Hi, today I am going to be showing you my Christmas art that I did for a part of my writing this week.
My goal was to create a piece of art that is nowhere near similar to anyone else. I gathered the information by looking at Gustav's art videos and getting inspired for this artwork.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you me and my friend's Egg Drop Experiment. Our goal was to answer this question, "What solid makes an egg not break when it falls??,". We gathered the information by researching different types of eggs and solids we could use.
Hi, today I'm going to be showing you my reading/writing for this week. My reading goal was to make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions. My writing goal was to use a variety of words to link events, use language that is suitable to the topic, audience and purpose, use a text structure that is appropriate to the purpose, ensure that most writing is grammatically correct. I gathered the information by researching different experiments I should do and other hings that may make up Saturn's rings.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you my literacy task board create for this week. My goal was to create a poster with 7 facts on science on it. I gathered the information by watching videos and reading articles my teacher provided for me.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you my maths create for this week. My goal was to show all possible outcomes of an event using tree diagrams and organised lists. Determine the theoretical probability of simple events using percentages, fractions and decimals. I gathered the information by listening to my teacher in a workshop.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you the writing create I did with my friend this week, structuring and listing languages for an explanation text. My goal was to use visual language features to engage the audience., a text structure that is appropriate to the purpose and use language that is suitable to the topic, audience and purpose. I gathered the information by going to my workshop and reading the articles my teacher helpfully provided. (P.S: I did a bit of ¨extra work,¨ as well).
Hi, today I am going to be showing you me and my friends (mostly my friend's) rosary work for this (and last) week. Our goal was to create a video showing younger kids the understanding and importance of the rosary. I gathered the information by listening to my teachers and inserting our knowledge into a video. (Link at the bottom).
Gus: The Rosary in 3 minutes!
Alex : The Rosary is normally prayed in October,and sometimes May (The month of Mary).
Boston: There are four mysteries in the Rosary.
Daniel: The Joyful Mysteries, the Sorrowful Mysteries, the Glorious Mysteries and the Luminous Mysteries.
Gus: This is how you pray the Rosary.
Alex: First, you start with the Apostle’s Creed.
Boston: Then, you say 1 Our Father.
Daniel: Next, you say 3 Hail Marys.
Gus: Then, you say a Glory Be.
Alex: Then we start our first decade. We begin with Our Father.
Boston: Next we say 10 Hail Marys, and a Glory Be.
Daniel: Then we do our second decade.
Gus: Now we do the same thing as before. An Our Father, 10 Hail Marys, and a Glory Be.
Alex: We do that exact thing two more times for our third and fourth decades.
Boston: All of those decades were also mysteries.
Daniel: The Joyful Mysteries, the Glorious Mysteries, the Luminous Mysteries, and the Sorrowful Mysteries.
Gus: Remember to start and end the Rosary with the Sign of the Cross!
Alex: I hope we taught you how to pray the Rosary…
Boston: And if you have Rosary beads, then maybe you could do it right now!
All: Bye!
What are your new wonders of the Rosary?
Hi, today I am going to be showing you my maths create for this week - to mark off a goal. This week my hub have been proving our knowledge by showing our understanding of goals by showing it face-to-face with the teacher... or doing this. My individual goal was to count forwards and backwards in 1/2s, 1/4s, 1/3s, 1/5s and 1/10s. I gathered the information by reading and watching information my teacher gave me on a slideshow.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you the goal I had mark off and what I used for it. My goal was to use multiplication and division strategies to find fractions of whole numbers. I created I by using my prior knowledge and asking my friend to help me make the video, which he did.
Hi, today I'm going to be showing you the new form of writing I am doing for this term. My goal was to organise related ideas into paragraphs and use linking words and phrases to link some paragraphs. I gathered the information by listening to my group and searching on the internet.
How To Be A Good Friend
Being a nice friend is very important in your social life. But - how do you be one?
First of all, it is very easy to be a nice friend, but even easier to get mad and angry at them. Not normally would you try and hurt your friend, but sometimes you could be in a foul mood, or your friend is being mean to you, which is usually why you would be the opposite of a good friend. Even jealousy could trigger this.
Secondly, you could be a good friend by being loyal and gaining trust. Basically, with your friends, live by the motto, “Treat others how you want to be treated,”. If you think some of your friends are a little tight, you don’t have to worry, but still be kind and caring and do all the things you would need to do to be a good friend.
Lastly, being a good friend is not just a boost for wellbeing and social life for you, but for all your friends. I mean, there is no reason to not be a good friend. It’s fun for you, your friends, and eventually more!
In conclusion, being a good friend is easy, fun, and how to be one is all written down on this doc...
