Marvellous Matariki

Kia Ora Bloggers,

Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at Matariki and had to do a create task about it. I paired up with Jessica and we created our own Matariki story on how they became stars. 

We used book created to make our book, it is made for little children and is filled with pictures and is fun to read. 

Did you do anything for Matariki?

Here is a link to our book: Matariki Book

Expressing patterns

Kia Ora Bloggers,
How has your week gone?

This week during math we have looked out how to find patterns and write an equation on how to find it. Our last task was to find a pattern and work out what the 99th number would be and write an equation.

I worked with Hana to try find the answer and the pattern, it took a while but in the end, we found out how we could find the answer with the even numbers. Here is my slide and the question slide.

Binary Bag Chain

Kia Ora Bloggers,
How has your day been?

This morning we have learned about binary and how to put our names in binary. We had to write it in our books to show that we understood what to do. After we had planned we put our initials in binary and then into ASCII.

We choose three colours each representing something, I chose orange for the on, red for the off and blue for the space. This is how it turned out:

Wizard of OZ website

Kia Ora Bloggers,

How has your week been?

Over the last three weeks for literacy, we have had to create a website about the wizard of oz. During lockdown, we read the book and watched the movie so we were ready to start when we got back. 

For our website we had to choose either to write it on the book or the movie, I chose the book because I understood and got more information from the book.

We had to write 9 TEXAS's an intro and a conclusion. Each TEXAS is about either a theme, a character or a symbol, we had to choose 3 of each. A TEXAS is a structure we use to help write our essays. 

This is my website home page:

Here is a link to my site if you want to see the finished thing: WOZ site

Taking over

Kia Ora Bloggers, 

How has your day been?

As our inquiry this term we are looking at global issues and how they are affecting different countries, on Tuesday we went around the class and looked at pictures that had a meaning behind them, we had to write what they meant to us. 

We then had to choose one of the pictures we saw and write at least a paragraph about it, I choose this one because it jumped out to me and I thought it was quite relevant. Here is my slide and what I wrote about it. 

Clay Koru Pendant

Kia Ora Bloggers,
On Friday mornings we look at Moari, this term we have started to make our own pendants out of clay, it is a long process leading up to using clay but that means we will like them.

To start off we needed to draw three designs and make sure that had a meaning behind them, then we needed to pick one and make it out of playdough. We then drew our final design and make sure that s what we wanted, afterwards we got some clay and a toothpick and moulded our design while using water to keep it damp.

My design is two korus that are in each other, this represents my older family members looking over me and my younger family members. This is how it turned out:
Do you like it?

Custom comic

Kia Ora Bloggers,
Today we looked at what types of irony there is and the differences, there is verbal irony, which is where someone says something but mean the opposite, situation irony, which is where you expect something to happen but the opposite happens, lastly, there is dramatic irony, this is where the audience sees something the characters don't.

Our comic is about me asking Brooke if she could do a certain type of handstand, after she did it she asked if it was good and I told her yes, she had turned away I told the audience that it actually wasn't

We then had to create a comic strip with a partner on one of them, I was buddies with Brooke, we chose to do verbal irony. Here is our comic strip:
What did you like about it?

Rigging take three

Kia Ora Bloggers,
Over the past two days, we have been looking at a game and trying to find a strategy so we can always win. I partnered up with Hana and we used a table to show how we worked it out, the game is called take three.

How to play: We used 21 counters and set them up in a line, we labelled them 1 through 21, and you could take up to 3 at a time. We had to work out how we could play the game and always win.

To show our working out you could use either a diagram, table or we could work out the equation. After we had worked it out we put it on our evidence slide so our teacher can check it off, here is my finished evidence slide.

What have you been working on? let me know.