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!

Take A Look At This Great Game Called Ki O Rahi!

Hello bloggers, Ki O Rahi is a maori game that is super interesting and fun to play. Some of the rules are hard to understand so I have created some instructions for you so that you can play this game with your friends too, there is all the information that you need right on this poster. This was fun to create and a little hard as I had to watch a video and then record everything onto my poster. I also have a slide of how Ki O Rahi became a game and the story of Ki O Rahi. Have you played Ki O Rahi before? If so what colour was your team? 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! 

Rockets Final Launch And Short Film!

Hi bloggers, this term our focus for inquiry was rockets. You may have seen one of my previous posts about what we have done. I thought you might want to see my final launch video and my short film about everything. I created my short film on Imovie as this is a great platform to use when it comes to short films etc. I hope you enjoy, take a look at one of my previous posts to have a look more about what we have been up to and the process. In my film you will see us reading out the process and the laws of motion, the swing test, the final launch and a funny blooper of Matilda. I am unable to post my video due to technical difficulties and the video not uploading. Have a great holiday everyone!  

Rockets Term 3!

Hi bloggers, yay! It is Thursday I am so excited for the holidays, one more day to go. As you may or may not know this term in inquiry we have had a focus on the wonder protect rockets and even got to make our own one. I have also created a slide to show all of you what I have had to do to complete this process. I love my rocket and I think that it turned out really well. Have you create a rocket with wonder project ambassadors before? I have. Happy blogging!

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!

Samoan Animation! - Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom!

Hi bloggers, what a busy week it has been so far. This weeks learning task for Samoan is to create a Samoan animation of basic Samoan greetings. I created mine on google slides and animated it, I decided to use some of the characters from Ben And Holly's Little Kingdom. I also added to english term to each sentence, so that you will be able to know what the greeting it. This is our last week of Samoan and we are about to start to work on coding. Have you learned Samoan before? What do you know about the Samoan language?

3-2-1- Blast Off! Rocket Animation!

Hi bloggers, I am looking forward to what this week brings and am excited to start today's numeracy, literacy and inquiry tasks. What did you get up to yesterday at school? What was your favourite thing the you did or and achieved? This term as you may or may not know we are working on building rockets, not real ones, ones make out of a 1.5 litre plastic bottle. The good thing about using a plastic bottle it that we can reuse it over and over again. So far we are up to the point where we have been testing the pressure and water on some test ones as a group. To see what pressure and water amount work the most and launch the farthest. This week so far I have make an animation showing a rocket launching into space and showing how thrust, drag and weight work in order to launch a rocket and for the rocket to land again. Please have a look at my animation as I spent a long time yesterday working on it and feel free to leave a comment. Have you make a rocket out of a 1.5 litre plastic bottle before? Have a great week! :)

Maori Memory Match Game And Video!

Hi bloggers, It is a lovely day today. Last week for maori we started making a maori card game. We had to create a poster with the instructions of how to play our game and add our qr code to it to be able to view the instructional video. I used qr code generator to create my qr code. We also created our own memory match cards on google slides. My game is memory match and has the english meaning of something and the maori version e.g english: Hello maori: Kia Ora. I have also added clipart images of each thing so that it is easy to identify. Have you used qr code generator before? Have you ever created a maori game before? What words do you know in maori? Happy Friday! :)

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! :)

Space Scavenger Hunt!

Hi bloggers, I hope you are having a good week so far. this term for inquiry we are doing the rocket challenge as part of this we have been doing lots of space activities. So far I have been really enjoying it and the activities that we have to do. I have completed the space scavenger hunt. I had to use my phone to scan the QR code and find the answer. The first one I completed was the how astronauts do things in space. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday.

Tic Tac Toe!-Inquiry Term 3!

Hi bloggers, this term for inquiry we are doing the rocket challenge and a tic tac toe on space activities. I think that this is such a cool topic to base our inquiry on. So far I have been really enjoying it and the activities that we have to do. I have completed all three on the left down. The first one I completed was the how astronauts do things in space. Enjoy the rest of your Friday.

Going Shopping!

Hi bloggers, have you had a good week? I have. I can't believe that next week is week 2. On Wednesday after technology we did an activity called going shopping. What we had to do was go online with a budget of $170 and buy food for a family of 4 one with no allergies, one gluten free, one vegan and lastly one dairy free. The total cost for me came to $82.10 c. I really enjoyed this task as it was lots of fun, also slightly challenging as we had to consider everyone with their allergies. 

World Hunger Inquiry Term 2!

Hi bloggers, thank you for viewing this blog post. This term for inquiry we have been diving deeper into global issues and researching and creating art on our chosen topic. For my Global Issue I chose World Hunger. I decided to make my final product on a canvas and use paint to complete it. My art is a split screen, one side represents a rich and full rabbit and the other side represents a poor and hungry rabbit. Hunger is a huge issue and needs to be solved, did you know that about 820 million people are hungry right now? Every year about 9 million people die from hunger. There are about 7.5 billion people living on this globe and 820 of them are hungry right now. I am really happy with my final outcome and how it has turned out. We have also had to write blurbs of what our art piece represents and a little bit about our art piece. For our end of term art production our teachers have created a virtual gallery which is in various sections of our different Global issues. The virtual gallery will be easy to navigate and we will be able to see everyones art pieces. Usually we would have an assembly and parents would come in and look at what we have been focusing on, but due to COVID-19 we were unable to do so. What global issue would you do, if you did one? 

Inquiry For Week 10!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week for inquiry we have been finalising our ironic art for our inquiry that we want to do as our final outcome. If you are not already aware of our topic for inquiry this term we are diving deeper into global issues. I am focusing on world hunger, so my piece of art is related to hunger. Since I can't draw people really well I decided to do rabbits instead. In the sketch below you will see my final design before doing it on a canvas. Can you see the message that I am trying to spread? 

The Image That Spoke To Me The Most!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week for inquiry I have been very busy researching for inquiry. I had to choose out of a variety of images and pick the one that spoke to me the most. To me this image is how poor people want to be able to have food and water but the rich aren't letting them and stopping them from having access to the things they need. The poor want food and water but the government and rich don’t think it is a bigger enough of an issue to need to act on it. This child is wanting water but the government is blocking the pipe so the child can’t have any. I can tell that he or she  is thirsty because his or her arms are skinny and their body has been shrunk from starvation. In this image the little child is trying to have some water, but the person in the suit is blocking it so that the child can't have any. Have you ever had an image that spoke to you?

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?