My understanding of a fable

My understanding of a fable

Hello everyone! Today's blogpost is about my understanding of what a fable is! A fable is a very short story for children and uses animals as the main character doing human-like things which is also called personification. A fable also has a moral in it so it can teach children different kinds of lessons. A fable also has to have a setting we all know such as the river or mountain. A fable is not only for moral telling but for entertaining as well. The plot and character has to be simple as well so its not hard to understand the story. 

I am making a fable and the moral of my story is what happens in the dark comes to light which is what Dhar Mann uses as the moral of the story he makes. My plot is kind of simple and hard i think. Basically there is this one boy the dog who keeps making up excuses (without his parents knowing) to his teacher the wolf because he doesn't want to do homeworks and then one day the teacher rings his parents to find out why the boy hasn't been doing his homeworks. After the teacher found out the boy got in trouble and learned his lesson. That is my plan for the fable!

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Lockdown Work This Week!

 Lockdown Work This Week

Salaam everyone. Today I am going to talk about even more interesting lockdown work! This week we has something different because instead of reading/writing we had code avengers! Code avengers is like doing reading activitys except there are courses and its easier. Code avengers didn't really link to writing if you ask me. And the slide layout was different because it's the layout from last years lockdown creations/slideshow! 

Our teachers set 2 main courses but during this week I only finished one of the courses. Both courses have 10 activitys in it so I did 3 or 2 for each day so by friday every activity in the course is done. The courses were called computational thinking 1 and computational thinking 2. Maths was the same, with the maths board except we didn't have out own maths notebook instead we just used the lockdown creations to put warm up and main activitys on there, same with code avengers. There was another collumn called other. For other we had a mix of different activitys in different subjects. These are the things we had for other: fun sentences 1, fun sentences 2, did you know, nature art, card buildings. We also had some other stuff from last week like: lockdown highlights and lockdown projects so we can edit them!

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post. Blog you later!

Lockdown Work!

 Lockdown Work!

Kia orana everyone!  Auckland has been in level 4 lockdown for 4 weeks! So I am going to talk about the school work I've been doing and my favorite parts of them! For Maths, Reading and Writing we have a task board for each subject. There is one big board that has the different subject boards on it. Maths is the only subject that has different group boards. 

I don't really like lockdown because I don't enjoy sitting in my chair for too long. My favorite work from Maths for this week was probably the long shots for Maths because you get to play it with your family. Long shots is where you have a basket or box and a ball. You have to step 1 meter away to start and then throw the ball in the basket/box. If you get it in you step 1 meter further away and keep doing that until the ball doesn't get in the basket and the rest of your family does the same. Whoever is the furthest wins!

My favorite work from Writing this week was making the world's most disgusting sandwich because it was fun writing down a very weird and gross combination of food. Last main subject is Reading, my favorite work was the 3-2-1 where you have to read a story first and I chose Know Your Nutrients then you have to SMRF a doc and write 3 facts you didn't know, 2 things you found interesting and 1 thing you didn't understand! I found this quick and easy.

There were other subjects like Drama, Technology and Inquiry as well but I didn't do most of them, because I didn't enjoy these as I am not into dancing or play, and am not that motivated in home learning.

Blog you later everyone!

Matariki Reading Work!

 Matariki Reading Work

Kia Ora everyone!

For this Matariki post I am going to write about the Matariki Digital Learning Object (DLO) we have been making in reading for Matariki reading work. To make this DLO we could use either Book Creator, google slides or a google drawing. I chose Book Creator to do my DLO. We had to find facts about Matariki from one of the Matariki books we read. We had 3 questions to base our DLO on. The questions were what is Matariki?, how has the celebration of Matariki changed this century? and how and why we celebrate Matariki? My focus question was what is Matariki since it kind of covers everything.

For the question how has the celebration of Matariki changed this century we had to read books on the olden days of Matariki and find out what we do to celebrate Matariki in this century. For the question how and why we celebrate Matariki we had to find information on why we celebrate Matariki and different legends about it then find out how we celebrate Matariki and make a DLO about it. As i mentioned above the question what is Matariki kind of covered everything. We used what we already knew and started a DLO straight away, then we basically did the same thing as the other questions. I finished my DLO here is the photos of how it looks like:

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Olympics: how it has changed

Olympics: how it has changed

Kia orana everyone! This DLO post I am going to tell you about the reading work we have done. Since the Olympics were on the teachers decided to do something about the Olympics in reading so we had to create a DLO about the Olympics. We had 3 topics to do our DLO on: "what is happening at NZ for the Olympics right now", "How the Olympics have changed from the ancient modern and present" and "what makes up the features of the summer Olympics". I chose how the Olympics have changed. We could either do our DLO on a google slideshow or Book Creator, I chose to use Book Creator.

We had to follow this success criteria: 

Find important information about my topic.

