SLJ WK 1 Bonus Activity

Bonus Activity: Musical Festivals – Matatini

In New Zealand, a huge festival is held every two years, called Te Matatini. This performing arts festival celebrates the tikanga (culture or customs) of Māori. Kapa Haka groups from around New Zealand are invited to attend the festival and each group gives a 25-minute performance. The performances are judged and the best teams win prizes.

The gold medal winning team from this year (2017) was Te Kapa Haka o Whāngārā Mai Tawhiti.

Here's what I think:

1. Te Puku o Te Ika

2. Te Iti Kahurangi

3. Tamatea Arikuni

First of all all items were beautiful. They sang, danced and told a story very well! Let's start with Tamatea Arikuni. Tamatea Arikuni was pretty good. Although I they they just needed more Kaha during there Item. It sound more like soft and got to be honest boring. 2nd Te Iti Kahurangi had alot more power then Tamatea Arikuni. They were very loud and outstanding! They sang very well and I enjoyed there performance. Finally Number 1! Te Puku o Te Ika stood out the most to me! They were louder and had lot's of Kaha! I loved how they dedicated the performance to a man as they held up a photo of him. It was a really heartwarming item to see. I thought they did AWESOME! Well that's what I think leave a comment down below on what you really think! Were they good or not really good?

SLJ WK1 D4 Activity 1/2 Hitting a High Note

Activity 1: The Waiata - A Song in Your Heart

In the past, Māori would often use song as a way of sharing information or communicating emotions.  A waiata is the name given to a traditional Māori song. One of my all-time favourite waiata is Kia Paimarie. What about you?

Actually I have 2 all time favourite waiata's! It is Tutira Mai Nga Iwi and Tiaho Mai Ra. I liked both songs because they have strong meanings. A student that attended Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Nga Mokopuna in Wellington. There she composed the song for her brother that she saw as a brother having trouble. The other Tutira Mai Nga Iwi is a very strong song it's all about standing together as one team and working hard. Both songs are very strong and has a good meaning to it. 

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Activity 2: Playing Games

Hundreds of years ago, young Māori children were taught to play a number of games, including Poi Rakau, Ki O Rahi, Koruru Taonga and Poi Toa. Read about each of these four games on the Rangatahi tu Rangatira website. Have you played any of them before? Isn’t it cool how the games have been passed down for generations?

The name of the game I chose it called Poi Rakau!

The aim of the is to try and get the other opponents stick before it falls on to the ground and you OUT!

The rules of the game are you will stand in a circle each holding a pole. When the caller yells left or right but in maori Maui or Ratau you will move to that direction and take the other opponents spot.

I've played Poi rakau before but this was back in 2016 when we had Maori! I would definitely like to play again!

SLJ WK 1 Bonus Activity

Bonus Activity: Special Meals!
Rachel's Favorite meal below
Back in the 1800s, most Māori ate a simple diet. They ate foods that they could catch in the water (eg. fish) or grow on the land (eg. kumara). They did not have access to a supermarket to buy food for their meals! Speaking of meals, what is your favourite meal? Mine is wood-fired pizza. Yum!

For this activity we had to post a picture of a favourite meal and talk about it.

Shepard's Pie!

!This is not my photo!
My favourite meal is Shepard's Pie! Shepard's Pie is a big pie that has layers of potatoes, vegetables, mince and of course CHEESE! It is my favourite meal because when I first tasted it when my cousin's made it was a YASS from me! So I decided to go for 3rd's! The layers inside was delicious but my favourite was the mince and potatoes! I think that this is an awesome meal because you can share it (only if you make a big batch) and enjoy the mouth-watering pie! When my mum and I make it we just eyeball the ingredients and it turns out amazing. But if you'd like to try it out here's the recipe on how the make Shepard's Pie the Professional way! Click this link.

SLJ WK1 D2 Activity 1/2 It’s All in a Day’s Work

Activity 1: A House or a Home?

