Happy Holidays!

Since the holidays are coming up, Olivia F and I have made a music video just to say Happy Holidays!
Song: Happy Holidays by Janet Devlin

Enjoy!
(Did you guys go to the Christmas parade? Amazing right?)

Poetry (Cinquains and Free Verse)

Description: In Troy's writing group, we have been focused on Cinquains and Free Verse poetry. My cinquain is about the moon and my free verse is about watching the Disneyland fireworks with my cousin. Here is a slide of all of our poetry. Cinquains is a type of poerty thats ordered from syllables. In the first line you have to have 2 syllables, then 4, then 6, 8 and back to 2. For freeverse, there are no rules. You can write it however you desire. My slide is the 4th one :P


Big Idea:



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   ( ' x ' )    
  c(")(")    
    bunny                     
                 
Feed|back/ Feedforward: Wow Aye that is some amzing poetry. My favourite is the free verse just the starting is wow! Next time I think you could work on the background or chose a diffverent colour for the words so that they stand out. but appart frome that I think you did an amazing job.
Sophie                

Evaluation: Thanks Sophie for the feedback and Feedforward! I think that I have done a great job in using words to describe my topic. I believe I have officially gotten an understanding of Cinquains and Freeverse. Maybe next time I could add more language features and stay to the rules of Cinquains.

Blooms Questions

Here are my questions for week 7

What is Kelly doing: Kelly is to busy shopping while she has the chance because she doesn't have much money at home.

Where is Carl Carl is with the Washerwoman
What instructions could you give to Carl Listen to the woman. 

Lolly pops have nothing to do with this. -_-

Cinquains

Description: In Troy's writing class we have been doing Cinquains. Cinquains are types of poems but are ordered in syllables. The first row should have 2 syllables, the second is 4 then 6, 8 and back to 2. Our topic was our passion. Here are a few Cinquians that I have done:

A touch of a pencil:

Starting

Inspiration

Planning, guidelines, drawing

Not any other art technique

Sketching

A bright flare:

Scorching

A golden globe

Blazing right above us

A fiery ball in the blue

The sun

Celestial Night

Ghostly

Lumionus Light

Glistening above me

Silent With whispering Shadows

The Moon

 Wow! That is amazing! Very good aye! You are very talented student. Nice poems they are amazing. I know you would of chosen this because you are doing it everyday. Nice work. =)

Sophie 

Inquiry

Every Thursday we go to different inquiries. We had to pick which inquiry group we wanted to be in and I chose Troy's Graduation inquiry. The reason why I wanted to be a Graduation was because its my last year and I want to make graduation something to remember. In graduation, we had to pick from different committees of what we wanted to work on. I chose the decorations and hats group because I wanted to be in the decorations group last year but I didn't get to. I also chose hats because I like hats I guess.

For graduation we try make as much as possible for the year 6's to leave something behind for us to remember them by. For example: in the decorations group, we are painting Jenga Blocks white so the year 6's can sign them for us to remember them by.

I think we thought outside the box because we thought of very creative ideas for graduation. Some are inspiration from Pinterest and others were completely original.

SEMI FINISHED 2015 banner thing.

Book Bash Blooms Questions 3

I have been reading the Spiral Chrysalis. My reading partner is Gracie and here are the 3 questions she has gaven me for the week.

List 3 characters from Where To Next

Kelly, Nareen and Stephen

Who were the main characters?

Carl, Kelly and Nareen

Describe the Porter

Helpful.

Poems of life

On Pages, I stumbled upon four poems of life I wrote during the beginning of the year. I found them great to post since my goal in writing is poetry. So here are Aye's Four Poems of Life! (Friendship, nature, transport and love.)

Aye's poems of life

Friendship

Friendship, oh friendship

Thank you for making us be

Without you we would be nothing!

We would just be an un growing seed

You're the cherry on my sundae,

the finishing piece

Without you, my heart would sink

You make the whole world smile

all in one pile

Without you, the world never see the bright side

 That's why you're always in mind 

Nature

Nature, 

An alleyway to kindness

Creating life in our hearts.

Helping us live, 

Helping us grow

You've been with us right from the start

We understand your disappointment,

Of people misusing you 

But we promise 

We will repay you back.

