Dressup Daffodil Day

Today is Daffodil Day. We are celebrating it at school by dressing up as what we want to be when we grow up. I chose to be a cop. I am wearing one of my dad's shirts, a pair of glasses which have a moustache on them and a hat. This day is special to me because my uncle suffered from liver cancer and he died last year in October, so I was dressing up for him today.

Everybody's costumes were amazing even the teachers dressed up. They dressed up as SUPER TEACHERS! Lots of people came dressed as sports players. But I was the only cop in my class. Some kids had awesome outfits. There was a little boy in Moana who dressed up as a clown! I really enjoyed dressing up and seeing everybody's costumes.

LITMC

On Wednesday Emma and I was chosen by Mr. Fraser to do a workshop for the learning in the making conference!!! We are going to be doing ours on science experiments. We are doing it for Moana students. I am really looking forward to it!!!!!

Group Endeavour - Global Warming

This term instead of doing individual endeavour we are doing group endeavour. I chose to be in a group which is researching about global warming. We are going to split off into three groups, one that is researching about Air pollution, one that is researching about what global warming does to your heath and one about deforestation - what it has to do with global warming. I am really interested in the health side of it and what it does to your health.

What is it I hope I will come to understand more deeply through this inquiry?

I hope that I will understand more about global warming. Knowing what causes it is a good thing to know because lots of people don't know very much, such as me! We were watching a few videos on it today and I have learnt heaps already!

What knowledge might I need to help move towards this understanding?

I will need to know the effects of global warming, what causes it and the ways I could help/make a difference.

What is it I hope to be able to do more competently?  (skills)

Have researching skills and being able to write and think of questions that give me a better understanding of what global warming is.

What learning powers will this inquiry help me practice and develop further?  (Explain this)

Curiosity - because I am going to be researching lots to find out the answer to our big question, and asking other questions which have to support the big question.

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Team Olympics

Since it's the Olympics. The Marama learning teams are doing an Olympic slideshow. My job is to research about the medals. Such as finding out what the designs are and what they mean, for each side of the medals.

Here is a picture 

Book Bash

16/8/16

Quote To Character

I thought that this was a good quote for Leon because he was in struggles sometimes and he would get stronger. Did you notice that he didn’t cry once during the chapters.

Some day were really bad and Leon’s father would always bring the sunshine home, which was food or coal.

New Learning Team Doc

This is my learning team's plan doc. In the table we put how many blog posts we think we should do each week for the rest of the term.

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Book Bash

10/8/16

Question Master:

Can you name what Jews were not supposed to do?

Who was the man that hired Leon's Father?

What did he do for his birthday?

What job do Peza and David do?

What was the name of the person who beat up Leon's father?

Discovering...

Today on the tables were lots of different objects. There were rocks, sticks, packets of nuts and books. On each table, there was a theme. There was one table that I went to and the theme was space and weather, that is the one that I was most interested in. When we were at the tables we had to ask questions about  an object or a picture. I asked lots of questions about clouds because I am very interested in how they are made. Here are some of the questions that I asked. How are clouds in the desert if there are no water sources are near them? Are clouds heavy? Can you keep clouds in a jar? And many more questions. Parts of this activity were supposed to be independent I think that I managed myself well and I worked on those parts myself.

My Mural

For the past couple of terms, Marama has been painting murals. These murals are supposed to represent your background and history. For our murals, we used watercolor paints. I painted my mural with deeper colours so they were bolder and so it stood out. All of the murals that were made are amazing.

The process:

First, we had a sheet of paper which had two sides, one for the symbol and one for the meaning of the symbol. Then we did a rough sketch in our art journals of what our mural was going to look like. We then added colour to the sketch to see if they worked together and looked good. Before we drew our murals on our good paper we practiced our watercolour. Practice makes perfect! We used texture, shading and mixing colours. After we had finished our practicing we then drew our mural onto the good paper (if the teacher approves!) Then start our watercolour!!

On my mural at the left, there are buildings they represent where I used to live, the big city! It then rolls into the hills, on the hills, there is a feijoa, that represents my family’s business (feijoa orchard) There is also a Kiwi and a cabbage tree, the Kiwi represents how I am a New Zealander and the cabbage tree represents that I live in the Hauraki Plains. Behind the tree is a big sun. A stream also strolls through the second hill (it represents Torehape Stream which is across from my house) The stream then rolls into the ocean which represents how my family has a batch and how I love the water. In the ocean is my star sign. Coming out of the water is a Maori symbol which is the Mangopare shape which represents the Hammerhead shark and means strength, power, and courage. The background for my mural is a sunset. Above the buildings is the Southern Cross and floating in the sky are some poppies which represent all of the people who fought for NZ.

Boy On The Wooden Box Prediction

This Term for book bash I am reading The boy on the wooden box with Abby, Brooke, Alyson, Macy.   

After reading the prologue I think that the story will be about Leon story of how he got through the war.

I think that something will happen and he will get separated from his family when Oscar saved him from the Nazis. I think that through the book it will turn worse but when it comes close to the end of the book I think that it will all eventually go back to the way that it was.