S.L.J Week 1 activity: 1 ( teaser week )

Today I am starting do the SLJ teaser activities. The summer learning journey is about learning, helping keep your academic levels up. Today I did an activity about ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT on Lorde . The reason why we have to find facts on Lorde is because she is a New-Zealand artist  and it is giving us a taste of what the SLJ is like.

Leaving a legacy

I had to explain how people leave a legacy behind them and also how I would. I dont really know what legacy I'm leaving but I'm willing to find out. This year I stood as kaitataki for my school so that might leave a legacy but I dont really know anything else. Anyone can leave a legacy.
We all want to leave our mark on this world to know that our life mattered. What does it mean to leave a legacy? It means putting a stamp on the future.

Who's left a legacy

I had to write to someone who I thought had left a legacy. I explained how Ta Himi Henare has left a legacy and how he has made an impact on me. He left a legacy that everyone would remember.

Video making

This week we were making movies. I learnt how to storyboard. Story boarding is a graphic representation of how our video will unfold, shot by shot. We drew pictures  in  squares representing each shot with notes about what's going on in the scene. Here is a video of what my group talked about.

Track the Tanker

This week in math I have been learning to understand how to use whole numbers of metric units for length, volume, capacity, weight, angle and temperature.
What I liked was learning how to divide and multiple numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
What I disliked was how my problem solving group weren't working that well together.
I investigated the math behind the everyday dairy supply. These are some of the things that we had to use to complete our work: Identify, trace, match, observe, summarise and locate.

Matariki celebration

Last week our school celebrated Matariki. We celebrate this because it is a very special thing acknowledging our Tupuna. I took part in prepping the hangi and also waking up at 5:00 to get the fire ready for when the hangi went in. The hard part was cutting the onion cause I cried. The easy part was doing the rest of the vegetables.

Exposition writting

Today in writing  I have been learning about exposition writing. Our topic was should we have animals as pets. I was on whakahe all my reason were things about less reproduction, uninterrupted cycle of life natural habitat and much more. I had to list loads of reason on why I disagree that animals should be kept as pets. I had to take a stance and argue my opinion. The skills I am learning are writing  reasons and putting them into a graphic organiser, structure a persuasive, look carefully, recognize a reason and a example and also to take a stance on your thoughts.

Angles

In math we have been learning how to draw, identify and name angles that are acute, obtuse, right and straight. An angle is formed when two lines meet at a shared point. They are measured in degrees, which are represented by the symbol °.  

Narrative writting

In writing I have been learning how to do narratives. We broke down the body of writing into  parts to learn bit by bit. First we learnt how to   to use a graphic organiser to plan my writing. Include key information for the orientation, events, closing paragraphs. Next I learnt how to write the orientation. I had to bring my story to life using adjectives and interesting vocabulary. Then I learnt how to write a middle event for a narrative. I had to write the events leading up the problem, then describe the problem in detail, and stretch out the solution! Lastly I learnt how to write a closing statement to sum the whole story up.

Here is my middle event for a narrative.

Waitangi trip

This term I am learning about the first encounter of the British and Maori. I travelled to Waitangi with my class and we learnt about the first encounters the people who were involved but the main focus was to learn and create digital objects about the encounter of British and Maori. But before we started we had to learn information about the first encounter so we went on a walk around the museum and the treaty grounds gathering information. The most memorable thing for me on the walk was the museum because it had information about our Maori Rangatira and their weapons. My favourite technology item was the Sculpt GL because you were able to create carvings.

cultural festival

Recently our school held a Southern Bay Of Island Cultural Festival. It included performances such as Kapa Haka, Waka commands and Hula there were also competitions in between performances.
I liked how the schools who came participated in performing some didn't perform but they came and supported in the audience. It was a very eventful day and full of good performers. When I stood and performed with my ropu I felt nervous as I took one step onto the atamira but hearing everyone cheer and feeling the wairua of the ropu gave me confidence.

Orientation writting

In writing this week we have been learning how to write an orientation for narrative writing.
In a orientation you  have to include your characters and the setting of where the story takes place.
To intrigue  the reader you must use a hook like a sound such boom or kapow, dialogue, action or description. The hard part was to think of ideas that are suitable for the type of story I am writing. The easy part is to get use to the story i'm writing  and have a continuous flow when writing.

Assembly Reflection

Ta Hekenukumai Busby revived the almost lost arts of celestial navigation and ocean voyaging by waka hourua (double-hulled sailing canoe). So in assembly we done an item that included the beautiful arts of wayfinding. The easy part was reading out some voyaging facts and the hard part was to lead the waka because I was the kaihautu.

ANZAC Haiku

Today we watched a short film representing what it will feel like in war. After we watched the film we had to write a haiku of what we felt like if we were in this predicament.

Novel study

Today my novel activity is to write the author of the book I am reading which is hooks daughter.

Haiku Poems

Today we tried to write haiku poems for a first attempt I found it easy.
Rules for writing a haiku are only 3 lines in the poem first line has 5 syllables second has 7 and last has 5. Haiku poems usually are written about emotion or nature and today I wrote it about a Lion.

Writing goals

Today I have identified my writing goals. my goal  is writing an orientation and closing statement and also write sentences that are expanded in language features.  chose these goals because there the next steps I need to work on in my explanation genre piece of writing to get at a higher standard of rubric writing. Next term we will revisit our goals and see if we have achieved them.

Postcards

For the past week we have been doing postcards for other schools in New-Zealand. We had to use different sites such as anagram maker, thesaurus and notely.  We used an object and had to come up with 40 adjectives to describe the item, from that 40 we had to cut down the adjectives that we thought weren't up skilled enough. Then after that we had to write 18 words down on the paper leaving the top spaces free for our anagram word and the name of our item.

reading skill

This week we are learning to summarize.
A summary is a shortened version of a text that contains all the main points.
summarising is a skill that we are learning to help improve our learning skills in reading it helps us when we are researching, gathering and presenting information.

• Look for key words
• Sum the text with all the main ideas
• Remember important ideas  

Rounding

Today in pangarau I was rounding numbers small and large the nearest ten. The easy part was knowing what to do with rounding rule which is 1-4 rounds down and 5-9 rounds up.

Solar system

We have been learning about the solar system.We learnt the time on how long it takes for the planets to orbit the sun and then we halved and quarter the time to see what equation would be.We used multiple strategies such as Division Subtraction Algorithm Algebra Decimals and Addition.The hard part was dividing the numbers to get the right fraction. The easy part was adding up the 1/4 and 1/2 to make a 1/3.

Family koru

This week we had to do a art project that represents our family using koru.

Waka haerenga

Today our school got the opportunity to partake in a education about waka and voyaging.

We learnt about Sir Hekenukumai Busby he is a tohunga who made over 20 waka, we were privileged to stand on his 2nd boat he made for his wife which is called Ngahiraka Mai Tawhiti. The first waka he made was to prove to pakeha that us maori who found Aotearoa wasn't a fluke. So he made his first waka called Te Aurere he made this waka and sailed to rarotonga and other islands and back by only using stars to prove that we didn't find Aotearoa by a fluke.

We also learnt about hoe (oar) we learnt several different commands but man there hundreds more. It was very fun but you had be very disciplined.

It was a fun experience and i would like to learn and do more things around this kaupapa.