Then & Now

This week for cybersmart we worked collaboratively to discover new things about a gourd. We started on by using  what a gourd and what it was used for. We found out that it was used to storage fresh water to keep hydrated. We also found out that a gourd is a type of fruit which is related to the cucurbit family, which includes melon, cucumber and squash.

Commenting

This week I did commenting on lukah's work  he did a blog post on his math's his blog post was on prototec. He did three prototec one on stage 4 one on stage 5 and one on stage 6. I also did those times tables.

Co Co crunch

LI: to learn what advertisements are added in media.
This week for cyber-smart we talked about media and what types of medium are there. We also made a cereal poster. We had to play this game called co-co crunch, click this link if you want to make your own co-co crunch poster so you can have a little fun.

In the poster we had to add in advertisements, like cool animals, themes, catchy phrase's, entertainment and something that people can join. After this we also had to make a fake co-co crunch website with an image of our poster.

Media

L.I is to learn about media.
This week for Cyber smart we are learning about media. The purpose of being information and media literate is to engage in a digital society one needs to be able to understand, inquire, create, communicate and think. Media is also for your personal stuff. Media is when you communicate with the people in your community, family member and your city. We had to work in pairs or triples I worked in pairs with Xavier.

advantages

LI: To identify advantages in shopping in person and shopping online. This week for cybersmart we had to tell the retail shopping advantages and online shopping advantages to Mr. Wong. First we had to get into groups and tell Mr. Wong the shopping in person advantages and the online shopping advantages. We also had to write the advantages on a Padlet. an advantage with in person shopping is- You can see if the quality is good or not and see if it is good for little siblings. another advantage Retail shopping is better because if you don’t have internet you can just go to the shop and buy what you want.

Filling folders

L.I to clean our drives.
Today we did our cybersmart which was to file our folders on our drive, We had to trash the stuff that was from last year and reorganise our current stuff. We had to work in partners my partner was Alisha and he went first because he had to go to kiwican. We had to file this so the Drawing, Documents and slides were easy to find, If we did not file it we might have to restart.

Cybersmart

L.I is t make a copy of this slide and do what is on it.
Today I did Cyber smart I had to make a copy of a slide and I had to do some shortcuts. Some of them were just skills aswell. There were 7 differents shortcuts/skills. The pairs and groups had to help each other since some people don't know and haven't used the short cuts and skill before. The 7 different things we practised were  Ctrl  x and Ctrl  v, Ctrl  c and Ctrl  v, Ctrl  Shift  v, Ctrl a, Ctrl  z and Ctrl  y and Ctrl + k.

Cybersmart

Today I will be teaching you on what you need in a blog post. 1:  title, 2:need to have a LI Learning intention, 3: Type what you learnt and how you learnt it, Number 4 you need labels and lastly publish it

a house or a home

similarities:
My house is brown and a Wharepuna is brown.
My house is one story and a Wharepuna is one story.



Differences:
my house doesn't have carving's on it and a Wharepuna has carving's on it.
My house is a brick house and a Wharepuna is a wood house.



L.I To write difference's and similarities about a Wharepuna and your house.  

Waka Ama

I would not want to do the Waka Ama race Because I don't want travel one place to another. One fact about a Waka Ama is that Maori people use these boat's to travel to one place to another some people don't do it and some people still use this type of boat.



Today I did the bonus activity this activity was about would you or would you not be in the Waka Ama race. I also wrote one fact that I know about a Waka Ama and what maori people do with this boat.

My trip to find a new country activity 2

My trip around the world was very tiring and the country that I found was New Zealand I got to New Zealand in a waka. It took me 4 week's to get to New Zealand.  When I got to new Zealand Maori people were eating cat eyes, limpet's, pipi's and seafood.



Today for activity 2 we had to write a letter about finding a new country.

Summer learning journey facts / Maui and the giant fish activity

Fact 1: Maui's brother's were making excuses for Maui not to come fishing and Maui always wanted to go with his brother's but they would say excuses like he is to skinny and the fish will bring him over board and he is to skinny his brother's might accidentally use him a bait.

Fact 2: Maui wanted to go fishing but his brother's said no but then Maui came up with a plan he would make his own fishing line and hide in the hull of his brother's canoe.

Fact 3: Maui and his brother's grandmother told Maui and his brother's to look after her fish and and she would bring the people and the brother's agreed Maui went to the hawaiki ad as soon Maui left the brother's they were chopping the fish.



Today I did a activity on the summer learning journey. For this activity we had to read the story of Maui and the giant fish and then we had to write three fact's about this story.