Essential Health

As it is the school holidays my school, as well as loads of other schools in New Zealand, are doing the Summer Learning Journey so that we improve in our learning. For this activity, I am blogging about I had to list five things I do for health. I think I have made the slideshow look really attractive. All the images are public domain.




Do you do lots of exercises? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Beautiful Paintings

As it is the school holidays my school are doing the summer learning journey so that we improve our learning over the summer. For this activity, I had to make a description of Vincent Van Gogh's picture Starry Night. I borrowed the picture from Flickr. I think I have made a great description.
Do you like paintings? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

The Brilliant Bob Dylan

As it is the school holidays kids around NZ are doing the summer learning challenge so that they can improve in their learning before going back to school. For this activity, I had to choose a Nobel Prize winner and research them. I chose to research Bob Dylan. I think I have made a really informative description of him. I got all my information from Wikipedia.
Do you like his music? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Sport's Most Heated Rivalries

As we all know it is the summer holidays and over the summer holidays schools around NZ are doing the summer learning challenge so that kids can keep getting smarter over the holidays. The summer learning challenge is a set of activities that are designed to help kids with their learning over the holidays. For this activity, I had to write about three worldwide rivalries. I think I have done long and thorough descriptions of each rivalry I chose and the images I used belong to Flickr. Here it is:



Are you interested in sports rivalries or even just sports? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Awesome Aboriginals

Over the summer holidays, my school are participating in the summer learning challenge so that we can say we have got smarter over the holidays.  For this activity, I had to figure how old aborigine Jessa Rogers was when she won NAIDOC youth of the year in 2010. I think I have a good explanation.


Do you have native links? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Welcome To New Zealand

It is the school holidays but in the school holidays kids can sometimes go backwards in learning and that is why my school is doing the summer learning journey. For this activity, I made a welcome poster of New Zealand. I think I have made the poster look great. Here it is:

Are you from New Zealand or you are from a different country? If you are from a different country please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Concerning Cancer

As we all know it is the school holidays and over the holidays you seem to forget what you have learnt over the last year. That is why schools in New Zealand are the Summer Learning Journey. For this activity in the Summer Learning Journey, I had to pick a charity and describe what kind of work they do. I chose to research Cancer Societ NZ and I got all my information from their official website. I think I have done a really good and proper description. Here it is:
 Do you do the summer learning journey? If so please comment below because I appreciate your feedback.

Terrific Steven Adams

As it is the school holidays all over New Zealand kids are doing the Summer Learning Challenge. The summer learning challenge was designed so that children can improve their learning without teachers. For the activity, I have just done I had to think of five questions I would ask basketballer Steven Adams if I had a chance. I have put together five really thoughtful questions and even put a link to the picture I used as it is not mine. Here are my five questions:


Do you like basketball?  Do you like Steven Adams? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Awesome Aviators

As it is the school holidays schools in New Zealand are participating in the Summer Learning Challenge so that children do not go backwards in their learning over the holidays. This task was on explorers Jean Batten and Amelia Earhart. These were the instructions:

Here is my comparison:

I have put in everything we needed to and have it high quality. Are you interested in explorers? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Brilliant BFG

For the rest of the term, we are doing preparation activities for the Summer Learning Challenge. The Summer Learning Challenge was made so that we do not go backwards in our learning.  For this activity, I had to make a ten-word description of the BFG and make a picture. I made the picture with Piskel.
Have you read the BFG before? who is your favourite? Please comment below

Proudness Interview

We are doing the Summer Learning Journey at school so we do not need to do lots of catch up work after the holidays. At the moment we are just doing a teaser week so we get used to the activities. For this activity, I interviewed my best friend Scott on what he feels proud of. It was pretty simple.


What do you feel proud of? Why are you so proud of this? Please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Super Similes

This week we are doing practice activities for the Summer Learning Challenge. The idea of the learning challenge is that we do not go backwards in our learning over the holidays. In this activity, we had to make 3 similes of our own. A simile is a language feature that is comparing two things, eg: as fast as a cheetah. Here are my similes:


DO you use similes in your writing?? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Influential Lorde

This week we are doing the Teaser Week from the Summer Learning Journey. I chose to do an activity which is on Lorde. I had to make an informational chart on Lorde.  I think I have done it to a high standard.

Do you like any of Lorde's songs? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Baffling Book

In reading, we are doing comprehension of a story called Battle. The story is about a group of wannabe gangsters who do freestyle dancing. I think I did this work very quickly but to a high standar2

Super Speeches

This term we have been doing speeches. We could our speeches on anything we wanted so I chose to do mine on weird inventions. We had about four or five weeks to do our speeches. On Tuesday we shared our speeches to our home groups. The best two from each homeroom will go through to our hub finals. Here is my speech:
Do you like my speech? Did you do speeches this year? If so please comment below, I appreciate your fedback.

