100 Seconds!

 Do you struggle remembering quick time tables off by heart?

I do, most of them I get wrong when rushing through my basic facts! So our teacher had set us a task this week to try out a new math game called Timestables.

For this game, we have 100 seconds to complete as many basic facts equations as possible within the time frame! We had 5 minutes to play this game, and  after a few rounds we had to screenshot our score!

I love this game and I'm sure I will definitely improve my memory soon!

Here is my score:

Catherine's Cup of Tea!

 St Catherine McAuley is the namesake of our Blue house group at PCS.

Since last week on Wednesday it was McAuley day, we were doing research about Catherine, her background and what impact she had on the world. In doing so, we also were set to complete the slide Must-Do's!

I enjoyed this quick task, and I'm sure I will carry this knowledge with me to share!

Wacky Wardrobe!

 Fashion is the big talk now these days! For hundreds of years the style has gone from Disco-CRAZY to modern, flashy suits! This week our task was to create a fashion collage of things we like to wear!

It was a simple and relaxing task for me, but it was also very time consuming because I had to remove the background using Remove.bg for each image. I loved this task as well because I have done collaging on paper before, and I find it as a great activity!

I am happy with my final result and would love to do this again!

Tooth Trouble...

 All Saints Day is a special event where some people (especially the Catholic Church) celebrates all the saints who have died. 
Each Saint is well known for their own thin eg. St Valentine is known for lovers and Bee Keeping!
This task we have been assigned is to research about our chosen Saint then complete the slide about the following!
I chose St Apollonia, which I have never heard about before! She is a wonderful example of Self-Worth, Devotion and Sacrifice. Her story is incredible to read and is definitely one of the most interesting I've ever read. Her story can be found here: St Apollonia

Here is the Slide that I decorated and completed!

My Weekly Wondering!

 This week has been crazy! But to get a better understanding of what happened let me explain...

Something unusual happened on Monday right after morning tea. Whaea Danni our main teacher had introduced another student teacher who would be coming in each day for Term 4. Her name was Miss. Lawless and she happened to be an unknown relative of mine! As Whaea Danni stumbled back into the classroom after the bell rang we got sad news that she would have to rush out to a tangi (funeral) and eventually only attended school for 2 days this week! Although it was interesting having Miss Lawless teach us!

Something I enjoyed was having Mrs Dromgool teach us today, and having a split class yesterday! Te Kahu class got split into groups and were spread across the school, my group got sent to Pukeko (the year 1-2 class) and I luckily had my best friend Piper with me! This was lot's of fun because Mrs Dromgool doesn't come in often to teach us, and I loved helping the younger students spell.

I didn't enjoy Athletics that much, because I have training everyday. But I mainly disliked participating in High Jump! I am not that tall, but I am quite short; so I struggle with this activity. My class mates say I am good at it but I don't like to do this one as much as sprints or long jump! After having athletics everyday though I tried to encourage myself to just try my best because of the up coming central zones and just for my own achievements! I now just try to do high jump, though I can't wait to run!

Next week I am looking forward to the new learning, having Miss Lawless teach us all week! Along with trying to beat my goal for high jump!

Do you have a favourite school activity?

If not what is your least favourite school activity?

Daring Design

 This week our contract has been packed with tasks to complete! I favoured many of these activities, but this one overall was my favourite! 100%

For this task we were learning about The Arts and all the main 5 things that fall under this category. These subjects include: Music, Visual Art, Dance, Drama+Film and Fashion+Design.

We watched videos on each of the slides and after, we had to write our own summary of what these 5 things mean to us.  Personally Visual Art is my favourite since I love to draw but I do enjoy Music as well!

This is the slide I completed!

Moving With Media!

This week for the first session of Term 4 we had Whaea Donna come in on Tuesday for Cyber Smart!

This was all about Media, at first I thought I knew all about media and it being a digital network to communicate and share information with people around the world; but I was wrong!

There are actually 3 different types of Media, Print Media, BroadCasting Media and Online Media.

The rest of the lesson we reviewed about this topic and then we were set to create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) to show our findings.

Here is my DLO and what I learnt about Media!

To The Lake We Go!

The sun gently peeked through my soft pink curtains as I squinted under the covers and positioned myself comfortably. I cheered softly as I realised the school holidays had just begun!

At  7am my Mum rushed in and woke me up to get ready for training! I groaned and moaned as I discovered that we had our Waka Camp that week! This meant we went to go to train everyday in the morning but we had a choice to stay at home or at Coach’s house (who happened to be my Mum!) Once ready we would await for the other members to arrive!

When everyone was finally ready to go, we slouched and slowly made our way into the silver van dragging our gears behind us. Squeezing in tight mum flipped on the heater and started to drive to Lake Ngatu. Still half asleep my Mum supplied us with 7 Hot Chocolates in total for a big energy boost! They were the best! Warm, coconut milk and fluffy pink and white marshmallows filled the cup as we left her job.These cups of coco-goodness is what woke us up for the big training ahead!

