Whirling Water Spouts

WALT : Think critically when looking at information at information in different levels.

This week in my reading group mars, we have been reading and learning about water spouts. We have also been watching videos and finding our own recourse about water spouts. If you don't know what water spouts are they are swirling water and wind similar to tornadoes that start from the surface of the water. So all week we were doing work and activities around water spouts, we had to do one digital one which is an iinfographic. In my infographic, I had to include all the information I learnt about water spouts. 

I found it hard finishing it on time, also making it have the right amount of information. Next time, I will work on finishing faster and not hurrying it. I enjoyed reading, looking at pictures and videos of water spouts and what they are. 

Mihi

In Room 6, we have been doing work around our mihi because it was Maori language week.  We had to make a mihi on game froot a site where you can create you own games. I used the mihi maker tutorial to make it.  

Something I need to work on : Finishing it faster

Something I did well : Learning how to use game froot

Volcanoes

In my reading group mars we have been doing work around volcanoes, we did work around this subject for around a week.  We read lot's of articles, about how volcanoes work and the different parts of them.  

This is my info graphic about volcanoes; it tells you facts and how volcanoes work. It took me long to finish because I had to trace it and put my learning into it. 

Something I need to work on : Finishing faster

Something I did well :  Trace my own pictures

Baring Street

This week in Room 6 the whole class read a story called "Boring Street" the story was based on how a boy named Ryan moved from his old neighborhood into a new street called Baring Street but Ryan named it boring street. After we read the story we did follow up activities about it.

For this activity my goal was to act like you're looking out a window and you recall the most important event of the story. I choose this activity to make it digital, because it sounded very interesting and I like drawing characters on computer better.  It took me a reasonable amount of time to complete this activity, because I had some pieces of already drawn clothes from other drawings I have made. 

In this drawing Ryan and his friends Ze Minh and Heremia were fixing up the old skate park to make their boring neighborhood fun. I think that was the most important event of the story, because it made Ryan change his mind about the neighborhood he called "boring street".

What I found Challenging: Picking the most important event it the story

What I need to work on: Adding some more detail to my drawings

What I enjoyed: Drawing my characters 

The Legend Of Hiawatha

This week in Room 6, I learned about the Legend Of Hiawatha in my reading group mars.  Lately, my group has been reading a chapter book called Indian In The Cupboard, each week we have been doing activities about the chapters. With my Legend Of Hiawatha activity I picked that story to make a DLO about it because it sounded very interesting and it was Hiawatha was known as a peacemaker he wanted it to be peaceful and he united all the tribes of the Iroquois nations to fight the enemy .  I am glad I choose this because I didn't have a clue who Hiawatha was and he was a Nobel man and he was very different from the rest, Hiawatha name also means "he makes rivers".

 Overall it was quite interesting to learn about because now I have some knowledge about Indian history and how they used to fight. 

I really enjoyed this activity, for me, it was enjoyable because it was nice to learn some information about all the Indian Tribes in the Iroquois nations. Also, I found it very challenging, I had to manage my time in completing this work and try my best to finish it to a high standard. Next time I will try and make my work more interesting and add some more detail to it.  For me, it was also hard to locate the tribes in the Iroquois Nations map and show where everything is on the map.

Dumbo

In Room 6 just before Literacy time and after snack we read a book called Dumbo, every day Miss Alice reads it to us as a class. The story is about people and animals in the circus, each character has like a back story.  For Dumbo our WALT is we are learning to make connections between the main ideas in the story, and the world.  Every week after Miss Alice reads us Dumbo we have activities and questions to do about the latest chapters of the story, so far Dumbo has been pretty interesting.

When I do the follow up questions about Dumbo it is hard because I recap the what happened in the story. With the activities I like being creative when I do them, like drawing my own images.

Against the Wind

WALT- Identify complex themes and ideas in texts.

