Hi bloggers,
Do you know what a fable is? A fable is a story that gives a moral lesson to the reader. Do you know a story that you think gives the reader a moral lesson? If you do tell me in the comments below. An example of a fable is The Tortoise and the Hare. The hare think about himself. But in the end he congratulates tortoise. Tortoise likes to give everything a try and shows good sportsmanship. If you want you can look at the video. LINK!
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Kia Ora bloggers!
Have you ever heard or done Code Avengers?
Well the past week we have been doing it for our online work. Code avengers is a website that has projects that you can do and earn badges and certificates throughout the projects. You learn about algorithms and flowcharts. Do you know what algorithms and flowcharts are? In the projects it is broken into 10 sections. You have to sign into Code Avengers but it is fun. Some of the tasks are easy others aren't. You and your teacher can see you progress. You ca have a look at some pictures Below ๐
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This week in writing we have been doing some new things. The thing that we were doing is we had to watch a video on this site called THE LITERACY SHED. It has heaps of different prompts or videos. The videos we had to watch were Catch it, Ruin and High Diving Giraffes. Catch It was about 7 or so meerkats that had a fruit they kept in mind. Ruin was about the world when it had ended (It reminded me of the movie series the maze runner). High diving giraffes was about diving giraffes if you didn't already guess from the title. After we watched the videos we could choose what kind of response we did to the video. There were three options that you could choose from. The ones I did were
Catch It: What the meerkats were thinking during the short film Catch It.
Ruin: A character profile.
High Diving Giraffes: Write a news report about the diving giraffes.
I enjoyed these tasks because you could choose from different options. Some of the responses I was a bit creative and I put my own twist on it. you can check this all out below๐ Blog ya later
Mฤlล e lelei,
Happy Tongan language week
In writing this week we have been focusing on food. Healthy food in particular. But this task I am going to show is different it is more art. We had to create a creature from our own names and write a description all about it. Then we made a holiday brochure that makes the reader come visit your pretend place. I drew my own name creature on baking paper as you will see it suggested on the first slide. The second slide is my one that you can have a look at. Some things about my place is that it is a planet called Star Village. The planet is famous for its singers, Food forest and beds ( they like their sleep ). Take a look at the slides below๐
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Kia Ora Bloggers,
As you all know NZ is either in level 3 or 4. What level are you in? Have you done anything fun during your lockdown. Did you know that this is NZ 5th lockdown! I hope all of you stay safe, stay kind, Stay calm and Stay Home. We can get through this 5th lockdown NZ. Here are some ideas for you when you get bored.
* Read a book
* Bake something
* Have a movie night
* Have a games night
* Find a video of how to make something
Here is a BINGO you put the shape on the things you did. You don't have to do this it is just some ideas.
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1uctZUAFvzCGzZ-S-56vgateeaokrotC6QAbGTszrmkM/edit
Anna Grimaldi
Kia ora bloggers,
Do you know who Anna Grimaldi is? It's ok if you don't know who Anna is, you will learn about her in this blog post. As you all know NZ is in another lockdown and I will be sharing what I learnt about Anna during this lockdown. Anna is a Paralympian in the Paralympics this year. Have you been watching any of the Paralympics? So far in the Paralympic NZ have 10 medals. 4 gold 3 silver and 3 bronze medals. On September 3rd on DUKE 12:35 (tonight) Anna Grimaldi will be competing in Athletics. You can watch it on DUKE on TVNZ or on TV. Anna is 24 as you will read in the DLO that I made. I got my information from different sites like google and I have linked them at the bottom of the page. I got my images from google as well. Check out my other blogs and comment on my blog if you can.
I did a DLO about Anna and you can read my slideshow about Anna below.
Stay safe in lockdown.
Olympic reading!
In reading the past three or so weeks we have been learning about the Olympics. The task was to make a great DLO about either What makes up the important features of the Summer Olympic Games? How have the Olympic Games changed from the Ancient Games to the Modern Games to the Present Day Games? What is happening for NZ at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021? I chose to do the what is happening for NZ at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. I wrote about the medals that NZ got. Also about the different people that got the medals. Even if they are in teams like in the rowing. If it was a team I would put them all together. Also we have been taking books home about sports. In one of my books I learnt about triathlons. To get the information that I got was from google and also we collected some information from the school journals.
Check out my slide show it is not finished.I haven't put all the awesome athletes for New Zealand in.
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Kia Orana bloggers,
This past two weeks we have been learning a lot about the Olympics. Have you been watching the Olympics? I have. I found a few new sports that I like watching. Two that I like is Diving and Sport climbing. Like I said we have been doing a lot around it in school. I will be sharing some of my inquiry work around it. There are three values of the Olympics which are... Friendship, Excellence and most important of all Respect. Here is some of my Olympics work...
