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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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

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.

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)

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. 

The Digestive System

Description: In class we had to choose from 3 science choices. The food chain with Troy, The digestive system with Suzanne and animal adaptions with Ebony. I chose to learn the digestive system with Suzanne. For the digestive system, we learnt lot's of interesting facts that we have never have known before. To gather all of this amazing info we made movies on what we have learnt about the digestive system.

Success Criteria

Our movie has:

*lots of interesting details about digestion that our audience won’t know

*clear explanations about each stage of the digestion process (talking clearly and loudly, using specific science vocabulary)

*clear images 

*humour/interesting detail to keep the audience engaged

Here is our video I made with Katelyn, Ashlee, Hannah and Gaby:

Big Idea: Here is a brief summary of what how the digestive system works. Digestion is all about breaking food down into tiny bits so it is small enough to travel all the nutrition around in your blood to feed your body and give it energy. All the leftovers (non nutrition) are placed together into this thing we call "poo". Watch the video above to see what happens inside our bodies and how the food travels around our body.

Feedback/Feed forward: I like how you added in some humor in the video. My favourite bit is the very end bit when your voice is very clear to here.You could work on making the video have a bit more information about the rectum and how it works. @^__^@ Ashlee



Evaluation: I think we showed a lot of creativity and excellence in our movie. We have added a lot of detail and info into our movie that the audience might of not known. Honestly, I think these facts will  come in handy in the future. I think we need to speak more entertainingly so that our viewers won't get bored. Other  than that, I think we have done a really good job.

Kapahaka Reflection

Every Monday at 2:00, the Kapa Haka kids practise in the hall. Rosie has formed a new Kapa Haka competitive group for competing in competitions. This group is called "Tematangi" Tematangi practises twice as much as the original Kapa Haka, Te Roopu.

1. Kapa haka is the term for Māori performing arts and literally means to form a line (kapa) and dance (haka). Kapa haka is an avenue for Maori people to express and showcase their heritage and cultural Polynesian identity through song and dance.
   
   
   

   
   Big Idea : 
   At kapahaka I enjoy learning about the songs and how the songs relate to our culture. I also love to learn the moves of traditional dances.
   
   
   I am most proud of being able to join the Kapahaka for the past few years and being able to perform in front of an audience.
   
   
   I find pronouncing the Māori words challenging because Te Reo Māori is much more different than the english language. If you pronounce a word wrong, the word will have a completely different meaning.    
   
   I am managing this challenge by listening to what everyone else sings, then I copy what they say. If the person that I am copying is incorrect, the leaders would correct us.
   
   
   A personal goal for me is to be able to prove that I know all the meanings to the songs and the pronunciation correct by the end of the year.
      
   Our school wide focus this term has been around showing excellence. I show this at kapahaka by striving to the best of my ability and trying my best to get the movements correct.
   
   Feedback/Feedforward: Amazing Aye you have done very well with pronouncing the words because 
   I have not noticed you having any trouble lately. The thing I think that you need to work on is speaking LOUDLY so that the crowd can hear you.#Olivia AKA  🍍's BFF
   
   
   

   
   

Writing Portfolio Sample

Description: My writing goal is to use a range of different sentences. One of them is complex sentences. I am gonna try get better at this goal by using a range of different sentences and try combining them together. In Troy's writing class, we watched a movie about a mouse trying to get adopted. We had to retell the story in our own way and try to add complex sentences in the story.  Here is the movie we watched. It is called "Mouse For Sale":



Big Idea:  Here is my story. The complex sentences are highlighted red. If you don't know what a complex sentence is, here is a brief explanation. A complex sentence is a sentence where it has two clauses. One of the clauses is an independent clause (which means it can stand alone) and the other is a dependent clause. For example: Because my coffee was too cold, I had to heat it in the microwave. The underlined part is the independent clause. The dependent clause can't stand alone so it is added to a independent clause.

Here is my writing. Hope you enjoy!:

Feedback/feedforward:

Great Job Aye, I really like your writing! I love all the complex sentences that you have used. They make your writing much more interesting! Next time I think that you could make smaller paragraphs because they are sometimes a little big! Great Job! Hannah K 

Evaluation: 

I honestly think that I have developed an understanding of complex sentences. Before, I had never heard of a phrase like "complex sentences". I think I might need to work on using different types of sentences like: " Compound, simple, compound- complex etc" I'll work towards this goal by thinking more about how they work and which way will imporve my sentence. - Aye

Reading Portfolio. Sample

Description;
For today's Tic Tac Toes I have done "What's a Prefix?" Tic Tac Toes are reading activities that we can choose from to improve our literacy. Tic Tac Toes are cut into to groups. "Expanding Vocab" and "comprehension". I'm in Expand Vocab.  Since in class we had to do a portfolio sample I decided to do a sample on this Tic Tac Toe. If you're wondering "what is a prefix?" let me explain. A prefix is is "affix" which comes in the beginning of a word. For example: if the prefix was "un" and you added it onto the beginning of "happy", you will get "unhappy". The "un" changes the meaning of happy to the meaning of "un" which has the same meaning as "not".

Here are my words that has the letters "TRI" in them."Tri" means "three." On a bicyle you add the letters "tri" and it makes "tricycle" A trycycle means it's a bike but with "three" wheels.

Tricycle 
Triathlon (3 stages in a "triathlon")

Trigger  (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")
Strip   (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Airstrip (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Strike (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Tribes (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Stride (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Trip (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Trial (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Triangulate (3 corners in "triangle")
Tricky  (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Trickster (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Triangular (3 corners in "triangle")
Triumph (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Tripod (3 legs on a tripod)

Trifler  (Just has "tri" in the word. Does not mean "3")

Sucsess Criteria: (Expand Vocab)
Re-read
Read on
List of words
Base or root word
Cause and effect
Synonyms
Comparisons and contrasts


Big Idea: We had to make a list of words with the letters "TRI" We had to find as many words as possible.

Feedback/Feedfoward:

WOW Aye!

Those are awesome words that start with tri. I think I could use some of those words in my writing. Just a question what would you do if you could not find a device or a dictionary book how will you be able to find some new tri words? But you have done a very VERY good job.

Sophie W

Evaluation

Thanks Sophie for the feedback and feedfoward. Just to answer you question: I think I would look around  me and see if any objects or related objects might help me get more ideas. I think I might need to work on trying to get more juicy words and hopefully use these words in my writing. I will work my way up to this goal by looking in the  thesaurus and maybe think about more complicated words that have the same meaning as the basic one. I also think I am doing well using the sucsess criteria because I use most of these strategies to find out about new words. Hopefully I will still remember these strategies when I get older! :D

Digging Deep

Task: Create a poster using complex sentences.

In writing we were shown a poster called 'Digging Deep'.
We had to make our own 'Digging Deep' poster with our own sentences.
The first hole is a little hole of a simple sentence. The second hole was dug deeper adding more detail. The third is adding even MORE detail.

Catch Me If You Can- Defense

Description:

Every week we learn about skills and movement that will help us play sports. This term’s focus has  been around defense. We made a video showing some of the goals we have been practicing. I have highlighted the thing I think I have done well YELLOW and one thing I would like to work on PINK.

(sorry for the image, I couldn't write it because it would show up on my blog)

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Sorry if the ending of the video was silly. :P

Evaluation: I think I've done a good job keeping my eyes on the ball and intercepting. I think I might need to work on contact and being more ready to intercept the ball. Maybe I might need to also jump and get the ball instead  of stepping in.

Feedback/Feedforward:

I think that you did a good job at defended. but you could work on keeping in time.

Aalaa丶😀

Te Ahu a Turanga Noho Marae

Description:  In week 7, we had an overnight stay at the local Marae in Woodville.  We were immersed in Maori culture and participated in a range of activities.  We set two goals to focus on during our stay.

Here is my camp goals:

If you can't read it, here is what it says:

I aim to cooperate with my team more because I usually like hanging out with people I know REALLY well.

I aim to create a creative presentation that will bring humour and entertainment in the camp concert.

Big Idea:  

1.  Did you achieve your goals?  How do you know?

I know I have achieved my goals by far. I managed to cooperate with my group well even though I didn't know them that well. I have also brought entertainment in the room at camp concert.

2.  What are you most proud of from the marae stay and why?

I am most proud of being able to have a GOOD sleep. I might of overslept by 30 mins, but at least I got a better sleep than anyone else. I didn't get any interruptions and I didn't let the noise bother me.

3.  What challenged you the most and why?

What challenged me the most was the stilts. I have never tried the stilts before so it was a great experience. I kept falling down and losing my balance but eventually I got there by practising.

Here is my bookmark I made about my highlights at camp.

If you didn't get the picture on the bookmark I will explain them to you.

The first picture is a picture of a pukeko. In the bus ride to the Marae, there was a pukeko walking by. It was pretty amazing that we saw a native bird.

The second one is a Maori symbol. It was called a Swirl Koru. A Swirl Koru means growth and unity. I thought at camp that we were all growing in our learning of Maori culture and togetherness. 

The third one is a picture of the Manawatu Gorge. In the Gorge walk I thought the scenery was extraordinary including the story behind it.