2020 Te Kahu

                        .*  2020 Te Kahu *.

Kia Ora, my name is Tiana I am currently a year 8 at Pompallier Catholic School and I am in Te Kahu class for 2020.
My favourite hobbies are drawing, reading and PE.
My favourite colour is TEAL .
4 words to describe me includes sporty, inquisitive, creative, organised.
My Strengths are maths, art, literacy, writing and sports.
Something I want to work on this term is my maths, specifically my decimals, long division and percentages.

I look forward to this year and I am looking forward to be taught by my new teacher Whaea Danni.

Seesaw Tasks

Seesaw Tasks

In Te Kahu class we have a specific app/website that we use to share learning/responses to tasks and to share information and photos to our families. This week we had 3 different tasks on seesaw and here is my response to one of them. 

"Do I believe in myself?" 

For this task we had to watch a short clip and respond to it by sharing if we believe in ourselves as well.

This is how I responded.

The image includes examples of times of when I need or do believe in myself. In my thinking bubbles are different words/sentences that I tell myself to believe in myself; like try your best, 

you can do it, can not can't.

Do you believe in yourself? 

If you do/don't why or why not?

Minecraft Model

                        Minecraft Model

In Te Kahu, we have a task where we have to build/construct a special landmark in minecraft ( minecraft is a video game that uses blocks instead of curves or natural shaping). For this task I chose to create The Great Wall of China, but it did take quite some time. It took a few tries before I was happy with how it would work, but I managed to finish it. Here is an image of my project

I am proud of what I created, and I enjoyed this task very much. I found it challenging at first to construct this but I later got the hang of it. 

Would you do this challenge?

If so what would you build?

Digital Abstract

                         Digital Abstract

This week in Te Kahu we have a task on Seesaw (a site we use to post our learning on tasks) where we have to take a picture of something in our class enlarge it, or add filters to it on certain sites. I added a few filters to my image and it made a huge difference. It was challenging at first to think of something in our classroom to make abstract art out of, but later realized it doesn't even have to be abstract itself. A classmate had just took pictures of sand and concrete and enhanced the image, it turned out looking really cool with filters added. So I took a picture of wall decorations and added a few filters to it; this is what I ended out with!

I like my digital abstract art, and I enjoyed experimenting with filters along the way.

If you did this task, what would you do?

Would you add filters?

My Holiday!

                             My Holiday!

Something awesome I did over the holidays was when I went to Australia for an International Waka-Ama Race called the "Gubbi Gubbi Race". It was a long trip but it was quite relaxing. My team and I have been training all year for this trip and we were finally in Sunshine Coast for our big race!


 The weather was scorching hot, it felt like everyday it continued to bake, but in our first hotel we were up at 7am in the morning and we were already swimming, it was awesome! The day came where we had to check out the lake to see where we would turn our waka (boat or canoe) but we ended up getting lost for 30 mins and it was hilarious!We came 1st & 2nd in all of our races, and came 4th in our finals. It was exciting and it was very intense because the competition we had were very tough and strong; but they were really polite and kind to us when we came off the lake. In Australia it was very because the motel we stayed in was really neat and it had a hot tub that we all just squezed into. It was relaxing because it was nice having everyone there together and it was bubbling hot! The motel we stayed in was also really really REALLY  high! It was scary at first but later we began to admire how high up we were. The floor me, my mum and my team stayed on was 45 floors high but my team manager and my Nana couldn't bare being that high up, so they stayed on floor 7 & 16. Also over the last few days we went to the theme parks Wet White Water World, and Dream World. We went on tall rides, scary rides and fast roller coasters! We spent all day there and it was lot's of fun we all enjoyed it!

After we got back from Australia we had to drive all the way back to Kaitaia from Auckland. It was stressful but we all made it home and it felt good to be back in NZ. When we arrived back home we all were glad to be back, especially the dog! He kept on jumping on everyone, barking and running around like crazy when we were all exhausted! We all ended up just going to sleep at 4pm because were so tired. I felt happy and proud about our races and to be back home!

What did you do over the holidays?
What was something relaxing/awesome or scary about your holiday?

Dot Art

                                Dot Art

This week in Te Kahu we've been working on our art for the Art and Cultural festival! For this activity we wanted to try a different technique, so we started to make dot art. Dot art is where you use cotton buds or dotting tools to make a silhouette of anything you wish. You can create a simple pattern, an animal or even an entire landscape. I decided to make a Chinese dragon since it's also a cultural festival, I thought that this task was going to be easy but it turned out to be really stressful and messy! Since we had to work outside we were all squashed on 2 small tables in the boiling hot sun, so if anyone moved their arms it would effect everyone else and smudge their paint. Everyone was worrying about their art because it would take so long just to paint on every single dot that no-one wanted to restart. In the end my artwork turned out pretty good and I'm glad it's over. Here is my template of my Chinese dragon!

If you did this art with us, what would you pick for your art?

Why would you pick that?

Wordy Drawings

                     Wordy Drawings

This week in Te Kahu, on our Literacy contract we had a task where we had to create a drawing that describes a word you have chosen or draw what you think matches that word. My word I have chosen is "quaint"After we have chosen a word we would then have to find the definition of the word and then write a sentence. I chose this word because I never really use this word in speaking or in my writing so I thought that using this word would increase my vocabulary and it might help me a little bit more when I am trying to describe something. For my chosen word I decided to draw a picture that goes with a sentence that includes the word quaint. My sentence is " A quaint cottage in the countryside." To create our drawing we were given the options out of Seesaw (another source that we use to share our learning with whanau) or we could use google drawings. Seesaw is more preferably easier for me so I chose to use the drawing tool on Seesaw. I am proud of how I drew my picture on seesaw and I enjoyed this task because now I use this word more often in my writing. I hope we can do more tasks like this so I can learn more words and improve my vocabulary even more!

If you did this task what word would you have chosen? Why?

If you did what would you draw?