Te Ahu a Turanga Noho Marae

Description:  In week 7, we had an overnight stay at the local Marae in Woodville.  We were immersed in Maori culture and participated in a range of activities.  We set two goals to focus on during our stay.

Big Idea:  

1.  Did you achieve your goals? yes I did Achieve my goals.  How do you know? Because I woke up early! And I fell asleep really early! 

2.  What are you most proud of from the Marae stay and why? Umm well I think that I am most proud of actually doing the gorge walk and it was so so hard man!

3.  What challenged you the most and why? Umm really it was the gorge walk because umm its a gorge walk its meant to be hard!

Star Test Term 1 2015

Last week we did a star test and today we got to see our scores guess what... I got a stay nine 7. I only got 6 wrong.

In Word Recognition I got: 10/10

In Sentence Comprehension I got 9/10

In Paragraph Comprehension I got 18/20

In Vocabulary I got 7/10

Big Idea: My goal I need to get better at is Expanding Vocabulary

. I will do this by writing down the words that I think are cool so I can use them in my writing.

Triangles

Description:

We have been learning about Geometry for Maths for the past few weeks. We looked at all the different types of shapes and in particular triangles. We have learnt that there are 4 different types of triangles and we created something to share our understanding about each of them.

Big Idea:

I created a poster with my friend Hannah. It explains to you all about the different triangles a Right Angle Triangle, an Equilateral Triangle a Scalene Triangle and lastly a Isosceles Triangle.

Evaluation:

I think that Hannah and I worked really well together, I think that our poster explained all the different types of triangles really well. I think next time we could maybe use less text because a few people have said that our poster has got a lot of information that is not needed.

Feedback / FeedForward:

Well done Olivia and Hannah! You guys have really done well explaining the types of triangles. You have added lots of detail and information in your poster. What I think you should work on is maybe trying to add all the information in but not in a long sentence or paragraph. Other than that your poster is MAGNIFICENT!
Aye :-P

Story Telling

Purpose: create a story to share orally

Description: Oral storytelling is a Maori tradition. We have been planning our own story to tell on the Marae in Week 7.

Big Idea: I am doing a Explanation story. This is like explaining why spiders have 8 legs but I am doing why cheetahs have black marks under there eyes.

Success Criteria:

• Between 1 and 2 minutes long
• Using your voice to make sounds effects
• Using your whole body to make actions
• Use your face to tell a story through facial expression
• Knowing the story, knowing the setting
• Get the picture into your listener’s head
• Stay in character - keep your composure.
• Audience participation
• Unique and original (Hook your audience)

 Evaluation: I think that I need to work on making it more realistic and think about the amount of time I have and I really need to do more actions and Audience participation.

Feed Back/Feed Forward:
I think that you did a very good job at story telling I think that you were good at having a loud voice. But I think you need to work on crowd participation.#Aalaa

Bus Stop Writing

Purpose: Describe the characteristics of an object.

Big Idea: The other day I was walking down the road and I saw a bus stop it looked amazingly strange! It was the front of a bus...
At a bus stop! I was amazed by this very creative umm bus stop I guess! It made me jump in surprise it is a strange thing of course. It looks a bit fancy don't you think?
I really wonder who had this amazing idea was it a incident I guess I will never know.

That was my story mini story thank 4 reading!