Pepeha

Today I did activety 2 on the summer learning jouney. Here is my Pepeha.

Lorde

Today we were learning how to put a image attribution under an image that we were using. I have pasted a image attribution under my picture.
I found it hard to think up what I wanted to know about Lorde. I also found it hard to remember how to get the image attribution so I could paste it.
I enjoyed desgning my poster about Lorde. 

Starting The Summer Learning Jouney

Hi, I have done one of the Activities for the Smmer Learning Journey.
I have made up words from activity 3.

Wevideo

Ag Day

Today I was learning how to make a sandsaucer and lead my lamb.

I enjoyed building my wind chime, sandsaucer and plant holder to put into competion.

I found it challenging to decide on what flowers I was going to place in the centre of the sandsaucer.

My digital learning object shows that I took time to make the entries and practice leading my lamb.

Next time I would like to plant a plant that hangs over the side of my plant holder.

Book Reveiw

Grandpa's Great Escape
I have been reading a book called Grandpa's Great Escape. It is written by David Walliams. David Walliams is a wonderful and hilarious author. In the book a boy called Jack has a Grandpa that has a condition so he thinks he is still in World War 2. He had been sent to an old folks home because of the condition. The old folks home is called Twilight Towers. The nures in Twilight Towers are boys and are mean bulky. The Head person is called Miss Swine. She is evil and has an electric cattle prod that is used for giving old folk a shock that can knock them cold out in just a second! He is trying to make a daring escape from what I call death home. He ends up making a hole in the roof and bringing all the elderly people out of the hole and down to the ground on a chain of ladies nickers! Try reading this series. I bet you would be interested in them!

Google voice search

Today I was learning to use Google Voice Search.

I enjoyed learning how to use Google Voice Search.

I found it challenging to find the things I wanted to search because Google was coming up with lots of different searches.

My digital learning object shows there I can use Google Voice Search, copy and paste somthing onto a slide and take a screenshot.

Next time I would like to be confident about what I'm saying.

Read A Book

I'm A Rugby Ball

In Writing we copyed a piece of writing about a rugby ball. We were pretending we were the rugby ball. Here is my piece of writing.

Smart Media

Today I was learning how to know what was Media and what devices carry it.

I enjoyed designing my newspaper that I was reading. I also enjoyed making a frame and colouring it.

I found it challenging to decide what I was going to write on the newspaper.  It was challenging  to find my image when I removed the backround.

My digital learning object shows that I can use a device and remove a backround off an image.

Next time I would change the newspaper into a book so I'm reading some different media.  

Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup has started! My school is celebrating it by getting dressed up in black and white. I came dressed up in a black, long skirt, a white spotted scarf, some black leggings and black socks. At school we were allowed to have some face paint. We got a senior to paint our faces. On my face I had a silver fern on each cheek and the sign that meant the Rugby World Cup on my chin.  We also blacked out our tables. We got black paper and drew All Blacks signs.

Cross Country

On the seventeenth of September we had  cross country. I came second place, my friend got first and my other friend got third. I think I did well in the cross country because I'm not a keen runner but I had to push hard to come second place.
Here is a photo of my friends and I with our certificates:

Soil In Science

We did an experiment! It was called Whats In My Soil?

Here is my procedure for the experiment: 

Kon-tiki

My reading group read a story called Kon - tiki. Its about a person called Thor Heyerdahl who made the raft with his crew. It was made out nine balsa logs lashed together with hemp rope. They were going to sail from Lima, Peru to the Polynesian Islands. Lots of people thought that the raft wouldn't make it but guess what, they made it! We made our own Kon-tiki so we could imagine what it was like when Thor Heyerdahl and his crew were sailing. I don't think that the water shows huge waves!  I made mine with a friend. We sailed them in a paddling pool. I think that my raft would sail to the Polynesain islands. My raft was the only one who sailed with a sail on it.

Seeking Help

Today I was learning how to solve a problem online when other people posted naughty things. Also how to stop them sending bad things.
I enjoyed learning how to replace my image and put a selfie instead. I liked writing and thinking what I would write.
I found it challenging to replace my image because I pushed the wrong thing!
My digital learning object shows that I can join arows to the shapes to make a flow chart.
Next time I would change my shapes and add richer messages.

Netiquette

Today I was learning what netiquette was. Also to learn what you should say when you are posting an email or blog post.
I enjoyed making pretty colours and fonts to make my drawing stand out.
I found it challenging to decide on the colours shapes and messages.
My digital learning object shows that I can take learning from a video and make a google drawing.
Next time I would change where my speech bubbles are and the colours of them.

Osmosis

                                                                  Osmosis
In Science we did an experiment. We got some dye and placed a daffodil in it. Then we left it over night and in the morning we saw that the daffodil had absorbed the dye and it was showing in the petals. The scientific name for this is osmosis. It shows us how flowers get their water to grow. After we drew the daffodil.
                                                 
 Here is my art of the osmosis.

 

Power Words

Today I was learning how to treat others nicely online. Also to stop and think before going on an website.

