The Widow in the Temple

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog. This week or RE we learnt about the the widow in the temple, it is about this poor widow. She donated 2 coins to God, everyone else donated lots more than the widow. Everyone else thought that was silly that she had donated 2 coins, but Jesus said to his deciples, "You see that widow, she donated all she had and everyone else donated what they didn't need. That widow donated way more than anyone else from the heart." The message is basiclly to donate from the heart not the amount of money. 

Here is my animation that I made:

How do you think you can be more like that widow?

7 Fantastic Facts about Science

Kia Ora welcome back to my blog. For the past few weeks we have been doing science, our task board this week was about science and we had to make a poster about seven facts about science. In one of our rotations we did the coke and mentos experiement. Our teacher had gotton diet coke and regular coke, so we did the regular coke first. Our teacher put five mentos into the coke bottle, and it fizzed up, then we got the diet coke and put five mentos in there. With the diet coke the fizzing at the top was higher then regualr coke. Over all it was a really fun experiement and we all hope to do it again.

7 Facts about Science.

 

Do you know any other facts about science?

Taskmaster Challenge

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog. We do this thing at school called taskmasters. We are in groups and we do a challenge, we have a specific amount of time. There is also a point system, I think my team is called the super cyclists, that is because we had just come back from cycle safty. Taskmasters really makes you work under preasure as a group, it is also quite difficult because you have to work with people you wouldn't usally work with. In this create we had to make a Science themed taskmaster challenge!

Here are my Science Taskmaster Challenge:

What are some other Taskmaster ideas?

My House of Bricks Reflection

 Bonjouir welcome to my blog. Last week on Friday we got this awseome experience with the house of bricks. The house of bricks came to our school so in a fun way to show us perserverence and determernation. We did 3 rotaions throughout the day. The first rotation we had to build a car and after that we had to build a tower.

My favourite Lego activity was building the racing car because

I thought that it was really cool to be able to go and test it then

see what you needed to add, see what you needed to get rid of. I

thought Ava, my buddy, and I did as best as we could have (even though our car only went 35 cm.)

My least favourite Lego activity was doing the mosaic because

it was a bit challenging making it look nice. I was at a table with red,

black and white lego studs. I found it quite hard making the curve pattern

to make it look like a Māori pattern.

The activity that tested my perseverance the most was pass the bricks because

we were not supposed to break what somebody had already done, but the year 7 and 8s

kept breaking what everyone had already done. In the end the year 7 and 8s just left.

The most challenging activity was building the tower because 10 people were all crowded

around some Lego and everyone was shouting. Not everyone could reach into the building.

I did not enjoy working collaboratively with others because I think it would have been

easier doing it by myself or as a pair. I didn't really enjoy all crowding around a small Lego

tower and especially when everyone was screaming.

How to write a Explanational Text

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog. For the past few weeks we have been learning about Explanation writing. We are doing this writing to get ready to for our writing test. I think for the writing test we have to Explain how to do something. In my google drawing I added all of the things things that you have to inclue in a explanational text to make it awesome! 

What else do you think you need in a Explanational text?

Fun Facts about Pollution

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog, this week we have been focusing on Pollution. If you do not know what Pollution is here is a quick sumary: Pollution is all of the unhealthy stuff that people drop on the earth, like litter, smoke, and gasses. There are also three types of Pollution they are: soil, water, and air Pollution. The most dangerous Pollution is air Pollution. So maybe to help stop Pollution next time you have the chance to eaiter bike or go in a car pick a bike!

What are some ways that you could stop Pollution?

What is Sustainability?

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog, this week for reading we learned about sustainability. If you do not know what sustainability is here is the quick version: saving the planet. We all want the earth to be a nice place to live but just by little things we are not going to reach our goal. A simple thing like putting your rubbish in the correct bin.

I decided to make a google drawing on what is sustainability? I also added some thing that you and your family could do at home.

How do you think you can be sustainable at home with your family?

My RE Gospel

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog! 

This week in the gospel the message was: the son of man did not come down to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people. I think that is very important because all of the deciples said that Jesus was a king, but kings get people to serve them. Of course Jesus served everyone around him if they needed it.

Here is my bookmark

How do you think we can live out the gospel this week?

Dame Valerie Adams!

