The Quiz.

WALT: make a Quiz for the audience to test and try to give us feedback.

Reflection: It was very hard for all of us but, Henry, Jack, Marko, Riley, and I all did as much as we could. Jack and I made the characters, Henry did the Questions, and Riley and Marko did something else that helped us do the slide. ( Henry did most of the work while me and Jack were making the characters. )

Mathematicians.

WALT: Conduct a study on two famous mathematicians.

Makey makey.

1. I don't know anything about Makey makey.
2. I'm really exited to learn everything about coding robots.
3. I think it'll be really hard to do both coding and Makey makey because i've never done it.

Galileo Galilei summary.

WALT: learn, create, and share our posters to our blog.



I really liked the learning I did with my friend Riley! It's fun to learn how things were created such as the telescope. I never knew that Jupiter had 4 moons, and that before man took a step on the moon, Galileo Galilei found it had huge craters and mountains. Did you like the poster we made? What else should we add to it to make it better?

My telescope.

This may have taken a long time, but I think I could have done better! I had used squares and circles! And I've learnt that I should take more time in creating things like this telescope and use more of my imagination. How long did it take you if you used tinker cad?

My quiz.

 It took a very, very long time to create, but Riley and I still managed to finish it. it was really fun to create so we hope you all like it! and tell us what else we should add to the slide to make it better!
if you created a slide like this, how long did it take you?

Something Alive.

WALT: Create a quality blog post that explains our learning.

The book Something alive is about a teenage girl who was born and raised in New Zealand. The people at her school have been telling her about things she already knows in Japan and asking her about things she doesn’t know. Her parents were also born and raised in New Zealand, her grandmother on the other hand, had come to New Zealand from across the sea to live there. As she learnt more about Japanese and soon got better, and whenever she needed help she had her family and grandmother.

Bedroom design.

WALT: Share our creativity with an online audience.

It took me a while to do but as I continued to carry on, I learnt how to do it better and bam! There it is. I know it isn't much but I didn't know what else to put in and couldn't find out how to put other stuff in, so i decided to keep it as that! What else do you think i should put in? If you did tinker cad was it hard for you as well?

Poland research.

WALT: Create a country study poster about Poland.

It was a bit hard to write down everything and I think I may have did it wrong but I got it done and the research was easy to find. And it was fun to make this. What would you do if you lived in Poland? would you travel there?

The Polish Refugee children.

WALT: Create a story board that includes main ideas in the text.

Close to the edge.

WALT: summrise the text in our own words.

My name is Rez storyboard.

WALT: Visualise and summarise the text in out own words.

Refugee haiku poem.

WALT: Creatively write and present a piece of poetry.

Reflection: it was kinda hard for Riley and I. We both suffered trying to figure out what to write for our poem till Mr Metzger helped the both of us with ideas. then we both made this...Riley had said it was our masterpiece, I thought otherwise. what do you think of it? and if you had to make a poem. What would it be?

Refugee book cover.

WALT: design and create a new book cover for refugee.

Mahmoud: bomb scene.

WALT: Create a quality blog post that explains our learning.

Boat design.

WALT: Design a boat made of recycled materials.

Refugee character drawing.

WALT: Create a quality blog post that explains our learning.

I chose Josef because I thought that he was very kind to try and keep his father with his mother, sister, and him. And very brave to be walking around a train, talk and laugh with a German knowing that Jews aren't  supposed to. Josef was also thoughtful enough to get his own sister some candy. And that made me think that if everyone would be that kind, brave, and thoughtful enough to do that if leaving their country.

would you do that for your family members if you were forced out of your own country?

Compare and Contrast settings.

WALT: Compare the similarities and differences of each setting.

Historic people research.

WALT: Reaseach 3 historical people in the novel

How to subtract numbers algorithm.

WALT: understand the differeneces when subtracting.

Packing the suitcase.

WALT: create a quality blog post that explains our learning.

Today I had read chapter 4 of 'Refugee', by Alan Gratz. And since we've been introduced to the 3 main characters, Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud. And they all have 1 mission in commen...escape their own country!


The things i have chosen to take with me if i were escaping New Zealand are:

My phone + charger.

