Patient Animation

W.A.L.T. Understand the virtue of Patience.

Me and Angus made a slide about patience. It's a animation and it's 15 slides long.

I hope you like it :)

Hot Spot Reflection

 I haven't made one of these in a while! This is a Hot Spot reflection. Here is the Hot Spot, I will put the reflection below the Hot Spot:

What I did well was my Spelling blog post and what I could have worked on was my timing. I had to rush at the last day which is not very quick for the first few days. That's my reflection

Face Mask I Made

 This is a face mask I made. Please don't judge me because I scuffed this and I'm bad at art.

Spelling

 I had to make at least 15 words out of a selection of letters which was L E C B E I N O T A

Here are the words I made:

Going Solo Quick Summary

 Here is a quick summary from the book Going Solo by Roald Dahl:

Advent

 W.A.L.T. Understand advent.

Today me and a couple friends made some facts about advent.

Advent is the 4 weeks before Christmas. This year the start of advent has also been the beginning of Hanukkah, a Jewish celebration.

Here are a few things I know about advent.

Maths problems

 W.A.L.T. Problem solve.

I did some problem solve Maths problems. They were fun because I like Maths. Here it is:

Brainstorm Catholic Christmas

W.A.L.T. Follow the technology design process. 

Today I have made a Brainstorm of Catholic Christmas. Here is the brief:

Mrs Rooney would like to decorate the school library at the end of the year with holiday decorations that represent the special Catholic character in the school. She would like us to make decorations that connect to tradition and the experience of celebrating Christmas present in Aotearoa.

Here is the brainstorm:

Math problem answer

W.A.L.T. Practice our Maths knowledge.

 Today I will show you how to solve 936+ 780+205

1. What you do first is you add 700 and 200 together, making 900. 

2. Then add 900 and 900 together to make 1800. 

3. Now you add 80 to 1800, making 1880. 

4. Next you add 30 to 1880 to make 1910. 

5. Add 5 and 6 to make 11. 

6. Lastly, add 11 and 1910 to make 1921. 

That is how you solve 936+780+205

Waste Management Reflection

 W.A.L.T. Reflect on our experiences.

On  Friday the 22nd of October Room 2 went to the Bromley Dump. There were already some parents there to help. The Person teaching us was named Georgina and she was part of the Christchurch city council. The first rotation that we had after making compost was combing worm 'pee' with water. The second rotation was we made newspaper wet and put the in compost for the worms. The last rotation was we were finding worms and putting them back where they were supposed to go. 

Here are some photos of the trip:

If the earth was able to chat to us...

W.A.L.T. Understand the virtue of Stewardship.

If the earth was able to talk with us, this is what it would say.

Thanks to Alex for helping with this!

KWL about environmental problems

 W.A.L.T. Identify prior knowledge.

I have created a KWL about environmental problems, I didn't put all of my knowledge in there.

Here it is!

Sorry I didn't really have any What I think I know. It's pretty much what I know and What I want to learn.

The Good Samaritan Beatitudes

 W.A.L.T. Identify the Beatitudes.

Today me and my friend Alex Made the beatitudes that the Good Samaritan showed (and an animation of it!). Here it is!

Tuesday Maths

W.A.L.T. Find the volume of cubes and cuboids.

For maths in my group I had to Do an activity sheet. Here it is.

Song Maker

 I made some songs in song maker. I started last year, took a break and then started this year again! I made megalovania in song maker as well! Here is the link so you can stay up to date with the songs I create. They started really bad but started to get better later on. Song maker

Cubes and Cuboids

 W.A.L.T. find the volume of cubes and cuboids.

In my math group which I'm all alone in, we were doing cubes and cuboids in week three of term 2. I'm learning about it again and here is part one! (Monday work.)

Blog Comment

 W.A.L.T. Write a PTH comment.

Today I wrote a comment on my friend Matias' Blog Post. here is the comment

Here is the Blog Post

Zoo Debate

 W.A.L.T. Critically Analyse text and form opinions.

I have made a reading slide  about a zoo debate, I will do this over the week. Here is the first part. 

Currency

 W.A.L.T. Work from home.

Today I have created maths content. It is about currency, here it is!

