Belle of the Ball

LI: to research about the people who have changed the world.
For the last task for the third day of the second week I learnt that Emma Watson did belle and that she started a worldwide book club, since she made a book club the task I had to do was that I had to make a book review of a book, the book that I reviewed was called Jedi Academy, this book is about a person named Victor Starspeeder making his way throughout his time at Jedi Academy.

The Right to an Education

LI: to learn about the people who have changed the world.
For the second task of the third day of the second week of the summer learning journey. I learnt that a person named Malala Yousafzai got shot on a school bus, she grew up in Pakistan where women couldn't go to school so that might of been the reason she got shot. After the injury she wrote books, for the task I had to write a short story at least 10 sentences or longer, my story is about an astronaut being friends with a martian and its 11 sentences long.

The Right to Vote

LI: to research about the people who have changed the world.
For the first task of the third day of the second week I had to learn that Kate Shepard was the first ever woman to be elected prime minister in New Zealand, for the task I had to choose a person to replace Kate Shepard on the ten dollar bill If Kate Shepard wasn't on the ten dollar bill. If were to replace it with someone I'd think I would change it to Jacinda Ardern because she is another woman who has been elected prime minister of New Zealand.

"I Have a Dream"

LI: to research about the people who have changed the world.
For the last task of the second day of the second week of the SLJ I had to learn about Rosa Parks and how she copped with segregation back then in 1950 - 1960, segregation was the policy where black people didn't have the same equal rights to white people. I had to write the problem, what Rosa Park did about it and what other people thought of what she was doing.

School Strike for Climate

LI: to research about the people who have changed the world.
For the second task of the second day of the second week I had to learn about a person named Greta Thunberg, she started a protest against climate change and how we could use energy other than gas fossil fuel and coal. In doing so I had to list three facts about the protest and a picture of how I can help, the picture of me is me putting rubbish in the bin.

Along walk to freedom

LI: to research about the people who have changed the world.
For the first task of the second day of week two of the summer learning journey I learnt that Nelson Mandela went to prison for his activism, while he was at the prison he had a journal to write about each day, I had to write about his time in prison and how I thought he felt about it. If I were Nelson Mandela and if I were prison I would be mad because it wasn't fair back then.

Dear Jacinda

LI: to research about the people who have changed the world.
This week for the third task of the third day of the second week I had to write something to Jacinda Ardern about an article and why we picked the issue. I wrote to Jacinda Ardern about the alcohol being shipped in and how we could decrease the amount being shipped to NZ, the article I chose was by The New Zealand Herald, I chose that article because its problem that I want to solve in NZ and the NZ Herald is a New Zealand news web site so I know I can trust it.

Dr Jessa Rogers Time Calculation

LI: to research about the people who have changed the world.
For this task I learnt that Dr Jessa Rogers won the NAIDOC Youth of the year award in 2010, for the task I had to calculate the amount of time between when she was born to when she got the award. My answer was 25 years 7 months and 2 days.

Taking the Lead

LI: to research about the people who changed the world.
For this task I learnt that Barack Obama loves to spend time with his family, we then had to write our top five things to do, my top five are playing video games, watching a movie, eating, playing football and organizing the periodic elements in to their groups.

Own Choice

LI: to research about the people who changed the world.
For the last task of the week I had the choice to pick anyone that interest me, I chose Neil deGrasse Tyson. We then had to write the persons name, their job, and how they impacted the world.

Swimming to Safety

LI: to research about the people who changed the world.
For the second task of the fifth day I had to read about a person named Yusra Mardini, Yusra Mardini lived in Syria and due to all the fighting she ran away on to a boat to go to another country, their boat engine broke, Yusra, her sister and three others got off the boat and swam to safety, she then lives in Germany.

Against the Odds

LI: to research about the people who changed the world.
For the first task of the fifth day we had to name three things that we treasure, one of the things that I treasure is my family because I love my family, I also treasure my dads axe because I used that axe to cut my very first log of wood, and I treasure my country because I live there.
 

Worth her Weight in Gold

LI: to research about people who changed the world.
For task three of day four of the summer learning journey we had to read about how Valerie Adams was from Tonga, we then had to  make a brochure about Tonga or somewhere that is important. I made my brochure about England because my grandfather was from there.

Whats in a Name

LI: to research about the people who changed the world.
For the second task of the fourth day of the SLJ we learnt that Mahatma Ali Changed his name, since he changed his name for this task we had the choice to change our name to anything, if I were to change my name I would want to change it to Noah.

