Maraia - Swimming lessons Term 1

 Swimming lessons Term 1 

Last tuesday we started doing swimming lessons. I was very excited to go swimming because I don't go swimming a lot. On the next day I was freezing cold but after a few minutes the sun started to come back out. When we hopped onto the bus to go to the pools, we noticed that the bus smelt like quarine I don't like the smell of quarine. After the bus ride we walk inside and then a lady lead us to the pools and I was really cool there was a gym on the side, and if you keep on walking there was another gym. When we got there we changed into our swimming clothes then we waited for the other class to come out and change then we went into our lanes. When we got to our lane we had to sit on the wall and put our had on the side of us and twist into the pool to enter safely, then we just learnt backstroke and how to float on our back, then near the end we got to jump in the pool which is the best part 

The pools we went to was called Swim Magic I personally think it great, Here is a link - Link to Swim Magic Website

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Maraia - New Zealand Native tree

 New Zealand Native tree

Today for creative writing, we were learning to use discriptive words and words that relate to New Zealand native trees and plants. The first thing we had to do was write our discriptive writin only using 100 words. Then we had to creata a slideshow.  Can you guess what tree I wrote about.

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Maraia - What We Share

 What We Share

Today in TWP 4 we were sent of to  complete or edit some of our blogs. I had finished all lot of the things and had fixed some of my blogs so, I did the 12th Cybersmart Challenge called, "What We Share".

For this activity when had to find out what information about us we should keep Private or Public. We had to sort out a list of about us into 2 columns, the name of the columns were Private and Public.

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Maraia - Nerves In Our Body Life Education

 Nerves In Our Body Life Education 

Today in class, after swimming we did a little activity about the body's nerves system and what the parts are called.

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Maraia - New Zealand Native Tree Project: Kahikatea/White Pine

   New Zealand Native Tree Project: Kahikatea/White Pine 

Maraia - Okahu Bay

 Okahu Bay

Today at home I wrote a bit about Okahu Bay, basically a DLO. If you don't know what a DLO is, well it is a google drawing with some key words,pictures, and information about what you are write about. I did my DLO on Okahu Bay because a few weeks ago we went sailing at Okahu Bay, and learnt how to set  up a sailing boat and thing you need to do when sailing. One thing that we found out when we got there was that the school didn't pay for the sailing trip becasue, we were choosen by St. Johns Rotary Club, and they had paid for our trip.

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Maraia - Planting Plants

 Planting Plants

It is now Term 2 but in the school holidays before we visited our Aunty and uncle down in Opotiki, Whakatane. We also went down there to see our baby cousin Jiosese ( How to say it - josese). the first few week we went fishing alot and I always said to my "Don't go into the water", but somehow I ended up going back to the house wet. After the first week all my cousins left, only me and my Grandmother stayed another week. after the day they left my aunty went to do some gardening and she gave me some little seedlings like the ones from countdown to plant. Then the next day we went fishing early in the morning around 8 or 9 I think with my uncle. It was a bit chilly out so my aunty stayed with Jiosese until 10 then they came out to the beach. They live in a holiday home and it is also by the beach so there is a gate and when you open it you just have to follow the path and you are a the beach it is less then a minute walk. Then when they came down to the beach my grandmother came back from her walk on the beach. Whenever we go fishing my uncle brings 2 fishing rod and when my Grandmother got back, one of the fishing poles got tugged so  she went to reel it in, and when she was reeling in the fishing line the other line got tugged so the I ran to it and reeled it in and we both caught a fish. 

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Maraia - What Plants and What Leaves?

 What Plants?

Learn - I can identify trees by looking at the bark

Learn - I can identify native New Zealand trees by their leaves

Today in TWP we learnt more about plants and how to identify plants and trees, by their leaves and barks. Our teachers gave us a paper of what the leaves of some New Zealand native trees look like, we had find the name of the trees online. Then after we finished that we were given another piece of paper that has picture of what the bark on the tree looks like then we had to find the name of the tree. We had finished it all but there was one tree left but it was blurred so we couldn't find the name of what is looked like so we asked the teachers and they just told us the answer because it was blurred for them to and then they told us it was a fern tree.

