All About Camp

On the 27th of November Te Moana and Te Maunga  headed off to Coopers Beach. We were all packed and ready to go. We all got ready in our dorms then started doing the activities. The first activity I did was going on the water slide. The water slide was 80 meters long and it was the biggest in Northland. The first time I went down it was super fun. My legs were jelly when I was walking back up the hill.

The next thing we went on was slippery hockey. We grabbed a hockey stick ( it was plastic ) and started playing. The first and second time I slipped over I whacked my head on the ground. We had a sponge war and if someone threw a sponge at you you would be out for 10 seconds but if you catch it, the person who threw it at you, is out for 10 seconds.

The next thing was the confidence course, and then it was kayaking. They were both really fun. My favourite activity was the confidence course.

Just a really big thank you to all the parents and teachers who were there. We couldn’t have done it without you guys :)

Movie Making Story!

In Te Maunga we have been learning all of the different kind of camera shots. Did you know we have also been learning about the different angles as well!  I made a movie with Isaiah S and Vinnie. We made a movie about Superman! Here is my movie and my writing for it!

I laid down on top of the fluffy ground, dreaming about flying. Dreaming about singing ‘ I beilive I can fly,’ as soon as I woke up, I was flying. I felt like superman. My fist felt like the only thing holding me up. I heard the song ‘ I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky!’ My stomach had butterflies swarming all in it. Two children looked at me as though I was a psycho or something! I guess that would have been the normal reaction from people, you know, to see someone randomly flying on top of the air!

The shots we used were:

Close up

Bird’s Eye view

The long shot

The medium shot

Waka Ama

In Te Maunga we have been going to waka ama every Tuesday. Our WALT was write a quality recount. I think I did well with making my paragraphs a good size. I think I could have done better by adding descriptive words in to make it sound better. We have made stories about our experience. Here is my story:

Waka Ama

I rushed to the car door. Waka ama has finally come to us. It was a Tuesday morning on October 31st. Te Maunga rushed to Waitangi to do waka ama.

I quickly zoomed into the car and clicked my seat belt. I was shaking. I just wanted to go go go! As we started driving I could see Waigtangi from the distance. I could hear motors rumbling and Tayla laughing beside me because Rikesh told a funny joke. I guess I laughed a little too.

When we got to the beach, Rob ( The waka ama teacher ) started babbling to us about putting on life jackets. How to put them on, how to get a life jacket on from another person and how to tighten them. He also talked to us about how to use  the hoe (paddle). We had to secure our hand at the very top of the handle and our other hand close to the fat bit of the hoe, otherwise known as the head.

It was soon my turn to go in the waka. My stomach felt super light. I felt like my head was floating in the air. My hands were shaking, but it wasn’t because I was cold! I slowly tumbled inside the waka. We started paddling really fast then we nearly hit the bridge! We turned around so we didn’t hit it. We had to work extra hard because we were about to hit the beach as well! My arms were getting weak, they felt like warm jelly. They also felt like they could collapse because they were super tired. I could hear waves crashing on the beach.  Everyone on the boat was huffing and puffing.

It is so much fun at waka ama. Next time I will try to be named paddler of the week, but it isn’t always about winning and having fun. Isn’t it?

Life Ed!

Every two years Paihia School gets to go to a caravan and get s to talk to a puppet and learn about something. This year we were learning about relationships. You may be thinking we  shouldn't be learning about boyfriends and girlfriends, but we were actually learning about friendship relationships. Let's stop talking about the non juicy part, let's talk about the puppet! The puppet's name is Harold, so is the caravan. Harold is a giraffe that doesn't necessarily talk but does whisper in Terri's ( The owner of Harold )  ears because she isn't a ventriloquist so she can't speak with Harold's lips movie while Terri's lip's were movie or else that would look very weird!

End Of Term Reflection

In Te Maunga is is nearly the end of term 3 and we have been writing end of term reflections. We had a document with some questions on it and we had to choose four of those questions to write the answers of them. I am just going to show you a picture of all the questions on the google doc:

Those were all the questions that we had to pick out of. I know, hard right! Here is my reflection:

Overall my term was… because:

My term was challenging because everything was at a higher level than my actual level so that made things hard. Also if I paired with anyone, they would expect me to tell them what to do and sometimes I don’t know what to do and that affects our whole pair.

What I am particularly grateful for:

I am grateful for all the friends that help me and are so kind to me, I am grateful for the amazing effort that all the teachers give to us kids and I am grateful to have such a great, environmental school.

What was the most challenging part of the term for you? Why?

The most challenging part of the term for me was when everyone relies on me to do everything for them because it is challenging to do so much work on my own with no one to help me.

