Journey Through Holy Week 2021

This Week is very special for Saint Pius X Catholic School because we celebrated Holy Week. Holy Week is about the stations Jesus went through on his way to Calvary. Te Wairua Pakiki 6 and 4 (TWP 6 & 4) got into groups of 4. My group was Aurora, Mele, Arvay and I. We all worked on two stations each I worked o station 7&8. Here is Station 8

My Station is 1. Station 1 is about Palms Sunday how the disciples waved the leaves when Jesus was walking into Jerusalem on the donkey.

Here is my group and I in the station! 

Here is the whole slide of my group and I.

Group Slide

Pablo Picasso Art - Cubism Final Drawing

Last month we began our cubism portraits based on Pablo Picasso's cubism art. In cubism you can ply around with lots of shapes. The facial features like your mouth, nose, eye, ear could be in different shapes and different places. Before completing our final drawings we did two practices (go on my blog to see the two practices, it also has the steps on how to make a Picasso art if you would like to also like to draw a Pablo Picasso Cubism Art Pablo Picasso Attempt #1 Pablo Picasso Attempt #1).

Something I found interesting was making different shapes and putting them on different places because normally that have a specific place where they are. 

I found colouring my my art because it took ages! but I finally I got through it!

For my picture I want to focus on letting go by trying not to keep my drawing perfect.

Here is my final picture!

Moala - Google Drawn Fish

Cybersmart Challenge #7 was about knowing how to use your tool bars. I used the tool bar to use the shapes to create a fish and added a underwater background. I first clicked a button with a square and a circle. I clicked shapes then I chose the shape I wanted for the fish body and carried on making the fish. I added more things to make it look like it is underwater! So Far this is my favourite Cybersmart Challenge. Check it out!

Lent

Yesterday and Today for R.E we were learning about Lent. In New Zealand the season for us in Lent is Autumn and in other countries it is spring. I did two activities about Lent. I created a Y chart and answered questions about Lent. Check out my activity!

Cybersmart Challenge #6 Tidy Drive

 Today for Cybersmart we have done another cybersmart challenge. This challenge number is 6. This Challenge was about cleaning your drive and putting them into the right folders naming your documents. I really liked putting the things in order which is the 2nd slide I liked putting them in order. I didn't really like sorting our John's stuff well I did like it because I had some technical difficulties. Overall I really liked doing this challenge! Maybe you should clean your drive (it took me quite a long time to do mine). Check out my activity.

Moala - The Maori Gods

 Today we have learnt about the Gods that Rāngi and Papa made. 

There are so many gods but here are the ones I have learnt Tūmatauenga, Tāwhirimatea, Tānemahuta, Tangaroa, Haumiatiketike, Rongomātāne, Rehua, Rūaumoko.

Tānemahuta is the son who separated Rāngi and Papa.

Something I found hard was trying to get all the macrons on the letters.

That was really the only things hard about it! 

Read my google slide to know more about the Gods! :)

Wonderopolis - What Is a Concussion?

I have read an article on Wonderopolis. Wonderopolis has two different activities. There is also a article that you can read and know more about what you wanna know. If you do not know the definition of the word. Like gear or unique the word would be highlighted in yellow. You can hover your mouse over it and it will show you the definition. 

I played two activities about the topic. The article I read was about Concussion. Preventing a concussion is by hitting your head on something hard like the floor. Your brain would go deep into your skull. If the soft tissue of your brain makes contact with the hard bony inside of your skull, you will start to lose consciousness. You may start to see stars and feel dizzy. Your brain's impact with your skull can change the way your brain works for a while. A concussion may last for a few hours to several day or weeks.

Here is Wonderopolis.

Prehistoric Life Dinosaurs

Today for Science we were learning about Dinosaurs. The three period of times are Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic.

Cretaceous - Cretaceous is a geological period from about 145 to 66 million years ago.Cretaceous is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era.

Jurassic - Jurassic is a geological and system that spanned 56 million years ago. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of Mesozoic Era.

Triassic - (252-201 Million years ago) The Triassic Period stared after the earth's worst ever extinction. It took place 252 million years ago ad was the most significant events in the history of our planet.

I have made a timeline page about the creatures that lived in the Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic periods.

Check out my Dinosaur Timeline!

