Summer learning journey teaser week pepeha

SLJ Teaser Week: 
 Activity 2 My Pepeha in Italian

Mawhera Movie screening

My class has made a video about our 2019 highlights that we entered in the Mawhera movie screening competition with lots of other schools around Greymouth.Last week we went to the Mawhera movie screening with some of the other schools and at the screening some of the movies that were made were shown but not all of them because ours was not shown.My favourite movie that was shown was the first movie and it was about a robber and two cops.The things that I think we did well in our video is that we had people being interviewed about things that happened this year.       

This is a link to my classes movie https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e7dEhoz_nBpPrq6hfgk5fij2zckR_QZI/view?ts=5dd2ebf5

Story Starter

For this activity I had to read the story starter for inspiration about what to write about and then write about the man that is in the picture I hope you like my story.

BEWARE OF MISS SPICK!!

W.A.L.T:Create a poster about a worlds worst teacher using emotive and persuasive language.

In my class we are reading the book the Worlds Worst Teachers.So far we have read about Miss Spick,Mr and Mrs Lovey Dovey,Mr Pent and we are currently reading Mr Dred and the chair of a thousand farts.For this activity we had to choose one of the teachers that we have read about so far and had to create an eye catching poster using persuasive language I chose Miss Spick.

Mt Fuji Facts

This activity was one of the rugby world cup activities that my teacher made for my class.For this activity I had to research Mt Fuji because the rugby world cup is being held in Japan and Mt Fuji is in Japan.

Creative writing

For this activity Mrs Clark chose a image on the tv for M1 to write about.The picture was of a shadow and a shed and it also had a story starter which was a piece of writing that we had to read and continue on to the story starter with our own writing and the writing that I did is highlighted.

Story starter!

It happened in the dead of night. The garden light
illuminated the person, casting a mysterious shadow.

As silent as a whisper in the night, the figure stealthily
crept towards the green, wooden doors. Click…
The key slipped into the metal lock, the cold mechanisms
inside responding to the familiar shape of the object
that had been slipped inside. Seeing the padlock pop
open as expected, the figure slipped the slender
bolt across into its resting position. The doors
groaned agonizingly, the figure turning to survey
the surrounding area, alarmed at the loudness of
the sound their actions had made.

The coast seemed clear. Resuming their mission,
the shadow slipped inside the room. There it was. This
was the sight and moment they had been waiting for…

The shadow moved away from the lock on the large
green wooden doors the shadow started to disappear
as the golden light of the hidden treasure chest
beamed up at the shadow.The shadow turned into
a person it was a man and he was bathing in the gold
and jewls that came out of the chest.He yelled out
“This is victory!”

Butterfly Method

In maths we have been learning the butterfly method which is a method to help you compare fractions.For this activity we had to create a DLO explaining what this method is and how to use it.

Kieran Read Profile

For the whole of this week and for the first week next term I have to do a variety of different activities revolving around the rugby world cup 2019 and this was one of the activities and for this I had to choose a all black and write a profile for that all black and I chose to do a profile on Kieran Read.

Creative writing

For this activity my class had to look at a picture of a giant coming out of the ground and write about it this is what I wrote.

I am at the park on a bright and sunny day somebody just walked over a 

big grassy lump on the ground and out roared a massive giant in rage.

Everybody started to evacuate the park accept me I walked up to the 

giant it smelt like dirty rock and moss its expression looked angry.

Pick a Path

For this activity the whole of Mamaku hub got into groups of three and I was in a group with Hannah and Arliah and the genre that we choose for our pick a path was Fantasy and we choose to recreate the story the Wizard of Oz.

What is a fraction?

For this activity I had to explain what a fraction is on a google drawing and we had to write what the main parts of a fraction is.

Creative Writing

WALT: Use strong language to create super sentences, to create interesting things for our reader.

The  Clear Wet water in the fountain at 10am today makes waves as the bubble splashes when it drops “it looks Satisfying” and it feels cold as I dip my finger in.