Woeful Poor Countries

Today we are doing a series of blogging activities on a problem in the world of our choice. I am doing mine on poverty. This activity I am doing is to create a map to do with our topic. I have made a map using Tour Builder. It is on the worlds poorest countries. I think I have done really well. Please visit the link below.

https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/tour/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgICgj7GRzAoM
Have you been to any of these places? Do you want to help put a stop to poverty too? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback

Calamitous Corruption

At school, we do something called SOL. SOL is where your teachers set you a topic and you need to make two open-ended questions and answer them. This week we had to do ours on a problem in the world. I decided to do mine on corruption. Corruption is where someone pays someone to get his/her own way without following the law. My two questions were what is corruption and why is it so popular? Here it is:

Do you know what corruption is? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Harassing Hero Ratings

in maths this term we are learning about patterns and relationships. This week we were learning about hero ratings. We had to figure out our hero rating and make a presentation on it. Here is my presentation:
Do you know what hero ratings are? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Wrong, wrong, wrong

In writing, we are doing narratives. A narrative is a recap of a real or fake story. We had about 40 minutes in total to write it. I think I did quite well for the small amount of time we had! Here is mine:
 Do you know what story they are trying to tell? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Genius Goal Ladders

This morning we had to make our two goal ladders for the term. In a goal ladder, you have your main goal on the top and the smaller steps underneath. We had to have a goal for learning and a goal for the five R's.  Her are my goals:


Do you use goal ladders at your school? Please comment below. Your feedback helps me improve.

Perfect Patterns

This term in maths we are focusing on patterns and relationships. This week for our must do we had to create a DLO (digital learning object) on patterns and relationships. I made mine on Google Slides because I did not have much time and I can make slideshows really quickly.  I think I have made quite a good presentation. Here it is:



Can you do the Fibonacci Sequence? Do you like maths? If so comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Carrots Consuming Challenge

As children tend to forget what they have been learning over the holidays Ura Manuka set challenges each holiday to help children with their learning. I decided to do challenge thirteen which is to see how much of a carrot you can eat in one minute. I think I ate quite a lot as I think carrots are yummy. here are my before and after photos:

Before

After

Do you like carrots? Do you think you could eat more than me? If so please comment below. Your feedback helps me improve!

Cool Commenting

These holidays Ura Manuka set homework challenges for students to complete over the holidays! For this activity, I had to comment on three other students blogs. I commented on the blogs of Haemo from Marshland School, Samuel from Parkview Parau and Ben from Belfast School.  Our commenting success criteria is a positive sentence, a thoughtful sentence and a helpful sentence. I think I have included all of those in all three of my comments. Here are my comments:
Do you have a blog? Do you like commenting on other peoples blogs? If so you can use your commenting skills on my blog. Your feedback helps me improve!

Awesome Non-Allergy Restaurants

As it is the school holidays there have been homework challenges set so that we do not go backwards in our learning during the break. For this latest challenge, I had to design a food chain.
 I decided to make a non-allergy food chain as I have multiple allergies and do not want anybody to go through the same experiences as I have with food. I called my restaurant Sans Allergy as it is french for Allergy Free. I think I have made my food chain attractive for outsiders. Here are my designs for my food chain:

Do you like my food chain? Do you have allergies? If so please comment below and don't be afraid to speak out on my blog!

Fantastic Foods Of Yemen

These holidays we have been set a series of homework challenges all based on foods. The series of homework is called Spring Learning Challenges. For this activity, I did activity seven. Activity seven is " Choose a country and research the foods they eat. Create a presentation and put this on your blog". I decided to research foods from Yemen as it is a country I do not know much about. I have chosen five foods from Yemen and written a paragraph about each of them. I think I have put some good information on my slideshow. Here is my slideshow:


Do you like foods from Yemen? Have you ever been to Yemen or do you know anyone from Yemen? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Captivating Cake Or Interesting Ice Cream

As it is the school holidays Ura Manuka set some learning challenges for the holidays so that our learning does not go backwards over the holidays. For the activity, I have just completed I had to decide whether I would rather never eat cake again or never eat ice cream again and then explain my reasoning. I decided I would rather never eat ice cream again. As the pictures are not mine if you push on the pictures you will find the link of where I got them from. I think I have some really good reasons for my opinion.


Would you rather never eat cake again or never eat ice cream again? Please comment below if you can make up your mind!

