Christmas All Around The World

 HELLO! Everyone,

Christmas is coming soon so here is an activity related to Christmas. Yesterday our teacher was out so we had another teacher come in and her name is Ms Coleman and while we were with her, we were given some work to do. Christmas All around the world was one of the work we had to do. It was about learning what other countries do for Christmas. Christmas is one of those seasons to celebrate with family and friends and pets so there was 11 countries I had to choose from and I chose Spain. From what I heard Spain is a really nice and beautiful country. 

I hope to also go there and celebrate Christmas there too because when I was doing some research I found some awesome things about Spain. About how they celebrate it and what they do to lift the Christmas spirit up. For the activity, we make a DLO about the country we chose and what they do for Christmas.

Here is the DLO I made:

:))))))

Constructing Media

 Hey everyone,

I know it has been quite long since I have posted and I hope to keep up on things so that I get to post more. Today I am going to tell and show you about what we were doing for cybersmart. We were looking at What is Media. As a class we watched some videos and never really got to do the activities but in the beginning of this week we started to look at constructing media. We watched more videos about it and some information which was about advertisement and got to make one for ourselves. 

For one of the activities, it was to make a newspaper article about an event that happened at school. The majority of us made a newspaper article about camp which happened two weeks ago and lots of us had a very fun time. I actually got ideas from some other students who presented the same thing in senior assembly and it was really cool. I tried making my newspaper article very cool too and this is what I made myself:

Hope you like how I detailed it quite deep and that you enjoy reading it!!

Ordering Decimals

 Hey guys,

Today I will be posting my Math DLO that I have made to teach others about a strategy that I have learnt which is ordering decimals. For this activity we are also trying to be creative and also did another book creator for my DLO. Our teacher was actually creative enough and made a really fun and amusing slideshow and used links and pictures to make it amusing for us to look through and the links leaded to games, information about strategies and more. 

Some of us even tried to do what our teacher did and I'm sure they did an amazing job. Book Creators are really fun and great to use. I really recommend this app to you and hope you would use it in the future.

Maori Language Week

 Hello guys,

Last week was Maori Language week and today I managed to complete my Maori language week activity and post it to my blog. For this activity we looked through some new tools we could use to be more creative with our DLO's. After, they were some slides we could choose through to make a DLO about. The slides were about Maori colors, Maori alphabet and etc). I choose to do Maori Greetings on my one and chose to be creative and made it into a story using Book Creator. Book Creator is a an app where you can make comic books or just books. 

The Seven Sacraments

 Hey guys, 

This week is the last week of this term. We are trying to finish some of our work from this term and try and finish them by the end of this week. Today I completed my Sacraments work from R.E. It is about the Seven Sacraments and each Sacrament is either a Sacrament of Initiation, Sacrament of Healing and Sacrament of Commitment. They were videos and information for us to read and watch to remind our selves of what the Seven Sacraments were and for this activity, I actually learned that they're was a Sacrament of Initiation and etc). 

This week we also tried to be more creative with our DLO's and our work and the majority of us is very creative with our work. For the activity, the first thing we had to do was create a DLO of the Sacraments of the Initiation. The second one was to create a poster or picture that explains the Grace we receive through the Sacrament of Healing. Then the last one was to either make a Newspaper article about how they carry out the responsibility for the Church and their demonstration on being a leader.

Here is the DLO that I made;

Here is the poster I created and added links under;

Here are some links to some information about the Sacraments of Healing. 

Here is the news article I made using newspaper generator.;

Hoped you enjoyed it!

Uru Manuka Student Summit 2020

Hello guys, 

Today our class and Room 5 were busy nearly all morning because we were joining these hangouts about different toolkits. They were 4 sessions/hangouts we joined in different hours and learnt different tool and skills to use in the future. Yesterday we actually had to fill in a form on what which hangouts we would like to join/learn on each sessions.

One of the session I joined was very amusing because people were very nice and explained it very well so i think they did an awesome job. After every session we would have to fill this form in about if we enjoyed it and what we like about it.

About my other sessions they were very fun and amusing too because some of them really taught me new things but some were talking kinda fast and some people in the hangout also tried their best to keep up on what they person who was representing was saying.

Pope's Inquiry

 Hi guys,

It has been a while since I have post but its okay:) Last week we were learning about Pope's and Bishops and they were activities that we had to do. Then they're was this slideshow that we had to look through and follow the instructions and we had to make an inquiry for the Pope to write about. They were different inquiries we could chose from then answer three questions. We were allowed to make a DLO about it or answer the questions straight on our blog. I also had to do some research to write about.

