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. 

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.

Rat island prediction

 This week we have started reading about this novel called 'Rat Island', and we got a sheet of paper to do our per-read prediction. Here is my sheet.

Camp goals update

Last week we went to camp and this is my camp goals that I had update.

Parihaka

This week for reading we have been learning about Parihaka. We had to go around the room and look for some clues for our pieces of paper and complete it. Once we had finish filling up our pages we had to cut them up and stick them together like it was a puzzle. It's a puzzle but shape like a feather, and we had to find out about the Parihaka and what happened. Here is my feather. 

Thank you letter to the people who helped us at our camp

 This week we have been writing some letters to the people who helped us at camp and the people who looked after us when we had our fun. I really enjoyed writing the letter to one of the instructor Dominic. Here is my letter to the instructor.

WALT: structure (thank you letter)
Success Criteria	Self assessment
2 or 3 paragraphs	😃😀😀
Correct setting out	😃😃😃
Interesting information using adjectives, verbs, a simile and nouns

Selina J

40 Campion Rd

Gisborne

5th November 2020

Dear Dominic, 

I am writing to you to thank you for all of your hard work in making our Year 5 & 6 camp. I personally think that you were the bomb-dot-com because you were a great  instructor. You helped us make great memories, I thought that you were following my group because you were everywhere. But it’s probably because you know how to instruct a lot of things.

One of the highlights for me was doing the flying fox because I wouldn’t normally do the flying fox because I don’t like heights. I really enjoyed going from the top of the platform to the bottom, it was fast when I saw other people do it before me. I felt a bit nervous because the people before me went fast. But I wanted to go because it was a new thing for me to do and it was a lot different to my normal day.

So thank you Dominic for helping us have fun and instructing us to be safe. You have made our Year 5 & 6 camp a lot of fun with the other instructors. We really appreciate your work at Tui Ridge. 

Mā te wā

Selina

            

Octocber Student Reflection Newsletter

 Today we had been doing our student Reflection Newsletter to reflect on what we did on October. I really enjoyed writing about what I did on camp.

Tui Ridge camp 2020

 On Friday we just got back from camp and it was a BLAST! We did a lot of activities to do and these activities are not the ones you see on normal camp where you just build a tent and make a fire, sing songs and all those activities. But this camp was a lot different, when you go there you would need to do high ropes, rope maze, paintball slingshot, rock climb and a whole more. I had fun doing the wevideo, having fun looking back at the photos and had a little self smile. I found thinking of what to say really hard but with a little help a got it all done.