Perfect Pizzas

For the school holidays, I have been set some activities to do. For this activity, I had to make 3 maths questions and all of their answers had to be 100 pizzas. Instead of making lots of really easy questions I gave myself a little challenge with my questions. I  think I have made some challenging questions.  Here are my questions:


Do you enjoy maths? Do you like homework? Please comment below if you could have figured those out without the answers!

Radiant Rainbow Burgers

For the spring holidays, Ura Manuka made a set of homework activities to do over the holidays. One of the activities was " Invent a new food and make an advertisement for it." I decided to try and do this one. I have invented a rainbow burger where all the ingredients are rainbow. I think I have made my advertisement really attractive. I made the picture of my burger out of lots of other images from the internet. Here is my advertisement:


Do you like burgers? Have you done any of the spring learning challenges? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback!

Incredible Invitations

For the spring holidays, Ura Manuka set a series of homework challenges so that kids don't go backwards in their learning over the holidays. The activity which I have chosen to do is activity seventeen. Activity seventeen is to create invitations to three celebrities you would like to invite to dinner. Here are my invitations:



Would you choose any of the same celebrities as me? If not who would you choose? Please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Amazing Alphabet Of Food

For the Spring Holidays, Te Ara Manuka has set a series of learning challenges to do over the spring holidays.  I chose to do Activity Nine which was "Try and make an alphabet list of all the foods you can think of. Can you find a food for all the letters in the alphabet?" Here are my answers:



Have you done and spring learning challenges? Do you want to try any? If so here is the link: https://sites.google.com/urumanuka.org.nz/learningjourney/food  Tell me what you think below. Your feedback makes me better!                                                 

Super Speed Of Light

In reading, I have been reading Speed of Light by Joy Cowley. Every Monday we do activities on the book we are reading. This week I made a mood board on the activity I think I have included every major item from the story. Here it is:

Have you read Speed Of Light? If so please comment below! I appreciate your feedback.

Kids For The Vote!

This term in writing we have been working on persuasive writing. We have made multiple pieces of persuasive writing over the term. One of the topics we had to write about is why kids in Nz should be able to vote. We were allowed to choose whether we wanted to do for or against. Here is m persuasive writing:

Have you ever wished that you could choose who your boss is? Have you ever wished your say would be considered? Well, today I am going to tell you why kids in NZ should vote.

New Zealand is a democracy and according to Wikipedia a democracy "is a system of government where the citizens exercise their power by voting" and Merriam-Webster defines a citizen as "an inhabitant of a city or town especially one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman". And as all citizens are allowed to vote then children should be allowed to vote too.

Secondly, I think that at it is at least slightly ageist because that kids are not allowed to vote as it is inferring that kids are not clever enough or not trustworthy enough even though some adults make really silly decisions.

A survey has shown that 40% of people who can legally vote choose not to vote so if children can vote then it will make up for all the people who do not vote.

Today I have told you how many people vote, why children should vot and much more. I hope you all agree that Kiwichildren should vote.

Do you wish you could vote? Do you agree with my opinion? If so please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Innovative Christchurch

This term for inquiry we have been making projects for DigiAwards. At the start of the term, we had a trip around Christchurch to boost our interest. Every year for DigiAwards the organizers choose a different theme for students to work on. This years theme was Innovative Otautahi. In DigiAwards there are four different categories. The four categories are storytelling, commercial, website and open. My buddy Scott and I were in open. We have been making an interactive map with information about different buildings in Christchurch. Please make sure you read the instructions in the top left corner of the map.  To get to the instructions push on the button of the computer with the arrow pointing go to the left and zoom into Christchurch and learn lots more about our beautiful Christchurch. We made our map with Google MyMaps. I think we have done a really good high-quality job with our map. Here it is:
Have you used Google MyMaps before? If you have please comment below. I appreciate your feedback!

Brilliant Beasts

On Mondays in literacy, we do book club. In book club we get given activities to do a book wr have read or are reading. This week I tried to summarise the book Fantastic beasts and where to find them in 6 words. We then got to choose a way to present it. I made mine with word art. The 6 words I used were beasts, fantastic, wizards, fiction and informative. Here it is:

I think I have done it to a high standard. Do you like Fantastic Beasts? Have you used word art before? If you have please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Crazy Chocolate

In literacy we have been reading the book Fair Chocolate, and we have had a slideshow to fill in our comprehension in. After we have done our comprehension on the pages we have read we lots of fun activities to do. I think I have done it to a really high standard and really fast. Here it is:

Do you like chocolate? If you do please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Purposeful Persuasive Writing

In writing this term we are working on persuasive writing. Firstly we had to do planning on a persuasive topic of our choice. I chose to do why sportswomen should get more credit. Then we got to write our persuasive writing.
We then had to swap stories with someone in our literacy group and fill in some sheets on our buddies story. Here is what my buddy Taylor filled in for mine:

What my buddy Taylor filled in for mine.

