Cybersmart Challenge #6 - Tidy Drive

For our Cybersmart Challenge #6 we are learning to keep our Google drive tidy and up to date. It's important to always name and file our documents into the right places. For some of us this was a much easier job than others. If you have a few files that need tidied up you can follow the instrcutions on the slides below. Happy cleaning!

The Story of Rahitūtakahina and Tīarakurapakewai

In Te Wairua Pakiki we were remembering how to play the traditional Māori game Ki o Rahi. In order for us to learn this game properly we first had to learn of the legend that surrounds this game. First we were split into groups and given a video and a text about the Legend of Ki O Rahi. Then in our groups we each choose a section of the story to retell. Here are our activities and the video.

 

LIVING WORLD UNIT 1: PREHISTORIC LIFE​ DINOSAURS​

 For our science inquiry we've been looking into the Prehistoric Life of Dinosaurs. Dinosaaurs appeared on earth about 230 million years ago. The Greek word for 'Sauros' means Lizard. The prehistoric age is divided into time periods. Different dinosaurs appeared in each timeline. Here are some of our activities

Cybersmart Challenge #5 Chromebook Webcam

 For our Cybersmart challenge this week we are learning how to use our webcam to take photos and record video. First we watched a short interactive tutorial and then it was our turn. 

We used our chromebook's webcam to take a photo of something we created. Some of us used our artwork we had already made others drew pictures just for this task. We then had to blog our activity. Here are some of our activities by Jonah and Moala.

If you'd like to give the Cybersmart challenge a go yourself you can find it here!

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

 In Te Wairua Pakiki we have been looking at our Prayer to the Holy Spirit and how it can help us stay on track with our virtues in all aspects of our life. We pray to the Holy Spirit to inspire us to live holy and fruitful lives. This week we looked at some of our own actions and reflected on how we could ask the Holy Spirit to help guide us back.

Here are some of our activities by Ana, Alfonsus and Daniel

Grammar Practice - Common Nouns By Lisiate and Jonah

 In class as a refresher to the new school year, we have been remembering all our basic grammar. In particular, sentence structure and parts of speech, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions. Last time we looked at common nouns. This time we are look ing at proper nouns. A proper noun is the name of an actual person, days, months, books, movies or places. Here are our activities from Lisiate and Jonah

Today for writing we have been practicing our grammar skills. Today we focused on common nouns. A common noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing or an animal. A noun can tell who or what.

Something I found easy was the colouring the five common nouns.

Something I found difficult was the public places activity

Here is my activity that I did today. 

By Lisiate

Today for writing we have been practising our grammar skills. Today we focused on common nouns. A common noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing or an animal. A noun can tell who or what. Something I found easy in activity 1 was naming the stuff in my bag and for Activity 2 was the sport one. Something that I found difficult in activity 1 was The Creature Nouns, The one I found most difficult in Activity 2 was the Spring Flower Puzzle. My favourite activity was probably Activity 2.

By Jonah

Pablo Picasso By Audrey

On the 9th of March Te Wairua Pakiki 4 (TWP4) did some art that is based on Pablo Picasso's Cubism art. Pablo Picasso is a great artiest he make a lot of Cubism art. Picasso grew up in Barcelona, showing artistic talent at an early age but died of old age or sickness. In the early 1900s, he moved between France and Spain before finally settling in Paris in 1904. Here are some of his art work. 

In cubism you can play around with a lot of shapes. The facial features like your eyes, nose, mouth and ears can be in different shapes and places. Our teacher said "Cubism is that it look as if the painting dropped and cracked, and was rearranged when put back together". when we looked at the picture we noticed that we got to make the mess in to a pieces of art. After our teacher demonstrated and we saw lots of examples it was our turn to draw. Yo can give it a go too!

 Step 1:In pencil, draw your head, any shape will work. You can use a mirror or draw from your\imagination. 

Step 2:Add your facial features, eyes, nose, mouth, etc. Try to use shapes you noticed in your discussion.

Step 3:Add your hair. What lines can you use to look like hair?. so here my photo.

To read more from Audrey click here

Grammar Practice - Proper Nouns

In class as a refresher to the new school year, we have been remembering all our basic grammar. In particular, sentence structure and parts of speech, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions. Last time we looked at common nouns. This time we are look ing at proper nouns. A proper noun is the name of an actual person, days, months, books, movies or places. Here are our activities from Sani and Jonah.

 

Digital Art

 In TWP 4 we've been learning and practicing how to make art on our devices. 

The steps were easy to follow and our teacher demonstrated to us first.