Find information from a range of sources including one I have found by myself

Write information in my own words in my DLO

Include a clear heading and subheadings in my DLO

My layout is clear and easy to read

I have included relevant pictures to add interest to my presentation.

My information and ideas help my audience to understand the learning

My favorite part about doing this DLO was how I learnt different things about modern and ancient Olympics! Here is the photos of my book:

Wait for another post bye!

 

 

Procedural text!

Procedural Text!

Kia orana everyone! For this post I'm going to talk about the procedural writing we have done for writing. We learnt about what makes a procedure writing and how to make one. We could choose to either write about a cultural game or a normal game like tag. There were 6 steps to make a procedure writing we needed a title, quick explanation, what you need/equipment, numbered steps and a diagram. Here is my text:

The game I chose was a traditional Russian game called Stream. We watched a video of a mans daughter and son giving a procedural text on how to make PB&J and it went didnt go well. I learnt that sentences in procedural texts have to start with verbs and that it has to be extremely specific. After writing on a google drawing we had to publish it on a google doc, here is my final text:

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STEM Week Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits

 Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits

Kia orana everyone. For this post I will be talking about how we had student led toolkits in our own school! Our school did this for STEM week which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. This toolkit was pretty much the same as the one in Owairaka School, we had 3 sessions, lots of choices but the middle school was joining us. The people who went to the toolkit in Owairaka school but didn't present had to present for this toolkit. The presenters could choose whether they wanted to use the toolkit from the smackdown or make a new slideshow for one of the toolkit they went to. My friend Ayana and me were presenting Book Creator!

The first toolkit I went to was Piskel, Piskel is an website to make pixel art, you can also animate your pixel art! Piskel was in the room Haumia. The presenters for this toolkit was Zara and Josie. They told us everything about Piskel like how to use the colours and pen. They also tought us a hack to animating your pixel art! I made 2 pixel art, one was a moving skeleton mouth and a dancing skeleton. This was a fun toolkit and my second favourite!

The second toolkit we were presenting Book Creator. This toolkit was in the hall. Book creator is an website you can use to make books or comics! We explained what book creator was and how to use it. It was hard trying to get everyone to sign in becuase some people had problems loading the website. After explaining how to use Book Creator the students had 15 minutes to make their own book, our only rule was no violence. It was fun to present but we were nervous!

Third toolkit we had to present again. This time it went better then last time because we knew what to say this time and not many people had problems! Some people said they loved our toolkit and we also did some sharing time at the end if people wanted to share. Not many people needed help this time and even a teacher was surprised with this website!

This was a fun day and I would like to do it again I also think they should do this every term so we can learn lots of different fun websites, but the presenters have to be different each time so everyone gets a chance. Blog you later!

Toolkits 2021!

 Toolkits 2021!

Bonjour everyone! For this amazing post I will be talking about the student led toolkits that happened on the 20th of may. For this years toolkits we went to the Owairaka School! Some of the people were presenters and the others were just going to test some of the apps. We had 3 sessions, non presenters had those 3 sessions to look around but presenters only have 2 sessions to look around because they have to present at least once. We also had to have buddys so my friend, Ayana went with me and we chose the same tookits! I wasn't one of the presenters but I did have 3 sessions. The 1st was Book Creator which was my favourite, 2nd was making a book using Google Slide and the last was Coding with Minecraft. 

Book creator was probaly the most fun for me. Book creator is an app/site which you can use to make a book or even a comic! For a regular book you can add text, change the background,import photos and even draw. But for comics you can choose different kinds of panels which you can upload photos in, there is big comic stickers,different kind of comic backgrounds but my favourite is the different kinds of text boxs. This is a good website/app to make books!

Next was making a book using a google slide, I chose this because I like making books but It was boring for me. I also thought It would have some kind of special trick for making a book. I couldn't think of a story to make but eventually got one. All we had to do was make a new google slide, add a title, add some text and importing free images from a site called Pixabay. There was also A site called Pobble 365 were we could get Ideas from. I kind of liked this toolkit!

The last was Coding with Minecraft! The code with minecraft we had to go to this site called hour of code and find the minecraft coding games. There were different types of minigames like aquatic voyage, designing, and learning to code. I made it through 3 of the minigames guickly then got halfway through the main coding. This was a fun session of coding!

After our 3 sessions we had some people from Fusion come in to talk to us about cyber saftey and how they became interns. They also talked about how they became techinicians and being technicians like them if we wanted! I want to be a technician when I grow up! Toolkits is my 2nd favourite thing so far. Blog you later everyone.

Spark Arena Trip!

 Spark Arena Trip!