The Clear Wet Shallow water in the fountain at 10am today makes small waves as the little bubble splashes when it drops “It looks Satisfying when I look at it” and it feels cold as I dip my finger into the cold water.

PrEP

                        
                     PrEP 2019


For PrEP this year I am in the group Painting Maniacs and our products involve a lot of paint.Our products that we are making this year are painted glass jars for pencil/pen holders ,Painted rocks for decoration and stress clickers which are just made out of jar lids that make a clicking noise.The good things about PrEP so far was mini market last week because our group made lots of money we got 110 nuggets.The bad things about PrEP so far is that in the warehouse they have ran out of jars so we have to bring them in from home but some people in our group dont have any.

What is PrEP?  PrEP is a activity where each of the students at my school get into groups and start a fake business and make a product to sell at two markets to get ready for the real world.

The jobs that the people have in my group are.

Secretary:Alexi

Treasurer:Hannah

CEO:Kyah

Quality Control:Bessie

Workers:Charli,Lily,Emily,Willa,

Similarities&Differences

Recently my class has read the book Holes and we also watched the movie to look for differences or things that they missed out from the book and for this activity we had to write down what you would rate the book out of ten,what was your favourite(Book or Movie),what was your favourite part,differences and similarities.

Managing self goal

Lily’s Managing Self Goal.

I am currently working at Extended Abstract. To become sure that I will stay in that position I need to make sure that i'm always bringing my chrome book in and putting it into my toat tray before the bell rings and also keep replacing my stationary when it brakes to do this I will try to come to school earlier to beat the bell and be more careful with my learning objects. 

What to bring to survive in a desert

For this activity we had to write what things you would take in your backpack to survive in the desert.Also this activity was a compulsury task on chapter chat for this week.I found this activity fun because I enjoyed writing what I would personally take in my backpack.

Greymouth vs Texas

WALT:Research​ ​the​ ​weather​ ​in​ ​Texas​ ​and compare​ ​it​ ​to​ ​the​ ​weather​ ​in​ ​Greymouth or the whole of  NZ.​ ​Present​ ​your​ ​findings​ ​in​ ​a​ ​chart.

We are reading the book called holes and the book is set in Texas so we had to do a comparason of the weather in greymouth and Texas.    

Current events

For this activity we had to go on the website Kiwi kids news and we had to choose an article off of the website and my article was about countdown banning kids buying energy drinks.

RattleSnakes

For this activity we had to choose a animal out of a scorpion,yellow spotted lizard or a rattlesnake and I did mine about rattlesnakes.This activity revolved around the book holes that we are reading for chapter chat.I really enjoyed this activity as it was interesting for me.

Tawhirimatea

For this activity we had to choose a Maori god and write some facts about the god I choose Tawhirimatea the god of storms and wind.

Persuasive writing

For this activity we had to choose a topic to write a piece of persuasive writing about and try and persuade the reader.                                                                                       
                                                Ban Plastic in NZ

 Did you know that most plastic bags and food rubbish end up on islands and it harms the wildlife?I think that if you ban plastic in New Zealand then it will be better for the environment. If you ban plastic in NZ that means that things like rulers and buckets will have to be changed and made out of different material and you could change rulers to metal and buckets to tin. Another reason is that if you love animals and sea creatures you may be shocked to know that they are being very heavily effected because of all the loads of plastic and we should help them. Also if you ever go to the rubbish dump you will see big squares made up of crushed plastic from our bins at home and you will also see diggers that they use to bury all of the rubbish so it is really sad knowing that rubish gets buried and only some of it is byodigradable. Also some bad chemicals can come off of the plastic do if we still want to use plastic at least use recyclable plastic that breakes down. Lastly each year around 380 million tons of plastic is made around the world and from the 1950s to 2018 around 6.3 billion tons of plastic has been produced worldwide.In the UK alone more than 5 million tons of plastic is made. I think that NZ should ban plastic as it can cause pollution and harm wildlife and the environment. Persuasive Writing Success Criteria Introduction Opening question Opinion/Reason 3 Reasons Each paragraph is one idea supported with your reasons/facts Conclusion This ties back/recaps back to the introduction Highlight evidence of linking words. I like how lily has told us about how the sea creatures can die from plastic, and how she feels bad for the poor animals, I do love animals, Also lily, Are you happy that the super markets make you bring your own bags, So they dont have to use their bags? Maybe next time you could.. Tell us more about the wild life and the animals that suffer? Well you dont hae to! I cant think of a god next step learning since its so good. Lily could also work on maybe, Checking some of her spelling! Thank you kyah for the great feedback next time I will check my spelling.