I enjoyed finding pictures to go with the words. Plus learning what power words mean. It was fun when I found the right picture because I felt excitement in me.

I found it challenging to remember the the power words. That was because I forgot the order of the words.

My digital learning object shows that I can listen to a video and take the learing and put it on a slide.

Next time I would change where the pictures are and maybe make them.

Animation Action

Today I was learning how to group a character then animate it.

I enjoyed figering out what my character would find and do.

I found it challenging to make my character go into the pool without  going under the pool so I could se it.

My digital learning object shows that I can animate a character and make a slide show with it.

Next time I would change where my character moved and what it found.

Coments With A Buddy

Today I was learning how to make a character and use coments to cumumacate with a buddy.
I enjoyed talking to my buddy in comments. It was fun when we saw how we could make a character together.
I found it challenging to make the character when I did not know what my buddy was making. It was also hard at the start to decide on which shape we were going to start with
My digital learning object shows I can work with a buddy and use comments to talk to each other to make a character.
Next time I would change my comments into better comments so my buddy knows what I'm doing.

Perants VS Kids!

Thursday! Yay! We're going to play a game of soccer against our parents. Its going to be a forty minute game. We're going to have yellow and red cards there's also going to be 
penalties. I'm pumped up and ready to have a funny, exciting game. Lets go! I love getting in the game and attacking the other team. Sometimes I tripped some of the parents over by accident but it was only because I was hungry for the ball. The parents normally got the yellow and red cards because they played dangerously and sometimes tackled the other team! We won by one goal. The parents scored one goal and we scored two or three. I was worn out after that long game I think the parents were too!

Vikings

Last week and this week we have been painting pictures of a histoical event. I painted a picture of a Viking boat with two Vikings in it. To go with our painting we wrote a report about the histoical event that we chose. Here is mine.


                                                         Vikings

Vikings came from Sweden,Denmark and Norway. They travelled to lots of countries to help settle them. The Vikings used many boats like rowing boats and warships. Most Vikings stored tools in chests that they would need for fighting. This was kept under the deck or used for sitting on. At sea when it was time to sleep they slept in cosy oilskin sleeping bags. The Vikings slept in these because they would stay dry at night when it was raining. In their boats they ate hard bread, dried fish, meat, oats and fruit. 
Vikings didn’t know very much about kindness so they burnt down churches and stole lots of precious belongings from that country. They never sailed in the same boat all the time. The Vikings would buy or borrow boats from other countries they had visited. In their boats they sailed through wild howling winds and calm breezy winds. Sometimes they sailed in crisp flaky air. 
A Viking toilet is a long drop, but this long drop has one problem. It only had a wall so you didn’t have privacy. They could still see your head. How embarrassing!
Some Vikings sailed home but some kept going and were ready to conquer England!  
The Vikings got many scars from battles. Skulls were found on the ground  of those who had died in a fight.
 A Vikings favourite weapons were: A spear, battle axe, sword and an arrow.
 When they went home Vikings loved a midsummer festival. There was dangerous axe throwing, heavy stone lifting, unaimed target shooting and even backwards horse riding!

Isabel  

Book Reveiw

 Flotsam And Jetsam by Tanya Landman

Read this to find out! This week I read a book called Flotsam And Jetsam.  I read the introduction and  thought it sounded funny! The chapters were were named, not numbered. 
Flotsam and Jetsam are tiny creatures that are made of beach rubbish. 
There were a lot of problems. One was a seagull.  The seagull was not nice at all. That bad bird dumped droppings on the up turned boat ( their house) and just ignored them when they politely asked for it to go away! Eventually it flew off after they sprayed it with a washed up water bottle. 
About Flotsam and Jetsam:
Jetsam has seaweed hair and his nose is a piece of arched metal. His legs and arms are bits of rope and his body is bendy planks of drift wood Flotsam has the same body. Flotsam is bald and also has rope arms and legs.     

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. The first time she was a co-pilot. The second time she flew solo. In 1931 she wanted to fly around the whole world! But while flying across the Pacific her engin died and she drowned in the ocean. No remains were found of her plane or her. Even though she did not make her journey she is still remembered.

Amelia Earhart - Action Selffie

In reading we had to come dressed up as a historical person. I dressed up as Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart is famous. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. The first time she flew across the Atlantic she was a co-pilot the second time she flew solo. Then in March 1931 she wanted to fly around the whole world! But while flying across the Pacific her plane died and she drowned in the ocean. No remains were found of her plane or her. Even know she did not make her journey she will still be remembered. 

Winter Poem

Today I was learning to make a poem and screencast it. It was funny when we saw that our cast wasn't very good!
I enjoyed looking at how our screencast looked and what mistakes we made.
I found it challenging to find what words we needed to put in our poem because I didn't know what way I should form it.
My digital learning object shows that I know how screencast a piece of work and place it on to my blog.
Next time I would change the way I look and sound.

