Tane Mahuta - CIP

This week in CIP Tane Mahuta, we got back into our groups and started planting and cleaning up the classroom. I started planting beetroot with Addyson and Keyana and the others were planting Lettuce, Cauliflower and Cabbage. Once we finished planting, we layed a thin sheet over the plants and jammed thick sticks as pegs so the sheet won't fly away. We left the ends open so that the plants can get air and not die.

After all of the planting, we had nothing else to do so we got straight into helping to clean the classroom. I helped a group clear out all of the wood and logs that were broken apart from the old furniture and then started filling up some buckets of rubbish that were lying around everywhere. The period was a success for me and I really enjoyed doing Tane Mahuta and I'm glad that I chose Tane Mahuta but we will be back into it next Wednesday. 

   

Reflection on Te reo Maori

In Te reo Maori, we have been focusing on how to make a Hangi, learning what Tapu and Noa means and talking about Matariki. We first watched two videos about how to make a Hangi and what the steps are and what the materials we needed to make a Hangi. We also had to create a google drawing showing how to make a Hangi.  We talked about, if we step over the Hangi while it is cooking it will get spoiled and ineatable because Tapu and Noa doesn't go together. The meaning of Tapu is Sacred and Noa means Normal. I learned that it takes 3 hours for a Hangi to cook. (Depends how much food you have)

These are the videos we watched about how to make a Hangi:
Hangi video
Hangi video

Learning Conference Slide

Last week on Thursday, everyone was setting up for there Learning Conference. The year 7s and 8s had to create a slide talking about what we have been doing in school and then had to present it to our parents and our teacher. In my slide, I was talking about a Blog post that I have posted recently, our learning stories, CIP, Latest maths Strategy, our Reading Plus Results and Screenshots of our spelling.

Before the interview, my whole body was shaking and I started feeling butterflies in my stomach. I was very nervous. But then when I went in for my interview, I started feeling a little bit confident because I was just talking about my Hurumanu's and also my mum was there with me as well. At the end, I felt pride in myself because the teacher said I did really good and that she was proud of me for what I have done.

Maths interchange - DLO

In Maths interchange, my group and I had a new learning objective, (Use the column Method for multiplication up to 2 digits). We had to create a DLO of ourselves explaining or showing how to solve a question using our new strategie. I have made a video of me explaining a one digit question and the two digit question that I will be explaining, writing down on a google slide because I didn’t have time to record. I hope you learned something from this and I hope you enjoy.

CIP - Take Notice - Graditude

This week in CIP, we have been focusing on Take notice.  7/8Sh, Bh and Tz has been talking about Gratitude. We first watched a video about what gratitude means and how you show gratitude, and it was telling us what was the meaning to it. Gratitude means, being thankful, readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. We also had to create a poster that is visually and pleasing for the people who are reading it, and the poster had to be about 10 things we are grateful for.

Here is the poster that I have created on a Piktochart: