My Matariki Coding Animation!!

Today for Cybersmart, we created an animation based on Matariki, we were learning how to code using Scratch! Although I haven't finished the project, I am very proud of what I've done so far. 

To make the animation we chose which backdrops (backgrounds) and which sprites (characters) to use, luckily I know ways around Scratch so only most of the steps were complicating or difficult for me. There was also slides guiding us on how to code or move the characters around so that also helped me a lot for my project. 

I found the backdrops and characters hard with the project since the characters have seperate code blocks. Though Scratch was fun to use and I enjoyed this experience!

How I created my Author's Purpose!

Hello! This week our reading group was given 3 texts to read, after we were to analyse the author's purpose by identifying the stereotype of text and summarising what it was discussing. The text's main topic was about Matariki. If you didn't know, Matariki is the Māori term for the star cluster Pleiades. The rising of the cluster is a marking of the arrival of the new year. 

Moving on to our task, we wrote down our summarisation on Google Slides/Drawing, I chose to create mine on Google Slides, I designed and changed the theme colour. Here's mine!

My 2021 Home Learning Book Cover!

 Hello! This year students from Saint Marys have joined a competition. This competition consists of creating an art that resembles our school for our home learning book cover next year, one student will be nominated by the teachers and given a prize, though they haven't announced yet but I'm so excited to find out soon!

Last week we planned what we were going to create with Koka Kalo for Art, after sketching we started our art on paper, we could draw anything but it should only represent our school. Unfortunately my design was irrelevant though I joined and handed out my entry anyway. I was also learning how to shade at that time so the small lesson with the shading helped me be successful with my art! Heres my art! 

Steps To Create a Perfect Synthesis!

Hello! Last week was Samoan Language week, so for Reading our group read two online books with our teacher and watched two videos for our learning part, applied our learning in a synthesis we created a copy of on Google Drawings.

These synthesis blocks were divided into 3, our prior knowledge (knowledge we already know about the Samoan Culture), new information (information we learnt from the sources and texts), and lastly, synthesis which was our new understanding.

My learning went very well! I learnt new things about the culture and its traditions. I would love to learn more new things and apply this new knowledge in the future. How much knowledge do you know about the Samoan culture? Do you know any simple phrases or words? Let me know!

8 Resources to Help You be Successful in Making a 'Simple but Mesmerizing' Science Experiment!

Hello! Last week for Science we had Koka Kalo teaching us about immiscible and non-immiscible chemicals by conducting an experiment, we were sorted to go into groups created by Koka Kalo. The people I were paired up with were Irelyn and Charlotte J, each group was given a sheet of paper with a set of questions to fill in. The materials we were given will be listed in Slide 4 of the presentation.

In my opinion the reason why we were learning this was because we were learning more about science and how chemicals function and the chemical reactions it shows.

I think the science experiment was a great experience. I found the experiment exciting and fun! Though I found it hard to answer some of the questions on the slides, and we didn't explain the experiment by making a video.

What do you think of this experiment? Have you tried it with your class yet? If you have, was the experience fun for you? Let me know in the comments!