Procedural Text

 Procedural Text

As-salamu alaykum bloggers, today I am going to be telling you about our procedural text. We had to choose a game we could write about. We had to put it in order of the title, introduction, goal, equipment, some steps and a diagram. First we had to make a copy of the plan. If you filled in the plan you need to create your real procedure in a new doc. Here is a picture of my plan.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    I did a cultural game called Pani Pani. It is a Fijian game. With the procedure you can teach lots and lots of people about games and unique ways of playing them. I learnt that you need to start your steps with a verb and you need to make the instructions exact. We followed some instructions to see how they worked out. Some of them went really wrong. I have completed my real procedure if you want to read it here is a picture of it. 

I hope you enjoyed reading my blog and I hope you learnt something to!

 

Toolkits At Our School!🏫💻

 Toolkits At Our School!🏫💻

Assalamu Alaikum Bloggers, Today I will blog about when we did toolkits at our school! We had a day where we got to explore 3 different Tookits. I was a presenter and I presented Book Creator with Nora = https://wpsnorat.blogspot.com/  There were 24 presenters that worked in pairs to create a toolkit. So there were 12 toolkits on the day. Book Creator, Drones, Google Maps, Webcam Toy, Incredibox, MakeyMakey, Slide animation, