..+*Week Reflection*+..

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This Week felt really short, because we had Wednesday off due to a teacher only day and it that Wednesday felt like an actual full weekend, maybe because I was all hyped up on Tuesday night not having to worry about waking up early And because I felt I got a lot accomplished that day and I had the whole house to myself and I feed the budgies, did some work, drawing and some chores, so it felt like an entire weekend and then Monday and Tuesday felt like last week.

Some of the things I felt were challenging was finishing some of the work.. I took so long to finish my maths sheet because it took me awhile to add up some of the numbers we had to do and then it was kind of stressful when I was doing it and I had to also try and get it done so I could work on my other things, I also found doing the daily times tables challenging because I never competently finish the entire cube in the amount of time. another thing that was also challenging for me would be when we were making our group animation, it had to be done quiet quickly but  we were taking a lot of time because I was drawing all the characters. but I am happy with how it turned out, not that much but still glad that it had lots of effort in it and that was my first post with the new blogger update! 

some things I have learned this week were about the human body, we have been learning about the human body and we were talking about the brain and some names for the bone as well, and we learned about Saint Hildegard who I have never heard before but we learned about who she was and what her life was like, I also learned a more about algebra, we learned a new strategy that was assigned to us on prodigy that is a bit confusing but still think we progressed on getting a preview on what we are going to be learning in algebra. I feel I have learned a lot this week! 

Some things I have enjoyed doing this week are when me and my friends decorated our paper skeleton activity.. because it was peaceful just drawing on the bones and trying to add more shaded depth into the bones so it wouldn't look so bland, I also enjoy making the animation with my friends as well because it was so fun to work and share Ideas with my friends and I think we worked well together and the outcome was good. I also enjoyed working on drawing a place form our imagination task. 

Some of the things we did that  feel I have succeeded in are my contract, I hadn't completely finished it but I feel I have progressed with finishing this week, I am also quiet happy with the outcome of the group animation, and I feel I have succeeded in the paper skeleton because the order of the bones I think are correct which is good since they bones looked a bit confusing and we kept on overthinking where they went.

I am looking forward to hopefully doing the creative writing, I really hope it goes well with the drawings since I have finished writing it now I need to draw and format it. I also hope that cross country goes well, I am very nervous to run because I worry that something might happen or I will come in a very low place, I really hope that everyone can have lots of fun at cross country and be proud of themselves. I also hope that I can finish my speech and hopefully everyone can be proud of what they've come up with. 

.-+*|| Pono ||*+-..

Pono means truth, truth can be owning up for mistakes and taking action and responsibility for our mistakes we make. it is also being truthful and kind.

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..+* The life of saint Hildegard of Bimgen *+..

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Today for R.E we learned who Saint Hildegard was.. she was a lady in Germany in the 1098's, we learned about her and who she was and the journey of her life. then we had to get into groups of three ( me, Heavenly and Therese.) and make a animation about three stages of her life "child, nun, teacher." because in her childhood she left to go live with a lady named jutta and soon later Hildegard had become a nun and  she had a very special connection with god. then she became more of a teacher with how much things she was doing.. many people came to her for advice, and she wrote books about her visions she had countered with prayer.

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Heavenly and Therese were my buddies, Heavenly did her early stages in life, (her childhood and when she met jutta.) then Therese did her teacher stages in life, and we all worked together for her nun stage because I was drawing the characters (I had drawn hildegard, jutta and the young version of hildegard so we could use those has the animation characters.) I finished of some things on the slide. I feel that it is a bit rushed.. and that the drawings I did aren't so good either.. but I think that we did a good job! and it was super fun to work with my friends! be sure to check out their posts as well- 

Heavenly's blog-

>https://pcsheavenlym.blogspot.com/2020/07/reimaginationreligiounseducation.html

Therese's blog-> http://pcsthereseb.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-lfe-of-hildegard-of-bingen.html

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..+*Sort the comments activity*+..

today for Cyber Smart we had to get into a pair, (my partner was Indi) and we made a copy of a template where they had written a bunch of comments and we had to copy and paste the thumbs up and thumbs down onto where we thought was good and bad.  we had watched a video and talked about things not to say in a blog comment and thing that you should say instead.

then after that we highlighted in colour parts of the text that made then considered bad. and what made them considered good. 

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this was a fun, yet quick activity to do.  here are some tips to make your comment more interesting:

-read through the post and take in detail- instead of guessing what the post is gonna say, read through it and pick out things that you think they did really well, or then thing in the post that you most enjoyed reading.

-complement- it is very important to be nice in the comments and kind, you can tell them something that they did well, 

another thing that you shouldn't do is use internet slang, internet slang is words like ''lol, ikr '' which are shorten words used to make texting easier and when your commenting about someones learning it would be good to have the comment kind and formal, and to be aware of your audience, is your audience young and may not understand big words, or are they a bit older and can handle more complex wording.

thank you for reading my post and I hope you enjoyed it. 

..+*First week in Term 3*+..

-Week Reflection-

Our first week back in term 3!

I have  found challenging this first week back would be that I didn't finish my full contract, the main thing I wanted to do was my imaginative prayer but I ended up not starting that because I was doing my other activities first.. I didn't finish my contract I think maybe because I was being very slow, and taking a bit to much time to finish my activities, and I was also kind of struggling finding my idea for our creative writing, but in the end I managed find and idea (it was based off of a dream a had).

Some things I have learned this week is some more about algebra, we have been learning in algebra, we did a task where we had to copy and figure out patterns and add up numbers to reveal a pattern, and it was very fun. we added up numbers to finish each column and find out the pattern. 

somethings I enjoyed were being back to school and finishing my science drawing, we got to draw what we thought a scientist looked like and answer questions on what a scientist are and what they do,  it was also fun to decorate and do my R.E activity because it was super fun to just sit there and write down the things we had to write and decorate and draw along the way to make it look presentable. , I also really enjoy when me and couple of others in every morning we went into a class and did this cool activity for the other class called ''creative prayer" its where we each had are own prayer station and did different ways to present prayer, and the classes each came and had a go at are activities. and at the end we put together all of our finish activities and it was so fun!  I really enjoyed being with my friends and the opportunity  to work with the classes through creativity, and working peacefully in class. 

some things I feel I have succeeded in might be my science drawing? I had drawn it and it didn't look very good.. so I re drew it and coloured it and I think it looked a bit better, I was quiet happy with the clothing creases because personal I think they can be quiet hard at times but this time I think they were accurate. I also think that the imaginative prayer went well, We had done prayer chains and everyone contributed and I stapled them all together into a long chain, some of the colours were out of pattern so I used my nails and picked the stables out and re but them into pattern. those are some of the thing I thinks have succeeded this week. 

Values

This weeks value was pono, meaning truth. showing Pono could be owning up to your mistakes and taking action to what you've done, because taking responsibility is showing truth, that is an example of showing pono.

something I am looking forward to next week is.. creative writing, I hope that it goes well and hopefully the drawing can come out good as well, I also hope that I can still to my imaginative prayer activity because I have an idea for that. we also have speeches coming up AND cross country, and like most of us, I am quiet nervous for those activities and not really looking forward to them because use I'm not sure how I will go. 

..+*Recount holiday*+..

Friday the last day of school, I got picked up early.. It was dry and cloudy and relaxed in mid day and sunny and golden in the evening. We were all relaxed as morning tea had passed and in the middle block where I was doing some drawing mum came in. I packed up my pencil case and left. I haven’t really had a half day in ages, as we got ready to drive down to auckland with my brother who, a week ago, had come up for his Christchurch university break. It was super fun having him back at home. We haven’t seen him in ages but the second he came back it was like he was always here. Me and him played one of the old ‘’cool math games’’ fire boy and water girl where you are two players and have to go to different levels. That was really fun, but frustrating at the same time because I kept on dying in the game. We played some more two player games. It was really fun to have my brother back at home.

