House of Bricks Reflection

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Last Friday we did something called House of Bricks. There were three activates. They mosaics, pass the bricks and the designing the cars. I really enjoyed doing this.

My favourite Lego activity was the mosaics because I decided to create a really big one with Saffy and Lily. We decided to create a beach. The beach included sand, grass, water and a shipwreck. 

My least favourite Lego activity was pass the bricks because I didn’t like seeing my creation going round and getting changed into ways I didn’t like.  

The activity that tested my perseverance the most was designing the cars because Georgia and I were in a peer group and it only went a very short distance. I learnt that it depends on the length of your car.

The most challenging activity was designing the cars because it was really hard to create the right design and everytime Georgia and I needed to change something.  

I enjoyed working collaboratively with others because it meant that we could get stuff done quicker and that we could all be doing something instead of having all the pressure on ourselves.

My Popping Poster

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For writing this week I was doing explanatory writing. Explanatory writing is when you explain a topic not give instructions, My goal was: Support ideas with detail, write content relevant to the task., use reference sources to check meanings and find new words. This week  I created a poster including all the element to an explanatory text. Here is my work

 

What do you know about explanations ?

Spectacular Maths

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This week in maths  I had to make three create tasks. For my create tasks I used several google drawings to show my understanding. My goals were: Know Groupings within 1000, Round Whole Numbers to the Nearest 10, 100, 1000 and Know Groupings of 10’s and 100’s in a 4 Digit Number. This week I was revisiting some goals and I enjoyed.

Here's my work, enjoy

Question Time Have you done any of these goals before?

 

Super Sustainability

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This week in reading I read a book about sustainability. What is sustainability? You may be asking. Well Sustainability is when you are being Eco friendly not wasting clothes or anything else.   My goals this week were Support ideas with detail, use some complex sentences to create pace, flow and interest, support ideas with detail, write content relevant to the task. I created five questions and I would like to hear if you can answer.  Here is my create task:

Question Time - Do you have any rules in your house to help be sustainable? 

R.E

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This week in R.E I made a poster showing a reading from the bible. In my poster I did a summery about the reading and I included a quote and I inserted a picture. I used shapes and explore to create my picture.

What do you know about the bible?

Please enjoy my work!

Fantastic Friendship!

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Do love to play with your friends well I know I do.

My Goal this week was to Make predictions about the text, look for clues to confirm predictions & make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions. ask higher level questions about the text, such as 'why' and 'how'. Yes its a long goal, I know. I made a game to encourage people to help everyone. 

Do you have a BFF?

Heres my work enjoy

Fancy Franciscan Charism

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This week in R.E ( Religious education ) we have been focusing Fransican Charism. This is what runs our school. This is because we are named after St Francis. I created a slideshow telling St Francis’ story and the values of the Franciscan order. Here is my work. Did you know about the Franciscan order before I told you?

 

Beautiful Beatitudes

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Last week it was Social Justice week and we decided to finish things off with creating our own symbols for the beatitudes. I created a slide which includes all the original symbols and my own. There are eight beatitudes. Here is my work. What are the beatitudes? That’s before you look at the slide.

Brilliant Burger

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This week was Social  Justice so we made some creations about Beatitudes. and what they are. I made a burger showing what all the Beatitudes The beatitudes are: Poor in Spirit, Morn, Meek, Righteousness, Merciful, Pure in Heart, Peace Makers and the persecuted. All the Beatitudes are represented by an animal. Here is my work:

What Beatitude do you display?

Wondrous Writing

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Are you sacred of an animal of some sort like dogs, cats or even rabbits? So I wrote a persuasive text to try to help change that. My learning goal this week was to Vary sentence beginnings, structures and length. Write simple and compound sentences (by using conjunctions). Use some complex sentences. Use simple and compound sentences with a variety of beginnings, lengths and structures. Use some complex sentences to create pace, flow and interest. Use linking words and phrases to link some paragraphs.  

Here is my work and I hope I have persuade you that pets should not be allowed in school.

What is your favourite animal?

Pets should not be allowed in school

Are you scared of dogs or any other animal? I’m going to tell you that animals should definitely not be allowed in school.

Firstly, having an animal could distract kids from their learning. Kids need to learn. Although animals are cute they're going to be distractive. Do you want an animal distracting you all day and chewing on your stuff?

Secondly, animals need a lot of attention. Like they need to be fed and they also need exercise. If kids are doing all that, when are they going to have time to do work?

Last of all, some kids might have allergies. That wouldn’t be good. It wouldn’t help because if animals are roaming free they could have a reaction and not be able to concentrate.

