Have You Made A Rangoli Design Before?

Hello! For reading, we have been learning about Diwali. Diwali is a festival of lights and is celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists. This event lasts for about 5 days.

For our learning task we read some books on Epic and watched a short video explaining what Diwali is. For our create task, using paper, chalk or drawing online, we created our own Rangoli pattern.

To give you more context on what Rangoli patterns are, a rangoli pattern is an art form from India, there are different kinds of patterns, this type of art is usually made on the floor or on a table. To make the design you use materials like powdered limestone, red ochre, dry rice flower, coloured sand, quartz powder, flower petals, and coloured rocks. But instead of those, we used chalk, although some drew on paper/online.

I thought this activity was lovely! Learning about other cultures was a great experience for me. Have you done a Rangoli pattern before?

Have you made a Rongoa sign before?

Hello! For reading we have created our own design of our Rongoa signs, the term "Rongoa" refers to the traditional Maori medicinal practices here in New Zealand, using herbal ingredients for massage or healing. These methods were passed down from generation to generation orally. 

We had our choice of which Maori medicinal plant that was planted in our school that we were going to make a sign for. First off we created our design on our chromebooks on Google Slides or on paper which will be under this paragraph, after we have shown the teacher out design and it has been approved, each of the students that have finished their plan get a blank label where they will paint it with the colour they have chosen for the design, then write/sketch the design they made on the sign. To create a successful sign you must have the name of the rongoa plant, and its properties/explanation on how to use it. For my plan I decided I would have a simple sketch with some manuka flowers, I did try my best to recreate the appearance of the flower on Google Slides which I struggled a bit with. Here's my design! 

I enjoyed designing my label, experimenting with which colours or drawings would look best for my sign and how I would layout the titles and words on the actual label. Overall in my opinion this activity was very fun! I can't wait to see the finished product! 

Is Mr. Wolf Guilty?

Hello! 2 weeks ago for Reading we have been learning about how to talk about perspectives! We have been learning about this for our speeches which we did last week and our writing piece that we made from the other week!

So for our writing/reading activity we read a couple of Little Red Riding Hood books on Epic! We then wrote three reasons as to why Mr. Wolf, who is one of the characters in the story, guilty or not. Here's my slides! 

This activity was very fun! I loved designing my background and customizing my slides to make it nice!

Cats VS Dogs!

Hello! For yesterday's Reading we were learning how to apply prior knowledge and opinions! Our topic was about debating which pet is better, cats or dogs!

We researched and read a few videos and a text, next adding our knowledge to a chart, with our opinions and thoughts on which pet is better, some chose dogs and some chose cats. I decided to choose cats! I put a lot of research on my chart to hopefully convince people that cats are a better pet!

It was a very tough decision on which side to pick! Which pet would you pick? Comment your answers! I would love to see them!

What do you know about cicadas?

Hello! Yesterday for Reading we were learning how to apply knowledge! We learnt about this so we can apply the knowledge we learnt to other challenges outside of school.

For what we are doing for this task, we were given different choices of which animal/insect to research about. There were different reading levels for this task. Level 2B, Level 2, and Level 3. For level 2B, the topic was about birds, for level 2, the topic was orcas, and for level 3, which is the very last one, the topic was cicadas. I challenged myself to do the highest level which was level 3. Here's my slides!

I loved researching information about cicadas! I learnt tons about these insects throughout researching facts I could add into my slides. I'm looking forward to activities similar to this task in the future! What other information do you know about cicadas? Let me know in the comments!

What Do You Know About Great White Sharks?

Hello! Yesterday for Reading we were learning how to apply knowledge, we are learning this so we can apply the knowledge we learnt to other challenges outside of school.

For our task we had an option of which animal to gather information and to write facts about, these had different reading levels, Level 2B, 2, 3, and 4 which is the highest level! I chose Level 4 that had the topic about "Great White Sharks". The slides had texts to read, and a video! There were 3 choices for creating part of our task! Write 5 or more facts about our topic, create a food chain animation that includes the animal in the topic we chose, or a poster on Google Drawings showing the different parts of a great white's body. I chose to do the facts on Google Slides! Here's my creation! 

My Robot Design!

Hello! For Reading we have been learning how to infer what we read! We are learning this to make connections and draw conclusions about the text's meaning and purpose.

For our topic we have been learning about robots, A.I's and drones. So for our activity we are designing our own robot! We based our own designs on. Firstly, ask, what problem is in the world we would love to solve? Second, imagine, brainstorm ideas of what this robot can do to solve the problem. Lastly, design, which is planning and designing what this robot will look like and its features.

You could choose whether you want to do your design on paper or digital, which is on the slides I'm going to show you in this post!

I really enjoyed this activity, I loved designing my own bot and brainstorming some ideas to express my creativity! What do you know about robots? Do you own any robots at home? Let me know in the comments!

Information about Japan!

For reading we were learning how to find facts and information. Our topic was about Japan, relating to where the Olympics was hosted, Tokyo, Japan. We learnt about this to apply our knowledge into context.

For our task we chose 4-6 slides we wanted to write about. The topics I chose were where Japan is located in the world, celebrations and national holidays, food and delicacies, and sports. As always I decorated my slides to make them look wonderful! I applied my knowledge I read from the text we read into my slides as it said on our task. Here's my slides!

