Wick Wack Wednesday!

Today in Paihia School our teachers wanted to make make our last term fun and exciting so the teachers decided to have up a “Wacky Wednesday” in term 4. Wacky Wednesday is a day that people dress as anything wacky you can think of like if your a boy you could were a girl uniform or a princess dress because the definition of whacky is weird. There were bunch of costumes to princess, to heroes, to unicorns, to fairies and so much more. When the first bus came to the gates outside school which includes me the vibe inside the school was radiated with excitement because everybody wore different costumes that looked funny and wacky. I personally think that my classmate/friend named Hudson, nicknamed Rahudzel, is the best wacky costume because he wore a Rapunzel dress that fit him well perfectly with his short blonde hair because in the movie, Rapunzel cutted her hair at the end of the movie to save her love one which fits perfectly with him

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Do you agree that my classmate friend has the best Wacky outfit in Wacky Wednesday?

Fire Nadotastic

Te Ngahere recently went to the Bay Of Islands College for a Science Roadshow. We went there to have some ideas from the scientists and learn more about science because we didn't know that much about it. We learnt tons about carbon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen. An example is: We breathe 78% hydrogen, 21% percent oxygen and the other one percent is other gases like carbon dioxide, agron and neon. We also looked at some stands. My favourite stand was the honey stand because you could eat the honey and figure out what it tastes like. We then had another show where they made a fire tornado with a metal rubbish bin that's transparent.

Have you ever seen a fire tornado before? I know I have.

My post about ‘My Unique Scientific Infographic Method.’

Hi Bloggers, this week in Te Ngahere we have been working on a Science project called the Scientific Method. We had to make an infographic about the Scientific Method. I had to copy the scientific method but I had to write it on my own words. The scientific methods are a: question, research, make a guess/hypothesis, test and experiment, examine and test your hypothesis, modify your hypothesis if you need to, present a conclusion and retest if you needed to.

What was easy was getting a picture of my Scientific Method in a google drawing.

What was hard was always putting pointed arrows beside the next step on the Scientific Method.

Have you ever made an Infographic before?

Tomioka Giyu Demon Slayer! HASHIRA!

Hi there and this term we have been learning to create a mosaic art. Mosaic art is about placing shapes in all size to make a photo but it has to be appropriate. We used the polyline to outline whatever we chose to make. Next we colored each shape to match the image. I chose to do Tomioka Giyu from Demon Slayer, an anime series.

The part that was easy was picking the image. What was hard is polylining the shapes on the image because it takes too long to finish.

Have you ever watch the anime Demon Slayers?

Technology

Hi there my name is Mark and this week in Te Ngahere the year 7 and 8’s went to technology. I really enjoyed technology because we are making a waka and it  is so much fun. I think that my waka is coming together well and it probably will pass the teacher’s waka named Mr.E. I think that technology is really fun because we get to play and build things with timber. 

Have you built a waka before?

Smart Smurfing Relationships

 

In Te Ngahere We are learning about how to be smart in our online relationships and to seek help when we need it. We watched a video about how to be safe in cybersmart by watching a video about a girl that's ten years old, sharing her personal information to an old guy named Simon pretending to be a 13 year old boy and at the end the girl finally notice it was wrong and pressed report abuse and put Simon in jail. After that we needed to copy a Google slide and write what the girl did wrong and why it’s wrong. It took awhile to finish but we manage to finish with our strong group’s brain power

Here is the link to our slide if you want to see more of the story about the girl:

Have you ever talked to a stranger in an online game? Because I know you did so did I.

I'M A KIWI!

 Hi!, my name is Mark and this week I have gotten my New Zealand Citizenship award. It all started on Wednesday when my family and I went to Kaitaia to get me and my Mum a New Zealand Citizenship award. We arrived in Kaitaia, excited to get my NZ citizenship award, we decided to have a break and lunch in a Cafe, after I had finished eating we had to sit down on the chair because the ceremony on where I'm gonna get my citizenship was starting. 

It took awhile until our turn so we waited and it finally was our turn, I was very nervous standing there looking at people thats looking at me I thought I was gonna get stage fright but when I was about to get stage fright it was over. The Mayor shaked my hand so did the 4 council and I had gotten a badge of Kiwi. when the ceremony was over we went home to celebrate by having KFC Wicked Wings.

Have you ever gotten a NZ Citizenship badge before?

