Class Enviroment

Class Environment

A little while ago my friend Nalanee and I completed a Class Environment slide about how well our class has done in certain areas of this topic. I had to do the positives, Nalanee did the negatives. Finding positives was a bit hard, but I managed in the end. 

My next step will be to maybe add a few more ideas and upload it quicker.

I got the ideas and information from experience in the class.

Is your environment nice and tidy?

Phoenix Collage

Cybersmart Phoenix

Last week I started a collage for Cybersmart. We could choose whatever we wanted to make, so I chose to do a phoenix. It was more of a complicated one, compared to some fishes and trees and houses, but I wanted to do something more complex than a simple fish, even if it was longer. It was still fun though! 

My next step is to finish it quicker and complete it quicker.

What would you make if you had to?

Curiosity

Be Curious

This week's value was Be Curious. Our activity for this topic was about what we were curious about. We had to have a minimum of six things we wonder about and I found it a bit hard, I didn't have many things I thought and wondered about like that. But the six I have now are things I'm actually wondering about, so I'm pretty happy with myself. 

My next step for this is to post it sooner and maybe add a few more things I'm curious about.

What things do you wonder about?

Mat Manners

Manners On The Mat

This week our School-Wide Expectation is Mat Manners. For this, we had to do an activity on the topic. We had to make a Google Drawing on things we needed to change and changes we can do to have perfect mat manners! Instead of my mat manners, I thought about others and what they could fix, since I couldn't think of anything for myself. Here's my work.

My next step is to complete it quickly so I can have it up on my blog sooner.

I got the information from experience in the classroom.

Do you have nice Mat Manners?

Comfort Zones

My Comfort Zones

Today our value of the week was Taking Risks. We had to do an activity where we showed what was in our Comfort Zone and what was outside of it. We had two options of what we could present it on, a Google Drawing or MindMup. MindMup is a new website where you can make something like what I did. It's kinda like Google Drawings, but way more fun! Here is my work!

I loved using MindMup, it made everything a lot easier and more fun!

I got the information from experience and some fun tries. 

What's your Comfort Zone like? 

Prototec Term Four

Prototec!

Today was the first Prototec of the Term! This week we've been focusing on Basic maths, and to refresh our minds, we've done a prototec!

My next step is to get 100% on Stage Seven.

How well do you thing you would do on Stage Seven?

Fanimals!

Fanimals Team Visits!

Today our school got a lucky visit from the Fanimals Team! Fanimals is a television show about animals, but I don't know too much about it since I don't watch it. We saw their dog, Molson, and we were the lucky class that got to have our picture taken with them! He's a Golden Retriever and is five years old; he was really cute. They also left prizes for us, some stuff we don't know about yet. Here are some pictures.

Us with Molson and Jess.

Here we're patting Molson.

Today was fun, and I think a lot of people enjoyed it. It was really awesome how they came to visit our school, and they gave us signed cards! 

Have you watched Fanimals, and if so, what's your favourite animal?

Strong, Not Wrong

My Strengths

This week in Mindfulness our session was about us focusing on what's strong rather than what's wrong. We had a follow-up activity today about what our strengths are, and we had to write ten strengths about ourselves. 

My Next Step is to find more strengths about myself.

What are all your strengths?

School Goals

Smart Goals

Today our class went back and reflected on our goals from last term. Then we went and did goals for this term. We had one for each subject, Writing, Reading, Math. We also had to do something for Other, Social and Behaviour. Here are my goals.

I hope that by the end of this term, all these goals will be completed.

What would your goals be for these subjects?

Pride in Our Achievements

Pride in Achievement

Today our class was working on an activity for the school values. It's Pride in Achievement, and we were working on what we were proud of what we accomplished over the years. Here's mine.

My next step would be to do six achievements.

I got this information from myself.

What are your greatest achievements from the years?

Orana Park

Orana Wildlife Park

Yesterday our class went on a school trip to Orana Wildlife Park. We learned about many different animals, and my personal favourites were the cheetahs and the springboks.

Here are some pictures of our trip.

Here we are watching the springboks. I learned about these animals that they can jump much higher than their own height.

Here are the yaks. I learned that yaks can live at the highest altitude of any animal.

These are the lions, and I learned that a group of lions is called a pride.

As a reflection, I loved the trip, and I loved seeing all the animals. The trip was a blast.

We all got this information from our guide, Elizabeth.

What's your favourite animal?

