Year: 2025

Our Poppys Research

Last Week Miss’s F reading group learned about poppys. We researched about poppys and we had to go in groups for this research. We had a piece of newsprint papper and had to write down the ideas that were gonna research about. When we finished we made a Google Sildes telling us about Poppys. We had a discussion witch slide we are going present, presented the last slide. Then when we finished, we talk about feedback, we were talking about, to at the audience and to talk more louder.

Revend Samuel Marsden

This week for literacy we have been using our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden from 1920, we had the chance to meet him and talk to him. This was a fun activity because we took on the roles of Samuel Marsden. It was like we experienced actually meeting him.

Mapping the Migratory Flight of the Kuaka

LI: To use Google My Maps to show the migratory flight path of the Kuaka. 

This week our task was to make a DLO Using my map to see how far from alaska to NZ. TheKuaka Can Fly over 11’6oo Kilometers And They can fly that far because they have a type of diet that makes them bulk up and they shred. The always have stop to refuel their body with insections and that gives them energy.

One intresting fact is Around 80,000 to 100,000 Kuaka arrive in New Zealand each year, from late September.

The Kuaka

LI: To create an infographic that tells others about the migration of the kuaka

Our task was about was to make a dot to dot connections about the kuaka bird’ Something our group found interesting was we couldn’t think of any connections with the words because we didn’t talk that much but it was okay, but when we were starting to talk and we started to collaborate.

Dot To Dot Connections: The Kuaka

LI: To draw the lines between the words to show how the connections you have made.

Our task was about dot to dot connections: the Kuaka. What we did, the kuaku is a bird that migrates when the whether changes. the task was dot to dot, we had to put words that matches the Kuaka. Then you had to do line’s that matches the word, this is a example location and journey then you do a line, and you write, they go from New Zealand to Alaska.

Tamaki Hikoi

LI: To understand the concept of visual strorytelling

Today our task was to make visual storytelling. I wasn’t here for the walk i will try to act like i was at the walk because I have walked before to Point England. Our teacher took pictures of the river walk and we created a time order sequence of the photos in time order from when we left school, to when we started the walk, then we walked through the path, then when were at the end of the path we had to cross the road, then we were at the point England field.

North Island Kokako bird

LI: To use our smart searching skills

The North Island Kokako, who is the Kokako bird. The appearance is a blue gray body and blue wattles. And it seem a dark plumage and neither mask or wattles are seen.

What is their diet, their diet is eating fruit and leaves, less often, flowers, moss, buds and nectar.

What is their habitat, they live in the forest. And their forest home had shrunk. The Kokako bird is common on all of the forest. And sub-fossil remains shown a widespread show before the arrival of European settlers.

The facts about the kokako bird, remnant populations survive primarily in the northern half of the North Island, usualy Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Te Urewera. National Park. However, the species has been bring to many locations around the North Island.

The scientific name, the name for the North Island kokako is Callaeas Wilsoni. It is a member of the Callaeidae family, which is native to New Zealand.

A Moment In Time (Archery)

LI: To write a poem that describes a moment in time

A Moment In TIme

Archery

I heard the swishing noise from the arrow as I shot it well the wind was swishing over my body with a cold breeze 

 

I saw my hands shaking well I was grabbing onto the bow & arrow

 

I felt like i was going to miss somewhere else then the target

 

I wondered what would have happened if I did miss would it have went over the target or would it have just fall to the ground

At camp we had lots of challenge activities to try. Our challenge in with our poem was to chose our words carefully so that we painted a clear picture of what we were describing in the mind of our readers. Ene and I have described what it was like to shoot a bow and arrow. We chose this challenge because I wanted to experience how it felt to shoot a bow and arrow.

 

What did Samuel Marsden see?

LI: To use the information in the diary extract to create an image of what we think Samuel Marsden saw when he sailed down the Tamaki awa.

This term we made Tamaki river like what Samuel Marsden saw. Who is Samuel Marsden you might ask, Samuel Marsden is a missionary that came from the UK to spread Christianity and spread farming to the Maori’s. How we made the Tamaki river how looked like how it looked from decades ago. Their was a brush tool that add stuff to put on it. The most fun part was the putting the waka’s. Some thing’s was difficult to remove but ia was still fun.

Alley Way

This term we created a alley way, I found this activity exciting and fun. Our task was to copied a story that had to be like the story. The fun i put in was the graffiti, light pole and the sky, how did i do it. There was color brush to color in the part that you want to put stuff in, and there would be a text to write what you want on that part.

When i was done i wote i blurb, This is the image I created using the Adobe Express. I found this activity challenging because not to cover the part that is already done but I found it fun because I could put graffiti and more stuff on it.