Smart Relationships

Kia ora everyone, in Te Ngahere this week we have been learning about Smart Relationships/being smart online. The reason we are doing this is to help us be smart on the internet and also be careful with what we write and what we post. From watching the video that the teacher gave us about being safe online I have learnt to never give out personal information like your email address, phone number etc because then random people can know where you live and how to contact you which isn’t safe. The video that we watched was 8 minutes long. I really enjoyed doing this activity because it was really fun and it I am going to be very careful online with what I post. The way that I am going to change my online behaviour is by only posting things that I wouldn’t mind if my mother or father saw. After we did this activity we started to make a DLO so that we could give people advice to be safe online, I really enjoyed making that as well. The thing that I would do differently would be trying to take my time with my work and get it to a higher staderstand. Do you always be safe when you are online?

Upgrade For The Wings Writing:

Kia ora in Te Ngahere these past two weeks we have started doing writing, the writing that we are doing is called creative writing. Our inspiration is by a film called “ Wings”. When we first started this activity we all sat down on the mat and watched a quick 4 to 5 minutes film that is called “ Wings”. The reason we watched this video is because we had to choose a scene to write about. The film had no words so we had to make the words up. I really enjoyed this activity because the year 8’s did the same writing about this film “Wings” two years ago. Our teacher Whaea Chrissy sent my friend and I our old writing doc’s that had our old writing from two years ago on it so we can see the improvements we have made from then and now. Next time if we do this again I would try add way more detail and try to use more words that I don’t use very often so I can make it more detailed. The thing that I think I could really improve on next time would have to be, trying to add way more detail in my writing because we were focusing on vocabulary this week and the feedback that I got from the teachers were to added more detail but I also need to work on my punctuation more. Have you ever done a piece of writing inspired by a film before? This is the film:

Maths DLO For Expanding Numbers

This week in Te Ngahere in maths we have been doing work around expanding numbers. We made a DLO to show our learning in a creative way. In our DLO we had to explain what we were learning about (expanding numbers), explain how to expand a number, what columns they are in and why. I really enjoyed doing this because now I know how to expand a number but also how to read numbers better and more confidently. The thing that would of made our DLO more earlier for my group would of been if we got to practice our scrip a bit more. Have you ever expanded a number before? This is my DLO:

Mothers Day

In the weekend it was mothers Day. In the morning my brother and I woke up and decided to make a banana cake for our mum. I made the cake and my brother decorated it. He wanted to do a lot of icing with only a few candles but we decided to do no icing and then we used the candles to spell mum. I loved making the cake with my brother because we go to spend time with each other and we haven’t spent time together like how we did on mothers day in years. When the cake was done and decorated we took it down stairs and surprised our mum with it. Seeing the look on our mums face just made me smile. While my mum was busy telling us how much she loved us and thanking my brother and I for making the cake, my dad was sitting on the couch saying “where is mine”? I loved the way that I made my mum feel because she had a big smile on her face and the whole family was there to see it. Next mothers day I want to try take her out for dinner or lunch just to give her a surprise. What did you do for your mums for mothers day?

Fishy

This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing new learning around Google drawing. Our teachers have realized that we don’t do much work around Google drawings. On our google drawings we had to make fish using shapes. My friend Angela and I thought that just having fish on our google drawing was boring so we decided to add different animals like kina, stingrays and jellyfish etc. I really enjoyed doing this activity because I learnt new things about google drawing and how to round the shapes more. There was nothing I didn’t enjoyed but next time if we do this again I want to challenge myself to make harder animals out of the shapes. Have you ever made animals out of shapes before?

The Hardest Work So Far Done At Technology

Yesterday the year 7’s and the year 8’s went to Technology. When we went to Technology we found out that the year 8’s are doing woodwork and the year 7’s are doing cooking. In woodwork the first thing we did was go over all of the rules that we needed to follow and learnt how to use all of the tools. The creation that we are making is a waka. I really enjoyed starting this and I can’t wait until it is finished so we all have a beautiful waka to take home. The thing that I found hard was cutting the drawing out of the waka that we did using the power tools. I wouldn’t change anything about what I did but I would try harder to get my work done faster. Do you go to Technology?

Best P.M.I DLO You Will Ever See:

In Te Ngahere this week we are working on finishing our Te Ngahere notes. Angela and I are in a group for this activity but we have already finished so our teacher Whaea Becks told us to say what we think we did well, what we could improve on and what was interesting. Angela and I didn’t know anything. Another way to express what we did well, what we could work and what was interesting other than a DLO. The DLO that we made is that we put our video of talking about silver ferns ( the work we did for the Te Ngahere notes) & we put a short clip of David Attenborough’s video. The reason we did this is to compare our video to David Attenborough's video to see what we liked about our video, what we could work and what was interesting about it. I really enjoyed this activity because there were a lot of things that Angela and I realized that we could work on and do next time to make our work much better. Next time if we do another Te Ngahere note or just any film the DLO that we made has helped us to see how we can make our films so much better and more interesting. The way that I would change it is instead of having so many pictures and people just see us standing there we could go outside and film to show where they like to grow and hold up a silver fern so people can get a better view of them. Would you ever do any work around silvers ferns like we have? this is our video: link

Are You Good At Following Directions?

In Te Ngahere, we did a reading test.  The reading test that we did was called “ Can you follow directions?” First, we got a piece of paper with a set of intrusions on it. This reading test is not like other reading tests. Other reading tests are usually for testing how good you are at reading, but this test was to see how good you are at following directions. The first step that we had to do was read everything carefully before we do anything, but there were 23 questions and honestly I didn’t want to read them all so I just did the questions as the steps went on. Everyone had 4 minutes to do this test. When the 4 minutes ended we all went down to the floor and the teachers were reading the first step and I personally realised that I did it all wrong because when the teacher read the last step it said “now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only sentence one and two!” That was when I found out I did everything wrong because I did almost all of the steps. I really enjoyed this activity and I learnt that I am not very good at following directions. If I had to follow directions again I would definitely read the directions properly and pay more attention to my learning. Do you think that you are good at following directions?