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In the 1800s, most Māori lived in villages called pa. Each village had many buildings – kauta where people cooked, pataka where they stored goods and wharepuni where the Māori slept. A traditional wharepuni had a thatched roof and walls made of timber, fern, rushes and bark.
For this activity we had to compare the wharepuni to our house. This is my compare and contrast below showing the differences and the similarities between my house and the wharepuni.

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Activity 2: The Rules Of Engagement

During the early years in New Zealand, men and women would often marry at a young age. Women were expected to have babies and remain in the home caring for their children. Few, if any, left home in search of work. Men, on the other hand, were expected to work outside of the home. These days, we don’t have the same strict expectations about work. Girls and boys can choose their own path in life. So for this activity we had to draw yourself doing our dream job. Here's mine!

When I grow up really want to become at teacher. People like my teacher and my mother inspire me to become one and I love working with other kids it makes me feel in a happy and safe environment!

SLJ WK 1 Bonus Activity Waka Ama

For this Bonus Task I had to watch a Waka Ama race. After watching this video I have to write on my blog if I would like to participate in this sport or not. If would like to watch the video click this link.

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I would like to participate in Waka ama because I have never participated in sports including water (besides swimming) Looking at the video I felt like it took a lot of training and team work to complete the race. I also want to join Waka ama because I want to know how it felt when the settlers arrived in NZ. It was probably nerve wrecking. I would also like to participate in Waka ama because I have never done this sport before and I would like to see myself improve on how far I go and how fast I can paddle. Watching the video it looks quite challenging because we have to go in straight line! I think that would be challenging because I might go in circles. But yeah I would like to give Waka ama a try!

SLJ WK1 Activity 1/2 Arriving in Aotearoa (NZ)

Activity 1: The First Settlers - Welcome to my first Holiday Blog-Post! I am participating in SLJ
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For this activity we had to create read a short story about one of the famous men in Maori mythology (Maui) Here is my three facts that I had learned from the story and Maui. If you'd like to read the story yourself click this link.

First Fact: Based on the story I read about Maui and the Giant Fish, Maui was a brave man he did not listen to the comments his brothers made and he kept on moving on.

Second Fact: It is said in Polynesian Mythology that Ancient Polynesians used the stars to find a way to there destination. According to myths I read the navigators followed the stars that formed the shape of Maui's hook. In other legends and myths about Maui he used his hook to stop the sun from going fast and how he pulled the giant fish.

Last Fact: The story I read about Maui and the giant fish (Te ika a Maui) Sorry If I spelt that wrong! The giant fish that he pulled from the sea became the north island of our beautiful land New Zealand. That was what the Maori mythology said and what most Maori's believe.

I have also read a story that is famous in Maori mythology with is Maui and the sun. 

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Activity 2: Setting Sail

It must've been very braves of those who travelled to Aotearoa. So for this activity we had to imagine that we were on board on one of those waka's, and we have to write a letter to a friend about our trip to NZ! Here is my letter.

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Hour of code Certificate!

Today we got to hang out with OMG Techs. We talked about Coding and how we can make our own  brand new technology in the future using coding.  We also got a chance to do the Hour Of Code Challenge! I decided to do the Minecraft Coding. I have just completed the task. Here is my online certificate I have been given! If you would like to do the hour of code click this link! You will have lot's of learning how to code. Thanks Heaps our visitors who came along to have a talk about coding!!

Incy Wincy Spider

Amelia Incy Wincy Final from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task Description: Our theme for the term is musical madness. So for our animation we had to create a animation on a nursery rhyme. We had three options to choose from and after we've chosen our nursery rhyme we had to animate it. The three options were Incy Wincy spider, Tirama Tirama and O le pepe. I chose Incyy Wincy Spider and here is my finished project. Hope You Enjoy! 

How Does A Guitar Make Sound?