INQUIRY:
For my sport study I am doing diving. check it out. some of the stuff that is on this slideshow helps for our ULO that we are making.
Kia Ora bloggers
A few weeks back I went to Wesley Primary School and learnt about being an ambassador. An ambassador is someone who like represent their school. The schools that came to the ambassador meeting are. Wesley Primary, Wesley Intermediate, Waikowhai Primary (my school), Hay Park, Owairaka Primary, May Road and New Windsor. We talked about what an ambassador is and played some games and after that meeting we got this awesome digital and not digital badge! We had a second meeting online and we talked about making podcasts. We also talked about the challenges, success's and ideas. Some of the things that we use to make a podcast is We video and Screencastify. We used docs to make scripts. So that we didn't forget what to say.
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This is the digital badge
Spark Arena
Talofa bloggers. The Spark Arena trip was only for the year sixes. We got to go to Happy Place, Van Gogh Alive and Sounds Fun. We got there by bus it was 15-20 minutes. Happy Place is where we went first well the other two schools went to the Van Gogh one. I have to say that my favourite one was Happy Place though.
It had heaps of fun stuff. Like a ball pit to jump into, a cool place with mirrors and it had heaps of white plastic chains (some of my friends bumped into the mirror), a rubber ducky wall with a yellow bath with yellow balls in it, a room with a big fake cookie with chocolate chips that were like windows, an upside down room with things like a bed and a desk glued to the roof and my personal favourite a big machine which had wind blowing from the bottom and confetti to throw up in the air.
Next we went to the Sounds Fun which was like its name fun. In the room that they did it in was all over the walls heaps of photos of musicians and their signature where their different tours were and that kind of thing. I think that I liked the station where you could try instruments like trumpets, trombones and one more that I can't remember. A lady that was near the entrance who was from APO Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra was playing this lovely music on her trombone. In the corner was an electric drum set that we could have a go at and a little station that you use a keyboard and it is on the screen as well.
Finally the Van Gogh Alive. It was a shame because me and my friend had already gone to this part and knew all of it. If you don't know, Van Gogh is a famous painter who died. Fun fact Van Gogh cut off his own ear the left one to be precise. The first room had some of his most famous painting and big long paragraphs about why he painted them. The second room to me seems like the main attraction. It had some of his thoughts on a big screen which was projected. All of the walls had a projector for them. On the other walls were some of his painting and the people who made this happen had made it come to life in a way.
That is pretty much it Blog ya later.
Photos down below.
Toolkits
Kia ora bloggers today I went to Owairaka Primary School for the student toolkits. Toolkits is when the Ako Hiko schools all come together and the students share different tools on their chromebook. There are three sessions an I was lucky to be presenting today. I was presenting Music Lab in session 2.
In session 1 I was learning more about Word Art. I did two word arts one about the toolkits and the other about my school netball team. The presenters names were Justus and Kapiri. Here is a link to their slideshow. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jnfJo177B98PPMdf5ErB3SgY9QN5B_7rJFIPdMqLynU/edit#slide=id.p I think they were good and they helped when we needed it.
Session 2
Paityn and I were feeling a little nervous. It was our turn to present. Like I said it is called Music Lab that is the thing we are presenting. We had sold out on the amount of people for our toolkit. Here is the link to our slide https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1isu63LM5H8EgGh-NgvnUbRgQA3s_32m_7zdVn_96zns/edit I think it was pretty good and people liked it.
Session 3
For session me and Paityn went to Webcam Toy a fun and funny website where you can take different photos and they have filters on them. Some of the filters made you have a funny face and othes just the lighting. Here is the link https://webcamtoy.com/
Hope you have fun on these links.
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๐ปWaikowhai Student Led Toolkits๐ป
Kia ora bloggers
Last week on Friday the middles and seniors at my school did our own student led toolkits. The reason being that it was STEM week last week. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and lastly Mathematics. In the toolkits there were two awesome presenters out of 24 and you could choose out of 12 different toolkits. A toolkit is where you are either an attendee or presenter. I was a presenter so I could only choose one other one. The things you could choose were. Music lab (which I was presenting), Spheros, Webcam toy, Google maps, Book creator, Word art, Drones, Makey Makey, Brain box, Piskel, Incredibox and slide animation.
