oil. But most of all it is the base of nearly all Traditional dishes in the Polynesian
dine.
Taro Leaves are like spinach mixed with Onions and Corn Beef, it is wrapped in banana leafs and the coconut milk is added last.
The bundles are placed in an underground oven or a umu along with Taro roots or Yam, when it is full the umu is covered with banana leafs and old mats to keep in the heats hours later the bundles/food is removed from the umu.

Pieces of Cloth Pieces of Culture, Tapa Making and Community Collaboration

The Tongan islands lie 23 degrees south of the quitter in the pacific a tropical nation comprising over 100 islands Tonga still has its own king who is not only head of state but his head of the state church, Tonga was never formally colonised by any European nation and therefore its cultural practises today reflect ancient tradition and modern Christianity.
In 1773 Captain James Cook a British explorer described and named the Tonga island as the friendly islands, one of the greatest embodiment of Tongan history culture and religion is Tapa Cloth.. Tapa Cloth is a treasured textile which is made from Natural materials that grow in the Tongan islands no religious ceremony is complete without tapa cloth.
Tapa Cloth is especially prized as a covering for the casket of a deceased person, after a funeral ceremony has been conducted. The casket will be taken to a burial ground.
( Tapa Cloth are made by Bark, The inner bark is taken from several types of trees or shrubs, often mulberry and fig, and designs are applied with paints and vegetable dyes of light brown, red, and black ).

Tapa Cloth - Maths

Task Description: Since this week is Tongan Language Week our maths is about the Tapa Cloth, we had to measure and find the answer within the Tapa Cloth, for our create task we had to make our own Tapa Cloth!. Please feel free to leave a positive comment

Reading - Keeping The Tradition Alive.

Task Description: Today for reading we read a story named Keeping the Tradition Alive. we had to list five things that keep the Tongan Language Alive.

Sports of Tonga

Today for Te Whare Tapa Wha our theme was Taha Tinana so for our task today we had to watch a video of sports in Tonga and right some facts in the google drawing, This task was very interesting and I enjoyed learning more about it.

Taha Whanau

Novel Study Task!

Hello and greetings to you all, this is my Novel Study task i've done, this was a fun task to do. The book I read As Fast as words could fly was Amazing!!, you should probably check it out for yourself on Storyline Online. This is a very fun task. Please Feel free to leave a positive comment!

Taniwha Facts

Hello and Greetings to you all welcome back to my blog.. This week for Reading/Literacy I've been learning about the Taniwha's Rivers and facts and many more!, I have put different sentences in different orders this Story is either is Myth Or Legend!!. Hope you've enjoyed, Please Feel free to leave a positive comment on my Blog!

Problem Solving from Maths Whizz

This is my problem solving from Maths Whizz. I've been working on division, it was really easy because all you needed to do is figure out the answer. So I worked it out and I got every answer right

On my Test For Maths WHizz

I am finally on my test for maths whizz  I hope I get another progression. 

New Task On Maths Whizz

This is my new task on Maths Whizz there is no Jump unlocked on this one so I have to try my hardest to go on a test instead of starting this task over again. 

Maths Whizz

This was my Maths Whizz task/Question for Maths Whizz I got jump unlocked because I've gotten every answer right. Once I've jump unlocked I go on a test.

I also found this pretty easy to do

Taha Whanau

XtraMath

I am pretty happy about how many smiley faces I got on this one. 56 smiley is a lot and I'm proud of that.   

I am kind of happy about this score from Race the Teacher but I think I need more practise on my Maths

I am also happy about this score from Race the teacher x2, but I think I can get more smiley faces when competing with a teacher.

These photos represent my XtraMaths scores when I complete it.

Chadwick Boseman

In the loving memory of Chadwick Boseman.

Facts about Chadwick Boseman:

1. Chadwick Boseman was born
on the 29th November, Anderson
South Carolina, United States.

2. His height is 1.83m

3. He was raised a Christian and was baptised.

4. He had stated that he prayed to ve the Black Panther before he was cast as the titular character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Recipe for Paul Bunyan

This is my Paul Bunyan Recipe. I've made Hot Cakes with caramel syrup, he usually eats 10 or 5 depends on how hungry he is I've made 3 hot cakes for Paul Bunyan!!.

