Last week for Te reo we were learning about New Zealand place names in Maori. We had to make a map of New Zealand and have 5 English names in the north island and 5 Maori names for the North island and the same with the South island. We also had to put an image of a landmark of that city.

Here is my task.

What is your favorite city in New Zealand?

For the past few weeks we have been writing story’s. First we had to plan our story on a template.

Goals:
Plan effectively, where appropriate, using a variety of strategies.
Understand the purposes for writing and how to achieve those purposes.

At first we broke down narrative writing. We had to answer these questions

What is narrative writing?
What makes a narrative different to a another text type?
How do we write a good story?

We then had a author come in and talk to the Kaupeka and Tumu students the books that she wrote are Wise Ole Whiskey and Fledgling’s First Flight the authors name is Dr Janice Belgrave her author was Ella Gordon.

Here is my plan.

Here is my story.

Have you ever wrote a story?

This week for Religious Education we have been learning about Advent this was our task. To get ready for Jesus’ birthday we are going to create digital advent calendars. Each day you are going to do something that is kind and/or helpful to others. You will need to plan out what you will do each day. We have to do everything we put on the Advent calendar starting on December 1st ending on December 24th.

Here is my calendar.

What are you going to do for Advent?

In the past few weeks we have been learning about Saints for all saints and all souls day. I have created the steps of the sainthood time line. These are the steps, Step 1 Request For Canonisation, Step 2 Determination, Step 3 Beatification, Step 4 Canonisation.

Here is my task.

Who is your favorite saint?

In the past few weeks we have been learning about Saints for all saints and all souls day. We watched this video about the story of St Francis. We also explored a site and found out more about St Francis and the impact he had. our create task was to use Google Drawing or Slides to create a timeline of his life.

Here is my task.

Who is your favorite saint?

Kia Ora

We learned about different types of sports live water aerobics and things like that combining other sports with each other. Goal: Use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking. This was the task create a visual presentation or poster to showcase your new Olympic event from the first task. Include a title, a brief description. I am combining every sport with golf.

Here is my task.

what is your favorite spor?

This week for RE we are learning about All Saints and All Souls day. We learned about the canonization of saints we had two tasks the first task was. Select one Saint that the church honors on All Saints Day and research into this Saint. The second task was. Select one of the Catholic practices in the above text or find your own and research further into this practice. Find the belief behind this practice and why they celebrate the way they do. Then the create task was Create an informative poster that uses the information that you have collected in Task 1 and Task 2 to inform people about All Saints Day and All Souls day.

Here is my task

Who is your favourite saint?

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for the past 2 weeks me and my class have been learning about the social impacts in the Olympics. We have to write a script for a podcast that we are going to make. And learning how to record and edit the podcasts. The social impact that I chose was racism. Racism is bad because it discriminates against those of color and that is not fair.

Here is the reflection and the podcast.

What do you like about the Olympics?

This week we have been learning about human rights in sports focusing on the Olympics. Our create task was.

Today in PBL we are going to be exploring and unpacking moments in previous Olympic Games that have involved racism and social inequality.

Choose one of the examples below; Jessie Owens and Tommie Smith & John Carlo (I picked Jesse Owens)

In a group unpack the athlete/s and fill in the following google drawing. Think about why that athlete has been chosen. There are a range of articles, images and videos for you to take.

Here is my task

Have you heard of Jesse Owens?

This week for RE we were learning about confirmation. And how in confirmation you pick a saint to be with for the rest of your life. We now know that confirmation is a sacrament of initiation. And that confirmation is way of receiving the Holy spirit in a special way. This was our create task during Confirmation, we choose a Saint to help guide us. Who is your favourite Saint? If you have been confirmed-who did you choose? Write a fact file about this Saint including why they became a Saint.

Here is my task

Who is your favorite Saint?