Converting Fractions To Percentages

 W.A.L.T. Convert fractions into percentages.

In my math group we were converting fractions into percentages and here's my questions and answers.

All Children Should Learn A Second Language In School

 W.A.L.T. Critical thinking.

I have an argument for why children should learn a second language in scool and here's why:

I think Children should learn a second language in school because it slows dementia, helps with multitasking and gives you sharper focus.

Being bilingual isn’t as bad as you think. Sure, it’s hard to learn another language but if you do you can have a lot of good things in life that other people won’t have and you can be a really good translator.

My first reason is that it slows dementia. We still need a little bit more research, but it’s shown that being bilingual slows dementia by 5 years. Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life. 

Credit to google for the definition.

My second reason is that it helps with multitasking. Most people find multitasking really hard because they aren’t used to doing 2 things at nearly the same time. Don’t worry though! If you’re bilingual it becomes much easier to switch from one thing to another quickly and with more ease than if you only speak one language.

My final reason is that it can give you sharper focus. If you are bilingual you have both languages activated at the same time, monitoring which language is appropriate for which situation. That can give you better attention and sharper focus.

There you have it, that's why it’s important to learn a second language. It slows dementia, helps with multitasking and can give you sharper focus. Thank you for reading and listening to my argument.

Thanks to Psych 2 go for the information

Narritive

 W.A.L.T. Create a detailed and descriptive Narrative.

I made a Narrative about Minecraft because I love Minecraft. :)

The Invasion

Fox and his friends were investigating the ruins on top of the hill. “We goin’ in?” Fox asked. Zeb, Alex

and Kalem all nodded. As they were checking it out Zeb found a Portal. “Hey guys, I found

this bedrock portal!” Zeb Called. As the rest of the group came to the portal, they heard a

humming noise. “Let's go in.” Alex said. Then they got sucked into the portal. They woke

up in the most blocky dimension in the world. “Um, are we in Minecraft?” Kalem asked.

Then they heard a rumbling noise, the loudest noise in Minecraft. They saw about 10,000

things charging at them on the horizon. 

“ We need to go now, punch a tree, make some basic tools and a boat, we need

to go now!” Fox Exclaimed. They made the boats and tools, so they started running.

They found an ocean and they placed the boats and started rowing away from the

things that were chasing them. As they rowed, Alex thought about what would happen to

them. “I see land!” Alex shouted to his friends. As they rowed towards the land, they saw

a cave and decided to mine for some stone and iron. After they made iron chest plates

and stone tools for everybody, when they exited the cave they realised it was nighttime.

They saw a skeleton aiming an arrow at them and Kalem blocked the arrow. Then Zeb and

Fox slaughtered the skeleton and found a bow. “I’ll take the bow.” Fox said. “Okay.” Alex

sighed. They killed some more mobs and Alex got a bow. They then found a punch 2 and

infinity 1 bow. Fox took that bow and gave the old bow to Zeb. They found a village and

there were 2 blacksmiths. The group found some diamonds and iron tools in the chests.

Fox found this red button and fell down a hole and into this room with maxed out things

of everything. He took the stuff and distributed it to the whole group evenly. They were

OP and ready for battle. They made a base and built a castle where they were ready for

the last stand against the things that have chased them for so long.

They got on the castle wall and saw the things. They realised it was this glitch which

was as dark as midnight. They each had 100 health and did 10 damage per hit. They

killed one in 10 seconds. “We need an army for this, we’re going to fail.” Alex sighed in

defeat. Then a voice behind them said “Well you're lucky you’ve got an army of your

own.” They whipped around and saw these people behind them. “What the heck is

going on?” Kalem asked. “You need help right?” one asked. “Yes, yes, yes and yes.”

Zeb said. “Okay, everybody let’s do this!” the other one yelled. “Let the battle begin.” Fox said

The quartet charged into battle and quickly found their target which was the boss guy. It had

1000 health and it did 30 damage per hit. “Come and get me losers!” The boss guy taunted.