At the lake we shivered as we stepped out of the oven-like van and into the winter wind! We grabbed our paddles, headed down to the waka and said karakia before rushing out into the icy-cold water! We paddled slowly to warm up over the crystal clear, calm lake. The reflection of the surrounding mountains and bush leaving us in awe. The mist lining the shore sent chills up our spine and the ripples from our paddles sent a long, slow chain reaction!

Then begun our daily training, the goal to paddle 20 km everyday and our time getting faster and faster. If we didn't achieve this goal or slowed our time then our punishment was to run around the lake twice! This continued daily from Monday through to Friday.

The morning mist and charcoal sky was all I saw as we drove past the dark silhouettes of thick bush. It was the last day of training and we decided to go for an early morning swim at the nearby Te Rangi Aniwaniwa swimming pool. 6:30am came and we dove into the pool swimming like fish, the hour flew by as 7:00am arrived and we marched headstrong to finish our goal!

Luckily we beat our time each day and a punishment was NOT required!

Still celebrating we spent our time relaxing in our well-deserved beds. I spent 3 days with my cousin laughing and watching movies after the hard, rewarding training. Feeling accomplished we rambled about what we achieved throughout what was meant to be our school *holidays* but then my family was to venture from Kaitaia to Hamilton for a surprise last-minute gathering for my Aunty's 40th Birthday!

I was so excited I bounced off the walls! We packed our luggage and sped off into the morning distance. Stopping regularly we had to make sure to let our little dog Awhi out just in case-she was well known to run away often so we couldn't afford to lose her while we were gone. The only other option was to bring her with us! Due to her small size she was rather cute company!

Pulling up into the hard, gravel drive way joyful chatter was echoing down the street as we greeted one other happily! Hugs, laughter and quick unpacking commenced as we entered the great house. The large house was fitting for us to cram in and for the first time in a very long time all 8 moko's, 3 Aunty's, 2 Uncle's and 1 Nana were all gathered together under the same roof!

Over the next and final 4 days we filled our shopping carts with fun stuff and face masks for the girls, we went to time zone and played with the VR headset along with winning hundreds of tickets (due to so many of us!)

We watched movies together and cherished the little time we had together. We played with the baby and went bowling! This was the best time ever!

On the last day we went to see my cousins in their new house in Hamilton nearby as well Rico! We had not seen them in 6 years, so we took our chance for we don't know when the next gathering would be. As we approached their house the giant property left us in shock! A giant brick and cream-wood lining. A fish pond, a disappointing (not so deep) well and incredibly large rooms! After taking a tour around the house and eating some dinner we decided to play spot light! Chasing and calling around the house outside in the dark was all to be heard, then when the honk of a car sadly surprised us and we left.

Returning home late and sleeping in, my dad repacked the van and we all followed home to Auckland then separated from there!

Now only 9 more weeks to go before we can finally meet up again!

Analysis!

 For the whole day today we have been working on our Blog Post Analysis!

This is where you view over the amount of posts you have, analyse that data, put it onto a graph etc. Then once we were done we had to write 3 statement about the information we collected and write a short paragraph about what the graph is showing. After all of this we put it onto a google drawing and this is my outcome!

This took surprisingly long and I am so glad I have finished it! 

(Can't wait for the Holidays!)

In the Step of Suzanne

 This week for R.E we are learning about Suzanne Aubert. This woman is significant to our school since one of House Groups ( groups we split the school by)  is named after her! Every year we celebrate the people who the house groups are named after by dressing in that colour. Aubert day is coming up this Friday so we will be dressing up in Red!

Along with the upcoming event we decided to do some research about Suzanne herself; once we gathered the information from this Video we were set to create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) / Fact File with at least 10 facts minimum.

I enjoyed creating my factfile on google drawing and I am very pleased with the outcome! Since I am also in the "Aubert" House group I am looking forward to celebrating Suzanne in remembrance!

Here is my Fact File!

My Weekly Wondering

 This week has been amazing! We had 2 of my favourite step-in teachers and I managed to complete all my learning!

I enjoyed most tasks we had this week because most of them had drawing involved as options! That was my favourite part because now my books are filled with all sorts of colourful illustrations! I also enjoyed watching the U9's play soccer and playing cricket/soft ball on the field with my friends on a sunny day!

I struggled with managing my time because I was behind on some tasks due to me focusing on one task too much! 

Next week I aim to use my time wisely and cover the range of ALL of my tasks so I don't repeat this mistake, and so I can receive / achieve my Golden time (free time) !

I am looking forward to the School Holidays so I can sleep in, chill & vibe in bed and play with my dogs and whanau!

Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori!

This week is Te Reo Maori Week! So our learning has basically been based all around it. I found this learning quite overwhelming but otherwise I managed to complete it! This week on our contract we had to complete 4 Te Reo Maori Tasks, 3 R.E task s(Religious Education) and finish our Statistics tasks in maths.

I loved this contract because I chose most of the tasks with drawing involved! Along with other tasks that I could complete quickly but to a high quality! Here are my finished products:

My Pixel version of Maui

A Poster to Promote Te Reo Maori Week!

