Making harmonica

Task description: this is my harmonica writing. It is all about us making harmonicas and maybe next week we might make another instrument. it has information of what a harmonica is and how to make your own harmonica.

cyber smart Mondays/ Attribute photos

Image attribution : https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2948/15175503519_3146fec7a6_b.jpg

Task description:This is a picture of huaraches and the reason why I put them on here is that we are learning to Attribute photos so that we can be cyber smart. we are also learning to use free to use pictures and attribute them so we don't get FINED! so if you were wondering this picture is just for this cyber smart lesson and I am not just doing this for fun.

Solar system Q/A

Task description: this presentation is all about me answering his questions. by the way he is not real ok. This is also a late post and sorry Mr Goodwin. I am just telling him about earth and how long is a year for us.

Our debate

task description: This is  our debate that we had i think 2 weeks ago on Friday. The reason why we are in our clothes that we wear at home is because it was a mufty day. also you cannot see me because the camera got knocked by someone.

what is my opinion

Task description: This was a presentation showing My opinions on each slide. Most of them are no but maybe I said yes for some of them I don't Know ( i do but i am being sarcastic) you should check it out. My whole literacy class did it so don't forget to check out their blog too.

Our blogs;http://www.ptengland.school.nz/our-blogs

Create your own kayak

I have chosen a slalom K1 with a dark blue outline and the base light blue I also have chosen 3 yellow flowers to give it kind of a island paradise kind of thing.I think that island people might like it because it has a traditional flower. Also the painting is simple and also the kayak is nice and simple.

Task description: this is a create your own kayak doc. we used a kayak designing site to design our own kayak. We also described who would want to buy it or what it is and looks like. The link to the site will be right here: http://design.reglisse-kayak.com/en/design

Immersion assembly

WALT: using exciting language

Now That's thinking? You might be thinking, what does that mean? well I am going to tell you. “Now That’s thinking” is what our school topic is this term. This morning our school had an assembly well not a normal assembly an immersion assembly we have one every term on the first day back from the holidays. We have it so we know what we are learning about, but also in a fun way and our term topic (Now that’s thinking ) is learning about the history of using technology.

As I said this terms topic is “ Now that’s thinking” but I never told you what all the teams are doing.  Each team showed us what they are learning by a movie or actions, they were all great and helpful. Team 1-3 are learning about kites and matariki, and  team 5 (the seniors) they are learning how they can change the things around them and make it better and also there topic is bob the builder. Mr burt was talking about old computers and he was showing us the old and the new technology that Pt England has been using.

Finally team 4 ( My team) we are learning about the technology maori people used before the europeans came to New zealand.  How we presented what we were learning was by a movie and in that movie showed a lot of the teachers Ideas and what they think we should learn about this term. The first Idea came from Mr Goodwin and you might already know that Ideas from him are kind of crazy because of what happened last term…. Eating worms. The second idea was a lot better, it was learning about things in the past and how has it changed since. All of the teachers were looking around and found books that told them when things were created. They were so amazed by how many years it had been since people created things.

What do I want to do for this term? Well I want to learn about my culture (Maori) and find research of how they lived and managed to survive. Also I want to learn about how they made their houses and also I want to learn what they did before pre european. I hope we also do more drawing  because looking at our class there is a lot of old art. It would also be cool to not look at just team 4’s term topic, we could also make stuff like technology and how to make our environment more clean.

I think that the new term topic is going to be extraordinary! Because there is a lot of history and stuff we didn't know about maori people. We might even get to touch and look at some old technology since our theme is about technology and history. I hope we get to make the same technology that maori used to survive with.

Task description: this task is all about this term and our school term topic. we are learning about old technology and history about new Zealand. this writing is about our immersion assembly and what we are learning.

My bee paragraph

WALT: use interesting vocab in our writing.

A bumble bee is harmless and a cute insect, It has six tiny legs and three body parts ( head l thorax and the body). Bumble bees help us and if we did not have bumble bees or other bees we would probably die. Their Is a queen and she has an important job because she stay’s in the hive all day and lay eggs. The other bees are called worker bees and they mostly do all the work, The worker bees clean the hives and make sure the hive is OK. Bees fly to a flower and most flowers that catch their eyes are mostly the purple,blue and yellow flowers, bees also drink nectar and  get pollen on its back and carry It to their hive.  There are over 20,000 species of bees and one that make a lot of that sticky good stuff is honey bees.
Task description: This task was to learn about bugs and all kinds of native things because our term topic is "Te Taio O Tamaki". Like my WALT we are learning to use describing vocab in writing.

advice blog

Task description: we pretended that this little girl was lagi it was not. we just got a photo from the internet. this is an old piece of work but I finished it today.

