The Yearbook

WALT: Use graphic design skills to create a class yearbook.

Reflection: My favorite thing on my yearbook is the blue in the background. I think next time I think I could write more about myself.

What is your highlight for this year?

My Influence

 WALT: Work independently on a personal interest project.

Me and my class had to choose out of a range of categories and write facts about it. So I chose Avani Gregg.

I chose green and black because those are some of her favorite colors. 

Who is your favorite influence?

 

My EOTC Adventure

WALT: Connect with Papatūānuku by exploring our local area.

On Tuesday and Wednesday Kowhai Kotuku and Tuatara class (my class) went for a trip to Taipa beach for surfing. The waves on Tuesday were bigger then Wednesdays and I stood up more on Tuesday. Before we went to school me and my friends went to the end of the beach and found heaps of small and big crabs.

It was very funny looking at all the embarrassing and cool photos of my friends.

Have you ever been on a school trip.

 

WOW Word

 WOW - Research the word phenomena and learn it's meaning. Find different natural phenomena around the world and plot it on a Google Map. Choose one phenomena and create a mosaic drawing to illustrate it.

Reflection: The font is my favorite and also I liked the gradient background my one wish is that I could do words that don't have graph in it.

Did you enjoy this post?

My Holiday Postcard

 WALT: Writing - Use summarizing skills and key vocabulary to write a paragraph relating to the text.

Me and my class had to write a postcard to a classmate I wrote to Ratapu Peterson.

Reflection: My two stars were that I liked the first page where it says city of sails and I also like the stamp that I used which was a Kiwi. Next time I hope I can do better designs on the sails.

What will finally break the internet?

 

My Site

WALT:Synthesize texts with your own prior knowledge to develop new ideas and understandings.Research facts about climate change and write synthesis statements about the effects of climate change.

Me and my class had to make a site about how climate change could effect our whole entire world.

Would you rather snow or rain?

SITE

My Weather Line Graphs

WALT: Use Google Sheets to create and interpret time series graphs.

Me and my class had to make a google sheet on our drives and go onto met service to choose one city in the north island and south island so I got to choose Whangarei and Dunedin.

Reflection: I think it was a tiny bit hard to keep on finding the degrees and then when I find them I had to go from one page to the other. Next time I hope we would be able to write more but I like the colors of the text box.

What country do you want to visit the most?

 

My Number Line

WALT:Make connections between fractions, decimals and percentages.

Me and my class learnt how to make the simplest form of fractions and how to compare decimals to percentages and fractions.

Reflection: It was difficult to find where the 25 and 75 goes and next time I wish I could have a bigger number line so I could write more stuff. I like how I done the numbers nice and big.

What is the 0.7 in a percentage.

 

Climate

 WALT: WOW - Find the word 'climate' and 'weather' in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Find the causes and effects of climate change.

Reflection: I had trouble trying to name the ways it could effect the earth and next time I think I could write more things down. I like the drawing that I made.

What's the difference between climate change and global warming?

Mosaic Art

WALT: Use 2D shapes and the poly line tool to create mosaic art on Google Drawings.

Reflection: Next time I would improve more on the arrow and the spiral but other then that I like the heart.

What is your favorite country?

 

Inference RL Slide

WALT: Reading - Make inferences using the clues in the text along with your own experiences to help you figure out what is not directly said.

Reflection: It was hard doing the last one next time I think I could improve by adding more detail to why I think so bit. I like the way that I thought about them.

What's your favorite book?

 

My Reading Response (Hatupatu And The Bird-Women)

WALT: Reading - Read narrative texts and engage higher order thinking skills.  

It took me a while to write the story in my own words but then I got through it quickly.

Reflection: It was hard doing one activity then the other then the other. Next time I think I could improve on the description. I really liked my WANTED poster.

Whats your favorite Maui story?

August WOW Word

WALT:WOW - Find the word 'autobiography' in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Identify famous people who have written autobiographies. Find an autobiography in our library

Reading the synopsis was sort of hard because USA was segregated. It's good to know that now it isn't happening anymore or is it.

Reflection: It was hard looking through every page in the dictionary for the definition. Next time I think I could improve by writing more.

Do you have a famous autobiography at home?

 

Calendar Art

 WALT: Calendar Art - Create 3D digital images on Google drawings and a blended background for calendar art.

Me and my class Tuatara started our calendar art to sell for our school and hope you like my google drawing.

Reflection: It was easy painting the background and taking the photo but hard to draw my dog.

Do you have a pet?

Wow

WALT:WOW - Find information on a famous NZ actor (Russell Crowe).

Me and my class have researching about famous actors or directors. This is what I've done and hope you learn about these legends.

Reflection: It was easy doing the researching and I like the hombre next time I think I coul write down more researching.

Who is your favorite celebrity?

WOW Word 2020

WOW - Find information on a famous director (Sir Peter Jackson).

Me and my class had to research about the famous director Sir Peter Jackson a.k.a the master of The Lord Of The Rings.

Reflection: It is so fun researching about celebrities and all those type of people but next time I want to do better on my google drawing.

Are you entering the film festival?

Thank You Jacinda Adern

Writing - Write a thank you letter following a formal letter structure

Tuatara and Kotoku class started to rite a thank Jacinda Adern our prime minister for looking after Aotearoa over our covid experience.

Please click this link to see the article

Who was the prime minister before Jacinda ardern?

Film shots

WALT: Reading - Classify and compare different camera angles.

REFLECTION:I had fun watching the films and it was interesting where the angles that they used. Net time I would use more slides so I can be more specific.

QUESTION: Are you competing in the film festival?

My Covid-19 Poster

WALT:Plan and create an advert that for a specific purpose and audience.

Reflection:I liked finding kiwis and stick people because it just reminds me of my house and when I was little. Next time I think it would be better with other colors.

Did you do baking over lock down?

Wow Word 2020

WALT: Find words in the dictionary and the thesaurus and to understand 'personification' as a figure of speech.

Reflection I liked cutting out my google drawings and I loved how I done the gradient background but next time I hope I can get better similes.

Do you have a wow word at your school?