Making a Reindeer with Shapes

Today we are learning to make objects out of shapes. I created a reindeer. 

Christmas Round The World

We are learning about Christmas in other cultures and countries. ¨Merry Christmas¨ can be said in many languages. Mexican is spelt ¨Feltz Navidad¨, Italian is spelt ¨Buon Natale¨, the Chinese version is ¨Seng Dan Kuaile¨, and there are many more.

Mexican people tell the story of when Joseph and Mary arrived at Bethlehem and the innkeepers turned them away, but one innkeeper offered them to stay in the stables for the night. Mexicans eat spicy, hot food such as Nachos, Burritos, Tacos, and other various spices.

Minecraft Adventure

Today we are learning how to use a google form. We used google forms to create a multi-choice story with multiple routes.

Please let me know if this story painted pictures in your head of what has been happening in the route you chose. 

The Sacred Mountains

This week we have been learning about Sacred mountains. My task is to ask some questions about the sacred mountains. All of the questions I have asked have all been answered in the link. 

What kind of mountains are they?

What type of culture are the mountains?

What are the mountains names?

http://media.newzealand.com/en/story-ideas/new-zealands-sacred-mountains/

I learnt about the Legend of Tongariro. Maori people once believed that a group of mountains were known as strong, independent warriors. According to the Legend of Tongariro all the male mountains were fighting over Pihanga, the only female mountain. I discovered that even mountains can have their own genders.

Today we read The Battle of The Mountains.
These two stories are similar because they both have the same mountains in both of the stories. Also in both of the stories Tongariro is the mountain who wins the battle.

Alarm Call

We have been describing a picture of an enormous monster and a teeny tiny kitten. I created a story

"Meow!" The adorable kitten sleeps peacefully on its pink, dotty cushion. The kitten had been playing around with its bouncy balls and is very worn out. While the kitten is sleeping a disgusting, nasty monster creeps up on it trying to plan on how to scare it.

The monster's skin was pale green and it had a white, hairy beard. The monster also had some pink warts scattered in random places on its body. The intimidating monster had gross, sharp, moldy nails that could cut open a paper bag.

The cute, irresistible kitten was as white as snow and was as fluffy as a sheep's wool. Around the tiny kitten were some miniature, bouncy balls that the kitten had been playing with. After the kitten was playing it decided to take a long nap.

But suddenly while the small, defenseless kitten is sleeping and the giant, destructive monster creeped up on the kitten and… They switched roles! The kitten became the enormous, menacing monster and the monster became the tiny, off-guard kitten!

After the kitten had scared off the monster, it never came back ever again. The End

By Sam M

My Minecraft Skin

Today I have been learning about how to use google sheets. Mr Maddren taught us some tricks and tips on how to use it. He taught us how to calculate numbers, and duplicate colours, words, letters, and numbers. I created a Minecraft skin using google sheet. 

What Success Means To Me

This week I have been learning about what success means.
I made a digital learning object to show you what success means to me.

Te Manu Tukutuku Poem

Te Manu Tukutuku Poem

When I walked into the new location of our school I saw no litter at all. I could also see lots of colours in the syndicate spaces. I went to go see the playground, I saw some new and fun attractions to play on.

When I was playing on the playground I heard a small group of other kids playing basketball. The rest of the school were talking to their friends and playing games with them. When the bell went off instead of it ringing the teachers replaced it with Pharrell William’s song ‘Happy’.

I went to my syndicate space and I could smell a small scent of paint.

I could smell fresh, clean air when I got into my syndicate space.

I felt the soft, cosy carpet that was so fluffy I could lie down there and peacefully do my independent work. The floor was as furry as a cat's fur. When I stepped foot into one of the breakout spaces I sat down on

the fuzzy, blue, cafe-like couches, those couches were so fuzzy and comfortable that I could sleep on one of them.

At first when I got to the new school, I was excited, sad, nervous. The reason why I was a little sad was because I would never go back to the old school again. I was also nervous since we were starting at a new school and I might not remember what to do. At the same time I was excited that there were lots of new stuff at the new school.

