Year: 2025

Paleontologis – 50 Word Sentence

LI: to understand how scientists know so much about dinosaurs.

LI: To recognise different types of fossils and how they are formed.

For this activity, we made a 50 word sentence DLO using Google Draw. Each person in our group shared their thinking to each other and combine them altogether to make the 50 word sentence about Paleontologists.

What I found interesting about this activity is how the scientists use Rock Hammers and chisels to review the form of the fossils!

I enjoyed this activity because we get to share our ideas together as a group.

Winter Learning Journey – Snowflake

For this block in the Winter Learning Journey, I constructed a snowflake using grey paper and scissors. I found this activity very fun and difficult to do at the same time, because the paper could get into a mess. But yet it is also enjoyable to cut through. From what I learnt from this activity, I found out how to practice my cuts, as I was teached by a friend.

Winter Learning Journey – Song Maker

For this Winter Learning Journey. I made a song using Song Maker. I found this activit quite difficult to do, because the song can sometimes get out of beat, and focus on another vibe. But I soon got the hang of it and fixed some mistakes and problems that made it become out of beat.

I found this activity fun to do because we get to make our own songs, using Song Maker.

Winter Learning Journey – Song Maker

For this Winter Learning Journey. I made a song using Song Maker, called ‘Till’s Heartbeat.’ It was a fun song to make! It is quite calming and quiet to listen to at the same time. I really liked how the beats are similiar to the original soundtrack, and I really enjoyed this activity!

I found this activity very cool and fun to do, because I get to make a song based off an Alien Stage sound track.

Matariki

  • LI: Identify Matariki as the Māori New Year and explain its cultural importance.
  • LI: Explain how the rising of Matariki signaled a time of celebration, reflection, and preparation.
  • LI: Create a piece of work that expresses their understanding of the significance of the Matariki stars.

To explore Matariki we worked collaborativley to complete a various amounts of challenges. As you can see on top of this text, it shows the DLO’s me and my working partner made. We shared our ideas that we know about Matariki and combined it all together throught our DLO’s. We both agreed that Matariki should stay as a public holiday, because we are all Kiwi and we should all celebrate it together as one.

Something I found interesting about this activity was how fish is important to Matariki. It is important to to Matariki because it means a time of plenty revival. As it is tied to the star cluster’s connection with freshwater and food sources.

Impact of Volcanoes

LI: To discuss the impact of volcanoes on the environment and human communities.

Our challenge was to research the impacts specific volcanoes had inflicted. From in between Mt Tarawera and Whakaari, we pick from one of those two that erupted in Aotearoa. For this subject, me and my collaborating buddy chose to research the Wakaari White Island, as our volcano to research about out.

We found out that over 22 people/tourists died after the Whakaari erupted. (It was still very active when those 22 people took a visit to the Island.)

I found this task interesting because we just found out that it last erupted in December 9, 2019. (The year before the pandemic started.)

Volcano Poem

LI: To write a multi verse cinquain poem that describes the journey of a sleeping maunga that erupts

For this period, we have been exploring about cinquain poems. A cinquain poem has 5 lines in total. Each of every line serves different roles. Such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, and a noun phrase. Noun plays as the name of a thing or something that you can touch. Adjectives describes the noun, verbs are action words that ends with ‘ing’ . Noun phrase. A noun phrase is a group of words. Four of them in total. (Noun phrases doesn’t need a sentence that could look like a whole paragraph. All we need is four words in total in a Cinquain Poem.) And lastly, a synonym. A synonym is one word that describes the other, in a similiar way. (Or a word that means the same, but said or worded in a different way.)

Something I found interesting about this was how our Cinquain Poem went from dormant, waking up, erupting, exploding and finished from erupting once again.

How Volcanoes Erupt

For this period. We made an animation of how volcanoes erupt using Google Slides! The slides on top of this text has a maximum of 134 slides. Showing the teamwork me and my group made altogether. We shared all our ideas and knowledge about volcanoes and how it erupts, by talking and putting it in Google Slides for animation!

Something I found interesting task was how the lava all hardens/solidifies into a hard type of rock after it has finished erupting.

I enjoyed this activity because I get to share my ideas with my friends.

Diary WW1

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there

For this period, we have been looking at the events that took place at the ANZAC Cove on 25 April 1915 during WW1. A various amount of our NZ soldiers were either injured or killed whilst fighing for their lives. Whilst we were learning about ANZAC, we looked at videos that have shown life in the trenches, explored the past in the ANZACS site and read Hami Grace’s Diary. Doing these steps helped us put or own diaries together and on track. After finishing our diaries, we used Google Vids to record what we wrote.

 

I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to explore more of my vocabulary

 

Something I found interesting  about this task was how we explored the past and how it really was.

 

 

Samuel Marsden – Podcast

LI: To interview Samuel Marsden using Adobe Podcast



For this project, we made a script to involve and question Samuel Marsden. (Which we decide who in our group will pretend to be him.)
Using by the way we speak, we use our tone of voice in order to make the interview with feelings and emotion. We worked as a group and made sure everyone is included by recording the Podcast.

I found this activity fun to do because I had fun recording with my group!