Amazing Animation

 Kia Ora, 

This year has gone so fast - I can't believe it's July already. This year we have been focusing on navigation more specifically the navigation of how the polynesians found and made Aotearoa home. A few weeks ago, the museum brought in a planetarium and put it up in our hall. We were looking at the different stars that they used to navigate here to New Zealand. After all of this, we had to make an animation to show our learnings. I did mine on the voyage. I hope you enjoy and please comment so that I can improve. 

Caitlyn :)

Amazing, Awesome, Anaura Bay Camp

This year we couldn't have action week because of Covid 19 so on the second to last week of school, we went on a three day camp at Anaura Bay. It was really fun and we got to do lots of really fun things while we were there. On the first day, we put our tents up and then we got to chill out for a bit. I went swimming but the waves were tiny so you couldn't really do anything but it was nice to be in the ocean. It was also really cold.  We also played lots of Coney Island and we even played it on the beach which was really fun. 

Manawanui, another class at our school, was having their camp down the road so we walked down there for our dinner.  While we were there, we played some swing ball and some volleyball. There was also some swings which were fun to go on. After dinner, we headed back to our camp and got to play spotlight and the year seven girls were the only group that found everyone. It was probably helpful that our class is mainly year seven girls. We got to send the night in the tent and when we woke up we had breakfast and then I went for another swim. 

When I had finished and everyone had had breakfast, us girls moved our bags into the Marae. The Marae, Hinetamatea, was where we would be spending our second night. A lady came to talk to us about erosion and how the earth has changed over time. We went for a little walk and she explained how the waves affected the bank and showed us some places that have been affected by erosion. Walking back to camp, we saw an old rusty tractor or something like that buried in the sand. After the lady left, Eenor and I started to bury our feet in the sand. When we were finished, even the shortest kids in our class were taller than us. Then for dinner, Manawanui came to our camp for dinner. We played some coney island and then when it got to dark we played some more spotlight. 

We also played lots of card games and some people played chess. Then we went to bed in the marae. The next morning for breakfast, we had some leftovers, I had an American Hot dog. Then for morning tea, we got to eat crayfish - which I love. Crayfish is kind of like a lobster but better in my opinion. The camp was really fun and I hope we can go back next year. 

I hope you have enjoyed my post, there is a video below with some of the picture from camp. I hope you like it, don't forget to comment so that I can improve.

Caitlyn :)

Amazing Art

 For Manaiakalani this week we were looking at a blog about art. We got given some art to choose from and then we had to change the colour of it. I don't know the name of the original art but the first is the original and the second is mine. I know my one is not very good but I was playing around with the colours and I made my one blue and tried to make it look like someone from Avatar. Don't forget to comment so that I can improve and I hope you like it. 

Caitlyn

Super Sharp

 In literacy, we do sharp reading. During sharp, we train our brains to think accurately while reading. First we have to read the first paragraph in our heads and then we read the first sentence with our group. After that whoever is taking us will choose someone to unpack the sentence. Unpacking the sentence is basically explaining in our own words what we think the sentence means. After we have finished we have to do one on the deep four about the sentence. The deep four are I think this means, I know this because, I wonder why and I have a picture. 

After the session of Sharp we often have to do a follow up task. This time we had to answer some questions about the piece of writing that we did our sharp on. The first one was about a man who's pet magpie died and he needed to find another one. The second one was about an old man on a quest to find a life saving object... His false teeth!

Don't forget to comment so that I can improve.

Caitlyn :)

The slide below is the questions and my answers...

Cliff Jump

 Since the orientation day for our school is coming up we had to write a piece of writing to put up on the wall. We have a piece that we wrote at the start of the year and one that we wrote now so that you can see the change in our writing. The topic was A Moment in Time. I did mine about jumping off a cliff - you probably guessed from the title though. We had to include the different sentence styles that we have been learning from Write that Essay. We also had to use the tools that we had been learning in Manaiakalani so our piece wasn't allowed to be black and white. I used Canva. 

Please comment so that I can improve. I hope you like it,

Caitlyn :)

Marvelous Media

 In manaiakalani this week, we had to create a poster explaining what media is. I found out that there are three main types of media which are Print Media, Broadcast Media and News Media. I did my poster on Canva. I found it really fun to learn about and do. Next time I would probably add more information to the text. I hope you like my poster and learn some new things about media. Please comment so that I can improve. 

Caitlyn :) 

Spectacular Sentences

 Last term, we had to create something that was exactly 60s long explaining how to write two different sentences. The reason why we are doing this is because we were learning how to write different sentences of Write that Essay which is an app that we use in class. Some of the sentences include the ING start sentence, the semicolon sentence, the ED start, the EM dash and more sentences. The two me and my friend Felicia decided to do are the ING start sentence and the semicolon sentence. I hope you like the video. Don't forget to comment so that I can improve. 

Caitlyn :)