My What?, So What?, Now What? Reflection

What?

In my amazing adventure in Genius Hour, I have been through a lot. I have been: Researching, Publishing, Decorating and much more. It was a lot of work but at least I speeded through it.

So What?

With this great idea of Genius Hour, I get to choose what topic I want to learn! It helps us to create interest in individual things. It helped me so much because you don’t need the teacher nagging on and on about what you have to do all the time.

Now What?

I am going to try decorate my work even more so it will look eye catching and so it will look pretty and not plain on boring. Also, I am going to try make sure that everything makes sense and add in some images that is related to the text.

May Road Trip

What?

What I learn’t at the amazing May Road Trip! Was not to be shy and give things ago. Because, what happens if that is the only time you will have an opportunity to do something like that? So thats what I did, I gave things a go and made a lot of new friends. When I say a lot, I MEAN a lot.

So what?

It helped me a lot with being more confident around new people I haven’t met before. Also, since we have been doing warm up games, it gave everyone an opportunity to meet new people. Possibly some old friends that we've met before.

Now what?

Now, I am not going to be shy with other students any more, especially since I have a lot of encouragement from my brand new friends, and obviously my old friends too. Never forget your old ones!

We have been working on Genius Hour projects! For those who have not a clue of what Genius Hour projects are. It is a project that you pick any topic or passion to work on that you are really interested in! So, my Genius Hour project was about “We Wonder How Words and Numbers Work In Different Languages?” It was a lot of work to get that question, but it was worth it.

My Learn To Code Reflection

What:

I have learnt was that there are codes to everything. To begin with, codes help generate games and all sought of things.

So what:

That helped me with was figuring out codes to finish levels, earn trophies. But, most importantly, it taught me how to problem solve! What an amazing tool to use when creating objects, and other things!

Now what:

My goal is to keep trying to get better at coding and never give up because it is quite hard (Actually really hard) to code when you are underestimated.

I Wonder?

Hello there bloggers. Here is a picture of all the I Wonder question I have been wondering about. I have used a website called "Popplet". It is a very good tool when trying to connect ideas or keep questions neat and tidy. Well, this actually will help a lot when you need to right some quick ideas/questions and a click of a button will save all of it. How amazing is that! You can add images, words, and I am sure all other things!

Cyber Smart: My Online Code

This is an amazing presentation I have made. It is about cyber smart and what you should do in some situations. Here are some of the best 4 facts that I have, 1 from each slide:

• Stop, Think, Do
• Represent Hay Park School
• Treat people how you want to be treated
• Give credit for the peoples' work

Hope you enjoy!

How Is Music Made

Here is a presentation I have been working on for the past 2 weeks. My partner was Ana, we worked hard on it and we both hope that you enjoy! It is about music and here is three facts about music;

• Music was a big part of life in middle age times
• Synonym/meaning of Troubadours is French medieval lyric poet
• Music featured heavily in celebrations

Millileters To Liters

This is a presentation I have been working on about for my maths. I have been learning about Millileters and Liters. Hope you learn from it!

Inside The Coral Reef

Here is a presentation that I have made with my friends and it is about Coral Reefs. We have put a lot of effort into it so we all hope that you enjoy!

Descriptive Free Verse Poem

Here is 3 wonderful poems that I have created that describes the pictures above it. The "Creepie Show" Image inspired me to write about dark and misty things and the "Wave" picture put a poem in my head about how it splashes at the shore and what it kind of looks like. Last of all the "Mother and it's kitten

Kina Making Sound Underwater

What are Kina? Well, here are some awesome facts about how sound travels underwater from a Kina. So lets get to it!

Kina use their rasping teeth to scrape on a rock to get all of the algae off. Which makes a loud sound that goes out into the sea. It also creates sound waves when they scrape their teeth.

Scraping their teeth then makes the Kina’s shell vibrate. Which means it moves like a cheetah running 70 mph (110 kmh). So when that happens, the sound would eventually reflect around the sea.

Sound waves is when the sound of the scraping teeth would spread out and create a wave of that sound. Eventually, it would make the Kina then shake (vibrate).

Besides just reflecting, meanwhile it would send out to other sea creatures (small fish). Despite the other small fish, the Kina gets more weak. Because of the energy traveling into a larger space.

Afterall, Kina can be a little annoying at times. Right? Surprisingly, Algae looks quite like seaweed or some mashed up greens! Besides that, as you can easily realise that Kina can get weak when the energy quickly goes into a larger place.

In week 4 of term 3 our class has been focusing on learning how to write great explanations about how sound travels underwater. We have expanded our vocabulary in our inquiry topic ‘The Noisy Reef,’ and learnt about the structure of a great explanation piece. It was quite a challenge, but we really enjoyed watching clips to stimulate our ideas and having discussions about terms which were new to us.  

How to measure a Triangle by using HxB

This is my PixiClip of how to measure a Triangle by using HxB (H=Hieght and B=Base)

Well Known Coral Reefs

Today we learned how to use Google Maps to find and label the most well known reefs around the world.

Movenote: Nga Mihi Introductions

https://www.movenote.com/v/k9SWR_UdJHBHx

This is my visual mihi on Movenote. I hope you enjoy it. I have worked hard on it.  Click on the link above to watch my Movenote.

Xtramath

Wow! 20 in a row! I am getting better and better. I am going to try get myself to, 50 in a row! Its going to be hard. But I can do it!

Xtramaths

Whoops! I got a couple wrong answers. Well, I have to keep on practising! I know I'll get better at maths.

Xtramaths

WOW! I am getting better at Xtramaths everyday. Now I am getting much better scores in my Maths Tests.

Key Competencies Reflection From The Last Two Terms

This is an "Abcya word cloud" that I have made about my key competencies. I wrote three pharagraphs about my Key Competencies. So when I went on Abcya word cloud I copy and pasted all of my work and transformed it into a wonderful art work of words I have used the most.

When I go on other people's blog I can write some positive comments about what they have posted. I can use ICT to gain more information online, for example I can reply on the comments that my friends have made on my blog. So we can have a conversation, about my work and so I can do better.

I can talk about my topic and share my ideas with the group. When the group speaks I listen so I know what their idea is. Also because I don’t want to repeat what the other person had said. Listening to the group helps me learn what they already know and so we can create different things.

I work with my team and learn new things together. Suddenly, I have gained more confidence and now I can share everything I know with my group and they can learn a lot from me. Together me and my team we can create new things because with more people the better the creation.

Mangroves

This is a presentation about our wonderful mangroves. Our class started learning about them because of our experience from our Long Bay trip. So Mrs Kingston (My Teacher) brought in a friend of her. His name is Kinady and he is a famous photographer. So he went on a trip around mangroves and taught the whole class about the land and sea creatures that live with our nga manawa.

The Sensitive Snail

This is a presentation about a story I have read about "The Sensitive Snail". We have been learning about Paua so now when someone asks me a question about Paua my answer would be quick and clear. Hope you enjoy!

Our Fabulous Trip To Long Bay

Tomorrow is my trip to long bay! Yay! I am so excited. I am going to have a great time! What I would really like to see on the sandy beach is cockles and a LOT of different shells. I hope I learn some new creatures.