Walt: Create an animation on how does a instrument make sound.
Amelia EXT Movie 2017 from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task Description: This is my animation on How Does A Guitar Make Sound? This is my extension project finished. We were first put into groups of musical instruments and which ever group we were in we had to create an animation on how does the musical instrument make sound. I was in the Guitars. I first wrote a down on a doc and got some info about Guitars and how they make sound. I then shared with the other people in my group. We also had to create a soundtrack to go with our animation, You will hear my soundtrack in my animation. I also added a voice over to my animation to make it more appealing. Here is my animation finished! Hope you enjoy!

Amelia EXT and Team 4 Space Animation

Amelia EXT Animation from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task Description: Today I had to finish off my animation from Term 3. As you guys all know last term the school theme was about Guardians of The Galaxy. We had to create an animation about earth being polluted and people can no longer live there. Now people rely on two trained astronauts to go outa space and search for a mew planet. Then I added my extension animation as a part 2 and how people have adapted to live on there new planet!

Holiday Blogging Award!

Kia Ora Blog Viewers! This is a late update but I'm just gonna tell you anyways! Yesterday in our Team 4 assembly we were handing out holiday blogging awards. If you visited my blog in the holidays you would've seen blog-posts of me participating in the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge. It was a great blogging challenge I got to create my own shoes, do origami and even clean the house! Back to the awards! We had a special person hand our little bags and it was Mrs Burt! Mrs Burt is like the mother of the school blogging challenge, so one of our teachers hooked her up to come and hand out the prizes. Prizes were given for: The Most Posts, Audience Appeal, Entertaining the Burt's (Mr and Mrs Burt), Quality of Posts and last but not least for going the extra mile. I was given my prize for the Quality of my Posts. I stood up proudly as my friends cheered me on!Overall it was a great morning we even took a photo with the beautiful Mrs Burt. STAY TUNED 4 MORE BLOG POSTS GUYS!!!!!!!! BTW: THANK YOU MR GOODWIN FOR THE CHALLENGE!

Times Tables Maths Test!

This is just a screenshot of what I did in my Times Tables Maths Test.

Musical Madness!

Walt: use adjectives to improve our descriptive writing.

WALT: use exciting language in a recount

Have you ever seen your teacher sing before? Well today at our school Immersion Assembly, lot’s of music was happening in the hall! I’m looking forward to how the term is going to be!

This term our school topic is based on Music, and it is called Musical Madness! Team 1,2 and 3 was all about how music changes our feelings and how different beats can make up one song. Team 5’s crazy act was all about different beats to music! The Assembly was hilarious but my all time favorite act was Team 3’s little movie they made a mini Songs in Real Life video. It was an incredible video that  made me laugh the till the end.  

Finally it was Team 4’s turn! Team 4’s movie was a little car pool party! All the teachers from Team 4 were having fun singing in the car enjoying the music (but some of the music was boring because they were old school). The little movie was like a commercial for our school music. It was kind of like the commercial’s that Apple does for there music. This Term our Team is looking at making our own music, and even making instruments!

Since the Term is all about music I am dying to learn to play the Guitar! I also want to learn to play the drums and I think our Team Leader Mr Somerville will teach us because he is fantastic at playing the drums! Those are the instruments that I want to play but I’m also hoping to learn to play the piano along with other instruments too.

Overall I think that the Term will be awesome! I love music and I’m sure other people in the school do. I think that school and music goes together because her in Pt England we make up songs and sing to other songs too! In fact we already got school song already up called Musical Madness! I think that Term 4 will be great!

Holiday Blogging - Bullying - STOP NOW!!

Walt: Spread an Important message.


Task Description: Today me and Leilani made a presentation on Bullying. We were just watching a video about bullying and something just clicked! Leilani asked me if I wanted to do a presentation about bullying so I said sure. We decided to make make this presentation to stop the bullying. There are still lot's of people in our world who are getting bullied. Some have committed suicide because of bullying, and losing loved because of that is really sad. I also want to spread this message because I have been bullied too through email. So remember to STOP BULLYING AND STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT!  

