France Celebration

This showcases the winter solstice of France. We have used different information from 4 sources and have referenced it. We have also added images to give a clear idea of what they use for the yule. We have also add in the daylight of the short day. Did you know that France celebrate their Christmas eve on December the 5th. Before the children go to bed they put their shoes next to the fire and sing traditional french christmas songs. They also get given presents from Saint Nicholas which arrives on a donkey.  I have learnt a lot of new information about the French and how they celebrate this. 

Legend of the 7 sisters

Since it is currently Matariki we have been set challenges about the legend of the seven sisters. We have answered questions by using the story and our reading skills to find this. We also have made a text to text connection, this asked us "What does your whea do for you? " ( whea meaning mum or aunt). We have also listed the names of the stars which is Waiti, Waiata, Waipuna-a-rangi, Tupu-anuku, Tupu-a-rangi, Uru-a-rangi and Matariki. I enjoyed this activity because it kind of applied to reading and I could use my skills to help answer the question as well as making connection. 

Pizza Pieces

In maths we had to work out these fractions and decimals to make one whole.  I have written in this DLO all me strategies and how I solved these equations. I think this was really hard because we had to manipulate fractions into a whole. I kind of made it similar but instead I completely converted it into a fraction then worked it out from there. We had to add different fractions to make one whole.  

Dance Evaluation

Today at dance we had to film ourselves performing our dance. This helped us with looking at it and seeing what we had to work on. We had to work with another group, they also gave us some feedback and feed forward.   My group had to work on our transition and mostly our timing for a few parts because it wasn't in sync with the music.  I think this was a good way to evaluate your steps in dance. 

Explaining movies

In this task we had to make a movie of all our knowledge of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We used facts to back up our thinking but we got them from a New Zealand book. I worked collaboratively with Zahra, Fifita and Nazella to make this and we used free to use pictures for this. We infomred people about Landfills and the process of how they get rid of the rubbish. Did you know it takes plastic bags 400 years to biodegrade which is a lot of years.  

Group Opinion

In Inquiry Tiava, San Kyaw, Nazella and I made a group solution to solving a rubbish problem that happens at our school.  We divided the paper into 5 sections and wrote our opinions then in the middle where the box was we put it all together. But there was a twist to it we couldn't speak. This was quite hard because we didn't really know what to put in.  Instead we circled some ideas from each opinion and numbered it off in order. This turned out really good and made a group solution or opinion. 

Inquiry Flowchart

Our Inquiry focus today was to make a DLO about a flowchart on how milk cartons can be processed into different types of things such as books, furniture and  roof tiles. Sanujan, Tiava, Joshua and I made an animation based on this. Our school is a Fonterra school meaning we get given milk then we get asked to drink it dry and fold it flat. It then gets sent off to different countries and can be made into different types of objects. I think I have learnt quite a lot about the process of this and I am glad I'm helping others.