Creating A Digital Bird College

Creating A Digital Bird College

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

Toki Pounamu Film Festival Review

On Thursday the 14th of November,  the Toki Pounamu team were hosting a film festival at the Regent Theatre, Greymouth.  The film festival was made to show schools videos involving the idea of, ‘Our Place,’ for the schools and students within the Toki Pounamu cluster. People entered their movies they made including the native bush, gold mining, ocean, coal mining, histories, etc. The schools that entered into the event were Karoro School, Greymain School, Saint Patricks, Kaniere School, Paparoa Range, Kumara School, Paroa School and Blaketown School. 

All these schools entered in videos and there was one particular movie I enjoyed. The one I liked the most was the movie made by Saint Patricks. Their movie was about the dangers the environment is facing and what we are doing to help. They talked about the pollution in the oceans throughout the coast wide and even greater, world wide. In their video they interviewed the old mayor, Tony Kokshoorn to gather some information. Tony talked about DOC looking after 80% of the native bush/ environment, building a new recycling pit and Greymouth citizens doing their part to resolve the matter of global warming. The students of Saint Patrick's asked, “If we do not make a change would our next generations have a future?”

 Tony replied, “Yes they would, but not a very good one.” The video they made wa s entertaining and was very well filmed with great sound with clear voices and a great understanding of the movie.

The way the Toki Pounamu team chose the videos to put into the 1 hour time limit that were entered, was definitely a fair decision. Some videos had some  restrictions that were unsuitable for younger students that were attending the film festival event. I agree that this was a good decision they chose to do and I support it.

Introducing Others In Māori

Introducing Yourself and Others In Māori

In He Kakano we have been learning how to introduce ourselves and others in Māori.
This is a video on what we have been learning and the translation to what we were saying.

Translation from Māori into English

Ko Mackenzie tenei ( This is Mackenzie).
He pai ki a is te pūrei tenehi ( Mackenzie likes to play tennis).
He pai ki ahau te  pūrei piana me puoro. ( I like to play music and piano.)

Ko Jennae tenei( This is Jennae).
He pai ki a ia te pūrei pahikiteporo ( Jennae likes to play basketball).
He pai ki ahau te pūrei tenehi. ( I like to play tennis).

He Kuri Tāku Mōkai- He Ngeru Tāku Mōkai

 He Kuri Tāku Mōkai and He Ngeru Tāku Mōkai

This week and last week phrases of the week were 'my pet is a cat' and 'my pet is a dog. ' On this post there is a screencastify recording of the phrases of the week on a coding website called scratch.

This is the link to my scratch animation I made for this week.

Honey Bee Animation

Honey Bee Animation

Below is the animation I have made with a honey bee. Today the 17th of September, Mrs Minehan has came into our classroom and helped us to create  animations. This was my first time doing this type of animation from a slidehow and I really enjoyed trying it out. 

With our animation we wanted these animation video to loop which means to restart the video once it has finished  and we can also change the speed the animation can go. We can do this by going in the,' HTML," and change the two falses to trues and the number 3000 to the speed your would like you animation to be. 

Please leave a thoughtful, helpful and positive comment on my work.

He pai ki ahau te purei poipapa || Scratch Animation

He pai ki ahau te purei poipapa || Scratch Animation

This week  in Ruma Waru and all over New Zealand it is Te Wiki o te Reo Maori language week. For this week our class is doing 

scratch animations for our school phrase, "He pai ki ahau te purei poipapa." 

Below is my animation I made for this week scratch animation, if the video does not work here is a link to the video below as well.

He Pai Ki Ahau Te Purei Poipapa Scratch Link

Scratch Animation || Kei te oma ahau

Scratch Animation ||  Kei te oma ahau

This week  in Ruma Waru and all over New Zealand it is Te Wiki o te Reo Maori language week. For this week our class is doing scratch animations for our school phrase, " Kei te oma ahau." 

Below is my animation I made for this week scratch animation, if the video does not work here is a link to the video below as well.

Scratch Animation

Food Chains and Food Webs

Food Chains and Food Webs

Food Chain and Food Webs

Wild Things Autumn/ Ngahuru 2019

Hōmai he pōro poikiri and Ānei he pōro poikiri Scratch Animation

Hōmai he pōro poikiri 

 Ānei he pōro poikiri Scratch Animation

Below is a video of this weeks phrase of the week, Hōmai he pōro poikiri and Ānei he pōro poikiri. If the video does not  work then here is a link to this week's scratch animation.

Ānei he pōro poikiri and Homai he poro poikiri!

Homai te netipōro? Ānei he netipōro!

Homai te  netipōro? Ānei he netipōro!

Below is a video of this weeks phrase of the week, "Homai te  netipōro? Ānei he netipōro!". If the video does not  work then here is a link to this week's scratch animation.

Homai te netipōro? Ānei he netipōro!

Ānei he pāhikitepōro / Scratch Animation

Ānei he pāhikitepōro /  Scratch Animation

 Below is a video of this weeks phrase of the week, ("Ānei he pāhikitepōro."). If the video does not  work then here is a link to this week's scratch animation.

Ānei he pāhikitepōro!

Maori Phrase Of The Week

Maori Phrase Of The Week

In Ruma Waru (Room Eight) We are learning to use simple Māori phrases.

 Below is a photo with a voice of me saying the maori phrase of the week. I have never used this app called "Chatter Pix" before but it went quite well and its really easy to use.

Equivalent Fraction Maths Diamond

Equivalent Fraction Maths Diamond

In Room Eight this week we have been learning about equivalent fractions and how to simplify them. Below is a diamond that me and my maths partner "Hannah," worked on together. This diamond is an equivalent one. Equivalent means  "the same as."  We had to find fractions that were equal to ( same as) other fractions and then we had to  simplify them.

He Kakano DLO

Fractions DLO

Learning Sign Language

Learning Sign Language

In Room Eight we are learning to do sign language. We have to  record videos of ouselves introducing ourselves by doing our names and to also

Below is a video of me learning and doing sign language. If the video doesn't work, then below is a link to my sign language video.

Click Here To See My Video

Scratch Animations

In Room Eight we have

 to learn how to use scratch. I have used scratch before and I have made several projects but I made one based on the comic strips I have been doing.  This the phrase is  " ka pai to panui" which means great reading. This is a link to a video I have screen recorded of my scratch work below as well as the video.  For the last week of school we have to add sound into our animations so here is my one.

ENJOY!

Link To Scratch Animation