I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 7 and in 2021 I will be a year 8. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
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Thursday, 12 December 2019
Activity 3: Mass Migration
I think that its a bad idea to build a wall between the U.S.A and mexico.Because they need to share lands and become friend so then there wont be a lot of money being used.So then they can use money for buildings and other stuff.
Thursday, 5 December 2019
real or fake news
In cyber smart we were learning about real of fake.We went on a site to show stuff that has been captured on video to see if its real or not.We figured it out that it was fake.We made a sheet on what is fake and real sites.We write down what we new was fake and real new.What i liked about this is we learnt about real and fake news.What i didn't like is i forgot what it was. here is the site https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/sightings.html
Friday, 29 November 2019
harry potter times table
Friday, 22 November 2019
Dream Destination
In cyber smart we worked on our dream destination.We took a picture then we went on remove.bg to insurt the picture.What will remove all of the background then only you are there.Then what we do is download the picture then pick a background unsplach.com.Then we put it on a goggle drawing.What i liked about this is we learnt how to edit.What i didn't like is it took a long time.
Kennings
A kenning is a poem that gives hints of what it is telling you. I had 2 words that would describe the thing my 2 words about it was a noise maker and a fast mover.What i liked about this was we learnt a new type of poem.What i didn't like was that we had to draw a picture of the animal.
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Timestables
Today in strand maths we were learning about time.We got our maths books and we set out a time table of the train station and the departure time.We got 3 questions about the time table for how long it took to get here to here.What i liked about this is we learnt more about time.What i didn't like about this is that we had to work harder than i thought
Name art
For the past week we were doing name art.We did our name in block letter or bubble writing i chose bubble writing.When we drawed the first letter of our name then we drawed different patterns all around it.When we did that we gave it to the teacher to put on the wall.
Wednesday, 6 November 2019
What is Horton like
This week in Literacy i looked at Horton Hatches the egg. I found it easy because we just had to write what happens in the story.I found it hard because it took a while.
Friday, 1 November 2019
Where is kei hea
In te reo maori we are learning to say when an object is.We learnt about what the singular and plurals in Maori. Kei hea te - where is Kei hea nga - where are. This is the work I completed with my buddy. I found this hard because i don't understand mouri good.I found it easy because i sat on the mat for a little more.
Friday, 25 October 2019
math
Today in maths we were learning about fractions.We got giving 2 pieces of paper then we had to cut them into 2 different fractions.Then we stuck them into our maths books.
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Onomatopeia words
Today in Litaracy we read the book what's next. Then we had to get 2 peaces of paper then we had to write a onomatopoeia word on the paper. Then we cut it out then we glued it on the other paper then it's done!
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Alan The Alien
Today in reading we read Alan the Alien. We read the whole book then we made a sheet of who,what,where,when,why,how and we summarise the words. I liked how we made a sheet of this. I didn't like it because we read a big book.
Monday, 23 September 2019
Filling someones bucket
Thursday, 19 September 2019
An Alien stole my Movie
Today in litaracy we were reading a book called an alien stole my movie or Alan the alien.WWe read the whole book and then we made a sheet to write who,where,when,how,why. What i like about this is we could summarise. What i didn't like is that we had to read 5 chapters.
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
5 ways to do when your stress
Today in pb4l we were doing 5 things to do when your stress. We traced over our hands on paper. Then we had to write 5 ways to calm your self down when your stress. When we writ our stuff we had to couler it in.
Friday, 13 September 2019
The Day The Crayons Quit
In Literacy we read the story the day the crayons quit. We laked about the feelings of the crayons. We looked at blue crayons letter. We had to show what the crayons said in the story.
Being Cyber Safety Online
Today in cybersmart we were learning about cyber safety. We watched a video of being cyber safety then we made a canva,powtoon or a biteible . I picked Canva this is mine it took me about 10 minutes to make it. We learnt 4 things to be cyber safe. what i liked about doing this is we did it interdependently.I didnt like doing this because it was a little challenging. Link to the website.https://www.canva.com/
Nest Eggs
Today in statistics we done nest eggs in a picture graph. We had to follow the instructions and draw a graph in our math books. There were questions about the graph and we took them to answer them. we had to draw pictures in the graph to show what to do.
Friday, 6 September 2019
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Man On The Moon
In reading we are learning to summarise. We read a newspaper article about the first moon landing in 1969. we had to pick out the key words and put them into sentences.
Alien Description
In writing we are learning to use abjectives. We had to describe an alien. We brainstormed together words and sentences. We had to put them into sentences using full stops and capital letters.
Canva bookmark

Monday, 5 August 2019
aliens

In Reading we read the story aliens love underparts. It is about aliens coming to earth to steal underparts. We had 4 activities to do.They were 1. create a sign to tell the aliens to stop taking the underparts.2.
design a super fantastic amazing pair of underpants that the aliens would love the most.3. Design a new spacecraft for the aliens.4. design a sticker for the aliens spacecraft.

