Area of a triangle...

 For our maths we were learning about area of triangles. We had to make a poster on how to do it.

Here's my poster:

What did I do outside?

Everyone has been stuck inside due to the lockdown. Everyday feels more boring and boring. I wish I could go to a park, see some of my friends or/and go out to eat! But instead we have to stay home. I am grateful I can still see my family and eat my mums delicious homemade food. Something exciting I've done this weekend was taking my dog on walks to all sorts of places! The only thing is that my places to go is limited. Walking her is nothing new, I would probably still do it, even if we weren't in lockdown, but nothing exciting is really happening. The most recent and most common place for me to walk my dog is down to the beach. She loves running around on the sand but she despises the water!

What the most exciting thing that's happened during your lockdown?

My Actions.

 WALT: Create a blog post about what I could do to help the greenhouse.

Some ways you could try help the world. To try make an impact, start by turning off the lights regularly maybe when leaving the bathroom, your room, living room, house anything!

Reduce, reuse and recycle - Anything that you would normally throw away. Try cut down anything on what you throw away.

Conserve water - Only use water when necessary. Turn the water off when you brush, flush toilet when needed, take shorter showers, etc.

Shop wisely - Know what your buying and make sure its friendly for the environment.

Drive less - Instead of driving to a near building, try walking, biking or use public transport if its more further away. It not doesn't release gases, it can make you more fit and healthy. 

Plant a tree - even one small tree can help. You inspire people to plant more tree. Imagine if all the people in the world planted 5 or even 1 tree! It's so easy and could help extremely. 

Let It Go A Twisted Tale

 LI: Write a review on the last good book you read.

This book is about Elsa living in Arendelle with her parents. After her parents passed away, she slowly finds out that she have mysterious powers. Elsa then starts to remember little bits of her childhood and in her memories she remembers seeing a girl. Elsa then goes on a journey to undo a curse and find the missing Princess. 

I like the story because it has an intense mystery around the end of the story about Anna and where she is.

I would recommend this to a friend because I really enjoyed the book and most of my friends have the same interest as me.

Would you read this book?

Cautious foxy

 WALT: Create a blog post about our writing for this week

For writing this week, we had to write a story about a photo shown to us. Here's my story...

Rain bouncing off the ground. Bennett parks his car, as well as zipping up his raincoat. Bennett opens the squeaky car door, once again, highly expecting the door to completely plummet. He steps out of the car, glad that he put on his snuggy pants. The brunette man makes sure he has everything, before walking down the soggy bush walk of leaves. 

Bennet is far into the foggy forest, his old guilty experiences come back to him, but it's far too late to check if he locked the car. As he walks down the path, he can hear the waterfall crash into the water down below, even though he is jamming to his playlist. Bennett finally reached his destination, a beautiful, tall waterfall with crystal clear water, shining from the sun above. He stares at the water, wishing he brought his swimming trunks, but due to the freezing weather, he wasn’t as keen. Bennett’s legs start to ache, so therefore, he looks for a log to sit on. Straight away, he decided to sit on a mossy damp log in front of the glistening water, a perfect view to look at. He takes his bag off his back to look for his phone for a photo. After a few minutes of searching, he realises that his phone isn’t in his bag. He searches his pockets, no phone, just some tissues and his keys. He comes to the quick realization that he had left his phone in the car. Not wanting to think that he can’t take the amazing photos he wished for, he searches his bag again, hoping for more luck. He loses hopes, palming his face into his hands, he's disappointed that he had missed this opportunity. He thinks ‘There’s no point of staying to take photos, I might as well just leave’. He listens to that thought, sitting his head up.

Bennett yelps as he sees an adorable red fox sitting there, so pretty, at least 2 metres away from Bennett. The fox startled the brunette so much he fell back onto the soggy leaves, almost hitting his head on the gritty tree behind him. Looking back up at the fox, the brunette is confused by the foxes tilted head and that the fox hadn’t run away yet. Slowly get back up, the fox cautiously backs up from Bennett. The brunette man is suspicious of the confident fox. Grabbing his bags carefully, he knows he needs to run before the fox could do anything. He gets up and starts walking, not letting his eyes off the fox. The fox just sits there, licking its paws, acting like the brunette man isn’t very obviously sneaking away. Once the fox is out of sight, Bennett starts bolting to the car, no time to think of what just happened. When he's on the last turn, he unlocks his car. Swinging the car door open, and throwing his bags in, he finally made it. Locking his door, then turning his car on, he needs to catch his breath before driving off. Putting his head down onto the steering wheel, rethinking of what just happened. He looks back up. Before driving off he feels like he can see something, in the corner of his eyes. He didn’t think that this would be happening, but it is.

Arie’s Feedback: The story was good. I like the use of describing words in your story. 

Maths

WALT: create a blog post about Maths today in class. 

