Alien Animation

For our work we made an animation. I worked with Ethan and here is what we made.

Welcome

Camp Photos From Arthur's Pass 2018

Today me and Nathan K had to make a slideshow of our photos from camp. Here is our slideshow.

Camp Thank You Letter

20 November 2018      

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Dear Keiran,

Thank you for coming on the hike with our class. We all had a great time on camp. Did you enjoy going on the hike? My favourite part of camp was searching for Brian and going on the tramp. For the tramp we went to the Anti Crow Hut Walk but you probably already know that. When we searched for Brian we had to find clues about him like his drink bottle and his backpack and stuff. He was also addicted to minties so we found a lot of mintie wrappers. It was also fun talking to Brian’s mum Justine (which was just Charlie’s mum).

A challenge for me was doing the river crossing and doing the hike. Something I found out about myself was that I am good at reading maps. I enjoyed spending time with Nathan K, Callan, Tyler, Charlie and Ethan because they are my friends and they are funny. The best food was the Nachos and the baking. Schools should continue to do camps because they are really fun and everyone enjoys themselves. Other places I would like to go on school camp would be Wellington or Dunedin.

I hope you enjoyed your time with my class.

Ngā mihi

Yours sincerely

Nathan J

Enlargement Of Patterns

Today we had to draw patterns in either a 3cm x 3cm or 4cm x 4cm. I chose 3cm x 3cm and then I had to enlarge it by a scale factor of 3 and fill the page. Here is my work.

Multi Link Block Work

Today we made multi link models with 8-10 blocks and we had to draw the front view, left view, right view, and top view. Tyler had to try make it from multi link blocks. Then we had to make it on isometric paper. Below is my work.

Nathan J E-astlle Descriptive Writing October 2018

For writing in our class we have been doing descriptive writing of a moment in time. We had to look at a picture for inspiration and we had to write about it with our senses.

Click here for the link to the original link.

The Incredibly Magical Terrificly Awesome Market (Tim-Tam)

As soon as I walked through the front gates I could see stalls selling everything a person could ever need. I could see soaps, foods, furniture, old DVDs and CDs, and much more. Everywhere I looked someone was examining something to see if they wanted to buy it or not. The marquees were as colourful as a multi colored quilt.

The market was bustling with people; everyone busily doing their own thing like some busy bees working in a hive. It sounded like a cinema full of excited teenage girls about to watch a brand new movie featuring Justin Bieber. There were babies crying and adults arguing about what to get and how to enjoy themselves. I could feel happiness in everyone I saw.

The fruit and vegetables that the salesmen were selling were as colourful as a rainbow when you are looking through a stain glass window. There was a person with chocolate sauce all over their face, there was also a DJ playing music that had a bucket on his head. There was just everything that you could imagine all squashed into this public carpark and topped off with sunshine. What more could you want??

THE END!

Manu Information Report

What Does It Look Like?

A weka looks like a brown bird with a greyish light brown tummy. It also has red legs
and a red beak.

What Does It Eat?

Weka’s are omnivores and they eat insects, slugs, frogs, lizards, rats, mice, eggs, small
birds and they also enjoy leaves, berries, and seeds.

How Does It Breed?

Weka breed in burrows in nests throughout all of New Zealand. They breed from
August to January.

Are They Social?

Weka like to be very playful with other weka and they are afraid of humans when
they approach them.

What Are Their Threats?

The main threat is starvation during droughts and their main animal threat is ferrets
but there is also stoats and possums. The man-made threats are them being fed by
humans and then they don’t rely on getting food themselves. In the future, we can stop
feeding them so they don’t rely on humans.

Volume & Capacity DLO

For working about volume and capacity we made a DLO about it.

Reducing Our Plastic Waste

For our topic about the environment we made beeswax wraps to use instead of glad wrap and fabric bags to use instead of plastic bags to reduce waste in our environment. We had a lot of adult helpers to help us with these. I enjoyed making these but they were a bit challenging. I learnt that the beeswax can melt and soak into fabric. I found it challenging to choose what type of fabric. To make the beeswax wrap we got a piece of baking paper on the ironing board, then we put on our fabric, then we sprinkled on some grated beeswax on, then we put another piece of beeswax wrap on top and ironed it. I have used the beeswax wrap a lot already and I like it much more than glad wrap. Here are some photos of what I made.

Where To Next? - Literacy

Where To Next?  Connected, Level 4

Turning Old into New

Literacy

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around us and the negative
of positive impact our actions can have on these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify and explain some of the issues facing our environment today
• identify some of the negative impacts humans are having on the environment
• identify some positive actions people are taking both here and around the world to try and
• help look after our environment.  
• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in our own lives to help our
• environment.
• learn about our local bush track and creek and identify some ways in which we can
• help to look after (kaitiakitanga) these areas.