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Maraia - Choose your Path

  Choose your Path

Today at home I was reading blogs and I saw a girls blog that said "Choose your way". So I read it, it was basically like those interaction movies where you get to choose what the character does. So I made one but in a slideshow form. 

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PLease try it out!

Maraia - Pentecost DLO

Pentecost DLO

 To day at home I did a Pentecost DLO. A DLO is a Digital learning object. I just made a google drawing and put a picture of the last supper then I added a few words about Pentecost and the last supper.

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Maraia - Exploring Blogs Cyber Smart Challenge

  Exploring Blogs

Today in TWP 4 C we did Cybersmart challenge 10. For this challenge I had to explore blogs. We had to choose one of our classmates or anyone from our school to do this challenge. I choose Krystal as my person. I had to ask her some questions about what she likes, what her favourite movie is and more.  Check out Krystal blog

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Maraia - ko wai au

 ko wai au

Today  at home , I did cybersmart challenge 11. This cybersmart challenge was about telling people who you are and things about you. I liked this activity because you guys can get to know me and my hobbies.

Maraia - Plants in different environment

 Plants in different environment

Today in TWP whanau we wrote about our Dioramas in our group. We had to to a group evaluation where we rate yourself from 1 to 5 about how much work we put in. Then we had to create a google drawing and add a picture of our Diorama and blog.

Here are some facts that we knew about the bush.

1. If a cabbage tree catches on fire it wont burn

2. You can't cut Harakeke from the middle you have to cut it from the sides

3. Before cutting Harakeke you have to say a karakia (prayer) so you have perrmisson to cut the Harakeke.

4. The bush has a lot of plant that are used as medcine.

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Maraia - Body Parts Mobile

  Body Parts Mobile

Today in TWP 4 we did an activity where we had to make a mobile but about body parts.

For this activity  we first had to get three facts about the brain,heart,lungs, stomach an both intestines.

After we wrote out three facts in our book we had to put it on a google drawing,then we had to put it into the shapes in our Life Education books. Then we had to cut our the shapes and then poke a hole into the top and thread a piece of yarn through, then repeat it to all the other shapes.

Then we had to blog about our body part Mobile.

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Maraia - Volvo Sailing Have a go -DLO

 Volvo Sailing Have a go -DLO

Today at home I did a small graffiti about sailings. This activity was very easy because I went sailing and I just had to write some keywords. I think it was 99.9% easy but 1.1% hard because I couldn't think of much words so I went to Sione's blog and used some.

Sione's blog - Link

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Maraia - Our Sailing trip - Volvo Sailing Have A Go

 Our Sailing trip - Volvo Sailing Have A Go 

Last week on Thursday TWP 4 and Mr gaffneys Yr 5s went sailing. For sailing we had to come to school in mufti with our swimming clothes underneath. When we got there we had to sit by the boat on the chairs then after a few minutes we were aloud to play or eat I decided to go and play banana split.

After a little while the Yr 5s got into the boats the Yr 6s had to go second, so while we where waiting our Teacher Mrs Nees Kirua took us to the beach. It was a minute walk or less but while we were walking my friend Aston hit my head so I chased him and slapped his head and we kept on doing that to each other until we got to the beach. When we got closer to the beach I ran ahead and we for the water, but we couldn't go in because we were still in our clothes so I rolled my pants up  because our teacher said we can only go up to our knees.

After a little while we went back to the dock and played games. Then the Yr 5s came back to shore and got changed into their normal clothes.

Later we went to get into out life jackets and then we had to go into the water. After a little while we had a race but I didn't know what to do to control the sail. Then an hour later one of the instuctours came on a speed boat and threw out plastic play balls and we had to get as many as we could, whenever me and Melenaite (my partner) saw a ball we went to it and I leaned over the boat and got the ball. Later on there were no more balls so we counted our and we got 18 the after a few seconds someones boat fell over then if started to get cold so I jumped in to water so I could get warm and then I saw the balls that fell out of the boat that got tipped over and I swan towards it a got some so we then had 21 balls.