Friday, 5 July 2019
the red maze Digi awards
For the past 6 weeks me and my buddy have been working on a red maze slide animation. Before we started we had to choose what we should do. We settled on the red maze. So the we got a big peace of paper ad the planed out what we were gonna do with it. When we planed it it was time to work on it. The whole point of this was to put more technology into the city and get smarter with mazes. At the end of the maze is 2 stands 1 of them is a toy stand and a time stand. what i liked about doing this is doing Digi awards for the first time. What i didn't like was trying to make it under 3 minutes.
Monday, 1 July 2019
The Three Little Pigs
We read the three different versions of the three little pigs. As a group we descried what the characters were like. We compared two versions of the story. We said what was the same ad what was different.The activities i completed were create a wanted poster and re write the three little pigs story. My favourite version was the one where the pigs called the police because the wolf got put i jail.
Thursday, 27 June 2019
parachute
For the past 2 weeks we have been designing a parachute for inquiry. Me and my buddy tried to make it so jack the lego man could jump of the beanstalk. We tried to make it so the plastic bread bag and we could only use 2 things and some string. You are allowed to choose 2 things from the table a 1 peice of string. You have the choise of paper napkins,large and small cupcake holders and difrent sized bags. we didn't get to finish the project we tried 2 times to make it the first time it was a fail and the 2nd we didn't finish.
Friday, 21 June 2019
positions,directions and coordinates
Today inn maths strand we were learning about directions we had to make a grid to make up directions. We could use degress right left forward and back. i made my grid and i got my buddy we tried to do it on a real grid it took us about 2 tries.
Thursday, 13 June 2019
football
Today me and my literacy class were doing information report. We could pick any sport i picked football. I had to research about football. Then i wrote the descriptions onto my sheet. Then i wrote the words on the sheet then added them to the doc. I liked doing the work because it let me learn about working on my own. I didn't like doing it because was hard doing step by step.
Monday, 10 June 2019
ip dip sky blue who´s it it´s you
I think if there were 3 people and they were in a circle the middle one will be in because they rhyme ends at the middle. I will not be in the middle ill be on the side right/left. if there were 2 people and you do want to be in start with the other person. but if you don´t want to be in start with the other person.
Friday, 7 June 2019
balancing
Today me and my class balancing on the playground. We made an optical cores and had turns. The rules were no hands allowed only balancing if you used your hands your out its like the floor is lava. We had 2 turns each when it was my turn it was hard to balance 1 person made it through. i liked it because it was challenging i didn't like it because making it through the course.
Thursday, 6 June 2019
straw rafts
In inquiry we are learning about the design process. The design process is where you plan,design and test a product or theory. Sometimes when you test it doesn't work and you have to start at the beginning again to see how you would make it better. Mrs mcg gave us a challenge. We had to plan design+build a straw raft to float with 40g of weight on it we could only use 20 straws ad our raft failed 5 times because we didn´t put them in a state line.We did some research about how rafts float and we found that you need to have no gaps in your raft.We found the challenging we didn´t get it done.
Friday, 31 May 2019
going on a bear hunt-maths directions
In maths we are learning about directions. We listened to the story going on a bear hunt. We picked out the obstetrical in the story. We then drew a map of the story. We had to carefuly think about the directions. Then we had to write down the directions from the how to the cave we had to use north east south west.


Thursday, 23 May 2019
the lorax
in Literacy we have been reading by Dr. Suess called The Lorax. We learnt all about the characters. We described The Lorax and The Once-ler. We wrote descriptions about the Once-ler. We compared the characters. We looked an what was the same and what was different about them.





Friday, 17 May 2019
coordinates

Thursday, 16 May 2019
pigeon impossible
Friday, 12 April 2019
Friday, 22 March 2019
big bock odis o doodle
In reading we read Otis o doodle. The story is about a man name Otis o doodle making objects for animals and creatures. he makes them and then tells Harriet hall all of his ideas. After reading it we designed our own invention for an animal I created a bunny for wings.
instant pudding
in writing we have learning to use wow words. We had to describe what instant pudding tasted,smelt,and felt like. I found whiting all the words easy. I found get every thing on the blog hard.
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
kindness
today we were writing a poem about kindness.
And we brain stormed. In the poem my literacy group had to do about five sentences. And I write seven sentences didn´t
´t find anything hard i found getting on with it easy
And we brain stormed. In the poem my literacy group had to do about five sentences. And I write seven sentences didn´t
´t find anything hard i found getting on with it easy
Thursday, 14 March 2019
the red poem

Thursday, 7 March 2019
hockey
Today we had peter from Canterbury hockey visit us. In hockey we were learning about how to dribble properly and how to keep it on the stick like glue. First we did dribbling we had to imaging the ball was stuck to the stick like glue. After that we learnt how to stop and dodge other players. We had to control the ball at all times Lastly we played a game like rob the next we had to take the balls from the middle and there was numbers 1 to 6 then peter called out our numbers the we had to run up and get a ball and dribble it back to your spot. then when all the balls wen,tt in the middle you had to steal the balls from other people.