Term 4 Art Alive and my goals!

 This year for term 4 the theme and korero is Art alive so we would be learning a lot about different types of Art, For example we might be looking at traditional and cultural art from around the world or more modern art that we see a lot around our community and in homes. For the last term of Me being a year eight I am looking foward to achieving and acomplishing many things in my learning and in my personal life, This term my goal is to work hard and focus on my learning to get to high standards and be at a level that I would like and be satisfied with knowing that I acomplished it and also make the most of my time as a year eight with my friends and class and make memories that I will carry along with me throughout my college years.

LIne Graphs in Action

Today for maths we looked at a graph of countrys around the world and their amount of covid 19 cases in the amount of 70 days and for our task we had to bullet point 4 or 3 things we can tell by this graph,This task was interesting and I enjoyed doing this task.

 

Line graphs

This week for maths we learnt about graphs again and for my task today there were questions in slides I had to answer about the graph that was next to it and when I completed my work I did my create task were I had to write 6 items and go around asking people the item that they prefer, It was very fun and I enjoyed doing this task.

 

Art class rotation: Andy warhole

 Yesterday on tuesday for my secound rotation for art we were in room 5, Our focus was on Andy Warhol who is an American artist,  film director and producer, The main thing we learnt about him was his art, He is famous for his art work Campbells soup cans and art works of Marilyn monroe, After we learnt about him we had to make our own pop art on a piece of paper using crayons, The first thing we did was half the paper in 4 quarters and then draw the same image of a tomato soup can in each box, after that we had to colour it in we all had 7 colours each and we had to make all the images different in colour. This task was very fun and I enjoyed doing this rotation.

Te reo Nga tau

Today for te reo the theme is Nga tau which means Numbers in english, And for my task today I had to memrise numbers in maori and then fill out the blank spaces with the correct number in maori, This task was very interesting to do and I enjoyed learning higher numbers in maori language.

 

Today for my te reo create task I had to make a poster of maori numbers from 1 to 30 it was fun.

Why do we need school?

 Why do we need school?

Introduction:

Do you go to school? If you don’t kids go to school to learn, get a good career or a job in the future and to socialise with friends and people around us, Here in New Zealand it is compulsory for kids to go to school from the age of five all the way to sixteen,In every school you have a principal who is the head of the school ,and teachers to teach students who attend school, This essay will explain a lot about why we need and go to school.

Body paragraph 1: 

Why is it important for children to go to school to learn? It is important for kids to learn at school because it helps them in the world and they would not always have to depend on other people to help them, For example at school we learn to read, write and also learn to do maths by learning these subjects we can be able to count money when you are going to the shop or read directions on a map and buy things in a shop, this will help you alot when you grow up and help you be an independent person.

Body paragraph 2:

Why do we have to go to school to get a job, When you go to college you can pick classes and courses to take to get a job you would like in the future or when you leave college, For example at school we learn science, Learning science can help you become a doctor if you want to become a doctor, This is why we have to go to school to get a job because it can help you get the career you want in the future.

Body paragraph 3: 

We need to go to school to socialise, In school we learn to socialise by doing simple things like just talking and communicating with people around you and even participating in many school activities, For example in school when you are doing a project or working in a group you got to communicate with each other and that helps you in the future to get a job because talking and being around people can help you be confident and appropriate around people.

Conclusion: 

So now that you have read my essay about why do we need school, It will help you in becoming an independent person by learning in school to get a job and to socialise with people.

Edvard munch profile

This afternoon for inquiry for the first the day of term 4 we were learning about Edvard munch andd his famous art works, And this term our theme is art alive so thats why we learned about Edvard Munch today.

For our task today I had to make a profile about Edvard Munch , It was very interesting and I enjoyed learning and doing this task.

Glass task

 

Walt:Using the right structure of a essay

Today in our literacy class for writing I had to drag around the paragraphs, sentences around in the correct order of the essay, It was very fun and I enjoyed dong this task.

The watcher of the south

Today for inquiry we learnt about the a story from the xhosa people from south africa for this task I had to write down the characters from the story and information about them and then write down notes from the text and record myself telling my summary of the story it was very fun and interesting learning about this story.

Building our understanding of decimals

Today for maths I watched a video about decimals to get a clear understanding before I move on to my task for my task I had to write down what is a decimalin my own words then name some ways you can use decimals, after that I had to write the decimals using digits which was just turning the word form of the decimal into a digital decimal after that I had to write different ways shown in the example slide to write decimals, doing this slide was very fun and easy for me and I enjoyed doing this task, This task was very easy for me to do this task because it was very easy and interesting and I hope I learn more about decimals and move up to a higher and more complex way of using decimals.

Dragons eye lake

Task description: For inquiry I had to make a poster about the myth we learnt today and also write the
bottom of the poster in the poster I had to use images and write down key words that where in the story.
                    