We then we back to shore but when we went back to shore the same boat tipped over so we left them and another instructor called Holly came and helped them.

Then we all got change and went back to school.

Photo Time.

Maraia - Ngā kare ā-roto me ngā āhau - Feelings and states

 Ngā kare ā-roto me ngā āhau - Feelings and states.

WALT: express how we're feeling in te reo Māori 

Today in TWP 4 we did some learning about Te Reo Maori Feelings and states.

For this activity we had to take a picture of ourselves and 5 other people and we had to say Kei te pehea koe and the had to respond with Kei tei (something) ahau.

After we put into  a google drawing we had to screencastify with their voices .  Doing the screencastify took over 10 tries because someone had forgotten their lines or they didn't know how to pronounce the word in maori but overall I think it turned out great-ish. 

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The people who were in the video are Ana,Mele,Moala,Melenaite and Briana 

Maraia - Brainy Bunch Life Education

  Brainy Bunch Life Education

Yesterday on the 17th of May we went to the life education van and learnt about new things.

After we left we had to write about it we then we had to create a body parts mobile but about body parts. I did the Heart, Lungs, Stomach and the Small and Large intestine. 

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Maraia - Tahuna Tōrea Mind Flow

Tahuna Torea Mind Flow 

WALT: allow our inner response to flow and be captured in words form. 

To day in TWP we did an activity about Tahuna Torea.

Before we started the activity we sat on the mat for about one of two minutes and closed our eyes and  think of what we did at Tahuna Torea.We  then had to write out moments of Awe, Wondering and a moment that stood out to me and our favorite Learning moment.  We basically had a flashback of what we did. This activity was very easy  and I don't think that anything was hard 

Maraia - Storyboard of Jesus's Ascension

 Storyboard of Jesus's Ascension 

Today in TWP we were doing some work on Jesus' Ascension. We had an activity to match columns A to Columns B. There were sentences that we had to match in column a and put it together with the column b. We also had to create a storyboard of the main things happened leading up to the ascension day.

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Here is the link to storyboard - Link

Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, 50 days before Ascension

On Thursday of the week that followed Palm Sunday, Jesus had his last meal with his apostles.

The day after his last supper Jesus was put to death on a cross on Calvary Hill.

Jesus lay in a tomb for 3 days and then God raised him up.

After his resurrection Jesus showed himself to his friends and some of them did not recognise him.

He spent time with his apostles and told them he was going to return to his Father.

50 days after Palm Sunday Jesus was taken by God to share his glory in heaven.

Because Jesus entered heaven in glory he made it possible for his followers to do the same. 

 

Maraia - DLO about Jesus's Ascension

 DLO about Jesus's Ascension

For this activity we had to make a new google drawing and write what we know about Jesus's ascension and what happened on that day

Maraia - MATCH COLUMN A WITH COLUMN B

 MATCH  COLUMN A WITH COLUMN B

For this activity we had to watch a video first and then read both of the boxes and match them up with each other. I wrote it down under the boxes. My first idea was to make lines but it didn't look nice so I wrote it down.

(I couldn't find the video)

Maraia, Achilles & Krystal - JESUS' ASCENSION

JESUS' ASCENSION

Today in R.E we had to learn about Jesus's Ascension and some facts about it. For this activity we had to get in a group with the Yr 5 & 6 in our groups.  After we got in our groups we had to write things about Jesus's Ascension in a text box and put our name at the bottom.

Maraia - Little League

 Little League  

On Tuesday the 11th of may David and his friend from the National rugby league and they played some games with us. The first games that we played this game that was like tag but you have to touch them with a ball. After every round we had to add another tager. For the last round I was a tager with Pauline and Aniseko, and for this round we had to count how much people we tagged I got 8 aniseko got 8 and pauline got 9 so she won.