Kia Ora, how has your week been? Thank you for stopping by, today I am going to share facts about Dame Valerie Adams. She plays shotput in the Olympic Games, she is very acomplished. Here is a fun fact: Dame Valerie Adams did better then the entry standerd, she did 18.50m wow that is impressive. This task for for my literacy task board, whick was all about Athletics because our school Athletics is coming up. My favourite Athletic sport is shot put like Dame Valerie Adams. 

Here are some facts about her:

Who is your favourite Olympic or Athletic Athlete?

Friendship!

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog, this week for reading we has to make a board game about friendship. On my board game I included things you should do and things you should not do. If you land on something you should do as a friend you go fourd if you land on somthing you should not do you have to go back. It is a very fun game and I encourge you to play and learn about friendship.

Here is my game:

Have you ever made your own board game?

Faboulous Friendship

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog. This week for reading we have been learning about friendship. I made a slideshow about friendship, and how to be a good friend. In my book there is a girl called Mia, she has lots of friend's and then she wonders what woudl happen if she did not have any friends. It is important to be kind to your friends and not call them names or make fun of them.

Here is the book Friendship:

What do you think makes a good friend?

Happiness Hobbies

 Kia Ora welcome back to my blog. This week for my reading create, I had to make something about hobbies. I made a google drawing about my hobbies and some of the hobbies that make other people the happiest. You do not have to be any good at your hobby it only matters that you enjoy it, also it does not matter how many hobbies you have you could have one or five hobbies. Sometimes if you are lucky you can turn your hobbie into a second job.

Here is my reading create:

What are your hobbies?

Pick a Path - Multiplication

 Kia ora welcome back to my blog, we have been in lockdown for the past 3 weeks. We had some google meets with our group to do maths, reading and writing. Last week I made a pick a path and our goal was: use multiplication and division stratagies to find fractions of a whole number. I had lots of fun making this pick a path at home in these lockdown times.

Here is my pick a path. I hope you learn something and enjoy!

After uoi finish the pick a path here is a question: 1/2 of 250=

Volume for maths

 Kia ora, we have been in lookdown for 3 weeks, it was nice to be at home for a while but then it got very boring. We had google meets on our chrome books for school, and this week we were learning about volume. Not volume for noise but volume for maths. At first I was very confused but then I made my slideshow and I got it right.

Can you find volume in a 3D shape?

Here is my sldiehow:

Perserverence and Grit

 This week is the first week of home schooling because if covid. For reading we are learning about perserverence and grit. Thats means to never guve uo and try your hardest even when things get tough. Our goal was: Think while reading, pick up new informtion, and come up with new ideas and thinking. We had this text to read about a runner who thought he was fit but he relised that he wasn't because when he went for a run and he got really tired. He wanted to become a good runner so with his friend he practised running every day and won a marathon. He showed perserverence and grit by not giving up on becoming a really good runner..

Here I have made a slideshow with some of the ways I show perserverence and grit in my everyday life.

When are some times when you have shown perserverence and grit?

My Magnificent Medal

 Kia ora and welcome back to my blog. This week for the literacy task baord one of the things we had to create was make our own medal. We got a medal template and it was very fun to make my very own. If I were to go onto the Olympics I would want to do table tennis. I am pretty good at table tennis but I have'nt practised in while. 

Here is my medal

What sport would you compet in the Olympics?

The Yellow Umbrella

 Kia ora and welcome back to my blog. This week for writing we watched this video called umbrella. It is a short video about a little girl who comes with her mum to a home for children and donated some toys. She brings a umbrella and this little boy takes it bcause it looks like his dads. In the end of the story the girl takes it and then she feels bad for the boy and gives it back to him. She showed empathy which is all apart of our PBL about happiness. 

Here is my writing.

Early one stormy, miserable morning, the wooden door to Miss Elems’s Home for Children creaked open. The young girl with the sun yellow umbrella, carefully stepped inside the Orphanage before finding somewhere to put her umbrella. Unwilling to be seen Boris quickly hid behind the door frame so he was obscured from view. Stepping off to the side, the girl watched the joyful scene as the children dug through the box of toys. The girl smiled as she observed the little boy darting around the room like a cheetah. Her smile slowly faded as she looked at the now empty umbrella stand, and all she saw were wet puddles. Her cherished umbrella was gone.

Can you find a time adverbial in my story?

Brillient Birthdays!

Bonjour and welcome to my blog. This week for the first week at school for term 3 we are doing statistics. Our goal is Display using more than varible and interpret information from graphs. 