All the greenness and colors 

The astonishing sights

You're the one who has made us lovers

So please don't go

With all the wild life and views

Because we would be goners,

without you                                                                                                                                                                              

Transport

No matter what nationality you are,

White, Black

Short, Tall

Male, Female

You are always traveling.

Train, bus, taxi your own car

It doesn't matter

Modern transport is very important

To meet friends and family

Whenever you are in a rush

Modern transport can take you there in a hurry

In the end of the days 

We can count on you

To take us there

Wherever, Whenever

Love 

Oh love, 

You make our hearts tingle

One of the most important essence in life

That we love to mingle

Your the one that sets fire into our hearts

Right from the start

You complete us 

You cause affection

Without you,

We would never be perfection

Love is what makes us special

We would have no room in our hearts to

Be happy

Love life

Meet someone special

Or have friends and family

Thank you Love

For completing our life story

Awesome Video Stars

This blog post is not about my learning but about the cool video stars me and my friends made! I thought they were really cool so I wanted to post them on my blog!

Space Unicorn Holiday featuring: Amy, Bella I, Olivia F, Gaby, Hannah P, Taylor W, Ana and I. Camerman: Olivia F



Last Train To Awesome Town featuring: Ana, Sophie W, Taylor W, Amy, Bella I, Georigia, Kate, Ashlee, I and a bunch of other people I forgot. (Sorry if uncredited!) Cameraman: Olivia F

Agency 2015 Goals

Description: In class, we had to fill out a Self Managing, Directed and Agentic matrix to determine what goal we want to practise for the year. On the matrix, were 3 columns for Self Managing, Self directed etc. In each column were different goals which were appropriate for for the title. We had to highlight the goals pink or yellow. The ones that are pink are the ones we need to work on and the ones in yellow are the ones that we nailed. Here is what I found out after I filled out the sheet.

I think I am a Self Managing / Self Directed / Self Agentic learner because: 

I am inspirational, I collaborate well, I seek my challenges and I take on a variety of roles. 

The goal that I am currently working on is:

To make conscious decisions on how to use my learning.

The things I need to do to achieve this goal are:
Consciously train myself to make decisions easily and to always note down everything on my timetable.

Spiral Chrysalis Question Recreation

In reading, our reading partner designed questions for us to design from the Spiral Chrysalis.
Here are the questions Gracie designed for me:

In your own words describe Nareen: I would decribe Nareen as confident, independent and strong.

What is your opinion of Carl: He is ignorant but smart.

In your own words summarise the story: So far in the book, Nareen, Kelly and Carl unleashed the spiral chrysalis and Carl got transported to a room full of doors. He opens the doors and gets turned into a ghost?

Free Verse Poetry

Description: In Troy's writing group we are focusing on poetic writing. The type of poetry we are focusing on is Free Verse Poetry. Free verse means that there are no limits or rules to how we write our poem.

The poem I wrote about was about seeing the Disneyland Fireworks. Here it is:

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The celebration has begun

Pow! Pow! Pow!

The colors explode to life

Lying in the grass,

Staring at the blanket of stars

Dreaming with my cousin

Music gets louder

Disney idols appear 

The heart of Animation,

In one big splat of colors

A canvas of dreams appear

Thanks Disneyland

For being like no other.

Evaluation:

1) Reflect on the links to senses  you used: 

I think have used most of the five senses except for smell because I didn't know how to include this in my poem.

2) Reflect on the language features you used:

I think I have used repetition and short sentences. I found short sentences easy for including in my poem because one word can make a poem more powerful.

3) Reflect on what you could improve on next time:

Next time I would like to include ALL of the senses (see, hear, feel, taste and smell) and also try to use a variety of language features.

Partnership

In reading we had to pick questions from the Blooms Sheet. We had to give our reading partner the questions we chose and they had to answer them. Gracie was my partner and down below are the questions she gave me. The questions are related to the book we are both reading called The Spiral Chrysalis.

Who are the main characters 
Karl, Nareen and Kelly.

Describe what happened to Karl 
Karl got transported into the chrysalis.

What instructions would you give to Karl
Don't open any doors! It could let ghosts escape!