The next game we played didn't have a name but we had to get into group. there were four groups every group had to be like flash we had to run to the cone opposite us then run back to line sit doen and put your hands up.

After we did that a few times group 3 had 2 points and group one had 1 point.

Then we played it but there was a defender I he/she touches you you have to put the ball down and clap 3 times but if you get touched after you run to the other cone it doesn't count.

After we played all the game we got our certificates and went back to class. 

Maraia - Tahuna Torea trip - Sand Dunes

 Sand Dunes

On the 10th of May we went to Tahuna Torea Reserve to learn more about plants. At the Sand dunes we had to  and to make a transect. We had to make the measuring tape 25 meters, and the we had to go to our piece of paper with a grid on it and we to draw what we saw on every meter two squares equal  a meters I was first to finish.

Our teacher was Miss Knees Kirua

Here are some photo's

Maraia - Graffiti page about St. Mary

 Today in in Te Wirua Pakiki whanau we where split into groups and we had to choose a name for our group but it had to Sanit's name. The poeple in our group were Krystal, Achillies, Esau, Leitupo, Elijah, Amihuti and Me. Our groups name was Mary - The mother of Jesus.

Maraia - Tahuna Toera trip - The Bushes

 The Bushes

Yesterday on the 10th of May  Te Wairua Pakiki Whānau and I when to  Tahuna Toera to learn about more new plants. We were put into groups with the year 7 & 8 from Glenn Innes primary school.

I think our teacher was Zhydah and she taught us about what the plants are tall and short.

Maraia - Mother's day mass

 

Mother's day mass

 Today we had a very special mass. We were celebrating Mother's Day early. Some mother's came and celebrated with us in mass.

In class this week we made our very own Mother's Day cards. First we folded a red cardboard paper in half, then we made a heart out of a to stirps of paper and then glued the bottom of a stripped paper onto the front of the card. 

When then we shaped the two stripped papers into a heart we quilled paper and then glued the strips or quilled paper inside the heart. The we let our cards dry for one day. 

Here is what I wrote

I appreciate my mother because she always helps me with my work.

I know my mum loves me because when I am sad or angry she will give me hugs.

I love my mum because whenever I make a decision she supports me   

This is a picture of all our cards

Maraia - Our Amazing Plants Video

 Our Amazing Plants Video

WALT - Find the meaning to these words in the video

Video

Organisms - Organisms are a  individual animal, plant,

or single-celled life form 

Nutrients -  Nutrients are a substance that provides

nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and for

growth.

Photosynthesis - Photosynthesis is a process of a

plant or a flower  using a  beam of the sun and producing

it into energy,  then use that energy transforms it into water ,

then they get Carbon Dioxide, then they put that together and

get sugar and fresh air.

Cell walls - Cell walls are like a structure but for plants because without cell wall plants, flowers and trees wouldn’t be able to stand up.

Chlorophyll - Chlorophyll is what makes all the plants green, did you  that Chlorophyll is also used for medicine.

Maraia - Te Arapū Māori, the Māori alphabet

 Te Arapū Māori, the Māori alphabet

Today in TWP4 we did a extra for experts activity.

We learnt about the Māori alphabet (arapū) is made up of eight consonants, five vowels and two digraphs. Digraphs are two letters that combine to form one sound.

 Oropūare and Orokati means Vowels and Consonants.

Something I found out is that when a letter has a hat or a macron you have to drag it.

Maraia - Oropūare and Orokati, Vowels and Consonants​

 Oropūare and Orokati, Vowels and Consonants​

Today for Maori we refreshed our memories about the Maori alphabet by learning all of the letters again and by a song.

The Maori Alphabet ( Arapu ) is made up of eight consonants​, five vowels and two digraphs. Digraphs are two letters that combine to form one sound.

I really liked doing this activity plus it was really easy to do because we already knew part of it. we had to know the difference between long vowels and short. 

Hope you enjoyed - Ko te tumanako i pai koe