Manaia Kalani’s Challenge 7

In Te Ngahere we had received a challenge from Manaiakalani and that challenge was to draw sea creatures or something of our choice with shape tools in google drawing. The purpose for the challenge was to learn how to use google drawing confidently to also learn how to share our learning properly. What I did was to make some sea creatures in shapes, what I made was a sea turtle, Jellyfish and clownfish. What I did well was making a sea turtle with the shape tools because the Sea turtle look very detailed as the triangle acting like the flipper for the sea turtle.

What I need to do better next time is to add more background detail.

Have you made a Sea turtle this creative like mine in Manaia Kalani’s challenge?

Twisted Technology

This Week on Tuesday we travelled to Moerewa School to go to Technology and learn this term we were in wood work with Mr.E. Mr.E demonstrated how to make a Waka. We needed to get the materials that Mr.E had, a block of wood that's shaped as a rectangle and make a replica of Mr.E’s Waka.

I started off by drawing a 7 mm line on each sides. After we drawed all the lines we had to draw Bow on the front of the Waka and draw stern on the back, when I finished doing that I needed to do the sides, writing: Port on the left and Starboard on the right. I finished doing the basics and needed to use a power tool to make a hole on the left side front of the Waka. When I finished making a hole on my Waka Mr.E called out that it was time to go back to our school but we had time to play at the playground and was ready to go. 

The most difficult power tool to work on is the screwier because whenever I try to make a hole on my Waka I hold the side of my Waka and sometimes I let go and it goes flying in circles. 

Have you ever Crafted a Waka Before?

Trick Testers

On our first day back at School we had to do a reading test. Whaea Becks, our teacher gave us the reading test sheets. The instructions were to read everything CAREFULLY before doing anything.  I read the 2 instructions and worked my way down. Our teacher told us it was a trick because the first instruction was to READ everything carefully and in the end there was a surprise.

It was all the trick because the last instruction was *Now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only sentences one and two! Then draw quietly on the back of this paper while you wait for everyone else to finish!*. Our teacher was teaching us how to read carefully so they gave us the test and I failed. I felt fooled for a moment but I learnt something. Next time in the future I need to READ everything CAREFULLY before doing anything.

Have your teacher ever tricked you in a reading test?

My Friend's Exotic Birthday

In Te Ngahere our class one of our classmate called Shivam Invited us to have butter chicken for lunch in Greens for his birthday because his parents owns the Greens restaurant in town, also we wouldn't decline the offer because classmates usually don't invite other people to their restaurant for there birthday. After we walked down to enter the restaurant. After waiting, the teachers served us the butter chicken with rice and naan bread. The food was so delicious, I felt so happy that I rated the food a 9.9 out of 10. The next this was they gave us easter boxes for our surprise I was so happy I nearly screamed. After that we had to acknowledge Shivam’s birthday by giving him a thank you card for inviting us to his parents restaurant, to his birthday and the easter boxes. When we were about to go, we had to thank Shivam’s parents for letting us have a free lunch. We thanked them by singing Waiata for them.

I enjoyed eating with my friends in the restaurant because we were having a blast and the food was amazing. 

Have you ever when to one of your classmate’s parents’ restaurant?

My Smart Smurfing/Surfing

 This term in Te Ngahere we have been learning to use keywords to search the internet properly. Using keywords is a whole lot better than copy and pasting the whole question, an example of a keyword search is instead of typing “what do spiders eat” you should type “spiders diet”.  The reason for that is because Google has a thing called a spider.  Whenever you type an irrelevant words like what and how the spider will shoot a web at all the websites with the irrelevant word you searched.

Do you now know what the keyword is?

If you still don't understand here is my DLO:

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Our Planet: Coastal Seas

In Te Ngahere, we have been learning about the coastal seas and where the marine creatures live, eat hunt and breed, for example: a sea otter lives in kelp forests, the sea otter is kept warm by their fur from the cold water. The writing I had wrote is now more interesting than ever by adding a bit more detail about their favorite food and what they do in the ecosystem. The hardest part was to find facts about the coastal seas/our planet while we watched the video from netflix. The easiest part was to put the facts in my slide and make it interesting. Here is the Source of my DLO down below: Link

Have you ever watch an episode of Our Planet in Netflix?

Te Reo Maori DLO

 In Te Ngahere we are learning about properly pronouncing Te Reo Maori words for greetings, alphabet and place names and screencastify it. The website is called Education Perfect. I had to screencastify my Education Perfect and properly pronounce the words very accurately and effectively then finish it under 30 seconds long,‘’at least”. I really enjoyed making my DLO because it was very fun!. I think I did very well because it’s helping me in kapa haka. What I need to do in the future is to learn more words for Te Reo Maori and actually say sentences full of Te Reo Maori Words.