 

 

Street Art Questions

Asking Questions

This week in our class we were focusing on Street Art and what it means. It was painted after the Christchurch earthquakes on the sides of buildings where other buildings had to be taken out from too much damage. The slide we did was asking questions about the Christchurch Cathedral and some pictures of Street Art. 

My next step is to ask better and more descriptive questions.

I got the information from our teacher, Miss Waho!

What questions would you ask about these pictures?

Values

Values of the School

Today most of my class finished a slide about the Values in the school and what it means to show them. It was for Linc Ed, but our teacher told us we could post it here, too. 

My next step is to show a few more of these values and help others to show them too. 

Stage 7 Strategies

Math Magic

This week my Math group is learning a new strategy about distributive property. Here is a google drawing displaying things about my work.

My next step is to complete it quicker.

Classroom Expectation Reflection

Reflections

This week our Classroom Expectation is Class Environment. We had to do it in the first term of the year, and now we had the whole year to reflect on, so it was easier this time around.

My next step is to complete things faster.

I got the information from the year so far.

What do you think about it?

Stage 7 Numeracy

    Algorithms

This week we have been learning about algorithms in math, using them to solve usually medium questions. It looked really hard at first, but once explained, they aren't too difficult.

My next step would be to learn more in a quicker time.

I got the information from my teacher and myself.

What do you think about it?

Our Place Our Names Assessment

Our Place Our Names

We did an assessment of what our place and our names mean in the school. We did this assessment a while ago, but I never got to publishing it. The ones blank are the ones I got incorrect, while the green ones I got correct! They are all correct here, though. So here it is!

My next step is to learn them and get all of them right.

I got this information from my teacher, Miss Waho.

Do you guys like the names? 

Nalanee's Best Friend Award

Shout Out for Nalanee!

Today we were learning about how to be positive online. We did a shout out for someone to show online positivity, and I did my best friend, Nalanee, because she deserves it!

I think if I didn't have Nalanee in my life, I would be a bit different. 

I found the photo from some pictures in my drive.

How do you think we can show more ways of being positive online?

Factoring

Factoring Quiz

Today for maths we had to something to showcase our learning outcome, and I did a quiz about Factoring. 

My next step would be to complete it.

I got the information from the Te Ara Takitini Site.

If you did it, did you get them all right?

Venngage Infographic

Venngage Infographic

Today our class learned how to use Venngage, a program where you can make presentations, infographics, and more. We made an Infographic about Being Positive Online! We've been learning about positivity online, and it's actually very fun! 

My next step would be to be a bit quicker. 

I got the information from the Uru Mānuka Learning Site.

What do you think is the most important thing about staying positive online?

Contributing

How to Contribute

This week my class's value Contributing. We had to do a Google Drawing about how we can contribute in different places. 

We got the information from each other, and ourselves by contributing.

My next step would be to add more ways to contribute.

What ways would you write for Contributing?

Te Ara Takitini Names

This shows what our names in Takitini mean. We have been doing assessments in Maori about things in the school. The latest one is Te Ara Takitini Names in Maori.

My next step is to learn all the meanings of the names in the school.

If you have any questions feel free to ask!   

How To Create Quality Blog Posts.

The Quality Blog Post

Today I will be sharing what a quality blog post is made of. We are using a rubric to learn about the points of a great blog post. The rubric has three levels, all containing different points of a blog post, getting into higher levels, the expectations for better blog posts get higher. 

I haven't used a rubric before, but I find it very useful for our learning. I want to be in the Green Area, the Smart Learner, but I think right now I'm only on the Orange Area, the Stepping Up. 

We got the information from the Uru Manuka Smart Learner resources, where the rubric was written.

If you could tell me how to improve my future blog posts, even more, I'd appreciate if you could give me some suggestions! 

Stage 7 Prototec

Prototec Stage 7 

Earlier this week I did a Stage 7 Prototec and really inproved! I was on Stage 7 and I'm happy with what I got. Here were my results.

Prototec

My next step is to get 90% or 100% and a quicker time.

Cultural Diversity Day 2019

Cultural Diversity Day

 

On Wednesday this week we had World Cultural Diversity Day. World Cultural Diversity Day is a day where people from different countries and cultures learn about others traditions and different ways to do things. 

We did many different fun things, we had flags up around on our amphitheatre poles, people were representing their cultures by wearing clothes and accessories, people had brought lots of different foods to share, and we had a sausage sizzle to represent New Zealand! Here are a few photos of the day:

Everyone singing the National Anthem.

Shyla speaking!

Me infront of my flags:








Beautiful Singing by Losalini!

