Learning Traditional Maori Culture

 Hey, Bloggers today we have been learning about, Tā moko (Maori tattooing), Haka (Tribal Dancing) and Kākahu or Korowai (Maori cloaks) using these examples we have been looking at the differences between the past and the present (the changes made in the use, design and materials). We have done this because we are preparing for the future when we will have to do this ourselves. 

    

Have a good day,

~Olivia~ 

My Holidays & The Cat in the Hat!

 Hey Bloggers, How were your holidays?

Yesterday for literacy we made a table of we think the characters on the story of the cat in the hat behave. There are 5 headings speech, thoughts, effects on others, Actons and looks. What are you doing for literacy? For example, this was a follow up from children's books. In the holidays I went to hammer springs for a day trip, The waterslides were closed so I couldn't go on them.    

 

What did you do in the holidays? 

Have a great day 

~Olivia~

B.U.S.H Rocket video

BUSH. Rocket video.

This term for inquiry we were launching plastic rockets. Our  team is called BUSH we came 2nd in my class. It went round about 60m but went way farther on the practices. Then we had to make a video about making our rocket. BUSH means batman, units, Scolding, Hippos (don't ask why).

This is my groups video

 

Have a great day!

~Olivia~

Wacky Science Website

Hey Bloggers, 

This term our literacy group has been doing science experiments and for the past 3 weeks, we have been paired off and creating our own experiments. I was working with Zara and we did an experiment based around fossils. 

This website includes the questions we asked, our hypothesis and finally our results.

Click on the image to take you to the website, 

Have a wonderful day,

Olivia 
 

Sign Ninja

Hey blogger friends,

Today we were learning New Zealand sign language because it is NZSL week.  For our task we were playing a game called sign ninja. On this, we learn all sorts of things like colours, foods, numbers and soon to learn shapes. Here I am signing my name                                         

Bye bloggers!

Informational experiments

For literacy, this week are doing science experiments my science experiment was about fossilization here is our hypothesis. I think Softer soils will hold the imprint better than soils/dirt that is harder. This was not made around the research we did because the research we did only told us about fossils, not about the soils. I think that the sandy soils with fossilizing better due to the fact that fossils are mostly found in sedimentary rock (sand, silt or clay). There are some minor differences we will take into thought like for example that sand cracks very easily when it is dry so we won’t we able move the plate. Although I think our experiment will work very well and we will get good results.  Here is a picture 

 

Have a good week

~Olivia~

Perfect (but not so perfect) PSA's

Today we were doing coding and we were told to put out an issue that we thought needed more attention,   in our community I have noticed that we have had a lot of rubbish lately so I made a PSA about it. PSA stands for public service announcement. 

My message is not to litter, I choose this because I thought is a message that everybody knows about but doesn't take action. The audience mainly for everyone who can read, I made it applauding by making it interactive.      

  

Have a great day 

~Olivia~