This week we were learning how to make a Netflix show. We had to choose whether to use a story we wrote or make up a new one. Me and Mila chose to make up a new story and we named it “She Knows.” We chose this because we love a good mystery and […]
Do you know who Paikea is?
This week we were learning how to use vocabulary. It is important to know how to do this so when you are reading books you can understand the meaning of big words. For our task we had to create a kite with cool maori patterns and we had to weave the wings. When you […]
Do you know what Parihaka is?
for the last two weeks, we have been learning to evaluate ideas and information. I did an interview about parihaka with Rosa, Leitu, and William. I also did a word search and a feather about parihaka but couldn’t load it. I learned all about parihaka and not to judge people for what they look […]
Ice dragons for the win!!
This week we have been learning all about the summer learning journey. How to use it. How to get to it. And how you do it. For the task, we had to make a superhero on crayion and I got aa bit creative and did a dragon. She comes from a long line of […]
Our solar system!
This week I have been learning to read and interpret information. We were learning this because interpreting helps to fill the language gap. This week and last week we were working and still are on our solar system dioramas. We had to work in pairs and my partner was Leitu. We mixed colors and started […]
floating in space!
This week we learned how to think critically. To do this you have to read the question until it makes sense, ask for help/clarification if it doesn’t, and find evidence /prior knowledge to help solve the question. All we had to do was our follow-up, read theory, and our rocket launch video. When we did […]
Māra kai Masterchef Comp
Yesterday we did our Māra Kai Masterchef Comp. The Māra Kai Masterchef Comp is where we choose 5 ingredients school or homegrown. You have a time limit and cook any main/dessert/drink. The judges (Mrs McCormick & Mrs. Aperahama.) We made lemon and orange tartlets because it’s a delicious and easy thing to make […]
What it takes to fuel your body!
This term we were learning about nutrition, fats, carbs, protein, and a few other things that fuel our bodies. It is important to learn about this because then we know what foods we should be eating and foods we shouldn’t. I enjoyed getting to learn different facts about nutrition because it’s fun learning new things […]
what’s peace to you?
This week we were learning about peace, and with the teacher we were learning to find ideas and themes in texts. The book we read is called Beyond the Reef. For our activity, we did a significant team activity which was what we thought peace looks like, smells like, feels like, hears like, and tastes […]
Characters feelings
Last week we learned to analyse evidence. We had to do our follow-up which was answering questions from the text we read, We also did a slide of identifying the character’s feelings and made a canva of Yoda encouraging me to do something also took a screenshot. I enjoyed making the canva. It was challenging […]