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

Beach Cookout

Beach Cookout 

In Room One and Eight we are learning to

• Design a menu suitable for cooking on a campfire
• Keep within a $5 budget
• Share the jobs and food provision fairly between team members
• Bring along all equipment we need to cook with/on/in
• Work cooperatively to cook our meal

On April 3rd in the morning Room One and Room Eight walked
down to the Karoro Beach to do a beach cookout. There were
many parents and the teachers Ms Kemp and Mrs Maclean.
In my group I had Korban, David, Ethan and myself. Each
group had their own parent to help them. In my group we had
 Angus Taylor as our parent. At this time of the year it is
Autumn so it is an open fire season.
For our team group we figured out what we wanted to cook
 because someone said nacho's and we all agreed on cooking
 them as well as pancakes.  At our beach cookout we didn't
 have set jobs we all just took turns doing somethings.
When our two classes walked down to the Karoro Beach we
 were very close to Watson's Creek and the ocean at Tasman
Sea. To make our fire we used dry things like old mans beard
 then kindling and last thick pieces of wood in a pyramid shape.
Our two classes went because so our teaching could see how
we work as a team, to have fun, for the William Pike Challenge
 for a new experience and to build new outdoor skills.
Doing the beach cookout didn't really have any challenges
 I thought we worked well as a team, but I managed to flip
a pancake easily.

I had a really good time down at the beach with my team and
 I thought we worked very well together. If we could do this
again I would like to.

How To Find The Volume Of A Plastic Shape

How To Find The Volume Of A Plastic Shape

 

                      WALT recoginse a cuboid and explain how to find out the volume of a shape.

               This is a link to a video of Milan and I explaining how to find the volume of a cardboard box.

How To Find The Volume Of A Cardboard Box

How To Find The Volume Of A Cardboard Box

How To Find The Volume Of An Object

                WALT recoginse a cuboid and explain how to find out the volume of a shape.

This is a link to the video of Milan and I explaining how to find the volume of a cuboid.

How To Find The Volume Of A Cardboard Box

How To Find The Volume Of A Lunch Box

How To Find The Volume Of An Object

WALT recoginse a cuboid and explain how to find out the volume of a shape.

This is the link to the video of Milan and I explaning how to find the volume of a lunch box.

How To Find The Volume Of A Lunch Box

Scratch Animation

Scratch Animation

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. ENJOY!

Link For Scratch Animation

This is the animation and if its doesn't work there is the link you can click onto.

Poem and Connections DLO

Analogy DLO

Be With A Tree

#bewithatree
This week for reading and writing we have been do challenges each day for the Be With A Tree event. For this we were suppose to choose a partner to work with, but I worked by myself. I worked by myself because my goal for this year is to be more independent.  Below is my work for the 10 day challenge of  Be With A Tree. Please leave a thoughtful, helpful and positive comment on my work.

1. Meet a type of tree you haven’t met before. A tree that I never really look at or take the time to look at I just walk past it alot is the tree called the Pohutukawa Tree. We can also call this tree the New Zealand Christmas Tree.

2. Find something living in the tree. Something that I found that was living in the Pohutukawa Tree was a honey bee. I have been seeing many honey bees lately around the Pohutukawa Tree flowers. I have also seen a couple birds like the Tui and the common sparrows.

3. Play bark bingo. When I played bark bingo I had to find six different types of bark off a tree and set up a bingo board. I placed thedown on the ground and I chose three types and the other played picked tree barks as well. To play the bark bingo I had to put the names of the barks written on paper then put into a snaplock bag. One by one I pulled out a type of bark and I had to see if I had it.

4. Meet a tree of significance.  A tree of significance that I met was a Kowhai Tree. The Kowhai Tree is  native to New Zealand and this tree attracts the Tui’s which is also a native bird to New Zealand. This tree is known for blooming their bright yellow flowers  in the Winter or early Spring.

5. Find a tree that provides us with food. A tree that can provide people with food is the Cabbage Tree. When there wasn’t much food back in the day people use to scrape off the bark and cook it up. Thescientific name for the Cabbage Tree is called Cordyline Australis.

6. Vote for your hero tree.

I have voted for my hero tree and that one was a Kowhai Tree. I love Kowhai tree because they are nice and bright with their colour and they are native to New Zealand.

7. Plant a tree or a seed ball.  I actually have planted a tree in the past ten days for my mum. I was in Motueka for holiday and we went to one of my mum’s great uncles and he gave us heaps of seeds to plant a greengage tree. A greengage tree is just like a plum tree but the plums are green. I have planted two of these trees in my backyard for my mum.

8. Find a non- living tree. I have a non living tree in my backyard actually.  My mum loves photinia trees so we have heaps in our backyard. I looked out my bedroom window and seen a non living photinia tree  behind me.

9. Compare a rākau to the giant kauri Tāne Mahuta.

Tane Mahuta and The Pohutukawa Comparison

10. Why do you think these tree are important? Write your thoughts on an outline of a leaf and send it to KCC to be apart of our tree sculpture.

