On Thursday afternoons, we learn te reo Māori. This term, we have been learning commands and words to use in our classroom – akomanga.
We have been practicing our te reo Māori by creating a Canva slideshow, a play, a comic or a Google slideshow with motes.
I chose to work on a google slideshow with motes
I think I did a good job because I focused and got a lot done in one day.
Did you know all these Te Reo words?
Matariki Blog
Matariki is a time to acknowledge the dead and to release their spirits to become stars. It was also a time to reflect, to be thankful to the gods for the harvest, to feast and to share the bounty of the harvest with family and friends.
For Art, we have been making a collaborative Matariki Star.
First, we sketched our design on a diamond shaped piece of paper.
After that we drew our design in felt pen and poked holes on the piece we drew in the lines we poked.
Finally we painted on the foam pieces and put it on paper and it made the star.
We are doing a flexi physics slideshow and it was interesting learning about different energys.
Answer: Examples of chemical energy are batteries, natural gas and coal.
Answer: A ball would bounce higher if you threw it because it would have more power it will bounce a lot higher.
Answer: The 3 states of energy are spring in its normal state, stretched spring and
Compressed spring.
Answer: The difference between for a catapult it can be automatic and slingshot you have to pull back.
Answer: We can see kinetic energy used as shes moving.
Last week we went to Living Springs Camp with the year 5 and 6’s for three days and two nights. We did 6 activities like archery tag, initiatives, monorail, mountain boarding, low ropes, bouldaring. All of this were really fun and loved all the food and in my opinion this camp is really cool.
For Monday mashup I did Bee bots. By making a map on a piece of paper and using masking tape to make the map on the ground. We had to make the bee bot go through the path, my group was Daetyn, 
and Vinnie. The thing I will do differently next time is writing down the program.
We have been finding out time and the analogue clock.
I made a number line from 8:00 to 9:00 to show what i do in the morning.
Last week we went to the life education van. We saw Jo and Harold the giraffe. We learnt about the nine basic needs that help us through our day, they are Oxygen, Food, Water, Exercise, Sleep, Love, Safety, Cleaning and Shelter.
We also learnt how the heart works and how the blood moves, Blood is not red it is a really dark blue. Veins take blood away from the heart all the way through our body so we can breath and arteries take blood to the heart.
Have you ever been to the life education van before?
For about the last 2/1 weeks we’ve been doing a zoo debate. This slideshow shows what i have been doing about persuasive writing to convince people in my point of view about zoos.
For CRT this week we did epro 8 with Sharon. We made a dog kennel to protect a dog from rain and we need to make a roof for it so it stays dry. We have made a stand and were making a platform for the dog to stay on with pieces of card, the thing I founding challenging is joining the red connectors with the metal rod. The thing i’m finding fun is making it the dog kennel with my friends.
