Krystal - Pablo Piccaso Art - Cubism Final Drawing

Yesterday, the 30th of March Te Wairua Pakiki 4 (TWP4) did some art that is based on Pablo Picasso's cubism art. Cubism is when you can play around with other and lots of shapes. Like your eyes, nose, mouth, ears and many more can be in different places. Your nose could be sideways and your ears can be lower on your face. We also did two practice drawings before doing our final drawing. Something I found interesting about Pablo. Pablo Picasso completed his first painting when he was nine years old. The title of the painting was Le Picador. Something I found interesting was drawing different shapes and in different shapes. For this picture I wanted to focus on having fun and embrace drawing. Here is my final drawing!

Krystal - Journey Through Holy Week 2021

 This week is a very special week for us here at St. Pius X Catholic School. This week is Holy Week. The Holy Week days are Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. These weeks are important to us catholics, because this week where all of the events happened to Jesus. 

Let us walk through his journey, and ask him to help us with our journey in life. 

There are eight events that we recognise leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion. 

Station 1 is Palm Sunday and it’s symbols are leaves and a candle that we put onto the cross. We use these symbols, because when Jesus was entering Jerusalem on a donkey, people started waving palms and singing Hosanna to welcome Jesus. 

Station 2 : WASHING OF THE FEET. Bowl of water and a towel at this station - candle. On Jesus’ way inside of Jerusalem he stopped at a place. Where all of the disciples were. We use these symbols because, Jesus was washing the feet of the disciples. 

Station 3: LAST SUPPER - THE EUCHARIST. The bread and wine with a candle. Jesus invited the disciples to come and eat with him, because it was going to be his last supper. While they were eating Jesus said “Take this and eat of it, for this is my body and blood.” We use the bread and wine because, it is the blood of Jesus. The bread is the body of Jesus. Jesus gave his blood and body (bread and wine) to his disciples for them to remember him. 

Station 4 : Garden of Gethsemane. Few plants - Jesus praying. - candle. Jesus went to his father and prayed. “My Father if it is possible for this cup to be taken away from me, Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Jesus prayed to God three times asking him the same thing. Jesus praying is a symbol because, he always went to God for help. You need to explain why we use these symbols

Station 5:  The Journey to Calvary. Symbol - Crucifix, candle , Crown of thorn. Jesus was walking, He fell three times. On the way he meets His mother Mary was sad and miserable, but Jesus was happy to see that his mother was there. We celebrate this symbol because, The crucifix is the symbol of when Jesus was carrying the cross for our sins. 

Station 6:  The Journey to Calvary - Simon helped Jesus. Symbol - Crucifix, candle. While Jesus was walking along the way of the stations. Jesus met Simon, and Simon offered to help Jesus carry the cross to Veronica. Jesus was carrying the cross with thorns on his head. While his thorns were on Jesus’ head the heavy cross that he was carrying was hitting the thorns. Crucifix is when Jesus was crucified on the cross for our sins. 

Station 7:  The Journey to Calvary - Veronica wiped the face of Jesus. Symbol - cloth, candle. Jesus stopped at Veronica, so that he could say his words to Veronica. When he stopped walking, Veronica wiped his face with a cloth. When he handed it back it imprinted a photo of his face. The cloth is a symbol of Veronica wiping Jesus’ face. 

Station 8 : GOOD FRIDAY - Jesus Dies on the Cross. Symbol:  Crucifix. This symbol is when Jesus’ reached the end of his journey. Jesus carried the cross all the way to the end. He fell three times and still managed to get back up. Jesus’ mother was sorrowful that her son was suffering. 

Krystal - Conjunction Activities 1 & 2

Today I did conjunctions. This is like a noun activity. A conjunction is when you joining words together. To see what kind of connection they have. We have two activity of conjunctions. On my first activity I did Scrambled Words, This and That, Ends and Starts and At The Beginning. On my second activity I did Two in One, Middle or Start and What Goes Together?. Something I found easy for the first activity was Scrambled Words. It was an easy activity because we had to put the words into the right words. It was very easy. For the second activity something I found easy was What Goes Together?. I had to do the opposites but put an arrow to where each opposite goes with the other opposite word. Something I found hard for the first activity was At the Beginning. I had to put sentences together but in the right order. Something I found hard for the second activity was nothing it was easy. Here are my activities below!

