The Sun Facts 🌞🌞🌞

Hi Readers!

Today for Inquiry we have been doing the Sun.

We learnt about how hot and big the Sun is.

Here are our slides.

Student Summit 2021!

Kia Ora Readers!

 Last week Me and 15 other students went to Hornby Primary. Everybody in the Uru Manuka cluster came. These include Gilbathorbes, St. Bernadette's, South Hornby School (Us), Hornby Primary, Hornby High and Wigram Primary. If you don’t know what the student summit is, it's where once every year all the schools in our cluster come together and teach each other things. I was a presenter along with Ella-Pearl and An, we were teaching other kids how to use Codey Rockeys’. There are student workshops and before you go you do a google form and say what workshops you want to go to. If you aren’t presenting you get to choose 4 workshops but if you are you only get to choose 2. 

My first activity was Book Creator. It was really fun. We only got about 20 minutes for each session so I didn’t get past the front cover. I won’t add it in because it is not completed. My second activity was Upgrading Your Google Slides.I will add that one in but again we only had 20 minutes so I only got the front page and first slide done. I only did my mihi on the second page. After that it was morning tea. Then came my presentation… 

In my first group there were about 10 kids. We had to show them a video and read out a Google Slide before we could let them start. After the presentation we could let them start the tutorial, since there weren’t enough robots for one each there were 2 between 3. We also showed them a few pieces of code on my Chromebook and the colour recognition feature.

I enjoyed doing my presentation with Ella-Pearl and An.

It was challenging figuring out how to make the text bigger on Book Creator.

All About Me

Our presentation

I had lots of fun at this years Student Summit and really enjoyed the experience!

Bye Readers!

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Matariki Shape Poems!

 Hey Readers!

Yesterday and today we have been writing shape poems on Matariki.

We could choose to write about Stories, Celebrations, Stars or the Food.

We could also choose which shape we made it into as long as it was related to Matariki.

I chose stars, for both.

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I had time to write 2 poems so I did.

It was challenging thinking of what size and shape it should be.

I enjoyed using google drawing to create my poem.

Have you ever written a shape poem or learned about Matariki?

See you next post!

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Pixel Art and Brain Teaser!

 Hi Readers!

Pixel Art

Today for Maths we had to do a pixel art activity on google forms. 

It was made very cleverly so that if you type the right answer into the blue box it adds more pixels every time you get the right answer. 

Eventually it makes a surprise picture here is the link if you want to do it.

Digital Art

Here is mine:

Brain Teaser

Today in Maths we did a Brain teaser.

It involved Bananas, Apples and Coconuts. 

The problem was: 

🍎+🍎+🍎= 30 

🍎+🍌+🍌= 18

🍌-🥥= 2

🍎+🍌+🥥= ?

So basically we had to figure out what each fruit equalled. 

I figured out that 3 tens are 30 so 🍎 is 10

2 4s' are 8. 8 plus 10 is 18. So 🍌 is 4.

And 4 takeaway 2 is 2 so is 🥥 is 2. 

10+4+2=16

Here is my work:

(My Working and the proper problem)

Bye Readers,

See You next time!

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Cinquain and Diamante Poems

 Hey Readers!

Last week for writing we wrote poems.

We wrote 2 different poems a Diamante and a Cinquain.

Here are the videos we watched:

My favourite one to do was probably the CInquain one.

Here is my Cinquain: 

WAR

Violent, Horrible

Shooting, Killing, Running 

The worlds at war

ANZAC

Here is my Diamante:

War,

Scary, Miserable

Guns, Shooting, Trenches 

Turkish, British,Germans,Kiwis

Tanks, Planes, Bullets

Disease, Shrapnel

ANZAC

The hardest part was thinking of the four word phrase.

My Favourite part was doing the publishing.

See ya next time!

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Tectonic Plates and Volcanoes

Tectonic Plates

For the first 2 weeks of this term we have been learning about Tectonic Plates and Volcanoes which is under the topic of planet Earth and Beyond. We have been doing lessons in homerooms.

I think it was fun learning about Tectonic Plates and about how mountains are created. It was challenging learning about all the fault lines. 

Have you ever learnt about Tectonic Plates?

Sorry it's a short post today there wasn't much to write, most of the information is in my DLO. 

Bye!

Song Writing

 Hey Readers!

Last term we wrote songs with Mr. McIntyre. Although he isn't at our school

anymore, he had to leave at the end of last term.

We had to write:

 A chorus

At Least 2 verses 

and a

Title

It was challenging thinking of a topic and the chorus.

I enjoyed using the Kandinsky Circles in chrome music lab to create my song.

It was a challenging to find a quiet place to record.

I wrote my song about Christchurch. I don't think it turned out very well

BUT

I had loads of help and I appreciate it! (Thank you Mrs.North 😉!)

I think that the best bit is the 1st verse:

Here in Christchurch we have the lot:

A crazy bunch, we are top.

Attractions, buskers, sports and schools.

Christchurch is great, we’re so cool

The bit that could be improved on the most is the chorus:

We have the lot.

We have the plot. 

We have the lot.

Give it a shot.

We are top.

We will give you a shock.

I couldn't think of a title so its kinda weird uhh yeah its Christchurch is Good

I know, waay too simple.

Oh, Well.

Here is the full lyrics to my song:

🇳🇿 Christchurch is good 🇳🇿

Verse 1:

Here in Christchurch we have the lot:

A crazy bunch, we are top.

Attractions, buskers, sports and schools.

Christchurch is great, we’re so cool.

Verse 2:

Here in Christchurch we have the lot:

From zoo’s to awesome gelato spots.

our rivers will make you quiver our people will too.

Here in Christchurch we welcome you.

Chorus:

We have the lot.

We have the plot. 

We have the lot.

Give it a shot.

We are top.

We will give you a shock.