Recreating Famous Artwork

LI: To use your knowledge of colour and colour mixing to replicate the colours used in the artworks.

This week we have been learning about famous artworks and colour mixing. The artwork I chose was the girl with pearl earrings by Jonannes Vermeer.This artwork was painted in 17th centuries It was painted because the girl in the painting was a house maid for Jonannes Vermeer. Today it can be found in Mauritshuis museum in The Hague today.

I enjoyed this challenge because…

Math

 LI: To find, explain and fix the error.

Our challenge today was to find, explain and fix the error in the examples given. I have chosen to share this example because the activity helped me think about the strategies I have learnt about. I worked with Te Raumati for this activity.

Geese

LI: To expand my knowledge about geese

Today for reading our learning was about learning more facts about geese. The text we were given show us that a man uses geese as a alarm if anyone tries to get into his home. The text aslo said the ancient city of Rome had been in danger from invaders. The city’s geese had made such a noise when they heard the enemy coming, that the sleeping people had woken and fought them off.I foundthis task very intersting because I didn't know that their was 30 different types of geese in the world.

My Culture Is ...

LI: To understand different types of poems.

This week for writing our focus was about learning different types of poems. The type of poemwe learnt about today was a list poem. List poems are a simple way to get into poetry writing that can be based on ideas that are familiar to you. They can also be based items,people,places, or ideas.List poems don't require rythm and uses repetition. My list poemis about my culture.

Origami

 

This week we had another challenge to do while in lockdown.This task was to try and make a type of origami. The one I did was the pull tab origami envelope. This activity was fun becuase now I know how to make an envelope intersting for the person who opens it.

I See Me Challenge Badge # 3

This is the reward for those in Mrs Selena's group. Mrs Selena's group is a group of year 7 and 8 students partipating in her research. During the school holidays and school weeks, if we completed three task in one of the five catorgories you would get an digital badge as reward. This is my third badge for stories.
 

I See Me Challenge Badge # 2

 

This is the reward for those in Mrs Selena's group. Mrs Selena's group is a group of year 7 and 8 students partipating in her research. During the school holidays and school weeks, if we completed three task in one of the five catorgories you would get an digital badge as reward. This is my second badge for place.

I See Me Challenge Badge # 1

 

This is the reward for those in Mrs Selena's group. Mrs Selena's group is a group of year 7 and 8 students partipating in her research. During the school holidays and school weeks, if we completed three task in one of the five catorgories you would get an digital badge as reward. This is my first badge for people.

Drawing A 3D Hole

 LI: To learn how to draw an anamorphic Illusion 

During the lockdown we had some fun task to do while we stay at home. One of them was to learn how to draw a 3D Hole. We had a video to help us carry out the steps by step. This is an anamorphic Illusion. An illusion is a picture that tricks the mind and eyes. I found this task very fun because this was very appeling to me. Something I found intersting was the end look of this anamorphic illusion. 

Letter Q

 LI: To Evaluate

This week we read about the origin of the Letter Q, and where it came from. Our task was to create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) to identify words that begin with the Letter Q. Once we had done that we identified the words we didin’t know and defined these. I found out that a quintuplets are a group of newborns born on the same day with the same mother. I enjoyed learning these words because it is helping me expand my knowledge of different words.

Ancient Olympics

 LI: To skim and scan to find facts about the Ancient Olympics and make notes in my own words.

This week our focus in reading was about the ancient olympics.The ancient olympics started in greek and was inspired to create our mordern olympics nowdays. Using the site prezi we were able to make an intersting presentation about the ancient olympics. We needed to inculed facts, who participated ect. After we completed this presentation we were asked to present our learning to the class. We did this in our inqiury groups.

Here is the link to our presentation.