 Once We got home and were ready to go, we took my brother to say goodbye to our nana and poppa, before he left. It was sunny and golden and I kept looking out the window admiring the gold sunlight that skitted over the hills and made everything warm, the sunlight contrasted with the blue shadows that added depth to the landscape, I went to sleep like usual.. Every Auckland trip I always go to sleep trying to either… pass the time.. Or to not throw up. I was trying to sleep but I had had enough and I got up and it was still golden hour and we opened the bag chips and ate the whole lot. Suddenly.. A really loud shot noise striked ‘’ARRGH’’ mum complained.. A stone had hit the windscreen and left a very big crater with little spider-like legs poking out the side. We stopped by and my brother took a photo. We always get chips in the windscreen when we go  his way! And no surprise a little later a stone had chipped my window as well! As we drove further it got dark, the golden light toned down and everything went purple, I focused on the reflection of the purple sky and clouds in the water, looking out the window waiting for a good song to come on. 

It got dark, and we stopped at the toilets and continued to drive. I started waiting for the clock ‘’17:16’’ Waiting for just one more minute… “17:17’’! It became my new thing, waiting for the clock time numbers to be the same.. Just a little thing to look forward to when your bored is to keep an eye out for the time numbers being the same. That was pretty fun.. The blinding light bounced over the hills we turned to see a super flash car.. It had ‘’X’’ headlights and when it overtook us the whole back light was connected. The darkness outside as the sun has completely faded and I kept on seeing the faded unnatural light from the light post shining abnormally on the trees. As we continued into Auckland we went into where my sister's house is.

The house was empty, my sister and her friends were downtown getting some food. We went and got our own. We drove downtown in the dark around 9.00? The light was flashy and bright, we stopped and parked near a bunch of  food places where it had neon bright food signs. Mum and my brother went and got me a pizza and got some burger fuel for them. I waited in the dark, in the car looking at the lights blaring from the shops. I sat quiet waiting for them to come. A couple of minutes later they came, we drove to my sister's house. I couldn't eat all the pizza because I was pretty full. 

A day later we went to crystal mountain..

We had said goodbye to my brother as he walked into the Que for the Christchurch flight. Definitely going to miss my brother. At Crystal mountain… I was kind of nervous to go there since none of us had been there before, I didn’t know what to expect going there, we walked past the huge pale rose coloured crystals on display, we walked into the gift shop.. So many crustal… There were big rectangular lamps with circular flat crystals resin in the lamp. We walked further in to see lamps, necklaces, and just straight up pure crystals of any type, walked down the stairs and saw so many more crystals with minerals shown and patterns flowing inside those crystals. So many types and colours, crystal stone made into things. I didn't know what to buy!. We looked at all the crystals and then went into an elevator to see the crystal museum. There were massive walls of stone like a cave and an enclosure full of different crystals bigger than any human. Massive quartz and amethyst, odd looking fluffy crystals and super colourful ones on display as well. 

On the second morning we left, and soon we were home, unpacking our bag. 

At home again~

..+*Cyber Smart*+..

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Some Things I enjoy about Cyber smart is The learning, it's fun when learning more about the Chromebook and cool thing to help us get round the chrome book. we have learned about controls in the chrome book, on how to get a tab back once it's lost and much more. I also really enjoy filming in cyber smart. It's super fun to group up and film a movie, when we were filming our movie.. for thing like props we used anything we could find that was similar to what we wanted as a prop. personally I like to be the camera person because I don't have to be seen int he movie but yet have a big role in the movie.  it's super fun to collaborate and share everyone creative ideas. 

We have learned so much about lots of thing to do with cyber smart, something I would like to learn in the future would be.. to make more cyber smart information slide, and not just copy of slides.  I would like to make more DLO (Digital. Learning. Object.) like a google drawing or slide or even a poster, it would be cool to make a DLO about what cyber smart is and tips for it so I can share some of my tips with people. It would even be cool to collaborate in a group. 

Cyber smart is really fun and is definitely  something I look forward to.

End of Term

<>End of term two<>

As you know this term has been very messy.. with Covid-19 outbreak and our holiday getting pushed further, our first couple of weeks was online learning, online learning was really fun and I really enjoyed it, I have made a blog post about my time in lockdown if you want to hear about it.