Be Sure To Visit Leilani's Blog!

Holiday Blogging - Descriptive Writing!

Walt: Write Descriptively.

Task Description: Today I created my own presentation all about Descriptive Writing. I got this idea from school as we would do Ailen Descriptions, Monster Descriptions and more! I did a mix of Character Descriptions and Setting Descriptions. I picked out four images from google and wrote a Description about each one. I did one about an Ailen, Shark, Beach and a Spooky Haunted House. I really enjoyed this task because I got to think very hard and think about detail in my writing. I hope to do this next holiday's because I think that it will improve my writing!

Holiday Blogging - Making my own Beat (Task 8)

Walt: Share our creations. 

Listen to my beat here!

Today task is all about creating our own beat! I created my own beat. If you would like to hear the beat just click the image above this writing! I have created a beat using a site called incredibox.com. It is an amazing site that helps you create your beat. It's kinda like acapella. I have created cool beat using beats, effects melodies and voices. I chose this beat because it has pretty simple. My brother also enjoyed the beat and was amazed. Remember to stay tuned for more blog-posts!

Holiday Blogging - How To Make Your Own Shoes! (Extra Task)

Walt: Provide step by step information.


Task Description: For this Extra Task we had to make a presentation on How To Make Your Own Shoes! Just simply follow the steps that I have written down. I am not quite sure what the name of the site was where I created my shoes but I think it was the The Nike Shop. I hope the steps inside the presentation is good! I really enjoyed designing these shoes and that's why I made this presentation so you can try it! Comment down below if you enjoyed it or not. Until then Goodbye!

Holiday Blogging - Making my own Shoe! (Task 7)

Walt: Design Shoes.


Task Description: Today's task we got to create out own shoes! We created this using a site I don't know what it's called but you got to try it out! Here's the link. I created my own shoe and it costs 100 dollars! I know right. I really want to buy them but I gotta have to save up money and ask my parents. It was fun creating my shoes. This presentation above shows my shoes in different angles. I thought that the design that I made was pretty cool. I loved the options on the site. This was a fun task!

Holiday Blogging - Flying Paper Planes! (Extra Task)

For the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge yesterday's task was all about Paper Planes! For the Extra task we had to Have a competition with our family playing with the paper planes we have already made and blog about the results! So I decided to grab my brother we can play. These three video's below shows how me and my brother fly the planes! It was pretty fun. Hope you enjoy!

Holiday Blogging - How to make your own Logo! (Extra Task)

Walt: Provide instructions on how to make your own logo.


Task Description: For today's Extra Task for the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge I have made a How to make your own logo! We have been doing a lot of How to things so I find these tasks very easy! I made a google presentation and provided steps on how to make your own logo. I also used my own images I made and I placed it beside each instruction. I wrote almost a paragraph on each step and I tried to make it clear so readers can understand and have a go on making a logo! I hope you enjoyed the presentation and try make a logo using these steps. Comment down below if there helpful. Stay tuned for more Blog-posts! BYE.

Holiday Blogging - Team 4 Logo (Task 5)

Walt: Create a logo

This is my logo I have designed for the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge! I've decided to keep the logo nice and simple, instead of crazy colours everywhere! For the font I just kept it red because it is the colour of our school. As you can see I have put the word Team 4 Holiday Blogging. Below it I have added Learn, Create and Share! I have put that there because it explains what we do in the blogging challenge. For Example: We learn new things in the holiday's and reading articles. Create means us kids creating presentations and fun things like this task how we are creating a logo. The last word Share is all about sharing our creativity and learning that we have done to the whole world! I've also I have also included four images is spice it up a little bit so it's not just boring plain! I think that this is a good logo for the Team 4 Blogging Challenge because it's nice and simple. It also is very easy to read represents team 4 and the school also very well! I think that this will be a great logo for the Team 4 Holiday Blogging challenge!!

Task Description: Today for Task 5 of Team 4 Holiday Blogging we are creating a logo for the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge. We are doing this task because the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge NEEDS a LOGO! If we have a logo then we can have badges on our blogs. If the Teachers like our design then they might actually turn them into a actual logo. After making the logo we had to write a description on about the logo and why is it a good one. This is my logo I have created. I hope you like it!

Holiday Blogging - Stick Figures (Extra Task)

Walt: Create an animation
Task Description: Today's task is all about Stick Figures. This is a extra task from the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge. Our task was to create a animation of a Stick Figure. I decided to make animation of a Stick Figure swimming. I used a site called Toonator to create my animation. I then recorded my animation using Screencastify. I really enjoyed this activity because I got to draw on paper and do digital drawing! This was one of my favorite activity's! Stay tuned for more blog posts like this one.

Holiday Blogging - Stick Figures! (Task 3)

Walt: Draw Stick Figures.

For today's Team 4 blogging challenge we are learning about Stick Figures. A Stick Figure is a very simple drawing of and person and an animal. Stick Figures a five straight lines and four curved lines. So it has a few lines, curves and dots. On this photo above I drew nine Stick figures. I drew some Stick Figures doing Sport, Running, Doing the splits and a few more. One of the tips I used was for the legs. When drawing a Stick Figure you always need to make your legs a little bit longer because it is actually how us humans look like our legs are a little but longer then our body. But don't make it too long all else it will just look weird. Another tip I used was for the face. You can make your face a circle or another shape. But you should use a Oval as your face. Why..Well that's how us humans face looks like an Oval. Those were just some of the tips and tricks I used for the Stick Figures.

Task Description: This is the 3rd task for our Team 4 Holiday Blogging challenge. I had to read a text on Wikipedia about Stick Figures. I then watched a video on how to draw a Stick Figure and tips and tricks on it. I then practiced a little bit on different actions on a Stick Figure. I then drew nine Stick Figures. I also had to share the tips I used to create the Stick Figures so other people can try!

Holiday Blogging - Ice Cream Challenge!

Holiday Blogging - How to make a Google Form (Extra Task)

Walt: Create a presentation with step by step instructions.
Task Description: Today we did a presentation about How to make a google form. This is one of our extra tasks for the team 4 blogging challenge. We created this presentation for other kids who want to try out Google forms. We created this step by step so you can understand each element. Thanks to Leilani we finally finished our presentation! We hope you try out google forms. Enjoy!

Here’s a link to our blogs: Leilani , Amelia , Lillyana .

Holiday Blogging - Survey Task 2

Walt: Create a Google Form

Task Description: Today for Holiday Blogging I am doing a task set by Mr Goodwin. Last time I did Origami. Now I'm doing the next task called Survey. For this task I had to create a google form about anything I want. I decided to collaborate with Lillyana and Leilani. We call our LLA Form and added things about Movies, TV Shows and Food! Here is a link to our form: Link. Enjoy The Form!

Holiday Blogging - How To Write A Quality Blog Comment!

Walt: Write a quality blog comment.
Task Description: Today for holiday blogging I have made a presentation about how to create a quality blog comment. Since it's the holidays lot's of people will be commenting back and forth. We need to keep our comments to a high standard so this is why I've made a presentation on how to write a quality blog comment. Just follow the 5 simple steps and you will be writing comments like a pro. I'd also like to thank Anthony even though he does not know for the photo example. Here is a link to his blog below. Anyways here is my blog post!