I'm really happy with how this day turned out, there were so many fun things we did, it was amazing and I loved learning about other cultures! Bye!

Steps Web Term Two (Update Comparison)

Steps Web Term Two Comparision

This Week is Week 3 of Term Two. My Literacy class today have done Steps Web for three weeks now. We're seeing how much we have improved since the last time we recorded our results. My last results was a while ago, and I got 92% accuracy and 54 Minutes in one week. My new improvement is here:

My next step is to complete all my activities with Silver Medals to Gold Medals since I've finished the course,  (Green part) get my minutes up into the two-hundreds and keep my accuracy up in the 95s and 94s. Bye for now!

Cyber Smart - Who is Cooper?

Who is Cooper?

Today my class was looking at Cyber Safety and we looked at Miss Morgan's (Part of the Uru Manuka Place) dog, Cooper's blog. We had to fill out a doc called 'Who is Cooper?' and we had to get information about him from his blog. This is my one.

Next time I hope I can find a little bit more info. Bye for now!

Objects In Maori Assessment

Objects in Maori Assessment

In Week One we did an Objects in Maori Asessment to test what we knew about everyday objects in Maori. We had to move the objects to the right places.

My Next step is to learn all of the objects of by heart.

My Gratitude Bubbles

Gratitude Bubbles

I finished a google drawing about what I was grateful for a while ago, like my family, friends, pets and other things. Here it is:   

I'm grateful for the things in my life. I don't know what I'd do if my life was different.

What do you think about this?

Steps Web Term Two

Term Two StepsWeb

This week we did StepsWeb for the second time this Term in Literacy. We had 30 minutes real time do improve as much as we can. Here's mine:

My next goal is to reach 65 minutes and 99% or 100% accuracy. Bye! 

My Goals

Goal Setting

Hi guys! Today I finished a goal setting drawing about what I want to achieve! You had to have at least three goals. You could do yours in arrows with a target, bubbles or basketball related. Here's mine:

I hope I can achieve these goals by the end of the year, and next time I look forward to something like this. Bye for now!

Dancing Like The Stars

Dancing Like The Stars

Today my class was taught by a guy named Shawn. He was teaching us dance moves, positions, and other stuff for when we would be performing at Isaac Theatre. It was only our first session today, but Shawn said we had caught on fast. We're all excited and keen about doing this, so we'll put in effort. The moves we did weren't very hard, quite easy, to be honest. 

We have different types of dance that are in this: Bollywood, Modern Jive, Tango, and some others we didn't learn today. On Friday, (Our next session) we'll learn positions and where we should be standing. Here are some pictures from our first lesson:

And a video:

Hope you enjoyed my post today! Bye guys! 

Linc-Ed Reading Work

My Reading

Hi guys! This is my reading work for Linc-Ed, and I'm happy with it. I really like reading, writing and maths, but reading is my favourite. My reading level is a bit high for my age, but it's better that way. 

My work: 

Thank you for looking at my piece of work. Bye guys! 

Steps Web Stars

My Steps Web

Today I was doing StepsWeb and I have done alot in the last twenty four hours. I'm happy with myself because I feel like I've improved. This is my work of the last 24 hours on StepsWeb:

My accuracy is quite high, and I have a lot of gold medals. My next goal is to get higher minutes like 74 minutes and get 100% or 99% accuracy. 

Thanks people, bye!

Media Video

Media Video!

Kia Ora, people! For my school me and someone else got chosen for the Media Team. It's an awesome opportunity to learn more about technology, coding and videos! For a challenge we had to make a video about ourselves. We could only use Screencastify and pausing to show our favourite things. I didn't use Screencasify because I didn't have it, but that's okay. Here's my video! (Sorry, it wouldn't come up here, so just right click Here's and you will see the video. Sorry!)

Thanks guys, this was a challenge to make a video about yourself, and I think I did really well, and I'm excited for tomorrow, since I'm meeting everyone else that's on the Media Team! Thanks people, bye!!!

Top Team

Top Team Challenge

Kia ora, people! Last week the whole of Te Ara Takitini did Top Team. We were sorted into ten groups, going to play all the activities. There were activities like Burst Pipe, Super Ski Race, House of Cards and Noughts and Crosses.

Here are a few pictures from the super fun day (All of Burst Pipe.):

These are teams competing against each other, some people running to get water, someone pouring the water in the pipe, while others are plugging the holes. This is just one of the activities. There were so many fun acitivities. My favorite was Questions of Balance. I was so close and then dropped the bucket. But the whole day day overrall needs a 10/10.

Bye guys!