The Story of Rahitūtakahina and Tīarakurapakewai P4 - 6

Today my group and I Monique, Kalisi, Puna, Maraia, Krystal, Elijah have done slides about Ki O Rahi and how it began. If you would like to know about the story read my this slide.

Here is a story

Soul Friends

This week St Pius X Catholic School has been doing Soul Friends. Soul Friends was made by The Holy Faith Sisters. We have been doing Soul Friends for about 10 years. My Soul Friends are Ariah and Patricia. Patricia wasn't there but Ariah was. Ariah made me a card it had red glitter on the outside. It looked very nice. Soul Friends was made by The Holy Faith Sisters. Soul Friends is about being a role model to them and looking after them when they are by themselves. 

Here are some photos that we took on the day we had our Soul Friends Mass and when Ariah gave me my card!

International Women's Day Thinking Cards

We did another activity about International Women's Day. The people in this activity is Jane Goodall, Maryam Mirakhian, Gertude Elion, Katherine Johnson.

Jane Goodall is a animal expert and was born on the 3rd April 1934 and passed away on the 24th of February 2020.

Maryam Mirzakhian won a field medal and is good at Maths and Geometry and was born on the 12th May 1977 and passed away on the 14th July 2017.

Gertude Elion helps to treat leukaemia and was born on the 23rd January 1918 and passed away on the 21st February 1999.

Katherine Johnson is also good at maths and was born on the 26st August 1918.

I read a comic strip I also created a Venn diagram about two different women in the comic strip. I chose Jane Goodall and Maryam Mirzakhian. In the middle I wrote something that they have in common. Check out my activity and the Venn diagram!

click on the pictures for a better view.

Soul Friends Mass

 Today Saint Pius X Catholic School had a special mass. We had a mass because we celebrated three occasions. Saint Patricks, Ash Wednesday, Soul Friends. Today we honour St Patricks who is the patron of Ireland People and The Holy Faith Sisters who created this school St Pius X Catholic School. They also brought the Genius Ideas Soul Friends.

Soul Friends is about taking care of your soul friends. Also being a role model to them and taking care of them when they are sad and no one is around them. They communicate with each other and share there worries and joys together. Soul Friends was introduced by The Holy Faith Sisters who started it. Where the older ones look after the younger ones.

We had our Ash Wednesday because on the day we were supposed to have Ash Wednesday we were in lockdown so we couldn't do Ash Wednesday.

St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He lived in the fifth century. He was born in the Roman Britain. He was kidnapped and was brought to Ireland. He was a slave at the age of 16. He escaped, but returned to Ireland and was credited with bringing Christianity to its people.

Statistics

After we did our maths because they were the only ones we did today we moved on to statistics. This activity was pretty easy. I have learnt the key words like mode mean median and data set. Check out my DLO that I made!

Maths Starters and Activity

For maths we started off with our Maths Starters. The Maths Starters looks the same as the other one I did it is very simple. You just have to add the tags o the things like the ruler, pencil and pen. You put your total on the little box next to it! We also had to do word problems. It was a bit hard for me to do because I had to write the sentences down but I just did the equation. Check out my work!

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

This week TWP 4 whanau have been talking about Praying to Holy Spirit. My teacher has put up lots of prayer for us to write down on our google drawings. I have chosen Spirit of Self Control and Spirit of Gentleness. I chose these ones because I should practise more on being gentle to others and change my attitude. Also to control myself. Check out my work!

Maths - Solving Multiplication Problems using Place Value Strategy

 Today for maths we were solving multiplication problems using Place Value Strategy. I have made a screencastify about my learning and how to solve the multiplication problems. It looked pretty hard at first but it was easy when I knew how to solve the problem. If you would like to know how to solve multiplication problems watch my screencastify video and you would know! My goal is to know how to multiply 5 digit numbers and know what prime and composite is!

LINK

Easttle Recount Writing Term 1

Friday 12th March Whanau and Family time

Introduction/Planning

Who - My cousins, aunties, uncles, brothers, mum and I.

What - Prayed then eat, Went to the beach, Saying our last goodbyes, playing charades.

Where - Mission Bay.

When - Sunday, February 8th

Why - Because my cousin was going away to Otago.

