Summer learning journey

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Optical Illusions - Summer learning journey

I made this Optical Illusion on google drawings.

If you strare at it is starts moving.

In the middle I put a small square I found on the web, then made the squares a bit bigger. Then I got another Illusion and turned the transparency down for the circles.

Fishing False Teeth - Kick start - Summer learning journey

The ants and the Grasshoper

Find Specific Information

1.What bush creatures are included in this story? The bush creatures included in the story were Ants, a Grasshopper, a Wasp, a Wētā and Huhu grubs.

2. What did the grasshopper do during the first summer of the story? The grasshopper sat back and relaxed in the sun and made music during the summer.

3. What services did the grasshopper provide the ants over winter? The grasshopper was the ants Waiter, Builder and night protector.

4. How did the huhu grubs pay the grasshopper? The huhu grubs paid the grasshopper in food.

Make Inferences

Why has the author chosen to make the ants speak in short sentences and give brief replies? So the ants don't talk for hours and so their instructions are clear and they're busy working.

Show Your Understanding

1. The grasshopper needed food for the next winter.

2. The ants sighed at the grasshopper because it seemed like he was going back to his old ways.

3. The grasshopper asked the huhu grubs to give food to the ants so he could pay them back for saving his life.

4. It was a short story with animals with human like abilities and there was a moral to the story.

Describe a character

Huhu grub.

The Huhu grub were lazy and just ate and sunbathed in the sun. But in winter they were cold and had no food.

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Here is our reading work we did this week on the fable of the Ants and the Grasshopper.

Kupe and the giant wheke (animation)

We are learning about Kupe and The Giant Wheke.   

After we read this story we made it into a animation.

Poster

We are learning to use these design elements in our advertisement:  colours, shapes, lettering, use of space, proportion, composition, symbols and logos.
We are learning to explore our school values.

We did this to learn about respect.

It was hard to fit everything in and to get the characters.  It was fun making the comic though. Hope you enjoy it.

Hypothermia

WALT: Identify hypothermia.

We are learning about hypothermia so we will be prepared when we go on camp.

Heat Stroke

WALT: Identify heat stroke so when we go on our camp we will know just in case.

AFOREST Ad

WALT: Identify persuasive writing techniques in advertising.

We did this to learn about ads.

We learnt what alliteration means and some other words.

What do you like and what do you think we should do better next time?

Crossword

Minecraft Waka Project DLO

Yr6 Literacy Term 3 by Zade and Cameron

Marble run

 

Maori

 Maori days of the week and months of the year in Te Reo
Days

Months 

Monday	Rāhina	Mane
Tuesday	Rātu	Turei
Wednesday	Rāapa	Wenerei
Thursday	Rāpare	Taite
Friday	Rāmere	Paraire
Saturday	Rāhoroi	Hatarei
Sunday	Rātapu	Rātapu

June	Pipiri	Hune
July	Hōngongoi	Hūrae
August	Here-turi-kōkā	Ākuhata
September	Mahuru	Hepetema
October	Whiringa-ā-nuku	Ōketopa
November	Whiringa-ā-rangi	Noema
December	Hakihea	TĪhema
January	Kohi-tātea	Hanuere
February	Hui-tanguru	Pēpuere
March	Poutū-te-rangi	Maehe
April	Paenga-whāwhā	Āperira
May	Haratua	Mei

Salmon

 Salmon 

I made this because I wanted to show and tell people about salmon.

Catapult Writing

Our mission was to create a catapult that would fire a tin foil ball. The  materials we had were  15 popsicles and 12 rubber bands and one spoon.  

 

What me and Benny did was stack about 15 popsicle sticks on top of each other then put some rubber bands around the ends of the popsicle sticks so they wouldn’t fall down. Then we put a spoon through the middle of the pile so it was wedged in there tight. 

In the competition ours went really far but after it wouldn’t work. Ours won by about 2 meters. (past second place) 

The way our’s worked was you pushed the back down and it flicked the tinfoil ball. 

We originally wanted to go all for looks and not care how far it went but all the designs we found used hot glue so we decided to just build something that could at least shoot. For that design you hit the spoon and it launched but it only had height. But then Benny fingered out that if you held the spoon down so it was bending it would launch much further.

Next time I think we should make a proper design

our  first design looked a bit like ← 

But with popsicle sticks.

P.S. I think the wind died down for a second while we shot the catapult.

A fun afternoon

Narrative writing

Here is some Narrative writing I did.

Shadow Knight

In a time of war there was a knight. That knight was born to rule the forest of the Evil but there was a problem. There was an evil king that had taken over and forced the knights' settlement in siege. The knight had decided to go through to the other side of the forest and take over Lord Darks kingdom. 

So one day at dusk the knight got his trusty horse and rode through the forest. When he got near the Dark Kingdom's walls he slowed and tied his horse to a tree so he could move like a fox. 

The knight eventually found a hole and squeezed through. Inside the walls of the mighty Dark Kingdom, there were beautiful gardens with waterfalls, and little streams with bridges over them. The knight tried to blend in but a guard with a nifty eye spotted the knight and called the other guards and sentries. 

The guards dragged him to see the King who was sitting on his throne. In his mighty deep voice the king bellowed,“ I KNOW YOU! YOU ARE THAT SHADOW KNIGHT! TO THE DEEPEST DUNGEONS MEN!” 