Hello Fishies! For this amazing and fun post I will be talking about the year 6s Spark Arena trip. The year 6s went on the bus to the Spark Arena for free! The CEO of spark arena, Brendon Hines organized this very expensive trip for us. Royal Road school and Lincoln Heights School also came with one of their classes/years. We had 3 exhibitions set up, one was for the public and the other 2 were set up just for the schools. The 3 exhibitions names was the Happy place, Van gogh and sounds fun also we had 30 minutes at each exhibitons. Theres one more exciting thing, we had the famous Suzy Cato there as well!

The first exhibition we went to was the happy place! In the happy place we started off by diving into a ballpit! The ballpit was taller than most students by an inch and only 4 people got to go down at a time. The ballpit was also hard to get out but really fun! Next we had 3 small boxes to take pictures in! One of them had chains every where, the next had a tub with rubber duckies on the walls. The last one had glittering silver walls on it as if your a popstar. They also had 3 other big rooms! One was an room with a unicorn, another was an upside down room and the last one was a chocolate chip cookie with the chocolate chips being doors. There was another room that we had to wait for, the room had lots of pretty flowers in it. My most favourite and last room was the room with a dome. The dome had confetti in it and we all jumped around and played while the wind from underneath!

Sounds fun was the next exhibition we went to. In the room we got to play with different kind of instruments like trumpets, trumbones, eletric drums and stuff like that. There was also stuff like keyboards and drum pads to play on. I would say it was like 4 stations. The Keyboard/drum pads station had a tablet and keyboards/drum pads set up so you can take lessons on how to make music using keyboards/drum pads. They had a station where you learn to use trumpets and trombones. Apparently they use thing small tubes that go into the trumpet/trombones to make sounds! 2nd to last station was the station with the electric drums. People learnt how to make music with the electric drums but I didn't go on it so I don't know much. The last station was the station where you got to play with some drum pads and keyboards while making music at the same time. That was really fun!

The finale exhibition was the Van gogh exhibition. If you don't know who Van gogh is he is a famous dutch artist who painted the famous starry night. There were 3 rooms in the exhibition, one of the rooms was the main one where his art was displayed with information about it for you to see. The other room was a giant black room that displayed the art on many screens, there was even a moving picture connected to all the screens! The prettiest room was the sunflower room. The sunflower room was tiny and had lots of artificial sunflowers everywhere with mirrors as walls! We didn't get to stay in it because it was just a walk through space.

 

The people there made us a packed lunch which included a sandwich, apple juice, an apple and a chip pack. There was a vegetarian sandwich for those who are halal or can't eat meat. I think that was the best trip so far! I hope we get another chance like this. Blog you later fishies!

Swimming at cameron pools!

 Swimming at Cameron Pools!

Bonjour Fishies! For this post I will be talking about the Cameron pools swimming lessons we are having. In this term we are having swimming lessons every tuesdays and thursdays from week 1 - 5. Only year 3 - 6 students get to go to cameron pools. The middle school swim in the nans pool and we seniors swim in the big pool where its deeper. For the seniors we have been split into 3 groups and we have 3 instructors. The instructors names are Jasmine, Alisha and Britany. My instructor is Jasmine!  

We started off by going over the basics like how to float, backstroke, freestyle and more like those using flutterboards. After going over the basics we started going into more advanced stuff like breathing while swimming, swimming on one side, swimming on your tummy then turning and so you get the idea. We also do dolphin dives but thats only at the end of swimming time. My favourite swimming technique is the one where you have to swim on your tummy then turn on your back beacause I think it's fun. I wish we could have more swimming days. 

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"A day in the trenches"

 "A day in the trenches"

The teachers locked us out and the doors and all blinds were down but after a while we were let inside, it was pitch black and we saw.... STRINGS everywhere! For ANZAC day the teachers made a surprise for us by making us feel what it's like in being in a trenchs from war times. The string was the mark for the trench and we had to crawl under it but if you went over the string that ment you got shot. The things we need were our art books, pen, ruler, rubber and a pencil. We had 10 lives and if you got shot you had one less also if you lost all your lives the teachers would've made you do things like make their lunch!

We did school work under the trenches by starting off with maths. For maths we did a basic facts test and while we were doing it the teachers played bomb explosions and gunfire sounds! People were starting to get distracted with the sounds and I think I did less then my last basic facts test. For writing we wrote a letter to someone in our family about being in the trenches and how it felt. For stuff the fruit break we just had to pass the fruit box and compost bin around the syndicate. 

Halfway through everyone got sore knees and elbows but it still wasn't over. We also did art were the teachers would say a story and we have to draw the scene, we had to draw 12 scenes for art. After this we unravelled all the strings in pairs. My favourite part of the day was maths because I actually like maths tests. It must've been very hard for the soldiers that fought especially how they fought for years!

I think that this day of learning about ANZAC is my favourite day of the year so far! Bye bloggers.

Netball

Netball!