On Sunday the 8th of February, my cousins, aunties, uncles, brothers, mum and I all drove to The Mission Bay Beach because my cousin was flying over to Otago. When we drove to the beach my cousins were already there except for some, then came my other cousins. We all sat on a big fala/mat. My uncle stood up and said a few words then he told us to close our eyes and he prayed. After he prayed the children stood up and picked up a plate and put food on our plates. We were all sitting on the mat eating our food. We weren't thinking so we threw our food to the Seagulls and lots of them came. I was a bit frightened.

After I was eating I went with my baby niece and was playing on the sand. My cousins and I all decided to go to the beach area because we were at the grass. We were sitting on a big long rock. When I sat on it, it was very hard. We first were playing charades. My brother liked to play charades, but we all decided to go up one by one and say something to my cousins (Hola). Everyone went up and said something to Hola except for some they were a bit shy. We all huddled up in one space and took a group photo. It was very emotional for her because she was going far away from her family and also her favourite person, her twin (Lupe).

Later on my older cousin told us to come back clean up because we were in Lockdown. We were happy about that because we still wanted to stay until it was dark. But we had to go because we were in Lockdown. We tried to drink every bottle so we could put it into the bin. The adults who were at the bench were talking to Ashley Tonga. She was really funny! We all packed up all our stuff and put the rubbish in the rubbish. I went with my four older cousins, who were girls, and my brother went with my other cousin, who was a boy. The reason why we went with my cousins was because my mum and auntie were already gone because it was too cold for them.

Finally we reached my cousin’s house. We all went to the rooms.  But then we came back out. We all drank drinks except for me because I wasn’t really thirsty. They went outside to see the sunset. I didn’t because I was too cold, but I could already see the sunset out of the window. My mum decided it was time for us to go home so we all hopped in the car and drove off.

Pablo Piccasso Attempt 2

Yesterday, on the 10th of March we did a attempt to try and draw art. This time we've coloured our drawings. First we drew a weird face shape then added eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. Then we grabbed newspaper and placed it on the table. We then got some paper towels so we don't get dirty. Mine first started off good but then when I got to the purple part I used a crayon instead on a pastel. Check out the first attempt for the Pablo Piccasso Cubism art. Here is my 2nd attempt!

Current Events - American Cup Award 2021

American’s Cup Award 2021

In this article The American Cup Award begins in The Kiwi Kids News. The main people are Team NZ and Luna Russa. The key event about this article is about The American Cup and when the race is gonna be. This event took place in Auckland, Waitemata Harbour. This event took place on the 10th of March 2021.

In this article New Zealand and the Italian had a race, New Zealand was beating Luna Rossa by 7 seconds. Both teams secured a win on the opening day to leave the best of 13 races tied at 1-1. But the Italian’s Captain by Jimmy Spithill came back in the last second. So New Zealand and Luna Rossa were both a tie and they are having a rest right now. The next race is gonna be on Friday.

Cybersmart Challenge #5

Hi Everyone today's topic is about the Cybersmart challenge. Today's Cybersmart challenge is about knowing if you know how to upload a picture from your webcam onto a blog.

I had to follow steps those steps told me what to do first like upload the picture of the drawing I did then write down what I have drawn down and write some labels. I have also wrote down steps myself first here is my drawing that I have created! In this picture there are birds, trees, a sun, bushes, and grass. It took a while for me to colour and draw but I got through!

Here are the steps (if you can't see it press on the picture and you would have a better view.

Pablo Piccaso Art - Cubism Drawing #1

 Yesterday, the 9th of March Te Wairua Pakiki 4 (TWP4) did some art that is based on Pablo Piccasso. Pablo Piccasso was born on the 25th October 1881. Pablo Piccasso passed away on the 8 of April 1973. Pablo Piccasso first started drawing at the age of 13. Here are some of the artwork Pablo Piccasso have done!

In cubism you can play around with lots of shapes. The facial features like your eyes, nose, mouth, and ears can be in different shapes and places. Our teacher said "Cubism is that it looks as if the painting dropped and cracked, and was rearranged when put back together." When we looked at pictures we noticed that their were lots of shapes and the parts of it's face were big and small were small also their were lots of different colours. 

After our teacher demonstrated and we saw lots of examples it was our turn to draw.