Krystal - Adjectives Activities 1 & 2

Today I did adjectives. An adjective is describing things, animals, people and places. We have two activity of adjectives. On my first activity I did Clever Colours, Our Superhero, Pick the Adjectives and A Crazy Path. On my second activity I did Odd One Out, Making Adjectives and Two in One. Something I found easy for the first activity was Our Superhero. It was an easy activity because we had to guess words of what they look like. It was very easy. For the second activity something I found easy was  Two in One. We had to find 14 adjectives in this word find. Then put it in a template. We had to find the opposites of each words. Something I found hard for the first activity was nothing it was quite easy. Something I found hard for the second activity was Making Adjectives. We had a template with scrambled up words. We had to find adjectives by using those letters. Here are my activities below!

Krystal - Wonderopolis Template Activity

Yesterday the 29th of March 2021 we went onto Wonderopolis and read a story. I read about rodeos. Rodeos are like a competitive game. It includes bulls. I learned that women were the first ones to compete and play rodeo. Then they were pushed out of many events. The PRCA only allowed women to compete in barrel riding at its rodeos. It was also first played in 1869. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Google Drawing Fish

Today I did another activity on Cybersmart. Manaikalani has challenged my class and other schools to do these types of challenges. This is the 7th Cybersmart Challenge that I have done. This challenge is called "Google Drawing Fish". This is about making fishes on a google drawing.  I made a red fish, pink fish, green fish and a orange fish. With different other shapes. Here is my activity!

A Time of Renewal & Check up activity

 Today for Religious Education (RE), we did an activity on Lent. We did a Y chart, questions, the meaning of Lent and a check up activity. This is because we are in Lent right now, and we are discussing what Lent means. Lent to me means, praising God more, praying to God more and letting him help me through this journey. Here are my activity's! 

Krystal - Tidy Drive

 Today we did another Cybersmart Challenge. This is the 6th challenge that we have done. This challenge is called "Tidy Drive". This is about when there are documents under your folders. There were some documents under my folders, but I put it in the right folder. This is teaching you to put your document in your folders. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Wonderopolis Devil's Kettle

 Today we went onto Wonderopolis and did an activity. I read about the Devil's Kettle. The Devil's Kettle is about how there is a waterfall, but no one knows where it lead/goes to. Scientist's have tried everything. They have tried to throw down ping pong balls, sticks. They have also tried to throw down a GPS device, but it always loses track of where it is. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Prehistoric Life

Today for Science, we did a history on the prehistoric life for dinosaurs. The three period of time are Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic. Cretaceous is a period from 65 million years ago to 144 million years ago. Jurassic is a period of time from 144 million years ago to 208 million years ago. Triassic is a period of time from 208 million years ago to 248 million years ago. We looked at a time line of when creatures were here before dinosaurs. Birds, small reptiles and mammals were alive 65 million years ago to 144 million years ago. Which was a VERY long time ago. Dinosaurs were here 144 million years ago to 208 million years ago. Triassic reptiles, amphibians and ammonites were here 208 million years ago and disappeared 248 million years ago. Here is my activity. 

Krystal - Gender Ground Rules

 Today since International Women's Day, wasn't too far long ago. Our class Te Wairua Pakiki 4 (TWP4), did an activity on Gender Ground Rules. We read a comic, in this comic there was a girl that believed that boys are better at maths and science, where as girls are better at writing and reading. I don't believe that because, we are equal we should all be great at something. Like teach if a man is teaching one class and a women is teaching another class, the man will earn more amount of money by doing the same job. This comic is just telling us about girls and why they should be treated the same. I did a Venn Diagram On Katherine Johnson and Maryam Mirzakhani. I did their differences and what they have in common. I also made a poster about encouraging girls to stand up, and to not be afraid. Here is the comic. Here are my activity's! 