We then started a new piece of persuasive writing on a topic of our choice using the following 4 progressions:
1. Independently edit and revise my writing for clarity, impact and purpose.
2.Support ideas with increasing detail and elaboration.
3. Use language features that are suitable to the topic, audience and purpose.
4. Begin to use literary features for effect when appropriate.
I did my second bit of persuasive writing on why maths is more important than writing. Here it is:



We then had to edit our story with the 4 learning progressions and then go back and edit the first bit of writing we did with the same 4 progressions.
Do you like doing persuasive writing? Do you agree or disagree with either of my topics? If you do please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Glorious Geomitrocity

In maths this term we are learning about geometry. We are going to make a city out of 3D paper shapes.  What we are doing is called Geometrocity. I have done it once before.We have been given a slideshow to do all our planning on. First, we have to do a series of activities to do with identifying geometric shapes and features. Then we have to design our city from a birds-eye view before we can start making our city. Here is my slideshow for planning:

Do you like geometry? Have you done Geometocity before? If you have please comment below.
I appreciate your feedback

Brilliant Burgers

In Homebase Hauora, Mr Bell gave us a slideshow to fill in based on our favourite food. I chose to do mine on burgers. The questions we had to answer were who invented this food, what year was this food invented, how was this food first made, how is this food made today and recipe improvements and compliments. We then got to decorate our slideshow with pictures of our food. I think I did it really fast and to a high standard. Here it is:
Do you like burgers? If you do please comment below.
I appreciate your feedback.

Super Settings

In Mrs. Atkinson’s literacy, we had to do one of a list of tasks based on a book we are reading or have read. I have chosen to do activity 17 which is “Describe in detail the setting of your book and how it fits into the story”. I am doing this task on the book The Explorer by Katherine Rundell as I am reading this book at home. Here it is:

If you have read The Explorer please comment below.
I appreciate your feedback.

Quality Quotes

In Mrs. Atkinson's literacy we had to choose an activity to do based on a book we are reading. I am currently reading Fantastic Beast and Where To Find Them by J.K Rowling. I did a list of 5 quotes from Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. If there are words you do not understand from the book it will be because they are made-up words from the book.

If you want to know what some of the wizarding wors mean please comment below.
I appreciate your feedback.

Magical Multiplication Pictures

In  Mrs Atkinson's maths group this term we have been doing multiplication pictures. Multiplication pictures are made by a group of shapes on a page all having numbers in them. They are arranged so the areas intended to be one colour have only multiples of one number then the next area only has multiples of another number and so on. The numbers are arranged so when it is finished it makes a picture. We had 4 steps in making them. Firstly we had to print out a picture of our choice. I chose my picture to be of a football (soccer ball).

We then traced it onto a piece of plain OHP paper and some of us put our numbers on then but I did not.

The next step was to photocopy it onto a piece of paper and write our numbers on the right areas. My numbers are from the  5,6 and 7 tables.

Our next and final step was to colour in the picture to get our final copy.

If you have any confusion or have done a multiplication picture before please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Laudable Lorax

In literacy, we had to do a screencastify (a way of recording videos) with us reading a few pages from a Dr. Seuss book. I read a few pages from The Lorax. The purpose of this task is to reflect on when we read the same few pages from the same book as when we screencastified earlier in the term (this is also on my blog). I think I have improved a lot from earlier in the term. Here is my screencastify:



Have you read The Lorax or any other Dr. Seuss books before? If you have please comment below.
I* appreciate your feedback.

Football For Life

In writing, we had to choose a style of writing and find out what the structure is, what language features are in it, what tense it uses, what style it is and what the purposes of the style of writing are. I chose to do that on persuasive writing. Here is mine:

We then could choose something to write about with-in that type of writing. I chose to do a piece of persuasive writing on why football (soccer) is better than rugby. My work meets the success criteria because I have recorded all features of persuasive writing in my book and I have used them all in writing. Here it is:  

Do you think football is better than rugby or do you think rugby is better than football? If you have something to say on the topic please comment below. I appreciate your feedback.

Rabid Rounding

At school we are learning how to use Stop Motion Animator. In maths Mrs. Teague told my maths group to make a Stop Motion Animator video on maths. So Scott and I made a video with Stop Motion Animator on rounding numbers.

Have you used Stop Motion Animator?  Can you round numbers? Please comment if you have anything feedback.