Are you a good friend...?
Hi, today I am going to be showing you my work for my independent literacy this week. My goal was to create a fully updated and modified fact file translating and summarising our learning this term. I gathered the information by researching the lifestyle and achievements of this burly athlete. Also he lives in my subdivision. :-)
Tom Walsh´s Fact File
Tom Walsh is the 3rd best shot-putter in Olympic history. He lives in Prestons Park, Christchurch, New Zealand. He grew up on a farm around the exterior of Timaru. Tom Walsh has competed in every single Olympics from the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia to the 2021 Olympics at Tokyo, Japan. His personal best throw was at South Canterbury Athletic Club, Doha,
and, coached by Ian Baird, threw 22.90 meters. Walsh was born on the 1st March 1992. His parents are Karen Walsh and Peter Walsh and he has a brother called Bill Walsh. He started his shot-put career in 2009 at the World Youth Championships in Athletics, where he placed sixth.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you the static image (a freeze frame of a time) that I have been working on for the past few weeks. It is about stereotyping, a mental bias judging people for doing something that is supposed to be for the other gender. My goal was to use visual language features to engage the audience.
I collected the data by looking at other examples of static images and transmitting it into this google drawing.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you the work I did for this week, Social Justice week. My goal was to create a representation of a Beatitude each day including watching video. I gathered the information by researching people who are famous for their Beatitudes.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you my persuasive text I made a few weeks ago during lockdown. My goal was to vary sentence beginnings, structures and length. Write simple and compound sentences (by using conjunctions). Use some complex sentences. Use simple and compound sentences with a variety of beginnings, lengths and structures. Use some complex sentences to create pace, flow and interest. Use linking words and phrases to link some paragraphs. I collected information by watching videos and recalling from earlier work.
Should all Schooling Be Online?
Children beg for hours to go on devices. So should we have them at school? We all know that screens and technology get the better of kids, and, is it really helping if we´re adding school into the mix?
Hello, my name is Gus, and I am going to teach you something that's never been thought of before - kids, school and devices. Think about it. If all schooling was online, kids would have a dreadful, uncontrollable addiction to screens, not doing amazing things for the child's average eyesight. In fact, research shows that if kids spend a lot of time on devices, say, 4-5 hours a day, it could cause future blurry vision, eye discomfort and headaches.
Kids´ attention spans could decrease, which is not so good for focus in the classroom. What's more is that these devices can cost parents a fortune, whereas if only some or no schooling was online, a penny wouldn't have to be pulled from their pockets. I mean, without a doubt kids love these devices, but sometimes that can also cause behavioral problems. I don't even have to research to know that most kids that own a device end their screen time with sour faces, tears and even poor attitudes.
Did you know that most kids spend up to five hours a day on a device? As I mentioned earlier, side effects include eye effects, and to add to that, overweight risk and laziness. In my opinion, devices should be banned at school forever. Do you really want your kid on a device 5 days a week for hours at a time?
Hi, today I am going to be showing you my persuasive writing for this week. My goal was to write a persuasive text about schools and junk food and show my understanding of text. I gathered the information by watching informational videos.
Should Schools Ban Junk Food?
We all love the little treats packed in our school lunches. But is it best if we don't have them?
Hello, my name is Gus, and I am going to try to convince you of the obvious - should school lunches be free of junk food?
The little treats in kids´ lunches can go from a packet of chips to almost all of their lunches being jammed with unhealthy snacks. If kids had handfuls of sweets and chocolate in their lunches 5 times a school week, they would grow to be weak, a junk food addict, and would barely exercise. Cafeterias can often be found with untouched vegetable and meat options, but the chips and whatnot options would be left bare, children scoffing down the remains, demanding more. What's worse is in such a rush to splat a platter of junk food on their plates, they often trip or fall over, sometimes leading to serious injuries. And to top it all off, the poor cafeteria ladies have to throw smelly meat and vegetables away whilst restocking the chip option every single day. This can cost schools a lot of money, sometimes leading to classes like Music or Art being a budget cut. When it comes to parents, even small snacks like a fruit or muesli bar can be begged, pleaded and even aggressively attacked for. It is also clear that these unhealthy snacks make children extremely hyperactive, so during class time they barely pay attention, forcing teachers to raise their voice or even shout.
So what if we ban junk food? What would happen then...?
What would you try and persuade someone about?
Hi, today I am going to be showing you 10 facts about the magnificent creatures that once roamed the earth - that´s right, dinosaurs! My learning goal was to gather information about the dinosaurs and type it down in a text such a slideshow. I gathered this information by watching a fact-filled video, available at my teachers learning drawing, and simply typed down information I collected between the video.
