My Experience at Living Springs

Hey bloggers! 

Around the end of Octorber, me and the rest of my class went to Living Springs camp! It was the first camp with my friends I had ever gone to before, so I was quite nervous. It was a massive walk to the camp grounds, and as soon as we got there, we got to do so many cool activities! 

I have made a movie about it, so you can see all the things we did at the camp. 

By making a movie with a new app seemed quite difficult. But by the the time I had finished it, I had learnt so many cool things! The one thing that I found that was most useful, was the transitions. At the start, when I had just reveiwed my video, it seemed quite dull. So I  explored a little bit with the app, and found out you could put cool transitions in between the photos and videos. 

The thing I felt most difficult was finding all the photos and videos I could use for my movie. We had at least 4000 photos and videos, from all the teachers AND parent helpers. It took me like, FOREVER to find the ones I needed for my camp movie. The thing I would do better next time, would be to at more varieties of videos and photos so it could be more enjoyable and engaging to watch.  

Term 4 Camp

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Welcome back to my blog. Hope you had a wonderful holiday. Well, next week Ruru will be going to camp to Living Springs! We will have concerts,  swimming, movies, and much more. Have you ever went there before? Tell in the comments below! So, for this week for reading, the teachers decided that we should learn more about what we will be doing at camp. 

For create task one, we had to complete a mapping sheet that included questions about directions to put certain things. Since the sheet was on paper I will not be able to blog it. But it was very fun to do, and I enjoyed it very much!

For create task two, we had to create a bunk label. A bunk lable is a lable that you put on your bunk when you get to camp. Then, when we have finished camp, we can use it for anything at home! I would love to show it to you all, but I didn't have time to take a picture of it for all of you.

For create task three, we had to read a website and choose a topic to make a piktochart about it. I chose to learn more about native birds to New Zealand. Scroll down to see it! 

 

Kupe And The Giant Wheke

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Last week was Maori Language Week so we are just continuing on from that week.                                  WALT: Analyse and evaluate the actions and storylines of Maori myths and legends. Last week I chose to read How Maui Discovered Fire so this week I chose to read about Kupe And The Giant Wheke. It is a story about a magic man named Mutururangi who wanted to plot revenge on the villagers. Read the text to find out more about the story! 

For create task one, we had to fill out a sheet about where the story was set, who were the main characters, and what the problem of the story was and how they resolved the problem. Sadly, it is very hard to try and take pictures of things on our computer and since the sheet was paper I can not take a picture of it. 

So, for the Second Create Task we had to fill out another sheet but it was on our Chromenooks. So, for this sheet we had to write if we agree or disagree about the story's statement. I disagreed and agreed with the story's statement so I wrote 3 reasons why I agreed and 1 reason why I disagreed. Scoll down to see it!

 

For Create Task Three, we had to make a glossary of all the words in our text/story. I found 6 maori words in my story. Wheke, Waka, Rangatira, Tohunga, Taiaha and Pou. See my animation to see what all those words mean! 

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Reading - How Maui Discovered Fire

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This week you as may know it is Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. So for reading we are going to be reading about Maori Lengends. There were four Maori lengends to choose from, The creation of night and day, Kupe and the giant Wheke, Rata and the Totara tree and How maui discovered fire. I chose to read about How Maui discovered fire. The reason is because I already know some of mauis lengends like, How maui slowed the Sun.  The story is about how maui wanted to learn how fire was made. So, he went on a journey to a cave to retreive fire from the fire goddess, Mahuika. Find out more when you read the book!

Create task one had Two Parts. Firstly, we had to fill out an analysing sheet and fill it out with information about where the Legend was set, who the main characters were, and what the main characters actions were. For the second part of Create Task we had to copy a Evalution sheet and see if we disagrree or agree with our story's statement. Scroll down to see the rest of my post!

By the way, I will not be able to show the picture of the first part of Create Task One because of how hard it is taking pictures on chromebooks.

Poetry Anthology

Hello Writers!

For writng this term we were working on Poetry Anthology. We were working on many different kinds of poems like, Haikus, Limericks, Comparisum poems, Toungue twisters and much more. My favourite ones out of all the poems was Limerick (Lim-i-rick). The reason why is because a Limerick is a crazy/funny type of poem. My Limerick is about a girl named Jill who climbed up a big hill. Scroll down to see t5he rest oof my post! 

I hope you were able to enjoy my poems!

Please comment down below if you have any questions or feedback about my Poems. 

-Polly

Challenges

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This week instead of our basic Reading Writing and Maths, we had to do different kinds of challenges the teachers made. I finished 2 out of the 5 challenges. The two challenges I completed were, the Alphabet Photography and the Firework Suprise Challenges. The Alphabet Photography Challenge wasn't that hard but, finding the letter P was the hardest letter. But luckly, I found a P shape in a small garden next to a stone path in our front yard. 

Scroll down to see the letters I found!

Here is my O.

Here are my two Ls.

In this picture you can not really see the pictures really clearly but in person it looks just like a Y.

For the Firework Suprise Challenge we had to follow rules of a video and draw a Firework. But when your paper up, there is a BIG suprise inside. Here it is!

Since I accidently drew the BOOM! a little too small, I decided to draw a big fire coming out from it.

I hope you enjoyed my post, please comment if you have time.

Hello Readers!

This morning I had nothing to do so I decided to do one of the challenges. I chose to do the longest plank challenge.  A plank is a exercise that helps you with your core. When you are doing it, you should feel something in your tummy. That is how it helps you with your core. Anyways, scroll down to watch my video.

Hope you liked it!