Frog comic

 For the past two weeks we have been making a comic strip about frogs, my partner was Logan. I did most of the writing and he did the decorating, my dad helped me do this task at home to catch up on it. This was a hard task to finish because it was a comic and because it was long. I found it easy to do most of the decorating on the slides.

Tracey Tawhiao

We have been doing Tracey Tawhiao inspired artwork, it was a really tricky artwork piece of artwork

 First we had to find a piece of newspaper with words on it that meant something to us.

Then we picked a color to paint over the news paper but leaving the few words that you have picked unpainted. When painting leave lines between blocks, the blocks can be paragraphs.                      

Next we googled patterns from our culture and put them on our painted piece of news paper, you can color the patterns in and do them different colors.

If you do this piece of artwork and like it please let me know, I really enjoy the feedback and I will comment on yours.

Sacraments of initiation

Today we were learning about the Sacraments of initiation, we had include the 3 most important Sacraments the 3 sacraments were Baptism Confirmation and Eucharist. 

We had to write a Symbol and Ritual for all of them, this is mine:

Haast's eagle

 For the pasts few weeks we have been doing report writing about extinct animals I did mine on the Haast's eagle. It took me a long time to do this piece of writing because we had to plan it and then self assist and last of all we had to blog it .                                                                                                               This is my report:

Classifion 

The haast's eagle is from the accipitriformes family.

Description

The haast's eagle has a brown head and black body with yellow legs.The bill is 130mm long  and  it is the largest, heaviest eagle species yet described weighing up to 17.8 kg .

The wingspan was up to 3m long.  They are about the size of a five year old. The boy length was up to 1.4 meters and adults stood up to 90 cms tall.   

Habitat

They lived in the South Island, forests and in shrublands. The remains / bones have not been found anywhere else.

Diet

 They eat large flightless birds including moa which is up to 15 times the size of them plus lots of other things.

Threats

Haast's’ Eagles were once found throughout the South Island, but because of hunting  from the Maori  people they became extinct. They also lost their prey.

Dynamic fact

The haast’s eagle was the largest eagle ever to have lived.

My Ruru art

This term we have been doing Ruru art, Ruru is the Maori word for owl. This piece of artwork took me a long time to do. We are going to be selling this piece of artwork in the St Mary's Got Talent. I found it tricky to write the reflection

Maths Times table cheak up

 

For the past week or so we have been learning our times table today was a check up day.

I need to learn 9x8= and 3x8=, green means you got them right, orange means you forgot to hit enter  before the time has ran out and last of all red means you got the question wrong.

Faith gif

 During this week we made gifs about a challenge that we were set. It was a tricky task because we had to provide all of the materials. I would think of changing what faith felt like and maybe add what it sounds like and feels like. I hope you enjoy my blog/gif. We used tall tweets to make our gif, here is the link. When you click this link it will ask you to sign in using google. After that scroll down and click classic tall  tweets. Next click select presentation you may need to scroll down to find this.

Bird feeder

 As a task this week we made bird feeders because  as a school we would like to have more native birds in the school. My bird feeder has two bowls one for sugar water and the other one is for uncooked rolled oats. The reason why I did not do what I was planing was because we did not have enough wood. The reason I put uncooked rolled oats instead of seeds  because seeds as they get old it will start to dry out and won't attract many. This is the website I used: https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/feeding-native-birds-garden

July reflection

Today we have been doing out July reflections.

I found it easy to download the picture and put it onto my July reflection.

I found it hard to keep up with the teacher.

Next time I would change the way I presented it and maybe put some of my own pictures on.

David Walliams

This past week we have been creating our own David Walliams facts file.

Next time I would change what facts I put on and how I presented it.

I found it hard to find a quote that I liked and his date of birth.

Whakapono/ Faith

This week we were given a challenge on Monday about our term value Faith/ Whakapono.
Next time I would change my design and add different quotes.
I found it hard to find a site that wasn't Wikipedia that had quotes on Faith.
I found it easy to find something that looked like Faith.

Report writing

This week our teacher gave as a cut up report to put into paragraphs.
We had to use adjectives, specific nouns and subject specific vocab (words)
Next time I would rethink the paragraphs and change some.
In the report we stuck to 1 topic in each paragraph.
The report included a classification, habitat,description and dynamic fact.

Matariki star

We have been learning to make a 3d star out of paper.
I found it tricky to make the stars the same size.
I found it easy to  cut around the stars.
My digital object shows that I can make a 3D star and blog it.

Matariki Breakfast

This morning we had a shared breakfast to celebrate matariki.
I enjoyed spending time celebrating Matariki and eating matariki food.
All I could screaming and laughing and there was talking about matariki and talking cards so that we could.

June reflection

We have been reflecting on our June learning.
I found it easy to think of my highlights of June.
I found it tricky to fill out the math box.

Matariki

This last week we have been learning about Matariki and  flip grids on if if it should be a public holiday.
Next time I would change the way I present it.
I found it tricky to do the recording because everyone kept talking.

Matariki
Matariki is the Maori name for a cluster of stars which shows up at night sky and June and July.



Matariki should only be a public holiday and our country because it's Maori culture.
I think Matariki should be a public holiday because it represents Maori new year and Maori people.Other cultures worldwide celebrate their cultural new year.


Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is a time to celebrate with family in china.
Chinese New Year is only a public holiday in its own country.
Chinese New Year is celebrated with food and traditional dances.


Diwali
Diwali lasts for 5 days.The days of Diwali changes
because of the year  changing.
Yes, it should be a public holiday because it seems like a good time to have a public holiday.
I think Diwali should be a public holiday because it is a Indian Festival of Lights.



Kharn: yes because they would love to hang out with their friends and dance  and eat hangi.
Josh: yes because it is nice to see family and friends.
Logan: yes because I think matariki should be a public holiday because you're celebrating the maroi culture and especially if you are maroi.
Sione: yes because it only comes up once  a year and it's a great chance to see in the family.

Times tables

We are learning our times tables. 

We are learning to each week

This week I am learning 6 x 4 and 8 x 6

Next time I would change and practice at home. 

Helps and Hinders for refugees

Over the past week we have been learning about helps and hinders for refugees.

Next time I would change the different reasons.

I found it tricky to find what would help and not help refugees.

Corpus Christi and Transubstantiation

I enjoyed looking for the meanings of words.
My digital object shows that I can tell people about Transubstantiation and Corpus Christi.
Next time I should change the way I performed my slides and how much information I put on them.

Gravity - Explanation Writing

What happens when you spray a hose?
The water comes down with the force of gravity.
Gravity is the force that keeps us on the ground and pulls objects to the ground.
Boinks are a flexible spring action toy. If you squeeze a boink and let it go it will go flying up. With the force of gravity it will fall back down.
If you invert a dropper popper and drop the dome down with a ping pong ball, it will fly back up
into the air and then eventually gravity pulls it back down.
Force means to pull  or push acting against an object.
No matter where you throw something, it will come down with the force of gravity .

This week I was learning how to  paragraph. I had to do my sequence ideas in order, stick to one topic in each paragraph, use line breaks between paragraphs and use correct punctuation.
Next time I would change what the base of my explanation was.
I found it tricky to write the explanation and post it on my blog because it was hard to use all of the success criteria.