My Kowhaiwhai Design

This years topic is Te wa toi, and we have designed and painted our own kowhaiwhai. I've called my artwork 'Ko au' - 'me', My piece of artwork represents my family. The two red korus represents my mum and dad, The blue korus at the bottom represents my oldest brother, me and my younger sister. The black ngutu-kaka also represents one of my cultures (maori). the patiki I coloured green is a bridge to keep us protected. and last one is the yellow upside down triangle, that represents my older sister watching over us. 

BEDMAS - Order to operation

WALT: use the correct order of operations solving algebraic equations.

This week we are learning about BEDMAS, if you go to the next slide you will see the meanings to each of the letters. My partner that I worked with was Anna.v.

Perspectives and Opinion video

Here is Perspectives and Opinion video. On my other post (Perspectives and Opinions) it will tell you why we made this short film.

Sprint track

WALT: Agree on a solution that each member can explain.

Today we are leaning about are and perimeter. Here is our working out on slide 1.

Lady Pink

Today we will be talking about a graffiti artist, lady pink and how she uses Texture,Colour and shape in her artwork to show that women can do anything. As you can see Lady Pink uses a lot of colours to express how she feels about empowering women.  She also uses Texture to bring the colours together by using the spray paint in different artwork. Our last element shows she uses different shapes to express different kinds of faces in her artwork. Her message towards all her artwork, to men especially is that women can do anything, weather its graffitti or different kind of arts.

Strike day!

this week we've been focusing on fact and opinions based on the strike day, held on monday. Heres a short film to show our facts and our own opinions about the day.

Fact or Opinion

WALT: I will read across texts and media to form my own opinion on the current teacher strikes.


For this weeks topic we have been focusing on the strike day, which was held on Monday. For this activity we had to give facts and our own opinions on the strike day.

Colour Code

My friends are very important to me. Each and every one of them have been a
great friend to me even when things are not good. So let me explain to you in
the next 3 paragraphs what being a good friend means.

Being a good friend values you to care for one another. That means showing
respect or aroha to show that you care for them even when something is hard.
For example when your friend is going through a rough time you should always
be there to show aroha and be kind-hearted towards them so they can feel
better and know that you will always care for her/him.

Another way of being a good friend is having trust in your friendship.
Yes, that means having trust between you and your friends whether its a boy or
girl. That shows you know that if you tell them something personal you can trust
that they won’t apprise anyone.

Encouraging your friend is another way of being a good friend. Meaning you are
always there to encourage them in doing something they’ve never tried before
or when they are in a game. E.g if you are at their rugby game you will be on the
sideline encouraging him/her to either do a big tackle , score a try or get the kick
over the goal post.

And there you go, 3 ways of being a good friend. I know that my friends care
and trust me. They also encourage me, especially to try something new. Even
if it was me trying to play a sport like football and I fail the first couple of times
there still there to help me out and encourage me to keep going. I hope you are
one of those people.

Colour Code:

Yellow - Key: Statement

Green - Key: Explanation

Blue - Key: Example

Today we got the opportunity to mark our own writing test ( the writing above). as part of me marking my writing we did colour coding. As you can see yellow represents you statement , green is your explanation, and blue is for your example.

Measurement: Time

WALT: agree on a solution that each we can explain.

Man and Sea

WALT: Test ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests.

In this activity, it tells us how a  boy named Ioane gets a tatau tattoo. In this process hes in so much pain, during this his papa tells him a story about a black octopus that ravaged island.

Lady Pink

For todays activity our focus was based on a graffiti artist, Lady Pink. First we watched a video about her then had to find out facts about her career/life.She's been a graffiti artist almost her whole life, in her teenage years she had trouble studying to be a architecture but struggled because there were to many numbers that had to be added. 

24-hour Times

WALT: use questions to help my understanding of other's mathematical thinking.


first day back at school, we're learning about our 24-hour time. during this activity I had a group of 3 girls, Ana.l Anna.V and myself.  there are three slides and each of us got one slide each to work, I had the first one, Anna.V had the second and Ana.l Had the third one. for e.g if it says 10 minutes to  (before) 12 , that's 11:50.

Kiwi KIds News #2

Fart proof underwear

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

U.K company

2. What was the key event from the news article?

Fart proof undies

3. Where did this event take place?

United kingdom

4. When did this event take place?

September 19 2018

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

“Millions of people”

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

This company is trying to reduce bad smells coming from your behind

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

This event took place in the U.K , in the U.K is where the queen and her family live

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

September 19 2018, this might be a number 1 selling product for people that really need it

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

I personally think that a lot of people would wear this product because some people fart a lot and it really smells but they also wanna put it to the test

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.

Combat - fighting between armed forces.

Spokesperson - a spokesman or spokeswoman (used as a neutral alternative).

Warfare -  engagement in or the activities involved in war or conflict.

Poetry Box - Paula Green

WALT: Writing Poetry For the audience of my whanau.


This week we got the task to write down what we knew about Paula green , and we also had to write a poetry about a parents childhood.

Deli Ali - Kiwi Kids News

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

    Dele Ali

2. What was the key event from the news article?

   Can you do Dele Ali ?

3. Where did this event take place?

 It can take place anywhere in the world

4. When did this event take place?

This event took place on the 3rd of September 2018

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article?