How is Karl related to Nareen 
They are twins!

What is your opinion of Karl
 Karl  is lazy!

Create a new character for the story
Stella, Kelly's older sis.

Book Bash

Description: For literacy this term, we have been doing something called Book Bash. Book Bash is where the teachers give us 10 books to choose from. Then we pick 3 books of our choice that best appeals to our taste or intersest. I got chosen to read the Spiral Chrysalis first.
Here are my predictions on my first look at the book:


Title:  I think The Spiral Chrysalis sounds like a book about a butterfly because butterflies make chrysalis'. I wonder why it says "Spiral" in the title though. What does a chrysalis  have anything to do with a spiral?

Cover Design: Just looking at the cover intrigued me. I think the two girls might be sisters and they encounter a chrysalis in their garden. The wind is sweeping their hair across the breeze which seems like it's coming from the chrysalis. WHY THOUGH!? And there appears to be blood stains...

Blurb: Honestly, I couldn't read the blurb because the photo was blurry but I'm sure it  sounds cool. Judging by the fact my other preditions, they could give me a clue of what it says!

News Report Tic Tac Toe

Description: For my summarizing Tic Tac Toe, I chose to do "News Report". You probably know what a news report is but basically it's when news reporters make a summary of a report. I had to make a News Report about an article by summarizing.

Image:

Big Idea:  

The article I had to summarize was an article about NZ getting a new dollar note design. 

Here is my report. The link to the article will be listed below.

September 2nd 2015, Kiwi Kids News have revealed an exciting report. The $5 and $10 notes will be revealing a new NZ design in mid October. The new design will feature brighter colours but don't worry, the famous faces and the floral design will be left unchanged. The $20, $50 and the $100 note will likely be changed in April 2016.

Link to article: (coming soon due to internet problems)

Pae Tamariki Reflection Term 3 2015

Description: This term Kapa Haka went to perform at Pae Tamariki. Pae Tamariki is an annual maori event shared with primary and intermediate schools. It's a celebration of maori tradition but showing it in maori haka and dance. Pae tamariki was celebrated on the 31st July 2015.

Image:


Big Idea: At Pae Tamariki, I felt... Scared to comfront everyone in the audience.

I felt most proud of… smiling proudly no matter how nervous I was.

I found folowing the actions challenging because… everyone was sometimes swaying their arms different ways so that confused.

I managed this challenge by…. remembering the correct movements and sticking to my instincts.

At Kapa Haka, I next want to.. Practising memorising the correct actions instead of embarssing myself by accidentally doing the wrongs movement.

Feedback/Feedforward:
I think you have done a great job and tryed your best, for your next goal at your
next peformance you could try and do the moves correctly and be more confident. Grace.S (/o-o)/ **

Maths Portfolio Sample

Description:  In maths we have been learning about multiplication and division. We have been practising the folowing strategies with Troy to help us: S (Spliting), R/C (Rounding Compensating), PLAT (Proportional Adjustment), KF (Known Facts) and PVP (Place Value Partitioning).

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Big Idea: My goal in maths is PLAT. (Proportional Adjustment) PLAT is basically working out multiplication facts using doubling and halving AND tripling and thirding. For example: 12 x 5. If  we were using doubling and halving we would halve 12 and double 5. That would be 6 x 10. That makes it easier and we get the answer 60. For the first question we had to use 2 strategies. One of the strategies I used was PLAT. The other strategie was KNOWN FACTS. Known facts is basically working your way up to the answer using facts that you know. For example 32 + 32. 30+ 30 = 60. 2 + 2 = 4. 60 + 2 = 62. Next is R/C (Rounding and Compensating) For example: 5x19. First we round 19 to 20. 5x 20 = 100. 100 -5 =95

Evaluation: I think I have done well in using my strategy effectively. I believe I have proven my understanding in using PLAT. I think I might need to work on using R/C because I rarely use this strategy  in my learning but instead use algorithm or PVP or even PLAT. 

Feedback/ FeedForward: You have done a good job at explaining your strategy. I like the way that you have presented your learning I learnt lots from it.

Next time you could try to add more stratigies to your brain and remember how they are all used!