Reading Learning Goals

-I am learning to use sub-headings to guide me to the main ideas in text.

-I am learning to use illustrations, text boxes, charts and graphs to help me make inferences so I
get more information from the text.

-I am learning to use more than one text, in print or electronic formats, to gather and check the
accuracy of information.

-I am learning to read a wide range of texts (e.g. encyclopaedias, websites, newspapers)
 to gather and check information on a topic.

-I am learning to explain why the author has written a text.

-I am learning to read and understand text that contains academic and topic-specific vocabulary.

Read the text, ‘Turning Old Into New’ and then complete the following activities.

1. Why is recycling a good idea?

Recycling is a good idea because it produces less waste. ✓

2. How many tons of rubbish do New Zealanders send to landfills every year?

New Zealanders send 2.5 million tons of waste to landfills. ✓

3. When rubbish breaks down what gas does it produce?  What environmental problem
4. does this contribute to?

When rubbish breaks down it produces Methane Gas and CO2 which contributes to Global
Warming. ✓

4. Complete this sentence:  Everything we use is made from  Earth’s       Natural     Resources ✓

5. Explain where these resources come from;

Wood: comes from trees and plants. ✓

Metal: comes from rocks that are mined from the ground. ✓

Most Plastic: comes from the oil. ✓

6) How does oil form?

Oil forms from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. ✓

7) What are some of the things glass can be recycled into?

Glass can be recycled with aluminium cans to make roads. It can also be made back to sand and added to
sports field’s to drain away water. ✓

8) What are some of the things cardboard can be recycled into?

Cardboard can be recycled into newsprint, writing paper, toilet paper and egg cartons. ✓

9) What can plastic with the number 1 be recycled into?

Plastic with the number 1 can be recycled into soft drink bottles, pillow and sleeping bag fillings, carpet
and clothing. ✓

10)  Attach a google drawing here that explains how number 1 plastics can be turned into
clothing.

11) What are microfibres and what is the problem with them?

Microfibres are tiny fibres that come from our clothing and they go through sewers and
into the ocean and it makes some ocean animals sick. ✓

12) What is Earth Overshoot day?

Earth Overshoot day is a concept created by the Global Footprint Network. It marks the
date each year when people have used all the resources the planet can regenerate in that year. ✓

Glossary - Write what these words mean

Atoms: the smallest particle of a substance that can exist by itself or be combined with
other atoms to form a molecule. ✓

Carded: (relating to fibres) aligned in the same direction. ✓

Global Warming: a gradual increase in Earth’s average temperature due to increased levels
of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. ✓

Malt: barley or other grain that has been used for brewing beer. ✓

Natural resources: materials found in nature that can be used by people, such as air, water, plants,
animals and rocks. ✓

Synthetic: something that is made by people and is the result of combining different chemicals. ✓

In class we will be working on projects looking at issues around rubbish and what we
can do to help reduce this problem.  

Video Links

NZ Recycling Crises

Diver Filming Swimming Through Plastic

The Pacific Garbage Patch

Inforgraphic - Reducing Waste in Our Lunch Boxes

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around

us and the negative of positive impact our actions can have on

these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in
• our own lives to help our environment.

Task: Create an infographic showing people how they can reduce their waste in their lunchbox.   

Our co-constructed success criteria:

-Have a strong title/hook

-Use convincing language and images

-Have simple things people can do

-Use images (free to use)

-Use bullet points/ short sharp information

-Use correct punctuation and spelling.

Designing a Logo

We are learning to demonstrate our understanding of design principles to create the Digital Technologies Maze. On Scratch we made a logo to learn about that stuff. At the start we watched a video to learn how to change the letters to what we wanted. Then we had to make them play music and change colour. Then we had to share them to get the embed code to put on this blog post that you are reading right now.

Play Summary

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks, you are working in groups to practice and perform
a play. This is using our oral language and reading skills in literacy.
Our key competency focus is participating and contributing.

For writing, your task is to summarise the main events in your play in three
paragraphs. You must plan your writing first but it is up to you how you do your planning.  You must also write a fourth paragraph about your experience of
practicing and performing your play.

Yr 6

I am learning to organize my text into paragraphs which begin with the main idea and contain
supporting information/detail.

I am learning to make links across paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately.

I am learning to use dialogue punctuation accurately.

Yr 7

I am learning to use a range of different planning styles.

I am learning to plan my writing to suit the purpose of my writing.

