Blog Commenting

 

These are screenshots of four comments that I've published on four blogs. One blog was my classroom blog : Digital Footsteps, another was Linda (A Panmure Bridge  Student) : Linda's Blog, another was Willy's blog ( A Tamaki Primary student) : Willy's Blog and the last comment was to Latham (A Pamure Bridge Student, in the same classroom as myself) : Latham's blog.

Room 5 has been commented on people's blog, experimenting with the new Manaiakalani way of being cyber smart while commenting. This is what the poster looks like:

RWC 2015: Highlights

This presentation displays some Highlights that my classmate and I, found really amazing during the Grand Final of the Rugby World Cup 2015. I collaborated on this with Yvette.

6 Hats: Consequences

This is presentation that displays the Six Thinking Hats, towards the events of a child getting hurt during Guy Fawks. I worked on this task independently. 

Rubbish Type Comparison

This is my DLO of the Rubbish Comparison completed in Room 5 from last week. The poster is self explanatory of what we did last week. I completed this poster with my classmate Paige. 

My Connections to Hauora

These are My Connections to Hauora. Our aim was to reflect the connections I have to Hauora. I had to include What I thought Hauora meant when I thought about it, my connection to Hauora, the connection my community has to Hauora and the connection my family has to Hauora. 

Hauora Poster

This is my Hauora poster that includes what Hauora is, a picture, short definitions of each wall and an example of what it looks like. This links to our topic this term, about having a healthy balanced body and mind. I worked on this with Paige, Courtney, and Jasmine. Hauora is a Maori theory of how to have a balanced system. Hauora means well-being. 

The Maori Pioneer Battalion: Statistics

Room 5 is currently focusing on The Maori Pioneer Battalion because it links with our topic this term "Lest we forget". This is my graph that displays statistics of the wounded/deceased/returned soldiers from New Zealand's Native Contingent. The first side of the graph shows the natives that died, returned and were wounded throughout the war (From all contingents and reinforcements). The second side of the graph shows the amount of natives that died and were wounded. I did not include the number of people who returned in this graph because I did not find this information out. 

The Maori Pioneer Battalion: Timeline

My classroom is focusing on the Maori Pioneer Battalion because it is linked to our topic this term "Lest We Forget". This is a timeline of just a few of the events that occurred in World War 1. Our task was to create a timeline that tells the WW1 journey of one of the soldiers in the native Maori contingent. I focused a lot of my events on the First Contingent, but at the end I include some of the things that happened to the reinforcements.

The Maori Pioneer Battalion: Biography

My classroom is currently focusing on The Maori Pioneer Battalion because it links with our topic this term "Lest we forget". This is a biography poster about Henare Mokena Kohere. We had to retell a soldiers story and had to include a lot of detail about the person. 

The Maori Pioneer Battalion: Letter to the Editor

Dear whomever this may concern,

On behalf of all iwi from Waikato and Taranaki, I wish to inform you of our thoughts about the Maori Contingent, because I feel you do not understand our reasons for not having the will to join your war. We will NOT fight another man's war and risk our lives for another man’s faults. How dare you think we should take part in this war, when you have seized the ability to grow our own food!? Imagine working in the farms, all week long and still knowing you won’t be able to provide a stable diet for your children. Now imagine that the people who caused this problem, asking for your help? The first thought you have into your mind is revenge. May I add, that after all of this damage you have caused to our iwi, you have decided to send our sons to prison! Do you think this will make us want to come and fight for you anymore than we did 50 years ago? Exactly. I hope you are able to understand why we don’t want to sacrifice any lives for you and your kind.

Yours Sincerely,

All iwi o Waikato and Taranaki

Room 5 is currently focusing on the Maori Pioneer Battalion because it links with our Topic this term "Lest we forget". Our task was to imagine we were an individual from Waikato or Taranaki and write a letter to the editor sharing our reasons why conscription of men who the government had disappointed should not be allowed. We needed to give examples to back up our information to make the writing persuasive.