Toolkit 1: Piskel
First of all do you know what Piskel is? If you don't you should try it out it is really fun. Piskel is basically doing pixel art on an app that you can find on google. In the website you can change the colour of the pen that you use to fill in the different pixels on the screen. You can make a thing that is kind of like an animation and it moves or you can just make a normal picture. I went with my friends and we had fun on piskel. Here is the link: http://piskelapp.com/
Amount of people supposed to be there: 13
Here are some photos
It moves
Toolkit 2: Music Lab (My one and my buddy Paityn's one)
Amount of people:18
First we introduced ourselves and then we told them all about it. Then we taught them how to use it. Talked to them about some of the different types of things to use to make music. Here is the link to Music lab: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
Some of the things you can do are shared piano where you send a link to somebody from the music lab site and play piano with your friends.
Here are some photos
Toolkit 3: Music Lab (again)
I think that the first one was better because I think it was pure luck but it wasn't to bad. It was basically the same as the first one.
Amount of people:17
Here are some photos
I think that if we got to do it another time I would choose to be an attendee instead of a presenter. It was kind of funny to see all the senior and middles running around in the seniors. It was a fun and interesting way to learn about different things on your chromebook.
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Woosh I went whizzing down the hill!
Yesterday at school we went for a swim and on a water slide!
First the teachers split us into groups and I was in the group that went swimming first. The other group would go on the slide. Splash the water was nice and cold when I went under. We played around until the teacher said it was our turn to go to the water slide/slip' n slide. Me and my friends were so excited to go on the slide. At our school we have a steep hill and sometimes like on family fun day we have it out. We listened to the rules they were really simple and then we could go have a go. First we had to go by yourself then we had the choice to go with somebody. I loved it. But it wasent finished I mean the fun. Turns out we could swim again at lunch time play you had the choice. I choose to stay and swim. After that was done we went to have to lunch. Thats all for today bloggers. Here are some photos. Ops forgot to post this from last year anyway it was the same one from my family fun day blog post. Blog ya later.
Hi bloggers
Last Friday at my school we had a family fun day. At the family fun day there were 4 rotations in our different house groups that are Ruru, Kea, Tui and Pukeko. I am in Ruru. The rotations are, Inflatable water slide and dry bouncy castle (Little), water slide on the grass and the school pool, Wheel zones and bake sale and Bouncy castle obstacle course. My favourite was probably the bouncy castles (wet and dry) and pool and water slide. At the bake sale I got three things, a cookie, a rice crispy thing and I can't remember the other. The first thing Ruru did was wheels and then pool/water slide and then obstacle course and then lucky last the waterslide inflatable. Some of the things in the obstacle course was these tunnel things, a climbing wall and a big slide at the end. We raced the other people in our house group. The wheels you could on the bikes and skateboards and scooters and roller blades etc. Over all I think it was the best day ever! Check out my family fun day slideshow of photos
Namaste
Hi bloggers as you might know last Friday the 5 of March (in lockdown) there were three earthquakes. . All the phones were going off with the earthquake warning and there were updates on the news. Most of the earthquakes were in the east coast of the North Island. Our classes all came together to discuss the things that you need in a pack if you have to evacuate. So you can grab it and run. Does your family have a pack if you have to evacuate? Like I said my classes came and we brainstormed some ideas for in an emergency kit. some of the essentials in emergency kit are torches with batteries, food, water (lots of it) a first aid kit and some blankets. All the people had to evacuate to high ground and get away from the water. One of my teachers was lucky she was up on high ground in Waipu helping people and letting them use her home. Hope you know what to do now in an emergency. There is a photo below of an idea of a kit.
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Lockdown Take 4
This most recent lockdown I did a video with my brother with inspiration from my friend. We all know covid is the cause of lockdown. For NZ it is our fourth lockdown as you can see in the title. The video I did with my brother was like a trick video kind of like a magic trick. It did take a little while but only three minutes. My brother has an editing app on his phone that he used to make the video one video. My friend made a slightly different type of vid. It is quite short but cool. Anyway all this writing. about it if you want it is down below. Take a look. ๐๐
Kia Ora readers
Welcome to 2021
For the last two Wednesday's my class has been learning about netball. We learnt the three main netball passes, the bounce pass, the chest pass and the overhead pass. We played some games that helped us practice our netball skills. The games were Infinity tag, In the river on the bank and netball passing relays. Our coaches names were Josina and Olivia. Some of the things we did to warm up our bodies was squats, side shuffles, fast feet, bum kicks and sprints. I also signed up for netball at school because I love it. I think it is one of my favourite sports. I can't wait for more netball.
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Erana
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Hey bloggers
Today we got to get a teaser of the summer learning journey. We had to go on Art colouring book and re-imagine a known artwork. It was really fun to learn how to do and to do. We had to watch a video that Mr Margets had to cast on the screen. Soon we were trying it out. Anyway check out my artwork.
I wonder if you can tell witch one is mine?