Hauora

 LI: To understand what hauora is and what it means to athletes past and present

This week for inquiry our focus was about hauora.Hauora is the Maori belief of your physical and mental health and wellbeing. Hauora is like a house, in order for the house to stand you will need all four walls. They are tapa whanau - family, tapa Hingeroa - emotions and mind, tapa wairoa - religious/belief and tapa Tinana - your physical wellbeing. In this DLO we had to talk about what Hauora would look like if you were an athlete competing in the olympics.

Hauora And Olypians

Atheletes that are able to get into the medal range work hard physically and mentally. The body must be fit and the mind need a good mindset in order to do the best you can. It is important for you you celebrate you succes, but it is also eqally imporant that you able to celebrate the less succsesful times aswell. It is the learning you use fromlosing to make you stronger physically and mentally.It is having the belief in your self and the support from your whanua that keeps you motivated. People who are able to make it into the medal ranger has a goodmindset,fit,strong,winners, and they are able to lead their contry into succes. People who don'tmake it into the medal range loses motivation,confidence, and insprastion, but if they took the learning part from their losses they are able to become better with a goodmindset,support,balance, and self belief and is able to become stronger and wiser.

Swiming Lessons

 LI: To learn how to be safe in or near water.

This week was the second week of swimming lessons. We learnt about how we can accures ours and others saftey in or near the water. We first learnt what we can do in water and how to safely get into the pool. After learning how to get into the pool we learnt how to dive into the pool and how we can swim then take a breath them go back to swimming. In our second sesson we were trying to swim under water and grab the toy and come back up without stopping. It was very hard for those who did'nt have googles on but it was easy for the people who had googles. I found swimming very fun because I learnt that we can't open our in the water for that long without googles, and because learning about water saftey is very important becuase our contry is surrounded by water and the lakes, rivers, and creeks lead out to the ocean.

Coding The Microbit

 LI: To see the connection between the writen code, the block code and the flow chart.

This week for tech we were learning about seeing the connection between the writen code, the block code and the flow chart. When we used the makecode we used the python coding. Their are three types of codings that you can do. After we did the python coding we took a screenshot and them made a DLO out of it using the recent flowchart made during the tech sessions. I found this task very intersting because I got to see the connection between the writen code, the block code and the flow chart.

I See Me Challenge 3

 LI: Write about a group of your friends that you enjoy working with.

During the Holidays the people in Mrs Selena's group were asked to try out her new site about the pasific. The people in Mrs Selena's group were asked to do at least three responses during the holiday. This response was about writing about a group of friends that you enjoy working with. The group of friends I picked was our after school netball team. I chose our netball team becauase everyone in the team has a very special bond with each others and when we play netball we are all having fun together and becuase we play as a team. I found this task very intersting because I got to tell people about how our netball team play and how we treat each other.

I See Me Challenge 2

 LI: To find out about tauto patterens and make your own about your family or your self.

During the Holidays the people in Mrs Selena's group were asked to try out her new site about the pasific. The people in Mrs Selena's group were asked to do at least three responses during the holiday. This Response was about creating something that repersent your or your family. We used the tauto patterens to make a tauto patterens repersenting your family. I found this task very intersting becasue I learnt more about tauto patterens and where they come from.

Mindfulness Reflection 1

 LI: To understand the meaning behind the pause breathe smile program.

This week we had our first session of the Pause Breathe Smile program. Our learning was based on having a calm mindset. We were introduced to this program by first defining what the word mindfulness is. Then we defined it and shared our different definitions with others.

After talking about mindfulness we were introduced to the red zone and the green zone. They are two different zones. The red zone is when you feel stressed,anxious,distracted and others. The green zone is when you feel calm, relaxed, peaceful, curious, clear, balanced, content and engaged.

We were balancing our mind set by forgiving bad things that happened in the past and calming our mind down and focusing on the present. To do this we sat in a circle and listened to the bell while breathing in and out, this helped us relax and focus on positive things.

I enjoyed this session because we learnt about having a positive mindset and about being mindful of others. During this session I learnt how to Pause, Breathe and Smile and calm my mind.