What is something you accomplished this term that you are proud of?

I accomplished my reading goal which was to ask questions as I read. It was very important to me to accomplished that so I could have moved up a level and have a harder, more challenging goal. I was so proud when I was evidencing it and I was ready for a new goal!

Easter Island Presentation!

In Te Maunga we have had Mr Lindsay as our teacher. It was so much fun! He basically let us do whatever we wanted to do in 30 minutes! Mihipeka and I made a presentation about Easter Island. We
got the information from google and google earth! Here is our presentation! Hope you enjoy!

My Writing

In Te Maunga we have been doing recounts. We could write about anything we did in the holidays of our choice!

Here is my writing:

On Friday, Nan, Will, Zara and I went to Waipapa to go skating. We went skating because we wanted to go outside and have fun! First, we went to the rink but too many people were there so we waited until 2.00 clock.

We went to the plant store to look at a couple of plants. I could just smell the beautiful blooming flowers. I could hear all the birds chirping , The water from the waterfall just flowing slowly down and also I could hear the bees BUZZING in my ear. We had a look at the frogs there. “ THERE AREN’T ANY FROGS!” said Will. “ Where are they?” I said to will and Zara.  After we came out of the store, Zara and I couldn’t resist the big bags outside the exit.

Zara and I climbed into the small hole the bags formed in the middle. We figured out there were two forts made out of bags. When we had to leave, Zara got stuck inside the fort. I thought “ WHAT IS SHE GOING TO DO?!?!?!”. Eventually, with a lot of pulling and pulling and pulling and pulling, wait, did I say pulling?! She easily slipped out and made it in time for Makana!

At Makana we met up with my Nan’s old friend and when I say old I mean OLD! She was about like, hmmmmmmmm?,   99,00000000 maybe?! We got a strawberry sorbet ice-cream. It was Ginormous. You could just taste that delicious fresh tasty ice-cream. I could also feel it dripping down my hand as I held my ice-cream cone.  I saw a REALLY rich ice-cream looking tub. It had chocolate swirls of ice-cream on top of ice-cream that had MORE swirls of ice-cream on it.  It was crazy!

When we left Makana the last stop was the roller-skating rink! When we arrived I was so excited. We walked into the rink and saw so many people! I felt very nervous and also felt the ground smacking me when falling over. I could hear my bones cracking when I was doing the limbo there.

I definitely wanted to have some more adventures there again! But I also had another thought, It was that I needed a break from  the holidays!

Hope you liked my recount! Stay tuned for more!

Toku Ako ( My learning)

In Te Maunga we have been taking charge of our own learning with our toku ako in the mornings. ( Toku Ako means My Learning )

Every morning we do our Toku Ako for morning tea learning time. Our teacher Whaea Becks has a check in list and she would write what we are doing for that whole 20 minutes. Here is my literacy Toku Ako as an example.⇩ Also my maths one⇩

Koru Panel

In Te Maunga we have been doing Koru panels. We will put them in our on the wall in out Whare and it will turn out really cool. Here is my panel with an explanation.

Te Reo Maori

In Te Maunga we have been learning how to say things in Maori. We made presentations showing what we  learned. Here is our presentation made by Payton, Isaiah M, Mihipeka  and I.

Writing # Recount About Waitangi

In Te Maunga we have been writing recounts about our trip to waitangi.

I think I did well with fixing up my mistakes that I got in my comments. I also think I did well with giving my friend Payton feedback.

I could have done better by not getting distracted with others.
Here is my story!!!  ↙↙↙

The Big Long Walk Written by Tia

“Hurry up Te Maunga, Get in line!”  Said Whaea Becks. It was Tuesday afternoon and Te Ngahere, Te Moana and Te Maunga were setting off to go to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds.  We were going there to learn about the Matariki stars.  While we were walking on the beach, I hears the choppy waves crashing down on the beach.  I also smelt the waves! I saw all the children up ahead of me walking on the right side of the pathway.  
When we arrived at our destination, We had to get stickers on us. We walked up the HUGE hill! We had to sit down and listen to a man but I forgot what his name was! WE had to split up into groups. We split up into groups so there would only be one teacher per amount of children. My team ( also known as Whaea Beck's team)went to weave the Nikau  first. I chose Mihipeka to be my partner because I am not that good at weaving and Mihipeka was, so I chose her. My hands got pretty sore as I placed my red fingers onto the Nikau.
When we were done weaving our AWESOME Nekau, we took it outside and played with it. As I slowly ran up with the kite, I threw it and it did a wonderful glide then a backwards flip in the air! Turns out I was throwing it backwards!
Next up, games. My favourite game was the blindfold game. We faced an opponent and we would have a yellow blindfold on. In our hands, we  held a paua shell and shook it so the other player knows where you are. You would have to tag them. I played against Rikki-Dean and I tagged him first! I felt really weird because I felt like I was blind! I felt inside like I wasn’t going to tag Rikki, but I did!
The last activity we did was planting. I heard the lady  talking to us about not stepping on the plants. I honestly thought I would but luckily I didn’t. As I walked over to the forest, I was about to step on a plant. I dug dug and dug the ground. Anyah, Mihi and I were still not done. We dug a little more and…Made it! PHEW! I thought in my head… “ That was a close one. “
After that we had to walk back to the tree where we first came to. When  it was time to go, Anyah and I stuck together. We slowly walked and moaned at the same time. We Sounded like dying cows! When we got back I was so happy and I ate my little heart out.
After all of that, It probably was my favourite Walk to the treaty grounds out of all the years I have been going there . I loved it.

