My Culture and Me

Yesterday we were celebrating the cultures we come from! Some people (like me) wore costumes and each one of us had to bring a plate of food from our cultures.
There were so many foods from our cultures and I wanted to try all of them! (And I did) 
We also had to do a Culture presentation, and I did China!
I enjoyed making the google drawing! I also enjoyed sharing things from my culture with others!
I found finding the facts a bit tricky because there were so many facts I wanted to include! 

Here are some of the photos from yesterday! (And my presentation) 

Women's Native Tree Nursery Visit

 Today I am reflecting on when my class went to Women's Native Tree Nursery. 

We had a person called Kauri teach us how to take cuttings from native trees in our Riringa Awa and also how to extract seeds from native trees also in the Riringa Awa. We  also learnt that some of the trees had some healing properties. We also extracted TONS and when I mean it, I mean it! We extracted TONS of cuttings and seeds from all the different native trees in our Riringa Awa! We also had to spray-paint some trees because some trees were actually not native ones and we didn't want the to be in our Riringa Awa, so on one of the trees, we stomped on the tree and snapped it!

After that, we walked to the Women's Native Tree Nursery! We went under the bridge, and walked all the way to Riverdale school, which the Women's Native Tree Nursery was next to. As soon as we got in Kauri asked if we wanted to go under the sprinklers! Of course we said yes because it was BOILING! 

 Then, we started to plant the seeds we collected. We had put the seeds into trays and after that, we planted the cuttings. We went under the sprinklers from time to time because as I mentioned, it was boiling hot! 
We then watered the plants, and then we had to get back to school. We said goodbye to the plants and Kauri and headed off.

My digital learning object shows that I can emebed photos into this blog post
Here are some photos of us planting!
Next time I would put the photos into a slideshow

Marae Noho

 Today I was reflecting on my trip to Takipu Marae. On Thursday, we got onto the buses that would take us to Takipu Marae, the trip took around an hour because the Marae was out in the country. After we arrived, we had some people welcome us and we shook their hands. After, we went inside the Wharenui and layed the matresses out and made our beds. After that we had some free time and we went outside to play some games with our friends. After we had our morning tea, and then resumed to our games.

We then ate dinner after a while and we had burgers! They were very delicous! Then, we changed into our Pajamas, brushed our teeth and we had a movie night! Some people like me, brought their sleeping bags and pillows. The movie we watched was 'Yes Day!', but unfortunately we didn't finish it because it was our bedtime! When we went to bed, it was a bit noisy because some people were whispering while others were trying to fall asleep! At last, the chattering stopped and we went to sleep.

The next day, we woke up, changed into a fresh set of cloths and ate breakfast. After we ate breakfast, we again had free time with our friends. Then, one of our teachers announced that we would be a history lesson (learning about the history of Takipu Marae). We learnt that Takipu Marae is related to the Horuta! Amazing! After, we learnt about the history of Takipu Marae, we had some teacher activites. We had capture the flag with Mrs Naden, but instead of flags we had a squeaky chicken and a hamburger! We had craft activites with Mrs Aperahama and Cup games with Mrs Hickling!

After we finished the teacher activites, we had some people from the museum teach us about our ancestors from New Zealand. We learnt a lot and we also learnt some constellations! We also played some traditional maori games that kids would play back in the day. After we had lunch! we had sausages, some meat patties from yesterday and some pasta! After, we had free time and then, we had to pack our stuff, put away the matresses and say good-bye to the Marae. We hopped onto the buses and went back school.

Here are some photos from where we went to the Marae! 

The Easter Story

 For the past few days, my class was learning to summarise and make links between our paragraphs. Our task for our reading and writing was to summarise/retell the story of Easter. First we had to choose a partner to work with. After we had to write down our script. We had to write the events in order, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday.
After we wrote our script, we made little puppets. We first colored them in, then we cut them out and taped them on little popsicle sticks. After we made our puppets, we recorded a screencastify with our puppets. 
I enjoyed making the puppets and recording my version of the Easter story, although it took 2 days or so.
It was a bit hard to read, record and move the puppets at the same time. The most challenging bit was that we had to re-do it so many times! There were also instances where we forgot to un-pause it and ended up making mistakes, which resulted in us re-doing our recording multiple times.
Do you know the story of easter? How do you celebrate easter with your Whanau? Tell me in the comments!
Here is me and my partner's version of the story of Easter!

March Reflection

 Today I was doing my March Reflection for this month. We had to share what we enjoyed about March, and some things we were proud of. 
I enjoyed sharing what I achieved  this month. I also enjoyed customizing the background so it looked like what I wanted it to look like.
I found finding the 'Golden line' tricky, because there were so many amazing sentences to choose from!
My digital learning object shows that I can embed google drawings into this blog post.

What were you proud of in March? Tell me in the comments!

Te Kuri a Paoa

 For the past few days, we were learning about Kiwa and Paoa through art. When Paoa and Kiwa came to Gisborne, they thought young Nick's head looked like Paoa's dog, so they named young Nick's head Te Kuri a Paoa.  When captain Cook came, he saw young Nick's head over Nick's head so he named it Young Nick's head because he saw young Nick's head over Nick's head! 
We also were learning to blend pastels. We blended pastels because we needed some of the shades that we didn't have. We also learnt about showing movement through our pastel strokes, like for the fur and for the night sky.
You can read my reflection in my slide deck!
Do you know how to blend pastels? How many times did you think I said 'Young Nick's head' or 'Nicks head? Count them all up and tell me in the comments!

Goal setting Term 1

Today I was learning to set goals. Our teacher gave us two sets of slides and we worked on them together as a class. We have learning heroes for our Learning disposition goal, we had to choose a subject to get better on, then we had to choose one of the learning heroes to be like in order to achieve that goal. The learning heroes came from the Horouta Waka.
I enjoyed writing my goals. I also enjoyed setting my goals because my teacher taught me it's good for me to drive my own learning!
I found it a bit tricky to choose a learning hero, because they were all amazing and I wanted to be like all of them. In the end I settled on Hinehakirirangi because she perseveres.
My digital learning object shows that I can embed my slides into my blog. 
What are some of your goals? Who would be your learning hero?