Superb Dot Plots

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My Writing: In Te Ngahere we have been learning about dot plots. A dot plot is a sort of graph we have been learning about. I learnt that dot plots are a type of graph and is often used to mark how far something is. In the worksheet there were two classes competing in throwing a tennis ball. Room one’s dot plot was already made and we had to make a dot plot similar to room ones for room two’s results. It wasn’t very hard but wasn’t easy, we had to create the dot plot from scratch and had to use how far room two threw to make the dot plot. 

In my DLO for the dot plot I didn’t explain it as good as the teachers DLO and it wasn’t very clear compared to the teachers DLO. I got very confused while explaining the true or false statements and didn’t quite understand. I think I could have explained a lot better than how I explained in my DLO and how I put down on my presentation my work. I liked doing the dot plot DLO, have you ever done a dot plot before?

Terrific Marble Ramp

In Te Ngahere we have been doing marble runs. We had to make instructions for different people to run our ramp. We did this to prepare for the Science fair. We also had to make our ramp make the marble stop at 110 cm. I thought that my group and I didn’t do our instructions very clear and it didn’t quite go through to the people who were testing it. I also thought we could have done our ramp more stable so it can hold its own weight. I also thought that we could have improved our ramps height and how long the ramp was. I enjoyed watching our ramp doing its thing and watching it to see what I could improve. Have you ever made a marble ramp before?

Terrific Science Show.

In Te Ngahere we have been learning all about science. We were lucky enough to go to Bay of Islands College to learn all about science. At first we all had to sit down and we had  people from the show-show us different gases like nitrogen, oxygen, nitrogen monoxide and other gases. I learned that if you rub your hands together and then put it on aluminium, copper or steel it will form electricity   after you touch the pads, it will make the scale go up. We did this because we were learning about different variables, and science. I loved going to this  show and it very informational. I hope we go on this show again. Have you ever been to the Science Roadshow before

Cool Tech

 In Te Ngahere the year 6 students went to Project Island Song while we went to technology. We did technology at Moerewa School, and the year sevens did cooking while the year eights did woodwork. I am a year seven and we made apple sponge with ice cream, we didn’t make the ice cream but we made the apple sponge. We started off by doing a quiz and gluing some sheets in our book before we cooked anything, then we had to fill in 2 sheets about cooking and what our expectations are before starting. We then had to peel apples, chop them and then put them to a boil. After that we were making a mixture of butter, sugar, one egg and flour. We also had an option to put chocolate chips too and we all added it in. It was super fun and it tasted so great, I will definitely trying it again. Have you made apple sponge before?

Cool Tech

In Te Ngahere the year 6 students went to Project Island Song while we went to technology. We did technology at Moerewa School, and the year sevens did cooking while the year eights did woodwork. I am a year seven and we made apple sponge with ice cream, we didn’t make the ice cream but we made the apple sponge. We started off by doing a quiz and gluing some sheets in our book before we cooked anything, then we had to fill in 2 sheets about cooking and what our expectations are before starting. We then had to peel apples, chop them and then put them to a boil. After that we were making a mixture of butter, sugar, one egg and flour. We also had an option to put chocolate chips too and we all added it in. It was super fun and it tasted so great, I will definitely trying it again. Have you made apple sponge before?

Different Online Relationships.

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about online relationships, and how to keep safe with your online relationships. We are learning this because there are many things that can go wrong with a relationship online, such as: getting groomed, pedophiles and catfishing. They also can lead to being kidnapped. I think what I could do better online is make my captions of my post better and make it cyber safe for other readers to read by making it  swearing free and positive. I thought this interaction on how we have been learning about this has such a good impact on me because I can learn, and maybe save myself from possibly getting catfished or groomed by someone. Have you ever done something bad online before?

Cool Ocean Drawings

In Te Ngahere we have been doing ocean arts of fish with other living creatures that are aquatic. The point of this was to get confident with using google drawings more and to practice using the tools more with line colour too. The easy part I found was making the fish and other aquatic things, but the hard part was grouping them together because I didn't know how to group them together. We used auto shapes to make the fish and lining tools. I enjoyed this activity really fun. Have you tried this before?

Interesting Manuka Research.

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My Funny Understanding About Reading the Success Criteria

Today we did a test about following instructions properly. We had started off with a piece of paper and a pencil. We did this test to see how well we could follow instructions. There were 23 instructions and we had four minutes to complete it.  I only reached number 18 before our teachers stopped us and told us to sit on the floor. The first red flag that I had not read carefully was the first instruction. The first instruction said “read everything carefully before doing anything” so I got it wrong because I honestly  did not want to read all 23 instructions so I  just read the instructions while answering them. I realised that I did not follow and read the  instructions carefully and did it all wrong. When the teachers sent us to the floor they told everyone that the last instruction said “just do instruction one and two”. I felt a little stupid but I also started laughing at myself. Do you always read instructions carefully?

Fantastic Pizza Creator.

Yesterday we went to Technology in Moerewa. We did cooking with Whaea Dot. We made pizza and made the bread ourselves, we also chopped up all of our ingredients ourselves. Some of us had Oregano in our dough and some didn't use oregano. The ingredients most of us used were cheese, garlic, onion, tomato and pineapple. Some of us used spinach too. It took around 20-30 minutes to cook and we had it on 200 degrees. I enjoyed making the pizza but the  most challenging part for me was to get all the measurements correct.  I could have done my toppings better but I think I did the dough really good. Have you ever made pizza before? 

