So today a spider scientist / lab worker named Averill soon to be named Dr. Averill came in to show us and teach us about habbitats of sorts of spiders. Our main focus was on a Trite Planiceps. Which is a sort of spider. If you can be bothered have a look at my slide deck on Trite Planiceps. Do you like spiders? link
Today I got forced to learn how to tell the weather around the country. I took me a few tries to get it and I still cant do it to the fullest but here is a video for you to watch of me telling the weather.
Today I had to do a slide where I filled in things about my school year memory. Here is the link. (:
How far have we travelled in space? Well for the past week or two I grouped up with Mailli, jade and Naquita to research on how far humans have travelled in space. After we researched on the topic we had to create a piece of art to represent how far we have made it in space, watch to find out.
The past few days I guess Whaea Olivia made us do a explanation piece of writting which either told someone why we like whatever we like or how to do something. Here is some of my mahi...
How is your learning in lockdown? do you find it easier? Well let me tell you about mine, from learning normally, to online meets, to normal learning, to now has been a heck of a journey, let me tell you that and I really miss being around my friends and being at school. Mainly because of my friends but also because it's a lot more easier to me to learn social, then it is online. I find my mind does not focus as much because there is no one to push me as much as there would be if I were to be at school. I would say one thing I enjoy about online learning is that I don't have to wake up as early. But thats my opinion about online learning, how about you?
Do you like lockdown? Well as. some of you know New Zealand is in level 4 for the 2nd time and it's much worse this time. But do I like lockdown? I do and don't, yes I miss my friends, going out and partly school but lockdown has made me more creative and has made my social practise with my bubble of family very helpful. Oh and let's not forget about how much more cleaning iv'e been doing then usual, it's painful. But I miss being able to connect with my friends and I miss school lots. But how's your lockdown?
Kia ora, today I had to find and share a whakatuki that relate to my whānau during lockdown.
Today for te reo Maori my class had to tell a story about a animal eating food. Some people buddied up and some people did not, I buddied with Jade. The sentence structure we us was ka kai ia i te... I found this work easy and fun. Do you like learning Maori? I do. Here is some of Jade's and I's mahi.
Today our akomanga read a book about a seal pup in te reo. Our task was to practise reading in Maori and to recreate the book on google slides. Some new words I learnt were kauhoe, ruku and punua ( kauhoe- another word for swim ruku- dive and punua- pup).
Kia ora koutou, for the past 3 days Ata Hapara have been working on how iwis migrated to New Zeaaland. We had to split into about 4-5 ropu's to do this, in my group we had Mailli, Iziah, TK, Harlem , Heath, Jaelyn, Luka and Travis. Here is some of our ropu's mahi Whakapapa O Aotearoa What do you think about it?
For the past 2 days Ata Hapara have been doing a repoort card on famous New Zealand kiwi's. I decided to choose Stan Walker for my report card and found some intresting facts about him. Here is some of my work... Mahi
For the past 3 hours Kymaira and I have been working together to find a way to tell the story about Rangi and Papa as well as Takaroa and Papa. First we had the tell the differences between the Kai Tahu version and the Ngati Parou version by using a venn diagram.We had an options choice between a D.L.O, sand art, dance and telling the story on a video.
Kymaira and I picked making video. Here is some of my work. VIDEO
On May 20th we learnt about how to display data on a histogram graph. We learnt that when using a histogram you are displaying continouos data. You should always have grouped data when using a histogram.
We learnt that the difference between a bar graph and a histogram is that on a histogram the bars are joined unlike a bar graph where the bars are spaced out.
For the past 2 Mondays a small group of year 5-8 have been doing mystery minecraft. The mystery build was a sky base.
I was in a group with Naquita and Kymaira-Lee.
We made a tower/kingdom type theme. Most of the blocks were stone.
The most difficult part of building the tower was probably building the base of it and the build not having much space to fit furniture in it.
One thing I would make different about the build would probably be the size of it.
For the past 5-6 hours, or so, as a ropu, have been researching qoutes and poems for Mothers Day, making origami flowers and we also made sugar scrub.
First we researched some qoutes and poems to put in the card. The second thing we did was make origami flowers, that I made with Jade, Mailli and Mareko. The flowers turned out looking pretty good looking knowing that i'm not the best at origami. Moving on to the third thing we did (in year groups) ,we made sugar scrub. There was a treat between all the year groups from year 4-8 based off who could act the best and work together the most as a team, I know based off my knowledge and being in the same group my year group came last because of the way some of the boys acted.
Have you ever made sugar scrub? Tell me in the comments.
I found this activity entertaining, easy and fun. My favourite was making origami flowers to put on the card. -Happy early Mothers Day to all the mums out there. But to one of the specialest people to me, my mum.
For the past week or so Ata Hapara have been working on a digital portrait using Sumo Paint. Sumo Paint is a app that you use when you are making something a online piece of art. We had to take a picture of our face and then upload it to Sumo Paint to outline it and colour it. Here is what it turned out like...
He iti hoki mokoroa nana i kakati te kahikatea-'while the mokoroa grubis small, it cuts through the white pines.
Meaning-There is power in small things.
The meaning to me- No jobs too big, no one's to small, you can do anything.