“Come and get us!” Alex yelled back. The guy charged across the battlefield, knocking his own

soldiers out of the way to get to the group of 4. He swung his battleaxe toward them when he

got there. They all swiftly dogged out of the way and counter attacked the boss guy. It was

now at 975 health. It swung the battle axe at Zeb while he was recovering. Fox barely managed

to block the attack on Zeb and Zeb hit it with everyone else. It was at 950 health now. As the

battle raged around them, they found themselves surrounded by the enemy. The boss said,

“Ready… Aim… Fire!” Then there was this thing that came down from the sky. They realised

it was a laser cannon. Alex shot the cannon and got the boss on 200 health along with killing

some of the glitches. But then the cannon broke. The battle continued hastily. Soon the boss

was on 50 health and Fox, Kalem, Alex and Zeb were on half a heart. They all attacked and it

was on 5 health. The thing did it’s final attack which was spinning the axe around and throwing it.

Fox dodged the attack and delivered the final blow. It was over. They finally defeated

the glitch and began to celebrate their victory. The friends healed up and decided it was

time to go back to their world. They filled the path of destruction caused by the glitches.

They made it back to the portal and managed to get back through the portal. The four

friends got back to their houses and decided to make a new world. The group never

went through the portal again… Or did they?

How to find a Bible Verse

 W.A.L.T. Be reliable.

I made an instructional video on how to find a bible verse. Here it is!

Listening Eyes, Speaking Hands

 W.A.L.T. Make inferences about beliefs of people at different times.

In the Group B work we had to do a doc about the deaf education with a text that let us learn about deaf education. Here's is the link to the doc: Listening eyes, speaking hands.

Olympics Gold Medallist visits our school!

W.A.L.T. Reflect on exciting experiences.

At NBC on the 17th of August in 2021 The Gold Medallist Emma Twigg visited our school. When she got there the Haka group did their Haka that they were practising. After the Haka we sung the national anthem and we got to ask some questions. One of the questions was what does her daily routine look like and Emma Twigg said it was her eating breakfast, rowing, lift weights, and more rowing. I got to touch the gold medal and see both sides.

Visual Mihi

W.A.L.T. Make a mihi

In Room 2 we were split into 2 groups, I was in the second group and we had to make a visual mihi. Here is the visual mihi.

Maori dictionary

 W.A.L.T. Increase our Maori vocabulary.

In room 2 for reading some of us were making a Maori dictionary with 16 definitions. I did it with Zeb and this is the dictionary!

Red Hat Feelings About Sports

 W.A.L.T. Make connections to texts.

In Room 2 we are learning about the Olympics and I have a Red hat saying how I feel about sports. I'm not the best at sports, but that doesn't mean I don't like them. Here's the Red hat!

The Boy With Wings Reflection

W.A.L.T. Reflect on our experiences.

 In NBC we were lucky enough to have people come and put on a show. The Show was called The Boy With Wings, or as I like to call it, Da Boi Wath Wongs. Sorry if you're reading this, people who made the show. The show was about a guy who needed to save his apple trees from dying and he went on a quest to find the treasure which would save his apple trees. What he didn't know was that the water that he was looking for was under a rock in his apple tree orchard. He eventually found out and saved his trees from dying. There was also in between parts of the story a professor who was talking a type of bird called Godwits. I loved the show and thought it was awesome. Have you ever read the book The Boy With Wings?

Here are some pictures from it.

Olympic facts

WALT: Make connections to texts.

In Room 2 we were focusing On the Olympics and I did a few facts about the Olympics.

Here they are!

Blasting Billionaire boy review

 W.A.L.T. write a book review.

For a book review contest with $1000 dollars worth of prizes, Room 2 decided to make a book review about Billionaire Boy by David Walliams. Here's the review:

Blasting Billionaire boy

‘Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have a million dollars? Or a billion? Maybe even a

trillion dollars? Meet Joe Spud’.

David Walliams is a bestselling famous author. Billionaire Boy is just one of his many, many famous

books. David Walliams is 49 years old and was born on 20th August 1971 in Merton, London.Tony Ross is the illustrator of many of David Walliams' books. Billionaire Boy is just one of

the books that Tony Ross illustrated.

Billionaire Boy kicks off with a boy named Joe who is a billionaire who doesn’t like his school for rich

children.  He moves to the local school that is less rich and more like the average school with two goals

in his mind: make a real friend and hide his billionaire status. He makes a friend named

Bob and then Joe stops being friends with Bob because Joe was paying some bullies to be nice to him.