Dragon

This is my drawing of a dragon, we had to draw a myth that we learnt about  I chose the Dragon's Eye Lake, instead of drawing an Dragon eye i decided to draw a whole dragon body. It's not my best drawing but I've tried my best, We had options to draw it, paint it or even make it out of cardboard!. We were also allowed to make it in Minecraft which is pretty creative.

Hope you've enjoyed my Dragon drawing.

Descriptive Writing

Task Description: This week for writing we are doing descriptive writing, we have to describe the photo we've been given, we've been given two photos from our literacy teacher, and then for the rest of the slides we have to find a picture to describe. This task was pretty enjoyable to do.

Metric Conversions

Task Description: This week for maths my task was to convert between metric units but first we had to take time to learn more about metric conversions. I really enjoyed learning about this, we also had to convert from largest to smallest.

XtraMaths Points

This was my score on my first round of Race the teacher on XtraMaths and I am pretty happy about that score I've gotten 

This is my second time through Race the teacher, I am also happy about this score I've gotten.

I was surprised when I got a sliver Trophy from when I completed the Practise round. 

The Sons of Ma'afu

Task Description: Today my reading class has read an fantastic book which is from the Kingdom of Tonga the book we read was named The sons of Ma'afu, his people which was the villagers were disappointed in his two sons behaviour because the sons kept on damaging the fales which is houses with their spears.
This is Ma'afu
1. Born in 1816
2. He died in February 1881
3. Parents Aleamout'a
4. Culture is Tongan and Fijian ish
He was a traditional Tongan Prince and a Fijian chief 

nominated and installed by the Tovata

 chiefs of Lakeba and Vanua Balavu as 

'Tui Lau' in 1869.

The Amazonian Mermaid

This is the Screenshot of the Amazonian Mermaid for more information click this link here

The Amazonian Mermaid/Myth/Brazil

Task Description: On Friday the 21st of August Room one got given a task to do for our Myths Task. We got to choose any state that was in South America and North America to learn about/research a myth in one of those states. I chose Brazil and my myth that I learned about the The Amazonian Mermaid.

Here was our Instructions: WALT: we are learning about a country in our world!

TASK ONE:

1. Find a myth from one of these two continents: North America OR South America
2. Mark in the country they are from on your Myths Around the World Map slideshow map (already in your drive!) and don't forget to add a summary slide about the myth you read/watched. (BONUS: 5 Dojo points)

TASK TWO:

Create a poster that shows the following:

1. 1. The name of the myth
   2. Key people/beings/objects from myth
   3. The population of this country today
   4. The languages spoken in this country
   5. Flag of the country

Show this off on your blog today (BONUS: 5 Dojo points!)

TASK THREE:

1. Find out four other interesting facts about the country your myth from today was from.
2. Enter your 4 facts on the Google Drawings
3. Include a map to show where the country is located.
4. Make your Drawing look interesting and make it your own by adding different colours, font, layout, and pictures of famous landmarks/buildings in that country. (BONUS: 5 Dojo points)
5. HAVE HEAPS OF FUN RESEARCHING!!

Reading Scales

Task Description: This week we are learning about Reading different Scales we also had to write down 3 things we learnt while watching a video, we also had to write down the amount of water from the jug. we are also learning about Measuring Temperature Using a Thermometer.

On the second to last slide I didn't know much of the answers but I tried my best to get all the answers right.

Walliamson and Cowley/Awarua The Taniwha Of Porirua

Task Description: This Week we are doing writing, we had to use descriptive language in our writing. We had to describe our Taniwha and also the photo that was already on the Task, we just had to give some ideas of what to describe and we also had to answer some of the questions that was put on this Task.

Awarua the taniwha of porirua

WALT:DEVELOP A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING PF THE TANIWHA OF NEW ZEALAND
Task Description: For literacy this week we have been learning about this Taniwha named Awarua. This taniwha wanted to fly because her friend Rereroa was telling her/him about the adventures she/he had when flying. He/She is also teaching Awarua how to fly.

