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!

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!

*-_ My Weekly Wondering! _-*

 This week has been packed! We had Speeches, P.E and lot's of learning to complete!

Although my school schedule has been filled with things to do I managed to complete all my work. I enjoyed finishing my work with plenty of time to spare! This also gave me my privilege to listen to music, achieve golden time ( Free Time ) and draw!

A super success I achieved this week was winning our PCS School Speech Competition! Usually I make it semi-finals but I haven't qualified to the Far North Speeches before; this is a huge step for me and I cannot wait to present what I wrote! 

I found working with the sudden weather changes a tough challenge. The heavy rain was very distracting and the heat of the sun would just bake the day away! Even though we have an AC we try to save power when it isn't required. 

I learnt that there are many different parts to the brain! The frontal Lobe is what gives humans the ability to make their own smart decisions where as animals can't think for themselves! This is really cool but humans have only been learning about the brain for the past 100 years; there is probably so much more to learn about!

I look forward to the art we might be doing next week! I always enjoy this subject because I get to be creative freely! Otherwise I look forward to writing because I use words to paint incredible pictures!

I have shown the value of Pono ( Truth )  this week when I tick off the tasks I have completed. I only tick them off when I have fully completed them; therefore I am being truthful with what I am doing.

I had lot's of fun playing basketball at break time, carefully learning how to play my violin in music class and just enjoying the time I have at school. We might go into lockdown so I make the most of the social time I have with my friends! 

_-* From a Pebble's Perspective*-_

 Today in Te Kahu we are continuing to follow up on personification. Instead of writing about being the desk in front of us we are writing from another thing's point of view; Particularly one during the Normandy War. 

Here is my writing piece:

The charcoal sky is decorated with fading stars as I lay there in silence. I am surrounded by others and we admire the beauty of the peace and quiet as the salty waves gently crash upon the shore. My smooth skin collides with the cold, sandy bottom beneath me as I breathe slowly. The frothy, white wash piles up as the tall grass sways and dances to the whistling wind just at the crack of dawn. Suddenly I begin to hear muffled voices..

They are coming from heavy, black ships that are approaching the calm beach shore. The buzzing of motors begin to creep louder. The sun slowly peeks from its hiding place and the sky blushes pink but the beautiful setting is broken by the intense commands that are heard from the army of boats. The clashing of gear and equipment slice through the sound of crashing waves. I worry and quiver as they get closer and closer to shore before thousands of pairs of feet splash in the silver waves...

Sharp toothed, barb wire incase the beach. Yelling and shouting are all I hear, the camo, green gear race back and forth in front of me. The soldiers disembark and march all over the beach, and the peace is wildly broken by these uninvited guests.

Then BOOM! My friends are suddenly flung into the air and I am trampled by a stampede of  marching feet. The loud shots of guns and musty smoke echo through the air, I scream and wonder what is happening before me. Right as I knew it the Normandy War had begun! 10 more soldiers appear out of nowhere, thousands are shot as quick as lightning and my life flashes before my life as I slap against the crystal, blue sea! 

The sun began to quickly disappear, hiding from the chaos. The crazy orchestra of guns, cannons, ships and soldiers slowly drift further and further away from me as I sink deeper and deeper. The dim light softly lights my way as I continue to fall; as my withered, battered body bathes in the salty water in pain I finally reach the bottom.

I am a pebble at the bottom of the sea, now laying broken in half. The moonlight glistens upon me as I wonder where my friends are now. I remain traumatised by this brutal war and I replay these events that scar both my memory and body forever.

I enjoyed writing this piece because I felt like I got a lot deeper in my description of the setting, the sounds and smell. I love writing from non-human points of view and I cannot wait to use this in other writing pieces as well!

How would you feel if you were something else in a crazy or weird situation like this?

What were you- A tree- The sun- The sea? How did it feel? What did it see?

 Give it a go and be Creative!

Being Smart with Sacraments!

 This term in Te Kahu we are learning about the 7 Sacraments for R.E ( Religious Education ).

The 7 Sacraments are the different stages you go through along your Catholic / Religious  journey. Since Pompallier is a Catholic schol our faith is one of the main structures that the teachers allow into the students life; and learning about this is something I really enjoy! These 7 sacraments are known as:

• Baptism
• Eucharist
• Confirmation
• Reconciliation
• Annointing of the Sick
• Matrimony
• Holy Orders

As people go through these stages most do not complete the final two: Matrimony and Holy Orders. This is when you become a Preist etc and confirm your connection with God. After this recap we had to create a DLO about the 3 different catagories that these 7 subjects fall under. 

Here is my DLO:

_-*Preaching Personification*-_

 This week in Te Kahu has been crazy!

Settling back into our books we have been learning about writing features, and figurative language. One of these topics happen to be Personification! 

Personification means to give human-like qualities to non-human things such as plants, inanimate objects or animals etc. To follow up with this learning we were assigned to create a piece of writing using personification about the desk in front of us that we work on!

While doing this we were given tips that would help with giving our tables their own personalities! Like how they would feel, how they look and how we affect the tables themselves such as working on or around them. I enjoy creatively writing so this task was lot's of fun.

Here is my writing piece:

I enjoy the peace and quiet; the students are so loud when working but now I get a quick break. CRASH! Through the door burst the wild pack of students as they rush into their classroom. Before I knew it 2 of them rush towards me and slap books and stationary on my bright, green body.

I itch as the left-over tape sticks to my side, and quietly I giggle as pencils tickle me gently. Close to the ground I stand strong holding up the pressure and weight of school supplies as my students work! Keeping the struggle inside but yet through all the pain I am satisfied.

I love the joyful laughter and silly jokes the students exchange in front of me. The cheshire-like wide smiles are the thing I look forward to all day; but they're my favourite thing to see! The more they work the more scars that appear on my body. I start to notice the small stains, chips, ink and glue left on me...

Away they charge out the door as quick as light! As my good friend rings the home-time bell; I stretch and look out the window to see crowds of kids leap into cars and leave. The other tables and I share our daily experiences before laying down back to rest.

I shuffle and shift to get back into my positioni; as I do everyday. Now here I await for the students to return once more...

I really enjoyed this task because I felt that I was able to writer a high standard piece from the view of my everyday table. Now I am attached to my desk and I don't just think of it as a desk anymore! XD I discovered that I use personification in my writing much more often then I realised and it puts lots more detail and description into my writing!

Try using personification yourself about your desk!

How would your bed or device feel?

Practical and Peaceful Prayer

For the next few weeks of Term 3 we are focusing on one of our school values Pono meaning Truth in Maori and is represented in green.

This week for R.E (Religious Education) we are focusing on creative/ imaginative prayer and what it means to Pray. For this task we did today we had to go onto a website and read 5 scriptures about what the bible says about prayer; once you're done with that we would then copy the 5 readings into our Faith Journal (the book we keep all of our R.E learning in).

After that we had to write a summary about what prayer is based on the information from the scriptures and create a DLO about our learning.

Here is my DLO with my summary:

I really enjoyed this task because before we started Whaea Danni put relaxing music on so we had time to reflect and pray; which I thought was really calming then I worked independently and finished my work early!