Stunning Mosaic Art

Kia ora bloggers this week in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to make a piece of art but we were doing it digitally. We had to use this tool on our chromebook to make whatever animal or plant of your choice, even an anime character. The line we used is called polyline, the polyline helps you to make a shape and try make what you have chosen to do. The art we were doing was mosaic art. We were doing this because we are going to be putting QR codes around our school to explain what animals and trees we have in our Ngahere and why we need them. I really liked doing mosaic art because I haven’t done this before, you learn new things from it and it is very fun. What I think I did well was really trying to make the animal stand out and look like it. The animal I did for my choice was a giraffe and for my QR code I did a Nikau Palm because that’s what I was explaining about on my Ngahere investigation. The thing that I found hard was trying to make the shape and not making it turn into a line because if you do a shape to small it will just make a line and that really annoyed me. I wouldn’t change anything about my art because I really liked the way it turned out. This is one of the animals I did! I hope you like my mosaic art. 

Have you made a piece of mosaic art before?

Bye!

My Best Piece Of Writing Ever

Kia ora bloggers this week in Te Ngahere we have been learning how to write a narrative

and want to make people read our writing. We were learning how to enhance our writing

to create a powerful and emotional response to our readers. We watched a short film about

this little boy who lost his wing and these evil mean birds always picked on him. I tried to use

vivid adjectives in my writing and some other writing language features. I used the class

tuhituhi slide presentation that the teachers made to help me to add more detail and description

to my writing so I can try to get a picture In my readers minds. I found it hard trying to add a lot

of description, trying rewrite the story and try to get a picture in my readers minds. The easy thing

for me was when I went to my first writing conference group I got feedback so it helped me make

my writing better and improve on my first piece of writing. In my first writing conference the group

I was conferencing with I was a rubric 4 then we had another writing conference on Tuesday this

week and now I am a high 4 and low 5 I am so happy. 

Have you been in a writing conference before?

Here is the link to the video we watched.

An Amazing Time at Project Island Song

Kia ora bloggers this week on Tuesday the first of June the year 6’s, Whaea Becks, Gina and I went to a program that is called Project Island Song. We had to get to school at about 8:20 am and be down at the wharf by 8:30am. When we arrived at the wharf we met up with some of the members of Project Island Song. Some of the year 6’s had a job, there was about four jobs and they were called construction, health and safety, planting and biosecurity. Construction is were you carry the parts of the rat traps because we are going to build them so we will need it, health and safety is were you had to say everyone's name out loud to make sure that they are here, bring a first aid kit in case someone gets hurt and squeeze hand sanitizer on their hands before they get on and off the boat. The planting job means you have to carry the plants onto the boat and off and bring the spades and gloves. Last but not least biosecurity is when they hold down a shoe brush so you can brush your shoes a little bit and they tap your bag to make sure that you don’t have any pests or Weed seeds in your bag. We were learning how to protect our native wildlife and learning how to keep pests away, we were also learning the Maori and english name for the trees. We were learning this so we can learn and help our wildlife, learn about trees and the cycle of the their ecosystem. Another reason why we were learning this is because so we know how important our native animals are, how helpful and what the project Island song crew members do for us and the animals. In the future I will go and visit Project Island Song again to see how big the tree has grown that my group and I planted and see how the Project Island Song Program is going. I learnt a lot of new things but I will only tell you some. Pied Shag can dive up to 20m, the way to remember which is which between a Manuka and Kanuka is that Manuka trees are darker than a Kanuka , the bark is rough also the M in Manuka stands for mean and it has flowers on it Kanuka doesn’t. Kanuka trees have a lighter color than Manuka and the K in Kanuka stands for kind, also the Kanuka is taller than the Manuka and if you feel their branches you can tell which is which. On our way back to school we saw a common and bottlenose dolphin, it was so fun

Have you been to the Project Island Song before?

CyberSmart Relationships

Kia ora bloggers this week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about how to be smart and safe online.