By Sam M

Keep New Zealand Beautiful

This week I am learning about New Zealand and some facts about it. I created a DLO to show you what you should do to help keep our community litter-free.

I decided to create a digital version of me just to be creative

Robotics

This term I have been doing robotics. We had to learn how to program a EV3 Lego Mindstorm robot to move and get through some mazes. I made the robot move by typing in certain numbers into some text boxes. I made it easier when I turned the rotation into degrees because I know that if I wanted to turn right a quarter, I would turn it into degrees and it would become 90°. What made it harder was it was so hard to program the robot to go straight. At the end I got the robot to go through the last maze. 

Native Aotearoa

This week we are learning about New Zealand and a lot of facts that you probably won't know. 

There are also some events that have been happening in Aotearoa/New Zealand

I created a Digital Learning Object to show you some facts and knowledge about our country.

One Step At A Time

This week I have been learning about New Zealand and some facts about it. 

I created a google slide to show you what tasks I have completed. 

This slideshow will have some info and facts that you might not know of.

Swimming With The Sharks

This week I have been learning about New Zealand, also known as our country. 

Today I created a slideshow that I typed down some tasks that I have completed and facts that you may not know.

Calendar Art 2017

This is my calendar art for 2017, I used colours and different shades of them. The colours are Blue, Red, Green, Purple, Orange, and Yellow. My design was a city with two wide houses (one is the church), one clock tower, and three apartments. 

Wild Eyes

In literacy this week we have been learning about New Zealand, our country. 

I have created a slideshow, in there you will see some tasks that I have answered and finished to share some of these facts and information with you. 

New Zealand By Land And Sea

This week in literacy we are learning about our country, New Zealand.

My task is to create a slideshow to answer questions about the certain topic.

My Personal Logo Design

This week I have been learning about logos that you could recognize when they're big and when they're small. I created my own personal logo that describes me. I started making my own logo designs in my designing book. I was required to make 5-6 logo designs with different shapes and other details, but I needed to keep them simple so it will be easy to recognize. For the shape of my logo I chose a shield because it is just like a square on top of an upside down triangle. For my details I created my own Pikachu and two pokeballs. I chose for my logo to be the colour cyan because it is a very tense and light colour. I chose for my name to be red because it brings out the cyan colour.

Comment Like A Boss

We are learning to identify a quality blog comment.

Digi Award 2017

In my class I learnt about Manaakitanga. We shared our ideas on what Manaakitanga means in the class, on the playground and at home.

We watched videos about Generosity, Hospitality, Support and Respect.

First I planned using a storyboard. Then I started an animation. In my animation someone invites someone else to stay at his house for tea, showing respect to the person he invited.

The Make Their Day Shop

For Digi Award a group set up a ¨Make Their Day Shop¨. I could buy an ice-block and instead of paying with money I paid with a kind act to make someone´s day. I chose saying ¨hi¨ to pay for my ice-block.

Ten Pin Bowling

Maths DLO

We are learning to use Long Division in Maths. I made a Slideshow to give you an idea of Long Division.

Interland

In Cybersmart we have been learning about being safe and smart when online. We found this game called Interland and it will teach you how to be smart and safe online in four different islands, making a good password, giving others compliments, sending e-mails to the right people and habits of doing the right thing. 

Interland

Stormy Night

This term in Punui-o-toka we have been learning about weather. In art I created a stormy night picture. 

First I dyed my piece of paper with Black starting from the top, so with my dye I used it left to right then right to left, as I did that when I got to the other side I went down a level with my dye. When I was half way I started using Dark Blue for the rest. I didn't get to use Light blue sadly. Second I made a silhouette for shadows of some buildings out of Black paper. Third I dabbed some Black paint for a storm cloud. Fourth I used White paint to create lightning bolts.

Severe Weather

Last week from now Mrs McGuinnetty's Literacy class in Punui-o-toka have been learning about Severe Weather. We chose if we wanted to do a movie, screencastify, slideshow, drawing or a document. I chose a slideshow because its just like a drawing but it has more space to work with. 

