Reading Term Three Week 4-5, Insects

At school I've been learning about mini beasts. Here is some of the reading work I have been doing.

To Build a Bot and Emotional Robots - Reading Work

This term we have been learning about "emotional robots - A.I" and about kids building robots. We did this in our reading work. We read two interesting articles about building robots. 

                              My Reading document

Translation,Rotation & Reflection

Writing-Abandoned Places

 Abandoned Places

Our learning goals are to:-write a description, using powerful words and phrases-include some Te Reo Māori-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

Choose one of the images to prompt a piece of descriptive writing

The Abandoned Tarākona/Dragon

CLASH! I woke up, confused. A piece of metal barely missed my head. I stood up to see where I was, Two tall ash grey pereki/brick buildings were beside me the rest of the land was full of pīki\big Alder rākau\trees half the size of the building.. I stroked my hands along the old grey pereki. They were rough and solid  most of the paint was peeled of. I reached the door it was double my height and it had KEEP OUT! Carved onto the wood. The pereki\brick above the door was crumbling into little pieces falling onto my head. Curious, I opened the door,  “HELLO?!” I screamed. No one answered. I walked up the chalky concrete stairs. I was almost at the roof of the building when I heard a sound that I've never heard before, ROAR!!! My heart was pounding as fast as a single lightning strike. I told myself “There’s no turning back now”. 

I was now on the roof of this abandoned building, I looked down at the rest of this place There was nothing else. “How am I going to find my way back home”? I thought.There was a small black shed in the corner of the rooftop, I didn't want to open it But I had to. There was nowhere else to go. As I twisted the door handle I heard fire rumbling. Before I even thought about what was behind it I opened the door.

I saw coal black rough shimmery skin, It's scales were like leaves falling of 

rākau in the winter. His teeth were like pīki swords coming out of his mouth. His whero eyes had an Iridescent shimmer to them. It was beautiful but terrifying. The tail was like a dozen python snakes.. .A TāRAKONA/Dragon! in this exact moment I regret everything that led up to this moment BOOM!!! Black smoke filled up the shed. *cough cough* Then I was back home in my bedroom. Everything was normal. Then I picked up my notebook and wanted to write everything down that just happened but then these words were already written THE ABANDONED TāRAKONA\DRAGON!!!!

By Porsha

Whakaoti Rapanga ( Problem Solving )

My Scratch Project-Te Reo Maori

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week - Korero o te Wiki

WALT:

-use scratch to code for computational thinking

-learn how to create basic code on scratch

-say basic phrases in Te Reo Maori

Click on the link below see our Korero o te Wiki - Phrases of the Week.

Korero o te Wiki - Phrases of the Week

See my scratch project below.

My Marae Recount

         The Marae

Room 7 & 5 went to Arahura Marae with a couple of teachers
and some parent helpers on May 1st to May 2nd 2019.
The school took us there to learn about māori culture and the
meaning of the carvings inside our local marae.

Carvings

First Jerry (part of the marae staff) explained all the
wooden carvings outside the marae and explained the stories
behind them. Then we went inside and each class got to
choose two carvings each  or Jerry to explain the story
behind them and about the character. After the two
classes chose, the adults chose two carvings as well.
We listened to the stories and I really enjoyed them.
All the carvings had a colour on them representing
their tribe, the colours were: blue,green,red and black.
Some carvings had angry expressions.

Evening Rotations

On the evening rotations I did the tukutuku panels first.
I found it really challenging and the string kept on getting
stuck, and when I finally got it right THE PAPER BROKE!!!
So I had to get a cardboard thing so Tanya (parent helper)
started me off. I did about 4 crosses but then it was time
for soap carving. My 2nd rotation was soap carving.
They handed out soap with the word value engraved on it.  is
Barrow taught us how to scrape it off with a toothpick then
she handed out some simple maōri designs for us to do. On
the front of the soap I did some simple koru and it didn't
take that long. When I was done I went over the pattern
lots so it was easier to see. I found a more complex
pattern so I did that on the back. It wasn't as good as my
first one but it was still pretty good. I am really proud of
my magnificent soap carving and I was pretty excited to
show my family.

The Walk

When we had arrived at the walk me, Ayah and Jordyn
were in the group  that was on a  plant hunt. We found
most of the plants on the sheet near the beginning but some
 were in the middle. Everyone had  to walk across some
logs and along the side if there was mud. When we got
there I put my bag down and straight away a wasp flew
on it so all my friends and I stood up. When the teacher
was finished talking it flew away. I could finally eat my
banana that was in my bag. When we walked back it was
pretty relaxing, nothing really happened. When we got to
the end we got the whole sheet completed.

Personal Comment

Overall I really liked all the activities and carvings in the
marae. I’ve never been to a marae, so it was fun to try
something new. The beautiful lights reminded me of
the lights in the Harold van. I loved the yumilicious smores.

Photos