Diving Deep in December

This week is the last week of the year (my last week ever at this school). For this week we are doing Something called "Diving Deep in December". Diving Deep in December is about helping the people in Poverty, and making their Christmas a wonderful one.
Here is our Activity Slide:


My buddy is Karma and here is what we have done so far:

CULTURE CLUB

This Term our focus is the ARTS. For this our Hub did this thing called Culture Club. Culture Club is a thing where we investigate a country and then present it somehow. I was buddy's with May and here is our video:

Wk 6, 7, & 8 Word Work

The Word Work topics I did for week 6, 7, & 8 are:

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Kapa Haka!

On Wednesday last week we finally performed our Kapa Haka! I learnt a lot of new songs during our Kapa Haka practices such as Purea Nei, He Honore, and E Minaka Ana. In the practices, at the start we learnt lots of songs then once we learnt them all, the teachers created our bracket 'Tu Mai Ra (our School waiata), Tehai, Purea Nei (poi), E Minaka Ana, Haka, and He Honore', then in the rest of the practices we started practicing it over and over again. We finally went to the AMP show grounds and performed our bracket at 12:45.
Here are some photos and a Video:

William Shakespeare

On Tuesday Huia is going to be presenting a report on William Shakespeare. We are going to tell people what we have learnt about him.

Here is my Presentation:

My Wk 4 and 5 WW

This term for Word Work we have to go to the Kiwi Kids News Website and choose an article to do a review on. We have to do a Recall, Thinking, and Activity.

Here is my week 4 one:

And my one for this week (week 5)

Cafe DAY!!

On Thursday last week we finally had our CAFE DAY!!

Cafe day was about inviting our elders to come and have a drink some food and entertainment for the morning. I was working in the kitchen as a caterer. It was HARD 😔😒! There was about 27 people and each elderly person had 2 students looking after them and asking them if they would like anything. I really enjoyed seeing the smiles on all their faces and loved all the effort we put into it.😀💗

Here's a video

SPCA Drop off

On one of my previous blog posts called 'SPCA House 1 & 2 Complete' I said that we had the task of making Beds, Rags, and Blankets for the SPCA!
At the end of last term my mum came in and took us to the SPCA out in the country by the Jolly Stockman and we DELIVERED OUR HOUSES!!
We meet these really cute and lovely animals.

The dog above is called Albie!
Here are the pictures of us dropping off the houses at the SPCA

BATTLE SHIPS!!

This week for strand we were learning about coordinates. Coordinates help you find the exact spot. What we had to do was guess the coordinates of where our buddy hid their boats. The way you say the coordinates where you want to go is that you go along the corridor first then up the stairs.

What is the coordinate of the grid below?

Here is my grid. I was buddies with Chloe.

How to Turn Your Brightness up

This Term a new workshop has started, it's called 'Koka Pip's Tech group'. I am one of the lucky kids that got chosen to be in the group. Our main focus is to try and help the elderly learn how to use their device and  and stay safe online.

Here are our activity slides.

Here is a poster we made for them.

On the first slide of the Activities there was a quote, that quote told us that the elderly will probably forget about the posters because it will just be all boring words. So Koka Pip told us to make a video on how to do something simple on your device. I was buddy's with Hana and here is our Video we made using Powtoon.

SPCA House 1 & 2 Complete

I'm not sure if I told you but this term's motto is ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!!! For this, in our buzz groups we chose a task out of...

THESE!

Our group

• Isabel
• Carys
• Lani
• Kaya
• Timikara

Have the task of making Beds, Rags, and Blankets for the SPCA! So far we have a planner and 2 houses/beds, here is the planner...

And here are our finished houses/beds...

How do I Make a Quality Blog Post

Last week with Koka Maria, she told us to make a video on HOW to make a Quality Blog Post. The video above shows you my 3 steps on how to make a Quality Blog Post. This picture below is our class brainstorming page.

Huia's EYEBROWS

In our Huia reading group this week our focus was learning about 'Why we have Eyebrows'. Here is the Activtiy slide for last week.

And here are my Activities

Blog Post Review

On Thursday instead of doing Blogging the teachers told us to make a Blog Post Review for our Blogging Buddy. My buddy is Seve, and here are the scores I gave him for 'The Experiment'.