For Maths today, we have to solve a Maths riddle. First step was we had to solve addition questions, then subtraction, and finally we had to match the symbols that have the same answer from the first 2 steps.

What did I do well?

I think I completed this task in an average amount of time. I also answered every question smoothly.

What did I find difficult?

I found the noise around me distracting me so it was hard to focus, but I managed.

Does this Maths riddle look fun?

Whakamaru Power Station

For inquiry in Huia, we had to create a google doc of Manapouri, Tokaanu, Monowai or Whakamaru power station and answer eight questions about our chosen place.Have you ever seen any of these power stations?

Heres a link: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTVvUaY81AYurV1bFOAPFDOhDo3jlTp0FHppLvyrKiWvtCs9ED8UvUjbMzJLKNbhoHfhQM5CZ-__0Rr/pub

Decimal maths quiz

For maths in Huia, we made a quiz about about decimals on a google slide.
Here's my quiz below. Tell me your score in the comments!

Are you good at decimal equations?

Camouflage: Snow Leopard

For reading in Huia, our group had to pick an animal that can camouflage to be make it easier to hunt for their prey. Arie and I both worked together and chose a snow leopard to create a google slide on. On our slide, we researched about snow leopards appearance, their prey and predators and facts about snow leopards.

What is your favourite animal that can camouflage?

Chrome shortcut quiz

Kia Ora. For cyber smart in Huia, our class made a quiz about shortcuts on a Chromebook.
Here's my quiz below. Tell me your score in the comments!

Do you know quite a lot of shortcuts on a chromebook?

Leadership

This term at school, we are learning about leadership.

A good leader makes sure that they are...

• Responsible

• Supportive 
• Respectful
• Independent 
• Communicating with others
A leader that I respect is a singer with the name of Post Malone. He inspires me because of his rap music, and his inspiring past on how he was motivated to achieve something, which he did achieve and how he started writing raps about things he mostly wanted.

Goal Setting Term One B)

LI: Write about our goals and how were gonna achieve them.

Goal two: Try be quicker at answering my times tables. How I'm gonna achieve this goal is by practising the times tables I don't know that well and try to memorise the answers, or figure out strategies to solve them. I will practice 30 minutes any night that I'm free on, or willing to practice. 

Goal two: Try to improve my handwriting. How I'm gonna achieve my goal is by writing down letters that I need to improve my handwriting on. I will practising a few days a week.

Goal three: Try to increase my techniques while doing swimming styles. Whenever I go to the beach or pools, I am gonna practice swimming techniques so I can look cleaner while swimming and go faster in the water. 

Goal 4: Try to improve my typing skills. I'm gonna achieve my goal by practising sentences on the computer so I can get more used to the keyboard so I don't make any typos while typing.

Here's my goal sheet...

Limerick poem

A few weeks ago, Tui Whanau created a Limerick poem about anything you wanted. My poem is about my dog TJ. How we created was that the first two lines have to be 8-10 syllables long and have to rhyme, and the the third and fourth lines have to be 4-6 syllables long and have to rhyme. Lastly the last two lines have to have 8-10 syllables but the last word on the last line has to rhyme with the first two lines.

"There once was a dog that was called TJ,

She liked to chillax in her PJ's.

She always loves to sleep,

While she chews on her meat.

And now she gets ready to DJ."

Reflection:

What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed decorating my poem because I love to draw and come up with things to draw.

What did I find challenging?

I found coming up with things to rhyme with challenging because I had so many ideas but I didn't know to pick.

What could I improve on?

I think I could improve on decorating my poem more but I ran out of time.

Do you have a dog?

Maitai bay Brochure

W.A.L.T create a blog post showing and writing about my Maitai Bay Brochure

For Inquiry, our class Tui Whanau created a brochure about Maitai Bay.
In my brochure, I wrote what Maitai Bay is, where it is, what activities you can do, what marine life lives there, what is the rāhui and why was the rāhui placed there. Here is my Brochure I created.

Reflection:

What did I learn?

When researching information about Maitai Bay, I learnt what a rāhui was and what it was used for.

What did I find challenging?

I found organising everything challenging. I wanted it to look tidy so I took a long time.

What could I improve on?

I think I could improve on decorating my brochure more. It looks a little plain so I wish I could add more images.

Have you ever been to Maitai Bay?

Kiwi Can

 W.A.L.T upload a blog post showing what we learnt in Kiwi Can.

Today our class, Tui Whanau, had Kiwi Can. Our word we are focusing on is 'Respect'. It means 'Treating others the way you want to be treated'. Our catchphrase today is 'We respect our school, we will do it because we're cool'. We played 2 games - Snap, Crackle, Pop and So Makalo. My favourite game was Snap, crackle, pop. How we played was we were in a circle and three people had to get in a group, once you've gotten in a group of 3, you need to put someone in the middle of the circle everyone is in. (We used a shoe). We then had to decide what person would be called Snap, Crackle, Pop, I was called Crackle, Desiree was called Snap and Sofia was called Pop. Once you've decided the names, someone will called out Snap, Crackle or Pop. If they call out Pop, that means Pop has to run around the circle. While the person that got called out is running, the two other people have to make a tunnel for the person running to go under. Once the person running has came back to their group, they have to go under the tunnel the two other people made, and grab what ever is in the middle. If they grab it, their group wins. Here is a photo (We were playing So, ma, co, lo).

