Powerful Punctuation

 W.A.L.T: identify types of punctuation

This term I was learning to identify types of punctuation. I did it after I did the figurative language doc so it was so much easier.

When I had finished the Punctuation doc I felt so more relaxed... and this time I don't have to do another doc!

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Fantastic Figurative Language

 W.A.L.T: identify types of figurative language.

This term I was learning to identify types of figurative language. Went I started learning it was pretty hard but it soon became easier and easier.

When I had finished the Figurative language doc I was so proud... but now I have to do the Punctuation doc!

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I Tipu Ake Au I Tenei Tau 2020

 Today I have reflected on my year at kura. We worked on a reflection doc. We reflect on things to see where we were, where we are now and how we can move forward.

I had to think about my year at kura. My favourite part of the year was when we learned how to draw rakau.

Here is a link to my Reflection doc.

What was your favorite learning this year?

Epic Art

 Today we did Cybersmart and we did a practice activity  for the Summer Learning Journey. We needed to color-in a famous piece of art using an app. I did Stick Insects, If you would do this which art piece would you pick?

What Is The Purpose Of A Blog Post?

W.A.L.T: Find out the purpose of a blog post and do a blog post on it.

 Purpose of a blog post -

1. To teach others

2. To get feedback

3. To celebrate

It was lot’s of fun and I really enjoyed it.

What is your favorite purpose of a blog post - to teach others, to get feedback or to celebrate?

Amazing Book Club:

                                                          

The book I am reading is Ordinary Hero and it is a book about a boy called Ryan. He saves a girl called Sonia from a fire then he becomes a hero but  doesn't like the attention. My favourite part of the book so far is the bit where he rescues the girl from the fire.

 A book club is where you have a book that you need to read over 9 days. The first thing you need to is find how many pages to read a day and on the first day you read that amount of pages then you fill in a Ticket To Discussion Day that looks like the picture on the left. The next day each of the people in your group choose a job from the picture below and using the information on the other people in your group's Ticket To Discussion Day tickets fill in the stuff to complete your job and repeat for the next 7 days.

What book would you choose if you did book clubs?

Thank you for reading my blog post! 😄

Epic Polygons

 W.A.L.T: Be able to identify polygons and name them.

The difference between polygons and other shapes are that polygons have straight edges, are closed shapes and are flat shapes. Polygons can be many shapes and sizes. Squares, trapezoids, and rectangles are all polygons.

Polygons:

Polygons - No. 1

Polygons - No. 2

Polygons - No. 3

The Amazing Way To Round A Fraction To The Nearest Whole

 W.A.L.T : Round A Fraction To The Nearest Whole

Yesterday I learned to round fractions of a whole number to

the nearest whole number. Here is an example:

2.734502

The trick is we ignore all the other parts of the fraction apart from

the first part of the fraction which is 7 in this case. If the 7 is 6 -10

the whole number which is 2 in this case is now 3, but if it is 4 -1

the answer is 2. But what if the first part of the fraction is five? Well

then we look at the second part of the fraction. If that is five too we

move to the next number and so on… but were where were we, a

yes if the first part of the fraction is 5 we look at the next number let’s

say that's 2 if the 2 is 6 -10 the 2 turns the fraction of the whole

number 5 into a fraction of the whole number 6 which now means

it turns the whole number 2 into a whole number 3, but if the fraction

of the whole number 2 is 4 -1 the whole number is still 2.

Please leave a comment, I would love to hear from you!

Ultimate Frisbee

 

This term I was learning to play Ultimate Frisbee. We went over the ways of throw the Frisbee - Forehand, backhand and overhead. Then we designed logos for own imaginary team, there is a picture of my logos above. After we had made our logos we practiced the game, it was really fun! the next week we practiced the game and this time my team didn't do so well.

Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori

Taku mahi i tenei wiki.

Tuatahi soup carving.

Tuarua, tuhi taku whakaaro mo toku reo.

Panuitia taku tuhituhi tenei link

Titiro i te pikitea tenei. Te kaupapa, toku mahitoi.

My Amazing Dream House:

 W.A.L.T: Find the Area and Perimeter of different shapes

Today I made my dream house, when I was finished I figured out the Area and Perimeter of all the items in my house.

 

If you make a dream house please publish it to your blog, it will be so cool!

Perimeter And Some Area

 Today in Math we learned about Perimeter and Area, we were in teams I was in a team with Jasmine, Jade and me. This is what we did:

First we had to draw a shape with a perimeter of 24 square units that was different to everyone else in our group -

Then we had to draw the shape with the smallest perimeter and the one with the biggest -

Perfect Perimeter And Amazing Area

W.A.L.T: Find the perimeter and area of different shapes.

Perimeter definition:

The outermost parts or boundary of a object.

Example of Perimeter:

Formula:

Area definition:

The extent or measurement of a surface or piece of land.

Example of Area:

Formula:

My Amazing Measurement Work

W.A.L.T: learn how to measure.
This week I am learning how to measure, it's been really fun. We had to do lots of activities on the chrome book, the units of measurement are called the Metric System. I enjoyed all of it and I found the measurement quiz challenging.

These are all the units of measurement in the world -

What is your favorite unit of the Metric System?

I would love to hear from you!

The amazing way to turn a big topic into a seed topic -

W.A.L.T: focus on our topic for a information report.

S.C: I turned a watermelon topic into a slice topic then turned it into a seed topic my watermelon was music, my slice was piano and my seed was the song Aunt Rhody.