Krystal - The Story of Rahitūtakahina and Tīarakurapakewai

 Today we read a story of how Ki O Rahi was made. We were in a group of seven including me. In my group there were Monique, Maraia, Moala, Kalisi, Elijah, Puna and myself. We were each given paragraphs to read and reword it, but put it into our own words. Maraia had to do first to the third paragraph, Moala does fourth to sixth, Kalisi does seven to nine, Monique does ten to fourteen, Elijah did 15 - 17, I did 18 - 20, lastly Puna did the last paragraph. We made a slide. This story is about how Rahitūtakahina (Rahi) made Ki O Rahi. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Soul Friends

 This week is about Soul Friends. Soul Friends are like people who are they when they are in need. Like in school, when your soul friend is crying you can ask what happened and try to make them happy. Soul Friends in our school have been going on for around 10 years. My soul friends are Athena and Ava. One thing I know about Athena is that she is Samoan. One thing I know about Ava is she likes to eat McDonald's. Our school had a soul friends shared lunch after mass. My soul friend Athena made this for me.

Krystal - DLO Ash Wednesday, St Patrick's & Soul Friends

Today for Saint Pius X School (SPX) mass. We celebrated St Patrick's, Ash Wednesday and Soul Friends in the church. Because this is the fourth week of lent we honour St Patrick's, Soul Friends and Ash Wednesday. The Holy Faith Sisters are the ones that started our school, over more than sixty years ago from Ireland. They made up this beautiful idea to make up something called "Soul Friends". Soul Friends are like people who are they when they are in need. We Te Wairua Pakiki 4 (TWP4) are partnered up with Takiritia 1. My soul friends are Ava and Athena. St Patrick is a patron saint, because of the Irish people and The Holy Faith Sisters. Here is my activity! 

Krystal - Maths Statistics

 Today during Math, we did statistics. We had to create a DLO with keywords and photos relevant to statistics. We watched a video explaining the words, mean, median, range, mode and data set. These words are related to statistics. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Today we did Religious Education (RE). We explained some of the prayers and asked God to forgive us. We explained what the situation was and what we did. I chose these prayers because goodness I haven't been thinking about how other people feel. Kindness I've ignored people when they needed my help. Lastly gentleness I haven't been kind with my words towards people. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Number of the Day & Multiplication Problems

 Today on the 15th of March. My class and I did multiplication problems and number of the day for Maths. I had to solve an multiplication problem by using place value. Number of the Day is a Maths site. You can do any number of digits you want, but there are questions like what is 55 more than 35123. Today our teacher made us do five digits. Which was quite hard. Here are some question of the multiplication problems. Try and figure it out. 17 x 73, 98 x 26, 56 x 6 and 82 x 8. Comment down below when you figure out the answers. Here is a link to the video I learnt from. My goal is to find out what prime and composite means. Here are my activities!

Krystal - A Sweet Business

 Today in class I finished off my "A Sweet Business" obviously if you guys have kept up with my posts then you know what it is. A Sweet Business is a story about kids at Te Aro School trying to build a beehive in their garden. They are trying to make school build beehives in their gardens as well. I had to picture Harland Sanders, Nick Vujicic and Thomas Edison. Harland Sanders is the man on the KFC building. Nick Vujicic is a motivational speaker. Thomas Edison was an inventor. Here is my activity below!

Krystal - Collective Nouns

Today I did nouns. This time I did collective nouns. A collective noun is like a group of things, groups of animals or groups of people. Something I found easy for the first activity was the Scrambled Names. For the second activity some I found easy was the Snail Trail. Something I found hard for the first activity was the activity Collections. Something I found hard for the second activity was the What Veggies? Here is my activity below!

Krystal - Cybersmart Chromebook Webcam

Today I did another Cybersmart Challenge. Manaiakalani challenged us to do challenges, this is the 5th Cybersmart Challenge. This is about Chromebook Webcam. I took a lot of screenshots and a lot of work doing this. Here is my activity below!

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Krystal - America's Cup

Today in class, we wrote about the America's Cup. We read about this article on Kiwi Kids News. The America's Cup race was yesterday. The teams were Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa (Italy). We made a google drawing and wrote what happened yesterday. They both tied 1-1 Team New Zealand won the first round and Luna Rossa won the second round. Here is my activity below!

