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

We should incorporate the idea from the student government, and put in a rock garden with painted stones!

On the behalf of the student government I strongly advise that we include the student government's idea and put in a rock garden with painted stones. Reasons being that the Year 6’s will get to leave something behind, like a legacy, it will add colour to the outside learning area and it would be a great decoration.

Having a rock garden in our outside learning area would be a great legacy for the Year 6’s to leave. As a Year 6 I know that I and many others want something to come back to that will remind us of our incredible time at Forrest Hill School, this means that we would be leaving a legacy for ourselves to come back to, so having stones with our names painted on them would fit that criteria perfectly and also be something for other students at Forrest Hill School to enjoy. I have interviewed 20 people in my Year 6 class, 19 of the students agreed with the statement above and 1 did not, therefore reinforcing the sentence above, that they felt the same way towards this. Adding to the fact that having painted stones with our names on them would be a legacy for the Year 6’s to leave behind, is the fact that it was one of the Student Government's projects to complete for 2015, so for the Student Government it would be an accomplished task that others would be able to enjoy. Put yourself in a Year 6’s position, wouldn't you want to have something that will remind you of your primary school years at Forrest Hill School? Seeing there would be an individual name on each of the stones/pebbles, each stone would be unique so the Year 6’s would have there own kind of memory stone to represent them. Another thing to consider is it would be a fun activity for the Year 6’s to complete in the last week of school, sending the Year 6’s to intermediate with a smile. The last thing you want is unhappy Year 6’s going off to intermediate, dreading their last day because all they did was MATHS! Painted stones for the reasons above would be a great legacy for the Year 6’s to leave behind.

We need bright colours in our outside learning area! What is a learning area without bright colours? Colour is a necessary factor in a garden, making painted stones a perfect idea. In areas of our learning area where rot and decay takes over everything in that space will seem dull, however this can be changed by putting in colourful stones with names written on them. Bright colours like yellow, green, orange and so on make people feel happy and cheerful from the colours brightness. These bright colours will remind students of their happy memories at Forrest Hill School, relating back to the fact that the stones would be a great reminder for Year 6’s who have left Forrest Hill, as strongly stated in the paragraph above, consequently these colours make for happy times! If however the learning area has dull colours such as midnight blues, black, brown e.t.c it will only remind people of sad, gloomy times not joyful and fun times. You can’t deny it, colour is needed in our learning area and the painted stones would suit that purpose perfectly!

Painted stones would be a great decoration and would be a great representation of our school. You may be wondering, what do I mean by a “great representation of our school,” well what I am meaning is that the rocks/pebbles could be placed in a specific way to create a pattern or image on the ground. These symbols could be symbols that represent our school or symbols that represent Aotearoa. For e.g to represent our school, the stones could make the symbol of our Forrest Hill School tree logo or to represent Aotearoa, the stones could be in the shape of a koru. As a result of the symbols representing our school, people would be reminded of Forrest Hill going back to the first paragraph. Also as a result of the symbols representing Aotearoa, the symbols would give meaning to our garden. On the decoration side of things the stones combined to make a symbol would make the learning space more of an interesting place to work in. The stones/pebbles would be a great representation of our school and a great decorations, both those things are needed.

In conclusion, I would love to work in the learning area if there was a rock garden with painted stones because it would be a great legacy for the Year 6’s to leave behind, it would make the learning space pop with colour and finally the stones would be a great decoration and representation of our school.