This week for reading we read about how climate change is effecting the world. We learnt about why the seas are rising and about islands being submerged into the sea. For my create task I had to make a poster about 5 ways we can do to reduce climate change by 2030. My create task is below. :)
If I were ever to do this again I would include images to do with my points.
For the two making connections and synthesising we read 4 texts and made a create from the texts make an event for he community, make a word brick or a be poem. I decided to make a event for the community. I decided to do a community event the event I decided was a community garden that would be a vertical garden so it would not take up as much space. My work is linked below. Next time I do this I think I would talk more about the plants you can have in a vertical garden.
1.6, 4.2, 8.3
4.3, 6.8, 8.9
1.9, 5.9, 9.4
2.113, 2.231, 2.311
2.432, 3.332, 3.343
4.450, 5.551, 6.564
34.44, 42.33, 43.42
40.32, 41.72, 47.43
For writing this week we are working on poetry. We got to pick our own topic to write our poem about and we got to choose a poetry style such as haiku, rhymed poem, riddle poem and shape poem. I choose to do a shape poem about trees. I wrote my poem and then I attempted to make my writing look like a tree I tried making it look like a tall bushy tree but that didn't work so I resorted to a Christmas tree shape. I changed the colours so it looked some what like a tree.
Over all I am happy with he shape of my tree, but I am unsure about my writing it self. I don't really know how to write poems.
For the past weeks we have been writing speeches about 'the pursuit of happiness'. Next week we will be presenting our speeches. I wrote about happiness being a choice we make every day and how happiness impacts our life.
Travis gave me some feed back on my writing. Over all he thinks my writing is good and there is nothing for e to work on. I think I have done well in my writing . At first I was unsure about the topic I choose but now I think that my writing has developed well and I have some good structured paragraphs.
For the past 4 weeks in Māori, we have learnt about numbers, days and months of the year. We learnt how to say numbers up to 100, learnt how to say and remember the days and months of the year there is even a song to remember the months. Finally then we combined that knowledge into a calendar including, important days to you and your family.
To make this slideshow used the layout of this years calendar because not every month starts on Monday and had to change the days to Te Reo. Once I had finished doing that I added the important dates to me and my family. These dates include, my dads birthday, Easter, Ascension Day, my sisters brithday, my mums birthday, my birthday and Christmas. If I where to ever do this again I would try and make the numbers of the year in Te Reo as well. Would you like to learn the days and months of the year in Te Reo?
This week has been a strange week being stuck in lock down. But this week I was able to finish my reading. For reading we read 3 texts and watched 1 video about mindfulness and inner peace. With all our knowledge around mindfulness and inner peace we had to write about it, and also include someone who has shown girt and perseverance.
I chose J.K. Rowling for my person who has shown girt and perseverance. When she was at school her teacher told her she was no good at writing but she still tried to become a writer, now she is one of the worlds best known authors and her books have been turned into movies!
The information I wrote about is what I have learnt and realised about mindfulness and growth mindset. I believe a growth mindset and mindfulness are very important to live a better and happier life.
If I were to do this again, I would write more about how to be mindful and at peace. Like breathing exercises and activities you can do to stay calm.
What kind of mindset do you think you have? Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset?
In week 1 for PBL we learnt about the science of happiness. We learnt about Dopamine, Oxycontin, Serotonin, Endorphins ( D.O.S.E ) and what each of them are. With all the information we had learnt we had to make a DLO showing what we have learnt about D.O.S.E and ways we can increase our happiness. The work that me and Mimi did is below.
The flowers represent growing and staying calm. The person doing yoga represents mindfulness because when I think of peace I think of calmness. The olive branch is a sign of peace. The heart represents loving and caring for others that makes us happy making us feel peaceful because we know we have people that love and care for us. The people jumping are a group of friends because peace is something that is stress free, we know we are happy around our friends.
I think am strong with physical well being because I do regular physical activity. I should work on social well being because I find it hard to work with other people.
For our writing this term Kaupeka is focusing on persuasive writing. This week I wrote a persuasive text about ‘happiness is a choice’. The text had to include persuasive words and a rhetorical question. My work for this week is the text below. :)
Happiness is a choice
Happiness is a choice we get to make. But how do we get to that choice? Psychologists believe that there are ways where we can choose to be happy. First, this can be done by persistently thinking about the positives. Focus on the good things in your life. Next, make happiness your number one goal like, create some challenges that challenge and excite you.
How you can be happy. Happiness is caused in different ways like if you get a reward, but sometimes just exercising makes you happy. When you exercise it releases endorphins which is a happy chemical which puts you in a better mood. But sometimes we are sad, sadness is longer term unlike happiness, like if you fail something you feel sad longer than you feel happy. But if you choose happiness you won't think of sad times longer.
Happiness is a good thing because deep down inside it’s what strives you to do your best and to keep being motivated to carry on.“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions” -Dalai Lama. When my team lost our games in basketball we were disappointed, if we would have won one more game we may have gotten into the finals. But I chose to stay positive. Based on this experience, I believe that the Dalai Lama was right; Happiness is not something ready made, You have to act on it.
