Summer Learning Journey Activity 3.

Shelley - Ann - Fraser - Pryce Summer Learning Jurney Activity 2.

Lorde Teaser Week Day 1 Activity One.

Tāku Mōkai

We have been learning how to introduce our pet in Maori.

Algebra Dlo.

The Ancient Volcano.

WALT develop our own poem in response to a model ( packing my bag for…. By James Norelifle).

WALT use an increasingly descriptive vocabulary to add interest to our writing.

WALT have some fun and be creative with ideas and imagination 

The ancient volcano.

It is the time of two thousand and fifty. I flew to an ancient volcano in the united states of america (the biggest volcano in the world) in my helicopter. I wasn’t meant to land in the united states I was meant to land in Los Angeles but I had to make a crash landing because something went wrong with the engine. When I hopped out of my helicopter I put my gas mask and my heat protection suit on so that I don’t get poisoned because of the poisonous air and the burning heat. There was smoke everywhere. I coughed as I inhaled the smoke. The sky was grey and there were bits of hot ashes all over the ground from the volcano. As I looked up I could see the gigantic volcano right in front of me. I looked over my shoulder and I saw a village of abandoned houses, some of them were burnt to ash. In the distance I saw a graveyard I couldn’t quite make out what was standing outside of it, but as I got closer I realised that they were zombies. GASP!!!   

I am going to take….

One large gold and silver steel gas mask 

With transparent glass eye holes

To see through cloudy ash filled air

And provide fresh cool oxygen

To be able to explore the volcano insides.

One large silky and soft protection suit.

With heat protected metal

And with wool sewed on the inside 

To protect me from the burning heat

Incase the heat gets unbearable.

One medium size shotgun

Loaded with 4 steel capped, tiny lace winged bullet shells

Include seven spare bullet shells

To protect myself

In case zombies invade the volcano.

One small size 2k diamond camera

With 50 diamond films 

With a 20 inch clear transparent screen

To see out of when I take a picture

In case there is a great sight to take a picture of.  

And of course my best friend

To keep me company.

                     

Why You Should Go Camping At Tahuna Campground.

Persuasive/ Exposition Writing - Planner

Why you should go camping at the Tahuna Campground.

 

 

Overview/ Statement of position

A brief statement of your view about the topic.  What you believe or want to argue.

Every year Billie and I go camping at Tahuna Campground in Nelson and we always have a fabulous time. Down below I am going to list 3 reasons why you should go camping at Tahuna Campground.

 

 

Firstly, you should go camping at Tahuna Campground because you meet new friends around the campground. Last year Billie and I made lots of new friends from all over New Zealand. If you make new friends you can hang out with them. It would be good if you made new friends because then you would have friends inside and outside of school. this is one reason why Tahuna Campground is a great place to go camping.

 

Secondly, you should go camping in Nelson because you get lots of exercise. When you go camping you get a lot of exercise from walking, biking and running around the campground. You also get exercise from riding go carts that you can hire.

Thirdly, you should go camping at Tahuna Campground because there are lots of fun activities to do in the campground and outside of the Campground. There are about three parks at the Campground that you can play at. Across the road from the Campground there is a water park with a big hydro slide and many more fun things to do at the Campground. This means that there is always something to do and you will never get bored. 

 

 In conclusion, you should go camping at Tahuna Campground because, you meet new friends, you get lots of exercise and there are lots of fun activities to do. I hope that you decide to go camping at Tahuna Campground in Nelson. It is loads of fun!!!!!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toki Pounamu Film Festival.

Toki Pounamu Film Festival. 

Today we went to the Toki Pounamu Film Festival at the
Regent Theater. This film festival was when kids from schools
in the Greymouth area made short films and then they
displayed them at the film festival.

My favourite film was the first film. It was about a robbery at the
bank. In the film there were two sheriffs and a reporter. The
robber stole over two million dollars, the sheriffs and the police
were trying to track the robber down. When the police officers
ran it had sound effects. The police officers had fake plastic
guns and they pretended to shoot the robber. They have done
a good job at using slow motion. They also did a great job at
editing and getting good action shots. They also had a lot of
different angled pictures.          

Collaging Google Drawing

We have been learning to make a collage on Google Drawing. We had to use the explore, mask and arrange tools to get our collage to come together. We had to make a NZ bird and put it into its habitat. It was a lot of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this?

Monarch Butterfly Information Report.

We have been learning about mini bests in class as part of science. We have been creating information reports on a mini beast of our choice. I worked with Mylah, Billie and Ilish. The mini beast we chose had to live in aoteroa/New Zealand.

Animation Practise.

Today we were learning how to make an animation on google slides. To create this animation we had to use images off the internet and move them around the slides. To make our animation work we had to change the code from false to true.

Weta Information Report.

This is a piece of writing that we did for our mini beast topic when we were learning about weta. We had to write an information report on this insect.

Click here to see our success criteria.

   Native New Zealand Weta.

What is a Weta ?

Weta are a Native insect to New Zealand/  Aoteroa.

There are 5 main types of Weta in New Zealand but there are over 70
species. 

Weta are invertebrates and they have an exoskeleton so this means that
Weta have their skeleton on the outside of their body and they don’t
have a spine. Weta look similar to a giant Grasshopper or a cricket. Weta
have an abdomen and thorax, their abdomen is in their lower body and
their thorax is in their upper body. Weta are an insect so this means that
Weta have 6 legs. Wets have ears on their legs which is very unusual.

Where do weta live ?

Weta have their own preferred habitat and they all live in many different
places. Tree Weta  live in tree holes, in rotten logs and in the bushes.
Tusked weta live in the ground and under bushes. Ground Weta live in
burrows in the ground, under stones and small rocks. Giant weta live in
island sanctuaries so this means that they are rarely found out in the
open. Cave weta are found near the sea and in caves.

