Rodney Wright DLO

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

Over the past few days in lockdown Te waka Ako have been finding information on a paralympian. 

I picked Rodney Wright, Once we have finished finding all the information we want we have to gather it all and put on a DLO, a rap song, or a book creator. As you all know we are in Lockdown so we have google meets every day with our class. On Wednesday and Friday Te Waka Ako have a synicate meet and talk about anything we want. My favourtie day of the week is Friday because we get handed certificates. The teachers put them into a folder on everybodys drives so we can have a look. When we get back to school the kids that got duffy certificates get to go to the office and get a free book to read. I love being in Lockdown because we get to spend lots of time with our family even though we can not go out and have fun it is fun being at home in my opinion. Let me no in a comment how you feel in Lockdown. Here is a link to my DLO. 

Olympic reading work.

Talofa lava bloggers,

Over the past few weeks Te Waka Ako have been working on an Olympic choose board for reading. We have to read lots of online and offline books and put the information we find onto a notes document. Every day before we start our choice board we have to read a book to a buddy from your same reading class for 5 minutes. Then we can start our reading choice board. Once we have all the information we need we are allowed to create a DLO or book on book creator. This is to gather all of our information that found and make a book all about the Olympics. I chose to make a book on book creator. I am now done with it and would like to share my work with you. Search bookcreater.com to try it yourself.

Blog you later. And check out my other posts.

Procedural writing.

 Talofa lava bloggers,

During writing we have been working on a procedural writing text about a game. I chose Snakes and ladders because it is a nice and simple thing to write about. I learnt how to make things that I am writing, make sense. We did this by following each others instructions exactly to see if they worked out with the steps and rules that were written. I think I did well because I am the only one in my class that has properly finished yet. Follow my instructions below if you would like to play.

Snakes and Ladders link.

STEM week Waikowhai Student led toolkits.

 Waikowhai toolkit.

On the 11th of June Waikowhai Primary School had a school toolkits with the seniors and middle school. During STEM week witch means science technology engineering mathematics week. There were 24 presenters and 12 toolkits to opt into. We used a survey to choose our first second and third choices for our toolkit on Friday. I was only allowed to pick one thing because I was presenting Incredibox twice to the middle school and seniors mixed up.

My first toolkit was Word Art in Waitemata. It was presented by Vivian and Hazel. This is a really cool and fun app to play with. Once they had finished the slideshow we got to have sandpit time. That was when we all got to make whatever we wanted. I made 3 that I am going to show you down below. Word Art is like art but on a devise where you have to put lots of word into a shape that looks really cool. Maybe you could have a try on this app. You can do whatever you like use your imagination with Word Art.

They second toolkit I was presenting in Kaiwhare with 12 people. I was nervous at this point it was like being a teacher having to look after so many children. I was presenting with Kiani. We had to make a slideshow on how to use Incredibox. Incredibox is an app that you can make your own music in. When you join Incredibox you have to drag little icons onto men to create some music. I really like Incredibox because it gives you a chance to be creative because there is different styles of music that you can create your own music with. The slideshow had to include some sandpit time for them like 15 minutes. I had fun because I had to present again. And I would then know what I needed to do on my next time presenting in a different class. I had fun as well as some frustration from all of the noise the kids in the class were making. At least I had a teacher there to help if me and Kiani could not handle it.

My third toolkit I was presenting again. This time it was easier because Me and Kiani knew what we were doing We also had a a teacher in this class but he played with Incredibox so we had to handle a lot of noise in the class with almost 20 children. Again we were presenting Incredibox just in a different classroom. This time the class had more sandpit time playing with Incredibox.

After all I had a amazing day teaching different children how to use Incredibox as well as them making music. If we do this again I would love to carry on being a presenter just maybe with a different app.

Marine Reserve map.

Marine Reserves!

Talofa lava bloggers, 

This week we have been focusing on the ocean. Te Waka Ako have been reading about marine reserves. We had to read a lot of information during the last few weeks. At least it was very interesting to do and really fun when we were finding the answers to some questions. We had a slide of 9 pages to do with lots of activities that we had to complete. Having to complete all these slides in only a few weeks was a bit hard because there was lots of information. One of the slides included writing a blog post which is this one here that you are reading. I now know a lot of information about Marine reserves such as were they are and how you can protect them. I also no the other areas that are protected around us, I am now able to share my completed slide show of sea week work. I hope you enjoy my learning.  If you have some free time please leave a comment or read other posts of mine. 

Here is a link to my slideshow. 

Day without the year sixes

Kia Ora bloggers,

On the 17th of May the year sixes went to Spark Arena for a trip and the teachers went with them. So the year fives were  left here with Miss McGrath. When I got to school the year sixes had to eat something little or put something small in their pocket. I was jealous because I wanted to go to Spark Arena as well.

 The first thing we did was talk about our well being survey. Then we had to answer some questions from the well being survey. After that we walked around the room with some music. When the music stopped we had to find a buddy and tell them something that we are grateful for.  Something else we did was making fortune tellers with nice complements to our self or to others. Then we had to test them out on someone. Closer to the end of the day we did a complement circle. We had to say a nice complement to some one and then they had to say one to another person after. That was fun. When we had finished that the year sixes stared to arrive as we were finishing some of our work that needed to be finished. Anyway that was my day without the year sixes. If you have a day without a class or a group of students. Maybe you could write a blog post about what you did that day. Blog you later bloggers. Down below are some instructions of how to make one. There is also some pictures of mine finished.

Swimming at Cameron pools!

Talofa lava bloggers,

Since week 1 term 2 the seniors and middle school have been swimming at Cameron Pools on Tuesday and Thursday. The seniors got buddied up with a class to go to Cameron Pools in the bus together. At the pool the middles and the seniors split. The middles went into the Nan's pool and the seniors went into the big and quite deep pool. We use boards or no boards. Each time we swam down the lane in a different style of swimming. My swimming coach is really nice to my group. Swimming at Cameron pools is really fun. Something that I would like to achieve would be me free style and my mermaid swim. Some of the styles of swimming we did were; free style, stream line, dolphin dive, mermaid swim and others. I love Cameron Pools. I hope you love swimming as well. Thank you for looking at my blog post. If you had any more free time could you please look my other posts or maybe even post a comment. Blog you later.

Here is a link to a video