For all these reasons, happiness is something you work for. We are not just happy all the time. You decide if you are happy or not, for instance if you fall over you have the choice to stand up and keep going or sit there. That is your choice to make. Happiness is key to living a better life. If you are happy you will want to move on when times are tough.
This week for maths we did compass directions and distances; our create for this week we were told to make a map with grid references and compass directions and write some questions. My work from this week is below. :)
For the last couple weeks from writing we have been making a news article about Goldilocks and the three bears. We had to talk about the scene that Goldilocks made what the family of bears thought and the community. We had to include a headline, photo with caption, the five W's shifts informality, action and tweets. For this week we had to proof read our work and add some things that we had missed. My work is linked below.
This week for my reading our goal was Select from a wide range of genre when reading independently.
We chose 3 articles from different category's (category's like world and sport), then had to list the
who, what, where, when and why; We also had to make a better title for the text.
My work from this week is bellow. :)
Article 1:
Prime Minster receives Covid-19 vaccination - National
(They spelt the title wrong)
Better headline; One step closer to vaccinating the whole country
Who; Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the chief adviser Juliet Gerrard
What; They got their vaccination
Where; Auckland New Zealand
When; Don’t know but the article was published on the 20th of June
Why; She got her vaccine because there is covid
Jelly effect; It was a big milestone to the country
Shifts in formality; “It was pretty pain free” “For me it is a real big milestone to be apart of what is the biggest
vaccination event and the biggest health roll out of our history is a really important milestone for me”
Article 2:
Bear gets stuck in factory ceiling - Interest Article
Better title; How did the bear get up there?
Who; Bear, employees
What; The bear gets stuck in the ceiling employers have to stay in the cafeteria
Where; Volvo factory (car manufacturer in Virginia USA)
When; Doesn’t say but the article was published on the 14th of june
Why; Don’t know
Jelly effect; bear in the ceiling
Shifts in formality; “a suitable site for release”
Article 3:
Swimming NZ to send 7 swimmers to Tokyo Olympics - Sport
Better title; The super seven swimmers
Who; Olympic swimmers
Lewis Clareburt
Zac Reid
Erika Fairweather
Eve Thomas
Hayley McIntosh
Ali Galyer
Carina Doyle
What; Seven swimmers going to the Olympics for the first time
Where; Tokyo Olympics
Why; Because the Olympics are coming up
When; 2020 but postponed to 2021 and the article was published on the 16th of June
Jelly effect; One of the swimmers Erika Fairweather is only 17 and she is the youngest athlete to represent
New Zealand at the Olympics
Shifts in formality; “She is thrilled to be heading to her first Olympic games”
For our reading this week we read; Matariki: why it should be a public holiday (Link to the text). For our creation this week we could make a paper star or a digital star. I decided to make a digital star in the corners of the star. We would write some text features such as punctuation, factual information, headings, subheadings and nouns. There is a picture of my creation below.
Do you think matariki should have its own holiday?
breaching This week for reading we had to reading about the fantastics and grammaristics. The
Mayor confident flood-prone Christchurch river will not burst its banks
Lianne Dalziel said she had not received any advice that the river was at risk of breaching its banks, even with a high tide expected at 8.30am on Monday. (Action)
(Photo)
There was still a significant amount of capacity left in the city’s three new stormwater basins installed along the upper reaches of the Heathcote River, she said. (Noticing)
He was relieved it was still about a foot from the house after the king tide. On Saturday he had moved ground floor furniture upstairs. (Feeling)
“We were prepared for the ground floor to be inundated.” (Dialogue)
If you need to be on the roads, please drive slowly, particularly through any surface flooding, so that you don’t push water onto people’s properties. (Punctuation)
“I've lifted all my curtains and moved all my shoes up. [On Sunday] I might move a few other things just as a precaution,” she said.
(Dialogue) (Punctuation)
“Also, try and avoid walking or biking through surface flooding as there is a chance it could be contaminated with wastewater,” the spokesperson said. (Dialogue)
Wahren Hensley’s property in Clarendon Tce, Christchurch, was “completely surrounded” by water on Sunday morning. The level sat just below the raised doorsteps to the house. Hensley, whose home has been flooded three times previously, said the water was building at his property “bloody rapidly”.
(Dialogue) & (Punctuation)
This week for reading we had to read a short story and make a character web with their name and a description of them. I read the book Geronimo Stilton The Weird Book Machine I have 5 characters my character web is below.
Just outside my window screen an array of lights is staring back at me, while herds of traffic conquer the streets. Manila is like a exotic jungle as the buildings stand tall like jungle trees.
The colourful delight of rich juicy fruits fills me with happiness as this new and exciting treat is cold and refreshing. The deep purple ube reminds me of a delicate purple flower.
Humid and hot weather is the perfect calling for the beach, the sand is a pale shade of cream and the sea is a pale blue. This is my Tūranagawaewae.
(97 words in total)
The reason why my title is The Sunny 7,640 Islands is because there are 7,640 island in the Philippines, and on the flag there is a sun.
(Picture below)
Ube is a purple yam/sweet potato. It was only grown in the Philippines, but now it is grown in other places in Asia. It is used in desserts ice cream, cakes.
Were do you think your Tūranagawaewae is, were do you think you belong in the world the most? It could be a whole country or just a city or a lake!