What do weta eat ?

Weta eat very different things to humans.

Most Weta are carnivorous but tree weta and giant weta are mostly herbivorous. Weta hunt for food at night. Ground weta climb trees as well as hunt for food on the ground. When ground weta hunt for food on the ground they like to hunt for leaves and small insects. Most weta like eating lichen, seed heads, fruit and small insects. 

How do weta reproduce ?

Weta reproduce differently from humans.

Weta are insects so they lay eggs. The female Weta lay their eggs in autumn. The female Weta lay 6- 10 eggs at a time. Weta lay their eggs at night. Weta lay their eggs out of an ovipositor, although it looks like a stinger it is not, it is a tube that the female Weta lay their eggs out of. When the female Weta lay their eggs they stick their ovipositor into the ground and lays her eggs in the ground. When Weta hatch out of their eggs as they get older they grow bigger so they have to shed their exoskeleton. At first when Weta shed their skin it is all soft but it hardens pretty quickly.

Are Weta social ?

     Weta live in groups from 10 - 20 in a tree hole. Mostly only tree weta live in big groups not really the other Weta species. When it is getting close to Autumn there can be dozens of female weta mating with a male weta in one tree hole. Male Weta fight over the female weta. Weta communicate with each other by rubbing their hind legs together and make a quiet chirping sound.

What are the biggest threats to weta ?

Weta biggest threats are Rats, Cats, Stoats, Moreporks, dogs and Tuatara.To protect Weta in the future we can try not to scare or kill the Weta. Before humans came weta biggest threats were only Birds and Tuatara. The main thing we need to do to make sure that Weta survive is to make homes and habitats for them.

By Hannah.

Area And Perimeter.

To Build A Bot And Emotional Robots.

This term we have been learning about emotional robots - A.I and about kids building robots. We did this in our reading work. We read two interesting articles about building robots.





        Click here to see my reading work

The Cat On The Road.

I done this because we done a technological morning and I didn't really like it because it was hard.

Transformation DLO.

Abandoned Places Writing

Abandoned Places - Writing

Our learning goals are to:

-Write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

The Deep Orange Sand Storm

I heard a thud at the door. I looked out the window and I saw that the sky was
no longer blue it had turned to karaka-orange. There was sand flying
everywhere. I opened the door to get a closer look but then as I opened the
door I knew it was a mistake. I tried to shut the door but the wind was too
strong, it was like a gorilla trying to pull my door off its hinges.

 The sand came rushing into my house. The karaka- orange sand whooshed
around me like a cheetah. It sounded like a hurricane bang, crash, whoosh.
As the sand hit my face the surface of the sand felt rough and damp. Finally
I managed to shut the door. I ran inside and checked my house. There was sand everywhere! And it was half way up the wall. I started to dig to try and save my delicate belongings. As I started to dig the door burst open and I felt a shiver down my spine. I turned to look at the door and I saw a huge tornado made of sand….

Problem Solving.

My Scratch Project

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week - Korero O te wiki

WALT: 
-use scratch to code for computational thinking.
- learn how to create basic code on scratch
- Say basic phrases  in Te Reo Maori

Click here to see our Korero O te wiki-phrases of the week

Maths Adding And Subtracting Too Much.

My Quote Art

In term one we looked at our school values and what it takes to be a good learner and classmate at Karoro School.  As part of this we drew self-portraits and chose quotes that reflected something we believed in or a value we see as important.

                                                      Here is my art :  )

If I Had Wings Poem

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky ( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem. 

Why Swimming Is Important

Dinosaur + Blue Gem Poems

Get NZ Writing - poetry Over the past few weeks we have been part of the "Get NZ Writing" poetry project. This project aimed to get 96,000 poems written across NZ! We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here are my poems.

Powhiri Process

We have been learning about being welcomed onto a marae. Here is my writing work about powhiri.

Kawa Of Care

We have been learning to the Kawa Of Care which tells us about how to look after your Chromebook and be cyber smart. We had to chose three rules to write about. Here is my work.

Hannah's Wharenui Task.

we have been learning about wharenui because we will be going to one.

                    Wharenui

A Wharenui is a meeting house that represents an important ancestor or a Maori
chief that has passed away and the tribe that owns the wharenui wants to
remember them. A wharenui is like a book because there are special carvings
that represent a legend or something that is special to the tribe that owns the
wharenui. In a wharenui there are also pictures of other special ancestors that
have passed away. They have these photos because the people that own the
wharenui want to remember their special ancestors.  The parts of the outside of
the wharenui are the head / koruru, the arms / Maihi, the hands / raparapa, the
spine / tahuhu, ribs / heke and heart pole, poutokomanawa. There are only
wharenui in some places across the country so we are really lucky to have one in
Arahura and the one in Arahura is black and green and it has lots of detail like
most Wharenui do.

In some wharenui you can stay overnight in them and they serve you yummy food
and you can learn heaps of things about what the carvings mean and lots more.
A wharenui is special because it holds a tribes story inside it. It holds Maori history
and you can go to a wharenui when there is a big earthquake or a disaster and
your house gets wrecked. You can go and stay at a wharenui and it provides you
food while you find somewhere else to live or stay. These are why wharenui are
important to the community.

Karoro School Values.

For the beginning of the year we have been learning about our school values. Here is my work showing our school values and some ways we can demonstrate these.

Swimming Goals Term One 2019.

We've been learning how to be safe when swimming and working on our swimming skills. On the sheet below I have highlighted the things that I have completed in swimming. By the end of the year I want to have completed level 4.