Matawai Action Selfie

Today I was learning how to take a action selfie and put it on a background. We had to action selfie of what we liked to do in Matawai.
I enjoyed taking my picture of my budy. I also liked how I posed for my photo.
I found it challenging to down load my picture Because it came up on recent. Plus it was hard to get my photo bigger than the rabbits.
My digital learning object shows that I can take an action selfie and put a background. It also shows  that I have listen to nthe instuctions properly.
Next time I would change my half body to whole body. Because it looks like I am dug into the ground!

Something Exciting

Slow Writing

We are lerning how to do slow writing here is mine...

Bats
Did you know that bats bones are hollow?
Above, their claws hang onto branches.
Claws Clinging.
Eyesight in the dark like cats.
Juicy fat fruit, they like to eat.
Gently snuggling into themselves.
Batty wide eyes.

Book Report

In reading, our group had to report on a book. My book was Scrap Book 2: Oh my Dog! We put a paragragh about the story, the title of the book, If its a non fiction book or a fiction book, and maybe even sreenscaifiy.

Book Name: Oh My Dog!                                                                                            
 Scrap (book 2)

About the book

Scrap is moving into a new home to learn how to shift big mobs of sheep. He is really enjoying that until a ram beats him up and cuts his leg.  Scrap has to get that cut fixed up...

Why I read this book

 I read this book because it looked fun on the front cover. Also I live on a farm and I am interested in dogs and farming. Plus shifting sheep is my favourite farm work to do.

This is a Fiction book                                                                                          Author:   Vince Ford

The Three Toed Sloth

In reading we were using  phrases and sententes from a you tube to help us make a story.

 A three toed sloth. She's ravenously hungry. She is searching for leaves of the rainforest. The leaves are rubbery, tough and full of toxins. Their indigestible and lacking in energy. But this doesn't stop the sloth! With large multi stomachs she is mixing with bacteria and are able to digest the leaves. But she have the slowest digestion of any mammal. So it could take her two weeks to digest just one meal. She has two choices she either eats more or does less. Guess what? She does less. Her whole lifestyle is to use as little energy as possible.

Planting Garlic

Garlic planting

For Matariki, on the shortest day of 2019 we planted garlic. The garlic should be planted between April and August.We sprinkled lime on the soil. Then we broke the bulb into cloves and pressed the cloves into the well dug soil. Garlic likes to be about 5cm deep in the dirt with their  pointy end facing upwards. That is where the shoots come up. Gently we placed them in the soft soil. Our teacher and our gardening teacher calved trenches in the soil for our garlic to be installed into. We fetched one clove at a time then cleverly parked it into the trenches.

Never do this!

Never eat garlic that has been treated because there are nasty things in their that are not good for humans. Only eat garlic out of your garden.

Frost!

Frost!
All night the spiders wove.
With dewy vines hanging down
from the tree their web sits in.
We calve handprints on the tops of tables.
Plus our fingers go numb because of the bleakness.
The webs of spiders add to trees with their beauty!
Also the leaves drop on flocks as white as goats.

Tonui Collab

On Tuesday 18th of June, the Tonui Collab came to our school. We talked about how rubbish is bad for the sea. They  taught us to use a game called Plotagon. Iris and I love making each other because you really get a chance to look at your friend and put in lots of detail. Here are some photos for you to look at.

                                      

The Bunny

The Bunny

Soft,furry winter jackets.
Crunching juicy carrots.
There fur silkair than silk.
Sometimes will sleep, snuggle
and relax in your lap.

The Beaut Ukes Performance!

On the 14th of June The Beaut Ukes performed at the War Mermorial Theatre,
I was waiting back stage when Scott called us up on stage. All of a sudden my nerves ran out of me and the excitment rushed into me. I could see people, people and more people. 
I started playing and felt happness of being up on stage. 
We were qutie a small group but we still kept the volume. I smiled And sang loudly at the same time. I didn't really move my feet probably because I was a bit stage shocked.
When I was finished I felt proud when mum told me I did well.

We Are The Beaut Ukes!

Hi ,
This is the Beaut Ukes.We are new to the ukulele and on the 14th of June we will have our first performance up on stage. I am used to this because I have done a lot of other shows for ballet. But I am still nervous. Our songs that we are playing are Do Your Ears Low, Singing In the rain, On My Ukulele and Michael Finergin. We have been practising for about six weeks. 

2019 About Me

Hi my name is Isabel and my school is Matawai. I have five people in my family - one brother and one sister. I am the oldest kid in the family. I live on a farm too.

I am good at climbing trees and I enjoy playing soccer. I also enjoy mathematics. Sometimes it is hard because sometimes I don't understand what book work is telling me. My goals are to get better at math and the challenges it gives me.

 I am looking forward to soccer this weekend. I am also looking forward to getting my blog because then I can do a lots of posts and everyone can see what I'm doing. The person that inspires is Bear Grylls. He is an amazing explorer who takes on amazing expeditions.

Nau mai, haere mai ki tēnei taonga

Welcome to my blog for learning.

I look forward to sharing my learning with my school,

my whānau and friends anywhere.