-Kahungunu-

 Today we were reading the story of Kahungunu we wrote before we travelled away to Mahia for camp on a screencastify.

ANZAC Day

Anzac day is a day of remembrance for the soldiers that fought in World War 2 with allied soldiers and against the German Nazi’s. Every year for Anzac day there would be two parades being based in each city during the Dawn Parade there will be a speaker who will speak on behalf of the soldiers. And later in the day there is the Civic parade where they will let 3 shots out of a canon. Most families on this day will go out to their family members who lost their lives in war or died following the war and will lay a poppy on the grave site. In most cemeteries there is a section where soldiers are buried.  The symbol for ANZAC soldiers is a poppy. The reason it is a poppy is because there was a poppy field where the soldiers were based at one point and lots of soldiers passed there. And this is the saying said at the service: They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. 

The place that alot more soldiers passed away was ANZAC Cove in Turkey and whilst they were there alot of soldiers were waiting for the ANZAC soldiers there and started shooting them when their boats reached the sand. The cause of this incident was miscommunication and travelling to the wrong spot. The soldiers were originally meant to arrive on the other side of the island to fire at the Turks but it changed to the Turks shooting them. 

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Today for our Power play we had to write what we know about Anzac Day. All the information I included in this piece is information I was given from my Mother since my Fathers Dad fought in World War 2. 

A: Australian

N: New

Z: Zealand

A: Army

C: Corps

Profile Animation

 Profile Animating                (Click the arrows)                                                                    

In todays session and last weeks session of Manaiakalani we have been learning how to animate profiles to use on our blogs once we have finished.  Also in the session we were learning what information we should keep private and what we can share online. One thing I found mainly surprising was not to share your address on social media, not because I do but because I thought it would be common knowledge not to share those things. I haven't learnt anything new in the past two sessions because I have done these things before but I have acted upon  my feedback and feel like I made a better version than last time. And I want people to think of me as a creative person. 

Longest word in Maori...

15.6.20

Today for Te reo Maori I learnt how to enunciate some maori words. I also learnt the longest word in Maori which is:

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupakaiwhenuakitanatahu

Today we also had to write the tauparapara we have been learning which is:

Ko Rongomatane, Ko rongotahuahua Te ara mana ake, Ko Rongotaketake, Te ara mana rite, Ko Rongomaarua, Te ara ahua ake, Te ara ahua ake, Ko Rongotaheke, Te ara matua, Maru mai ra... Taku Mana.

After morning tea we started Maths. In maths I finished off my Practice book assignments so I could continue on my Course book

After Lunch time we went to start Manaiakalani and learnt to make positive comments on peoples blogs

Getting closer

Today we were assigned for Reading to act like News Reporters and write a report on the Ōrokonui Ecosanctuary and what were our thoughts on it the criteria is:
READ this article about the Ōrokonui Ecosanctuary.
WATCH the video provided and take additional notes for your writing.
WRITE a news article about the Ōrokonui Ecosanctuary.
REMEMBER to answer the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN in the first 2 sentences, then add further information.
PUBLISH your written article on your BLOG!

What I found challenging was how to present my writing because Im not a news reporter. What I found fun was finding the information for the writing.

STEPWeb-It!

For the next wero challenge in my class we had to spend one full hour on steps to show we have done this we had to take a screenshot of when we jumped on to when we finished our hour of steps. In the past hour of doing steps I completed an entire assignment. What I like about my steps task is that it opens up words I can use in it but it also shows me how to spell the words correctly and the meaning. It also tests to see my understanding of the words being used in the sets. My favourite task I have t do in them is the spelling bit because then it tests to see if I can spell the words correctly. What tasks I dislike are the word grid task and the treasure hunt because it takes up a good amount of your memory to complete it. Another reason why I dislike it because they present the words in front of me around every 0.5 seconds which gets annoying when they give me around 10 words to remember. 

Math Maintenence

Today I was doing some math maintenance for my maths group Whanui. During this some of the questions we had to answer were in the categories: Multiply, Division, Fractions and percentages and Square roots/Factors 

What I found easy was the fractions converted to Percentages questions. What I found hard was the factors one just because I don't have much experience in Factors.

In this task I didn't do much working out with the questions the only question I did quite a bit of working out with was the factors one because I had to figure out the factors of the number 64 which the factors are 1,2,4,8,16,32,64.