Myth story: Dragons eye lake is a romance action and fairytale myth based in a country called croatia, the story starts of with 2 brothes one was blind and the other was'nt and the brother that could see betrayed him and took his land so the blind brother yelled at him "curse you" so when the brother that could see went back to the land he saw nothing, there was a dragon who protects the village and every year people pay him back every year with a bride but every year before the wedding the bride always dies and in this story the dragon named Murin is about to get a wife and then a man named Aristole who is sort of the hero in the story loved the women who was about to become the dragons wife so he had a Duel with the dragon for the bride and then the dragon murin got hurt by moondust that was on the spear of the pegasus which is aristoles pet and then murin got het and he was weak dieing in agne so he pulled his own eyes out and melted and turned into a lake, now on the land with a lake has rumors that if a couple swims in there you will have a strong relationship and helthy children.

Cambodia poster

Today for inquiry we learnt about Cambodian Myths and then we had to do our create task for my create task I had to make a poster about Cambodia In my poster I put images of the world map that showed cambodia on it and then cambodias country and then there flag and a picture of there temple which is very famous and unique. Making this poster was very fun and interesting for me to learn about Cambodia.

Cambodian Myth of Lightning, Thunder and Rain

Today for inquiry we learnt about a combodian myth of lightning, thunder and rain once the video was done we had to drag the images in the correct box using the information we got from watching the video and then at the bottom we had to write a summary of the story after the part when they have received there gifts. this task was really interesting and fun to do.

Athena

Today for inquiry I had to make a profile of a god I have chosen Athena I wrote down fun and interesting facts down about her, It was really fun making this profile about the greek goddess Athena.

The myth of Hermes

Today for inquiry we learnt about greek mythoogy. we learnt about the different greek gods, the greek creation story and about Hermes. when Hermes was a baby he invented fire and a lyre (a harp). see my story.

Jamaica Blue mountain.

Today for inquiry we learnt about jamaicas famous blue mountain for my task today I had read and watched some information from the slides and then wrote my notes on one of the boxes on the green slide and then wrote my notes from my research on the other side of the slide. It was really amazing and intersesting learning about how a small country like jamaica can have a famous mountain that produces coffee which is one of the worlds most expensive coffeee.

Paul bunyan

This term for inquiry we are learning aboutmyths and legends.
For this task we learnt an american legend named "Paul Bunyan" there are lots of stories about him forming amierica, we watched videos and noted down what we have found in the video in the box on the side when I have finished slide two and three I moved on to the next task on the slides on those slides I had to take some time to find out each landmark and the relationship it has with paul bunyan.

Term 3 Immersion assembly, A world of, difference (Recount)

This morning for the first day of term three we had an immersion assembly, we learnt alot about what we are going to do through out the term and watched the movies and plays that the techers of our school made for us durring the holidays Every team of teachers created a movie to give us a little bit of an undestanding of what thier team are going to be learning about and doing for this term.

The first movie we watched was from the team one teachers their video was about them dressed up as little kids and doing what they usually do when they go to school and in the movie they made they would always stop and think about how other students around the world in different countrys. I thought team ones movie was really great and was a fun way to show little kids about what other kids do at school around the country.

The secound movie we watched was from team two there movie was a parody of a kids cartoon "Dora the explora" and they would ask the map places in newzealand and then moved globaly around the world, Thier movie was really fun and brought back alot of memorys back in the day and it was a great video.

The third video was from the team three teachers their movie was anothey parody of a famous tv show called "The amazing rase" and they went to different countrys exactly like what they do in the tv show it was really amazing and was a fun way for them to show places and countrys around the world.

The forth video was from the teachers of team four their movie was about them on google earth looking at the coutrys where the food they eat come from and giving us alot of facts and information about the countries of where food they had for luch came from in their video they had lots of kinds of food from countrys like india, turky, and even common foods there movie was very intersesting and fun.

And finally the team fives teaches play was about a myth and legend about an old samoan story called "Sina and the eel" they played their part and acted their best to make the play intersesting and amazing, Breaf summary about the story of the legend: The story was about a beautiful girl named sina who lived in an island in samoa called "sava'i" and she had a friend whitch was an eel and they where best friends and she went and told the whole village and her family about her friend the eel and then her uncle was furious and killed the eel and sina was very upset so she burried the eel undegroung and then grew a big tree that grew coconuts and the coconut looked like the eels face so every time sina drank from a coconut she was kissing the eel.

so there you have it we watched four movies and a play about what every team are learning about this term it was really a fun way to start the term of and give us a little information of what we are learning about this term.

More statistical graphing

WALT: Create and Read statistical graphs
 Today for maths I was awnsering questions about what graph is better and three things the graph shows me thats good. This task was really  good for me because it gives me different kinds of graphs to use in my maths and other learning tasks it was really fun.

structure of the earth

WALT: Skim and scan to locate information in a text
today for reading we learnt facts about the layers of the earth this helped understand what the earth is made of and it's structure.