I appreciate your feedback.

Wicked Word Art

In Homebase Hauora today we had to make word art. We had to make one on what we are thankful for as we had done Thankfulness with Ferg this morning. Then we could make word art on whatever we want. Here is my word art:
 
Have you made word art before? Do you have any tips for me?
Please post your feedback.

Exciting Ako's

This week in Sutherland literacy we had to do 3 different ako tasks  Kiwi Kids News, Wonderopilis and Spellodrome. I have made sure that they all meet the success criteria because in the Kiwi Kids News must-do I used a DLO, Made a SIT and identified the 5 w's. In the Wonderopilis must-do, I  used a DLO, used a  SIT  and did the Wonder Word challenge but not the Did You Get It challenge because there was not one on the article I read. And on the Spellodrome must-do, I used my list words, completed an activity and know the definitions of all the words. Here are my ako activities:



Can you get the words on Slide 4? Comment if you think you can. I appreciate your feedback.

Supreme Star Song

In SOL  (Student Organised Learning) we had to make a presentation about Matariki in any form we wanted. I chose to make a song about Matariki. But before we started we had to get our information and answer 3 questions about it. One of the questions was what is Matariki and the other two we chose ourselves, can you find the two questions I asked?. Here it is :

If you have any extra tips or facts about Matariki please comment below. I appreciate your feedback!

Radical Rainforests

In inquiry this term we had to choose an area of nature and narrow it down to one subject. We then had to choose two main questions to do with it and branch some smaller questions of it. I chose rainforests. Here is the link to my google site: https://drive.google.com/open?id=19oX_1bagC2YI0q7TjZ30B-fn1lqzxji4

Fractions and Decimals Screen Castify

In maths, we had to make a screen castify explaining how to convert decimals and fractions. Here it is:

Amur Leopards

In literacy we had to choose an endangered animal to make an information report about and I chose the Amur Leopard because I had not heard of it before. It meets the success criteria because I checked it against my writing rubric and it covered everything.

My Literacy crossword

In literacy for our must-do, we had to make a crossword out of difficult words from our novel. It meets the success criteria because it is made of 10 words and it all fits together. Zoom in if you find it difficult to read. Try and do it and tell me how you did in the comments:

My Crossword

Spellodrome Literacy Must-Do

In Literacy, We Had To Go On Spellodrome for 20 minutes. I then had to make an activity using my words. I made a word find. I think it meets the success criteria because I have completed over one task on Spellodrome, I have used my word list and I know all the definitions. See if you can complete the word find. Post your results in the comments.

Wonderopilis reading must-do

I think it meets the success criteria because I have used a Digital Learning Object, I have identified something surprising, something interesting and something troubling. I have also completed the Did you Get It challenge and the Wonder Word Challenge.

KiwiKidsNews literacy must-do

I think I meet the success criteria because I have used a DLO, there is a SIT in my reflection and I have identified the characters, place and when from what the article told me.

Personal and private

In Cybersmart we have been learning the difference between personal information and private information. Some things about you, you can put online such as your favourite food etc but some things you should keep private such as your address. On this Google Drawing we had to put things you should put online or keep private in the box

My Book Character Diary Entry

In literacy, we had to design a diary entry from a character's point of view. I think it meets the success criteria because it is a page long, about a key moment in the story and I think it captures the character's emotion.

My photosynthesis report

In writing, we had to choose something powerful to write about and I chose photosynthesis. We had to find the information ourselves. If there is anything I can do to improve it please write in the comments below. I think it meets the success criteria because it has been checked against my writing rubric.

My Book Mind Mup

In literacy, we had to make a mind mup.
I think it meets the success criteria because it covers all you need to know and has a couple of pictures to make it eyecatching.

My Book Cover

In Literacy, we had to design a book cover and blurb and this is what I made.

My Music

In Homebase Hauora We Have Been Using Incredibox. Here is the Links:
https://www.incredibox.com/mix/83e80cf1059fbd214d5e-v4
https://www.incredibox.com/mix/056c3a9ac43791eb0781-v3

Me Reading The Lorax

How to Add 23+20

My Collage On Wynton Rufer

My Panthlet On Wynton Rufer

My Website on Wynton Rufer

My Wynton Rufer Biteable

Wynton Rufer on Biteable.

My Influential New Zealander Report

My Tree Drawing

Explosion

Hurt Knee Catastrophe

Play by Quinn

Welcome

Haere Mai, Talofa Lava, Mālō e Lelei , Maligayang Pagdating and welcome to my very own blog for learning. I look forward to sharing my learning with teachers, my school, my family and friends anywhere.