The end of the year is very close by (12 and a half school days away but whos counting) And we are setting up for the holidays. Because of this Manaiakalani is setting up the summer learning journey as an option for kids to do. But today we began one of the activitys. Here is my c0loring
For our inquiry we have been planning board games about Whanganui. My idea was a Monpoly, currently im working on the plan for the board. I got a board of google, and am designing a new one based of my refrace. I havent really started my board at the moment but here is my refrace.
Currently my class is learning about the features of scripts. The features we’ve been studying is a Documentorys features. Over the last 2 days we’ve watched a bit of Our Planet, Why we Cube and Hoops. We had 7 Coulems to fill out. Here is my interupration…
Last Friday I did a poster all about Seaweed. Each group got a diffrent book (sealife by national geographic) so pick an article from the book. My group picked an article about Seaweed. We learned about the diffrent types as well as the envroment they flurish in. Here is the poster I created…
We are learning to know our basic facts quickly. This is the best I could do in less than 2 minutes (it was 2 minutes exactly for this one) with 97%.
This week we have been learning the diffrance between Fiction and Non Fiction and showing it in our quick Writes. The quick write I completed today (Friday) is a story featured around the Nasa Space launch being postponed (we had the choice between two articles) here is my story (isnt Finished because I ran out of time)
I was peacefully asleep in my bed when suddenly, my phone beeps. I assumed it was my alarm and slowly lift an arm out to grab it. I open my phone, the light blinds me, 4:38am, strange. 1 new message. I open the message, it reads “Hi Spaceteam, As we were inspecting Orion, we’ve discovered some minor maintenance needed. Unfortunately we’ve had to postpone the mission.” I slowly slouch back into bed. I woke up more or less late. I put on my uniform, and slowly make my way to work. I expect everyone to feel the same way as me however everyone’s happy, I guess they werent ready yet.
Heres a Link to the article
This week (week 7) the class has been learning about Storybytes, However, I do diffrant work to my class. My work constied of the work that extention class was given before it was cancelled. Which means I have to read the book Hatchet, and answer my questionair. So far I am up to chapter 6 and am purley focused on questions. The book so far has been focused on Brian, A 13 year old boy.
This week (week 7) the entire school partook in Cross Contry. The track was our school feild and some of the bike track. The year 7’s had to do 3 laps of the track, and year 8s 4. To keep track of how many laps you did youd get a colored popsickle stick. If you came in the first 10 of the race youd get a rod which youd then be marked on a peice of paper with the placings. Unfortunatly I didnt run for personal reasons, however a classmate (Matthew) and I ran the gotcha stand, which meant everyone who partook in the Cross Contry got a gotcha worth 20 points for your house. My house (the best house obvoisly) won the cross contry earning 240 house points in that event alone! Our WALT was to learn how to give it a go!
This week (week 7) we have been learning to use Education Perfect (maths) Everyday we logg on and are expected to complete our task. We then do our normal Prototec (or TimesTable.com) and our Number of the day work. As we a still learning how to use Education Perfect the teachers in my class have been more laxed on the other work, therefore meaning that Education Perfect takes top Prority. Our Education Perfect work consistes of Simplifying Fractions as of right now because Fractions are our focus.
This week our princapal challenged us to write about what we do offline (off our devices). Normally I would read but I thought that might be a bit boring, however my other intrest is Drawing. I began drawing probaly in kindergarden, but last year stopped for a while but picked it backup this year. I was taught how to paint and draw at a young age by my great grandmother (Nana Trapitt) She was EXTREMLY talented. When I read and or draw I usally use it as a calming mechonism. (usaualy I do this during a panic attack) It makes me feel happy and like My great Nana is still here. I ended up filming a video however didnt like it so heres a picture
Here is a picture of my art
