What I'v Been Up To This Week!

Hi bloggers, second to last Friday of term 4. Yay! This week has been a big one with lots on, but not as much as next week. This week I thought I would just do one big post of some things I have done. 

For inquiry this week we have had two tasks to complete, I chose a book creator task and a google sites one. I really enjoyed doing these tasks as they were both very creative and and fun. My favourite task was the book creator one as I got to use bitmoji for the pictures. 

Link to my website

In numeracy this week I have created the hub and used the carpet squares in our hub to measure it. It look like three days to make because it was really big. I am so excited to have finished it and I am very proud. I also did the inside in oak wood as that is what our hub is in the inside and then white for the outside as our hub is white on the outside.

 

 In literacy this week we had to create a website on one person who inspires us. I chose to do Michelle Kwan who is a very famous figure skater. She inspires me as I love figure skating and she is very talented. 

Link to my website 

This is just two little extra things I did a couple weeks back. 

What Have I Been Up To The Past Few Weeks?

Hi bloggers, I hope you have been having a great term and are enjoying the last few weeks of school. I am really sorry that I haven't posted in a while. I have been so busy the past couple of weeks with lots of assignments and tests. I am going to post lots this week as in our afternoons we have got some fun tasks set, I will leave it a surprise for now, keep an eye out. 

This term has been filled with lots of fun and challenging things. Here is a sum up of what I have been up to this term. In maths I have been doing lots of exciting activities, here is some of my recent work. For the first task I had to explain how I worked out this problem and what the answer is. For the second task I had to create part of my school on minecraft, I wanted it to be spot on so I counted how many carpet squares there is across and straight forward. 

 

 This term for literacy, my favorite subject. We have been creating short films. I loved the whole process from filming to editing to writing my script, every part has been a journey but very exciting too. I created my short film on imovie as this is a great tool to use for film creating and I am familiar with it as I also used it for my video essay. I created a horror as this is my all time favourite genre. Alongside with creating my film I also had to make sure my script was perfect to hand in as well as a film poster to advertise my short film.

This term for inquiry has been so busy yet extremely fun. We first started of with learning all about different places in NZ and getting to research one and make a brochure to advertise it. Now we have just finished going into groups and getting a country that we have to research and create a whole space filled with information and decorations. This afternoon we start by as I have said previously some very fun and creative tasks. 

  

Have a good week bloggers! I look forward to posting some fun tasks in the next few days! Happy blogging!

The Crazy Change In Hangi!

Hello bloggers, This week we have been looking a lot into hangi and how it has changed. What are the improvements and what are the similarities. As you can see I have taken lots of time to colour and draw it all out to look nice. I am very happy with how it turned out and how I set it out. What hangi do you think is best without reading my poster? As you can see I did a candy cane look for the big titles. I have used lots of colours and spread them out throughout my poster. Have you used a modern hangi before? Have you had some hangi out of the underground ones before? Have a great rest of your day! Happy blogging!

Check Out This Great NZ Culture Work!

Welcome bloggers, New Zealand's culture, traditions and our heritage is super important to New Zealand. For our term 4 inquiry we have been looking at NZ's culture, traditions and our heritage. We have already looked over so much including a poster all about things unique to NZ. Today we backed pavlova and yesterday we made a slide including the korowai, the haka and the moko. I am looking forward to everything else that we have planned for our inquiry. Have you backed a pavlova before? Happy blogging! 

Game On Wednesday!

Hi bloggers, three weeks ago for technology I made a board game out of paper, as our teacher was away. I decided to make it kiwi related as that is where I am from and I think that it is a cool idea to do for a game. I really enjoyed this task and it was actually a lot more fun than I thought. Have you ever created a board game out of paper before? We also made counters and things that a normal board game would have but at this time I did not have them. Have a great week - I am so looking forward to the holidays, are you?

Samoan Visual Classroom!

Talofa bloggers, since the start of the year we have been learning Samoan. This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from. If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on. In my classroom you will learn about: Samoa as a country, link to a traditional dance video, basic greetings, the alphabet, how to count 1-10 , Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples, an animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan. I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most. Fa!

Parachute For Rocket Challenge!

