Christmas Board Game

                               

L.I to create a digital board game for the junior students

Yesterday I created a board game in the theme of Christmas. It was for the Junior students. The junior students were very nice and were going to present some of their work for us, so we decided to create a digital board game for the juniors in return for being awesome. I wanted to make a snakes and ladders, because I like that game, and I could be creative. If you land on a santa hat, you have to go forward 3 spaces. If you land on a candy cane, you go back 3 spaces. If you land on a yellow candy, you go forward 10 spaces, if you land on the bottom of the ladder you go to the top of it, and of you land on the head or top of the green snake, you have to go to the bottom of it. I loved making this game, because it was fun, and I got to play it with the juniors.

Operation Christmas Drop

L.I to write a summary of the story behind the Operation Christmas Drop in your own words

This week for reading, we were learning about OCD (Operation Christmas Drop). It is a misson where different militay people drop crates off to islands that have nothing. It all started 68 years ago, and has still been running, where a B-29 aircrew saw native villagers on an island waving at them, and the aircrew dropped a crate to help them. I loved learning about this because people (Military and Volunteers) like to help fundraise and pack supplies like food, and clothes for them. The OCD is still running and people can donate to help the volunteers purchase the equipment for the supply drop. This helpes both becausde the military practice supply drops, as well as the villagers being able to help themselves live with the supply crates. What I found interesting about OCD is that each crate is packed 1 week before the drop, and weighs about 250kg.

International Current Events

L.I To create a google maps that explains current events around the world

This week for reading we were finding international current events, and plotting them on the map. We ended up with 9 current events. We found all of our current events from a site called Kiwi Kids News. They have events National, World, Sport, and Odd stuff. The aim of this activity was to find out what has or is happening around the world. The creators of this map is Karlos, Matthew, and I. We all worked together to find these. They all had their most interesting thing they found, but the most interesting information I found out, is that a chameleon called the voeltzkow's chameleon. It was last spotted 100 years ago at madagascar, and has been spotted again by people in an expedition. Scientists were so shocked, and only know that they only live in the rainy season. I love doing current events, because I like learning new information.

Exploring our National current events

L.I To identify the author's purpose

Authors write for a purpose, they either write to persuade, inform, or to entertain (P.I.E). Each day, newspaper editors arounds the world must make desicions about witch stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on google my maps. Something interesting I found, was that 17 November 2:14 am, yesterday, a cop vehicle was shot at 15 times, during a pursuit. I had fun doing this activity.

The Charge Of Light Brigade

L.I to have a clear understanding about what happened in the crimean war

this week for reading we were learning about the famous war that happened in crimean. This DLO represents the story behind the war and facts about it. We had to work in groups of 3 which then could make us feel more confident when making this and give feedback to each other. The thing that we really liked about this task is how we got to find out interesting things about the war and the people in it. 600 men were in the war and less than 200 people survived. This DLO can give other people a clear picture on what happened, where it happened and more.

Inertia

This week for reading we were learning about Inertia, the part of science that describes the changes by force, or either being still in rest. Due to force. There are three laws of inertia which are Inertia of Direction, Inertia of Rest and Inertia of Motion. We created a DLO about what Inertia is, and the rules of it. We thought this was really interesting, because we thought it was all just gravity, but there’s more. 

Vincent Van Gogh Timeline

Learning Intention: To create a timeline to show the life of Vincent Van Gogh.

This week we were doing art. We were learning about Vincent Van Gogh. We decided to create a timeline about him. We started with when he was born, and where. Then carried on by his school, education, then his jobs, and art. He sold over 900 paintings. He also sold 2 of his paintings only. I thought Vincent Van Gogh is a very talented man. My favorite painting by him was called the Sunflowers. It is one of his most famous paintings. This timeline shows all the information about what he did from when he was born, till he died. He did a lot of paintings, which is what I like about him. He kept painting until he started using light colors, which made his paintings stand out. Azatulah, Matthew, Karlos, and I created this timeline together, and Vincent Van Gogh is now one of my most favorite art people.

Duffy Books In School

Today, we received Duffy books from Duffy. Every year we have multiple chances to pick out Duffy books that we like. We then wait for them to be sent to us. I chose 2 minecraft books, because I like reading them, and they are interesting. They were called: Like an enderman, and Attack of the Gnomes. I love these books, because they tell a story about their life, and what happens to them. We get 2 books each time. We choose 4 books though, 2 most wanted and 2 others, incase if the 2 most wanted books aren't available. Thank you to Duffy, for giving us the chance to choose books for us to read.

Science | Summary

L.I to summaries the information

This week for our reading topic (science), we created a summary using the information from our post it notes. In our summary, we skimmed and scanned to find the important keywords. We also shared our ideas and collaborated to create our summary. For our next activity, we used a question dice to help us create three interesting questions that we wanted to research. We all worked together in these activities.

The three most interesting questions are:

• When was science discovered? 

• Why is science important?

• How is science different from the past to today?

Sience | Main Ideas

L.I To find the three most vital ideas from the information to help us find the answer “What is science”. 