We were learning how to be smart in our online relationships and to seek help when we need it. The first

thing we had to do was watch this video about this girl that made a billboard with all her personal information

that only her family should know and anyone could fake their age and lie to her. After we watched that video

we made a copy of this Google presentation that had all the steps we had to do. We got to go with someone

you trust and you've known them for a long time or even related. I chose Charlize because she is one of my best

friends and I have known her ever since kindergarten. We were learning this so it can teach us not to do what the

little girl did, not to talk to strangers online or face to face and also that you shouldn’t share your personal

information unless they are family. From what I learnt from that experience on watching that video is that I

will not go on games that you are able to chat on.  What I also learnt from that experience is that I should not

talk to strangers on any online apps, social media or in real life.

Are you always safe online? 

Epro 8 Challenge

Kia ora bloggers this week for Epro 8 the Year 6’s and I did this challenge, the challenge is called stem bridges. We had to build bridges that were strong enough to hold a toy car and strong enough to stay in one place & not move around everywhere. We watched these two videos about bridges, how they work and were built. Why I think we did this was to learn to communicate with our group and work together as one, mahi tahi. There were three types of bridges to choose from,  which were all different designs. The three bridges were called truss bridge, suspension bridge and cable stayed bridge. My group was Anika, Shivam and Mikaira. The things we had to use to make a bridge was popsicle sticks, popsicle sticks with four evenly spread out holes, string and cardboard. We choose a bridge to build and it was the cable stayed bridge. The first thing we did was we made the bridge. While we were building the bridge it started to look more like a truss bridge so we decided to make a truss bridge instead.  When we finished making the bridge we tried to make the road by using the popsicle sticks with holes in it and string so we could tie the sticks together.  By the time we finished making our second popsicle stick road it was time to tidy up. When we were tidying up I saw two girls in my class put the cardboard back to where it goes and remembered that we could of used cardboard for our road instead of using popsicle sticks.  I told my group and we were annoyed because we tried about three different ideas to make the road when we could have just used cardboard.  What I think I did well was working with my group and making sure they are helping out and working with each other. What I could have done better is spent more time on trying to get the structure of the bridge instead of sorting the popsicle sticks into their color (color coordinating). What I learnt was that sometimes your plan doesn’t always work out to your original plan.  Do you also wanna know something “teamwork makes the dreamwork” said the author.  

Have you done a challenge like this before?

An Amazing Mothers Day!

On Sunday the 9th of May for mothers day we made breakfast for my mum. We made her eggs benedict, with spinach, bacon, hollandaise sauce and eggs. While my dad and sister were making breakfast I was massaging my mums feet. I picked an outfit for my mum to wear and by the time my mum was dressed breakfast was ready. When we finished breakfast we had a little rest and sleep for about 2 hours.  After our rest we went to my brothers house to have a mothers day dinner. The first thing we did was say hello and happy mothers day to all the mums there. About ten minutes after we got there dinner was ready (my brother was cooking for all the mother’s). We had  barbeque, macaroni and cheese, red sausages and croissants with ham, tomatoes and cheese in it. For dessert we had neapolitan ice - cream, choc chip pancakes and my cousin made a big cookie that was a mothers day edition. When everyone finished dinner and desert we all rested our tummies and an hour and a half later we all left and said thank you. What I loved about mothers day the most was that my mum enjoyed the day and had an amazing day with her whanau.

What did you do for mothers day?

An Amazing Mothers Day Gathering

 On Saturday My family and I did a mothers day celebration it was for any mothers and welcome to anyone to join. We had breakfast, Brunch, lunch and dessert. For the mothers day gathering the husbands and men were cooking for all of the wahine and there was about 80 wahine there. The wahine were so pleased and thankful to all the men that cooked for them. We did this gathering in Moerewa at the Moerewa Christian Fellowship. We did this gathering because we wanted to do this with other mothers and we also wanted to acknowledge the mothers. There also hasn’t been a gathering like this before in Moerewa. What I think I did well was that I was helping out with setting up, packing up and helping the Kuia. What I could have done better was that I should of helped more in the kitchen doing the dishes because there was a lot of dishes and a lot of wahine. I did the dishes about one or two times. What I learnt was that mothers do great things in our life and are beautiful in all ways.

What were you doing the day before mothers day?