Hi bloggers, how is your day going? This weeks learning task for our Rocket Challenge inquiry is to be able to construct and build our own parachute. Our Initial design process was a range of fabrics conjoined together to make a curved shape. We then added masking tape to help hold everything together and finally string that attached the two hex nuts. Our second design process Involved us using bubble rap, masking tape to hold the string and finally the hex nuts. By using the String and Inter twining it together created a curved shape. With all of the materials we used with our design, we didn't want to add to many materials or else it would go straight down which had a lighter Material will cause it to go slower. Our challenge today, Is the parachute with the slowest time wins. Our parachute, however, didn't go as planned as we only started with a small-time frame, as we had other things on. Our parachute started with a nice flow then went straight to the ground, like a rock. Our time is 1.4 seconds. Once we had finished creating our parachute we created a slide that had our begging, middle and end evaluation plan and outcome. Have you constructed your own parachute before? If so what did it look like, what materials did you use?

The Begging Of My Week, What Will It Bring?

 Hi bloggers, It is such a nice day today and the sun is shinning into my classroom. I am very excited for this week as it is book week. Book week is where we do lots of thing based around books and book characters including fun activities and a book character dress up day on Thursday. Make sure to keep an eye out for some book week content on my blog. For literacy at the moment we are creating our own children's book. These will be completed over the next week or two. Numeracy at the moment is full of fun things as we are doing a basic facts test each morning before we begin our lesson and have been leaning lots of fun things at the moment but with it giving us a challenge as well. As you may or may not know we are building rockets at the moment and have been going over the safety procedure and planning how we are going to do it witch is very exciting so I will be blogging the finished results by the end of the term. Have a great week! :)

Southern Lights Artwork!

Hi bloggers, thank you for viewing this blog post. Today we have been creating Southern Lights artwork and learning about them. The Southern Lights usually occurs in areas known as the 'auroral zone' near the poles in the north and Antarctic in the south. Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere. Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past the Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which gets pulled into the Earth magnetic pole fields. For the Southern Lights art I first had to rip my paper into a mountain like template. Then I had to flick white pain on to make it look like the milky way. Then I had to decide what colours I wanted to use I chose light pink, purple, dark green, dark blue, light blue and yellow. And lastly I added my matariki stars. I am really happy with how this has turned out and love them colour combination. What do you think? Do you like the colours I chose? Have you ever created a Southern Lights art piece? 

My Amazing Siapo Design!

Hi bloggers welcome back to my blog. Today's afternoon task was to create a siapo design on paper, colour it in with pastels and then dye it a pinky colour. A siapo design is where you use reflection and have the same exact design on all areas. Traditionally a siapo design is wood striped and made into a tablecloth. I chose to use these colours as I thought they would look nice together and suit the design. We had to select earth colours for these so that they would look like the real thing. I chose to do this design as I love flowers and leaves and they are related to nature and the environment. Have you created a siapo design on paper before? If so what does it look like?

What I Have Been Up To This Week!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week I have been very busy with my work. This week for maths I have been doing lots of tests and basic facts bricks. I have been writing these out in my maths book.

This week for literacy I have been finishing my website and it is almost finished. I am really happy with how it is coming along and I am looking forward to posting it in a week or so. Make sure you keep a close eye on my blog to see my site when I post it.

This week for inquiry I have been working on my global issue slide, world hunger. I researched my issue in New Zealand, Africa, and Asia. I wrote down the source that I used and What made it a true piece of evidence.


This week for maori I have been working on my koru art, and I am almost finished. Today I made an adobe spark which has displayed all the work that I have done. I know some of the slides are glitchy and it is really frustrating for me but, with many hours put into this I feel that I have tried my best and taken many attempts to try and make it the best that it can be. Have you created a koru design necklace out of air dry clay or greenstone before?

See you next week! Have a great weekend!

What Have I Been Up To This Week?

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week was the first week out of lock down and we are back at school now. I have had a very busy week and my body is still adjusting to the early wake ups. What have you been up to at school or work? Are you still adjusting to the weekly timetable?

