Tech

Today at Tamaki college was the last week at tech we grabbed 10 leaves for the activity.we had to try to get the colour,texture,thickness,pattern  and the size of the leaves . we had to find out how the plants eat,how plants grow,why animals need plants.than we wrote down what kind of leaves people eat for example cabbage,red cabbage,lettuce,seaweed,kale,spinach.Then we watched a video about plants and how they spread water through the plant.

Art Colouring Book

LI: To experiment with colours

This morning we tried one of this year’s Kick Start Summer Learning Journey activities. The purpose of this task was to experiment with colours by mixing colours from the original palette with pop colours. This allowed us to recolours famous painting or images of landmarks around the world so we can make are own.The Panting i did was Rose Vincent Van Gogh (1980) at the Metropolitan Museum of art.We did this with room 5 kids my buddy was Aliyan K.

Te Whanau Raukura Performance

 Today the whole school went into the hall so we can watch the performance that the Te Whanau Raukura preformed for the school.This group of people that came and preformed for us they perform at Auckland Museum.When Te Whanau Raukura preformed for us one of the people in their group was spiking in Maori and when he finished talking they stared to perform and when they finish performing they started to speaking and say like (Hello everyone nice to meet you all) Then when they started to performed they did the Haka and they were showing off stuff that the Maori people use in dancing and fighting.And they sang a song well they were showing off what they were using .The stuff that they were using was poi/2,Long poi/4 and Te Rakau . Then One of the people in the group came the are class and her name was Bekah she taught us how to play Pukana and i think everyone love playing it.And the best part that i like was playing Pukana and the reason why is because it was fun and i enjoy it.

Provocation: Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?

 LI: To identify and consider the two perspectives of this provocation to help me form an opinion.

A provocation is an action or speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. Today we considered both sides of the provocation, ‘Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?’ We then used that information to help us form an opinion that we could justify with evidence.I say everyone should wear and not wear.

Yes why people should were masks.

Yes people should wear mask because they might get coronavirus.

No why people should not wear masks.

No because people might not like wearing masks and also it might feel uncomfortable.

Exploring our national current events

 LI: To identify author’s purpose.

Authors write for a purpose (reason). These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make desicions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. The thing that i found intrusion is that i didn't know that they found a black panther in the south island in Christchurch.

Poem DLO

 LI:To try and stop being embarrassed

Today for writing we were reading an a embarrassment poem.The is book was about dealing embarrassment or handling it. We created a DLO with instructions about how to stop being embarrassed. 1st you must learn the secret to stop being embarrassed. 2nd When embarrassment strikes, imagine it is a temporary STOP sign. Finally  if you want to become an embarrassment expert, you must learn the most difficult technique of all, which is to laugh and keep laughing until the moment grows fainter and fainter

Lasagne Maths Strategy

LI:  To explain how we solved our maths equations.

For Maths we worked in mixed math groups to practice our team skills and to help us explain how we solved these word problems. The topic of these word problems were about Metric Measurements, which was more specifically about weight and mass. The word problem was about the ingredients and the weight of these ingredients. We had to find the weight of the missing ingredient by adding up the weight of the ingredients we knew, and subtracting it from the weight of the whole food.

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot/Rm5

LI: To write a summary of the story behind the Gunpowder Plot in your own words.

To understand why we celebrate Guy Fawkes each year LS2 buddied up with recorded all the important words from the story Mrs Anderson shared with us. We then chose the 20 most important words and from those words chose 6 words to help us write our summary.And we help room 5 write a summarise and i was wroking with Shaun and Ahi