Do you Know How to Play Ki O’Rahi

In Te Ngahere we were learning how to play Ki O’Rahi. If you don’t know how to play Ki O’rahi there are two teams; Taniwha and Keoma. Taniwha is trying to hit the big pou in the middle and there are two Keoma trying to defend the big pou in the middle, there are also little pou that Taniwha are trying to get. You have to hit at least three little pou to be allowed to throw it at the big pou in the middle. The fun part was playing and the boring part was learning all the rules because you have to remember them all.

Have you ever played Ki O’Rahi before?

 

My Most Amazing Creativity To Share T - Shape

Last week in Te Ngahere we did a T - Shape about show not tell. If you don’t know what T - Shape is, it’s a reading template to understand work from and  there’s texts you have to answer questions to so it’s basically reading and writing put together. I really enjoyed doing this T - Shape and I think it might be my favourite T - Shape. Show not tell means when they showed what they did and not to telling the people  what they did, show not tell also means inferencing. 

There were three texts called Three Bears, Battle and Match Report, there was also five questions we had to answer per story as well as a little bit at the bottom that asked Which text created the most powerful feelings and images, explain why. The easy part was reading the stories and the hard part was answering the questions.

Have you ever learnt about show not tell before?

 

My New and Improved Math DLO about Equivalent Fractions

This week in my maths group we have been making maths DLOs, I did my maths DLO with Grace. We had done separate screencastifys but we said the same thing. We were learning to do equivalent fractions, equivalent fractions are when there’s a fraction and you can change the numbers but it would equal the same fraction. You would change the numbers by multiplying and dividing the numerator and the dinomentater by the same number. We solve equivalent fractions by figuring out what number we have to divide or multiply the numerator and denominator by. We were doing the maths DLOs to show our learning on equivalent fractions. The easy part was multiplying and dividing the numbers and the hard bit was to know what to multiply or divide it by. 

Do you know how to do equivalent fractions?

The Extremely Fun Kawa of Care

For the past couple of weeks we have been re - learning the Kawa of Care and making a poster, animation, powtoon or a comic  to tell other people about the Kawa of Care, I chose to do a poster. The Kawa of Car are the  rules for your chromebook so it won’t be broken or that no one will be able to get in your account, it is really important to use the Kawa of Care. One of the rules is don’t eat food or drink by your chromebook because the water and food will get in the keys and make them not work anymore. The easy part was writing the Kawa of Care facts that I had chosen and the hard bit was to choose the background for the poster. I learnt that you have to use the Kawa of Care so your chromebook will never end up broken or having something bad happen to it. Have you used the Kawa of Care before?

The Extremely Fun Wonder Project

For the past couple of weeks in Te Ngahere there's been two people coming in to explain what the Wonder Project is. Their names are Troy and Gustavo, Gustavo is an pomology and Troy is an rainwater engineer. The Wonder Project is when you learn about rockets and you also launch rockets in the process. We have been learning the safety rules of launching a rocket and what you’re supposed to do when you launch a rocket. One of the safety rules is that when you launch you don’t run, you walk, another one is that you have to be wearing your vest, eye protection and a helmet. The rocket is going to be made by two 1.5 liter bottles, cardboard and some decorations so it’s different from the others and you don’t get mixed up with the the other people Have you ever launched a water rocket before?

Our Incredible Movie Making

For the past two weeks in Te Ngahere we have been making three minute movies,  because soon there is a film festival at the Cathay Cinema and our school has been asked to make some movies for us to share with some other schools. I’m in a group with Ayanda, Ebony, Fern, Grace and myself. We have almost finished our script, but we have got all the locations and the other things you need already done. This week we are filming the actual three minute movie. The part that made me think hard was when we had to choose the camera angles for each part and I still think we could improve it as well by using different camera angles every scene. In this I think I learnt how to use the camera angles in the right parts of the movie. Have you ever filmed a three minute movie before?

Our Incredible Mosaic Art

Last week we started to do some mosaic art. Most of us did it on our chromebook but some of us did it on paper. I did mine on my chromebook because I thought it would be easier. We used the tool polyline on google drawings. We did heaps of art on our chromebooks in lockdown for the ones that wanted to do work, I think it’s better than doing it on a piece of paper. The easy part was getting the photo and the hard part was doing the actual mosiac art and using the polyline tool. Have you ever tried mosaic art? Do you know what mosaic art is?