Outstanding Te Reo DLO

These past few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to pronounce Te Reo Maori. We have been using an app called Education Perfect. We had to pronounce the alphabet, greetings & place names in Maori. After we learnt how to pronounce them, we would go back over them and screencastify ourselves saying it. Then we would embed our screencastify onto a Google slide. I really enjoyed this activity because I learnt how to say place names in Te Reo Moari. I didn’t find anything hard about this activity but I would 100 percent out of 100 recommend you to use this app if you wanted to learn Te Reo Maori. This is my DLO I hope you enjoy. Have you ever used Education Perfect before?

Interesting Tips For Smart Surfing

In Te Ngahere this week we have been learning about Smart Surfing. If you don’t know what I mean by Smart Surfing it’s where you get a question, for example where do silver ferns live? We take out the key words such as silver ferns and live then we changed the word from live to habitat. We are only using the key words out of the questions to get a more relatable answer. The reason why we use they key words is because then we would get a more relatable answer to our question. I really enjoyed this because when we first started looking up facts on the web and using the whole question we didn’t get the answer that we needed because we were using how and what, with the word how and what Google then goes and looks for every page that had what and how on it. But then when we started using the key words we were all getting the perfect answer that we wanted. There wasn’t anything hard about this activity, and I would 100 percent do this again because it helped me so much with finding the research that I wanted so that I would be successful. Have you ever done any work about Smart Surfing before like how I have?

The Biggest Discovery For The Coastal Seas

In Te Ngahere these past few days we have been learning about our planet and all the animals that live in the Coastal Seas. First of all we had to watch a video about our planet that was called ‘Our Planet; Coastal Seas’ on netflix. While we were watching the video we were writing down all of our notes thats we could; we had to a least get 10. I got 25 facts. After that we had to make a DLO about all the facts that we just learnt. I really enjoyed this because I have learnt a lot about whales, sharks, dolphins etc. I would 100 percent do this again because it wasn’t hard and I really enjoy it when we get to do work like this. Have do you ever done any work around Coastal Seas before?

The Most Delicious Butter Chicken Ever

In Te Ngahere yesterday we all went to greens. If you don’t know what it is it’s a restaurant. We went to greens because it was Shivams birthday. 

The reason why we went to greens was because his mother and father owned it. At the restaurant we got to eat butter chicken. The food was really delicious, I really liked the garlic naan bread and the chicken and rice was really good two. 

When we first got there I felt a bit weird because I didn’t know what to tell them if I wanted more or less, at the end I felt more comfortable to say if I wanted some or not. At the when we all finished our food Angela and I gotta get up to say thank you for everything, but then his parents walked out with a shopping cart of easter eggs for all of us. 

After we got the eggs Angela and I got up and gave Shivam a birthday card that we made for him, we were singing him happy birthday then it was time to thank his parents for having us. We didn’t know a better way to say thank than a waiata so we all sang a song for them and then went back to school. 

Have you ever been to greens before?

My New Understandings for Maths:

In Te Ngahere this week we have been learning maths, not every person in the class were doing the same activity. We were all in different groups, we are in groups with other people that are learning the same maths as us. I am in a group called star.. My group was learning how to put decimals numbers into place value. I think that is a good strategy fo me to learning because it’s helping me with my decimals and place value. I really enjoyed doing this, at the start when we first had a go at it I was really confused because I didn’t understand what I was getting teached but then the person that was teaching us started saying it step by step and slowing down to make sure we know what she is saying. Next time if we do this again I will tell the person teaching me to wait and ask if I can show them an example to see if I understand them. Have you ever done turning decimals into place value?

My New Understanding About Te Reo Maori

These past few weeks we have been learning Te Reo Maori. We have been using a site called EP. This is teaching us to pronounce our vowels properly and say it how we are meant to. I like this activity because it has helped me a lot lately. I would recommend this to anyone who needs to work on their Te Reo. When I do this again I would listen to what it was saying and try harder to get it done faster. Have you ever used EP before? This is what it looks like!

Team Work Makes The Dream Work:

In Te Ngahere on Monday we were doing something called taskmaster. We have been put in groups of three to help everyone with getting there work done faster. In our groups we did a subject called taskmaster, if you don’t know what taskmaster is it where the teachers draw a picture and take it away then 2 people out of your group of 3 are the runners that go see what the picture looks like and comes back to the drawer and has to describe what it looks like to the drawer. If you are the drawer then you have to try get the drawing as close as you can to the teachers one by what your group tells you. I really enjoyed doing this activity because it was fun and I got to learning about my group members a lot. The part that I found easy is that when we started working together and listening to teacher it got a lot easier. The thing that I found hard was when I was the drawer and my group was trying to tell me what to do I didn’t get what they were saying and they were just saying it louder and louder but I still didn’t get it. But when I was the runner is was very frustrating because I was telling my group what to write down but they didn’t get it and the thing that made it a lot harder is that we couldn’t touch the piece of paper to tell them were everything goes and how big and small it should be. If we did this again I would not wanna be they drawer because it was really hard to understand what they were saying. Have you ever done a taskmaster activity before in your class?