Steps :

1. In pencil, draw your head, any shape will work. You can use a mirror or draw your from your imagination. 

2. Add your facial features, eyes, nose, mouth, etc. Try to use shapes you noticed in your discussion.

3. Add your hair. What lines can you use to look like your hair?

Here is my first attempt - 

International Women's Day

We Are Learning To 

On the 8th of March it was International Women's Day. In class our class we did an activity to challenge the stereotypes and bias of both male and female roles within our society We first had to get into same gender groups. We then wrote down the positive and the challenges of the opposite gender. 

After getting our idea we then got into groups with the boys and shared our answers. Something we noticed in our lists was that they were very different. In the list Women had more challenges. Like raising and looking after their children and feeding them. Men's also had challenges like being a father. They also get to sleep in while the women's do all the work.

I learnt from this activity that Men and Female aren't equal.

Here is my activity below

Do you have any more stereotypes that you could add to this?

click on the picture if you want a better view

Maths Starters - Stationery Store

For maths Twp 4 first started off with maths starters. The maths starters I did you have to add the price tag. Like the first one Pencil + Ruler you have to look what the price is, the price for pencil is 0.30 and the price for ruler is 0.50. So 0.30 + 0.50 = 0.80 then I put my answer in the little box next to it.

After the Maths Starters I did my Maths Activity it was pretty easy because all I had to do was add and i'm pretty good at adding! Nothing in this Maths Starters or Activity was really hard.

But I am going to be doing Subtraction tomorrow hopefully I do a great job!
Check out my Activity below!

Advanced Multiplicative

 HI everyone, I have learnt a strategy. It was really easy! I have made a screencastify of me explaining how I solved it! This strategy is place value. If you would also like to know how to solve equations using Place Value watch my screen castify if that didn't help then watch the other video!!

Here are the videos: Screen castify Addition and Subtraction Video

Here is my work!

Proper Nouns

Hi Everyone, Today for writing we have been practising our grammar skills. We were focusing on Proper Nouns. Proper nouns are person, a place, a thing or an animal. A proper Noun is more specific about things like a Common Noun is a city and Proper noun is more specific and is Wellington.

The thing that I found easy was saying all the months listing the cities. I really enjoyed doing the word search because it was challenging 

I found trying to pick who are my best friends and  picking two of my family members. I wrote on a paper and put their names on it and pick them and whoever I picked would go on my blog but I couldn't pick out of my best friends so I did both but my family members were just pretty easy.

Check out my Activity's!

Cybersmart Challenge

 Today TWP whanau did a cybersmart challenge! This challenge was bout Bookmarks I first made a copy and started off with writing which one of the students had the most appropriate bookmarks. Then I screenshot ed my bookmarks and explained why I chose these websites as my bookmarks!

It was really easy because it was simple!

Here is my activity!!

 

Maths Starters and Maths Activity

Today for maths we did Place Value Strategy again. 

Example:

268 + 329 =

300 + 200 = 500

60 + 20 = 80

9 + 8 = 17

Add all the totals

500 + 80 + 17 = 597

that is the answer.

300 and 200 are the hundreds from 268 and  329

60 and 20 are the ten from 268 and 329

9 and 8 are the ones from 268 and 329.

Check out my Activity

Common Nouns

 Hi everyone today I did a activity about common nouns. Common nouns are people, places, animals, and everyday items! Check out my work

Here is a video about Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives: LINK

second activity

Great Big Hearing Check 2021

           Great Big Hearing Check

Today during our morning distance learning we found out that this week is the ‘Great Big Hearing Check 2021’ week. Triton hearing is running a fundraising event and awareness campaign.

This March, Triton hearing is checking your hearing for FREE to help raise awareness for hearing loss in New Zealand. If you complete the hearing test they would donate $1 to National Foundation for Deaf and hard of hearing.

The thing that I liked about this test was that I can test my hearing and we could donate money to the National Foundation.

Living World unit 1

Today my class and I have been learning about Trilobites. Trilobites are these little insects that used to live on this earth but it got extinct. They were extinct 252 million years ago! If you would like to know more about The Trilobites check out my work!

Here is a video about Trilobites! LINK 

What is Lent?

Hi Everyone, my class and I have done a google drawing about Lent. Lent is about Turning back to God. Fasting for 40 days. Lent is growing a relationship with God. Check out my work to know more!