How did Te Reo go during 2015?

Throughout terms 1-4 my class has been doing Te Reo. The main topics that we learnt about were, how ro count in Maori, how to greet people in Maori, how to say objects in a home and in the school environment in Maori, direction in Maori, the names of food items in Maori and the different types of weather in Maori. Along our Maori journey we played multiple games such as the Maori number game and flip the cards (this game was used for the topic of food and weather). As a class we also learnt different Karakia's (Maori Prayers) and Waiata's (Maori songs). My highlight by far for out Te Reo was at the start of the year when we learnt a Maori number song. This song had actions to the different numbers and we all used to have competitions on who could remember the actions the best!

I learnt so many things this term about the Maori culture. Thanks Fire (Teacher) Luana and Fire (Teacher) Stacey for a great 4 terms of Maori.

13/11/2015 - Maths Buddy

Maths Buddy:

The idea of maths buddy is that, you self lead yourself in a way that your learning will befit from. You can do this by choosing maths lessons that you need to learn and other things like that. So far maths buddy has been great for me because I get an idea of what I need to learn and I can learn things myself (independent) without having a teacher to teach me, making me feel like I am in control of my learning. I am working at a year 7-8 level on maths buddy. So for I have earned 100% on patterns and algebra.

6/11/15 - Te Reo Maori Lesson

On Friday our Maori teacher, Luana came in to teach us Te Reo Maori. During this week session room 22 would be learning directional words, these words are:

Neke :  move

Maui : left

Matau : right

Mua : forward

Muri : back

Taihoa : stop/walk

Ngoke : worm/crawl

Hikoi  : walk

E tu  : stand

E noho : sit

E heke : get down

My favourite part of this session was when we put these words into practice and went out to the playground where we had to lead a partner around the playground using these words and then it would be our turn to follow the direction our partner was telling us to go. To make it even more fun the student following the directions would be blind folded. My partner was Megan. It was a weird feeling being blind folded, because when I thought I was in one place I would be in a different place and I didn't know what was in front of me!

Thanks so much Luana for a great Maori session with you, you teach me something new every week!

Thanks
Ella

KOKAKO LODGE POSTER

MY POSTER

As one of my camp follow up activities I had to design a poster about KOKAKO LODGE. 

Here was my success criteria and how I rated my work:

• Bright colours 10/10
• Border 7/10
• Title 10/10
• Bold Headings 10/10
• Illustrations 3/10  -  I ran out of space
• Organisation  9/10
• Eye catching  9/10
• Message 9/10
• Does it excite or enthuse other people to go to KOKAKO LODGE  8/10
• Is their information 8/10
• Is it at a year 6 standed 9.5/10
• More pictures than words  2/10
• Relevant images 10/10

Over all for my poster I am going to give it an 8.5/10. Next time I am going to allow my self some more room for images and am going to add in other images to make it a 10/10 year 6 standed. 

What did I learn about paragraphing?

My Blog Buddy On the 3rd of the 11th month is Chloe:

chloe22fhs.blogspot.co.nz

Today we were learning about paragraphing. All of the things we learnt I already knew. These things were having a topic sentence, then detail sentences and finally a concluding sentence, having relevant details to the topic sentence and having 1 idea per paragraph.   At the moment I am working on a piece of persuasive writing. My topic is that Forrest Hill School Year 6's should not go to camp! I have finished my introduction and am part way through my 1st out of 3 paragraphs. I strongly believe that I have so far completed my writing to a year 6 standered.

My knowledge on bloging

My Blog Buddy On the 2nd of the 11th month is Chloe:

chloe22fhs.blogspot.co.nz

This is what I know about Blogging:

Blogger is a big collaborative website that you can share pretty much anything on. If you where using it from a learning perspective (Like I am), you would often share work on your blog and other people would comment on your work, give you feedback/other ways to improve you work! You could even use the blog as a kind of diary, recording the things you may have learnt on a particular day of any thing special that may have happened at school. On your blog you can embed particular websites or even links to other blogs. You can share your blog links to multiple other people. Another thing that is also great about the blog is that it automatically orders your post in time order, starting with the most resent posts. Also you can share any websites that you may find useful for any work you are doing, if you find a good website you want to use, you can paste the link into the blog and post it to come back to. How USEFUl!

So just BLOG, BLOG, BLOG!

It could help you a heap!

KOKAKO LODGE

Kokako Lodge - Acrostic poem 

(Red is KOKAKO LODGE highlighted)

BEFORE

                                       TaKe a look 

                              at KokakO lodge

              There is sure to be Kayacts, I wonder what colours they will be?

                       See the HunuA falls flowing,

                probably into a laKe!

                    Feeling a bit wOrried about how 

                                   my aLergies will be handled

                           There is bOund to be climbing gear, instructors as well,

                            although Despite my worries and other things like that, I am sure

         my time their will be Great,

     having fun during activitiEs. 

Kokako lodge - Acrostic poem

(Blue is KOKAKO LODGE highlighted)

AFTER

                                   TaKe a look at Kokako lodge.

                                  SurOunded by thick bushery.

                                See Kayakts, cooking materials, archery equipment, high ropes harnesses, 

                low ropes and Abseiling equipment,

                             all at Kokako Lodge.

                       See the glOw worms glistening under the moon.

Cabins of all shapes and sizes, the place to 

                                      Lay our heads. 

         Meet Chewey, JR, JOnny, Matt and Luca, our wonderful instructors for the week as well as

       our wonderful cook, Dennis making amazing meals.

                             Have Great times with friends, giggling and smiling,

                                     Excitment wherever you go at Kokako lodge!

By ELLA