Cultural/Language Barriers

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This morning at Extension, Miss West gave us each papers with a poem by a famous Maori poet called Hinewirangi. The poem was titled, "Barriers". Kiarah and Kalani read the poem out loud, (there were two different people in the poem).

The poem was about somebody talking with Hinewirangi, trying to pronounce her Maori name but failing to do so. Then we had to answer the questions next to the poem about it. The main topic about the poem was about the cultural/language barriers. At the bottom, we were given a choice to either make a poster visualising the idea of the poem or something else but I forgot.

Anyways, Nadia and I wanted to do a poster. Here it is:

Y7&8 Extension Provocation: Watch this Space

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The following presentation is our first piece of Extension work for the term! Since our inquiry theme is, "Watch This Space" we'll be focusing a lot on our solar system. Miss West gave us a scenario shown on the first page of the slide deck. This project was really fun, I really enjoyed it!

The last page is a brainstorm of all the different projects we wanted to do/work on. Nadia and I wanted to make up/discover some theories about Mars, the Earth and what would happen to Earth if we moved to Mars? Potentially even theories about other galaxies and planets in other solar systems, (since our galaxy isn't the only one in the universe!).

Note: The colours on our names is the colour we write in on the different slides. My colour is mint/light green.

Earth Facts Animation

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Previously I blogged a "Earth Activity" task and for the create part, I decided to animate a presentation to state some facts BUT, I needed a character to say it to make things a little bit more interesting and I chose none other than... Richie Tozier from the movie IT! So, I placed his face onto a little rocket and made some speech bubbles with some facts about the Earth on it.

All you have to do is put the presentation into full screen, (for more affect) and then a bit slowly go to the next page because you'll want to be able to read the facts. But of course, not too slowly or else it'll end up looking weird.

Enjoy! :)

Watch This Space W1

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This is my inquiry task about our planet Earth. We watched the video on the presentation as a class and we had to do this task back at our own tables. It was quite fun and the video was very intriguing.

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1.1 Kei te pehea koe?

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This is my Te Reo rotations task we did today. It's about saying "How are you" in Te Reo. I hope you learn something new.

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Earth Activity

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Today's literacy task is about the Earth and a few honourable mentions of Mars. I hope you enjoy and I'm pretty sure this task was meant to be for the whole week, but I finished it so.. oop-

Anyways, I hope you learn something new!

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Watch This Space Term 2 Immersion Assembly

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Today is the first day back at school and we have officially started Term 2. The theme for this term is "Watch This Space"! We'll be learning all about the solar system, galaxy and universe! This blog post is a recap of the assembly we had this morning.

The assembly started off with Mr Burt explaining to us how we're children of the navigators. Mr Jacobson then showed and brought a sixton. He explained the way it works to us, it was quite fascinating. After that, Mrs Nua performed an amazing little play/skit of how she was dropped off in the middle of nowhere and didn't know how to get back home.

She didn't know how to read a map either which added to the comedy of the act. Then Mr Somerville told us how GPS works and he also showed us images of his watch that can actually tell him where he was! It looked super cool and it comes in handy.

Now for the moment we've been waiting for... Team 1, 2, 3, 4 and, 5's acts! This time, every team except Team 4 did a play. I'll tell you about my two personal favourites out of the 5 different teams. I enjoyed watching the short film that Team 4 made. It was a little remake of 'The Guardians of The Galaxy" except a different plot if I'm correct. I wouldn't know though, I haven't watched that movie before.

My next favourite was Term 5's act, aka, my team! Now, I didn't choose it as a favourite because it's my team, but because it was actually quite amusing. The Team 5 teachers put on a "The Magic School Bus" play. Yes, I'm talking about the book series for little kids where there's a teacher that makes the kids go into crazy places in her magic school bus.

Mr Moran played as the teacher, and the rest were kids. But the "kids" were from different planets, if I heard correctly. Which is weird for some "kids" but hey, there is a magic school bus that has a face and can transform into different vehicles, I'm not surprised that the kids are from different planets. However, I was disappointed when there was no Magic School Bus. They teleported to their destinations instead.

The teachers one by one, explained a few facts about the planet they were from.

Mrs Nua's act:

Team 4's act:

So that's it for this recap of the immersion assembly!

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