The Amazing life Of A Food web

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Food Webs. A food web is showing the different food chains and what the predators are to other animals for example Stoat’s eat Kiwi or the Kwi eggs which makes a Stoat a the predator to Kiwi and their eggs. The teachers made a google drawing and put photos of animals, insects, flowers and berries then pointed arrows at what eight what and then compare it to the teachers one that they made and think of the differences between them two. I thought that I had several differences to my one and the teachers one. The arrows without the colored arrows is my doc and one of the differences that I spotted was that the teacher one had six arrows pointing at the Stoat and I only had three arrows pointing at the Stoat and one more thing I spotted was that my doc only 11 arrows and the teachers doc had 23 arrows.

Have you made a Food Web before?

Task Busters

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing something called the Task Masters. Task Masters is a fun activity that the teachers assigned us to. The task was to draw a drawing as similar as we could to the teachers drawing. The whole point of us doing Task Masters was so the teachers could see how well we worked together. The thing we did best the first time is there was 2 people running outside but the bad thing was that they both came up with different thing witch confused me. Then the second time we did it it was easy because there was only one person who told me what to draw but the hard thing was that he wasn’t being specific.  We did the Task Masters to show the teachers how good all of our learning groups did well together and in my group was Shivam and I our group name was the Task Busters. There were two jobs the drawer or the runner I wanted to be the drawer. The runners job was to run outside and look at the drawing that the teacher drew while the drawer would wait inside getting ready to draw the thing that the runner told them to draw. The thing that I found hard was to not look at other people paper. 

Have you watched the TV show called the Task Masters?

Kawa Of Care

This week in Te Ngahere we were learning about the Kawa Of Care. After we learned a little bit about Kawa Of Care we made a DLO. DLO stands for digital learning object. The teachers let us decide if we can do a comix, Powtoon, or animation. Me and my friend Calais decided to make a animation. I learned over the past few years that if you don’t listen to the Kawa Of Care and you break your chromebook and you haven't paid for insurance then you wont get your chromebook back unless you pay for it. Is the Kawa Of Care a rule at your school?

The Art Of The Year

 Kia ora my name is Shay. I am a year eight student from Paihia School. We have been learning about Roy Lichtenstein and the art that he did. Roy Lichtenstein is a famous artist. His art is made with color and dots in comic books. Roy Lichtenstein was born 27 October 1923 and he died 29th September 1997. Roy Lichtenstein loved to draw explosions and he served as a infantryman during World War 2 and painted the explosions. I learnt really interesting facts about him and wrote them on this google slides. Next week we will be doing art just like him.

Have you ever read one of Roy Lichtenstein’s comics?

Te Reo Forecast

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning to pronounce different weather words in Maori. Then, when we finish learning them in maori, we had to make a script so we could screencastify. My partner was Mark O. In our script we had to have six different places in NZ and then we had to pick what type of weather it would be in those six places. When we finished we screencastified. The thing that I found hard was to try and pronounce the words in Maori because it was hard to shape our lips witch affects pronunciation.

Have you ever made a weather forecast before in Maori?

Fun facts about T-ball

 In Te Ngahere we have been playing T-ball we have been practicing with KC. T-ball is a really fun game, it’s exactly like baseball except the ball is hit off a T and there is no one pitching the ball to you. The object of the game is to hit the ball and run through base 1, base 2 and base 3. In my opinion the two best places for me are batter and base 2. After you hit the ball, then you need to drop the bat and run to base 1. Then, when the next batter hits the ball you need to run to base 2. Then, the person that hit the ball has to go to base 1 and then the game continues from there. The thing that I found hard was to hit the ball out to the fielders.

Have you ever played T-ball?

Mahi toi

In Te Ngahere we have been making art the art is called Mahi toi but the art is for our parents so they can buy calendars of our art. We had to start on practice sheet before we went on a real copy. The only thing that I found hard about mahi toi was that I could barely see the patterns. Before we went to our good piece of paper we had to practice how to blend and to draw a good circle. The thing that I found hard was to try and look for the lines to draw over.

Have you done calendar art before?