This week for numeracy I have been doing lots of Matific and 3D shapes on isometric paper. Matific is so much fun and have tasks that really get you engaged. I love drawing on isometric paper, because I love drawing 3D squares arranged in different places. I found it quite easy, but fun. 

For literacy this week I have been working on my mini essays we have to write three theme, three symbols, three characters, and publish them on a website. I have completed all of my themes and am now working on my symbols. I enjoy literacy and it is my favorite subject. At the moment we are doing The Wizard Of Oz. We are creating websites to present our texas analysis of Wizard Of Oz. I have not finished yet, so I will just add an image of the characters in The Wizard Of Oz. 

This week I have also been working on a letter about the Covid-19 for the future generation letter. I have added my letter down below if you would like to see it. This was so that the future generations could know what has been going on lately and might even know the person who wrote it. We have also done a poster about our experience in lockdown. I found this fun and something different to do. Can you notice a bit of a colour theme?

I am looking forward to week 7, see you then!

My Week Tasks!

Hi blogger, welcome back to my blog. I have been up to so much this week. We are back at school on Monday, hooray.

This week for numeracy I completed lots of different activities Including some Khan Academy tasks, a treasure map, a 3D shape out of paper, and a plan, front, side, of some drawers. I have completed everything under week 5.



For literacy this week I have been completing lots of slides on The Wizard Of Oz. The tasks over the past few weeks for literacy have been so much fun. This week I did slide 18-22, The Wizard Of Oz movie was so great, It is so different from the book. I highly suggest watching the movie and reading the book if you haven't done so already.



Today's home learning Friday fun tasks are to complete one of the tech tasks and a friday fun task. For tech I made sushi, it was so good. I make some for the whole family and used a variety of different fillings. For Friday fun tasks I did living on the back of an animal. I don't think that it is possible to live on the back of an animal as they move to much. Although it would be pretty cool to live on the back of an animal, then you wouldn't have to have a car. I chose to have my house on the back of a Turtle as Turtles are my favorite animals. They can travel in all the tropical waters like Hawaii and Bali. What animal would you chose to live on if you had to chose? I would live with my whole family as my house is very big. Who would you live with?





I am looking forward to going back to school next week. Stay safe!

Friday Fun Task - Colorpush Art!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. Today's Friday fun task is to create some art on Colourpush. Colourpush is a really cool website where you can create lots of 90 second pieces of art. I made 5, can you notice the colour theme I was going for? This was really fun to do and quite fast, next time I would use more colours in the art. Have you created any art on Colourpush? If so what colours did you use?


 
 
 
 

Anzac Poppy!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. Today's home learning task is to do an anzac piece of art. I chose to do a poppy, made out of a shopping bag. For this I used one red shopping bag, a piece of wood, and a red pin. I coloured the red shopping bag with a black fabric marker to make it black. This is now in my front garden. Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations, and the contribution and suffering of those who have served. Have you created a piece of Anzac art?

The Wizard Of Oz Inspired Art!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. I hope your day is going well, and you are keeping yourself busy. Today's home learning task for literacy is to create a Wizard Of Oz inspired piece of art. The challenge for this is to find things around the house to create a piece of art. I used lots of card and lots of glue, it was so hard to stick everything down because my fingers where sticky, so I had to wash them regularly. This took me almost 4 hours, I put a lot of effort and concentration into this piece of art. I had to use resourcefulness to make sure I didn't waste to much when I was cutting out, so I tried to cut as closely to the edge as I could. I also used reflectiveness and thought back to when I last make a piece of art, with small things, to remember what worked best. Have you done any art this week? If so what does it look like?

My Evil Witch!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. Today's home learning task for literacy is to create an evil witch and make a backstory. I decided to call my witch Azazel, she is not the kindest witch you'll ever meet. She steals children's good dreams. I really enjoyed drawing my witch, I think it turned out great, considering I am not an artist. Incase you can't read my backstory here it is. Mrs evil Azazel, is not the kindest witch you'll ever meet. She steals children's good dreams and turn them bad. She bottles the good dreams and has them for herself. But why does she do this? There is a rumor that Mrs evil Azazel, has never once had a good dream. So she steals everyone else's good dreams for herself and makes their dreams miserable and scary. Have you drawn a witch before?