Joe’s personality is laid back, lazy and a little bit suspecting but then later changes as the

book goes on. Joe is not very athletic and not very fit, fast or strong. I felt awesome about

Joe because he is using his money to help others.

One thing that Mr Spud figured out was a new type of toilet paper which let him and his son

Joe become super rich.

I really enjoyed this book and rated it 4.5 stars. This book is good for all ages, mostly for 8 to 13.

I would definitely recommend this book because it’s fun to read and a reasonable amount of

challenge with lots of pages for you to appreciate. I definitely would show it to my friends.

In conclusion, Billionaire boy is a must read book by an inspiring cool author.

Show not tell

 

The tell for them is this :

Where is Syria?

 W.A.L.T. Understand where Syria is.

In Room 2 for Inquiry about refugees we had to search on google maps where Syria is, the countries around it and we marked Syria's capital and Homs. Me and Quinn made a slideshow about it so here it is.

W.A.L.T Critically analyse how authors use descriptive language and figurative language to create mood and atmosphere.

I had to make a story out of some words that were already written and here it is!

I know, it's a little bit dark but that's to set the mood so yeah.

Venn diagram about poems

 W.A.L.T. Critically analyse two poems.

These are two poems for this blog post and I made a Venn diagram for what's similar and what's different.

Here are the poems and the Venn diagram.

HOME TIME by Michael Hall

My brother in grey school shorts, 

shirt, pack on his back, 

bare feet, 

splashing the dull sky. 

Approaching each 

puddle 

on his path

as if the world has been transformed

by the rain. 

As if he needs to explore 

its strangeness 

again with a kind of 

jump 

as if walking on the moon. 

Trustworthy animation

 W.A.L.T. Show the virtue of being trustworthy.

Me and Kalem Made a animation on being trustworthy. It's about a cookie jar and a person.

Autumn Leaves

W.A.L.T. Write Haiku's.

Today me and the rest of Room 2 wrote Haiku's. A Haiku has to have 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the third and final line.

This is my Haiku:

Amber leaves fall down,

Sticks underfoot crunch like fire,

We finished our walk.

2 days ago we went out for a walk around the domain to look at the leaves and write down notes. I wrote a Haiku out of my notes but only kept the last line that you saw in my Haiku.

Limericks

 W.A.L.T. Write a limerick.

We had to write limericks a week or 2 back and I paired up with my friend Kalem to do it. Limericks are meant to be funny and have 5 lines. Here is the link!

My first published blog post

 I just did this because it brings back memories and it's for my 100th blog post anniversary so I hope you like it!

We have learnt about the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is apart of the Holy Trinity. The tongues of fire came to the disciples and gave them the power to speak different languages. Pentecost is the birthday of the church. Some symbols are water, fire, wind, and the dove of peace!! I enjoyed learning about how the Holy Spirit came to the disciples.

What is the Holy Spirit? What do you know about the Holy Spirit?

Travel Past vs Present

 W.A.L.T. Think critically about what we read.

I made this thing about travelling to Samoa and someone 804 years ago and here it is! This is also my 100th blog post anniversary! I will show you my first blog post in my next one which I made 3 years ago.

Thinking Hats

W.A.L.T. Use thinking hats.

For R.E. Me and Sam had to do a Blog Post and it was a Thinking Hats slideshow about when Jesus washed his disciples feet. 

The white hat is the data and information, the yellow is positives, the black hat is negatives, the green hat is creativity, the red hat is emotions and the blue hat is thinking but for me it was summarising.

Here it is!

Report about NBC

 W.A.L.T. Write informative writing

In room 2 the other students and I wrote reports about NBC. What we did is we looked at a time capsule, had a walk around the school and interviewed Ms dains (The principle). For me it took a few hours to make this report. Please click this link to the report and I hope you enjoy it!

Journal entry for a follow up

 W.A.L.T. think critically about what we read.

We had to make a entry about a plane ride to Samoa and a trip on a waka in the past. I took about 45 minutes to finish it and one thing I learned about waka's is that some have outriggers to keep the boat steady. Here it is.