As soon as we got back to school we had tons on hand sanitiser, and our own desks we had to wipe down every block, the learning we did was around how our lockdown was. it feels like it's been short since it's the end already, it was a really fun term and things have changed a lot like routine  and where we sit, we still had the same was of learning but just face to face.. we had a check list and I think that a challenge for me was probably the work.. because their is a big difference with time. in lockdown I got to work to whenever time and I didn't have much breaks.. but in school some of the work is in a certain period so I don't have enough time to finish it quickly and don't get much done on my contracts.. I mainly focus on the certain tasks that are bigger. and  when I was working from home I worked at 10, till maybe 5 or if I really wanted to get something finished I would finish it at nighttime. but at school I start to get ready and out of the house at 8.00 and get home at 3.00 and with morning tea and lunch time between, so their is a big time difference. I have struggled quite with finishing everything. 

I have learned a lot in lockdown and in school.. with lockdown I learnt strategies for area and perimeter. and with in school we have learned about Pi and algebra and I feel I have improved with my times and maths, and a fun activity we have been doing is our creative writing, I find it fun to try and write super descriptive pieces and sometimes even rhythm and explain exactly how you feel in an attempt to make the reader feel the same. with presentation I have done more drawings with polyline and developed more techniques.  I have learned a lot in this extended term. 

I have done a lot of learning activities and here are some favourites from lock down

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I am quiet happy with the work I have done in lock down and some things I have succeeded in this term are.. my Matariki slide- I worked really hard on that to try and draw all the characters and I was quite happy with it when it was finished (just that the fade in and our scenes are a bit messed up,)  

The Popcorn I made with my friend India- 

We had to make a topping of our choice and me and India chose to do caramel, me and my brother made some caramel at home which is literally just melted sugar, butter and cream but it took so long to melt the sugar and it was very sticky.)  I made the logo at home while watching a movie! then when the day was here.. India got a plastic bowl and and cooked the popcorn in the microwave in the staff room and we mixed the homemade caramel with the popcorn.. it was really yum! we were very proud on how this turned out!

Matariki picture with my friend Tiana! Tiana is a very creative and she is very artistic as well!

we had to draw in each segment on what the matariki starts represent. 

 

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Wati || Waipururangi || Tupunuku || and we both did Matariki. it was super fun and we brought some of our stuff to draw with form home, I brought some of my coloured pens, and she brought some very fancy pastel pens. (similar to copic markers.) it was so fun to draw with her and we had a lot of laughs and we had to swap seats a lot to rotate so we can draw. 

something I also feel I have succeeded is with is some of my R.E activities.. we were learning about Kings,Prophets, and Judges. and we have been learning a lot about the holy spirit, 

This was an R.E task that I did (I am mainly proud of the drawing.) 

I had posted my Creative writing task on my blog if you would like to see it. 

I am also quiet happy with my creative writing slide.. (but I haven't posted it.) 

I am quiet happy with lots of learning I have done during this term and I hope I can do some good learning and succeed with next term. 

I have a lot of highlights in this term and lots of them are in the learning pictures above. I really enjoyed doing some of the filming we did with cyber smart, those were really fun and have  A LOT of funny bloopers.  making popcorn, drawing, collaborating. all of that was my Favorited highlights this term so far and I hope I can have some new and similar highlights next term. 

Some things I am looking forward too... is the creative writing I really hope it goes well as well, I heard that we might  also be illustrating our writing as well! I hope that next term can be a good term as well. I am happy about how this term has gone.. (not about the corona virus  out breaking .) and I hope you all have a great holiday! 

..+*Matariki Activities!*+..

-Goal setting for Matariki!-

For the Maori New year, we have set goals surrounding all of our learning subjects,

We made a copy of a slide set by our teacher and filled in more detailed goals around Maths, literacy, R.E, social, and extra. so we followed a strategy  called "S.M.A.R,.T'' which you will see on one of the example pages.  We shared all of our goal in a group when we had a big matariki breakfast, with bacon, egg, toast and spaghetti and a couple of juices.

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-Matariki research Planting- 

We also did another group activity! we did planting, and had to make a D.L.O (Digital, Learning, Object.) So our group made a slide and researched about two plant and food related Maori gods. ..+*Haumiatiketike*+.. and ,,>>Rongo-Ma-Tane<<. we searched about them and wrote down our facts as we got called up to pick a small plant to take care of.. I chose spring onion because I really like spring onion and enjoy eating raw, I can't wait for it to grow up big enough to harvest and eat.

here's our slide

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