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. 

The Grinch - FILM SHOTS

Hi bloggers, today for literacy we got to choose a scene of a film of our choice. With this we matched some screenshot with film shots. We made them in a storyboard format so that it looks nice and is easy to present. I decided to use The Grinch as it is nearly Christmas and I think it has a good amount to shots. We had to tell the teacher what shot it was and a little bit about the shot. Happy Blogging!

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! 

My Horor Video Essay 2020!

Hi bloggers, welcome to my blog. I am so excited for the holidays, are you? This term in shaw literacy we have been very busy doing our video essays. I have completed mine and am so happy with how the finished product looks. My video essay is about 13 mins and I decided to do it on horror. What do you know about horror? Have you done a video essay before? I am so excited to share this with you, have a look at my video. Happy blogging and holidays!

My Horror Video Essay 2020!

Daisy And Friends - Children's Books!

Hi bloggers, have you had a good week? I am curious to know what you have been up to. I am very excited to share with you my children's book that I created a couple of weeks ago. I create it on canva and yes it is my final product from learning about children's books. I haven't remembered to blog it so here it is. I have called my book Daisy And Friends! Click on the link to view my book! Have you create a children's book before? 

Daisy And Friends!

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?

Literacy - Children's Books! - With Mr. Loan

Hi bloggers, It is so sunny and warn outside, don't forget to stay hydrated. This week for our literacy learning task we have been learning about children's books with Mr. Loan. We have been learning about what is in a children's book that makes it a children's book. The conventions of a children's book, description, the audience, morals and more. We have also been diving deeper/pulling apart these stories to really get as much as we can out of them. To help us with this we have been listing to people read famous children's books and researching famous authors and there most popular stories. Some of which include Margret Mahy and The Great White Man-Eating Shark, Lynley Dodd Slinky Malinki. Dr. Seuss Green Eggs And Ham. We also looked at children's shows and what the introduction includes. Also at the moment we are writing our own children's book and I will blog once I have finished it, keep a close eye out. It also happens to be book week this week which is perfect timing. Did you know that Lynley Dodd is a kiwi author. Who is your favourite children's book author? 

Literacy - Children's Poem!

Hi bloggers, welcome back. I have been posting so much about literacy today, I have one more for today. Last week for literacy we created a poem for little kids (5-6 year olds). I decided to do mine with lots of animals as little kids love animals and so do I. I also tried to add in the rhyme, that a poem should have. I love writing poems and my favourite part is the rhyme that they have. As you can see I have also added some pictures to give a clear picture of what to put into your imagination. What is your favourite animal I have here? Mine is probably the Elephant. My favourite animal is actually a dog though. What is yours?

Literacy - Folktale & Urban Legend!

Hi bloggers, what a nice day it is! Two weeks ago we had to choose two of the three tasks set by our numeracy teacher. The first one that I did was the folk tale, mine is called light swamp. Have a read if you please. Lastly I researched about an urban legend, I chose to do riverdale road. What urban legends have you heard about. Have you heard about the urban legend of riverdale road before? What is your favorite urban legend? Have a good rest of you day! Happy Tuesday! :)

Literacy - Film Noir!

Hi bloggers, How is your day going? What do you have you got planned for your school day? Last term for literacy we had a focus on genres and I have forgotten to post the last of it. The last genre we went over was film noir. We worked on expanding our ideas on the conventions of film noir. Film noir is similar to horror and it is originally where horror originated. There however are many differences between the two of them. What differences do you notice? Have you done research on film noir before? Do you know what film noir is and it's conventions?

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! :)

Literacy Term 2!

Hi bloggers, thank you for viewing this blog post. This term for literacy we have been creating websites on The Wizard Of Oz and doing genre studies, so far we have done horror, musical, comedy and sci fi. We still have to learn about western, quest, action and film noir. Next term we are continuing to do genre studies and then we are going to select which genre is our favorite and create a video essay about it. We have been creating our own google slide about what we know about each genre, similarities, movies that fit under that genre and more. What do you know about genre? What genre is your favourite? 

I Have Completed All Of My Reading Tasks On Upskilled!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. I have completed my upskilled and have got the reading badge digitly. Upskilled is a website that Mr. Shaw has created and put a variety of different topics on there for us to complete as an extra if we want to, it is just like science badges but online and our badges get added on our linked, we upload them to seesaw. I have got lots of cool tasks on seesaw if at some time you would like to go and have a look. I am now working on painting and baking, I have done one task on painting already. What have you done on upskilled? 

My Seesaw

My Amazing Wizard Of Oz Website!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. Over the past few weeks for literacy I have been working on my Wizard Of Oz website. I have put a lot of time and effort into this website and taken time to make it the best that it could be. Please take the time to have a look through my Wizard Of Oz website. I really enjoyed working on this website and it has been a lot of fun. What do you know about The Wizard Of Oz? Have you read the novel or seen the film?

Click to view The Wizard Of Oz website!

Maori On Fridays!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. Today's task for Maori is to create something about matariki. We had the option to either do an animation, story, poem, the meaning and their animal, sock puppets, or an information report. I chose to do the meaning and their animal, for this I had to choose what animal I thought is best for each of the matariki stars/the seven sisters. I chose an animal for each star, witch there are seven off. I then had to draw each of the animals that I chose and then but it on a matariki star background. In the Māori language, Matariki is both the name of the Pleiades star cluster and also of the season of its first rising in late May or early June. This is a marker of the beginning of the new year. Have you created something for matariki this year?

What Is Irony?

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week we have been making ironic comic's. Me, Bella, and Sofia, chose to do dramatic irony. Irony occurs when what we observe is the direct opposite of what we expect to have seen. We most often use it to add humor to an idea, often for entertainment or to lighten a situation. We can also use it to make our audience think deeper about the idea we are trying to explain. To understand how to use irony we must know how to create irony, and we must understand it's three forms, situational irony, dramatic irony, and last but not least verbal irony. Situational irony is a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. Dramatic irony is defined as when an audience watching a play understands what's going on in a situation while the characters are unaware of what is happening. Verbal Irony is when words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean. Verbal irony is often sarcastic.