Krystal - I am a New Zealand Native Tree

Today we (TWP) were doing the 100 words challenge. We had to write about a plant that we choose in our group, we had to write 100 words. We also had to try and make you guys try to guess what our plant is. Monique and I wrote about a plant. We had to give hints and other stuff. Here are my activities!

Krystal, Monique and Vince - Rātā Tree

Today in TWP (Te Wairua Pakiki), we are learning about New Zealand native trees. This is important because, the trees are the tagata whenua which connects to Tāne Mahuta. In this activity we had to match ourselves up with another person. It was the year 5's together with the year 8's, then the year 6's and 7's together. We were put into 18 groups of three or two, it was Monique, Vince and I. We had to discuss what our group name was going to be. We decided to learn more about the rātā tree. We had to look up on google of what the Rātā leaves look like, the rātā flowers look like, the fruit/seeds look like and what the bark looks like. Here is our activity below!

Krystal - Whats Plants? & Leaves

Today we (TWP Whanau) had to figure out some names of the leaves that are from a tree. We had to find a partner in our whanau group to work with. I chose Maraia. In the first activity we had to figure the names of the plant. We had to find out the native trees here in New Zealand. We had to search up most of the plants to see if it was right. In the second activity we had to figure the names of the trees by looking at the type of bark on the tree. One photo of the trees were blurry. After we did that in our paper we had to do it all on our Chromebook. Here are our activities!

    

Krystal - Exploring Blogs

Today in Cybersmart I had to explore blogs. This is Cybersmart Challenge number 10. We had to use one of our classmates/anyone from our school to do this challenge. I used Moala as another person. I had to ask her some questions about what she likes, what her favourite movie is and many more. Here is my activity! Check out Moala's blog

Krystal - Ko Wai Au?

Today I have done another Cybersmart challenge. I haven't done one in a long time. This is the eleventh Cybersmart challenge. In this one I had to introduce myself. Not my personal information, just what I like what school I go to and other stuff. Here is my activity below!

 

Krystal - Group Evaluation

Today I filled out something that related to my group and how we worked together. I had to rate how well we worked together and what we could improve. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Plants in Different Environment

WALT: Research plants/trees in our environment and then create a diorama.

During the week our whanau groups had to make a diorama of plants. We had to pick what environment we should do based on our Tahuna Torea trip. My group choose the bush environment. We had to make many trees such as, the harakeke (flax) bush kind of thing and then we made some trees. Yesterday Friday the 21st of May, we all presented our diorama's. Here is my groups diorama!

Krystal - St. Mary's Pentecost Graffiti Page

WALT: Recall the story of the first Pentecost in the life of the church.

Since this Sunday is Pentecost, in our whanau groups we did a graffiti page about Pentecost. A graffiti page is just the main things that happened on something. Here is St. Mary's graffiti page!

Krystal - Body Parts Mobile

This week we've had Life Education come in. In Life Education we learned stuff about our body parts and what happens. We learned some important facts about our heart, lungs, brain, small intestines, large intestines and our stomach. One thing that I learned about our stomach is that our stomach is on the left side of our upper abdomen. We had to make a mobile. A mobile is kind of like the toy that hangs up on top of a baby's cot. We had to write three or two facts that we know about each of our important body parts. Here is my mobile and my facts!

Krystal - Ngā kare ā-roto me ngā āhau - Feelings and States Māori

WALT: Express how we're feeling in Te Reo Māori.

Today in class, we were learning some Māori feelings. We had to choose five people to say what they are feeling. I choose Melenaite, Ana, Moala, Mele and Maraia. I asked them how they were feeling. This is what they said. I couldn't link my screencastify but here is my work below! 

 

Krystal - Tahuna Tōrea Mind Flow

WALT: Allow our inner response to flow and be captured in words form.

Today in TWP 4 (Te Wairua Pakiki 4), we did an activity on Tahuna Tōrea. We had kind of a flashback of what we did. We had to close our eyes and imagine what we did when we were at Tahuna Tōrea. We had to remember what was a moment of awe that we liked. We had to write down a moment of when we were wondering about something. We had to put down a moment that stood out to us. Lastly we had to write down our favourite learning moment. Here is my activity!

