Blog commenting!!

Blog commenting!!

IALT: Give a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment to others.

Today for cybersmart we had a task that was given to us(The Kia manawanui syndicate). We had to a presentation that was shared to us, and with that presentation we each had a slide. Our first step was to go onto the Maniakalani site and we had to choose a school, once we've done that we pick a person from the school and comment on their blog. I commented a positive comment on Paige's blog from Pt. England about her Kawa of care poster.
I then commented on Bella's blog from Glenbrae about our Atheltics Reflection and lastly I commented on Carra's blog from Tamaki Primary about her Maths games reflection. After commenting on others bogs we had to take a screenshot of the comment and paste it onto our slide.
Here is a screenshot of what it looks like.

Please feel free to comment down below.

Natural Disasters - Volcanic Eruption

Natural Disasters - Volcanic Eruption

WALT: Use Analysing skills

Today I took some key information from an article about volcano eruption and put that in my own words. 

About volcano eruption:

A volcano is a mountain that opens inward to molten rock below the Earth’s surface.

The cause of a volcanic eruption is when the heat temperature rises inside a volcano, the lava tries to escape depending on the volcano’s slopes which causes an eruption.

The effects of a volcanic eruption:

• Smoke + Ash can kill people.
• Volcanic eruption trigger Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Rockfalls.
• Volcanoes can damage people's houses.

Natural Disasters - Landslide

Natural Disasters - Landslides

WALT: Research about Natural Disasters.

Yesterday during the 3rd block I have been researching about natural disasters and so I decided to research about Landslides. 

A natural disaster is a problem that is not caused by man kind but are caused at any time.

As I was searching for some answers I read that when earthquakes happen around areas with steep slopes the soil then starts to slip and so, causes a Landslide. Landslide can also be caused by a volcano eruption and heavy rain. The location where landslides usually happen is around the U.S territory.

Many times people lose homes, family members, cars, and memories.
Most people have died where as others have made it out alive. People try to gather as many things as they can but before they could leave they have already been caught by the landslide.

To me Landslides sound interesting so I then decided to research about it.

Definition for Landslides:
A landslide is a large amount of Earth or rock that collapse from a mountain or cliff.

Questions:
Have you ever experienced a Landslide?
How fast do you think a Landslide is?

What do you think about Landslides?

E-Asstle Test

E-Asstle Test

Today the Kia manawanui syndicate had an E-asstle test, as soon as I heard the word "Test" I began shaking. Whenever it comes to a test I don't really try my best even if it has something to do with Maths, but during this test I decided to give it a try. 

After reciving our new passwords and signing in, I then started answering the questions, I'll admit that I was really nervous. As I went through the questions and answered them I started to think, 

"Did I choose the right answer." And that worried me, so I began to shake nervously. It then came to a question were I really got stuck on, as you all know when we have a test we also have an amount of time, and I almost spent at least half of my time trying to solve that ONE question.

JUST before time ran out, I finished answering the last question and sighed with relief. I think I did well during the test but what I found challenging was finding the CORRECT answer to the question.

 I am glad that I made it through but is still nervous and not sure about my answers.

Maths is really not my favourite subject, but I will try my best to improve in Maths. 

How do you feel when it comes to testing?Why?

Please feel free to comment down below.

😀My First Blog Reflection For Term 3😀

My First Blog Reflection For Term 3

Kia ora, I am SO excited to be back and blogging more!! My holidays was really great, I am really glad that I got to sleep late and also didn't have to worry about waking up early for school. I REALLY enjoyed my holiday's and so I was wanting to tell you about it.  So during the school holidays on the first week of school me and my family went to Manukau's Event cinema to watch Incredibles 2. This movie was basically about making superheros legal again. I would say that the 2nd movie of incredibles was better than the 1st.

During the holidays I also watched my 2 younger siblings (Michael & Mariah) play rugby league, they also play for the Mt Wellington warriors. The exciting news for them is that they won a game BUT sadly they lost to Marist (which is the team they played against) last week by 9 or 10 points. 

On the FIRST week of school holidays me and my friends decided to plan a movie day, we planned everything, we planned who was driving us to the cinema, who was coming, if there will be an adult with us, how much money we will need, and what movie we were going to watch. About 2 or 3 days later we all got mailed that the movie day was cancled and was moved to Thursday or Friday (So that was bad news for us all.)

This term I am looking forward to many things but mostly Kiwisport, I am looking forward to Kiwisport because we have boxing! I also want to improve in Maths this term because I am not confident with my fractions, ratios, and decimals. So I am hoping that in this term I will improve in Maths by practising my fractions, ratios AND decimals.

🎨 Visual Art reflection🎨

🎨 Visual Art reflection🎨 

Today on the last day of term 2 the Kia Manawanui syndicate had to write a reflection about their own visual artwork that they had done, so in each of our artwork we had to draw something that relates to one of our inquiry topic that we learnt this term, there was either Night and Day, Earth and beyond, The phases of the moon, and Gravity. In our artwork we also had to include something that represents us for example I included a pattern in my artwork because that repersents my culture.