Thing Link- Hoe Reflection

In Te Maunga we have been doing a hoe reflection. Our hoe are really important to our school.

I think I did well with making the thing link and giving good information.

The thing I could have done better was to put the thing link in a better place where you can see it better

Here is my thing link    😊😊⬇↓⬇↓\

Inquiry- Doll festival

In Te Maunga we have been doing an inquiry presentation about one celebration of our choice.

I think I did do well with giving really good information and working well with my buddy.

I think I did not do well with staying on task and I was getting a bit distracted from others.
Here is my presentation!     ⇓⇓

Persuasive Writing

In Te Maunga we have been working together and collaborating on one document while writing. We absolutely LOVED it!

I think I did well with commenting and giving feedback on the piece of writing under me.

I could have done better with putting more descriptive words into my writing

Here is my writing:

 I believe that learning on the chromebooks is good for us because It is good for evidencing with your strategies and work you are proud of, you can finish off work at home and you can also record yourself on it.

Firstly, having chromebooks is important for children in the class to learn new facts by searching them up on the internet rather than having to look through one book. Or two! It is also good for the future because you might get into University or even get a job as an office worker. You will easily be able to use your skills of typing and using different tools.

Secondly, evidencing is GREAT if you are proud of some work . You can use different tools to share it with them. If someone was proud of their explain everything, they could take a snapshot and put it on a google slide, a doc, a sheet, a google form or a google drawing.

Thirdly, you can finish off your learning or work at home. If someone needed to write the rest of a story they could do it at home on their chromebook or log in from a different computer.

By the way, I wouldn’t be persuading you in this story if it wasn’t for this Chromebook!

Lastly, we can record our voices on vocaroo, voice recorder, speak pipe and morphvox. If someone was reading , they wouldn’t be able to give some evidence on a book so you could obviously record your voice for feedback on a chromebook.

Those were all my reasons why I think self directed learning is the best!

So do you really want to put everyone’s learning on the line?

I didn’t think so.

Writing

In Te Maunga we have been learning about how to write a persuasive. It had to be about if learning on the chrome is good or not.

I did well with putting paragraphs in between the reasons and examples.
I could have done better with saying a better example and writing a bigger story.

Here is my story⇩⇩⇩

Why learning on the Chromebooks is good

I believe that learning on Chromebooks is good for us because…

if we want to give feedback to our teacher we can email them a google slide doc and more of our evidence. If someone was proud of their explain everything, they could take a snapshot and put it on a google slide. The person could email it to their teacher and do some other work.

Secondly, People can finish off their work at home. Some people can sign in to their chromebook and others just bring theirs home. If a kid wanted to finish off their writing, they can just do it at home.

Lastly, chromebooks are GREAT with recording on.If we were reading we couldn’t give some evidence on a book so chromebooks can record your voice while you are reading or spelling so that would help you ALOT. That is why learning on the chromebooks is the best!

So do you think learning on the Chromebooks is good?

Maths

I am learning to order unit fractions because I have been taught that but I need to be taught that again because I have forgotten how to do it.( Ordering fractions is putting fractions in order like ¼ ⅕ ⅙ and more fractions.

I have increased ordering fractions while I am doing studyladder. I am proud of myself for organising me to do fractions every night now. I could have tried to get more help when I am doing my fractions at school. I think I have achieved my ordering fractions goal so I could probaly choose a new goal. I think I should remember to highlight my must do’s and can do’s A LOT more often!  