Step 1: Find an image to trace. The more simple the better. We choose a simple cartoon dog like this one.

Step 2: Find out whether to use the Curve or Polyline tool to begin tracing. This is important to know the rule for this is:

If there are curved edges, then for that section of the image, use curve. 

If there are sharp edges, use polyline for the section

Step 3: Check if you can use any shapes to create part of the image. - For our dog it was mostly lots of different sized circles. This made colouring so much easier.

Step 4: Start tracing the image. Use your different lines or shapes to colour over your picture. Remember to zoom in and not to move your picture until you're finished.

Here are some of our drawings.

By Audrey  By Maraia 

Click these links to see Lisiate's progressions from his First attempt second attempt and third attempt

Or see Melenaite's dragons

Picasso Painting drawing #1 by Melenaite

 On the 9 of March Te Wairua Pakiki 4 (TWP 4) did some art that is based on Pablo Picasso's cubism art. Picasso's is an artist and he made so many different types of art. He is well known for cubism where sometimes he has moved facial features and they are not in the same spot. If you look down you will see one of Picasso's painting.

In cubism you can play around with lots of shapes. The facial features like your eyes, nose mouth and ears can be in be in different shapes and places. Our teacher said '' cubism looks as though the painting has been dropped and cracked, and it was rearranged when put back together.'' When I look at the painting  the mouth, ears, eyes and head are in different places. It so cool. When we were looking at the painting TWP 4 did some too. If you look down you will see my Painting it looks so good and cool.

The America's Cup 2021

How did you enjoy the America's Cup? Here are some of activities during the race period!

By Sione 

By Briana

 

Cybersmart Challenge #4 Bookmarks

Cybersmart Challenge #4 was all about bookmarks. Bookmarks are a good idea to have because they help us navigate our learning quickly!

Check out Sione's activity 

Science LIVING WORLD UNIT 1: PREHISTORIC LIFE

 This term we have been looking at the living world - mostly the prehistoric life. Our WALT is to explain how we know that some living things from the past are now extinct.

Did you know that the first living creatures appeared in the oceans about one billion years ago. For this lesson we learnt about trilobites.

Trilobite ("three lobed") are extinct arthropods which were the first animals known to have eyes. They were the most common animal in the world during the early Palaeozoic era. They lived worldwide, but only in salt water environments.

Here are some of our activities about trilobites.

By Krystal

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Check out Jonah's blog

Grammar Practice What are Common Nouns?

 

In class as a refresher to the new school year, we have been remembering all our basic grammar. In particular, sentence structure and parts of speech, including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions. We have started with our common nouns first. A common noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing or an animal. A noun can tell who or what. Here are some of our activities by Sione and Briana.

We made bookmarks!

In Te Wairua Pakiki 4 (TWP4) we do a lot of reading! So much reading in fact that we decided we all needed new bookmarks to help us keep our places in our books. We followed a really easy tutorial for the main shape of the book marks and then we enjoyed decorating and making them our own. You can try too!

Here are some of our finished products.

International Women’s Day 8th March 2021

On the 8th of March was International Women’s Day. In our class we did an activity to challenge the stereotypes and bias of both male and female roles within our society. We first had to get into same gender groups. We then wrote down the positives and challenges of the opposite gender. The boys wrote about the positives and challenges for females and the girls wrote about the positives and challenges of being male After we came up with some ideas in our group we then joined our groups with the opposite gender. Something we noticed was that the two lists were very different. Women had more challenges. For example women had lots of challenges around the expectations of raising and looking after the family. On the other hand, males had more positives. For example men can play and get paid professionally for sport, get to sleep in and are fathers. We also said that a challenge for a male is that they have to provide for the family and have to always be brave. Something we learnt from this is that males and females aren't considered equal in lots of aspects of life. Here is our activity we did. Can you add any more sterotypes to this?

The Great Big Hearing Check

 During our Week 5 Lockdown we decided to do an online hearing check. Why you ask? Well did you know that this March, if you check your hearing for FREE you can help raise awareness for hearing loss in New Zealand. The people at Triton Hearing will donate $1 to National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing every time someone completes the online hearing check.

We really enjoyed doing something so easy and donating to charity! You can read what some of us thought about the experience below by following the links.

Briana GBHC 

Mele GBHC

Cybersmart Challenge #3 - Screenshots

 Our Cybersmart challenge this week is all about screenshot! We use screenshots all the time on our devices. We use them to add interesting drawings, photos or pictures to our work on Google Drawings and Google Slides. Check out Mele's activity below. If you want to see more from Mele click here!