I will mark my land!

In this slideshow I will teach you about pouwhenua. I really enjoyed researching what certain symbols mean and how they are used. Next time I would make more images. I found deciding what fact goes where difficult.

Taonga

WALT: Identify what taonga is. Identify resources that are taonga in Aotearoa . This is the dlo I made on prezi about taonga. It includes information about pounamu, eels and more. I hope you learn something new. I found reading about taonga very interesting. I found putting the information in my own words with no quotes difficult. Next time I would try and use another presentation app.

Journey to God

WALT: Use and art media of your choice to create an artwork showing the Pilgrim Church enjoying the fullness of God’s Kingdom. Here is my art of people on a journey to holiness. I am proud of my work and hope you like it. It is supposed to mean that people have read the bible and the great things Jesus did and wanted to become holy.

Climate change

WALT..Understand that human actions affect our climate. As a class we have been working on climate change because it links in with our topic of social justice. I really enjoyed learning about climate change and global warming. There are lots of things you will find interesting. I found deciding how to format the information hard. My next steps would be to include more things we can do to help stop climate change.

The shield of the trinity.

This week we have chosen an image that relates to the trinity. I chose the shield of the trinity. Here is a thinglink about it. I found this really interesting and I enjoyed researching the shield of the trinity.

Matariki

WALT: use our prior knowledge and the text to synthesize a new idea. We have been working on a matariki animation for three weeks now and are so glad it is done. We worked really hard so I hope you enjoy. Next time I would encourage my buddy to share the work more evenly because I felt I did almost all of the work. I found it really enjoyable to create the characters.

Suzanne Collins

W.A.L.T identify and evaluate the writer's purpose and ways which the writers use language and ideas to suit their purpose. I have been working on a biography about Suzanne Collins. She is most famous for writing the hunger games. What I found difficult was finding the information about her. I had to use the Wikipedia references. I am happy with my work though and think I did the best I could.

The feast of the ascension.

WALT: explain what the church celebrates on the feast of the  Ascension. We made four interconnecting symbols to show what the ascension is about. I am happy with my work and believe I put lots of effort into it. Next time I would make it look neater. All my images are original, I made them on sumo paint.

  

Mould

We have been learning about mould and how it grows. I am happy with my work. Next time I would make it more colourful and try harder at animating.

Orca whales.

We have been learning about endangered animals. Each person in our class chose an animal from a list. I chose the Orca whale. I learnt whilst researching that orcas are not endangered but I didn't want to start over. I am happy with my work and hope you learn something new!

Planning

When you think of an orca whale you think of deadly predators that have no other instinct but to kill. It turns out that orca whales are some of the most graceful and civilised creatures in the animal kingdom.

Orca’s live all over the world and have one of the largest ranges for survival in the world. Male orca whales can grow up to nine point five meters long and females can grow up to eight. This incredible size makes them one of the largest predators on the planet!

Orca whale’s main diet includes seals, sea birds, turtles, octopus and squid. They are social creatures and hunt in pods (groups) like wolves. Orca’s use echolocation to hunt, whales make a sound and listen for it to bounce back and echo to determine where things are and how big they are.

Each pod has a different sound so they can identify members of their pod and members of another pod.

There are thought to be three types of whale pods, off shore, resident and transient. Transient pods migrate regularly to follow their prey. They have small pods, with 2-5 whales in each pod.Resident pods stay in one area, close to the shore. They contain both genders are have a very tight and trusting bond, a resident pod has between 10-50 whales in it. Offshore pods prefer open water. They are also very large pods, consisting of  30-60 orcas in each pod.

Orca’s tend to mate with members of other pods to avoid inbreeding which can lead to birth defects and shorter lives. It takes 17 months for a whale after mating to have a baby. Female orcas can have a baby every 3-10 years. Due to the tight bonds between members of a pod , newborn calves are well protected. Often younger females in the pod look after the calve and learn to raise young.