My favourite Lego activity was the one where we passed around the Lego base plate because it taught me that people have different ideas to what we have, and we should celebrate other people's differences. The activity also taught me you can think of so many different ideas for what to add to what other people have done.
Hi, today I am going to be showing you my reflection that I typed after having a company called, ¨House of Bricks¨ visited our school. That Friday, two hubs including my hub had three activities, all in different hubs. Each Lego activity included either teamwork, grit or perseverance, one all at the same time. The activities all taught me something important, but, most importantly they were fun.
My least favourite Lego activity was the Mosaic activity because it was hard trying to imagine what to place on your small base plate, and not to mention taking the thin, tiny bricks off with a Lego lever. Often, bricks would be stuck together and you would have to take both off. Even though this was a fun activity, I would say this is the one I least enjoyed.
The activity that tested my perseverance the most was the tower- building because it was tough creating stacks that would hold up the quirky, unstable tower. But, together with me and 9 others, we managed to build a stable, tall tower, being so high it took our team to first place.
The most challenging activity was the racing cars because once you had created a car you thought was perfect, it only went a few centimeters off the rail. It was quite challenging to find the perfect pieces to place on your hopefully speeding car, and me and my partner broke, tested and modified our way into seventh place.
I enjoyed working collaboratively with others because each activity went way faster than it would’ve been alone. Almost all the activities involved teamwork, and each and every time the people I worked with listened to my ideas, and helped me to achieve the goal. And even though some of our team members argued, we helped each other out and everyone had a part to play.
What is your favourite Lego activity?
Hi, today I am going to be showing you my empathy-based writing this week, named ¨Umbrella¨. Our goal was to use a range of written features to engage the audience, use simple and compound sentences with a variety of beginnings, lengths and structures, use some complex sentences to create pace, flow and interest & ensure that most writing is grammatically correct. Me and other peers in a group got help from a teacher to type down this text.
Umbrella
Early one stormy morning, the door to Miss Elm’s Home For Children opened wide. The girl with the vibrant sunflower yellow umbrella, limped nervously into the orphanage before finding a home for her umbrella. Not wanting to be seen, Boris swiftly twirled his head around the door frame so that he was hidden from view. Standing off to the side, the girl gazed at the glorious scene while the children searched in the box for once-loved companions. The girl grinned as she observed the young boy zooming around the room like a bolt of lightning. Her smile melted abruptly as she looked back at the umbrella stand and all that was left was a few dirty puddles. Her precious umbrella had vanished.
Today I'm going to be telling you about my amazing trip to town! I learned tons about my culture, kowhaiwhai patterns and hidden things about my culture that you would never think of. For example, the concrete path in the Margaret Mahy Playground has a Māori song etched into, telling the tale of when the Māori culture found New Zealand.
Yesterday the Tumu hub went on an awesome trip around town, where we learned about kowhaiwhai patterns etched into the places we would never think they would set place. We had fun at Victoria Square, finding interesting patterns etched into statues, stone benches, a waka facing up and even a large, pointing rock. There were also two amazing fountains that astonishingly light when the moon blacks out the skies. And it´s amazing how much artistry and hard work goes into creating these amazing and wonderful kowhaiwhai etchings.
My favourite part of the trip was paddling our way with the waka around the majestic Avon River, because it was very fun using Maori words to keep the balance of the pattern-etched boat.
Something I learnt was in the Margaret Mahy Family Playground (or Takaro a Poi), a song was carved into a long concrete pathway following around the park, the song telling how the Maori people found New Zealand.
The thing I found the most interesting was the hidden kowhaiwhai patterns all around parts of Town. I especially found the mats interesting because they were originally weavings, and also because the bricks were placed diagonally, making the whole idea very creative.
This trip has helped me with my PBL because it helped me learn about our Maori culture and iwi, helping because our PBL question relates to our turangawaewae (or a place to stand). I could use the knowledge I have to help me with any future .
Today I am going to tell you some mind blowing facts about Margaret Mahy. Here are some that I learned:
1. Margaret Mahy´s first book was called, ¨A Lion in the Meadows.¨
2. She died July 23, 2012.
3. The $20 million dollar playground had a vote, and in the end the childen´s book author won.
4. Finally, Margaret Mahy write her first book at seven.
Outstanding Prayer Writing
Hello! Today was St Patrick's Day! My whole school had to wear green. Anyway, get ready for some St Patrick's Day facts!
Next Level Numbers!
Ultimate Conversation!
Top Secret Literacy Learning
Te Reo Maori Conversation