Correct Coordinating Of Te Reo Māori

Correct Coordinating Of Te Reo Māori

We have been learning about pronunciation of Māori place names, alphabet and greetings. The website we used in order to learn all this was Education Perfect! It helped me to pronounce everything correctly and I could record my voice to re hear when I have pronounced the word correctly or incorrectly.  I thought I did well pronouncing the Māori alphabet and correcting myself. I think that I need to do better at pronouncing the greetings such as Kia Ora and trying my hardest to correct myself. Have you ever pronounced the māori alphabet before? 

 

Smart Surfing

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about smart surfing. Smart surfing is something we did that improved how we looked up information we needed. We were introduced to smart surfing by our teachers, they made a slide that we had to fill in. Here are some examples of what we use to write into the search bar and now.

 Before: where do manuka trees live?

Now: manuka tree habitat?

We now only need to use the key words to get more information from Google search. It has had such a huge impact in what we wrote on the search bar and now. I now get more information on my work and enjoy just writing key words instead of full sentences. Have you been introduced to smart surfing yet?

Super Fun Birthday

Yesterday we went to a lunch birthday party. It was Shivams birthday and he just turned double digits! When we got to Greens we were surprised to see a big batch of butter chicken sitting on the side of where we were eating! The food was immaculate and was superb. When I was eating the butter chicken we were also served with naan bread-. We also had coke! When we had finished eating we got a giant box each filled with either pineapple lumps and a easter egg or a two freddo’s and an egg. After getting our eggs we acknowledged Shivam's birthday by singing happy birthday to him. Also to say thank you to his whanau we sang his parents 3 lovely waiata! Have you ever been invited to a friends or a classmates birthday lunch before?

Tricky Task Master

Hi my name is Ebony and in Te Ngahere we have been doing task master.

 A fun intelligent way to collaborate with our learning group! I enjoyed doing this task master with my group but it was a little hard. To play this game there are two runners and a drawer and you had to copy the teachers picture the best you can.  Also the drawer isn’t allowed to see the picture but there runners have to try and explain what  the picture looks like. The group with the most similar picture to the teachers wins. It was especially challenging trying to explain to Aaron where the smiley face goes and where the writing is supposed to be. But looking at the picture was pretty easy. Have you ever done taskmaster?

My Food Web

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about ecosystems, but what we are doing today is different. I am comparing my food web to my teachers food web a food web explains what producers eat, consumers eat and decomposers Another thing I have just noticed  that she has so much more arrows than me. Another one I spotted was that the colour actually means something .Same with how the arrows are pointed. Also I saw that the insects are the main one in the middle because it is the source of energy that goes in to every living animal. A food web shows what the animals eat and shows what eats it. My arrows are going the wrong way compared to my teachers. I really loved doing this food web. Have you ever done a food web chain before?

Cool Tech.

In Te Ngahere year sevens and eights get to go to tech every fortnight

 (every two weeks) and creating stuff like bling bling (jewelry) and wood work. The first time going I created a taonga that was made out of wood, and the second time I went with some of my classmates we made jewellry but haven't finished. I loved doing tech! Have you ever done technology before?

Kawa Of Care

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about kawa of care (learning how to take care of our computer). As we were told this we had an option we could do an animation with google slides, powtoon like animation or a comic script or a short movie! My friend and I chose to do a movie about looking after your chromebook, we would like to show you how to prevent breaking your chromebook!

Have you ever broke one of the kawa of care rules?

Our Incredible Ecosystem!

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about mutualism, mutualism is when two things work together such as a puriri and a kereru.  The bird likes to eat puriri berries and the seeds in them. After the bird eats the berry the bird deposits the seed in its droppings, giving it natural fertiliser for the tree to grow. It can also benefit with other living organisms.

This is just one of the examples I have, I have more examples but this is the easiest I feel to teach you.  But if you already understand this example I will give you another one. This one we have a human and a plant, the human waters the plant and the plant will produce food for the human to eat. Have you ever heard about mutualism?  

Spine Chilling Tsunami Scarer

  Spine Chilling Tsunami Scarer

Last Friday we got an alert on our phones saying that we had to leave our house, and run, bike or drive away from the tsunami and head more inland, and if we were near the sea go as far  inland as possible!

Ohana, Mum and I went to Morewa. Mum was freaking out and Ohana and I were calm but a little rattled from it. After we got to Moerewa Mum realised that the river could pass through KawaKawa then enter Moerewa! So Mum just stayed put and then calmed down, after getting another message to stay where you are and to not leave the area you are at. Mum realised that nothing major was going to happen and fully calmed down. Have you ever been in a tsunami or got a spine chilling scare like that?

Kawa Of Care

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about kawa of care (learning how to take care of our computer). As we were told this we had an option we could do an animation with google slides, powtoon like animation or a comic script or a short movie! My friend and I chose to do a movie about looking after your chromebook, we would like to show you how to prevent breaking your chromebook!

Have you ever broke one of the kawa of care rules?

Roy Lichtenstein

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Roy Lichtenstein and his art. He was born in 1923 and as he got older he got into doing all types of art even sculpting! One of his main arts he loved doing was  Ben Day dots, Ben Day dots are using colours to create an image  they used  Ben Day dots in newspapers. I really enjoyed doing my art about Roy Lichtenstein! Have you ever done any Roy Lichtenstein art?