Do You Think What Covenant Means?

Hello! This week for R.E we have been learning about the meaning of 'Covenant'. This may seem very uninteresting but I assure you, I learnt so much from this lesson. This lesson relates a lot from learning about the story of Abraham and Sarah, since God made a covenant with them.

To express our understanding of what we learnt we sorted ourselves into groups of 3 or 2 students, we had an option of doing a rap, or a slideshow which we picked, a poster, a song or an action song, or do a roleplay like our Abraham and Sarah one. In my group I was with my friends Sreelakshmi and Zoe.  

The learning went very well, I found it fun to design and make the slideshow look colourful with my group, though I found it very challenging to find a source of information from the video to explain most of our learning. Next time I would add more information to make the slideshow more informative and detailed.

What else do you think I should work on? How would you express your learning from this lesson? If you can, comment on this post your answers! Here's a link to a source of the lesson! Click Here

My Tropical Paradise Writing

 Hello! For Week 2 of Term 2 our writing topic was "Descriptive writing" and our class had to describe a photo of an island and create a vivid visual image for the reader. We were learning how to describe using our senses. For the sense tasting, instead of describing what you are tasting physically you had to describe it mentally and what you think it would taste like if it had a flavor, which I found tricky at first but got the hang of it soon after. Here's my writing piece: 

Tropical Dream

The wind blew my hazel locks as I steadily watch the horizon. I could smell the warm, humid wind. The crystalline, tropical water crashing along the white sand. Quickly moving clouds are blown by the strong air. The disheveled mountains are covered by the fluffy clouds. The sounds of splashing waves and rustling palm leaves enter my ears. 

I can feel my feet sinking into the dusty white sand. The breeze lap against my bare arms, giving me goosebumps, ripples of refreshing clear saltwater splash on my legs. The strong blow tastes like sweet cotton candy sold in the carnival. 

Signing Your Name in NZSL!

Good Morning! Last week was Sign Language Week, so for Reading we memorized the sign language alphabet to learn how to spell our names in NZSL, our task was to record us spelling our name in NZSL and creating another video of signing the alphabet of the sign language so people will know how to also spell their names aswell by watching the video. Sadly I didn't make signing the alphabet though I did record myself signing my name which is 'Hannah' here's my video!

Our Roleplay about Abraham and Sarah

 Hello! For Religious Education we learnt about the story of Abraham and Sarah, we got into groups and wrote our script, we also sorted who will play which character in the roleplay. Since all of the roles were taken I went as the narrator for our group. 

To film the play we used one of the iPads the junior classes allowed our class to use temporarily, in my group were my friends Zoe, Emma D, and Sreelakshmi. We did have trouble finding a perfect spot in the school to film the play, but in the end we decided to film on the school stage outside. Each group was allowed to take some old clothing/cloth to use as the clothing for the students playing characters in the roleplay. 

Keeping the camera still and not making camera movements was difficult, even when we used the idea of putting the device somewhere stable and stopping it from falling over with a few heavy books, luckily we solved the problem by asking Koka Kalo, one of the student teachers joining our class to help us film the play! I'm really glad the play went well! This is our play!

My Mother's Day Card Creation!

Hello! Last week before Mother's Day, we created a mother's day card for our mums or for our aunties or grandmothers. Our cards are made from string and thick black paper to make it. 

We started off by ruling a beautiful heart shape sketch to the black paper using a pencil and a cutout piece of paper. Next we punctured holes following the sketch of the heart, we got a wooden skewer and some string to weave it in the paper, though you have to be extremely careful not to rip the paper or puncture too much holes! It doesn't take a long period of time, by putting effort and time to it im sure you'll be able to finish it in under a day. 

For finishing touches we of course created a letter using paper trimmed to be atleast smaller than a normal A4 paper. We wrote our draft in our writing books,  next wrote our note making sure the handwriting was neat, decorated the paper with little drawings/sketches or maybe colouring in the paper to make it look brilliant! 

Here's a photo of me holding my card!:

Our Past, Our Present, Our Future

Hello! This term we started our Cybersmart lessons, our class focus is exactly what my blog title is, "Our Past, Our Present, Our Future". In my opinion this topic is about how much people impacted the world to how it is today. The machines, food, clothing people invented way back then I think changed the world.

So for Cybersmart this week we created a slide about that, there were a few images of objects that were from the 1900's that are the older versions of the things we use in the modernized world today.

Our challenge was to find out what that object was. There aswell were 2 extra slides where we could put our objects of choice, the purpose of these 2 items of our choices were to compare the it to how it was invented to look like in the past and to what those objects look like today. Here's my slides:

My Ordinary Bedroom

 Hello! Last week we created a piece of 'Descriptive Writing' about our bedroom, our goal was to paint a picture in the reader's mind, we described what our senses smelled, heard, saw, said, or tasted. The tricky part when it comes to writing something descriptive is that you need to describe what you tasted or smelled, but not physically. Though I feel like I've perfectly mastered how to add those kind of senses into my pieces of writing. Here's my piece:

My Ordinary Bedroom 

The best part about my room is the beautiful view from the window, vibrant colours from the flower garden outside, I most of the time work somewhere else, though I prefer somewhere quiet like my room.

I have a loft bed with a study table and a small wardrobe under, the design is made mostly of wood, In my opinion the design is very lovely and modernized. The bed is located in the top right corner with an awning window at the side. I also have a reed diffuser in my room which makes the scent of the room AMAZING. There's a bean bag where I just lounge around and watch videos online and read books in peace under the natural light coming in.

I seem to always have a messy room, bags plopped down on the bean bag, or a book spread around the study table like a flock of sheep on a field. Though I clean my room from time to time, I do make sure I make my bed and clear my room and keep things organized.

The room wallpaper has a warm cream beige colour, with gold damask design which in my opinion looks astounding. The temperature may go stone cold in the summer but it has a warm comfortable atmosphere in the winter, the fresh lavender scent spreads across the room which makes the fragrance heaven. The room is very silent and still, it makes me feel relaxed and comfortable, the bed is fluffy and soft, the texture of the mattress makes me fall asleep quickly.

Overall, I think my room is my favourite place in my home.

My ANZAC 1916 WW1 Postcard!

Good Morning/Afternoon! On Week 1 of this new term we created a postcard or a diary entry from two boys named Len or Stan which we created for ANZAC Day, we had to write it in either's perspective. For those who don't know these people were soldiers who went into the First World War at a young age and had to lie about their real ages to get into the Western Front which was the centre of the war, I decided to give the story a little bit of a change and added my original ideas into it. I mixed little parts of both soldier's stories together and added new people in the story which is Len's older brother and sister.

We were provided links to online books about the war and what it was like, and an audio book to listen to about Len and Stan's story. Next we created and designed a diary entry or a postcard on Google Drawings where we write to our relatives back home which were Len or Stan's. I decided to search for an old empty piece of postcard paper from 1914 and written my postcard letter and added a fake address. Here's my creation!