Anthony's Blog

Happy School Holidays/Term 3 Reflection!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Hello Viewers! Happy Holidays! Today I am so excited because it's the start of the school holidays. I will still be finishing off work because I have a lot of work from Maths to catch up on so in the holidays you will be seeing a lot of Maths presentations going on. Anyways I thought that Term 3 was AWESOME! We finally got to go on a trip to Star Wars some of us got to make rockets and fly them and lot's more fun things that happen in Term 3. I think that Term 3 was one of my favorite terms. When I found out that our theme was Guardians of the Galaxy I hardly knew ANYTHING about space. I did not even know that there were even 8 planets in the solar system. Once we did a quick quiz about space to see how well some of us know about space. One of the questions were how many planets are in the solar system and I thought that there were 10. When we looked at the results it said 1% voted for 10, and that was a pretty embarrassing moment! Term 3 really helped me learn more about space and other things like the sun! I can't wait to blog this holiday. I am going to be participating in the Team 4 blogging challenge. I hope everyone has a very happy holiday! Goodbye! 

Beware of Ads!

Cyber Smart Monday: Beware of ads!!

Today for Cyber Smart Monday we are learning to beware for ads online. Like this photo below I have shown you not to click these ads. These ads can try to steal your information and trick you into buying cool stuff you like! You can even find dodgy ads on kid sites!

 Be Cyber Smart Online Everyone!

Image Attribution!

Walt: Attribute an image.

Image attribution: https://pixabay.com/p-2243686/?no_redirect

Task Description: Today is Cyber Smart Monday! Today for Cyber Smart Monday we are learning to attribute and image. We had to look up a photo online and we had to set it so the images a free to use. I used an image that was labeled for reuse with modification. That meant that I had used an free image but I will have to change it a little bit. As you can see there is an attribution of the image I got. 

The Mars One Project!

Walt: make connections with what we read, and what we have read before.



Task Description: Today for Reading we are finishing off work from last week. Our focus was on the Mars One Project. Here is a presentation about the Mars One Project. We had to read three articles about the project to help us with our presentation. I found out lot's of information like about What astronauts will do on Mars and Who will go to Mars! We also decorated the slide so it's not just a boring grey look. I added images that are related to the Mars One Project and attributed it unless I made the image. This is my Mars One Project Presentation.

Mars one Astronaut!

Walt: make connections with what we read, and what we have read before.

Task Description: Today we were finishing off work from last week. Unfortunately I couldn't finish my work from last week. So here it is. Last week we were learning about the Mars One Project. For this activity we had to create our own astronaut profile. We had to include his Name, Age, Country, Languages, Skills and Reason for joining the Mission. We then downloaded an image to create our Astronaut and drew over it. This is my Astronaut Profile!

Cross Country!

Walt: structure a recount. 

Last week on Friday the whole school participated in our Cross Country running race. The weather was super hot but there were still lot’s of puddles and muddy areas. Have you ever participated in a Cross Country race?

Like the story so far? Click the link to Read the Full Story Here

Task Description: Today we had to write a recount about Cross Country! We also had to structure our recount from what happened first to the end. In the story we had to include juicy vocab from Cross Country like the muddy puddles and how exhausting we were after we went passed the finish line. The first thing we had to write was the Introduction, Before the Race, During the Race, After The Race and Conclusion. I then posted this on my blog with a photo from the event and here it is!

Maui and the Sun Animation!

Amelia Maui from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task Description: This is another late animation. Today I decided to finish off my animation from Term 1. Term 1's animation was about Maui and the Sun. I had to draw all the characters in the story like the Sun, Maui and Maui's brothers. I then wrote a script and did a voice over of myself.

Post Card Activity!

Walt: think critically about what we read.

Rubric score for Extension!

Rubric Score Reflection:

After reading the rubric I found out that my score was 27. I thought that the scores were fair because the people in my group scored around 20 to 27. I think that being the leader of my group helped me improve my score by taking idea’s from the people in my group and making a great project. I scored a 5 in my performance contribution to the production. My goal for that is to stay there and help others get a 5 too! For Collaboration I think that we did well but I think that we should work harder together at a team so that we could get a 5. In the paideia seminar I contributed a lot. My goal for that is to not just encourage the people that are not in my group but to encourage the people in my group because two of them only got a 2 in the paideia seminar. Now I’ve learnt the things that I need to improve at and how I did in the rubric!

Technology Animation!

