3 Famous People in the early Christian Community

WALT: Identify significant people in the early Church and explain their roles in the community. 

Some weeks ago, for RE we were learning something new. It was about the Church, and we were up to lesson two, which was about famous people who were in the early Christian Community. And we had to read about six people who are called; Peter, Lydia, Aquila and Priscilla, Stephen, Phoebe and Paul. Then after we had read all of them we had to choose three people to write about. I choose Stephen, Aquila and Priscilla and Paul. Because there stories were intresting!

Then we had to use animaker telling all the facts about them. 

Like what was there role in the Church, and how did they help the Church and also how they were in important in the Church.

This is my video! (We had to screencastify it!) 

See You in the Cosmos

For the past term we our teacher Mrs Lee, has been reading us a class novel called "See you in the cosmos." It is about a guy named Alex who is 11 years old and wants to launch his golden ipod into space so aliens or people up there who haven't been to earth and see what it's like and go there. 

So for reading, we had a task and it was to create a slideshow for our see you in the cosmos work. So every week we have an activity to do, and we have to do it on our slideshow or do it in a google drawing or an app then transfer it/screenshoot it so we could put it in our slideshow. 

For our first activity we just read a chapter of a book and we got to know things about Alex, which he named his dog after his hero "Carl Sagan." And we had to write and research ten facts about Carl Sagan. Our next activity was to write your name as an acronym, it was actually hard to come up with something for the letter "I" so I asked someone! 

For our week 5 activity we had to write about Zed's point of view because we just got introduced to him in the book! Then we had to go on to avatar maker and make a avatar about what we think Zed looks like from the description Alex said! 

Okay for our week 6 activity is to think about the quotes that was written and write what the quote means to us! that was the only activity that we had to do! So for our week 7 activity we made a missing dog poster for Carl Sagan because he went missing (in the book!) So I made it in a google drawing!

Okay! We missed one week so for our week 9 activity was to write 4-5 paragraphs about my typical school day and pretending I brought my golden ipod just like Alex. I wrote about 11 paragraphs....because it had to be the whole day..

For my week 10 task I didn't finish because I didn't have much time to finish it so soon i'll be working on it! So we had to think about what love, bravery and truth meant to us, and we had to draw or take an image for a symbol representing it. 

Anyways! This is the last week, and we've finished the book!! I really liked the ending because it was nice, and it was very meaningful!

This is my slideshow!

I really enjoyed doing this. 

Some questions!
Q: What was your favourite activity? 

Q: What activity would you do and why?
Q: What does love, bravery and truth mean to you?

What is a Sandstorm??

WALT: Unpack sentences using gestures with ITTM

In our reading groups we read a non-fiction explantion text, about sandstorms. It was telling us what our sandstorms and the facts about it. And then we had to do a infographic again!

So this time I choose to do a list stating facts about sandstorms on canva again. For the list I actually putted it in order from what the paragraphs say. I managed to get six facts on my inforgraphic!! Hope you learn some new facts about sandstorms!! 

From my last infographic my group members comment on my last post and they said that I didn't really need to improve on anything, so that's okay. But I did the same thing for my last infographic and tried to add a lot of facts!!

This is my infographic! 

We Did It!

For writing we look back to term 1 when we did descriptive writing, so our teacher

Mrs Lee put up a image

up the TV screen, it was one girl and one boy up a mountain.

So then we had to write about it descriptively..using our five senses. And it isn't a recount writing it

had to

be when we're like right there. We also had to write it with paragraphs.

What I found difficult was using the sense "Taste" because I had no idea what to write about it, it took me a long time to think about what I should write..

What I enjoyed is writing what I see because I can quickly get a beautiful picture in my head about what I see below and up top.

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Well this is my writing!

We Did It!

I could taste victory! Finally we made it! I could also taste the fresh cool water that I got out of my bag. 

I could smell the fresh warm breeze as it passes me feeling relaxed from being exhausted, then I suddenly began to close my eyes while the warm breeze passes by. 

But then I could hear my friend shouting out “We did it!!” running out of air, which made me open my eyes but then when we were both quiet, I could hear water splashing together while I hear the rocks go sliding down the mountain as I start to stand up. 

I could feel the hard rocks that felt like concrete but more round, when I began to stand up, I also feel the bright sun shining down on me beginning to feel hot. 

I can see the beautiful sky the top part was dark blue and the middle part was more of a light baby blue with white mixed in with it. I can also see the fresh cut bright green grass from all the way at the bottom of the mountain. I look around and I can see the light blue river that was running. What God made was so beautiful. 

Do Thunder And Lightning Always Go Together?

WALT: Unpack sentences using gestures with ITTM

We read a non-fiction text called "Do lightning and thunder always go together?" It was about the facts about thunder and lightning I leared a lot when I read this passage with my group. It was a very intresting passage!

For this week our class did another shared slideshow. But this time we read a non-fiction text, a non-fiction is when it's a true story and when it's an explantion passage. We had to create a infographic about our non-fiction text, we could do it on anything I choose to do my on canva and for my infographic I decided to do a poster telling facts about lightning and thunder. 

This is my infographic!

Te Wiki o te Reo Maori - Scavenger Hunt

Last week was Maori Language Week! And when it was reading time we had to do a scavenger hunt, not the one outside but collecting information. For our task we had to make a copy of this google doc and we had to choose 3-4 tasks to do out of the 7 tasks. We also could did one of the tasks in animaker or powtoon. 

I choose four tasks to do one of them we the Maori spirituality. We had to look up four words which are; Mana, Wairua, Tapu and Mauri. We had to look them up in a Maori dictionary, I choose "Mauri" You can find out what it means in the second slide! We also had to make a symbol to go with it. Another task that I did was praying with the Psalms, which is when I translate my psalm into a Maori psalm..and make a poster showing the psalm in english and in te reo Maori. My other task that I choose to do is to look up facts about te reo Maori in google. My last and final task was to make a presentation about me, with using some words in te reo Maori.

I enjoyed making a presentation about me cause it was really fun using animaker!
What I found diffcult is finding facts about te reo Maori, because there wasn't really much information on google about it but I got ten facts all done!
What I can improve next time is to put more information on the Maori Spirtuality one.

This is my slideshow!

Adam The Avocado

In class this is our second time making collaborative writing which is writing in our groups. For this we had to use scholastic story starters, for our story and it was to write a funny story about a know it all avocado who is always getting in trouble. After we had created our story we had to make a picture book. Mrs Lee our teacher showed us some picture books to get some ideas. I actually found this really diffcult because it was really hard making the characters. But I had really fun making a picture book!

This is our picture book; hope you guys had fun reading it!

The Elephant Whisperer

In class it was reading time and..we did another shared slideshow! But..this time we had a different task it was to post it directly to our blog. And comment on our other group members blog post, this time my group read a fiction story (fiction means not real) called "Elephant Whisperer." It is about a girl named Charlotte who loves elephants. We had to do a story web about it, we had to include; Feelings, Action, Setting, Characters, Problem and Outcome.! We also had to include an example from the text. I did my one on a mindmup!

This is my mindmup!

Why is the sea salty? - W7 Shared SlideShow

In room 5 we have been doing shared slideshows for our reading task. For this week we read a non-fiction story about why the sea is salty. And for our task we had to make a infographic about the information that we learnt. And when we had done that we had to comment feedback on each others. My feedback was to add more color. So next time is do this I will add more color!
 This is my group's shared slideshow!