Making a Racket

LI: to research about the people who the world.
For the first task of the fourth day of the summer learning journey we had to watch two videos about Serena Williams and Venus Williams, we then had to list three facts from the videos.

Achieving our Goals

LI; to research about people who changed the world.
For the third task of the third day we had to make a poster about a dream job from someone we knew. We had to make a brain storm and find six ways to support him/her when they do the job.

Defying the Odds

LI: to research about people who changed the world.

For the second task of the third day for the SLJ we had to pick a basket ball player and make a DLO about questions we would ask him/her if we were to interview them. My three questions were: have you ever set a world record for basketball,  what is your personal score on points and do you ever consider retiring in the future.

Rugby Superstars

LI: to research about people who changed the world.
For the first task of the third day of the SLJ we had to read about Johna Lomu and Richie McCaw. Their skills in rugby are described as "Super Powers", speaking of super powers we had to pick three super powers that we liked and we had to explain what we would do with them. I would try to fight of enemies from hurting people.

Miracle on the Hudson

LI: to write a paragraph about something brave that we or someone that we knew did.
For the third task of day 2 we had to write a paragraph about something brave that we or someone that we knew did. In this paragraph I wrote about the time I went to Movie World and I went on the log flume ride.

One Step for Man

LI: to create a poetic poem.
For the second task of the second day we had to create a poem about what it would be like to walk on the moon. For the haiku I had to list about 10 words. My poem was a haiku and it was called one step for man.

Flying Solo

LI: to compare Amelia Earhart with Jean Batten.
For the first task of the second day we had to use a venn diagram to compare Amelia Earhart to Jean Batten. We had to research them both and we had the choice of putting an image on the DLO or not.

Oxfan Poster

LI: to choose a charity and make a poster about it.
For the third task for the summer learning journey I had to make a poster about a charity that i'm interested in. I chose Oxfam because in generally they just assist people whenever they're in need of help. I in the poster I provided information about what is Oxfam, and I added two icons.

My Culture

LI: to find where I'm from.
This week for the second task for day two we had to use google maps to mark the places where we're from, I chose to mark where my parents were from first, my mum was from England because of my grandpa, and she was Maori because of m grandma. My dad is from Niue because both of his parents are from Niue.

10 Food Items to bring on a Sea Trip

LI: to list 10 food items to bring to a trip at sea.
For our first task for day one of the summer learning journey, we had to list ten items to bring to a trip at sea and we had to write down why. In this task we have no freezer or refrigerator to use so we had to research some food items that are non-perishable and that would be easy to make.

Commenting

LI: to make a cyber smart comment.
This week I commented on Johns blog about his pepeha. I learned by making a cyber smart comment.

Basic Facts

LI: to remember basic facts maths.
This week for maths I chose to do basic facts up to twenty speed demon challenge.

SSR Selfie

LI: to summaries and retell the text.
This week for ssr selfie I used a book called robots, this book is about robots.

The Reverse

LI: to write a narrative.
This week for writing we had to finish off the rest of our narrative. My narrative is about a virus sent out to thousands of people in LA and two people have to figure out a cure for the virus. In the narrative we had to add dialogue. I learned by finishing off the narrative.

My Pepeha

LI: to make my pepeha.
This week for a summer learning journey task I had to make my pepeha, to do this I used a site called pepeha.com and a template to help me make my pepeha. For the pepeha we had the choice of doing it in any language we wanted to.

Fractions

LI: to define "Fraction".

This week for math's we had to make examples of fraction sentences. For an example we had to write "My Set: random number", we then had to write "Fraction: thirds, quarters, fifths or tenths", we then had to write the math equation and then we had to write it in a sentence. We had to use the same pattern with thirds quarters, fifths and tenths.

The Witches Follow Up Tasks

LI: to use a range on comprehension questions to go deeper into the text.
This week, to finish off our novel study we had to finished all of the follow up tasks, we also had to finish off our books. We then had to put all our work links in the google drawing.

Kiwi Can | Fun Day

LI: to learn how to respectfully communicate.

For kiwi can this week we played 5 games, the first game that we played was traffic lights, for this game we needed to get into partners. The two people had to do certain things when a certain color is called out. The colors were black - switch positions, white - back person touches front persons shoulders, blue - switch positions twice, yellow - front person touches the ground, red - back person touches their head. The next game that we played was musical cones, we had to play against other people to grab a cone, when the music stopped we had to grab the cone, first person to grab the cone moves on to another person. The next game was called bitty bitty bop, a person would say bitty bitty bop to us and we would have to say bop before they finished the sentence, if they said bop and you said bop you'd would be out, they added other actions that needed three people, they were called charlies angles, Mary Poppins and elephant. 

