Japanese christmas traditions!

 Kia Ora bloggers,

Since swimming lessons have started this term we had some ako activities to continue on with, I chose to do the Christmas classroom, for this activity I chose to do Japan and learned all about what traditions they do during Christmas. I have learned many traditions that they do in japan, Japanese culture is a lot different than New Zealand culture so it was a lot different to learn about. Here is my classroom slide, you can click on each piece of decoration or picture and it will bring you to a slide I have written all about Christmas in Japan.

Maths - chicken run & How many mermaids?

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This week for maths we have been doing an animation about a task for canta maths we had to figure out. The task was about how many mermaids there were in the rock pool, we had to teach others how to figure out this task. I found this task not too challenging but still challenging enough. There ended up being 3 mermaids, 5 fish, and 4 octopi. Here is my animation about the rock pool, and a small warm-up chicken run task.

Super Hangi - then vs now

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For another part of our Maori culture work we have been looking at how hangis have changed, I did a poster from then vs now,  now the modern-day hangis are above ground and much easy to access and cook with, for the traditional way of cooking a hangi it is made in-ground and takes much longer to cook, my poster tells you the many different features from now and then, here is my poster,

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Mysteries Moari Culture

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For inquiry, we have been learning about Maori culture so we can soon focus on our own country we want to learn about when it comes to our international day, the Maori culture we have been looking at is very interesting and I have learned a lot about Maori culture. For this task, we had to choose from finding out more about, Ta Moko (Maori tattoo), Maori haka, or the Maori cloak. I chose to do the Ta Moko (Maori tattoo), I have learned a lot about the past and present ta moko's here is my slide so you can learn about them

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Super Start Of Term 4!

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Welcome back to my blog, I hope you had a great holiday! Term 4 at my school seems like it will be packed full of fun activities and sports, for example, this week we have been doing practice for athletics and on Monday I am off to the canterbury's duathlon. For our school work in literacy, my group has been starting to write and plan our short films, my short film is based on the genre of horror. Here is a screenshot of my group's plot for our movie.

What did you do during the holidays? And What is your school getting up to this term?

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Super Sign Language!

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This week is national sign language week, sign language is an official language of New Zealand so it is important that we new zealanders know how to at least sign our names. This wednesday before tec we learned a bit about sign language and went onto a website where we can learn all about sign language but in a fun way here is a link to the website, Ninja sing language. We learned how to sign different things like colours, fruit, drinks, family members (e.g mother, father, brother, sister), numbers and the elphebet. We also had to make a video of us signing our names, here is my video. Do you know how to sign your name?

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Movie Maths!

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We have been learning about 24 hour time and how to convert AM/PM, I found this not too challenging and quite easy, our task yesterday and today was to pick 3 movies and convert the running time into minutes instead of hours, then we had to write the time the movie starts and get a buddie to answer the questions on our slide (when the movie will finish), here is my slide with the questions and answers on it. Have you ever thought about what times would be in 24 hour time?

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