FOOOOD

Each week our collaborative classes split up after lunch on a Tuesday and Wednesday. One of the classes does fitness and the other class does either Chapter Chat or Priorities. Our class (Moana Rua) does fitness on Tuesday and Chapter Chat or Priorities on Wednesday. Last week we were learning about the best foods to eat. We had to make a presentation on the food that we chose. I was partners with Kyra and we chose to do the food CHILLI PEPPERS!

Charlie, Chilli

(Chilli's my nickname)

A Letter to the Animal Trust

This week in strand we have been doing more measurements. We were put in groups to try and figure out measurements for the Animal Trust's plans and display them to the group. In my group I had Sophie, Lani, and Daniel P. Each task had 2 groups working on it. Here are all the tasks.

Our group did the first task (the garden one).

Here are the completed tasks in my book.

We decided to display our work through a fake letter to the Animal Trust.

The POWER of BEDMAS

This week in Maths we have been learning about BEDMAS (Brackets Exponents Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction).
Here is an screencastify of what BEDMAS is.

RUN NZ

This term our fitness focus is Cross Country. Our Teachers gave us 5 options, Option 1 was the yellow path, Option 2 was the yellow and orange, Option 3 is the whole North Island (Yellow, Orange, Purple), Option 4 is the whole North Island and blue, the last Option (Option 5) is the WHOLE of New Zealand. I chose Option 5 because I LOVE challenges.

Each lap counts as 20km. Each square counts as a lap. Here is my progress so far.

Quality Blog post

This week when Koka Maria came into class she showed us the Quality Blog post Rubric. She then said that we had to buddy up with someone and edit & improve one of our blog posts using the Quality Blog Post Rubric. I buddied up with Karma.

Here is an step by step slide edit of my 'Equivalent Fractions.

BF and WW

Last term our past few BF (Basic Facts) Challenges were about...

Times tables

Mixtures

Decimals

 More Mixtures

And More Times tables

And our past few Word works were about...

Similes, Metaphors, personifications

Synonyms

And click HERE to take you to my Vocabulary Word work.

Top Cat's Equivalent Fractions

In Maths Stage 6, this and last term we have been focusing on learning about fractions. Our focus last week was Equivalent Fractions (different fractions that mean the same). 

This HERE is an activity we had to do. 

In this activity we had to colour in a box that is equivalent to the one that is inline with that collum in the bottom row. I found this activity easy because I love fractions and hard because I couldn't tell which number was which because of the font.

TRANSFORMATION and TESSELLATIONS

For the past few weeks in EL4 Strand we have been learning about Transformation (Rotate, Translate, and Reflect). After we learnt about Transformations we then extended it into Tessellations (locking shapes together to create a picture with NO gaps, and NOT overlapping). I found the rotation and the coloring in hard. What helped me to make it easier was to do everything in pencil and then draw over it in pen.

Here is my TRANSFORMATION artwork.

Here is a Slide Show about Tessellations.

And here is my TESSELLATION artwork.

Skate Board Design

Once Matua Fergus saw Seve's New Skateboard design he gave us a skateboard template and we were left to design our own skateboard.
Here is my design for the Griptate (top).

And here is my deck (bottom) design.

2018 Science Fair Project

This year my science fair project was about Hydropower. There were a lot of different science fair projects like "Smell Ya Later, Colour vs B&W, The POWERADE PLACEBO effect, Sugar Cookies, Paper Scissors Rock, Right or Left, Rotor Motor, Sweet but Salty" and plenty more!
Here is what the hall looked like.

This is what MY science board looks like, I used this really good website called nz.education.com/science-fair/ and I used the Hydropower experiment.

Here are my slides.

Times Tables

For the past few weeks instead of typing club we have been going on this really good website called timestables.co.nz. I finished all my times tables from 1-12 diplomas and activities.
Here is my trophy cabinet.

The EXPLORER

This was our last week of Chapter Chat #13. The activities I chose to do are the plane model, and 'The Explorer' trailer.
I really enjoyed reading The Explorer. Here are my activities.

I rate this book a 4 and 3/4 stars out of 5!!

Wk 9 Word Work

This week for our word work we had to choose 4 of these...

Then we had to fill out these boxes with the information about the 4 words.