tāku mōkai.

We were learning to name our pet In maori.Here is my poster about my dog.

Summer learning Journey, Teaser Week, Day 1, Activity 2 - Exploring our Roots

This is my Mihi.

RUGBY

TOKI POUNAMU Film Festival

 Today we went to the Regent Theatre and watched the Toki Pounamu Film Festival. My favourite film was the robbery because it was different to the others. I found it cool because they had some awesome slow motion clips. They had a cool story line, because it was a robbery and it had more props than the others and more clips. I liked the part where the robber fell asleep. Finally, I liked that it was longer than most of the other films. I like The film festival a lot because it was fun seeing the things that everyone had made.

Tim the Kiwi

We have been learning to make a collage on Google Drawing. We had to use the explore, mask and arrange tools to get our collage to come together. We had to make a NZ bird and put it into its habitat. It was a lot of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this?

Huhu beetle

We have been learning about mini beast in class for our science unit. We have been creating  information reports on a mini beast of our choice.The mini beast it had to live in NZ we chose a huhu beetle.Here is my writing with Jack psk   the  Huhu beetle

Weta House

Weta report-Term 3

This is a piece of writing that we did for our mini beast topic.
click here for my  Success Criteria.

Where they live

 A Weta lives in a rotten log or you mainly see a tree weta in a rotten log. You can mostly see  some tree weta in a hole in a tree. Some weta you might find in your firewood pile. Tusked weta sometimes  burrow into the ground and leaves. Tree weta live in a group of 10 or more .Cave weta are mostly in caves near the ocean shore. Ground weta normally live on the ground near trees. Giant weta normally live in forest and grassland and some giant weta live in caves live in Alpine trees.Tusks weta are mostly found in the same place where giant weta live. They live in alpine forests, urban gardens and grasslands.




What is a weta

Weta are a native insect to New Zealand.
Weta are invertebrates and they have an exoskeleton. An invertebrate is an animal that has its skeleton on the outside which is  an exoskeleton. They don’t have a spine, weta look like crickets they have six long legs. They have two antennae . They have ears on their knees. They have an abdomen.

Fedding

Most weta eat leaves, seeds, seed heads, lichen off any place that lichen grows, fruit and flowers. Some kinds of weta like carrots.

Bredding

Weta lay their eggs at night. They lay 2 hundred eggs in their whole life. They use their ovipositor to lay their eggs by sticking their ovipositor in the ground and then they push  out the eggs.

Threats

Most weta threats are birds. Birds are the biggest threats to weta because they can just fly down and attack them. Cave weta mostly get attacked by Bats and rats . Hedgehogs mostly  attack tree weta because they are easy to catch. Cats can eat wetas so quick.

How can we Help

 We can help by not making traps or wrecking their habitat.

Mini Beast-Scary but fascinating

In the past two weeks we have been learning about insects. Here is some of the work that I have done.

Area and perimeter

To Build a Bot and Emotional Robots

This Term we have been learning about emotional robots-A.I and about  kids building  robots.WE did this in our reading work. We read two interesting books. 

my work is Here click this link.

Here's  my robot, he will take over the world!!!!!!!!

my maths .DLO.

Writing.Abandoned Places

We will be successful if we….

- Use language features to make our writing better and more interesting.

-Use our senses to help the reader imagine this place.

-Have some Te Reo Māori words.

-use descriptive language that has impact for our reader. 

Writing always needs...

-correct spelling and punctuation.

-sentences that make sense.

-different sentence starters.

-paragraphs

                 

How to make a paper plane

Hi, today I researched how to make a paper plane. I have made a presentation of the instructions. When you have had a go, let me know how your plane flew, and maybe send me a photo.

my scratch work

Task.Create a simple animation using  scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week.
WALT.use scratch to code something.
-Learn how to code something simple.
-Say simple phrases in TE Reo words .

For my project I made a game. Here are the rules of the game.
 -use the arrow keys to move the character Razer
-use m to use his pickaxe

Character Gingy
- use the keys W S A and D to move Gingy
- E is to move his pickaxe

The aim of the game is to destroy the other character and then you move to level two. On level two you have to get the boss and then you win.

P.S: This game is double player.

Jumping to a tidy number

My Marae recount 2k19.

The Best Marae

On the first and second of May we stayed the night at our local Marae.We stayed at our local Marae named Arahura.The people who were staying was Room 5 and 7 and the  parents.We were staying there for camp.We were there for learning about the Marae.


One thing I loved was the evening rotations like the technology challenge with Miss Ireland. Luken Issac,  Jack and Kayden made me look like  a Taniwha.I was Kayden’s pet  Taniwha and my eyes were wonky.Then we played a game where someone was a rat and someone was a rabbit. One of the adults would say rat then the rabbits would have to tag the rats and the rats had to tag the rabbits. Then we played a game it was like hockey.You would have a paper stick and you would have to hit the ping pong ball into the goal like a boss.



Next we went to the river and looked for pounamu.It was amazing. Sadly I found nothing but what I did see was a spring. Me and Hunter were looking for green so that is probably why we found nothing.Jerry came with us down to the river and he said don't look for green look for white. I found that funny because you would have thought that you would have to look for green.

Bush walk 

 Then we went for a walk at lake Mahinapua. We had a worksheet that we had to complete in the time that we were there. Me and Hunter did it in ten minutes. Nek minute we were jumping like kangaroos. When we got there it was like we were on holiday.

Personal comment

If you have the chance to go to a marae then go. It is so cool!           

Word Art

In term one we looked at our school values and what it takes to be a good learner and classmate at Karoro School.  As part of this we drew self-portraits and chose quotes that reflected something we believed in or a value we see as important.  Here is my art.

If I Had Wings.

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky ( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem. 

School Kit poem

Get NZ Writing - poetry Over the past few weeks we have been part of the "Get NZ Writing" poetry project. This project aimed to get 96,000 poems written across NZ! We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here are my poems.

Powhiri

We have been learning about being welcomed onto a marae. Here is my writing  work about powhiri.

Kawa of Care

We have been learning to follow the kawa of care which tells us how to look after our devices and be cyber smart. We had to chose three rules to write about. here is my work.

Marae

By James and Kade. This is our marae that  we have made. We are going to stay at a marae.

Karoro School Values.

For the beginning of the year we have been learning about our School values.Here is my work showing our school values  and some ways we can demonstrate these.