Presently orca whales are not endangered because they are not hunted by humans and don't face the problems other marine life do like lack of food. Pollution isn't a huge problem for orca whales either because they can easily migrate to somewhere different due to their huge amount of the ocean they can survive in.

Despite their names, orca whales are not whales they are dolphins. When sailors first saw orcas they named them ‘whale killers’ because they were feasting on whales. Over time the name was switched around through mis-understanding and to make it easier to say.

The mirror in the attic

This is a reading activity. The first paragraph was the story starter and I wrote the rest. I posted this because I am proud of it, even if the best paragraph is the one I didn't write.

She had found it lying alone, deserted, abandoned in the attic. After making the discovery, Anna had gazed and marvelled at it for some time. Where had it come from? Why had no dust settled upon it, as it had done over everything else that resided in her attic? A layer of the thick dust blanketed the attic floor, and as the sunlight glared through the attic windows, the dust particles yet to settle were illuminated as they hovered in the stuffy air. Yet, the mirror looked flawless, untouched by age, not a fingerprint in sight.

Anna propped the mirror up against one of the thick, timber beams that jutted from the attic floor. Settling down into a comfortable position, she tentatively placed a finger against the glass…

The glass starts to ripple as her reflection starts to transform. The reflection then spirals, creating an abstract image. It take a moment to figure it out but then Anna realises it. She sees it all the time. It is how she portrays herself. Her figure has been disrupted with moving, bullying, trust issues and lack of confidence. All the things she has been through have left their mark. Tears gather in her eyes and run down her cheek, leaving a red line in their tracks.

Her mind clears as she thinks of the positive things in her life. She thinks of her best friend and their shared moments, of the people that love her and most importantly, her.

Anna reaches out to the mirror and with one finger, touches the muddled reflection. The image clears and is her once more.

Why soldiers risk their lives at war.

W.A.L.T describe how people risk their lives for others.
This week we had some Anzac activities to work through. We had to read certain texts and find our own to get the information from. I am very happy with this outcome. It took me a while and a went on to every link on the first page of google results to find this information. Next time I would add more in depth information.

Animal soldiers

This week we have been creating DLO's based on the information in articles and videos about The 'ANZAC' troops. This news paper is about how animals were used in the war. You will have to zoom in to read it.

Future glasses

This week in our novel study activities we have been asked to create a prototype of something we would make to help a character in our book.

My prototype is of some future glasses. They were very fun to create and I am very proud of them.  Future goggles. They are made with a basic glass part but mini computer screens are laid on top.  The screens make a prediction based on the personalities of everyone around Mare and the programming of the future predicting new-bloods.

Psalm Sunday

As part of our reading and R.E we have been working on palm Sunday. I think the image took a very long time and it doesn't look very good but it was really tricky to make .

Passion Sunday falls on the Sunday before Easter. A procession of faithful Catholics carry palms to symbolise the palm branches that the crowd laid down on the path for Jesus when he came to Jerusalem.

The red queen.

One of our reading activities is to make a board game of the novel that we are reading. Here is mine.

Take a guess.

As a group we have been learning how to read between the lines and figure out inference riddles. I came up with this one. I am pretty happy with it and it was easy to complete. I hope you enjoy.

I prowl at night, I sleep by day.I am small, about up to your knee.I am a domesticated animal, once worshiped by the Egyptians.You pat me and I purr. I am …

A cat.

The time before Christmas

In this DLO I tried to make it easier to understand advent. I think I did pretty well and I am proud of this slideshow. I think maybe next time I could use a different presentation app. Hope you enjoy.

Texting about the Jesse tree.

This is my other DlO on the Jesse tree topic. This one is a little less informative than my thing link but I hope you like it. It was quite tricky to get as much in the text as possible without it cutting off. Thanks for reading.

The next day at exactly the same time.

The cut off bit says " the poor of the earth".

The Jesse tree.

Our focus this week has been about the Jesse tree. The Jesse tree is an old fashion Christmas tree but with a different tradition. Read more to find out. I personally think I am getting better at using thing link. I hope you enjoy this interactive image and please comment below about what presentation sites I should use next time.