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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

 

Maraia - How Maui Slowed The Sun

 How Maui Slowed The Sun

Today on the 14th of April, we were supposed to play Ki O Rahi but, when we had gotten there it started to rain very hard so then they people who hosted it said they will moved the tournament to next term, so then we went back to class and we watched a video about How Maui Slowed The Sun.

After we watched the video we had to  weave a piece of paper then our teacher would give us a section of the video and then we had to draw that onto our piece of paper, after we finished our drawing we had to go over it with a black vivid. Then on a strip of paper we had to write our part out, my part was "Long ago,Te Ra the Sun began to move quickly across the sky".

Maui slowed the sun by plating a long piece of flax into a rope with his brother's then they we to his pit where he rose from and then threw the ropes on him and made him go across the sky slower.

Maui want to so down the sun so they can finish things in one days

Maui's friends laughed at him when he wanted to slow down the sun so he can finish things in one day.

Maui wanted to approach the sun at night so that the sun wouldn't see them.

I think that this story is a myth.

I think it was fair that Maui was forcing the sun to slow down . 

How Maui Slowed The Sun

 

Maraia - Cocoa Currency

 Cocoa Currency

Today I learnt about cocoa beans and how and when they used to be money back in the old days. The reason I am learning about cocoa currency because a Company (PWC Flip) our class and TWP 8 and taught us aout how to use money and save it

Maraia - Conjunctions Activity 1 & 2

 Conjunctions Activity 1 & 2

Today at home on the 12th of April I did my Conjunctions Activity 1 & 2. Conjunctions are words used to connect clauses or sentences.

Something I found easy was the Middle or start activity.

Something I found Hard was the scrambled words activity

Check out my work below!

Maraia - Saint Pius X VS Sylvia Park - Rippa Rugby

 Saint Pius X VS Sylvia Park - Rippa Rugby  

On the 26th of March TWP whanau went to Dunkirk park to participate in a tournament held by the Auckland Rugby league Intermediate schools sport's education. There were 3 team's 2 boy team's and 1 girl team. Overall we all had a great time even though some of us didn't win but it was okay.

These were the rules - 

 Maraia - Sauropod DLO

Today in science I did a DLO about Sauropod's.

Sauropods are dinosaur's who are herbivores. A herbivore is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants, and only plants. Sauropods have long necks small heads and it is very big. I could not think of some words so I looked at Sione's Blog.

Something was easy was colouring all the words and putting the picture there.

Something that was hard was thinking of words to put on.

 

Maraia - Cyber - Smart Challenge 8 - Charging my Chromebook

Charging my Chromebook

Today on the 8th of April I did the 9th Cyber smart challenge called Charging my Chromebook  and I had to open a jam board and make a copy but it didn't let me make a copy so I had to screen shot it then answer it on a google drawing then after I finished that I had to take a photo of my Chromebook charging but my charger was at the back of my Chromebook so I took a photo of my friend Melenaite's Chromebook charging then I used her photo.

Something that was nice and easy was taking a photo of my friends Chromebook charging 

Something that was that was hard and took a long time was doing the matching activity because I had one of the old Chromebooks and the photo was a new Chromebook.

Check out my friends blog Melenaite

   

Maraia - Cybersmart Challenge 8 Boat animation

  Cybersmart Challenge 8 Boat animation

Today I did Cyber Smart challenge 8. This Challenge was about animation and we had to do a animation of a boat sailing away. Something I found interesting was doing this challenge because I have never done a animation. Here Is My Work!  

Maraia - Joan Wiffen and her Fossils

 Joan Wiffen and her Fossils

 

Today on the 7th of April in TWP 4 we learnt about Joan Wiffen and her early life and what fossils she found. Joan Wiffen is a paleontologist. A paleontologist is a person who study's bone's. (Click the title to see some things about her).

 
 

Maraia - Who is Tupaia - Part 4,Land of the voyagers

Who is Tupaia

Today I did an activity and I had to choose one part of 5 parts to write about and I choose part 4 Who is Tupaia. I had to make a map and then write down who is Billy. T James, and watch a video to learn about Tupaia.

Check out this video to learn some things about Tupaia and how he navigates the world - Link 

  

Maraia - 4th International Women's Day Activity

4th International Women's Day Activity

Today on the 29th of March I did my 4th International Women's Day Activity I choose a Writing Task Card I thought it wasn't going to take long but it took like 2 hours because I kept on getting distracted.

For the activity I had to brainstorm types of gender stereotypes that I have noticed, and choose one that is important to me.  Then I had to create my own comic that has a scenario where a someone overcomes a gender stereotype.

Question : What is the most weirdest gender stereotype you have ever heard. 

Here is my Story Board ( Click on my activity to go to Story Board That )