Cafe Animation

 Today in class we made an animation on our cafe logo and and cafe name. I really enjoyed doing this because I had done this in the past and I loved how this turned out. I have put some ideas I had saw but also thought some ideas myself. This animation took 170 slides on google slides. The shapes and the way of the color is one of the things that had help me with this. Tip - use your arrow keys. Enjoy!

Water use

 Today we learnt how some people in the world has to carry water from the water areas back to their homes, and it's not close, it's really long, sometimes little kids get their water and some older kids will steal their water. So I have made a google drawing of how much water we use for each thing we do.

Camping hacks and tips - Summer Learning Journey

 Today we were learning what to bring when we go camping, we also learned some hacks too. The first thing we did was read Prepare a camping checklist, then we explored Travel away, the last thing we did for the learn was watch camping hacks. The we made our own list of what we need to bring for the next time we go to camping. 

     Camping and tramping list.

• Sleeping bag
• Food & water
• Tent, poles, stakes and tarp                            
• First aid kit
• torch/ flashlight/ lanterns & batteries
• matches/ lighter/ fire lighter & fire extinguisher.
• Toiletries (e.g toothbrush, hairbrush and other things)
• Sunscreen 
• Ropes 
• Backpacks
• Cooking pots, tongs, large spoon, spatula, grill fork, pans, silverware and a lot more.

Te Reo Maori Ice cream - Summer learning jounery

 Last Tuesday we were learning how to say ice cream and 3 different flavours in Te Reo Maori. First we made a copy of this slide deck and started to do the task on the slides, we didn't need to watch some videos or read about ice cream. I think that this task has helped me a lot because I am not Maori. Here are my slides.

Tastes of summer - Summer Learning journey

 Today we were learning what tastes means to you are your whanau. The first thing we did was watch describing foods, then we readed NZ favourite foods and Summer foods. Then we started doing a collage of our favourite foods on summer. Here is my collage.

UV Ray indicator for home - Summer learning journey

 Today we learned about Ultraviolet, or you can say it like UV for short. The first thing we did was watch UV Effect, then read UV facts for kids, UV level and Find today's UV levels. Then we had to make our own house UV monitor or do it digital. I did mine digital. 

It's cool to be kind - Summer Learning Journey

Today we were learning how to be kind online, first we played this game where we have to spread kindness to those who were feeling sad and hurt and we had to stop cyberbullying, it's really fun and the game is called interland. Then we looked for some comments from our blog and copied it, pasted it onto a google drawing and wrote an reply and post it onto the comment.

Kiwi Jingle Bells - Summer Learning Journey

 Today we got to make our own Jingles Bells song, all we had to do was think of our own lyrics that is like Jingle Bells. The first video we had to watch was A kiwi jingle bells, then we had to read NZ Christmas Traditions, then we started making our own jingle bells lyrics. Here is my one.

Treasure map code - Summer Learning Journey

 Today we had to learn a new code to solve where the lion rock is. Pigpen cipher is the code we had to learn and use to solve what it was saying. We first had to watch these videos, pigpen cipher and cool codes for kids pigpen cipher. Then we had to complete a set of slides and at the end we made our own code of our favorite beach, I don't have a favorite beach because I think that all beaches are nice. Here is my work.

Making a new outfit for Santa - Summer learning journey

 Yesterday we had to read a book and then create a new outfit for Santa Claus. The first thing we had to do was to read a story from a learning journal. The story was called Hana Kōkō, it was about a family who loves to sell jams and other stuff, the headmaster went and asked the dad to wear a Santa outfit, but when the dad got back home, he had an idea. You can keep reading on the link. After we had finish reading the story we had started our create. It was to make a new summer outfit for him. Here is my one.

Writing A Haiku Poem - Summer Learning Journey

 Today we had to learn about and write a Haiku poem, It's based on a traditional Japanese poetic form. First we had to read How to write a Haiku poem, then watch How to write a Haiku poem, and then we start out create. Our create was to write a Haiku poem. I have based mine on summer. A Haiku poem has to be written on 1 topic only, but a Haiku poem can be a funny one, seasons or even anything. Here is my Haiku poem.

