Art Colouring Book

LI:To experiment with colours.

This morning we tried one of this year’s Summer Learning Journey activities. The purpose of this task was to experiment with colours by mixing colours from the original palette with pop colours. This allowed us to recolours famous painting or images of landmarks around the world. FIrst we saw the original design then we used different colour pallets to recreate the image.I liked how we got to experiment with colours and recreate famous paintings or images.

Book Club - Bok Choy

LI: to unpack the text together

Fau, Lukah, Chris, Vayan, Sulia, Azatulah and I were introduced to the activity, Book Club by Mrs Anderson.  Each member of the book club has a role to take each week. The 7 roles are, The Discussion Director, Connector, Summariser, Passage Picker, Word Master, Illustrator and Meeting Report. 

The book that we read this week was called “Bok Choy” by Paul Mason. The moral of the story was describing the differences between the chinese people compared to the english. This story unpacked the racism faced by chinese miners, who came to New Zealand in 1800s to seek their fortune in the gold fields. From this story we learnt it is important to accept one another despite who we are and how we look. 

Once we had completed the tasks for our roles, we reported back to the group and shared our thoughts and ideas. The Discussion Director’s asked questions and guided everybody to be on the right track. The Summariser, picked 20 most important words from the story, to 6, and used it to summarise the text. The Passage Picker would pick a part of the story and write why it’s important to you. The Connector had to make connections to themself, to text, and to the world from the book. . I enjoyed that we had a rich conversation about our learning without hep from the teacher.

Te Whanau Raukura Performance

 

This week we had a professional kapa haka group perform items for our school.The groups name is called Te whanau Raukura. When they entered the hall they blew the conch showing us they culture. The first song they sang was them saying thank you for having them perform to us.Each maori item they used they explained the meaning behind it, what it's for, and how you use it.They used taiaha, poi and te rakau in their performance.They usually go to the Auckland museum and perform their.When they danced they used their item in special way to express how they dance, also the music they used was also helping them expressing their dance in different ways.Finishing their performance we were all split into our class so we can have a game with each of the performers. We had Bekah teach us our game. We played Pukana. How you play this is that you need a group of people to form a circle then someone would say. Ringa Pakahe A then pukana he pukana ha the you would start of pointing you hand like the maori people would do when they dance and every time someone did that to you you had to do the same thing to the next person beside you or to the same person. I enjoyed seeing experienced people performing so I could see what it's like for me to do kapa haka in front of people because I'm also in the kapa haka group for school.

Exploring our national current events

LI: To identify author’s purpose. 



For this task we learnt about Current Events. We used this words to find out about events around the world timeliness, relevance, magnitude, unexpectedness, impact, somebody important, oddity, conflict, something negative, continuity, emotions and progress.Authors write for a purpose (reason). These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make decisions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. I worked with Sakshi,Matthew,Chris, & Pouvi.

Provocation: Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?

 LI: To identify and consider the two perspectives of this provocation to help me form an opinion.

For this task we used provocation to help us answer this question, should mask be compulsory on NZ public transport. A provocation is an action or speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. Today we considered both sides of the provocation, ‘Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?’ We then used that information to help us form an opinion that we could justify with evidence. We had many link that helped us gather evidence and information about this topic.In my opinion I think mask should be mandatory when using public transportation, by using face covering you can prevent germ spreading to other people. Covid 19 is one of the serious problem that has caused the our countries to go into lock down. Using a face mask we can stop spreading germ stop to  other and we can live in peace. Jacinda Arden explains that why wearing masks on public transports is mandatory “Now is the right time to make mask use mandatory in these situations”.

Charge Of The Light Brigade

LI: To understand the story behind the poem.

This week we learnt about the poem called the Light Brigade. We had to unpack the poem bit by bit to understand the meaning behind the poem. The author of this poem is Alfred Lord Testiness. The story behind this poem is about the light brigade riding the valley of death and then trying to retrieve the guns that were stolen.They came back failing the mission, and coming out with nothing. 600 men went in less then one third came back ( less that 200). One thing that I enjoyed was unpacking the poem story bit by bit because I got to learn something new.

Math Challenge

LI: To explain our strategy

 

This week in maths Hay lee, Lukah, RJ, Juel and I created a DLO about our challenge we did in Maths.Our maths challenges were based on our learning about weight.We had three challenges all together.We solved three separate word problems and chose one to make a DLO about. We explained our strategy on how we got the answer. Our problem was to figure out the combination of animals to match the weight of an elephant. Something I found interesting was learning more about weight and showing our strategy.