Kia ora bloggers, for week seven we were learning about the true meaning of Christmas. Most people think Christmas is a time to open presents, get new things, santa songs and so on, but Christmas is actually a time to await Jesus’s arrival into the world and countdown until his birth. For the task we […]

For week four to five writing we were learning how to animate with artificial intelligence. For the writing task we had to animate and make a pick a path story, which is basically an interactive thing, sort of a game. First we had to write our narrative in our books, a narrative is a made […]

For week five we were learning how to infer. Inferring is basically looking for clues in the text and assuming the answer before finding the actual answer. For the task this week we learnt about Parihaka and had to make an interview to roleplay and recreate the Parihaka story. In our interview, I was the […]

Kia ora bloggers, For week five we were learning about how we are all unique. Which is true, we all wear different clothes, have different coloured hair, different coloured eyes, different coloured skin and different coloured hair. We had to look at our thumb print and make artwork with it. We drew our thumb print […]

Kia ora bloggers, For week one we went to the Pa site that Matawhero built up in the hills by the Waipaoa river in Whatatutu. On the trip, Matawhero showed us around the Pa site. When you enter the Pa site you are greeted with a Maori Tiki carving and behind that there is a […]

Kia ora bloggers, For week two-three, we were learning how to infer. That is looking for clues in the text and finding out the answer. For the task this week we had to answer ten mapping questions about Whirikoka, such as places and streams around the area of Whirikoka. I enjoyed looking on google maps […]

Kia ora bloggers, For week one we were learning how to compare and contrast, which is basically comparing things that are the same but made from the same stuff and seeing what’s different. So we made jelly but it was not edible. Firstly, we had to drop two drops of food colouring in a plastic […]

For art we have been learning how to blend and make a collage. For the task we had to create a cat or dog collage, I chose a cat because I have two cats. First we had to glue on at least five types of paper. Such as tissue paper, magazines, newspaper and coloured paper. […]

Kia ora bloggers, For reading we were learning how to infer. For the task we were learning about cave weta. We had to go on to this special site and label the different body parts of a weta. One of the interesting facts about weta is that they have been around way longer than the […]

Kia ora bloggers, For reading we were learning how to justify opinions. For our task we had to sketch an insect and label the body parts. I decided to sketch a wasp because not many other people in my class had drawn a wasp and I thought it would be a good challenge. I enjoyed […]