How Technology has changed over time!
Amelia Technolgy Animation from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task Description: This work is overdue from last term. But I am just finishing off work and I decided to finish this. Last year out topic was Now Thats Thinking. We had to create an animation about how technology has changed over time. We had to choose two subjects that we had to animate. Fishing or Sailing. For each subject we had to create a animation how it has changed over time. I chose Fishing. I used google to help me find information about fishing in the past and now. I then recorded my animation along with an voice over and here it is!

Advice Blog!

Walt: About the sun
Task description: Today for Literacy Room 7 is helping Chris Yoddle to find information about the sun. We had to read two articals about the sun. We had to write a reply back to Chris who is helping his little sister with her solar system homework. So we gathered information for Chris. We also had to answer his questions. Thats all for Today!

Amelia Problem Solving

Walt: solve decimal problems

Task Description: Today for maths the Pongs we are learning to solve decimal problems. I have been late with my maths and all my literacy is taking over my blog! Sorry if you wanted to see more maths on my blog. Anyways if you don't know how this rolls well I am here to tell you. Before doing this our teacher Mr Goodwin show us and practice what we are learning. We are learning to multiply decimals at the moment. After having little practices we go off and do our problem solving. We read the problem then we solve in our maths book. After solving the problem we take a photo of it and then write down how we solved it. Thanks for stopping by!

Picture Book Writing!

Walt: Write for younger audience.

Bam! I land on Venus. Well this is really hot! Hotter than Mercury well that’s no fun. Ouch I hurt my bottom well that was really dumb! It’s so bright up here what am I going to do? Stay up here well that's going to be a no! At night time I heard that it is very cold! Lucky it’s not night time. I would prefer a better planet. Here we go, I’m movin on!

Like the story! Read the whole story here

Task Description: Today Room 7 is working on a big project! We are writing a story for the younger ones in our school. Since our theme for this Term is space we had to write the story based on someone going to space. In order for the little ones to understand we had to try and use words that kids can understand. We are making 5 picture books from each group. We have to go to each others blog and read each others piece of writing. After we've chosen the story there will be the writers, the illustrators and the designers! Then that will be the end of our project! 

Measuring our Feet!

Walt: Understand Measurement

Task Description: Today for Maths Pongs did a topic about Measurement. We had to place our feet on our Maths book and draw an outline of it. It was really funny. We then took a ruler a measured our foot. Mine was 21 cm it might not be the proper measurement but that's all we can do. After that I had to walk beside Naomi ( My Partner ) and counted every time I steeped. If you don't get me look at the photo on the left. Anyways from my side of the whole thing she was about a 7 of my feet. After that I did all the maths up here on this photo as you can see. I added a photo of the foot I drew and put and example of what we did on the left. Hope you enjoy!   

How to remember the Planets in the Solar System!

Walt: understand information collected from multiple sources.

Task Description: This week Room 7 Literacy had to make a little rhyme that will help you remember the order of the 8 planets in the solar system. This week we are focusing on Pluto that used to be a planet but now scientists discovered that it was not a planet. So some people can say,"Well it's a planet in my heart"! Well you have to get used to Pluto not being a planet. Anyways I used google to help me find some words. Since Pluto ain't a planet anymore it was kind of hard finding the words but I managed and came up with My Very Educated Mother Just served us Nougat, and if you can see the first letter of each word has the first letters of each planet. For Example: My Very stand for Mercury and Venus. I then added a photo of the solar system without Pluto. I hope this helps you remember each planet in the solar system. Stay tuned for my next post 

A Post Card to Space!

Walt: understand information collected from multiple sources.

Task Description: Today for Literacy Room 7 had to write a post card! This not a real post card anyways we had to pick anyone to write our post card to we can even write it to a celebrity. But I decided to stay simple and stick to one of our teachers at school! I had to choose a planet to write about and then pretend that I was send the letter from space to my person about our chosen planet. I had to describe if I was actually in space. I also used google to help me find information about my planet!