This activity was very fun! I loved reading and learning more about Japan! What do you know about Japan? Have you been there? Let me know in the comments!

What Do You Know About Bees?

 Hello! For reading, we have been learning how to summarise across multiple texts! We have been learning this to learn how to find out the main idea!

For our group's activity, we summarised the text we read on a template as I mentioned earlier. As you can see, instead of leaving my background and colours bland and dull, I made it bee-themed matching the topic of the book we read! I added a mix of different colours and hues and used a different font for my text, I made sure the font was easy to see and read.

The activity was great! I loved decorating my slides! What did you learn about bees in these slides? What other interesting facts do you know about bees? Let me know in the comments!

My Author's Purpose on Matariki!

Good Morning/Afternoon! For Week 8 of Reading, we were learning how to analyse the author's purpose, we were given 2 texts to read and each of those we were to summarise and analyse which type of text it was.

I made my author's purpose on Google slides and made my chart enlisting the type of text and my summarisation as I mentioned earlier. Here's my author's purpose!

My learning went well, I found the topics on the texts very interesting to read and as I read further into the text the more I learnt about the main topic of the book. Have you done an author's purpose yet? If yes, what was it about? Let me know in the comments! Sources:
Maori musical instruments: https://teara.govt.nz/en/maori-musical-instruments-taonga-puoro
Puawai Cairns - Te Papa detective: Puawai Cairns-SJ L3 Nov2016.pdf

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!

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!

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!

My Sea Week Facts & Presentation!

2 weeks ago was Sea Week, which was Week 6 of Term 1, 2020, where we celebrated and learnt all about the ocean, its creatures, habitats, and oceans. Every year, the NZAEE celebrates Sea week and we have a theme for each year, this year its "Toi Moana, Tio tangata– Connecting with our seas" as shown in my presentation, for my slides I have picked a marine animal I would like to discuss about, for it I decided to pick the animal "Sperm whale". I've gathered data to create it through research and articles. My slides are about what I researched and found out in the articles, why we celebrate Sea Week every year, 10 facts about my sea creature (in which I've only managed to have 6), what my sea creature eats, and lastly, the predators of my sea creature. Here's my presentation:

Facts You Need To Know About St. Patrick's Day!

 Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone! Today for our reading task in honor of the feast day of St. Patrick we created our own poster informing astonishing facts that you will need to know about the sacred St. Patrick and his feast day. We read an article informing us of what we need to know about the special day, I took notes and thoughts of designs I could do to make an eye-catching poster. Though since the facts I collected reading through the article wasn't enough I decided to research and learn more about the feast day and saint. The acceptable amount we could do was 5-8 but I decided to end the reasearch soon enough and had about 6 facts which fitted in the poster perfectly. I picked suitable colours which were dark mint and light green, and decorated the rest.  

My Fascinating Diagram about Tuitui Shampoo and NZ Store-bought Shampoo

 Kia Ora! For our reading lesson our reading group was to read an article about Tutui Shampoo. For those who don't know what it is Tuitui Shampoo is basically a shampoo made from the nut Tuitui (Candlenut) where the shampoo is traditionally made by collecting the nuts that have fallen from the tree, breaking it open, and leaving it to dry. And so on. Here's my diagram 

Treaty of Waitangi facts you need to know!

Hello! For Reading we listed a few facts about the Treaty of Waitangi, we were to read/watch a few videos and articles to learn more about the stories and people, we were to learn about the Treaty and it history because of an event that were to happen in the 6th of February, which was Waitangi Day. I actually learnt alot more than before about the history of this famous event. My digital learning object shows I have written in 6 facts about the Treaty of Waitangi. I found it enjoying to customize and edit the fonts and colours, though I did find it challenging to find a few of the facts. Next time I would wish to add more facts and detail to the slide, here's a few of my currently written facts. 

Physical and Chemical Changes by Hannah

 Today my class has been learning about Physical and Chemical Changes, a chemical change are things that can cause a physical change is as if for example, you freeze water, the form changes from liquid to solid because of the energy added.  A Chemical change are things that create a chemical change as if for example, a fruit ripens or you burn wood. Rotting, burning, cooking, and rusting are all the types of chemical changes. Because they create a whole new entire chemical or product.

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My Google Drawing Māori Glossary

 Today for reading my class was creating a Māori Glossary using the words from a Kahoot individual quiz we did earlier, I learnt lots of new Māori words like the word "Aihikirīmi" meant "Ice Cream". To create the glossary we needed 5-8 words in Māori that we could recall from the 2 quizzes we did, then type it in English translation.

The part I liked the most was customizing everything in the google drawing, The google drawing was pretty bland but next time I would make it more colourful and bright. Even though I only had five words I could probably add more next time. 

Terrific Filter Feeding Science Experiment!

 Today for reading, my class has been learning about how to "Apply prior knowledge and opinions to a text" the topic was about shellfishes, this was also a science experiment but this was a task after reading though. We had to write in how shellfishes clean the polluted water, what they eat in clean/dirty water. We also had to explain why/why not should we stop consuming shellfish. We took pictures of the science experiment and as you can see, the photos are a little bit small in size and it is found in the right coloumn below the title "What shellfishes eat in clean water". 

To write down our answers we had to research what they eat and watched a video about the task. 

I did find some things challenging about writing down what shellfishes eat, but all in all the task was alot of fun and we learnt alot at the end of the day.