STORY

Telling Time Wk4

Camp Post #3

1. If you were to give ideas for the next year 7/8 camp what would you suggest?:I Suggest the activities that the teacher have set up because it is really fun doing.
2. What would you keep?: I want to keep all the activities because the activities we've done are really fun and it is also enjoyable.
3. What would you stop? We Should not stop anything going on because the teachers have been trying their best to make the Year 7 step up fun.
4. What would you add? I would probably add some more activities like Volleyball for sports, probably karaoke for the rotations.
5. Why do we have such events? We have these events because the Year 7s have a chance to step up and be leaders and show some examples to little kids.
6. Talk about Whare Tapa Whā and key competencies: Maybe to show knowledge & confidence we can success our talent & share it to the world.
7. Quick finishers could make up a programme for 2021 events: 
   

Captain Reflections

The 5 things that I heard from the captains from the yr 7 step up:

This Morning we heard things from the Year 7s and 8s Captains.

• Their highlight was seeing other year 7s stepping up and trying to be leaders and showing examples to the little kids.
•  They were shy at first but then they got out of their comfort zone.
• They were learning how to communicate with each other.
• They were happy to see other yr 7s stepping up and communicating with others.
• Participating in the activities they had. 

5 things that I heard from the Year 8 Captain

• They were showing off their skills.
• They had a really fun experience at their Year 8 Leadership Camp.
• Jezakaia and his friends got scared so they all slept together.
• Watching their camp group grow into good confident leaders.
• enjoying and making most of the time they had at camp.

My Step up highlight

Last week when the Year 8s went to camp the Year 7s had a chance to step up and be leaders while the yr 8s are gone to camp. We all were in groups and we had to make Chant, a Name and also pick our two leaders, I was with Ms Tipene my group had to choice to choose a name our choices were: Pe Leaders, Leaders, Crazy G.IZ, and Duck Life. We all had to put our hands up to choose our name, nearly everyone put their hands up for Duck Life, so our name was Duck Life, after we chose our name for the Step Up challenge my table couldn't decide what chant to do so Lorenzo and Moui made a Chant for us: ( Chant: Quack x3 we're gonna quack this challenge, Quack x3 we're gonna clap you fullahs Quack x3 that means Duck Life's Matter, DUCK LIFE OUT ).

My highlight for the Year 7 Step up was doing the Cup challenge with the whole of the other Year 7s. and competing with other people, my other highlight was doing Just Dance in our Rotations when we were split up into our Tahi,Rua and Toru groups for when the Year 8s go down to Tamaki College for Tech.

That was my favourite highlight of the Year 7 step up because  when doing the Cup challenge because it was pretty fun doing when competing with other Year 7s and some of the Year 8s. Doing Just Dance in our Rotations was pretty fun I was dancing with Quincess and Punaiuru and we kept on making up our own dance.

Maths Quiz - Multiplication

Telling Time

Maths Whizz/Wk4

Task Description: Every week my goal is to get three progressions or more to get a green tick.

Maths Whizz/Google Drawings

Task Description: Today every one in Room1 had to make a google slide for our Maths Whizz.
I am a Master at Maths Whizz which is the green ribbon which says Master, I also have four progressions from this week.
Our Goal every week is to get three progressions.

Myths Of the World

Whare Tapa Wha/Keeping On top of my well being

Task Description: Today we did a Whare Tapa Wha task of keeping on top of my well being. I've been helping my family throughout the weeks I need to stay positive when I sit next to the year 8s on my table.

What's a Myth/What's a Legend

My Three Goals according to Literacy

Task Description: Here are my three goals for Term 3, the 1st goal is to move up in reading because I might be reading at a low level.

my 2nd goal is to be a better speller when writing or doing a test.

my 3rd is to be a better writer when it comes to narratives. 

DMIC CLOCKS

Task Description: Today every person in Room 1 had to get in a group of 4 but I was in a group of 3 I was with Quincess, and Toni. We had to try and make a hexagon with the times on the sheet, there was also Military time on it.

What I have learnt about this is that Military time is similar to Standard time that we use. What I need to work on is telling time either on the clock or on the watch.