 

Amazing and Awful Jobs Pirates had

WALT compare jobs pirates had on land and sea. 

This week for topic we are still learning about pirates and for this task we had to make a venn diagram for the different jobs pirates did on land and sea and in the middle of the diagram we would add the jobs they did that includes both land and sea. There were about three links about the jobs pirates had on ship and it gave us lots of information to talk about. It was also kinda hard to find jobs that the pirates did on land because they would usually be on boat and on the sea but I guess there are also some land jobs pirates do.

The job that I probably liked the most was to be a quartermaster because their responsible of the captain's behavior and if the captain crossed the line the quartermaster would punish the captain and also deals with disciplines and punishments. 

 Here is the venn diagram I made:

Cipher Wheels

WALT...

- Identify what is a cipher wheel.

-Describe how they are used.

-Create a cipher wheel to use.

This start of the term, our school is focusing and learning about pirates. For Topic we are learnt about Cipher Wheels and how pirates used them. There were information and links for us to read so that we would know how to make and use one. Pirates would use cipher wheels to send secret messages to people and they would have to make a code for the other pirate or person to figure out what they said. The reason why pirates used cipher wheels to send messages to their crew mate or someone was because they didn't want others to know what they wrote. Pirates were also around for many years and they probably used cipher wheels for a very long time.

For the last couple of days we made a cipher wheel and wrote a code message to our buddy to figure out where we hid the treasure that was given to us and we used a crunchie bar as our treasure for our buddy to find. The cipher wheel has letters and numbers on it so that when you right the code and the sentence, you have to write the numbers down that is facing the letters in the sentence you wrote. It is kinda hard to understand but it will get kinda easier when you try and do it. I also found it quite hard to do because of all of the numbers and letters but I think I just did it wrong but today I think I learnt how to do it properly.

Here is a picture of my cipher wheel:

Subaru

Hi everybody, 

So this week for reading we are learning about Pleiades. There are different myths and stories about the cluster of stars for example Matariki, The Oinion wives, the Great Bear, Orphan boys and more. Our tasks for reading was to choose one country to research about Pleiades, and then we also had to create a DLO to teach others about the specific country we chose. I chose to do a powtoon for my DLO and the country I chose to reasearch about is Japan and in Japanese it is known as Subaru or Houki Boshi. 

This is the powtoon I made:

What I learnt is that there were also different myths around the world about Pleiades. What I enjoyed was probably reading the different myths and making a DLO about one of them. What I think I could do better is that I should make an improvement in my work by really trying my best to search for more and more information to add on my DLO but I think the information I found is good enough and very easy to understand.

Jesus' Life After Baptism

Today for RE we watched a video about Jesus' ministry and after that there was a task about what Jesus did after his baptism. There was three videos that we had to watch and the videos were about Jesus' baptism, when a devil tries to attempt Jesus to worship the evil and when he entered the synagogue and told others about the kingdom of heaven. After that we either have to choose to do a comic strip, story board template or a timeline about Jesus' life after baptism. I choose to do a comic strip and added what Jesus did after baptism.

Here is the comic strip I made:

Jesus' Baptism

Last week on Friday, for R.E we learned about the Holy Spirit and there was a site that was about the Holy Spirit and there was two tasks. First task was about Gabriel surprising Mary with good news that she will give birth to the Son of God. After, there was questions about the video that we had to answer, then at the end there was a passage that we had to look up and there was one question that we had to also answer.

For task two we had to make a news report about Jesus' baptism. There was also some videos and passages about Jesus' baptism. For the news report we were able to use the news paper generator to put the news report about Jesus' baptism.

Here is the news report that I made:

Matariki

WALT Summaries information using keywords and phrases. 

Hi guys.. 

This week we are learning about Matariki and how it was formed in the sky and lots more. First there were some information that we had to look through about Matariki. We also had to answer some questions before we could make our DLO and there was also some more videos and information we can go back through and write about. Also for the questions, there were answers at the end that we could not look through until we are finish. I have put some lots of information in my DLO and.. 

Here it is:

 

What I enjoyed is learning more about Matariki and making a DLO that will tell others what Matariki is and I also enjoyed reading and watching the vidoes and information about Matariki, and I can't seem to remember what I found hard but overall this was a fun activity to do.

Pōhā

In reading, some groups are reading the same passages and they are about some Maori kai. My group is reading a passage about pōhā and we had to make a DLO about it. Before that we had to also watch a video explaining what poha is and how it is made. There was also a link to a website that shows more facts about poha that we could go back to when making out DLO. After, there was a doc where we had to find our own website where we can find our facts about poha.