 

Krystal - Matching column a and column b & Jesus' Ascension

Today in RE, we were doing some work on Jesus' Ascension. We had an activity to match columns. There were sentences that we had to match in column a and put it together with the column b. We also had to create a storyboard of the main things that we had in the columns. Here is my activity! 

Krystal 17th May 2021 Term 2 RE

Matching column a with column b/ Jesus’ Ascension

• Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, 50 days before Ascension day.
• On Thursday of the week that followed Palm Sunday, Jesus had his last meal with his apostles.
• The day after his last supper Jesus was put to death on a cross on Calvary Hill.
• Jesus lay in a tomb for 3 days and then God raised him up.
• After his resurrection Jesus showed himself to his friends and some of them did not recognise him.
• He spent time with his apostles and told them he was going to return to his Father.
• 50 days after Palm Sunday Jesus was taken by God to share his glory in heaven.
• Because Jesus entered heaven in glory he made it possible for his followers to do the same. 

Krystal - DLO About Jesus' Ascension

Today we Te Wairua Pakiki, did some Religious Education (RE). In our group we discussed what happened on the Ascension Day. We also had a reflection of what Jesus told us to do. We also did a prayer. Here is my activity!

 

Maraia, Achilles & Krystal - Jesus' Ascension

WALT: Recognise that Jesus promised to prepare a place for people in Heaven.

Today in Religious Education (RE), we were doing some work on the Ascension Day. The year 5 and 6's had a separate activity to the year 7 and 8's. In this activity we had to make a google drawing and write about some things that happened at Ascension Day. Here is Maraia's, Achilles' and my activity!

Krystal - Little Legends Try It Out

Yesterday on the 11th of May 2021. We had some visitors from Auckland Rugby League (ARL) come in and do some teasers. We did some passing and some other stuff. David and Ali are the two men that came in. We all had to be in 5 groups of 5. We and to pick up a ball and score it on the line with two hands on the ball, then run back and give the ball to the next person. This was like a relay race. Team three won this relay race. Ali said we had to be like a superhero. The superhero we had to be like was the Flash and Captain America. Then we played a game kind of like a mix in between Stuck in the Middle and Dodge ball. With this game there are taggers with the ball and they have to tag you with two hands on the ball. If they don't touch you with both of their hands on the ball then that doesn't count. In the first round their was one tagger then later on it becomes more harder with more taggers. Then last one standing is the winner. The taggers can come inside of the circle. Later on we had more relay races. After we were done David and Ali gave us all certificates. We talked about how we can be apart of rugby league clubs. Then we went back to our class.

Krystal - Tahuna Torea

Today in Te Wairua Pakiki (TWP), we went to Tahuna Torea with Glen Innes Primary (Year 7's & 8's). We both took buses to the place. When we arrived there , we met a lot of teachers and other people. We met Dr. Jannie and Dr Theirry. We were split into 6 groups with Glen Innes. There was Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E and Group F. I was in Group C with Glen Innes' Group C. We went with Ms. Nees-Kairua and Dr Thierry. We went to the sand dunes. Then after 20 minutes we went to the mangroves with Hevaha and Dr. Jannie. Lastly we went to the bush with Mrs. Tui. If you want to know what we did in these places, read below!

 

Krystal - Graffiti Page about St Mary

 Today in Te Wairua Pakiki (TWP), we were separated into groups. In my group there was David, Achilles, Esau, Leitupo, Elijah, Amihuti, Mrs. Palu and Maraia. We had to figure out a name of a saint for our whanau. Our whanau name is St Mary. We did a little graffiti page about St Mary. Graffiti means to put keywords or anything related to that thing/person. Here is my groups graffiti page! 

Krystal - Trees Talk To Each Other

Today I read an aticle about how "Trees Talk To Each Other" Suzanne Simard was interviewed and was asked how trees talk to each other. Suzanne says "Trees talk through to each other in many ways" Suzanne grew up in Canadian forests as a descendant of loggers before becoming a forestry ecologist. I also did a glossary. A glossary are words you don't know the meaning to. If you know what else I did read below! 