Writing goal setting 2017

In Te Maunga we have been learning to take care of our own learning. First we have been doing our WRITING goals. I need to focus on my ideas and leveling up on it.
 I did well with explaining what I need to do next and why I needed to do it, what I didn't do well was how much time it took to finish this.
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	Surface Features			Deeper Features
	Spelling	Punctuation	Sentence Structure	Vocabulary	Idea	Structure	Organisation
Where am I? copy and paste the definition from above	R5	R6	R4	R4	R4	R5	R4
	I spell all essential list words correctly. and spell some difficult words using my knowledge of spelling rules.	I carefully choose the punctuation I use to help with the meaning of my writing and correctly use a wide range of punctuation.	I use a variety of words and phrases to add detail and I choose words to make people want to read my writing.	I use a variety of words and phrases to add detail and I choose words to make people want to read my writing.	My ideas are on the topic and are beginning to show some complexity. (Personal Voice)	I have selected an appropriate purpose and format for my audience, and use appropriate language features.	I put my ideas in order or groups and am attempting paragraphs. I use clear pronouns.
How do I know? Give some examples from your writing of why you think you are in that box	On my spelling list I had a few challenging  words but I got through them. E.g : Beautiful Encourage Route	I think I am R6 because I use most punctuation like Brackets, full stops, commas,question marks and capital letters.	I think I am an R4 because I didn’t really think about my sentence structure that well when I had written my 5 complex sentences.	I think I am an R4 because I used similes, I used adjectives, I used good metaphors and I also used different words than the ones I have already written down.	I think I am an  R4 because I don’t write Complex sentences while noticing them while I write and I don’t go very well with coming up with idea’s.		I do not organise my stories I write before I start writing them.
What next? What are your next learning steps?	By giving myself harder words each week ( Words That are list 10 )	I will keep writing stories with lots of speech marks and question marks.	I think I could do better with thinking about my complex sentences when I write a story.	I think I should use more interesting words when I write my stories.	I think I should try to come up  with more ideas before I start writing.		I think I should organise my paragraphs better.

As you can see, this is my wring learning plan.↑

Beach ED

Te Maunga has been learning about beach education. We learnt the rules for going to the beach, what the lifeguards use as tools for rescues and also we asked some random questions about their job. Te Maunga has been making animations of what we learnt with the lifeguards. (The rules). Here is my animation↙

Get NZ Writing

In Te Maunga, we have been making a poster for get NZ writing. Bella,       Lilli-Rose and I have been in charge of the poster. We had to answer questions on the poster and also make it look good. We tried to give as many people in the class a job to do on the poster. We had to make the poster in a very short amount of time. Some people didn't get a job for the poster. We also had little cards with gigantic letters on them. Since the whole class did the cards, we would join the cards up together and it would make one whole sentence. On the back, we would write a metaphor about ourselves.Here are some photo's that we took of our cards, the cards stuck together and also the poster.

In the end everybody was SO excited to collect Wellingtons cards and also poster. Here is there poster! 

On our poster, the cards that were stuck together said...

'' Talk With People Who Help You See The World Differently!''

My Pepeha

Te Maunga has been working with Te Ngahere for 3 whole days in a row.We made presentations about our learning.We could make powtoons, screencastifies and also thing links.I could have made a better effort with the sounds and I could of recorded my voice.We were learning how to explain our learning.I did well with my transitions. I did a powtoon about my Pepeha. So here is my presentation.

The TRYathlon!

In Te Maunga were learning how to wright a recount. We thought it was a good idea to have Paihia Schools TRYathlon as a topic. Here is MY recount about it.

Last week on Friday, Paihia School had a TRYathlon in Paihia! We swam, we ran and also biked. It was so much fun. So here is how it went.

First we had to get our gear ready. We had to sit and listen to Mrs Williams before we walked down town.

After the talk, we marched down to the beach. We had another talk with Mrs Williams about the track / course on the beach. The first race was the Te Ngahere boys, second was the Te Ngahere girls. It took quite a long time for the girls in Te Maunga to have their race but once it was our turn it was scary.

I had butterflies in my stomach.  “On your marks ! Get set ! GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Mrs Williams called. We sprinted and sprinted into the water. It was cold. There was only three of us swimming. After a while I  had warmed up in the water. I was so weak once I came out of the water I couldn’t even walk! My legs couldn’t take it.I felt like a deflated balloon! But I still ran and ran.

Once I got back to school , I got my shoes on and got on the school bike. The helmet was too tight and the bike was too small. Yuktha’s  mum let me use Yuktha’s bike and helmet and they had fit perfectly. Off I went to the track. Once I finished, I got the yummiest bar I have ever had from Mrs Hadwin! I felt proud of myself for participating in that amazing TRYathlon . Hopefully we have another next year!