I am learning to organize my ideas into paragraphs where the ideas are clearly related and
where
there are links within and between paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately in my writing.

I am learning to use complex punctuation to enhance my writing e.g. colons: and semi-colons; ,
and parentheses ().

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can/have

-summarised the play in three paragraphs

-made links across my paragraphs

-used some basic and complex punctuation correctly (speech marks).

Once you have finished your writing highlight these success criteria green if you have met them
and can show them in your work. Highlight green in your work where you have met these
success criteria.

Māui and the Sun

Māui is a demigod that lived long, long ago. He has four brothers called: Māui Mua,
Māui Roto, Māui Taha, and Māui Waho. In the first part of this story, Māui and his brother's are complaining that Tamanuiterā is moving too fast and they don’t have
any time to do anything during the day. Māui says he can tame the sun and his brother’s
laugh at him but they say they will help him.

In the second part of this story, his brothers and the villagers help Māui to make
harakeke (flax) ropes to catch the sun and Māui chanted a karakia so that the ropes
are magical. Māui gets his magical jawbone off his Grandfather before he sets off.

At the end of this story, when they are ready they set off towards the sun’s pit.
They only go by night so the sun doesn’t see them. When they get there they built a
clay wall to hide behind. Māui tells his brothers to throw the ropes when he says.
When the sun comes up, Māui yells, “Throw the ropes my brothers” and they stop
the sun. Māui hits it with his magical jawbone and tells it to go slowly every day.
From that day on the sun goes across the sky slowly.

When my group did our play we were a bit silly at the start but we got better as it
went on. One thing we did well was the jawbone and our props that we used.
We participated and contributed by making props and all having a role in the play.
One thing I would improve next time is not using a script.

Taonga Puoro

Taku Mokai

In He Kākano we made a google slideshow with our pets and some made up ones also. Here is my slideshow.

Create and Describe A Planet Writing Task

Create and Describe Your Own Planet -

Description writing task

Term 2 Weeks 5-6

Purpose of this piece of writing is to:

Learning Intentions

I am learning to use language features to make my writing interesting
and engaging for the reader.

I am learning to use topic-specific vocabulary.

I am learning to include Te Reo Māori words in my writing.

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have used some language features to make my writing interesting
and engaging (simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme)

-I have carefully chosen some topic-specific words to include in my
writing.

-I have used some Te Reo Māori

Focus

We are continuing to look at descriptive writing. This week you are writing a descriptive piece of writing to
promote your imaginary planet. You aim is to convince people to move to your planet. You want your
writing to allow the reader to be able to imagine what it is like on your planet.

First, we will look at an excerpt of a video describing the moon from the Avatar movie. Click here to get to
video= Pandora.

Second, we will discuss together what you will need in your work to make it successful and look at how to
plan our work. Then you will plan your work and check with a teacher before you start writing.

Third, do your piece of writing.

Fourth, complete your piece of writing. Remember to proof-read (check spelling and punctuation) and edit
(does it make sense? do you need to change any sentences?) yourself and with a buddy and fill in your self
and peer-assessment. Check it with a teacher.

Jupra 1087

One day a space shuttle with only one crewman called Nathan Johnson left on board (the rest had died)
discovered a new planet in the Tree Trunk Star System called Jupra 1087, 57.38 miriona (million) light
years away from our solar system but he died as soon as he saw it from old age.

To get there you have to go in a special coma to survive because it takes so long to get there. It takes about
79 years so it is hard to survive on the way. The space shuttle can only be put on autopilot because you
need an experienced pilot but they would die because they would need to be at least 40 years old.

There are many different types of animals and creatures that have different names like Euroyeet that
looks like a tiger mixed with an ape. There are also many more animals like the Rhinoksoursee and
the Hedgebanger. The atmosphere on Jupra 1087 is just enough oxygen for the animals and creatures
to survive but humans need special space suits that are available for purchase at Do Duck In Bakery
for $12.70. People got all this information from going there and coming back to Earth (although most
people stay there because it is beautiful) and telling everyone about it but only I believed them, everyone
else thought it was made up.Jupra 1087 looks like a ātaahua (beautiful) planet with mostly crystal clear
wai (water) and massive

rainforests and lush green grass fields. There are many beaches across all the coasts of the islands.
The sand at the beaches is softer than anything on Earth. It is about 10 times as soft as the softest pillow.

People should go there because it has got awesome caves and nice places to stay. It is the best holiday
place in the universe but it is very expensive to go there. People that go there get a good education
because they have brilliant schools but it is hard to understand people sometimes because of the space suits.

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The End

By Nathan J.