Kiwi Kids News Read Off! = Facemasks Adding To Plastic Waste

 WALT: Locate and summarise ideas within a range of texts

Kiwi Kids News Read Off! = Royal Dog Passes Away

 WALT: locate and summarise ideas within a range of texts

Writing - Poetry (Cinquain Poems)

 WALT: to express ideas in poetry form

Task Description: for this weeks writing task we took a long at Cinquain poems again! I wrote two poems about 2021 and Painting. 

Piet Mondrian - Abstract Artist

WALT: identify the author’s purpose 

 TASK DESCRIPTION: for this weeks reading task we had to complete this short presentation and then worked on our create task.

Artist's Study: Alberto Giacometti

 

TASK DESCRIPTION: This term is all about learning art  in room 2 with Miss Tapuke we learnt about Alberto Giacometti and his artoworks.

Plastic Pollution

 Did you know that plastic can take up to 1,000 years to decompose? Plastic is great! It’s used for everything, it’s very useful as it is really durable but because of how durable it is, it’s really horrible for both our environment and animals. Plastic pollution has been a huge problem for a very long while. It’s an abundance of unwanted plastics here on earth. 

The four r’s, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose. Reducing the use of plastic can be a huge help to plastic pollution. Why should we reduce the use of plastic? It’s really important because plastic production requires an enormous amount of energy and resources. This causes carbon emissions and contributes to global warming. What are some ways we can reduce the use of plastic? Well firstly, we can start by avoiding single-use plastics like straws, plastic shopping bags, water bottles, etc. 

Reuse, Why should we reuse plastic? By reusing plastic instead of manufacturing the same grade of material every time, we are effectively reducing the footprint of the plastic on dump sites across the globe. How can we reuse plastic? Reusing plastic isn’t that hard. We can reuse the plastic by using it the way it was manufactured to but we can also repurpose it. 

Recycle, Why should we recycle? Recycling takes about 88% less energy than making plastic, it also helps with reducing fossil fuel consumption. Not only does plastic take ages to break down it also makes up a huge amount of our solid waste, and because of how long it takes for the plastic to break down when we dump plastics into landfills, it doesn’t break down easily. Thus causing it to clog up valuable landfill space. 

Lastly, Repurpose, like mentioned in reduce we can repurpose the use of plastic. Not only is it easy it also saves us money. Plus, properly recycling these plastics benefits the environment by reducing the need for more landfills. We also conserve a lot of energy by repurposing/recycling plastic.

Plastic Pollution

 WALT: summarise key information in a text

Plastic Pollution -Create Task

 WALT: summarise key information in text

TASK DESCRIPTION: for this weeks literacy task we had to complete a presentation, once that had finished we had a create task to complete.

Te Reo Maori Lesson 8 Create Task

 

Writing - For Specific Purpose (NZ Sign Language)

 WALT: write an explanation.

TASK DESCRIPTION: today we explained what NZSL is. As our tests are coming up next term this was kind of like a practice for our writing test. 

Hinewehi mohi's story

Hinewehi mohi’s father came from an era where if caught talking Maori they would be smacked, and so this led to many not knowing their language. His parents as well thought that it would be better for him to learn english as the rest of the world. At age 36 her father decided to do something about the language and so he taught himself and then taught his daughter, Hinewehi was also keen on learning more about the language and so she did.

Learning the language came to a point where it became important to learn Maori at school. Hinewhehi mohi went to St Joseph's Māori Girls' School in Napier and went onto the University of Waikato where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Māori in 1985.

Her first album being Oceania, it was released in 1999. While promoting her first album in London, she was asked to sing the New Zealand national anthem at a rugby game in Twickenham. 

Although singing the New Zealand anthem in Maori had been done multiple times, it had never been done at the nationals and so when Hinewehi sang it in Te Reo everyone was shocked. Singing it in this version was very controversial; she decided to go forward with singing it in Maori.

Rata and the Totara Tree

 WALT: make connections across a range of texts

Rata and the Totara Tree (Story Boarding)

WALT: Make connections across a range of texts

TASK DESCRIPTION: For this weeks literacy (reading) presentation, we had slides to complete and this is one of the slides! (story boarding) Enjoy!~

 

A Moon Myth - Rona and the moon

 WALT: make connections across a range of texts

TASK DESCRIPTION: for this weeks reading presentation we got given three tasks to do. We also had a video, audio, and a text to read. We took a look at the Moon Myth - Rona and the moon. 

Te Ika A Maui

WALT: make connections across a range of texts