The next game that we played was called hot potato, we have to pass the ball around until a sentence is finished. The last game that we played was called Do this! Do that! The aim of the game is to do the same thing as the person saying do this but when he says do that and we do it we are out.

 

Maori Numbers

LI: to learn about the Maori culture, language, history.
This week for Maori we had to learn about the Maori numbers, we learnt that Tatau meant to count, kore meant zero, Rau means hundred, Mano means thousand and Miriona means million, for an example 1,234,567 in Maori would be Tahi Miriona ma rua rau mano ma te kau ma toru mano ma mano wha ma rau rima ma te kau ma ono ma whetu. We use the same pattern for every number in Maori under 10 million. We used this document to practice our numbers in Maori.

Lorde Information

LI: to do a task for the SLJ
For a task for the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) I chose to make a poster about information about Lorde. I had to research as much as I could about Lorde. I made my poster on canva. I added where Lorde was born, how old she was and what was her career.

Commenting

LI: to make a cyber smart comment.
For commenting for this week I commented on Kruse's blog post about his hook for his narrative. I learnt by commenting on Kruse's blog.

SSR Selfie

LI: to retell a text.
For ssr selfie this week I chose to read a book called Elephant, this book is about elephants. I learnt by using this book for ssr selfie.

Basic Facts Boxes

LI: to learn our basic facts.
For basic facts this week I chose to do the speed demon challenge up to twenty, my time for my basic facts were 6 minutes and 47 seconds.

Narrative Hook

LI: to revise the structure of a recount and reaffirm the marking criteria.
For writing this week we planned a narrative and now we are trying to make it, we had to choose between natural disasters or a cure for a growth reverse. We first had to make a hook, a hook lures in the reader to read their story.

Legal Images

LI: to find and get legal images,
For cyber smart this week I worked with my partner to make an interactive poster about where and how to find legal images. I learnt by making the interactive poster with my partner.

Kiwi Sport | Tennis

LI: to use all the tennis techniques we learnt to play singles. 
For tennis this week, we played singles. Like last week we were playing games but the difference was that we wouldn't have a partner. We learnt by using all the techniques we learnt throughout the weeks to play singles.

Kiwi Can

LI: to respect others.
This week for kiwi can we talked about how we could respect each other for their differences, for an example we talked about how we could respect peoples diets. For the energizer for kiwi can this week we had to get a partner and one partner would do something and the other would copy the other, they then would switch roles. The next game was passing the ball around and then shooting it into the hoop.

Fractions

LI: to learn about unit fractions.
For maths this week instead of working on our planes, we worked on learning about unit fractions. We learnt that to find the unit fraction of a set I must divide the set by the number of groups. When then had to make fractions using plastic beans, to show this we had to get an amount of beans and split them up into any fraction we wanted to, we then had to make them into halves and quarters. We wrote all the information in our maths books.

Maori Days of the Week

LI: to learn about the Maori days of the week.
For the Maori task this week we had to choose between two documents, I chose a document where I had to figure out the days of the week. On the document there were three columns with the names of the week in the traditional Maori language, the Maori language and in English. The middle column is the only one that is correct, we had to match the other days with the English days.

Maori Times

LI: to learn about the Maori times.
For last weeks task for Maori we had to choose between two google documents. I chose the document where I had to figure out the Maori times using the Maori numbers. I learnt by doing this task and figuring out the Maori times using the Maori numbers.

The Witches News Article

LI: Novel study.
For a follow up task I chose to make a news article about the witches. For this task I had to provide a headline, photo & caption, article structure and an audio recording of witness if we wanted to. This week I learned by making my new article on Canva.

Just Frame It Poster

LI: to advertise a product.
For our Gala day today we had to make brochures, posters and videos to advertise our frames. For the brochures we would have to give them out to other classes to let them know what we are selling and what were the prices. For the posters we had to put them all around the school. For the video we would show it to the other classes.

Kiwi Sport

LI: to learn play doubles tennis.
Doubles tennis is when two players play against another two players. Both players on each team should have turns at hitting the ball. The person closer to the ball should hit the ball. We practiced by playing doubles.

Just Frame It

LI: to make a frame
For our business topic for inquiry we started our own business called "Just Frame It", on Friday we are going to set up a stand and sell our frames from one to two dollars. Our has been working on a big frame and a little frame.