Reflection:

How did I show respect?

When I was playing Snap, Crackle, Pop. Someone fell over while I was running and I asked them if they were ok. If my teammate lost, I didn't get mad at them.

What did I enjoy?

I enjoyed playing the games because they were fun and entertaining to play, I'd like to play the games again.

What could I improve on?

I think I could improve on sliding on the ground in Snap, Crackle, Pop because I got hurt once and I'd like to improve so next time I have a better chance of snatching the object.

Have you ever played been to Kiwi Can?

Trip to Te Puna Wai Ora pools.

On Tuesday our class, Tui Whanau went to Te Puna Wai Ora pools to learn how to snorkel. We had a marine reserves instructor called Oliver to teach us how to snorkel properly. Next week on Thursday we will be going on a trip to Maitai Bay to explore the marine reserves for the Experiencing marine reserves programme. We will be comparing Maitai Bay and Aroha Island to see the marine reserves differences and discover different fish.

 

Reflections:

What did I learn?
I learnt to breath out out of the snorkel when water got inside. Sometimes I would be to scared to breath using the snorkels because I was scared I would swallow the water.

What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed swimming in the water with my snorkels and mask on because it was entertaining swimming laps with the snorkels cause I could go underwater while breathing.

What is one goal you have with your ability in the water?
My goal is to learn how to breath underwater with the snorkels because sometimes the water got in my mouth.

Have you ever gone snorkelling?

Waitangi trip

W.A.L.T create a blog post explaining what we did at Waitangi.

On Tuesday, Our class, Tui Whānau went on a Waitangi trip by bus. We learnt a lot of stuff about carvings, scratch and Māori stuff. We got on the bus and drove away at 8:30 and got there at around 10 am. The people who guided us were Monika and Cailtin. My favourite part about Waitangi was playing around with scratch and looking at the canoes. 

Reflections:

What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed looking at the cool carvings because they were interesting and made me wonder. I also enjoyed playing scratch because it was entertaining and fun to play around and make a game.


What did I find challenging?
I found trying to figure out how to do stuff on scratch because it was confusing.

Have you ever been to Waitangi?

Kiwi Can

W.A.L.T create a blog post explaining what we did at Kiwi Can

Today at Kiwi Can we played 5 games, I won't say all of them, but my favourite game was "Stop, walk, jump". The word today was again Accountability. It means taking responsibility and ownership of you actions, the catchphrase was also the same as last time.. How the game went was that there would be someone that would either called out Go, stop, clap and jump, except they said it in Maori so it was more challenging. If they called out go, you would have to walk until they said stop, and if they called out jump, you would have to jump (The same with clap.)

Reflection:

What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed playing all of the game, they were entertaining and fun.

What did I do well?
I think I listened and paid attention, most of the kids listened well and 

Would you like to play this game? Have you ever had Kiwi Can?

Newspaper File

 W.A.L.T create a blog post explaining our reading task for today.

For reading today we had a different teacher, Mr. Metzger. We had to fill in a piece of paper that was about Kiwi Kids News, there was different boxes that said something at the top, whatever it said at the top we had to find an article about what it said. 
Here is my worksheet:

Reflection:

What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed looking at the cool and funny stuff on Kiwi Kids News because it was fascinating looking at the articles.

What did I do well?
I did well on finding articles for each box, it was pretty easy and joyful.

What could I improve on?
I think I could improve on having better handwriting when writing in the box.

Have you ever been on Kiwi Kids News?

Kiwi Can

 W.A.L.T create a blog post explaining what we did at Kiwi Can.

At Kiwi Can today, we played 2 games, 1 activity. The word we are focusing on this term is Accountability. Accountability means taking ownership/responsibility for actions you have done and being honest. The catchphrase today was "We are honest, we are true, we take ownership for what we do." My favourite game we played today was this dancing game. The game was called "Impossible connections", basically we had to dance while music was playing, when the music stopped, one of the Kiwicaners had to call out a number and a body part. The number meant how much people in a group there would have to be, example, if she called out "three", you would have to get in a group of 3. Here's an example, if she called out "foot" you and the other people in your group would have to sit down touching feet with the other people in your group.

Reflection:

What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed playing the games, they were very entertaining and fun to play. I am glad that we played the games multiple times cause that means I could have a go again at doing the games.

What did I find challenging?
I found listening to the Kiwicaners difficult, I couldn't hear them that well because people were either talk, or moving chairs.

Do you want to try play the game I explained? How has your day been?