You will definitely agree with me that pets should not be allowed in school. Animals will distract children from their learning, they need a lot of attention and some people might have allergies. That is why I strongly agree that pets should not be allowed in school. 

 

Hobbies

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In this post I will be showing my hobbies and other productive hobbies. 

This week I created a poster and my goal was to: use prior knowledge to connect to the text, make connections between texts and real life experiences, texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions. In my poster I explained what my hobbies are and what the five most productive hobbies are to have.

what is your Hobby?

Fraction Time!

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Welcome to this post 

This week I was in lock down and I created this pick-a-path on fractions.  A pick-a-path is little quiz except it is created on a google slide. My goal this week was to:Use multiplication and division strategies to find fractions of whole numbers.  In my Pick-a-path I explained what strategies I was using and how to do it. Fractions are when you have a number like 48 and you have 6 friends but one friend didn't come but you are going to cut the cake for your friends into 6 pieces and you give out 5 pieces so dived 48 by 6 = 40. What do you know about fractions?

 Use multiplication and division strategies to find fractions of whole numbers. 

Grit and Perseverance

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I hope everyone's  healthy.

This week in reading I learnt a bout grit my learning goal was to Think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and thinking. This week I read an article about a NZ runner that helped train some of our best runners. We thought about what grit and perseverance is and what they mean. When your doing something hard and you just want give up but you don´t that´s called using grit and perseverance. Have you ever shown perseverance or grit in your life?

Greatest Graphs

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I hope you all had a good holiday.

In this post I would like to teach you about graphs. This week in maths we created graphs. My Goal this week is to display data using a stem and leaf graph, choose an appropriate data, display using more than one variable, interpret information from graphs plan an investigation. At the start of maths we all sat in the middle space and we went team by team. When your month was called you would stand up. I am the only person in my month. After that we went off into other spaces and made a copy of the spreadsheet and created our own graphs using the data we collected. I made two different types of graphs. It took me a while to decide what graph I should do. The two graphs couldn't be the same. when I finished I had to write to statements about my graphs. Next I cheeked in with the teacher and decided to blog my google drawing that is below.

Do you know how to created a graph?

  

Magnificent Margret Mahy

 Tumu town trip

Kia Ora everyone welcome to this post.

Hi everyone, a few weeks ago my hub and I went on a trip to Margret Mahy playground. While we were there we learnt about a storyline on the ground in Margret Mahy playground. Some of the mats that are in the ground, how to row a waka and finally we learnt about Victoria Square. 

Tumu town trip

On Thursday the 20th of May Tumu hub went on a trip to Margret Mahy playground. While we were there we did four rotations.We spent the whole day there and were back at school by 2:10.

The first rotation was Margaret Mahy. The first thing I did was go on a scavenger hunt and find certain things. The next thing that we looked at was the story that was embedded into the concrete. When we were coming to the end there were some native plants and words of Elise Lock.

 The second rotains was looking at the mats and Feeding the tuna. The mats in the ground are made out of concrete and bricks with a wire rim around it. They made it like this so if there was an earthquake then they would be able to move it to a different location.We saw teo mats and then we got to feed the Tuna. I saw one Tuna but it wasn’t keen on getting any food so we just let the food drop and then went off for a play. 

The third rotation was getting to ride on the waka. I learnt how to row the waka and some te reo commands. There were some boys who kept on flicking water up and I got soaked. Did you know that the white bit of the oar doesn't touch the ground. 

The last rotation was Victoria Square. At Victoria Square there are statues of Captain James Cook and of Queen Victoria. There are two fountains that were in the shape of daffodils and another one that was donated by H.L Bowker. There were three mats there that stood for water resources and health, Food and resources and the nine trees that made the Ngā Tāhu claim. The reason why we went there was to help us get a deeper connection with P.B.L.  

My favourite part of the trip was the waka because it required some effort. I also liked it because It was a team and if someone was tired then you could take a breath. It was also really fun going under the bridge and seeing what was in the water.  

Something I learnt was that all the mats mean a different thing than the one at Margaret Mahy  meant children and family.

The thing I found the most interesting was Victoria Square because it had heaps of history and Maori designs. It also had heaps of things to contribute to our culture.   

This trip has helped me with my PBL because now I have a better understanding of where we are from and that we need to protect it. It has helped me think of Ideas of things we could maybe put into our school.

Have you ever been on a waka?

Fantastic Poems

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This week in writing I created a slideshow about poems. I have watched a video and recreated some poems and wrote my own.  I have made six poems that are limerick, free verse, quatrain, cinqain,  haiku and acrostic. 

I hope you like my poems.

What is your favourite type of poem?

Colossal Cars!

