WALT write about me. WHAT when I have written my name and drawn my picture to explain 2 points about me.
Haji worked alongside Matua today remembering what he had learned with Whaea Lorraine. He is developing his communication with others. We talked about what we saw outside and then we wrote together. Haji has learned to ask for help when he can.
Haji and I talked about the what was happening outside. We felt the raindrops in our hands, it felt cold.
Every year as we start in our new classes, we find the quirks and the skills and needs of our students are dependent upon what they need to learn. As a class, we have explored and now there is a need to navigate our way through the year ahead. We farewell the explorers and retain the skills we have and we are ready to become the navigators or wayfinders of our ancestors.
Here is our profile blurb from the past few years:
Kia ora,
We are a motivated, skilled, passionate but fun loving whānau of ākonga. We enjoy many areas of learning, especially if it gets us outside. Come and journey with us as we climb our Maunga towards success. – Mauri Ora
“Kia whakatoomuri te haere whakamua: “I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past”
Our whakatauki will remain for the year but we will introduce a new whakatauki for every term. Here is a sneak peek at our profile blurb for the year ahead: Come and learn with us.
Kia ora,
We are a whānau of skilled and passionate wayfinders, navigating the tides of learning with determination, curiosity, and a spirit of adventure. Grounded in the wisdom of our tūpuna, we chart our own course, embracing challenges and discoveries—especially when the journey takes us into the great outdoors.
Come voyage with us as we navigate our pathways to success, always guided by the stars of those who came before us.
Mauri ora!
“Kia whakatoomuri te haere whakamua: I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on the past.”
Kia ora
After creating a word a find, we used the same words to create a crossword, no not a grumpy word in sight. The challenge was writing clues that people could solve but not too easy – people can eat it could apply to so many things, lobster, oysters, kina… So that was one we tried to stay away from.
Thanks Treyden for the idea to embed the crossword into the blog.
Howdy,
Today is our first chance to do the Summer Learning Journey Activities, in class. Yes, it was a busy week Monday the Year 8s went to the High School for orientation. Yesterday we had to sort our drives and finish any work from last week or our blog posts in drafts.
We looked at Kiri’s tasks, the word find. We started with brainstorming words about the Moana. It was great I could model but then the students couldn’t access it as N4L had blocked the site. We tried the crossword instead, using the same words.
Here is the find a word we did as a class –
If you want to try it click here
It was neat seeing the computer show the answers. I am curious to know if the words are always in the same place, leave a comment please.
We have been investigating using Papyrusai. Our first attempt with Naomi was interesting because it was the first time using this AI. Some of us put our whole story in while trying to focus on the introduction. It gave us detailed ways to improve that, at first, seemed overwhelming and very formal.
The following day we tried again using our argument about “School only being four days”. Some of us were for this others were against the idea. We also knew we might not understand what it meant when we asked for help, so added to our question or statement, “Can you simplify or in child speak can you explain.” This helped us significantly, as we could understand what the AI was asking me to do.
Here is my example of talking with PapyrusAI:
We have been studying Budgeting and Finance. This week, we examined buying online, and these are the tips we learned after watching the videos.
You need to –
Kia ora.
we are learning how to write from another point of view.
what I already know about BGG:
One day on a big grassy paddock three billy goats were enjoying some fresh delicious grass when they looked to the sky to see a big storm cloud heading right towards them and their grass.The goats started to panic. What if all the grass gets destroyed, what if they get split up. There were so many possibilities.Late at night the goats were preparing for the storm and thinking about all of those possibilities so they worked hard till the morning when the rain started pouring down and then a rumble of thunder came next. As the rain came in the goats ran into the little hut they built before the storm they hid in there. But little did they know there was about to be the fastest gust of wind ever recorded.
The hut went flying and planks of wood were all over the place. The goats ran into the forest to hide but they weren’t going to split up; they stayed together. The three goats hid in a bush till the storm was over and the winds were calm. The next morning the goats rushed outside to see what damage the storm had caused but when they got out of the forest they were shocked to see the whole paddock flooded. They had to find a way around the water to cross the bridge where the grass was greener and more lush. The goats found a passage to the bridge but it was only big enough for the little billy goat so he trotted his way to the bridge and the big and biggest billy goats stayed behind to break through the bush so they would fit.
As the little billy goat was crossing the bridge up popped a troll ugly and hairy with beady little eyes little goat knew that the troll wanted to eat him but little billy goat said to him “stop don’t eat me my brothers will be here soon and they’re much bigger than me there’s more to eat. So the little billy goat trotted his way to the lush greener grass.back on the other side big and biggest goats were finished breaking through the bush and were now ready to cross the bridge and be fed again as the walked up to the bridge big goat said what’s that rotten smell they looked under the bridge and saw the ugly troll he jumped up ready to feast but as he was about to eat big and biggest goat he heard more trotting but from the other side the sound was behind him. The troll turned around and saw the little billy goat charging at him and then…. BAM. The little billy goat flung the troll into the flood water never to be seen again. Days turned into months and months turned into years and the goats were happily eating fresh lush greener grass.
We are learning how to write a different ending for stories we know.
Our teacher is reading Little Red Riding Wolf. This is an alternative to Little Red Riding Hood.
1. Little Red goes to help her grandma cause she’s sick.
2. Little Red lives in the woods in a hut.
3. Little Red takes baking to her grandma.
4. The big bad wolf spies on Little Red.
5. The big bad wolf disguises himself as Grandma.
6. Grandma gets eaten by the big bad wolf.
We also watched Coconet’s version too.
This is my ending to Little red riding wolf.
“I am going to my old granny wolf’s house to thank her for the hat and the cape”.The wolf skipped along the trail to granny’s house and when he got there he was surprised to see granny out of bed and not sick.She was moving completely fine like she was never old or sick.
As the wolf walked inside to talk to granny he couldn’t see granny wolf anywhere and started to worry.The big bad girl took a shortcut to granny wolfs house and when she got there she saw little wolf crying on the porch and so the big bad girl snuck around the back of granny’s house and she climbed through the window and dressed up like granny wolf.Little wolf heard a noise inside and he went inside to see if it was granny wolf he walked upstairs and saw the big bad girl dressed as granny wolf and then the big bad girl jumped up and started bullying the wolf.Little wolf started crying and then granny wolf walked in and was mad so she yelled at the big bad girl and scared her off.Little wolf got u off the ground and thanked granny wolf and gave her a hug.And they lived happily ever after.
We are learning about the Order of Operation. This helps us know what order to solve problems such as (5+2)²-2×3=?
Have you heard of BEDMAS? – Some other acronyms people use include PEDMAS or BODMAS. Our teacher told us she learned BODMAS when she was at school.
If you are interested – P is for Parentheses (another word for brackets) and O is for Of (as in Power Of) The rest are all the same.
We also looked at how it doesn’t matter if multiplication or division is done first (after brackets)
Eg. 4×5÷2
4÷2 is 2×5 is 10
4×5 is 20÷2 is 10
5÷2 is 2.5×4 is 10
The same applies to addition and subtraction too, but this is done last!
Eg. 4+6-3
4-3 is 1+6 is 7
4+6 is 10-3 is 7
6-3 is 3+4 is 7
How would you solve this…
4×4-3×3-16÷4=? Or if that is too easy what about 20-(3×2³ -5)