Kiwi Can

LI: To respect others for their differences.
For kiwi can this week we learnt how everyone has their own beliefs/ideas/customs that we should respect. We had to learn how to hold our tongue (think about what you want to say before you say it). We also learnt about cultures, religions, and customs from different countries like the Philippines and other countries. We played a game called "Spot the difference". In this game we had to get into pairs and one person would change an aspect of their appearance and the other person had to figure out what they've changed, and then we would swap roles.

Commenting

LI: to make a cyber smart comment.
This week for commenting I commented on Chris's blog about commenting on Bella's blog.

Basic Facts

LI: to remember basic math's facts.
For basic facts I did my basic math's facts in 6 minutes and 52 seconds for the speed demon challenge up to twenty. I learned by doing my basic facts.

Kiwi Sport | Tennis

LI: to learn how to play tennis.
For tennis last week we learned to play against other players but with a partner, we learnt to serve the ball properly with a racket. We also did a little ralley to try and hit the cones with our partners. I learned by practicing the things we learnt last week.

SSR Selfie

LI: to summaries and retell the text.
For ssr selfie I chose to use a book called "Electricity", this book is about electricity. I learned by doing ssr selfie.

Plane Flight Measurements & Graph

LI: to use statistical and scientific methods to study the effect of wing span and area on lift.

For math's this week we had to choose a type of plane (Glider, Stunt and Dart), and a plane design. We then had to get into a group of eight and throw our planes, we then had to throw our planes and measure how far they flew and record the measurements on a google sheet. We then had to use the data that we acquired to make a scatter chart. My interpretation is that the more you throw the plane the further it flies.

Athletics Day

LI: to learn how to work cooperatively with our team mates.
Last week Friday all classes were split up into four teams, the teams were the green team, the blue team, the red team and the yellow team. Each team had to play against each other in games to win the games. We played Lilly pad gladiator, rob the nest, long jump, sponge relay, shot put, hoola hoops, bean bag race, egg and spoon race and the frizbie frenzie.

Coffee Shop Gameplay

LI: to balance supply and demand for a profit.
For inquiry we played a game called "Coffee Shop", this game is about buying supply and selling the coffee, the aim of the game is to make as much money as possible in 14 days. We used this game for our learning so we could learn how you get the supply, the amount of demand there is, and many more things. We then had to make a video about the days 12 to 14 and at the end of each day we would have to take a screenshot of the progress we made on that day.

Character & Setting Description

LI: To revise the structure of a recount and reaffirm the marking criteria.

This week for writing we made a plan for a narrative about two characters, we also had to make multiple settings for the narrative, we then had to describe the settings and the characters in a google document. I learned by making a google document and describing the settings and the characters.

Roald Dahl Information

LI: Novel study.
For a reading task this week I chose to do a task where I had to research about Roald Dahl. I made a google slideshow saying who is he, who are his family, where is Roald Dahl from and what careers he chose with photos. I learnt by making a google slide show about where he is from, who is he, who is his family and what careers he chose.

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn how to be patient
For kiwi can we were learning about how to be patient and if we are not patient we would get angry. For the energizer we played a game called grab it. The way on how to play this is with a group of people in a circle, everyone puts there left hand out and put their right index finger and middle finger on another persons right hand. A person says a sentence with a specific word, when that word is said in the sentence you have to grab the persons hand with your left hand while also lifting your right hand without getting caught.

The next game was a patience test, the test was called pass it on. There are two teams in lines, one person would squeeze both shoulders of the people at the back of the line, they then had to pass the squeeze on until they reached the person in front. The person in front has to run to the cone before the other person does.

Maori

LI: to learn about the Maori culture, history and language.
For Maori this week we learnt how to use some of the moves that require a poi, a poi is a Maori instrument. After we learnt how to use the poi in some ways we went onto a document with 7 Maori words. We had to find out the the meanings of those words. I learned by using the poi and by doing this document.

Commenting

LI: to learn how to make a smart comment.
For commenting I commented on Chris's blog about commenting. His blog was about commenting on Acien's blog. I learned by commenting on Chris's blog.

Basic Facts Boxes

LI: to remember basic maths facts.
For basic facts I chose to do the speed demon challenge up to 20. My time while doing this was 6 minutes and 17 seconds. I learned by doing my basic facts boxes.

Kiwi Sport

LI: to learn how to play tennis.
For tennis this week we were working on serving the ball and hitting the ball to hit cones. To serve we needed to serve the ball diagonally and hit the cones. We then had to do the same with hitting the ball with the racket. I learned by doing tennis.

SSR Selfie

LI: to summaries and retell the text.

For ssr selfie I chose to use a book called, electricity. This book is about electricity. I learned by using this book to do ssr selfie.