My own word search for others to complete. And I completed a paper copy version given by my teacher!

Then I made this Graph for Statistics about whether the milk in our school should be given out more often! : My Graph

And I finished my R.E Tasks in my Faith Journal.

I struggled a lot trying to keep up with this work but otherwise I enjoyed everything I worked hard on to complete!

My Weekly Wondering

 Last week was very enjoyable for me! Because our main base was around Social Justice Week, Filming and Spoken Word Poetry!

I enjoyed learning about Poetry because I find that it is a great way to let your mind run free and to be creative with no limits! This particular genre of poetry is very inspiring though; artists that master using spoken word usually post them on youtube for motivational quotes! Prince Ea is a great example who posted Sorry. I love this video and now love watching other spoken word videos too!

I found completing my work challenging to complete because there wasn't much time given to complete it! The week flew by and I never imagined how difficult it would be but in the end I finished!

This week I hope to complete my work to higher standards and manage my time wisely. I hope to stay on task and not get distracted by others around me; I will work with my friends but focus on my activity at task the best I can.

Joyful Justice!

 For the past few days of this week I have been working hard to complete this task for Social Justice Week! This task is especially meant for Social Justice Week, and I am so glad it's done.

I had to create 2 DLO's for this task and complete the slide and here it is!

 

A Poetic Promise

 This term we have been focusing on Poetry! This task today is the Spoken Word. The Spoken Word is a special type of Poetic Writing where you base your entire poem about one word. We then looked further into this by choosing one of four videos to watch of poetic artist present their Spoken Word Poem.

Then the follow up task was to complete a slide created by our Teacher Whaea Danni! Decorate it and post it on our blogs. 

Here is my Spoken Word slide deck!

I enjoy Poetry very much! I love learning about it and writing my own. I found this task very fun but unfortunately this task took me a long time to complete it. Next time my goal is to finish these tasks in a quicker time period and manage my time wisely.

My Weekly Wondering

 This week has been very challenging for me and here is why:

Our teacher was away sick for two days and we had 2 substitutes that were extremely busy! This made my learning difficult to keep up with along with my filming I was doing with my group in the background... This was challenging to cope with but in the end I managed to finish my work and finish our video. 

I enjoyed filming different scenes with my group since I was given the role of being Director! I was able to lead and assist my team to get all the right shots we needed! I really enjoy filming and it's one of my passions, so this is a task I had no problem with! But it was difficult to listen to all the different ideas everyone had, and stay on planned theme.

This week I succeeded to be independant and a leader. Having to manage my own self along with others taught me that not only do you have to think carefully but you have to use your time wisely. I struggled with this but I completed my tasks to a high standard and achieved my goal to be more independent with my learning throughout the week!

Next week I am looking forward to a not-so-crazy and normal week. I am looking forward to Fathers Day and sleeping in tomorrow!!!

Independant Intuition

 This week has been CRAZILY PACKED! 

For most of this week I was filming with my group during learning time, which caused me having to miss out on finishing my contract work. But then the rest of my class also had mass, music, kapa haka, and other things as well interfering with their time too!

So this week ended up flying by fast and ended up with one [articular task as our contract. We had to be very responsible and independent for our teacher. Whaea Danni was away for 2 days and we had 2 substitutes who were both extremely busy, but I feel we have done well.

This task I did, took me ALL week to finish and I am proud that I was able to achieve my Golden Time now!

I did find this challenging to sort out but the planning steps behind it will be very useful for in the future!

Sacrament Saviors

 This week we started an R.E ( Religious Education ) task! 

For this activity we had to do research on Priests, Bishops and Deacons; what they are, what they wear, what they do and how you become one. After we had the information we would then put it onto an infographic ( a visual way to show our learning like a poster ) and post it up onto our blogs. I found gathering the info a piece-of-cake but creating my infographic difficult since I've been away for most of the week. 

Today I managed to complete it! I am very proud of what I made with the little time I had. Piktochart is a great site and I will be definitely using it for future learning purposes!

Playing with Poetry!

 Today we had a quick, simple and fun task to complete!

We had to write a poem using our 5 senses, then take away The I smell, I taste, I see etc... just leaving the rest of your sentence for each sense. Something I found challenging with this task was taking away some words but having my poem still make sense.

I love poetry, so this task was lot's of fun for me! I hope we do more stuff like this.

Here is my end result!

Confusing Collaboration!

 Today we had another great Cyber Smart Session! The task assigned today was all about clear instructions.

First we would pick a partner and who would be Player A / Player B. My partner was Therese; she was player A and so I settled with player B. We then had to make a copy of the slide we had as your player! Therese had an image on her slide with pictures in a certain place, my slide did not. She would then explain to me and give me instructions on where to put the images on the grid; the rule was we were not allowed to look at each other's screen!

After that it would then be my turn to explain where my images were on the grid! The next few slides didn't have grids so it made positioning the images difficult! Afterwards we got to create our own images with shapes and continue the following steps...

I found this very challenging to compare our left's and right's along with explaining where images were; but I found this task very fun and I would definitely do it again!