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?