Board game

W.A.L.T: Write a digital maths board game with links and maths questions.

 For this activity we had to create a digital board game on a google slide with added links to some maths questions that we made up.

Thinking Hats

What we had to do for this activity was we got given an article to read about The Government announcing new proposels to protect the Maui and Hectors dolphins and we had to fill out the boxes of what we thought about the article.

Chapter chat

For the last 7 weeks my class and a lot of other classes have been doing chapter chat.For chapter chat there is a man who creates 10 activities each week for us children to do and they all revolve around the book and what is happening in it.Also every time that there is a chapter chat the book is different and for this chapter chat the book was called a Fish in a Tree.Every Friday all of the classes doing chapter chat collaborate and do this thing on twitter called twitter chat which we kind of use like a blog but the man who creates the 10 activities also writes 10 question down for twitter chat and we have to answer them.Every week the man also chooses his favourite work from twitter chat and he posts it on facebook.

The book a Fish in A tree is about this girl who is called Ally and at the start she didn't  really think that she belonged in her school and she also thought that she was dumb because she could't read of write and she was keeping it a secret but then her teacher Mr Daniels found out that she had Dyslexia which is this thing that makes it hard for people to read and write and the words on the page move.Also after her teacher Mr Daniels found out about her Dyslexia she finally though that she belonged.

This is my favourite piece of work that I have done for chapter chat and it is my drawing of a bird that can swim!!

Multiplication stratagies

For this activity we had to choose a multiplication stratagy and write down ways that we know how to solve the problem and sometimes there are two ways or more to solve the same question.

How Long?

For this activity we had to be in groups of 5 or 4 and we had to choose a action and our groups action was jumping forward with two feet together and we also had to estimate how long the person jumped and some people got the estimate exactly the right mesurement.

Ally Nickerson Drawing

WALT:Create a drawing of what you think that Ally would look like. For this activity I drew a picture of what I thought that Ally from the book a fish in a tree. I hope you like my drawing!!!!

Dyslexia

WALT: Know what its like to be Dyslexic.

Easter Alphabet Challenge

For this activity we had to choose a word related to Easter that starts with each letter of the alphabet.I think that this activity was very fun and I would definitly do this again.

WALT: Find a word relating to Easter for each letter of the alphabet.

A	pril	N	ew  Zealand
B	unnies	O	pinion
C	hocolate	P	eople
D	ecorations	Q	uizzes
E	ggs	R	abbits
F	un	S	unday
G	ames	T	radition
H	oliday	U	nique
I	magination	V	arieties
J	oy	W	eekend
K	indness	X	oxo
L	ovely	Y	ummy
M	emories	Z	igzags

Easter Acrostic Poem

WALT:Write a poem about Easter.

For this activity we had to write a poem about Easter and I chose to write a Acrostic poem and I tried to add as much detail as I could.

Extraordinary Colourful eggs and chocolate.

Amazing fun tradition that most countries celebrate!

Sometimes people have Easter egg hunts.

To be happy!!!

Easter is a great time of year.

Easter Traditions

 For this activity we had to choose three different countries and write down how those countries celebrate Easter and write how you celebrate Easter and compare them.The countries that I choose were Fiji,Britain and Scotland!!!

Rainbows end roller coaster stops randomly

For this activity we had to choose a article off of kiwi kids news and we had to fill in the boxes of our opinion about this article using the coloured hats.

Waiho Bridge recount

For this activity we had to write a recount about the tragity that has happened at A bridge called the Waiho bridge near Franz Joseph Glacier in the west coast of the south island.Also for this activity we had to use the same strategy that I used in the previous Blog post.We had to use the 5 ws,some connective words a introduction,a conlusion and facts.