 

I also wrote a reflection to go with my artwork, so the Kia Manawanui syndicate had to write a reflection to go underneath the artwork. I wrote down what I found challenging throughout spending time on this art, I also wrote down what I think I could do better, so basically I worte down things that I think could help me better. Here is a whole paragraph of what I wrote.

"I drew a picture/symbol representing my learning of Day and night and as you can see I drew a sun and a moon because it relates to one of the inquiry topics that I have been learning about (Day and Night) I also drew the Earth in the middle representing what I learnt in our inquiry sessions. Something that I drew in my artwork that reflects me is the pattern I drew on top of the paper, I decided to draw a pattern because it relates to my culture. I also decided to draw kind of a blossom tree on the bottom because I just felt like adding something to my artwork. A challenge I faced was finding what to draw, it was a challenge because I already had something in my head to draw about but then I would draw something different. I decided to do this because I wanted to show others in a creative way about my learning. If I could change anything I would change the jovies to felt tips to make my artwork more interesting and to make my artwork stand out.

The things that went well in my artwork is the drawing, I may of had some mistakes but I managed to complete, also the colours I picked were great, I pictured how I wanted it to be and it turned out great."

😖Missed the last day of Technology😖

😖Missed the last day of Technology😖

Yesterday was the last day of technology OF term 2. I don't even mention it but anyways I missed the last session of technology😖. The reason why I missed Technology is because I had to stay behind and complete me and my groups Solar system video fro Ako evening. Well even though I didn't go to Technology at least others got to go and have their fun time at Technology. While at least half of the Kia Manawanui syndicate went out to Technology the rest of us stayed behind and was given a task to do, I was suppose to start and finish my group's video in a block!! 

I had a lot of problems yesterday creating a video, I have experienced making a video before but I was struggling, I was struggling because I was pressured and felt that I wasn't going to complete the video in time for Ako evening.

Other than that I am glad that others got to go Technology AND that I finished the video in time.

Please feel free to comment down below.

😃Last day of school!!😞

😃Last day of school!!😞

It's sad to say that today will be the last day of term 2. For some reason I am both sad and excited that this is the last day of term 2, I am sad that this is the last day of term 2 because during this term the Kia Manawanui had some really great AND fun memories at camp and I just don't want this term to end, I am also excited because IT'S THE END OF TERM 2! and during the holiday's we get to do amazing things I mean I get to do amazing things. Well I wouldn't say amazing I would say things that I couldn't do because of school for example: Like Sleep in. 

Sadly this also means that I won't be blogging about anything until I come back for Term 3😞, I have already gotten into blogging now, blogging is my passion and i'm afraid that because I haven't blogged during the holiday's I might lose my passion for blogging.

My last blog will be on my blog soon so please stay tuned. 

Other than that I hope that you all have a great time during the holidays, if you're going over seas then I wish you all the best.

😌Ako evening😌

😌Ako evening😌

IALT: Write a reflection about Ako evening

Yesterday we had Ako evening DURING our school time, in the first block I felt pressured because I had to create a video of The Solar system in a BLOCK!! I had to create a video in the last minute because some group members weren't taking the recording seriously, Lucky I finished the video just in time for Ako evening(remember this is during school time). I had to be the one to repersent my groups project 'The Solar system' then came another problem for me, I finished my video but I had no table to present, it was ALL taken and when I mean all I mean every table in room 9 & 10 was taken so I had to share a table with another group that was also working on the planets. So everything was fine then and our presentation was going really well. 

So as classes came in one by one I could see that everyone was so concertraded on their presentation especially Kensington and Aletheia. They decided to compete against each other to see who gets the most visitors or students to see their presentation. I both enjoyed and also felt bored of presenting because sometimes hardly anyone would come to our class until the three bells rang again then children from 2 different classes would come at the same time, it was confusing. I really enjoyed showing others what I learnt, our learning could really help.

After lunch whoever was presenting in the middle block got to investigate others learning. So in other words we got to switch plays. So after reciving our clipboards from Ms.Komor we got into a single file line and went straight down to room 1. I actually enjoyed room 1's presentation, it was an interesting presentation, on our paper there was a question, and with that question we had to answer it. I have to say that I was impressed with room 1's learning if only I hadn't gone in and out to type in my password for the netbook, I had to go upstairs to type in my password to the netbook because the presenters were showing the video from my netbook. 

After the 3 bells rang we then moved onto the next class, room 2. We found in room two a moon that was covered in Tin foil which was an interesting choice. I could see that students from room 2 had learnt alot, (I don' t want to bored you to sleep so i'm  just going to summarise this reflection) so as we moved onto the classes we saw some creative ways of how each class presented their learning, I enjoyed walking around the school seeking others learning more than presenting. 

This term's Ako evening was interesting and I have learnt ALOT of things from this term's Ako evening.

Preparing for Ako evening

Preparing for Ako evening

Today the Kia Manawanui syndicate will be preparing for Ako evening, while the student leaders will be preparing for Ako evening the rest of the class will be at Technology, I am so sad that today will be the last day of Technology UNTIL next term. I really hope that today will be a great last Thursday of school. Today during the day classes will be going around the school looking at others learning, so will we. 

Please wish us the best today and enjoy the rest of YOUR day.