Problem solving

Task description: My maths was all time tables ( well the way that I did it, was). you may not know but their is some basic algebra in here if you do like it.

finishing maths work

Task description: this is an over due work like My other maths but my next is actually from this week.

Weta's

Weta's are one of the most biggest insects on earth ( a huge spider). Also weta's love eating carrots and also cannot jump. They are also nearly extinct thanks to rats, and an alpine weta can freeze when it is in the winter. most of all the name is "wetapunga" and that means " the gods of ugly things".

Task description: these are ll facts about New Zealand weta and you might find them around your suburb. I had to show some facts about the weta that most people might not know and explain to them what a weta is and what it does and does not.

Image attribution:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wellington_weta_female.jpg

problem solving

Task description:  This was a late due project and the reason behind that is because I was still catching up with other work so you could call Me a "busy girl".

My maths

My water cycle

Naomi water cycle from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo. re-do of My water cycle

My native and non-native birds writing

We need more native birds because native birds are really important to NZ. Their are not that much native birds in tamaki and I think we need more because I think that tamaki is a good suburb. Native birds in tamaki would be better because it is making tamaki look beautiful and more clean to the environment.

haven't even seen one kiwi in tamaki so We need more kiwi’s in tamaki. Tamaki is a place where you don’t see that much kiwi’s in fact you don’t see any kiwi’s in Tamaki. Kiwi’s are the most important bird in New Zealand because they are our national bird.

We don’t need that much pigeons because we see them everywhere and when I mean everywhere I mean around New zealand. It would be good if there were less pigeons and more kiwis and New Zealand kaka. Having pigeons is not bad but also I would love to see some native birds in Tamaki.

We don’t need that much pigeons because we see them everywhere and when I mean everywhere I mean around New zealand. It would be good if there were less pigeons and more kiwis and New Zealand kaka. Having pigeons is not bad but also I would love to see some native birds in Tamaki.

I would love to have more kiwi’s and more native birds to be in tamaki but also pigeons are all around new Zealand so you can see them everywhere across New Zealand. Having kiwi’s and New Zealand kaka birds would be so cool and I would be so happy if that happy.

task description: This task is what is my favorite bird is and would I like to see it in east Tamaki. The other question was if their were a bird that I did not want in tamaki and swap with a Native bird.

Learning different types of birds

Walt: make connections across multiple texts. Task Description: I had to pretend this was a job and that job was to learn about the birds in this presentation and say one or two sentences of how to explain this bird.

chicken flavored worms

Walt: write quality introductions.

Would you be keen to eat a chicken flavored worm? Because I have no idea where my real teacher went?, and today this crazy guy fed us chicken flavored worms. This was no ordinary writing lesson.

Introduction Rubric
	1	2	3	4
Hook	My introduction is boring. It is difficult to read.	My introduction is easy to read and has some interest for my audience.	My audience is hooked into my subject, it grabs their interest so they feel like they want to read more.	When someone reads my introduction they are left feeling intrigued. They can't wait to read more.
Orientation	My introduction does not tell the reader what my writing is going to be about.	My audience has some idea about what I am writing about.	My audience is clear what I am writing about.	My introduction lets the reader know the direction and purpose of my writing.

Task Description: In this task we each got to try chicken flavored noodles but we pretended to make it seem as worms. We each wrote sentences separate and then pasted it into a blog post. We gave ourselves a score out of 1 to 4 as you can see the rubric above. 

Image attribution:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Bamboo_worms_food.jpg   

Native to NZ

Walt: make connections across multiple texts.

Task description: My task was to show my learning about the environment of Tamaki. This is also talking about native trees and plants it is also explaining what endemic, Native and introduce Means. I also had to talk to you if I were talking to another person who had no Idea what all of this stuff meant.

About my group

Walt: follow instructions and present work to a high standard.

Task description: My task was to pretend I was explaining what a camera is to a stranger who knows nothing about cameras.