Statistics

W.A.L.T. Represent data in different graphs.

 In Room 2 we have been studying statistics. Here are some of the statistics that I learned about. We were in groups and we had to choose a subject so we chose Video Games.

AH FB AW KW SM Prayer Routine

 For prayers me, Alex, Angus, Kyan and Samuel did a prayer about animals! Our turn to do the prayers was about in the middle so here it is!
My favourite part was when we did the song . Our song was King Of The Jungle.
Something I'll work on for next time is our efficiency of the prayers.

Hotspot Reflection

 W.A.L.T. Reflect on our learning.

I have completed me Hotspot and I think I did well on the NZSO and Spelling one.

I think I could've done more words but I didn't want people to think I was copying someone. Also I am going to do the follow up task later today.

Would you like doing this Hotspot?

Creature Creator

W.A.L.T. Make connections with how different animals adapted to their environment.

I made a creature creator with a google drawing and my animal was a Mountain Gazelle. I think its pretty good and here it is!

Watching the NZO

W.A.L.T. Remember the events of watching the NZSO using thinking hats. We went to the NZ Symphony Orchestra and watched it. This is a summary (kind of) about it.

New Brighton Catholic School facts

W.A.L.T. Understand the Charism of NBC.

I made a google drawing about the Charism and where/when NBC was made. Here it is!

Spelling words

W.A.L.T. form new words.
I had to make 15 words from nafodieultein so here are the 15 words:

Hotspot reflection

 W.A.L.T. reflect on our learning. I completed my hotspots and I think i did well on my first 2 but maybe I could've taken less time with the second one. :)

How well do you think I did

Swimming Sports!

W.A.L.T Remember the events of swimming sports in a recount form. We went to swimming sports and had fun! My highlights are jumping into the pool! I am the person on the far left that is about to dive in the pool. I hope you like it!

Spelling words

 W.A.L.T. Form new words with one selection of letters.

I had to make up 15 words from 1 word and it took a while but I managed to finish it, so here it is!

Hotspot reflection

 W.A.L.T Reflect on our learning

I think I did well on my Follow up and my billionaire boy one.

I think I needed to do the things quicker.

How well would you do on this?

Crisis Maximus

W.A.L.T State the main ideas about what I have just read.

I had to make a story board and here it is!

Billionaire boy poster

 W.A.L.T use visual and language features to market a book.

I made a poster for Billionaire boy, here it is

Newsletter questions

 

W.A.L.T Find information in texts

I had to do a thing for the New Brighton Catholic School Newsletter. Here it is.

Camp Letter

W.A.L.T. Show our appreciation in a written letter.

On week 3 on term one, Rooms 2 and 1 went to Arthur's Pass and stayed there for 3 days. This is a letter to thank James for helping me!

To James,

Thank you for taking me to Arthur's Pass village to camp for a few days with the rest of room 2! I remember when we went to castle rock at the end of the last day! My favourite part was when we played spotlight and when we went to the Devil’s punch bowl waterfall! I also thank you for taking the time to drive me, Zeb, Lochy, Paige and Claudia to Arthur’s Pass and back to school!

Yours Sincerely,

Fox.

Hotspot Reflection

W.A.L.T Reflect on our learning 

We did hotspots for the week and I had to get 4 blog posts up. This is my fourth blog post!

I think I did the all about my time at camp well and my follow up task which is the animation.

I think I could've done better on wording my blog posts.

How well do you think you would do for this?

Joe Spud Acrostic Poem

 W.A.L.T. Describe a fictional character

I made an acrostic poem about Joe Spud in Billionaire Boy by David Williams.

Hope you like it!

All about my time at camp.

W.A.L.T. Reflect on our time away at camp. The reason I haven't posted a blog in a while is because there was summer holidays, I was sick for almost 3 weeks and then we had camp.

Anyways, I made this Blog post to reflect on my time at Arthur's pass and here is a google drawing about it!

My modelling book dictionary

 W.A.L.T Use references such as dictionaries, thesauruses, atlases and ICT/Google.

I made a dictionary because that's what I had to do for one of my reading tasks.

Dictionary's are important because they give you the meaning of words that you don't understand.

Here it is!