Te Wiki o te Reo Maori

Today we spent some time celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Maori. In small groups, ATN could choose from 6 activities.

1. Make a kahoot

2.  create a Maori Language poster

3.  Create some Maori signs for objects around the school.

4.  Create some Maori artwork

5.  do some research  about Maori Culture / History

6.  complete an online Maori Language game.

Here are a couple examples of our work from today.

  

lockdown boredom

 I know lockdown is over for most of us but in case we need to go into lockdown again, here are a few ideas to blow those lockdown boredom cobwebs away.  We still have a few more slides to add but here is out starting ideas.  We hope this helps.  Anything you have tried that works?

Lockdown blog posts

 What legends ATN are!  Here are just a few of the amazing blog posts about what ATN got up to during lockdown.  I really want to try those dumplings!  What did you do in Lockdown?

                        

Pick a Path Stories

 I was looking to do something different for writing and came across this on another class blog!  It's nice when we can share ideas.  Our learning was to add detail into our characters and settings on each page.  Here are some detail/ description and story lines that I like.  Which one did you like?  If you want to see more, then check out each student's posts on their page and see if you can find more that you like.

 

 

MY TOP 5 ROCKET INFORMATION REPORTS

This is now our 3rd information report.  We are learning all the time how to improve them and put them into our own words.  Our next learning goal is how to write that conclusion but these are our just a few of our information reports we wrote over the last two weeks.   Really proud of our learning.  Which one is your favourite report and why?

RA HAKA DAY! (Friday 19th May)

 This was an amazing day lead by Whaea Maha and Matua Te Tahi.    If you have ever wondered what it was like to do a Haka with 400 people this post will show you how amazing it is.  The hairs on your arm prickle as the strength and mana of the tane voices bellow and the dulcet voices of the wahine give another layer to the power of this Haka.  It was a very tiring day but what a privilege to be a part of.  I hope we have another one to practise what we have learnt.  Do you have a school Haka?

TOTARA

MATAI KAURI RIMU WHOLE SCHOOL

My Top 5 pick for Stories

 In Class, we have been writing recounts.  Our focus has been on adding detail, upgrade their words to sound sophisticated, and different ways to start a story.  Each of these stories do something from our focus well.  What do you like about them?

The Power of Yet - Growth Mindset

In a growth mindset, people believe that they can develop and grow.  The Power of Yet, establishes that we may have found something hard, this means we just haven't mastered it - yet!  Here is what the kids watched and here are my top 5 responses.

               

Part of the task was to pull out the key messages of each video and put it into their own words or key sentences that stood out to them.  It ended with a final reflection of what they got out of these videos.  Here are 5 from our class.

ATN Research Projects

As an end of year activity ATN was asked to chose a topic related to camp.  We went to curious cove!

Creating questions to answer, they had to research their information on the internet.  BUT it had to be written in their own words.  It could not be copied and pasted.  This is called Paraphrasing.  Here are my picks for top 5 research projects.  Tell me what was your favourite slide and something you learnt?

Manufacturing Media - adverts

 In Manaiakalani, our class has been looking at the power of media.  How they have two messages.  To get us to DO something, or to get us to BUY something.  Here are a few of our awesome adverts created in the last two weeks.  Do they make you want to do it/ buy it?

What Good Writers Do!

 At the end of last term, ATN had to put together a teaching slide about all the things they had learnt in writing.  It had to give an example and use a range of media to present their learnings.  They have blown me away with what they learnt.  I wish I could post all 24  but I will add just my top 5.  P.S.  it has been really hard to narrow it down.  I hope you learn something from these very cool slides.  Leave us a comment about your favourite tool or new learning.  Enjoy.

Our Classroom Political parties

 Over the next three weeks we are learning about the New Zealand Political system and government.  In the process, we are creating our own political parties.  This involves coming up with our key classroom values and 3 laws they think will make better classroom.  We will be holding elections at the end of week 4.

Our next step is to have a leaders debate.

For now here are the advertisements promoting each of the parties in our classroom elections.

Novel Study Predictions (using padlet)

Character Description - Nevaeh Lawton

For writing this week, we had to describe a character. Most people made up their characters. We had to list all the thing about our character using our 5 senses. The character I made was an avocado called Avo Man. 

  LI:
To add detail about a character. 
The Power sentence. 
Surface features - Contractions / Their / They’re / There

Avo man was walking the street, he was getting lots of stares. This is probably because he’s way better looking than everyone else. His shiny green and black skin and his soft avocado insides, this guy was slick.

He turned to all the onlookers and in his very low pitched voice, “hey, how's it going?”. A cheeky grin spread across his face. Everybody plugged their noses and fanned the air around them. Maybe they weren’t looking at him for his looks… It was the smell! The street is filled with B.O and moldy avocado. ‘Yum just what everyone wanted’. When he got home, he felt his squishy tummy rumbling, LUNCH TIME! He doesn’t eat the usual food like, rocks or soil. He ate chips. That was all. The chips he ate were a bumpy rough pattern, like his skin.