This week our reading topic is science. We watched a video which helped us understand what science is. While watching the video, we took notes, by selecting and rejecting the information. We used the information to identify the three most vital ideas. We shared our ideas among each other and negotiated on where to put the information on, whether it was 4 very important ideas or three most vital ideas. We also collaborated and respected each other's opinions for this activity. 

We think the three most vital ideas are:

Science is an answer and has the power to destroy and heal.

Science includes physics, chemistry and biology.

Science is discovering new things.

Polynesian Panthers | DLO

Today, Fau and I created a DLO on the Polynesian Panthers. We first talked about the Polynesian Panthers, by explaining who they are. We then talked about the problem that was happening. The Polynesian Panthers, is a group formed by 6 polynesian people, who stood up for the rights of the polynesian people. Then we talked about the issue. The issue was that the New Zealand people were mad at the people from different countries, because they were either overstayers, or they were breaking the rules. I liked learing about this, because I didn't know this happened right here, in Auckland, New Zealand.

Evaluating | Polynesian Panthers

Today we created an evaluation about the Polynesian Panthers. This was about forming an opinion about what we think about this. We chose 2 of the most important ideas from the text, to use as out opinion. Once we did so, we asked questions, that we wanted to know. I didn't ask questions, because I had no questions that I wanted to know. Lastly we had our opinion of the polynesian panthers having right to protest. We said they had right to protest, as they wanted their messages to be heared, to help educate people about their culture, and to be treated eaqually. This is why we want to support the Polynesian Panthers.

Summarising Wahine Disaster

L.I to summarise the text of the Wahine Disaster

Today, we were focusing on making a summarising DLO about the text Wahine Disaster. We wrote down twenty most important words, six most important words, and a summary to sum up the text in our own words about the Wahine Disaster.

Steps

L.I to practice our suffexes on steps

Today this morning, we were practicing suffex - ability on steps. I have completed 5 of the 10 activities set for me, and I have managed to complete them all perfectly. My favorite one was the spelling. You had to look at the words, then spell them to get them correctly. I like steps, because we can practice hard words.

Past and Present Captain James Cook and Kupe

This week in Reading, we got into our reading groups and collaboratively to complete the activities relating to Captain Cook and Kupe's’ voyage. For one of these tasks, we created a past and present DLO which explained the problems and differences between, the transportation from decades ago to now. We also did reciprocal reading and made a summary. Each person had a job to do, Vocab Clarifier, Questioners, Summarize, Predictor and the leader. 

Venn Diagram Kupe and Captain James Cook

L.I to create a Venn Diagram about Kupe and Captain James Cook. We had to compare Kupe and James Cook about what's the same and different. We had 3 each for different things and 4 things they had the same. The one I found most interesting is that Captain James Cook wasn't the first one to find New Zealand / Aotearoa which Kupe was the first. I enjoyed this activity, and Victoria, Fau, Sulia, Sakina, Haylee, Chris and I worked as a group.

A shoe's life

Today our class made a story about a shoes life. I was working with Matthew for this activity. We had to sit back to back on the floor. We have a lot of writing about this story. We used Personifacation and the 5 senses to help us in the making of the story. Then we made a story about a shoes life like how the feet might smell. This is our story that we wrote:
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I can't believe I have to do this again. It’s going to be a hard day. I don’t want to have to smell the odor from my owners socks, as he walks for 5 hours. EWWWW! Gross I can taste the sweat dripping from inside his socks. Oh well, I hope I get replaced some day. I see the dairy. OOH, is that chocolate I can smell, yum. Finally I can see home, I get to relax before another hard days of work. Oh no. I can see I pile of wet mud on the ground. NOO! I hate this so much. We get inside, I SCREAM! “go in the direction of the washing machine,”as he slowly walked. YEAH! I can now have a nice shower. I hope this doesn’t happen again? But, if it does, ill run away.

Horrible Histories DLO

For the last 2 - 1 weeks we were focusing on the past. We read a book from horrible histories and it was about Henry VIII and Terrible Tudors. We were to read the book, write down some words, make a summary then create a DLO talking about what we learnt about. We created a simple DLO to show what our book was about. Then we created a kahoot which is a quiz game, to test the skills of the students in our classroom to see if they can get the right answer. Our quiz had 10 questions. When we presented to our class we showed them our introduction and then did our quiz. It was really fun because I got to make a quiz and I learnt a lot about this book.

Current events

New Zealand News Articles

Each day, newspaper editors make desisions everyday about which current event stories they will run.  We explored that different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. We were creating a Map DLO that shows differet types of Articles that happend in New Zealand. The types of articles we were to find were Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone iportant or famous, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something negative, Continuity, Emotions and Progress. The most shocking one I found was the measles outbreak with more that 1,000 people affected. My Group (Matthew, Karlos and I) found 7 news articles that took place in New Zealand. The most unusual one I found was that Russia Accidently replaced New Zealand With Japan on their news channel. Our Task was to find current events that were happening or that happened in New Zealand so that we could grow our knowledge about what has been happening or what has happened in New Zealand.

Wasp Life Cycle

This week for reading we created a DLO showing the life cycle of a wasp. It starts off with the queen wasp laying eggs, then the eggs turn into larvael, then the larvae turn into pupae, then into a drone, queen wasp or a worker wasp. We were going to make an animation, but it was too hard so we changed it to a DLO.