Turning a watermelon topic into a seed topic is vital for writing an information report, it turns it into a slice topic which a medium size topic and then a seed topic which is a small topic. Seed topics are important for topics that are really big which are watermelon topics, it turns them into seed topic which is small and easy for you to write a information report about that topic.

I found tuning a watermelon topic into a seed topic challenging and I found the template we had to do easier.

Have you written a information report?

My Fabulous Holiday Recount

Today is my first day back at school. We shared stories about our winter school holidays and videoed ourselves. In the video Miriam and I are sharing our favorite day in our winter school holiday, mine was when I went to Lake Ohau and found ice 2 centimetres thick!

what is the thickest ice you've seen?
were did you see it?

The Monster Under My Bed -

There is a large hairy monster under my bed and I can prove it, at night it makes yowling and growling noises. "yuuggaahhh ouargg!" It gropes around with it's long bony fingers for stuff to bite, rip and chew. It doesn't know I'm there... yet, sometimes it climbs out from under my bed and clambers out my open window to hunt for animals to eat it's victims bones go crunch and crack like crackers and I catch a glimpse of greasy matted yellow fur and muscular limbs. When it finishes hunting it makes some grunting noises and and clambers back under my bed, "umpf umpf" like a Hippo.

The monster lives under Lily's bed, she is a ten year old girl with a very kind heart. She has blond hair and loves carrots. One day she said to her mum, "mum, there's a monster under my bed."
"don't be silly" said her mum "there's no monster under your bed." Lily tried to protest.
"but mum" Lily pleaded "there really is a monster under my bed! believe me mu-"
"Lily! I have no time for nonsense, these days I am a very busy women!". At bedtime she sneaked into bed and hid under the blankets. A few minutes later the monster started to stir, it slid out from under the bed and climbed out of the window and into the night...

Later that night Lily woke to the sound of the monster returning from it's hunt, it climbed through the window and under my bed. At last the morning came and she sneaked out of bed and walked into the kitchen. She was going to try and persuade her mum to believe her again. Mum was in the kitchen cooking pancakes, “mum” Lily said angrily

“Will show you the monster!” 

”But honey-” her mother protested but Lily dragged her mum to her room, “now” she commanded “take a look under my bed.” her mum hesitantly looked under the bed… and there was the monster asleep, mum sneaked out of the room timidly and called the police. They had the monster put in a deep slumber with a blow dart and taken away, the end.

My Matariki bag tag...

My design in Tinkercad...

On Tinkercad I made a Matariki bag tag, it was very fun but it took me a lot of time, because it was very delicate and you need to get the size right and everything. The picture above is the Matariki bag tag I made. There are the nine stars of Matariki on it, I hope you like it! and please leave a comment.

My bag tag when printed

He Aha Te Wa?

W.A.L.T: learn to tell te wa in te reo maori.
S.C: use mai i te and ki te in our sentences when telling the time.
In the past week we were learning to tell the time in te reo maori. Sometimes it was confusing but sometimes it made sense, here is a clock in the reo maori. next time I cold say more things in the videos, it was very fun. please leave a I would love to hear from you!

Check Out This Animation!

W.A.L.T: Ask "how many" in māori and answer.
The animation below will tell you how ask "how many" of any certain object or being and answer,

I hope like it!

Sharing My Knowledge On Maramataka

W.A.L.T: Explain the phases of the moon.
today we learnt about phases of the moon. Then we researched the maori kupu. Below is my creation showing the phases of the moon/maramataka. Whats your favorite stage in the phases of the moon?

- click to enlarge

Salted Chocolate And Pistachio Crickets

Today I made crickets dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with pistachios, they tasted great! I bought the crickets at Freshchoice supermarket. You need non-poisonous crickets to make it.

Yum!

Dipping crickets in dark chocolate

Crickets dipped in dark chocolate and sprinkled with pistachios

Lou's Life

                                                                          Lou's Life

My Trip To Travis Wetlands

On Rapare 22 Here-Turi-Koka the tuakana from Ata Hapara went by van to Travis Wetlands.

We were met by Pete a C.C.C. environmental educator. 
I learnt about how the food chain works and about the bugs and birds that live in the Wetlands. I went catching them with a sieve, using the figure eight method. I identified and caught in my tray: 1 Water Boatman, 2 mites and 6 Water Fleas. We went bird spying and identifying and I saw: 2 Canada Geese, 6 Pukeko, 13 Mallard ducks and 1 Black swan. We also learnt how the wetlands are a bed and breakfast, sponge, sieve, airport and nest to all birds. It is a bed and breakfast for birds because they can have a nap and have a snack, it is a sponge because it absorbs and releases water to stop floods, it is a sieve because it cleans the water, it is an airport for birds because birds can land here, have a snack and take off and it is a nest because birds can mate and have their babies here. I enjoyed bug catching because I love catching bugs! soon we had to leave, when we got back to school I hoped we could return soon the end.

Take Care Of Your Chromebook!

This term me and my class are learning how to care for our chromebooks,

This slide show is an example of what happens when a drink spills on your chromebook.

It was hard to make the water and the rest was easy. My No Drink animation when we were working on chrome book safety,

first I started with simple shapes then added more and more detail finally it was done.

Beep Test Reflection

For the past 2 weeks the tuakana have been working on our taha tinana. I have completed 2 fitness tasks. The beep test and wall sit. I achieved a level 1-1 because I was confused whether it had started or not during my first attempt, I got a level 4-1 on my second. My goal for this week is to get a level 4-8. For the wall st my record is 55 seconds.

I Learnt...

                        Kiora my name is Heath and I am learning to insert an image to my blog.