 Waiho Bridge Washed Away Due to strong flooding!!!!!

WALT:Write A Recount.   Orange indicates that I have changed the word/words to sound more interesting.

Did you know that near the Waiho bridge is the Franz Joseph Glacier so when the river was in flood there where big pieces of ice coming down?

       Yesterday in the early evening on the 26th of

When:  March  2019 The Brown Muddy water

Were:underneath of the Waiho bridge south of Franz Joseph Glacier on the west coast was in flood and it was starting to damage the bridge this Why:happened due to the heavy rain and strong winds Luckily they had closed the bridge 1 hour before this happened.

Adjective: A we while after that some parts of the bridge were getting aggressively ripped off.This would have been very scary if you were stuck on one side of the Big messy river river and your family being on the other side and you couldn’t get home.

How: Next the Big long Bridge Bridge was only half a bridge and the other half

was Speedingly drifting down the river.Some people saw this happening were Who: people that lived nearby and some people were just visiting the Franz Joseph Glaciers and the police.

They must have gotten a fright!!!!

After that all of the bridge had suddenly disappeared and there was no bridge and it had became very dangerous because the river was in flood of coarse and it was flowing very fast and could easily sweep you off your feet and down into the water so you will have to be careful.

Conclusion: I think that this is really terrible because lots of people like to go to the glaciers and now they can’t also some people might be stuck up there. It was scary how the river was so strong to actually knock the bridge over.

I waited for the Bus

WALT:Add Detail to our sentences to give detail to the reader.

For this activity we had to Choose a simple sentence out of Alana stood on the step,I waited for the bus or I got a call for 5 minutes and I choose to do the sentence I waited for the bus.Also for this activity we had to add in one sentence/word for each new line.Every time that we add something new in we have to start another sentence and write more things.We had to write a adjective,when,where,how and why.  Here is my explanation

Goal Setting

W.A.L.T Goal set using our testing data.

 For this activity we had to read off our sheet of paper that says the questions from the test that we have done and see what our goals will be depending on what questions that you got wrong.Also we are doing a personal goal which is a goal that can be something at home or something else that you want to work on I really enjoyed this activity.

The Mines afire

WALT: Recreate A scene from our Class Novel in a visual format using imovie.

For this activity we had to create a short movie trailer for our Class novel that we were reading called Mines afire.I really enjoyed this activity My favourite parts about it were when I was doing the videoing and also when I took some of the pictures.We have learnt quite a lot of information from this book.The scene that we were recreating was when it was the explosion in the Brunner Mine and everyone was pretending to be really sad.Next time when we make another video I think that we hopefully will work better as a team and bring in some props because this time we all forgot to bring in some props.

Poetry Anthology

We have been learning a variety of different types of poems such as Cinquain,Acrostic,Haiku,Raps,and Limerick poems.Most of these Poems are really hard but I gave them a go but the hardest poem to write was probably a Limerick and my favourite Poem was my acrostic poem because I like writing acrostic poems about my dog.

Westport Camp

Recently we got back from an Amazing Camp in Westport and it was really fun we did so many amazing interesting things on Camp we all really enjoyed it and for this years Camp our topic was mining so we learnt a lot about the mines and we even went to a working mine which was called Stockton so for this activity we had to make a slide about Camp and add in 3 things that we learnt and 3 of our favourite things that we did on Camp and I also added in some photos.

Brunner Mine site

WALT: Research to find the answer.

For this activity we had to think of a key question about the Brunner mine or how It exploded and then we had to search up the answer to that question and write some facts about the Brunner mine and add some pictures of the mine and what it used to look like. Personally I think this activity was really fun and I hope that we get to do more activities about the Brunner mine.

What would you do?

WALT:Make predictions and inferences.The purpose of this activity was to share our thoughts how we could help our community in a disaster like the explosion that happened in the book we are reading called mines afire so this is what I would do to help my community in a disaster like this.

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