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This week in writing I read some articles about the first cars and I learnt some excellent facts about cars. It took a lot of research and reading to create my drawing. Did you know that people tried to invent cars in the 1770s but were only invented in 1886.

what fact interest you the most?

Number one because I learnt that other people tried to invent cars the would run with steam that was interesting I loved your google drawing

I will go and tell my family some of these facts thank you Mia you are sun that brightens my day up straight away. 

Mind blowing maths!

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this week in Math I learnt what a rate is did you know that a rate is comparing two different thing and a ratio is comparing to of the same things.

 

Queens Birthday

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My reading create task was to create a poster on some facts about the Queens birthday. Like that the Queen actually has two birthdays. Her real birthday is on the 21st of April. 

Magical Myth

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This week in my independent writing I created a poster explain a Myth. My Myth is called Rangi builds a boat. It is about a man named Rangi who wants to create a waka but went home then came back in the morning and his waka was a tree once more.

what Maori Myths do you know?

 

Egotistic Eels

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This week in reading I have learnt  10 amazing facts about Eels. 

Eels Migrate in the pacific ocean to warm water in Tonga. Did you know that males are actually smaller than the females. Females are one meter long  and males  Re 75 cm long.

what do you know about Eels

Bad bullying

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this week we had a session on bullying  and what the difference is on mean rude and bullying.

Awesome Ōtautahi

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This week in reading I learnt about the first settlers in Ōtautahi- Christchurch and about Margret Mahy.

Did you know

1. that the moa was extinct by 1450

2. that the first maori in Ōtautahi were hunters of the moa

3. in the 1820 and 1830 the maori population fall.

Terrific Teams

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Welcome back to this post. this week I learnt about plants and then drew them. My learning Goal is: Articulate a variety of strategies to help comprehension and use knowledge from text to combine with new idea (own and others) to come up with new thinking.

Here is My Create :

What did you learn from My work?

Magnificent Maths

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Welcome back to an awesome post. This week in Maths I learnt how to use Place value, doubling and halving and finally compensating to help me solve multiplication and division. My learning goal was to: use a broad range of strategies to solve multiplication and division problems with whole numbers.  If you wanted to do place value and you had a number like 234x2=, the way you would do it is that do the hundreds, tens then ones x that number next you would add them together to get the answer.  

What is you favourite strategy to use when solving problems ?

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This week for reading I made a vein diagram  to help  show my learning. My  learning goal is Articulate a variety of strategies to help comprehension and make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions. the plants that I did are the Rata and Poutkaka. They are both native trees to New Zealand.

 

Mind blowing Maths

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This week I learned how to use to new strateges with multiplication. They are called place value and compensating. My learning goal was use a broad range of strategies to solve multiplication  problems with whole numbers. do you know all your times tables of by heart?

Magical Maths

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This week I revisited how to  do multiplication facts. My  learning goal is: use a broad range of strategies to solve multiplication problems with whole numbers.  Do you know you 7  timetables?

Magnificent Maths

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Hello and welcome back to my blog it's Mia. Today I will be sharing my maths with you. This week I learnt tidy numbers. My Tidy numbers is when you round up to a tidy number like 50. Now I help you understand how to do it. Say you had 49+61 + 1 to 49 to make it 50. Then to 61 - 1 to make it 60 then. Next you add them together to make 120.  My goal was Ordering numbers to 100,0000. Use a broad range of mental strategies to solve problems rounding and compensating. Here is my maths create. Do you like tidy numbers?

Brilliant Blogger

 Ki ora and welcome back to my blog. 

It's Mia from St Francis of Assisi school. Today, I am going to talk to you about how to write a quality blog post and comment. I know I’ve told you about it before but it’s time for a refresh. 

This week my learning goals are: for reading is: think about the information and ideas in a text. identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. L3 identifies at least one important idea and justify why it is important. use knowledge from text to combine new idea (own and others) to come up with new thinking. For writing my learning goal is: present work in a range of forms & create ideas that link with the topic and each other and include detail. L3 presents work in a range of forms, writing content relevant to the task. & use language that is suitable to the topic, audience and purpose.  

For a good blog post you should include a catchy title, introduction, your learning goal, 2-3 good sentences, ending and make sure to include a question to make a conversation. 

For a good blog comment you should include an introduction, something positive, something thoughtful, something helpful and a question to keep the conversation going. 

Thank you for reading what part did you enjoy the best. Ka kite ano.

Cosmic Conversation

Hello every one and welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be sharing with you my conversation with Kupu o te wiki which means the words of the week.

Kupu o te wiki words of the week are....

tūrangawaewae - your standing place

whakapapa - genealogy

tāonga - A tresure

pepha - about you

tangata whenua - indigenous people

maunga - moutian

awa - river

Do you have a tonga