Pass it to me! Kia ora Everyone! For term 1 we learned about a sport called netball, netball is a sport about teamwork and strategy and it is really fun! We had Joselina and Olivia come to our school on wendsdays and teach us netball. To start off with we learn't about the rules in netball like staying 1 metere apart when someone else is shooting but the most important rule in netball was that you cannot move with the ball! We started doing the basic stretches like high knees, bum kicks and sprinting then we did dynamic stretches like Squats and lunges! For the first few weeks we started to learn about skills like passing and piviting. If you don't know what piviting is its when you keep on foot on the ground and the other foot twists around so you can pass the ball to the other side if you need to. 

After learning these skills we played different games, one of them was called golden child. Golden child is when you have 2 teams, the runners and the shooters. The runners have to run around the court to get to the other side while shooters are trying to shoot the ball in the hoop. If the ball gets in the hoop while your running you have to stopin your place. The golden child is at the back of the line and when its their turn they will tap the people stuck on the shoulder while their running and you have to run to the end with them. If someone shoots a goal the runners lose but if the runners make it the shooters will lose!

We played lots of other games and we also played a real netball game. There was a bib team and non bib team. The caller will call a number of people like 5 or 4 and those people have to try score a goal in the other teams hoop. My favourite part of netball was playing the actual game! Blog you later!

Family Fun day!

 Family fun day

Salaam Everyone! On the 19th of march we had a family fun day where everyone wore their house colours and we did fun activities at school! We had 4 activities, all of the activites were really fun. Some activitys included water in them so we had to bring 2 change of clothes, togs and clothes that we could get wet in. The acitivties were inflatables, iflatable water silde, slippery slide and wheels. There was also a bake sale going on in the staff room, so parents and students could buy cakes to eat! We were all seperated into our house groups to to do this rotation.

There was Pukeko - Green, Tui - Yellow, Kea - Red and Ruru - Blue. I am in Ruru who went to the wheels first, we could bring our own bike, scooters, rollerblades and other things with wheels. If you didn't have wheels you could use the schools bike and scooters or play with the magic play box. There were also other options if you didn't have wheels like the sandpit or bring a toy car and play with them. Eventually halfway people started going to the bake stall to eat some cakes so there were only a few people left but they all came back and most of them went to the magic play box.

Next up was the infltable obstacle course! the infltable was an obstacle course where you could race your friends and go through obstacles. This was only 1 of the inflatables, there was 1 more you had to go through after going through the first one. The first one was a big inflatable and the 2nd one was a small inflatable.

The pool and slippery slide were also good. In our house groups we were seperated in 2 groups, 1 group went on the slippery slide and the other group went in the pool, then we rotated. I didn't really like the slippery slide because after sliding I was cold waiting in line. 

Last activity was the inflatable water slide. The inflatable water slide had a pool attached to it so you will end up in cold pool. I also didn't like this because the grass got really muddy and it was really cold once you got out. There was also a dry bouncy castle for those who didn't bring their change of clothes. I think my favourite activity was the bouncy castle race. It was a really fun day, blog you later!

Tsunami

 Tsunami

Kia orana fishies! For this fridays post I'm going to talk about the tsunami warnings last week. Last week friday all phones recieved a message about a tsunami warning at least 2 times that day. People in the coast had to evacuate to the nearest hills to make sure they were safe. Some phones recieved their warnings on time and many others didn't get theirs until 1 or 2 hours later! The 1st time I got a warning was scary even though it was daylight the phone started to vibrate on the table before the alarm came. 

 We talked about having an emergency backpack for times like this. We brainstormed lots of ideas like having non-perishable food and big bottles of water. Most people in our syndicate didn't have a emergency backpack to grab on the go so we made a list of items that we should have in a emergency backpack.

Emergency Backpack:

Phone + Portble charger or Charger bank

Big bottles of water

Non-perishable food (Like crackers abd muesli bars)

Toilet paper

First aid kit

Umbrella

Batteries + Torch

Radio

Bug repellent

Entertainment (Like cards)

Do you have an emergency backpack ready to go for your family?

Lockdown 4

 Lockdown 4

Kia ora fishies! This was the 4th time we had lockdown so I'm going to talk about how we learned from home and what I felt during lockdown 4! I felt sad that we were going into lockdown because then you can't play or see your friends. To start off with, my favourite learning activity was in maths! It was a online worksheet called nasty-as problems. I had to write my learning in my book and then put my answers into a google doc. I liked this activity because it was long and challenging! I had to get up at 8am every day so that I can get onto the class meet on time. I skipped some google meets though. I had to get my work done by 4pm so I could be marked!

One of my favourite family activity was watching a movie together on netflix with popcorn and drinks! I feel happy coming to school because you get to do more fun stuff at school with your friends. I also liked lockdown because you can stay home and do lots of things like sleep, bake and try science expirements!