We collcted information about the birthdays in the hub. We made two graphs on spreedsheets and put them on a google drawing. Then we had to write two statements for each graph. I did some statements about how common the months were in the Tumu Hub.   

When is your birthday?

Maragret Mahy Trip Recount

 Kia ora, welcome to my blog.. We went to Margaret Mahy playground for a school field trip. Our teachers were set up around the area. One of the stations was at victoria square, another at Margaret Mahy playground, one at  Avon river, and one was looking at mats and feeding eels. We had a really fun time and we hope to go again.

On the 20th of May we went to Margaret Mahy playground. We went there because our PBL is about if someone came into our school we want them to know that we are a school in Aotearoa. 

First we went to learn about the playground. We did this scavenger hunt with some things like: early settlers sailing ships (which were on the path) and tune (there were drawings of them by the water area.) We were all surprised that there was a song carved into this long path around a little bit of the playground.

 After that we went with Mrs Bryce to have a look at these mats, they are things on the ground. There are 13 in Christchurch and all of them have different meanings. After that we tried to feed the eels but they did not take the cat food we tried to give them.

Third, we got to go on the waka! We had to grab an oar and the instructors taught us how to row all in time. We did two laps but not around the whole Avon river just by Margaret Mahy. My right arm hurt but it was fun overall.

Finally we went to Victoria Square with Mrs Brown. The first thing we did was have a little look around. Me and Mia went to go look at the paus, Māori traditional mats, and some statues and fountains. There were 3 mats. The one by the traffic light ment food and resources, the one by Charlie's ice cream van means the 9 trees that made the ngai tahu claim, and the last one was on this crossing meant water resources and health.   

My favourite part of the trip was Victoria Square because I enjoyed learning about the mats and figuring out what they meant. I also liked looking at the fountains and statues, and learning about  them.

Something I learnt was that on the Margaret Mahy playground there is a path and it has a māori song on it. Also on the path there are some of Elise locks written carved into the path.

The thing I found the most interesting was that all 13 mats in Christchurch mean different things. We saw 5 mats in total and they all had different meanings.

This trip has helped me with my PBL because I got some ideas on how we can show our PBL, and some of my ideas are: we could make a māori school song to carve into the ground. Another idea I had was to put some artwork of tuna and things like that on that grey fence.

Have you ever been to Margaret Mahy playground?

Magnificent Matariki

For Te Reo māori this week we are learning about matariki. We had so asnwer these 3 questions. What is matariki? When do we celebrate it? Why do we celebrate it? We had some websites to have a look at and watched some videos. It was very fun making this google drawing and I hope you learned somethings about matariki.

Do you celeebrate matariki?

Magnificent Maths

 Kia ora welcome to my blog. This week for maths my goal was use muliplication and division to find fractions of a whole number. I made a create that has three questions and then next to it there is how to work it out. I used muliplication and division to solve the answer. For example a question would be 5/9 of 81 9÷81=9 9x5=45 so the answer is 45. Maybe if you want some more help on fraction muliplication and division you could get your parents to help you learn this.

Here is a question for you 4/6 of 36=

Muliplication - Pick a Path

Kia ora welcome to my blog. This week for the math task board we had make a pick a path about muliplication. In my pick a path I have 5 questions, they are all multiplication questions and at the end there is a redo quiz if you felt like you did not do great. Thank you for reading my blog post enjoy the pick a path.

Have you ever made or done a pick a path before?

Telling the Time

Kia Ora, welcome to my blog. This week for maths we are learning about telling the time with 15 minutes. We had to create somthing that showed how to add 15 minutes to the time. We also had a problem solving slideshow to work through and the questions were about 15 minutes. I have a problem solving question at the end of my slideshow.

What is the answer to the problem solving question?

Pentecost

Kia Ora, this week for RE we are learning about Pentecost. Pentecost is the birthday of the church and it is the red time in the liturgical year. Pentecost is when the holy spirit comes down to the deciples. I have made a slideshow about what happens on pentecost day. I hope you like it and you learn some things about penetcost the birthday of the church.

Do you celebrate pentecost?

Exellant Eels

Bonjour, welcome back to my blog. This week for literacy we were learning about eels. You might just think that they are these slimy snake like things in the water, and maybe they are still that but they do have some interesting facts. Here is a fact about eels: Eels can live for 80 years, that is a pretty long time just for a little eel.

Do you know anything about eels before you read this?

What is bullying?