This week in reading my group read a story about how a young girl named Ai Mei who lived her whole life in China with her Grandfather and now she has to leave to New Zealand. She and her Grandfather like kites and they make them. Her and and her grandfather have been together since the day she was born. Her grandfather was sad to let her go. But she goes to New Zealand and she starts to feel homesick because everything is different. She finds it hard to understand because the teachers talk very fast also the rice doesn't taste the same like how it taste in china.


What I found Challenging - Making my character web
What I Enjoyed -  Drawing my poster and adding detail 
What I need to work on - Making my work stand out more

Copy Cat

WALT - Identify complex themes and ideas in texts.

Last week in my reading group we were reading a book called COPYCAT, for me it was an unusual interesting book.

The book was about two friends who are both good at working with computers, then they get a special message from COPYCAT. They open the message without being sure and then a door appears, they go through the door and enter into a game. They try to play  the game with a joystick but then they lose each other and they both thought each other got deleted. But then they find each other and escape the game. But the main message was to be careful online and to always be sure.

What I found Challenging - Managing my time
What I Enjoyed -  Drawing my own pictures
What I need to work on - Finishing faster

Once Bitten

WALT - Identify complex themes and ideas in texts.

These are my activities for the week I have completed. My task was to complete three follow up activities from the text I read. I worked really hard on these but the thing I found most challenging was managing my time. Next time I will finish it on time and earlier.

In my group we read a story about how a boy learnt a life lesson. In the book a boy went to a cafe to spend his paper run money then he sees a biggie, he starts to feel uncomfortable. Then he gets his food and doesn't look where he is going and ends up sitting next to him. Then he puts his food on the table and thinks that the biggie is eating his food, he then gets angry and moody and starts to eat his food. The biggie carries on eating and the boy gets more and more aggressive. Next the boy leaves to the bus stop and finds his food in his pocket. He feels a bit embarrassed and then thinks about what just happened. So the lesson was don't judge a book by its cover.

Save Sherpas

In my reading group we read a story about Sir Edmund Hillary who was the first person to climb Mt Everest. The book was telling a story about all the hospitals and schools he build for the Sherpa's, he built over 37 shelters for Sherpa's. I had to design a poster for more volunteer to help build shelters, schools and hospitals for Sherpa's.

Interesting Internet Research

WALT - Use appropriate skills and technologies to find and use a range of texts for specific purposes.

When I made this DLO I enjoyed adding in my own pictures and making a quiz.

What I found challenging was trying to finish my DLO on time.

I think that my next steps are to finish my work on time and at a higher standard.

Next time I will add more questions to my quiz, also make my work more exciting.

Grass Water Spider

WALT - Use deep 5 to unpack the text
 In my reading group we were reading a story called Walking on Water-the Grass Water Spider. We had to do three comprehension activities and I chose the one to explain how to Grass Water Spider can walk on water.

The Grass Water Spider is able to walk on water, because it capture bubbles of air with the tiny hair on its body.  When the spider does that it can glide along the grass in the water, they can stay there for about an hour.

Cell Phones Are Staying

In Room 6 we had to do a Persuasive Writing piece about if cell phones should be banned at school or not. WALT : Use our prior knowledge, along with information to the text to interpret abstract ideas, complex plots and sophisticated themes.

What I enjoyed : I enjoyed learning about the facts of cell phones.

What I need to work on : Adding more complex sentences.

What I have learnt : I learnt that cell phones motivates people to learn.

Cell Phones Should Not Be Banned In Schools

Dear Jacinda Ardern,

Do you think cell phones should be banned at school? In my opinion I think that cell phones should not be banned at school, to prove my point I will explain my ideas to you on why they should not be banned. Because in this day and age students in schools definitely need their cellphones at schools, cause every week something terrible has happened at a school on the news.

The reason why I think that cell phones should not be banned is because if there is an emergency, you will have to call your parents or your family members. Some people might say that your school could just call all your parents and inform your family, but what if your school is very large how are they going to call them all in time. Although if you have your cell phone you could inform your loved ones quick so that they could come pick you up, as soon as possible.