 There is no quote shown in this article.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

All over the world people have discovered the weird hand gesture that Dele Ali did after
every goal he got, and started trying to do it. Now it is popular to people and became the
new trend.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

 It doesn’t have any information about where the event took place.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

This Dele Ali trend is popular right now but in the future I don’t think it will be as popular
as it is right now.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

It started from the Football Player, Dele Ali. After he scored goals he did this hand gesture,
and suddenly it became more popular.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from
the article.

Craze -  An Enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which achieves widespread but short-lived
popularity

Gesture -  a movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.

Viral - circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another.

Dancing with the Stars

WALT: connecting - I make sense of new information before , during and after reading by connecting it to myself , texts I know and my world

This week we've been on the roll to learn about "Dancing with the Stars" our task was to create a poster that will help others with what ever their going through, weather its good or bad. and this is what I came up with for people to Conquer their goals and to never give up.

Rugby for Rosie - Podcast

For the past few weeks me and my buddy having been working on how to do podcasting. We each had to pick a book, and explain to us what the book was about. We then had to pick a partner to work with, so they could interview us for this podcast. I've been reading about a book called "Rugby for Rosie" , this book was written by a New Zealand author named Frances Adlam and illustrated by jenny cooper. This book was about a girl named rosie that wanted to play rugby for school but the only available team was the boys team , and in order for her to qualify she needed to bring along three other girls. But none of the other girls wanted to play, then the coach said she could trial an during the trial she scored a lot more try's then the boys did.  Then after all of this she was happy to say to everyone that she made the team

Ned's Adventure !

This morning we had special visitors that came to our school to talk to the whole school about something
special. Can you guess who it is ? if you guessed Ned your right, Ned also came with a friend named
Cosmo. They’ve only been in Aotearoa once and only for a week. They are here to talk about how there
adventure went/was in the country Kenya based in Africa.

They’re first topic they talked about was about our superhero powers, and that power was our smile.
when you smile it brings the whole world together, He had multiple reasons why and how our smile can
change the world. One of his quotes that stood out to me was “smiles can break down walls”.
The reason to it is that if you smile it can bring people a happier life.

Then he talked about the matters of people, and how you care for one another. Caring for other people

can change lives, though you may not know them you still care it helps bring love and happiness into our
world and community. The five things he listed that were apart of this topic were , Each person matters a
lot, Caring is cool, different can be good, I can make friends everywhere and Include others.

In every country we all know there are different languages that are said. And in Kenya they have a way of
speaking their own language where us New Zealanders just speak English which most of us understand
,we do also speak other languages but English is what we prefer most, In New Zealand .Whatever culture
you are or whatever language you speak at home, feel free to express it around the world, It’s a way
that people can also communicate to you, and to try new languages.  I like to learn new
things, and I wouldn’t be more happier if I could learn a new language from a country
I’ve never really heard of.

He then talked about the education, and compares the times we wake up and the times the Kenya kids
wake up.  Here in Aotearoa the times our kids wake up is at 7:00 am and over in Kenya the kids over
there wake up at 5:00 am every single day for school. My questions towards that is, is it because they
have to walk a far distance? Or because they start very early?. I only live a few blocks down from school
and I always have to wake up at 6:00 every morning to get ready.

These messages can help everyone. It was good to know the difference between the students here in

Aotearoa and the students in Kenya. It was also good to know the five importance of how to be kind to
other people. and they were, difference can be good, caring is cool, I can make friends anywhere, each
person matters a lot and include others. My favourite one out of all of the five is, Difference can be good,
The reason why is because being different is a good way to learn different things, like for e.g if your
Islander and you wanna learn how to speak another language like what Kenya speak, you can always
give it a go. No matter how much you fail you still get up and try your best until you get it.

Multiplying whole numbers by decimals

This week we've been learning how to multiply  decimals. One thing I have learnt from this presentation is that I find it way easier to multiply decimals now and that this activity has helped me increase my knowledge of decimals.

STRIKE!!

More time to teach:

Enough is enough! We need more time with our teachers, without students distracting and
interrupting us. We need more teachers at several schools, because one teacher cannot
handle thirty other kids alone.  Us students cannot learn with other kids disrupted, our time
with our teacher trying to teach us. My teacher Mrs Tele’a, can never teach us without having
to stop and talk to the kids that have been sent to her.  For either not listening or being disrespectful.
Rather than writing reports about each student she sees on the mat, she should be able to focus
more on learning with us.

Resourcing additional needs:

Different teachers in Aotearoa have the same issues of providing there kids with the learning
they need. My opinion to this topic, is that we should have more teachers to help our students
that are in need, Need extra help to catch up with the rest of the class. So that way students in need
don’t find it difficult to learn.

Better pay:

From my point of view I think that the teachers that have been working as a teacher over more
than ten years, should get better payment than the teachers that have arrived recently. Why?
that's because its not fair to the people that have been doing this job for so long, it’s not fair
that just the recent arrives get paid a bit more than the hard long working teachers have. Aotearoa
schools are probably one of the most schools that don’t have enough teachers to help.

Conclusion:

I agree to say that all teachers need at least two teachers in each class, and get paid twice as much as they usually get. I feel like these days teachers aren’t getting paid enough for what they
are doing for us.