Finishing it off properly
Christmas and thanksgiving time
See if you can re-create this angel
Re-create this Christmas Card
Re-create these?
What does art show and tell us about the artist and the time they lived?
Don't get climate change? Watch an animation explaining the phenomenon as a 12-year-old would
How does climate change? And what happens to environments and ecosystems when it does? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us the effects that climate change can have and how one small change in an ecosystem can throw everything off.
Week 10 - Sign Language Week
This week will be working off a site we've especially built for Sign language week along with concluding our Social Studies focus on Myths and Legends!
Maths, writing, reading AND so much more will be found on this site!
Week 9 - Maori Language Week
This week will be working off a site we've especially built for Maori language week! Maths, writing, reading AND so much more will be found on this site!
KIA KAHA TE REO MAORI!!
Week 8 - Tongan Language Week
Reading activity: read this text and share on your blog 5 interesting practices you found help Tongan people 'Keep the traditions alive'.
Audio for Ngatu: keep the tradition alive
Writing:
Watch one of these videos and write 2 - 3 paragraphs that share the detail you learn.
ART activity: select 2 designs from site above to create your own Ngatu design.
Week 7 - Writing
NO MEETS - we're together again!
Read through the simple sentences here to your left.
Select two simple sentences.
Create a list of at least 5 conjunction words.
Select 2 random simple sentences from the list and create compound sentences using a conjunction you select.
Some will sound funny - but you'll soon the get how simple sentences can be made into compound sentences which adds detail to your writing.
Select your top 5 compound sentences from today and show them off on you blog!
Go here for reading tasks. Have heaps of fun learning!
Week 7 - Reading
NO MEETS - we're together again!
Please note Room 3 we are sharing the reading tasks set by Mrs Ilaoa for Room 11 this week.
Thor & Hulk = Grace and Gee
Hawkeye & Iron Man = Riley & Duff
Note what is provided for early finishers.
When posting your completed tasks, please mention in your post which part you found most fun/interesting to complete. Explain why.
Week 7 - Maths
NO MEETS - we're together again!
Complete this first set of tasks that will test your knowledge of measurement units.
Try this to further challenge your knowledge of measurement units
Post both tasks separately on your blog. Remember to give a task description for each. Highlight what you have learned about measurement.
Extras 1 BMF 2, Triangle challenge
Week 6 - Social Studies
Tune in to our Google Meet at 11.00am
Select one of the tasks from the slides
Get creative and share your creation on your blog
Week 6 - Writing
Writing great sentences!
Work through this slide deck to improve increase the variety of sentence types you use!
*Extension: select a series of images and challenge another student in our class to use different sentence types.
Have heaps of fun!
Week 6 - Maths
Greetings class.
Your tasks for this week!
Warm up, complete and post on your blog with a task description.
Measurement units, work through this learning task!
It's designed to have your stop often to find out the meanings to the different units of measure used.
Post on your blog, in your task description mention what your favourite part of this learning task is.
Have heaps of fun learning, creating and sharing!
Week 6 - Reading
Greetings class. Please work your way through this learning task!
YOU choose which 3 articles you'd like to read and respond to.
For every article please use the poster produced, a copy of your written responses to sit under your poster on your blog posts.
Have heaps of fun learning, creating and sharing!
Use this template to share 4 interesting facts about your selected myths country. Replace the map and images to come from your country. Change it up to suit your research today!! Post on your blog with a further explanation of what you found enjoyable about this task. (5 dojo points)
Week 5 - Social Studies
WALT: we are learning about a country in our world!
TASK ONE:
Find a myth from one of these two continents: North America OR South America
Mark in the country they are from on a world map
Create a poster that shows the following:
The name of the myth
Key people/beings/objects from myth
The population of this country today
The languages spoken in this country
Flag of the country
Show this off on your blog today (5 do jo points!)
TASK TWO: complete task to left here.
HAVE HEAPS OF FUN RESEARCHING!!
Week 5 - Writing
Writing great sentences!
Work through this slide deck to improve your sentence structures!
*Extension: create an image in google draw to accompany your 6 sentence story!
Have heaps of fun
Week 5 - Reading
Greetings class. Please work your way through this learning task! This is what I'd love for you try out first before making a choice of the remaining tasks available here.
Grace: A piece of paradise task. Text
Riley & Gee: Meariki text. Meariki Task
Duff: Something alive and Brave Flower. Task create a venn diagram
Kiwi kids news after you've completed set task, task of your choice THEN kiwi kids reading reading reading! :)
Day 1 Camp.mp4Day One Year 8 Leadership Camp
O le ala i le pule, o le tautua
Awhi Rito
Teu le vā
Fiafia
Week 4
Mark on a world map the different countries our myths and legends come from.
Complete tasks from week 3 about the 2 myths posted.
***NOTE: you may prefer creating posters for each of the myths instead of writing about them. Ensure you present the keywords in your poster.
CAMP reflections:
If you were to give ideas for the next year 7/8 camp what would you suggest?
What would you keep?
What would you stop?
What would you add?
Why do we have such events?
Talk about whare tapa whā and key competencies
Quick finishers could make up a programme for 2021 events
Week 3
PELE THE FIRE GODDESS
A fun task for you this week!
a. Watch 'Pele and the fire goddess'
b. Discuss with your partner what this myth is actually about (a message? Landform? A life lesson?)
c. Watch it again together to work out
Re-write the myth/legend using the parts that would have been passed on over generations.
Describe the parts have been added in for entertainment for today's storytelling.
Do the same with 'Rat and the Bat'.