 No one likes to be bullied but some people are. In this blog I am going to answer the question on everyones mind what is bullying? Bullying is worse than being mean because that only happens about once or maybe even twice but bullying keeps on going. Being rude is not even when the person means it. In bullying there are the 3 p's they are purpose, pattern and power, I will explain what those things mean in this google drawing!

Did you know about the 3 p's before you read this?

Magnificent Margret Mahy

 Margaret Mahy is a very popular kids author.  She wrote lots of kids books and her first book that was pubilished was called the lion in the meadow, have you ever read this book? Margaret Mahy is the name of a very popular playground for all ages in the city center of Christchurch. We had a literacy task board and it was about Ōtautahi christchurch and Margaret Mahy. We had to make a blog post about her. 

Have you ever been to Margaret Mahy playground or read her books?

RE

 This week our task for RE was to create a vine and then put grapes on it. Then we write in the grapes the things that we should do or do more often. On my vine it has purple grapes and in them there is some things that could make everybody better people. Using shapes and curve on google drawing I drew a vine and put some grapes on it and wrote in them.

Do you think you could do these things more often or start doing them?

ANZAC Graphic Novel

Each week we get a literacy task board. This week our literacy task board was about ANZAC day. That stands for Astralian New Zealand Army Corps. We had to read this story called Harry's war, it was about a person named Harry and this man told him he had to go to war. Harry went on a train to his training camp, and in the end he was in the war, fighting for his countrie. My Graphic Novel will explain what happened a little bit better. 

Do you know anything about the war or ANZAC Day? 

Fantastic France

 Hello, welcome back to my blog today I am going to be sharing some France facts with you. The teachers made us a litercay board and it was about countries. For our create we got to make a google drawing or somthing digital. Then we could put it on your blog so I thought today while I was waiting for my mum to come for my learning showcase. 

Have you ever been to France?

Mighty Maths

 This week I did muliplication and division. My Goal was: Use a broad range of stratagies to solve multiplication and division problems with whole numbers. I found it difficult at first but then I sort of understood it. The division confused me a little bit but the muliplication did not. I did it in some place value staragies, if you have not done this stratagy I do hope you understand a little.

Have you ever done this stratagy before?

Magnificent Maths Board

 This week, aswell as my maths create, I did a maths board. A maths board is something that I have to do every week, I can choose a question from this doc or I can make up a question and then we have to have a: Visual Salotion, a word problem, solve it another way, and solve it numerically. We can use shapes to make the visual salution, and for the word problem we can write a word problem.

Have you ever done a maths Board?

My Magical Maths

Kia ora this week for maths I was doing lots of different startgies to solve multiplication problems. My goal was: use a broad range of stratigies to solve mutiplication problems with whole numbers. At first I thought it was quite tough and a bit challanging but in the end I think I got it correct!

Here is a photo of my Create!

Have you ever done theese startagies?

Magnificent Maths

 Kia Ora, welcome back to this blog post!

This week for maths I learnt how to solve muliplication facts easily. We had some workshops and Mrs Brown tought us a easy way to solve them. It was quite fun and at the end of the of the workshop we learnt a bit of division.

Do you know muliplication?

My Magnificent Māori

Kia ora, welcome back to my blog.

This week I made another Māori coverstaion, our goal was to make a slidshow about annother Māori converstaion, we made another one because we had so much fun making the first one. We had new kupu o te wiki - (Words of the week) and we had to ask different questions. We had to ask what your mothers nane is and what your dads name is. 

Have you tried out these questions?

How to Make a Brillient Blog Post/Comment

Kia ora, welcome back to my blog!

Goal: Use a digital tool and explain how to make a great blog post and comment.

I had to make a slideshow about 'How to make a great blog post and comment.' I made a slidshow because I thought that that would be the easitest way for people to understand and try it for themselves. I had a look at this google drawing that my teacher made and I got help from there, it told me some things about postitive thougthful and helpful as I explained in the slide. We also could check out other people's blogs for help for some catchy titles or something like that.

Have you made a blog post with all of these things in it?

Hello, today I am sharing my Te Reo Māori with you all.

My Goal was to make a Māori conversation using 2 questions: Nō hea koe? (Where are you from) and Ko wai tōku ingoa?(What is your name) Then we had to use as many of the kupu (words) as possible. I made a slide show of two people, and they were asking eachother where they were from and what there maunga (mountain) was and what there awa (river) was. I have learned that kupu means words and some questions in Māori.

Nō hea koe? Ko wai tōku ingoa?