I strongly state that if you have cell phones at school, there might be cyber bullying. To prevent that you could lock down all social media such as Instagram, snap-chat, Facebook, and discord. So I think that schools should let you use your phones for only calling, taking notes for your work and for using apps that have nothing to do with social media. If you are somehow caught using social media there will be bad punishments like having to sweep the whole school.  During class time each class teacher can have a draw where they put all the students cell phone, because after school they can take them back home with them. If you think that someone might steal your cell phone they will not because there will be a lock on the, which the teacher will only know where the key is.

Also if you can’t remember your schedule you can write it on your cell phone, all you have do is write it on your notes or set off a reminder for each class. If you don’t have a computer for research for school purposes you can ask the teacher to use your phone to research and to do your work online. In fact using technology motivates students to learn.

To conclude it all up, I strongly believe that cell phones should be allowed in schools . Because in society today nearly everyday there is an emergency at schools. In New Zealand, we have a risk of an earthquake and what will happen when you can’t can’t inform your parents in time.

Posted Activities

In Room 6 every week we get an activity to do for our class serial story, we access our activities by going onto our class site.  I love the story that we are reading because it is interesting and unexpected, and I like to do activities around Posted the name of our serial story.  My favorite thing about doing the activities are getting to do my own drawings sometime. I need to work on adding more detail. My work will be updated every week and revised and edited.

Country Study

Every week in Room 6 for literacy we get a new activity to add to our Country Study slideshow. The best thing about doing Country Study is that we get to pick our own Country to study, I choose Italy because wanted to find out more about Italy because one day I want to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Rome.

Greek Mythology The Seven Sisters

In reading we had to make a D.L.O about a country of our choice and research information about it. I choose Ancient Greece Greek Mythology because I thought it would be interesting and for me I thought it was very interesting to learn about the Seven Sisters. 

What I did well : Adding more information than I usually do.

What I enjoyed : Learning about  Ancient Greece Greek Mythology.

What I need to work on : More pictures and to have more eye catching work.

Matariki

In Room 6 for reading we had to do a D.L.O about how Matariki is celebrated in New Zealand, also we had to explain what Matariki is. Maybe next time I could try and use something different from a slideshow. I really enjoyed learning new information about Matariki and how people used to celebrate it.

Albert

Last Term In Room 6 every day we read a book called Fish In a Tree. Our task was to choose a character from the book and make a character description about them. I choose the character Albert because he is funny but smart at the same time, also because he is a very loyal person to his friends.

What I need to work on: Making my drawings look more detailed.
What I enjoyed : Drawing Albert.
What I did well : Having lot's of information.

Refugee Activities

In Room 6 everyday we read our class serial story called Refugee, the book Refugee is a book about 3 people called Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud, all live in different countries and different years when terrible things happen. They all try to escape their Countries to become Refugees. Every week all of us add to our own slideshow of activities linked to the book. 

Maria Folau

In Room 6 we are doing activities on the Commonwealth Games, and one of them was to write about an athlete that will be competing in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. I choose Maria Folau, because she is an amazing netball player, and I really wanted to learn more about her and her life growing up and how she became a netball player.

What I did well : I did well by adding information in about her family life.
What I enjoyed : I enjoyed finding out about Maria's life.
What I need to work on : I need to work on adding in some photos.

Maria Folau

Maria Folau was born in Tokoroa, on the 18th of February 1987, she is from New Zealand. Maria plays netball she can play GA (goal attack) as well as GS (goal shooter), she is in the New Zealand team Silver Ferns.

Her parents names are  Niukini Tutaia, Fuisami Tutaia, and she has 6 siblings, Rosa Tutaia, Tyson Tutaia, Masalosalo Tutaia, Salo Tutaia, Viona Tutaia, Loterina Tutaia. Maria grew up in New Zealand with her family.

Marai first started in the under 21 netball team that got the Miami Youth Cup in 2005, that year was the year she got called into the Silver Ferns team.

Now in 2018 all her hard work of playing netball and never giving up payed off because now she plays in the 2018 Silver Ferns at the Commonwealth Games.