Animal Description

In Literacy I am learning about Antarctic Animals. I went to the Antarctic Center for a school trip. In Literacy I researched about Emperor Penguins. I wrote a description about them using all my research. I used the correct structure of a description. It has an Introduction, Characteristics and an Evaluation. I used a hook to make people want to read to the end and I used some adjectives.

Chirp Chirp! Do you really want to know some awesome facts about penguins? There are many types of penguins such as an Emperor Penguin. A Penguin is a type of bird.

An Emperor Penguin is very colourful, they have four colours. The colours of an Emperor Penguin are Black, White, Yellow and Orange. The Emperor Penguins are the tallest Penguins in the world(Four feet tall).

Emperor Penguins eat Krill, fish, squid and crustaceans. I think a crustacean is some sort of crab. A fish is mostly a penguin’s main prey. All Penguins have such spiky tongues that even slippery fish can’t escape.

Emperor Penguins have a big layer of blubber to keep them warm. Like all Penguins they have several feathers on their bodys. Most Emperor Penguins huddle up together to keep eachother warm.

Emperor Penguins are my favorite penguin because of how tall and how colourful they are.

Rainy Day

This week Punui-o-toka made a rainy day drawing using dye and crayons. We were allowed to draw a rainbow with coloured crayons, but i chose not to. The colours are Navy Blue, Black and Light Blue, I call Light Blue "Cyan" mostly. First we used White crayons to make raindrops, ripples and a line for you to see where the sky is and where the ground is. Then I dyed with the Black for the clouds and concrete, but I needed blue aswell for the sky and the ripples. I didn't get to use Light Blue because Mr Breach took it before I came to dye.

Penguin Painting

We have been painting Emperor Penguins using Black, White, Yellow, Green and Orange. Black for most of the feathers and on the flippers, White for the chest feathers. We used the Yellow and Orange for the upper chest feathers. Green was for the eye's pupil. I also used White on some Black to make a glare from it. 

We had to stroke the feathers downwards because who sees an Emperor Penguin's feathers in the other directions?

Mindsets

WALT(We are learning to) create Fixed mindsets and Growth mindsets. We made a DLO(Digital learning object) to make bad encouraging phrases to better and more positive versions of them.

Reflective Symmetry

In Maths we have been learning about Symmetry. Reflective Symmetry is when you use a type of shape and make both sides the same. We played The Mirror Game and used shapes to create Reflective Symmetry.

Two Digit Addition

WALT Add together two digit numbers with place value.
I have made a screencastify of me doing it.

The equation was eighteen plus nine.

Antarctica Description

In Literacy I am learning about Antarctica. I went to the Antarctic Center for a school trip. In Literacy I researched all about Antarctica. I wrote a description about Antarctica using all my research. I used the correct structure of a description. It has an Introduction, Characteristics and an Evaluation. I used a hook to make people want to read to the end and some adjectives.

F-F-F-Freezing! Ch-Ch-Chilly! I-I-Icy. Did you know that Antarctica has the most of Earth’s snow and ice?(90%) You should know that Antarctica is one of the seven continents on Earth.

Antarctica is the only place where the South Pole is located just like the North Pole is only located in the Arctic. Russia was the first country to discover Antarctica, this happened in the 1820’s. America was the first country to step foot on Antarctica.

The weather in Antarctica is the coldest weather on Earth. This might blow your mind, but Antarctica is actually a desert because it doesn’t rain at all! Antarctica’s coldest area is the South Pole.

Antarctica is twice as big as Australia. Also Antarctica is twenty-five percent(25%) bigger the Europe. Antarctica is as freezing as my freezer. It’s as windy as Autumn. Antarctica has some of the most highest places with lots of ice shelves, icebergs and ginormous, snowy mountains.

I really feel like Antarctica is one of the last places I would want to go to because I don’t think I will be able to survive there.

My Audience 2

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

My Audience

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

Exploring Blogs

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

Prefix Re

Last weeks phonics in Mrs Mcguinnity's class we learned about prefix, a prefix is a word that has . Our first prefix was re, re means doing something again. Here is my work.

That Was Summer

Last week we learnt about adjectives.

We also made a poem about summer.

Prefix Not

Last week we learn't about four words the mean not the words are un, dis, mis and im.