Today I made a Google drawing learning about subtractions and why we start at the ones place. We have to start with the ones place because it aligns with how we normalley read and understand numbers.
For Writing LS2 wrote a pourqoui story that is related to Maungarei. We learnt how to use puncuation and capital letter Skimming and scanning all the words we used all the time and go on wordhippo to find another word to put in our story. A pourqoui story is basically a story is telling you why or what it is about. We organize all of the words we wrote and make it into a whole story combining it together to create a perfect story. After we created the pourquoi we went straight to Adobe Express to created the image of a volcano.We copied and paste each paragraph from the story and put it into the (Describe what you like to see) box to generate a photo you want.
Back ,far back,in the mists of time when the world was very young there was a mountain. It was a very sleepy mountain. The mountain was named Maungarei. Everyone was distant because they didn’t want to make her angry so they let her rest rather than waking her up. As days passed on she was resting, then out of nowhere someone woke her up. It wasn’t one the mountains that woke her. It was strange because it was coming from the earth’s surface and as each mountain whispered to one another. When Maungarei woke up they knew that they had to be careful because of how stubborn she was and as well as everyone was trying to find out which area of the earth’s surface made that loud noise suddenly another noise came up they figured. It was the village that tried stopping the village but the villagers thought that was a blessing from god so they started singing to the sky which made Maungarei feel annoyed and as rage filled her heart. She started to erupt when out of nowhere smoke came out and some of the villagers started to run because they thought it wasn’t safe considering that some may have been counghing while smelling the smoke. Others run because of their safety and their children’s safety and as the lava came out they realized it wasn’t safe at all when Maungarei stopped there was nothing left or anyone left, Now she was lonely because she was the only one that survived the eruption and sadly the other mountains did not survive the eruption. As her anger started to wear off she slowly realized what she had done. As time passed on things slowly began to grow, nature started to grow evern more and animals, humans started to come on to the island. Things became normal but everyone knew the ancient which gives more of an intense fear towards Maungarei. Some may believe that something larger had cost the ancient but people who survived konw much more to what happened. As life goes on this story gets told to many humans as it shows what happens when you are in fury and you become unhappy towards someone or something that did’t work out for you.
LI: to introduce our goals by creating a vision board.
For our Inquiry learning, our class learnt how to create vision boards, (a vision board is a board that shows the goals you would achieve and the things you like to do). As you see here this is my vision board for 2025. This is basically my inter mediate plan for high school next year. Above here is a picture of my vision board that I created for 2025.
I found this activity very interesting because my main goal for next year is to make sure that my plan is leading on the right track.
LI: to write a poem to describe your ancestors and the legacy they left behind.
LI: to use the literary devices of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, hyperbole and rhyme.
For our writing learning, our class learnt how to write poems about their ancestors using several different languages including: metaphor, rhyme, simile, hyperbole, alliteration and onomatopoeia. The instructions we were given to do this poem activity was to gather some past photos of ourselves, use some images from searching, use digital portrait, and to use some personal information about ourselves, including using wordhippo. Above here my ancestor poem.
I found this activity very emotional and interesting because this activity brings back flashbacks of when I was a junior, but at the same time I was interested and that my curiousity kept me thinking more about my ancestors past and how it was like when my ancestors were here.
For Literacy we have been using our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden had we had the chance to meet him and talk to him. This was a fun activity because we took on the roles of Samuel Marsden and the Time Traveller’s Podcast team. It was like we experienced actually meeting him.
We learned that when you are recording a podcast expression is everything! It makes what we have to say more engaging.
LI: To use Google My Maps to show the migratory flight path of the Kuaka.
This week our task was to make a DLO Using my map to see how far from alaska to Nz. TheKuaka Can Fly over 11’6oo Kilometers And They can fly that far because they have a type of diet that makes them bulk up and they shred. The always have stop to refuel their body with insections and that gives them energy.
One intresting fact is Around 80,000 to 100,000 Kuaka arrive in New Zealand each year, from late September.
LI: To create an infographic that tells others about the migration of the kuaka
For this weeks reading we were learning about the kuaka bird. We made a DLO to express our learning though our blogs.
Something interesting I found out about the Kuaka was that the kuaka Bird preserves energy by standing on one leg.
LI: To understand the concept of visual storytelling
For this activity we made a storytelling collage using photos we took during our walk to the tamaki river. We made the photos in sequence to describe the timeline. After our trip to the Tamaki river we made a podcast using hotseat.
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Something our group found interesting was that the kuaka birds can mingrate place to place. They had actually fly from Alaska to New Zealand. It gives me more ideas of how or when the kuaka bird migrate. This is what i had learn about and gave my ideas to. We learned from each other and communicate and combinie ideas with eachother. Kuaka Birds have rough time finding there homes.
LI: To understand how we can help prevent Kauri Dieback disease and why we need to do this.
Our Year 7/8 camp was at Kokako Lodge in Hunua. Our challenge today was to use our smart searching skills to find out about the kokako bird and create an infographic to share the facts we researched in our own words. It was interesting because I can learn about Kairi dieback.