Which One Doesn't Belong? - summer learning journey

 Today we had to learn about 'which one doesn't belong'. We first had to listen or watch these videos, the first video was from Sesame Street, the next one is Math anywhere: at the donut shop and the last one is which one doesn't belong. Next we watched a video show us what we need to do. We got this set of slides and we started answering the questions, and at the last slide I got to create my own 'Which One Doesn't Belong'. You can also do my one, by commenting. Here is my Which One Doesn't Belong.

Making my own sing chorus - summer learning journey

 Today I made a song chorus by myself. We first had to watch this song that some students from Mangere Collage made and it was called Rise up, I put a link on the rise up if you want to watch or listen to it. It means to just keep rising up and never look back. My chorus is like never give up hope or anything else I got on my chorus and even if your not Catholic still believe in God. Here is my song chorus. This is my voice singing the chorus. Click here. 

Summer learning journey - Kowhaiwhai

 Today I was doing the summer learning journey task for today. I learned about Tānerore and Tama-nui-te-ra. Tānerore is the son of Tama-nui-te-ra, You can only see him when it's a really hot day and there is something moving in the distance. That is him, you can also see Tānerore when a group of people is doing kapa haka and their hands are doing the wiriwiri, a hand movement. 

Today's task was to either draw a Kowhaiwhai or do it online using google drawing. I drew mine and coloured it but it doesn't look right with the colours and I used colour pencils to colour it so it doesn't pop. Here is my picture.

What Christmas means to me

Last week I wrote what Christmas means to me and I wrote it in a poem. Here is my poem.

What Christmas means to me…

Christ’s birthday or Jesus’ birth.

Happy times with family and friends.

Remembering and celebrating about times of the year.

It also means giving the joy when you give your presents

Santa gives presents to kids because he likes to see the joy when they open it.

To give and receive.

Merry Christmas to everyone who is alone in the world.

A time to share.

So have a merry and a joyful Christmas.

By Selina Jiang

Selina's goal setting from term 1

 Today I looked at my goal setting and see if I have done it or not. Red means I didn't do it, green means I have done it and orange means I did do it but not alot. Here is my goals setting updated.

Ice candle

 Today we made ice candles, it was really interesting because when we ripped the cardboard out it was pouring our water. It looked really cool, and the ice candle that I ripped of the cartoon had a face.

Here are the steps on how to make an ice candle:

1. We got out old candles that don't work anymore and melt them over a stove and a pan.

2. well that was melting we got out milk cartons and cut of the top.

3. after we pour oil into the carton and used our hands to spread it on all sides of the carton.

4. then we hold in place a long white candle that's new in the middle of the carton and put ice in the carton.

5. once there is ice in, we carefully poured the wax from the candles into the cartons.

6. left it overnight and let it set.

November Student Reflection Newsletter

 Today we have been doing our November Student Reflection Newsletter. I really enjoyed doing the writing, and the photos. A lot has happened this month or are we just really busy? Anyways, enjoy my November Student Reflection Newsletter.

Art coloring book

 Today we have been learning how to use the art colouring book site. It's a site where you can colour by clicking with your mouse key, and you can recolour paintings from other arteries. I did mine on this painting of this woman combing her hair by Goyō Hashiguchi. Here is my version of the painting and her version.

Goyō Hashiguchi

Mine

Rat Island language features

 This week we have also got another pieces of paper to complete. We have to find a Simile, Metaphor and a Personification in the book and write it onto the sheet and keep adding it until we had finished the book. 

Here is my language features and the examples; Simile: His black moustache was as sharp as a stingray's tail. My lips like a bucket of spilled spuds. Metaphor: Captain tombs was seated in the corner of his cabin. A black spider in a web. I tried to pull back, but his grip was an iron shackle around my wrist. Personification: Through storms and seas that'd make a cannon ball weep.