Have you ever used Education Perfect before?

Sharing My Knowledge in Class

I recommend watching the DLO before reading this writing below.

In Te Ngahere I have been making a DLO about Algorithms. In algorithms I had to subtract, add, borrow and add number lines.  The strategy I used was number lines because it’s easier to use and it is a faster way for me to learn how to borrow. We had to have evidence about our maths, about what we have been learning. After we finished we had to screencastify our learning.

The hardest part learning about algorithms is when I had to borrow numbers when it is smaller than the bottom one. The easiest part is adding the numbers.

Have you ever made a DLO about algorithms before?

Here is the DLO to my Screencastify:

The Disastrous Taskmaster

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about team building called TaskMaster we needed to work together to complete the task, we use kind and helpful words only and we have to help someone in our team and given positive encouragement and reinforcement. We also have to have fun and show pride. We had to get a piece of paper to copy another drawing. We needed to draw with five colors which are black, green, red, blue and orange. The other people in your group had to walk outside and see the drawing on the paper, then come back inside. Then they had to tell the drawer what they saw and the drawer will draw what they said.

What didn’t worked well is when the drawer didn’t know what I was saying so I was getting more frustrated.

On the first attempt on taskmaster what worked well is when we started to communicate and worked together.

The challenging part on the first attempt is that it's hard to tell your partner something where to put the drawing too.

On the second attempt on taskmaster we changed roles, I am the drawer and my other partners are the runners.

What worked well is when my partners gave me extra details of what they saw on the other drawing which we had to copy.

What didn’t work well is when my partners shout about what they saw at me but I try to do one at a time.

What was challenging is when I was a drawer and I didn’t know what to write but my partner does, so they had to say what they saw one at a time.

Have you ever done taskmaster?

What's The Difference?

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about food webs/food chains. Here is the difference between my food web and Whaea Becks food web. The other food web is different to mine because it has color on the arrows and I have skinny lines.

It also has more detail of what the animals eat. The other food web has the predators on the outside, the native birds and the trees in the inside.

The line might look like they are pointing the wrong way but they are actually aren't they are facing this way because it is the way the energy is transferred. For example the insect gets eaten by the kiwi and the insects transfers there energy to the kiwi.

Another example: The kiwi gets eaten by a stoat and the kiwi transfer their energy to the stoat. The hardest part to make this DLO is what the pest animals and native birds eat or get eaten.

Have you ever learned about this before?

My Experience About A Tsunami.

Last Friday there were huge earthquakes that caused tremors and tsunamis. The teachers had to gather every student and staff members and evacuate on Totara Heights way for safety because a tsunami was sure to crash at Paihia. I was so terrified that I had to call my my parents on Gina’s phone. Then lots of the kid’s parents picked them up.  That included some of my friends. I felt scared and excited at the same time because I never experienced a tsunami before in my life. I now know what it was like to stay up a hill for five hours I felt like I was going to collapse.  I eventually got really bored standing around and sitting down. The most exciting part was when the sausage company Fritz’s Wieners came up with lots of sausages and shared their food with us.

Have you ever experienced a tsunami before? I know I have.

My Oblivious Kawa Of Care

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to follow the Kawa of care. The kawa of care makes sure we take care of our chromebooks. 

If you have a chromebook you need to follow the kawa of care, here are some rules for kawa of care.

I made my DLO about always having a case over your chromebook, it's important because you might drop it and break the screen without a case and the insurance company will not give insurance. 

Sometimes the hardest part for people to follow the kawa of care is not holding a chromebook with two hands and not closing the chromebook.

Have you ever broken the kawa of care before?

Here is the video which our group made down below.

Roy Lichtenstein’s Mind Blowing Paintings!

Hi My name is Mark a year 8 senior student from Paihia School. This week we have been learning about Roy Lichtenstein’s art. We had to pick up important facts for Roy Lichtenstein’s art in a slide show, for example one of his paintings were sold for more than 55 million USD in 2013 in New York the painting was called Woman With Flowered Hat. 

What I learnt was that Roy Lichtenstein has two children David Lichtenstein and Mitchell Lichtenstein. The Easiest part to research about Roy Lichtenstein is that he was born in 1923 and died in 1997 from disease. The hardest part to research about Roy Lichtenstein is that he sold Big Painting No 6 in november 1970 for 75k USD. 

I predict that I would use a technique the Ben Day dot in the future because it imitates the four colours of printers’ inks well.

Have you ever researched Roy Lichtenstein?