In the DLO that I made has the explanation about what poha is and we also had to discuss hte impact that the use of these in early Maori and also include any modifications we think that could prove the design but I didn't add that because I don't think that the design of it needs to be improve because how it is also made and the protection of it, its very tough so that it won't break it or anything and that it can be use to put meat in it.

The Holy Spirit

In class we are learning about the holy spirit and today we have to make a blog post about the image or the title of God and how we can show others that I can be the Holy Spirit. So yesterday, in buddies we were given a passage each from the Scriptures and we had to illustrate what the verse or the passage was about and we could also add the titles of God. Me and my buddy were given the verse of, "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go meet God. Psalm 42:1-2".

So my buddy and I decided that the passage is about the water and streams so my buddy helped and drew a picture of a river and my buddy also wanted to add some nature in it so I helped him and we put the verse in and we thought of a title for God and wrote flowing streams because God will always be on our sides and make sure that we will never thirst and that the streams are where we get our fresh water and that it will keep us alive and safe. 

Here is the picture that my buddy drew that I helped him with:

How can I show that I can be the holy spirit?

How I can show that I can be the holy spirit is by showing the CERR Values in our school and that I keep on loving others as I will love them for eternity and that I will show joy and forgiveness like how God and Jesus showed it and that I will be paitence with things and show goodness to my family and friends.

The Wanted Rat

For our reading activities, instead of doing the old way we use to do it, we now use reading activity cards. They are some random fun activities that we can do about the story that we are reading in our reading group. This week I choose to do a wanted poster about one of the person in the story that I am reading and its about a swimming race and I choose the rat in the story because he was one of the main character and he were was very suspicious during the whole race even at the start and at the end.

The book was called the race, of course and the animals that was in the story was actually based on the Signs of the Chinese Zodiac and I turned out to be born on the year of rats. 

Here is the poster that I made: 

The Gifts of God - Peace

This week on Thursday for R.E our class talked about the CERR Values in our school and the gifts of God and we also talked about some words that relates to a CERR Value. After, we talked about the fruits of the spirit. Some of us remembered a song about the fruits of the spirit that we use to sing in school and we even listened to it. The fruits of the spirit are kindness, gentleness, love, hope, self control and more. Then we named a CERR Value that we think it relates to. Then after, we had to make a DLO about a word from the frutis of the spirit that we were given and include why its one of God's gift.

Some of us made a DLO with a buddy and the rest of us made a DLO by ourselves. The word that I was given was peace. I had to write why peace was a gift of God and how it is important in our lives.

Hope you learnt why peace is a gift of God!

(If you didn't, just have peace!)

The Mysterious forest

During lock down we have been doing lots of writing at the start of this term and now that we are back in school we had another week to finish our writing. In our writing groups we have all learned how to make a pick path story. A pick a path story is when you write a story and its up to the reader to chose a choice that will lead to another path of the story which will continue but will still have an ending. 

When Ms Wilton takes our group for writing, each group had a google doc where we all put our planning in. Each week we would add to our planning then add it to our google form after we made our planning. It probably took us about 6 weeks to do our writing but some of us managed to finish our writing after those 6 weeks. We were also allowed to add images to our pick a path story once we were done with our writing but since I didn't get to add images to my story, I still worked hard on my writing and I hope you guys will like it too!:)

Ways I can be more like Jesus

Week 6 and we are back in school. We have another 6 weeks till the end of the term and we still need to keep our boundaries. We also have to put hands sanitizer to keep our hands clean and we have to put some on our hands when we touch the door and before and after we eat. So please stay home if you are sick and please stay home if your not gonna go to school or work and please keep healthy. 

Today we are back and were mostly doing our R.E. Since at the start of the term we've been learning virtues and today we did a sheet about how we can be more like Jesus. After that we had to make a DLO about how we can be more like Jesus by showing virtues. I chose to do biteable because it is a very easy and simple to use and I have put lots of ideas on how I can be more like Jesus.

 

Ways I can be more like Jesus on Biteable.

How can you become more like Jesus?

Multiplying Larger Numbers

WALT use a range of mental strategies to solve addition problems.

This term my maths group has been learning lots of new strategies and some of them we already know and some are new and quite hard. We also had to make a DLO about one of the strategies in one of the chapters to teach others about that strategy. We could also add a quiz to our DLO to make it interactive. 

The strategy I chose to make a DLO on is multiplying larger numbers because I find it quite easy to learn and I think you will too. 

Here is the DLO I made: