Encylical

For RE we have been doing key ideas which helps us to know more about Jesus, popes, bishops and more! This is our second to last key idea and for this key idea we are learning about the Pope of our times which is Pope Francis. So first we had to watch a video about it and then we had to do a summary sheet which was like sumarising what was in the video, then we had to do a pope inquiry which was basically like asking questions about the topic we were doing I choose to do an Encylical that was Written By The Pope and from this I learnt a lot of information from this and found out what was a Encylical but I still can't pronouce it! But for this task we had to put in five pieces of information from our own research and then put it three questions including either; when or what, how or why, is, could or should. And then we had to answer the question again researching about it. 

I kinda of found this task difficult finding all the information and asking questions about it and answering them but overall it worked out as fine! I enjoyed learning new things and finding out what a Encylical is!

This is my inquiry!

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An Encyclical Written By The Pope

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1. An Encyclical is a letter that includes issues, ideas and important things about the Church. 
2. The Pope writes the letter including all those different information and sends it out to the Bishop and the Priests. 
3. The issues that the pope writes about are like either human rights or peace for people. Some issues aren’t just about around the Church, it’s about general stuff as well. 
4. Our Pope wrote about Social Justice issues - about the poor. 
5. There are a lot of Encyclicals now that were written by the pope. 
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Questions: 
1. How many Encyclicals were written by the pope?
2. What Pope wrote about Social Justice?
3. Should the Pope be writing about these issues?
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Answers:
1. There are more than 200 Encyclicals that were written by the pope.
2. Pope Francis was the one who wrote about the Social Justice issues that were about the poor. 
3. Yes the popes should be writing about these issues because that’s how they communicate with each other and it teaches other popes. 

Koru and Kowhaiwhai

The Koru is sometimes used in Maori Art, as a symbol of life and nature. People also use the pattern for carving and tattooing. The Koru symbolizes new life, strength, growth and peace. The Koru is a meaning for that life changes but stays the same, some people also think that the Koru represents harmony. 

The Kowhaiwhai is used to represent the history of Maori. And it's used to present the family tree of like someone's tribe. The Kowhaiwhai patterns paintings are used for meeting houses, storehouses and so much more. They also help to tell a story. 

Learn The Pirate Language

For this term our whole school is focusing on the Pirate Culture. And to do with that our class has been reading a book called "Pirate Treasure." And so for our reading task it has been related to the book, we are doing chapters 1-4 (there are four activites that we had to finish), so for our first reading activity we had to make either a text, audio or a video showing how to speak pirate. This can also be a collaborative task so I did this with a buddy! We decided to create a DLO showing how to speak pirate. 

I enjoyed doing this a learning about how Pirates talk. I found recording it very difficult because there was a lot of distractions and we couldn't really get it done in time, and it didn't really work out very well. 

This is our DLO! 

Cipher Wheels

For this term (term 3) our focus for school is pirates! We have been learning about Cipher Wheels if you don't know what they are they are basically shaped like a tire and has the letters in the alphabet on it execpt for Q and J. Then on the small tire part it has the numbers up to 24, there is also something in the middle to make it spin. Then you'd have to pick a letter and a number for example K and 12 you have to put the wheel on K and 12 then if you want to spell 'hi' then look on the wheel and see, the number on the bottom for example 'H' is under 7 so you write 7 and then the next number! You can use these cipher wheels to figure out codes. The pirates would use these cipher wheels because they didn't want anyone else to know their pirate langauge so it was basically like a secret language for them, they also used it for secret messeges. I wasn't here when they learnt about cipher wheels and made them but I still catched up!

For one of our activites we had to make a cipher wheel but we had to search up our own instructions on how to do it and then we had to make a code. Then we had this activity when we had to hide a crunchy bar for our buddy and then we had to write a code saying where the next clue is for example it's in the playground you would hide the next note there and then more notes if you want or you could just say where it was. My buddy was Kylie we both hid our crunchy bars and made the clues. I hid mine in our school's prayer garden near the black gate and she hide her's on the adventure playground! It was really fun to do but we didn't really have any time. Then we just wrote codes to each other and played around with it.


I really enjoyed doing the crunchy bar activity because it was really fun and finding the clues and getting to eat the chocolate! I didn't really find anything difficult I was just really confused at first. Overall I really like the pirate theme and this was a really fun thing to learn and to do.


Here is my Cipher Wheel!

Freya's Hens

For reading we have been learning about pleiades around the world they are basically myths about the stars from the different countries and how they came up to the sky, there are different stories like Matariki, The Great Bear and more.

Our task was to look at other pleiades and choose a country from the slideshow, and research about it and then make a DLO about it. I choose to do Freya's Hens, there wasn't much information about it so I had to do as much as I can. But next time i'll make sure to do more information!

What I found difficult was researching about it because I couldn't find much information about the star cluster and even with videos. I enjoyed learning about Pleiades and the different myths and stories about it. A lot of them seems very intersting.

This is my DLO!

Jesus' Life

For this week's RE task, we had to do key idea 4 (Which is our RE activity, we've already done key idea 1, 2, and 3). Which was still about the Holy Spirit but it was about Jesus being prepared for his mission by the Holy Spirit. 

We had to watch three videos about Jesus' life after Baptism. The first video was about Jesus getting baptised by John, the second video was about Jesus going into the desert and staying there for forty days without having any food and was tempted by the devil/satan. The last video was about Jesus visting the synagogue and reading the scripture. Then after that we had to create either a timeline, comic strip or a storyboard. There was also a link to all 3 of them. I decided to do a timeline, since it was easier and fun to use. 

I didn't really find anything difficult and I enjoyed doing the task and seeing those different videos about Jesus!

Here is my timeline!

(The information is on the second picture)

News Report - Jesus Gets Baptized By John

For the past weeks we have been learning about Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit. We had to complete two tasks. For the first task we had to watch a video about Gabriel accouncing to Mary that she's going to have a baby then we had to answer these questions of how the Holy Spirit was involved with that. The we had to read/watch differents texts/videos about Jesus's Baptism, and then we had to make a newspaper report about Jesus's Baptism. I used a newspaper generator for my one! I couldn't screenshot the whole thing because it was very hard to read!

What I found difficult was answering some of the questions because I got confused and sometimes even when I re-watched the video there was still no information about the question that I was stuck on! I really enjoyed doing the news report and watching the videos because one of them was really funny!

Here are some questions!

- What have you learnt? 

- Did you already know about this?

- Would you like to do this activity? 

This is my newspaper report!