After Avo Man had eaten, he went to sit on the couch, to watch the television. That’s all he ever did. When his favourite sports team loses, he’d rage and throw stuff everywhere. Last time that happened he pushed his sleeping friend off the couch and he came back the next day with a broken collar bone. (yes carrots have collar bones) At the end of the day, Avo man feels pretty darn tired (even though he didn’t actually do anything) he goes to bed to dream about food. Good night Avo Man.

Simon The Cat Character Description - By Chloe

 

I have been learning to do Character Description writing. My writing is about Simon the cat. It is explaining what he looks like, and what he does.  I did it on Simon the Cat because he seemed cool. I never did Character Description before so it was cool to learn.

My thoughts on should social media be allowed to hold and store our personal information? - Leo

our teacher told us to share our thoughts on different subjects. My topic is: should social media be allowed to store our personal info?

These are the pros and cons on the matter.

Hi my name is Leo. I'm 11 and a year 7 at Otaki College on the Kapiti coast. My question is should social media be allowed to store and hold our personal info? The answer is No. 

Firstly, if apps can get hold of your personal information, they can learn everything about you but they are strangers, also if you say too much it can be used against you. People can get your passwords and sometimes get into your bank account. 

Secondly, some sites like facebook or instagram save all the photos you post, even the ones you delete. This makes the site untrustworthy with your personal things like your age and address.

Thirdly, on the plus side, the game can set itself up to your age level. Others use your comments or suggestions to make the game or app better.

My final opinion is that No, social media should not be allowed to store our personal info. Yes it might make the app or site better, but do they all? The true answer is no, not really. Gaming sites like roblox, save your conversations with other players and tell the big company owners what you like and send ads using that information and think you will click and go by something because you like it. That is my opinion on should social media store our info.

Letter to Jacinda - Fraser Martin

Letter to Jacinda

Dear Jacinda, my name is Fraser from Otaki Wellington. I am 12 years old and I love cars, swimming and basketball. I am writing this email to tell you that you have worked very hard.

Firstly I wanted to recognise you for being a responsible confident Leader, and for making some tough decisions. Also, if it wasn't for you we could still be in level 4.

Thank you so much for always being a step ahead and open to all questions.

You are a good leader. you are very passionate in what you do and obviously a very organised leader. 

Have a great weekend.

sincerely Fraser

This is my letter to Jacinda and she responded :)

My letter to Jacinda- Summer

Hello my name is Summer and I'm a year 7 at Otaki College, I definitely think you should come and visit sometime! I'm writing this because I would like to recognise the amazing things you have done for us, NewZealand.

Everybody would like to thank you for being super responsible with your choices, Being a huge step ahead. If it weren't for you this horrible virus would be spreading faster and making people extremely ill. 🤒

Another thing I would like to recognise is why you are an amazing leader for New Zealand. You are confident, stern, Work very hard, and you have a positive attitude about everything. Thank you so much for reading! Have a very nice weekend!

my character descripiton -Bijou

The chubby cat peered over the edge of the bed. His long fuzzy tail flicked on and off the duvet cover. He was looking at his owner to see if he was awake. The demanding and percistent cat for another way to wake him up. Finally, My owner was awake. Ughh, he's back asleep already. That was what Simon's morning was like.

Simon looks like a fat squishy polar bear. He has a long fuzzy tail. His eyes are as big as a frog's eye. He's got a very cute mouth. He's very cute in general. I guess you could call him a kawaii cat.

He sounds like a baby when he meows. But he has a low, dark and creepy voice when he purrs. When he's angry he'll try and bite you with a crr sound! It's very scary.

Simon loves, like loves, smelling other cat's bum's. It's his way of saying all greetings and questions like hey!, how are you? What's your name? I mean he kind of likes sniffing the outdoors but not that much.

Simon loves touching nice fluffy blankets. He loves couches as well but he rips the thread out most of the time. He loves soft things like blankets and pillows are his favourite.

He loves eating biscuits. Temptation ones are his favourite. Simon doesn't really mind what he eats. He eats anything but he usually gets sick and throws the food back up 😆😨

When Simon's owner doesn't wake up he's thinking Oh my!, Wake up, I'm so so hungry!, Ughhh! Simon really can't be bothered anymore he can't put up with this anymore.

Simon loves being playful. But when he's in a very high play mode watch out he's very dangerous. If Simon doesn't get his way he'll be the most demanding and sassy cat you would've ever seen. When his owner comes back Simon acts innocent and cute.

Finally Simon woke his owner up with a thud of a bat.

My movie review in 3 parts -by Andrew

In the Lockdown, we had to write a movie review and my movie is-how to train your dragon 1