What I said on the outline  of the leaf was….
Trees are important to me because they are native to NZ.

I also know that trees are important because trees can actually create types of air humans inhale.

Week Six Of Kupu Hou O Te Wiki

Kupu Hou O Te Wiki

In Room Eight we are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language. This week the teo reo maori phrase is "aroha mai." This phrase means sorry. We had to create a comic strip and create our own characters and include the te reo phrase of the week.

This is the link to my Scratch Animation for week six.

Triangle Area

Triangle and Area

We are learning how to find the area in triangles. We had to do a work sheet,  then we had to draw some triangles in our maths book to match  what the instructions said on the sheet.  To figure out the area of something you go 1/2 of the base multiplied by the height.

Comic Strip On Scratch

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 is a link to a video I have screen recorded of my scratch work.
Link To My Scratch project

This is an image of my characters.

Bully Free week Video

Bully Free Week

We are Learning to... 
dentity, sensitivity, and respect. We are learning to Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.

This is a video( imovie) Milan, Phoebe and I have put together for bully free week.

dentity, sensitivity, and respect. We are learning to Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.	Celebrating Being Us
								Notices
								KP
						PE: Swim Safe Programme and Cricket		PE
								Library
						William Pike Challenge: Noho Marae		Tuhimaituhiatu

dentity, sensitivity, and respect. We are learning to Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.	Celebrating Being Us
								Notices
								KP
						PE: Swim Safe Programme and Cricket		PE
								Library
						William Pike Challenge: Noho Marae		Tuhimaituhiatu

dentity, sensitivity, and respect. We are learning to Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.	Celebrating Being Us
								Notices
								KP
						PE: Swim Safe Programme and Cricket		PE
								Library
						William Pike Challenge: Noho Marae		Tuhimaituhiatu

Number Cruncher

Kupu Hou O Te Wiki

Week Four Of Kupu Hou O Te Wiki

In Room Eight we are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language. This week the teo reo maori phrase is "aroha mai." This phrase means sorry. We had to create a comic strip and create our own characters and include the te reo phrase of the week.

Success criteria

Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of the week.

Week Four of Term 2 my class is doing another week of our kupu (word/ phrase). The phrase for this week is " ka kite" which also means good bye. Below is a photo of my comic strip I have just finished doing and each person has to keep using their same characters so as you could tell I have been for the past 4 weeks.

This is a photo of my comic strip

Kupu Hou O Te Wiki

Week Three Of Kupu Hou O Te Wiki

In Room Eight we are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language. This week the teo reo maori phrase is "aroha mai." This phrase means sorry. We had to create a comic strip and create our own characters and include the te reo phrase of the week.

Success criteria

Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of the week.

Week Three of Term 2 my class is doing another kupu(word) or pharse to use for our comic strips. This week we  are doing the phrase " E noho ra" this means goodbye to those saying. Here below is my comic strip I made with the same characters I have used for the past two weeks.

This is a photo of my comic strip.

Road Safety Week

WALT:write within the persuasive writing structure.

Why Karoro School Should Have A Kea Crossing

I strongly believe having a kea crossing is very important to have
at Karoro School because  many students need to cross the state
highway to get places, for the child’s own safety and because doing
kea patrol provides chance for the older kids to be mature and have
responsibility for something within their school.

Most people would agree that having a kea crossing would give
seniors a chance to be more of a  role model and to lead in something
for their school. Children being involved with their school by doing the
kea crossing is helpful because without the students  their wouldn’t
be a way for them to get across busy roads safely. Many seniors like
to interact with their school and toparticipate in new things so this a
perfect way children may participate in another thing for their school.

It’s easy to see why Karoro School needs a kea crossing because many

children bike, walk and also catch a ride to and from school to get home
or to get to places they need to go. Many children are tired after being at
school for seven hours and are too busy  not knowing what they
are doing. After school I see younger children and preteens actually using
the kea crossing not because they have to for crossing a state highway,
but for them to get somewhere else. After school when

children are let out of their classrooms  they are running, laughing with
their friends

and are not thinking about road safety.

We must realize that this so obvious and important why schools should
keep using a kea crossing because ives safety to the children crossing the
dangerous roads. It’s obvious to see, when having a kea crossing
decreases the amount of crashes and provides safety to the children
crossing because they are all crossing together at the one time and at
one place under the guidance of the patrol. Just the other week there
was a crash with three cars because of a child crossing the road without
a kea crossing in the morning.You’re ridiculous if you think that not having
a kea crossing after school is not important! This is so important because
if we don’t change this now or not keep the kea crossing after school many
children could get seriously hurt and these accidents would keep happening.

In conclusion, kea crossing ( kea patrol) should stay at our school because

students crossing a roads safely is  very important because they need to go
places, for the child’s own safety and because this provides a chance for the
older kids to be mature as well as having responsibility for something within their school.