 The dungeon looked bare and dark. The knight stumbled around until he found a small table with a candle and some matches. The knight got the candle lit and looked around. He found a cupboard but it was locked with a padlock. The knight then found a small rod of metal and started picking the lock. After about 10 mins the cupboard's lock sprang open. The cupboard was small apart from a  small crow bar. The knight smashed down the door and  ran up a flight of stairs when he heard someone coming. The knight ran into another room and hid. 

But then the knight realized that he had entered the head gallery. The door started slowly opening so the knight dived behind a pile of heads. A group of guards marched in and started searching for something. After about ten minutes they found the thing they were looking for. It was what appeared to be a key. The guards marched over to a painting of a head and slotted the key into a small key sized hole. The painting swung open revealing a couple gliders. The guards took a glider and shut the painting. Then the guards returned the key then left. When the knight thought the guards weren't just around the corner he went over to where they put the key. The knight got the key and went over to the painting and grabbed a glider then snuck through the deserted corridors until he got to a high point. The knight got on the roof of the tallest tower and strapped on the glider. 

Right before the knight was about to jump the guard got pulled back by a group of guards... The knight got the crow bar and started blindly hitting hoping he would hit some guards. After a while the guards lo0sended their grip and the knight ran and jumped. At first the knight thought that the glider wasn’t working. But then  the Knight realized he was aiming for the ground. The knight quickly pulled up and only just got out over the wall. The moment the knight got over the wall all the centres started shooting their bows at him. After a while the arrows couldn’t get close and the knight landed in a small patch of grass by his village. The knight was happy he was still alive but his village wasn’t too pleased that he didn’t KILL the evil king. 

“Willam, come down stairs.  Dinner is served.” 

BY Cameron

I found it fun because I like writing.

Forces and motion

We are learning about different forces and simple machines and how they work. 

We had a hole day to learn about forces and motion by going to 3 different class room and doing different activities.   (See bellow in DLO)

The lego was KINDA hard cause the instructions were hard to read.

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Te Huarere - The Weather Cameron & Zade

Digital Tech Matariki - BlueBots & QR codes

For this project we first created a google drawing about one of the stars of Matariki. Then we made the projects into QR codes which we put them onto a gridded  mat.  Then people used bluebots to get to the QR codes.In this project we learnt that each star is connected to there own special ability.

Maui's Journey

WALT: understand some of the important stories to Māori culture and to our local areas.

Success Criteria: watch the story of ‘Māui’s arrival in Maitahi/Mahitahi’ and discuss as a class what we learnt in this story.

(Click for video)

Incase the links don't work: Bruce bay, Milford sounds, Kaikoura

DLO on Prefixes, Suffixes and Root words

By the way click on the links on the slide show to go to were you want.

Big IDEAS

Math Problems

Talking in maori

WALT:  Greet, farewell, and acknowledge people and respond to greetings and acknowledgments

Introduce ourselves and others and respond to introductions

We had to do a simple conversation in maori.

Global warming

Elon Musk

My digital footprint-DLO

String Shape (COOL)

WALT: Make nets and models of 3D shapes.

Mini 3D Shapes

DLO on globe

What makes a good blog?

First we got emailed by our teacher a thing were everyone can write their ideas down.  Then we got told to make this and explain how we made it.

To make a quality blog post you need to do
1. Learn about the subject
2. Check the work
3. show someone so they can check it
4. put it on your blog
5. Name and label it.
6. Post it

Small BBQ Video

Book review

More Spin Art

Spin Art

Train Animation

Click the play button to whatch!
We had some options to make some stuff and one of the things there was to make a flipbook! Instead of doing it on paper I did it digitally.
Hope you enjoy.

Street art

D.I.Y

Happy Anzac

Covid-19

I am making a Covid-19 diary and here is the link!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xQnUL-p3JJt9f-rP3l98mibEbumPFOEaDtSNACyBKas/edit

Maths

Optical illusions

Statistics

What was my favourite post?

What was my favourite post? Probably the one about your future.
What was my least favourite post? I don't know what my least favorite post is because there are a few I don't like much.
3 things I learned are? I earned about AJ Hackett, how they wrote in shakespearean times and that I wouldn't wan't to do a famine.

For next year's (2021) I would like a program to go for longer.

Would I like to do a famine?

Would I like to do a famine?
No cause naturally it is disturbing.
Not eating for a day or two would be awful.


























I need food to survive!  

Inspirational quote

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
THIS STORY IS NOT TRUE!
I fall when I sneeze and people laugh at me. I get bullied for being weak. I can't stand it so I search the web. The found this quote that really helped me... Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

27 Names

27 Names is not a good name for a clothing store!
The name would be better if it was called 
27 clothes.

27 Names doesn't sound like a clothing store it sounds like a place you choose names for your kids.
That's what I think!
What do you think?

If I could make a movie what would it be about?

If I could make a movie what would it be about?
If I could make a movie it be a hardcore survival movie. The main character Bruce would get lost on a island and dinos would chase him then he escaped.  

My favourite songs are?

My favourite songs are?
All Eminem songs.
Heroes Tonight  (Janji
Those are my favourite songs.

Imagine you have a diary. In your diary please write a story about your most extraordinary day.

Dear Diary today I wen't and climbed mount Everest. I did it so fast I broke a record. Then I skied back down. That was today's news.

Now
This morning I woke up had breakfast. I had 3 Wetbicks. Then I watched YouTube. After that I did this.

 Shakespearean

This m'rning i did wake up hadst breakfast.  I hadst 3 weetbix.  Then i gazed youtube.  Aft'r yond i didst this

My favourite book new cover design

AJ Hackett

AJ Hackett was one of the inventors of bungy jumping. He helped make New Zealand an  adventure tourist attraction.