Trees Talk To Each Other Friday 7th May 

What is this article about? 

Trees are “social creatures that communicate with each other in many ways. Suzanne Simard says. Suzanne grew up in many Canadian forests. Trees are linked to nearby trees, by an underground network of fungi. Suzanne watched as a Douglas fir that had been hurt by insects. The ponderosa pine tree produced enzymes to protect the pine tree from the insects. "This was a breakthrough," Suzanne says. The trees were sharing "information that actually is important to the health of the whole forest." Suzanne says the trees know when the to share nutrients at hard times to keep each other healthy. Trees in the forest are usually linked through each other by a “mother” or a “hub”. While Suzanne was studying about the trees later on she found out she had breast cancer. 

Glossary: 

Enzymes - Enzymes are substances that produce, by a living organism which acts as a catalyst. 

Ecology - Ecology is the meaning of the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surround. 

Facilitate - Facilitate means is when you make a move or an action. 

 Fungi - A group of spore-producing organisms.

Krystal - Amazing Plants

Today I watched a video of what plants are. I found out that light energy is used to transform into carbon dioxide, and water into chemical energy. After I watched the video I wrote down some words I didn't know like a glossary. Then I had to find out the meaning of it. There were four words I didn't know the meaning to. Here is my activity! 

Krystal Amazing Plants Inquiry Term 2 

What is a plant? 

Photosynthesis - Photosynthesis is the process of which the green plants and some other organisms use sunlight. Plants can turn and grow towards the light if the spot they are in is dark. 

Germanize - To germinate or grow. 

Meristems - Plants have a localized growth called meristems also known as the bud. These are territories of cell division and plant growth. The buds are the the stem of a plant. If you cut it in the right place it will grow many more leaves. 

Light Energy - Light Energy is used to transform into carbon dioxide, and water into chemical energy.

Sugars - The sugars are used for the plants to grow, to fight insects pests or drought stress. Extra sugars can be put in the storage organs for later use of the plants.

Krystal - Mothers Day Mass

Today we had a very special mass for Mothers Day. Some of our mothers came to the mass to celebrate with us. In class today and the rest of the week, we made some Mothers Day cards for the special women in our lives. Mrs. Palu used the glider to cut the paper into strips. We folded the paper that we found in the cupboard. We had five different colours of the strips. I took white and dark red. We rolled/quilled the paper up by using the tip of a pencil. I quilled about eight or seven white and dark red paper. First we had to lightly draw the heart. Secondly I used PVA glue to sick it on the front of the paper. Next we took the strips of paper, then put the glue on the side of the paper for it to stick to the quilled paper, and on the bottom to make it stick. After we were done we wrote some things of what we appreciate about our mum/nan/aunty/cousin/sister. In my card I wrote I appreciate my mum, because she makes the best carrot cake. I don’t even like carrots but I love her cake. I know my mum loves me, because she only takes me to McDonald’s when I am down. I love my mum  for caring about me when I am down. She also makes funny faces. Here is my card!

Krystal - The Māori Alphabet

Today we did some more of Māori. We remembered the letters of the Māori alphabet. We had to colour in the letters that were in the Māori alphabet. We also did a game called Memrise. It has many languages you can do. We did the Māori language. There were a lot of words that I learnt from that game, like Tuakana means a older sibling of the same gender. If you want to know more of what I did, read below!

 

Krystal - Te Reo Māori

Today Te Wairua Pakiki 4 (TWP4) did some Te Reo Māori. We jogged our memories of some words. We also learnt a song of the Māori alphabet. The Māori alphabet (arapū) is made up of eight consonants, five vowels and two digraghs. The two digraphs are ng and wh. Orokati is the meaning of consonants, and Oropūare is the meaning of the vowels (a,e,i,o,u). The macron on top of the letters is pronounced dragged. If you want to know more about the Māori alphabet here is my activity! Here is the song (waiata) that we learnt!