The America’s Cup

In this article America’s Cup begins on Kiwi Kids News. We also watched a video. The main people or group are Team New Zealand, Luna Rossa ,Italy, Team Italian Captain Jimmy Spithill. The key event from this article is The Team New Zealand versus Team Luna Rossa. They were racing for the America’s Cup. This event took place at The Waitemata Harbour. This event took place on Wednesday March 10th 2021. A quote from the main person in this article is "It's not over. It's a long way from over". Jimmy Spithill said. I describe what happened in this news article are in the first 31 seconds, Team New Zealand started off with a good start. Team Luna Rossa caught up with Team New Zealand. They won by 7 seconds. Both of the teams are tied 1-1. This event took place at the New Zealand, Auckland Waitēmata Harbour. Waitēmata Harbour is in the North Island. It opens into Hauraki Gulf (east) through Stanley Bay. What might happen in the future I think that they will both be good teams and they both do have a good chance at winning so far. This event happens every four years. This event is about sailing and winning but also having fun. There are 13 races all together in this competition. They win a trophy at the end of all 13 races if they win against all the other teams. This year my class and I are rooting for Team New Zealand.

Krystal - A Sweet Business

 Today in Reading while we are on Level 3 lockdown we did another part of A Sweet Business. As you guys already know A Sweet Business is a story about kids trying to make beehives in their school garden. They are also trying to aware schools to build their own beehives in their gardens. My activity is about failure and not giving up. Here are my activity!

Krystal - Proper Nouns

 Today my class and I have been practising grammar skills. Yesterday we did common nouns, but today we did proper nouns. Proper Nouns are the names if the actual person, months, movies, books, days or places. A proper noun is like putting capitals where it's supposed to be. Like a town called Wellington. Basically the important place and things. Something I found easy was the word search and the naming 3 of my best friends. Something I found hard was looking up places for the holiday of visiting New Zealand. Here are my activities!

Krystal - Bookmarks

Today at home we did Cybersmart. This challenge is about Bookmarks. Bookmarks are important because you can easily click on it. My bookmarks are school related. Like Drive, blogger, Gmail and all the other school related stuff. Something I found easy was screenshotting my bookmarks. Something I found hard was nothing. It was all easy. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Common Nouns

 Today during our Distance Learning Meeting. We are practising our grammar skills. We did common nouns.  A common noun is a word that can name stuff like people, places, a thong and a animal. I did two sets of activities. They are both Common Nouns. Something I found easy was colouring in the words. Something I found hard was the puzzle that I had to do. Here are my activities! 

Krystal - Addition and Subtraction Strategy

 This morning in Maths I solved a problem using Addition and Subtraction. Once I finished doing the questions I had to Screencastify. If you want to learn how I did it, watch the video below! After you watch the video let me know in the comments of you understood the strategy.

Krystal - Great Big Hearing Check 2021

 Today during our distance learning meeting we did a “Great Big Hearing Check 2021”. This week is about the Great Big Hearing Check. Triton Hearing is trying help to help out people who don’t have hearing. They are running a foundation and awareness to people.

This March, check your hearing for FREE to help raise awareness for hearing loss in New Zealand and we’ll donate $1 to National Foundation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Something that I liked about this was that they were spreading awareness about Deaf and Hard hearing people.

Krystal - Rounding & Compensating

This morning I finally finished my Maths work. In Maths I solved a problem a using Rounding & Compensating. I used Screencastify to explain how I did it. Check down below to learn how to do Rounding & Compensating.

Krystal - A Sweet Business Part 2

Today we did another activity about A Sweet Business. We did the questions as well as an explanation of what the story is about. This is my second activity. I read a story about kids from Te Aro School trying to build a beehive in their garden, and learn new things at the same time. I thought this story was a cool and fun story. If you want to learn more about this story click this link . Here is my activity below!

Krystal - What is a Trilobite?

 Today in Science my class did a little bit about Trilobites. If you don't know what a Trilobite is here is one fact I know about them. Fossils show that Trilobites were the most common animal in the sea about 450 million years ago. This link is where I learned facts about Trilobites.  Here are more facts below.

Krystal - Lent Graffiti Page

 Today in our class meeting. We are talking about Lent. We talked about what Lent means, what are the key aspects during Lent, what are the three actions we are asked to do during Lent and a message from Pope Francis. I did a little graffiti page about Lent. Lent Facts. Here is my activity below!