LI: To use nature to create a collaborative image of the Hunua Falls.
One of our collaborative challenges to help strengthen our group connections was to create a picture of the Hunua Falls in our activity groups using the leaves, sticks, stones that could be found on the ground. We think we did a great job!
LI: To identify and understand how descriptive language is used to create a clear picture of a setting in a text.
Following our Manaiakalani ‘Learn’ staff meeting last week with Fiona and Matt we replicated the lesson with LS2 using Adobe Express. The idea behind this task was to focus on the imagery in the text, then use those words to recreate the scene the author set using AI. We had a lot of fun doing this challenge. The general feedback was that it was a lot of fun but finding the right words to generate the images needed was the challenge. To help us get around the last part we used Word Hippo to help us unpack the vocabulary.
Congratulations to Sweet-E and Rekard for making the most of their learning time. Being focused and completing work is a great way to start the year!
This year Duffy Books in Homes celebrated 30 years of helping to break the cycle of booklessness among children at schools like ours throughout New Zealand. Panmure Bridge School joined the Duffy Books in Homes programme in 1999. Since then more than 14 million books have been given to kids like us who know reading is a big part of our learning because it helps us to explore other places in our imagination through words. To celebrate this amazing milestone PBS threw Duffy a party and LS2 made a film about it!
Enjoy our movie!
We used our smart searching skills to find facts about the Bengal Swamp Tiger. Once we had found the information we needed we made notes in our own words. We used these notes to help us write our information reports. Information reports give readers with information on a chosen topic by providing them with facts.
LI: to write an information report that informs the reader about the Swamp Tiger.
Not many people know that swamp tigers are nocturnal hunters. Swamp tigers, (also known as panthera tigris tigris) are glamorous animals, regardless of their beauty they are vicious beasts that are slowly coming to extinction. These tigers can be found in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans, which is in-between India and bangladesh.
Swamp tigers have an orange coat and black stripes all around their body to help them camouflage with their surroundings. These creatures have a beastly jaw and muscular bodies. They use their enormous and retractable claws to easily take out their prey. Also did you know that they weigh about 453.592kgs?
Bengal tigers are carnivorous animals (only eats meat) they can eat, and kill everything starting from tiny crabs, to human beings. These animals eat wild boars, deers, buffalos, monkeys, unlike other tigers they include marine life into their diet.
Are you aware only about 100 of the bengal swamp tigers remain today? Swamp tigers come from a continent in Asia, you will find that they live between the borderlines of India and bangladesh. They like humid places and live in mangroves forests.
Not many people know that they are unsocial animals, either way these tigers are very protective about their territory. As it says in the opening statement, they live in mangrove forests, because of this they can camouflage easily to hunt for their prey.
Not a lot of people are aware that these beautiful predator populations will decrease if we continue to expand cities.
We were challenged to use multiplication algorithm to solve multiplication problems. I created a DLO that shows an explanation on how to solve addition algorithm. When using algorithm with multiplication it is important to remember to carry the 1 on the next number, if the number is bigger than 9.
I found this task fun because I can teach others how to use algorithm.
For this activity we created a collage of Howick Historical Village.We first got all separated into 3 groups and got to do some activitys like Butter making,Building Trolleys, A tour around and also learning about the 1800s.For my group our first activity was butter making and what we did for butter making was that we had a cream to make the butter.Our first step was to put the cream into a a glass bottle, then we used this one paddle that used to make butter in the 1800s.While we were mixing it there was a rhyme that goes like ¨Churn butter churn (Someones Name) waiting at the gate, waiting for some butter cake churn butter churn¨Then we had a little look around the place and also learning history in the 1800s,we also explored and experience the houses and looked at the boards that was giving us infomation about what the houses and there was not just houses there was a church, school and also bulding places like wood for men back then.Our last activity was Building Trolleys.What we did first was we learnt infomation about what we will be building and got into 4 groups.We got given items, tools and many other stuff that needed to be used for what we were building.For my reason about building trolleys was that we were using our teamwork skills and working togther and it was also hard because there was no instructions but only a picture for us to look at and see were does the tools or itmes goes.
What I thought about this trip was it was really amazing to learn about the 1800s and also getting more and more information about back then.What I thought about this task was that it was cool to talk about were we went and what we have been doing lately.
In the a Haiku poem there are 7 syllables, 10 syllables. Syllables are chunks of a word, For my haiku poem I did one about Maui and the sun, my poem was
The sun moved quickly
Maui had an idea
To capture the sun
He woke up early
Maui tried his best to throw
Maui brought the sun
Searching for the Ra
They came across a large whole
They hid and waited
He used up his strength
And slowly woke up the sun
Pulling it closer
He found companions
And started to hit the Ra
Slowly and slowly
I liked this task because my partner made it more interesting and fun.
LI: To understand both sides of an opinion
We read a text about 2 men that stole Victoria crosses and 96 military medals from the Natinal Army Musuem, special to NZ. We shared opinions if we thought their punishment fit the crime or not. Then we had to look and write perspectives different from ours.
I enjoyed this activity because I got to listen and understand different perspective.
LI: To write a poem that describes a moment in time.
This week we wrote moment in time poems. We first watched a video of a man getting attacked by a polar bear. But thankfully he was in his protective cage and no harm was caused. We wrote a poem using the 5 senses, and wrote about how we would feel or what we would see, if we were the man in the video.
This activity was interesting because we used interesting vocabulary using wordhippo.
