Puriri - Report

For the past few weeks, we have been learning to summarize. Summarizing is when you tell the main point of something in your own words in a shorter version. 

We had to choose a Maori medicinal plant that is native to New Zealand. Then we had to research about how they can heal injuries etc and how to use them. I chose the Puriri, and I had to learn about what it does. We had a slideshow with information on some of the plants and I got some of my information on there. 

The Puriri tree has very green leaves, and those are the things that you need for the healing. in my picture that I'll put below, I explain how to use it. It was quite tricky to find out all the information on how to use it and what to do with it. I really enjoyed designing the poster. Next time I that I would change how I drew the flower in the corner. Later on we are going to paint them on signs and stick the signs next to the plant in our school Rongoa garden. 

Rongoa means Maori healing, so we have a Maori healing garden.

Here is a picture of my poster:

Japan

This week we have been learning how to skim and skan. We were given a slideshow to make a copy of and fill out the slides to make it our own. We had to read a bunch of different texts to find the information we needed. Here are the links to some of them: Japan - EPIC , It's Cool to Learn About Countries: Japan , Nintendo Video Game Designer. They are all on epic, so if you have an individual epic account from your school, you can read them.

We had to change the background, font, and text colour of each slide. I didn't end up finishing my entire slideshow because I kept getting distracted, but I will post an update on them once I am finished. It was quite challenging to finish the slides that I did do. I really enjoyed learning about different things in Japan. Next time I would change how much I did on my slides, so that I could get them done. My digital learning object shows that I can embed a slideshow onto my blog. 

Here are my slides:

Sacraments of Initiation

Today and yesterday my class and I have been creating a slide on the sacraments of initiation. I thought it was pretty tricky writing the rituals. Next time I will change the background. I found it fun to find the photos.

Haast's Eagle

Haast’s Eagle

The Haast's Eagle classification is the Harpagornis moorei.

It’s bill got to 130 millimetres, and its body was 1.4 metres. Its wingspan is 3 metres, the size of a small house. The males were smaller than the females, and its call was very loud and quite high-pitched. It had black feathers tinged with green and yellow, with a bunch of red feathers on its head.

The Haast’s Eagle lived in grasslands, forests, shrublands, and mountains. It would perch on ledges and giant tree branches while it waited for its prey. When it’s prey came near enough, it would dive from the high tree top or ledge of rocks and plummet down to the animal it was hunting and attack it. It would hunt animals much larger than itself.

The Haast’s Eagle’s diet included Giant Moa, ducks, and other birds. The Giant Moa was much larger than the Haast’s Eagle, but the giant eagle would still swoop down and attack it. 

Maths Check Up Re-Do

 Konnichiwa! I've already done a Maths Check Up, but I did the wrong times tables. This time I did my four times tables, my two times tables, three times tables, and elevens. It was tricky because of the timer, and I didn't know all of them. I enjoyed answering the ones I did know, because it made me feel proud that I knew them. I didn't get most of them write, but I don't mind. I'm happy that I got at least some of them. Next time I hope that i know them better so that I get more right. Down below I will put my results. red means I got it wrong, green means I got it right, and orange means I didn't answer before the timer ran out. 

Ruru Art

My class and I have been doing some Ruru art. John Bevan Fords was the man who originally did it. It was supposed to be for the art we were going to be selling after the talent show, but it had to be postponed because of Covid 19. It was a bit hard for me to think of patterns. For me it was easy to do the dying. Next time I think I would change the colours of the Ruru.