The Maori Pioneer Battalion: Design a Poster

Room 5 is currently focusing on the Maori Pioneer Battalion because it links with our topic this term "Lest We Forget". Our task was to design a poster that called for men to join the Native Contingent. I included a very important flag to Maori's in this poster. 

The Maori Pioneer Battalion: Picture This!

Room 5 is currently focusing on The Maori Pioneer Battalion. This is a collage I created that includes just a few of the pictures about actual Maori troops that we apart of the Maori Contingent. 

The Maori Pioneer Battalion: Writing

“Haere e tama ma. Haere me te whakaaro ki te pupuri i te rongo toa a o tatou tipuna. Kia wehi ki whakaaro ki te pupuri i te rongo toa a o tatou tipuna. Kia wehi ki te Atua. Whakahonoretia te kingi”

“Farewell, young men. Go and uphold the name of our warrior ancestors. Fear God. And honour the king.”

Our heads were bowed as our whanau recited those words. The pride had caused such a sudden rush through my blood, I could not hold the tears back. For those words had affected me hugely because I knew for a fact that all my brothers here, together as one, would use those words as a motivation to fight for our freedom of our whanau, and to give all that we had into it. I feel the strength of my whanau giving me more hope and confidence, trusting me with all their might to represent our iwi.

Room 5 is currently focusing on The Maori Pioneer Battalion. Our task was to imagine we were one of the 500 men in the Maori Contingent. We had to imagine we were had boarded the troop ship ‘Te Hokowhitu-a-tu’ in February 1915 and describe on a page in our fake diaries how we felt hearing the words :Farewell, young men. Go and uphold the name of our warrior ancestors. Fear God. And honour the king. (When translated into English)

Poppy Poster

This is an information poster about Poppies. It includes answers to why the poppy was chosen as an inspiration for ANZAC, the history behind Poppies, why we wear poppies and the Flanders Field Poem. It also includes pictures of Flanders Field,  RSA poppies and real poppies. 

Solar System Paragraph

The Solar System is apart of the galaxy usually known as ‘The Universe’. The Solar System consists of eight planets, and more than a quadrillion amount of stars. In ancient times, people began to create constellations with the stars. Most people say that they’re able to probe the stars but do they realise stars are light years away from us, somewhere floating in lost gravity? Light Years away, Earth is spinning on its on axis. This process produces an illusion of day and night: One side of the Earth absorbs light from the Sun,  while the other side absorbs darkness. Because of the nuclear fusions happening inside the Sun, day is caused when  bright blue Sun rays hit Earth’s atmosphere, hiding stars from the naked human eyes. Astronauts who travel to space are trained so they’re able to help expand knowledge in space explorations and technology. We believe, that our solar system is unique.

Above is a paragraph that includes information about the Solar System, and what it consists of. The whole class were split into 5 groups. Mrs Anderson wrote over 10 words onto the whiteboard. Each group had to include these words into their paragraph. The people listed below are the students who produced this paragraph:
Fine, Yvette, Pah Nwee and Tui.

Why do people migrate to New Zealand?

Why do people migrate to New Zealand?

Economic reasons I believe, is a main motivator towards decisions to migrate to New Zealand. According to information collected from ‘Statistics’, the majority of motives towards moving from residence to residence is employment. From the age groups 20 to 69 years old, majority of reasons from moving are all economic motives. Due to economic growth during the 60’s, New Zealand's population increased due to immigrants.

Our task was to explain in our own words why people migrate to NZ. The skill we were practising was to find evidence, to support our thinking.

Melting Pot

This is my Melting Pot Mash Up. Enjoy!

Questions On Tamaki River

Created with Padlet

This is my Wallwisher on Tamaki River. It is my questions on Tamaki River.

Present Day Tamaki River Connections

My popplet on Present day Tamaki River Connections.

My Flipsnack on Technology in Education. By Fine

This is my Flipsnack on technology in education. Today Miss Paton taught three people how to make a flipsnack. I was one of those three because I finished my presentation on technology in education. I put a lot of effort into this flipsnack, so please leave comments.