Isabella

Passion Project T3

WALT: use the PASSION inquiry process to investigate my passion independently/in small groups

MY PASSION PROJECT INQUIRY IS… To architect a design of a modern home.


Big Idea:
In class, I have been investigating modern architecture for Passion Project. I choose modern architecture because it's really interesting of how different our style of houses change. If you don't know what modern architecture is, it is basically a modern or complex design of a building or a house.

Here is a bit of the info I've gathered so far:





Image:

Evaluation:  I think I have done well in gathering info of my pasion. I think what I need to do next is to start designing my dream home. I'm pretty sure I will start  designing the floor plan with math paper so I can get the lines right. I also need to design the actual architechtual design right after. I have lots of images for inspiration.

Feedback/Feedforward: You have given every bit of detail of what you should have to design a house. You have thought about what happens if the weather is rough. The shape of the roof. Next time you could maybe think about the inside of the house. -Georgia Tindle :-)

Writing Portfolio Sample

Description:  In writing, my goal is to use planning templates. I chose this goal because I rarely get much ideas about what to what to write about and I NEVER use a planning template. I tried to get better at this goal by think of the most juicy words and write them down so I could add them in my writing. In my writing group we used the image below to help us get motivation of what to write about.

Image:

Planning Template:

Big Idea: 

We had to brainstorm precise nouns and descriptive adjectives about the image above to inspire us.
We also had to brainstorm 'prompts' about wha our character could see, hear or feel. For our planning, we used a mountain template to help us plan our story. We had to add lots of hints in our story so we can give the reader a clue about whats going on.

Here is my writing:

Feedback/ Feedforward: I like the adjectives that you used Aye. Next time you need to make sure it makes sense because at points I didn't know what you were talking about. Ana


Evaluation: I think I did very well in adding hints and descriptive words. I think I might need to work on sticking to the main points of my plan instead of just  changing my first intentions into totally different intentions.

Wearable Arts

Description: In class we had to choose what topic we wanted to be in for Wearable Arts in production. The choices were: Out of Africa, Elements or Heros and Villans. Since I wasn't there, I was placed in Out of Africa. A Wearable Art is not a costume but a Garment. A Garment is ART!!!! We also had to think of a color scheme. So we created a mood board to inspire us for making new ideas or  creating different color schemes.

Here is my mood board and my planning.

Evaluation:

1) The materials that I used to create my garment were:

• Fabric
• Felt
• Papier Mache
• Paint
• Bottle Caps (green/blue)
• Elastic
• Fluff
• Wire
• Beads
• Wooden Elephant
• NewsPaper
• Duct Tape
• Tinfoil
• Feathers
• Pen
• White Fabric Stuff
• Fedora
• Ribbon
• Etc (I forgot)

2) The most challenging thing about production for me was:

Making my hat because the tinfoil wouldn't stick to my base which really mad me frustrated.

3) One way I demonstrated a growth mindset during production was:

Thinking that if I keep trying I will get it done with excellence.

4) Something I am really proud of about production was:

Completing my skirt because now it looks FAB!

5) Our school vision is to create agency, creativity and excellence. I showed this by:

Thinking of the most creative way of colouring my wings and giving my tail lots of coats.

Reading Portfolio Sample: Story Wheel

Description: In class, my goal has been summarising. I chose summarising because I think I need to work on summarising a story I have read without spoiling the ending. This is my goal because I want to work my way towards making a very good story. Summarising means to create a retell a story but only the KEY points. This includes: WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY and HOW. Since I've been practising summarising, I have to do summarising activities/ Tic-Tac-Toes. The activity that I'm doing at the moment is making a story wheel.

Big Idea: Our task was to draw a summary from an article we just read. I read an article about what stuff was banned from different countries.

Here are a few statements that were made in the article.

Ketchup was BANNED from France,

Plastic Bags were BANNED from France, Bangledesh, Tanzania and Mexico City.

Etc

Feedback/ Feedfoward: Comming Soon

Evaluation: I think I have done well in summarising this article. I have summarised most of the KEY points. I think I need to work on summarising WHEN and HOW because I found it difficult to locate HOW or especially the WHEN.