The reason I would take my phone is to find out where i'm going on google maps. Stay in contact with my family members that couldn't make it out. And listen to some music at times as well.

Books.

The reason I would take my books are because i would have something to do when waiting for something like fishing ( if on a raft ) or my phone to be fully charged. And also because books are really fun to read for me.

Cloths.

I'd take fresh clean cloths because, well...who'd like to be in the same pair of cloths for who knows how long, that person would probably end up being stuck in the middle of no where for a year or so.

Spaghetti + water.

For food i'd have spaghetti because... Well, why not? it's super delicious and plus it's fulling. So that's the thing i'd have and I know it isn't healthy but that's probably the only food i'd miss if food disappeared. And water is another thing to take for me. other wise we'll end up dead of dehydration...and i don't like that thought 1 bit.

Cuba poster.

WAlT: Create a quality blog post that explains our learning.

Germany post.

WALT: know more things about germany.

Maori Gods.

WALT write to describe how our Nga atua maori relate to us.

This term Huia whanau and I were learning about the Maori gods and what they did, Riley, Marko and I made an animation to make it look like the creation story. we tried our best to finish everything we could and had to do, but had no success to finishing our must-do's. Then on Wednesday we all learnt a new song from our great teacher, Miss Fleet! she also wanted us to see what maori god relate to us. I think the maori god I relate to is Rongo-ma-tane, that's only because i'm always happy to help and it takes a while for me to get angry.

What Maori god do you think you relate to?

What's respect?

WALT: describe what respect is in our own words.

Respect is what everyone tries to show for others around them, people that show respect are always there to help others that are hurt or, respectful people always listen to others that speak and always have eye contact when speaking with someone else. Respectful people also help others when they read out to others, like teachers, teachers are always taking time out of their own day for children and mid-teens, like us and we're never being respectful to them when they need our attention. Instead we carry on with our chatting and messing, while the respectful people try to get us to sit down and listen.

even though people are disrespectful they do always need respect, like bully's for example, even though they bully everyone they still need to be respected and stepped up to. Respectful people also use respectful words like " yes please" and " no thank you " people always introduce themselves too.

My hobby.

What are your favourite things to do? My hobbies include's drawing, reading, swimming, and biking at home. Drawing has always been my hobby i used to always make drawings for my mother and farther and they loved them. Reading became a hobby from wings of fire, so I could read almost any book and be glued to it. Swimming is another hobby I love because of how fast i want to be, and so I know how to swim instead of drowning. I love biking because me and Starley have races and she usually wins.

Tech recount.

Every Thursday my class and I go to Tech to learn on what to do. First we get separated into groups of three then go to our classes we were chosen for we year 8's go to food Tech with Miss doo-floo and the first day we went there we made corn fritters.

My Goals for the year.

The book I've read.

The book that I've read once is the Minecraft combat book. I like it because I learn more about how to survive every mob in combat and of course, other players. It also has fun ways to trick your friends into respawning by one funny move. my favorite trick is the tree blowing up.

The combat book is very helpful in many fun ways. I wish to read it again 

Team buiding 3

WALT: work together as a team

Reflection: here me and my team are trying our best to not drop the water balloon to get to our goal. First we filled the balloons with water, then we had to try and throw the balloon at one another without popping it. At first it was hard, but then we passed and got to our goal.

but over all it was really funny and fun

Team building 2

WALT: work together as a team

Reflection: here we are working together to build a marshmallow tower using skewer's and marshmallow's. Here is my group trying to do one, but fail, then try another just to fail again. then i had a idea to just muddle up the tower, put marshmallow's at the bottom of the tower and skewer's at the top. I kinda rushed the tower because we had 20 seconds in.

Team buiding 2020

Walt: work together as a team.

Reflection: Yesterday we had a team building challenge. first we split up in teams of five, second we grab a long peace of string, cups, and a rubber band. The goal of the game is to not touch the cups with your body parts or you restart. For some of us it was kind of hard to build that we had wished we could touch them. For the rest of us it was kind of fast we wished we could do it again. Some of us even had idea's on how to make the cup tower taller>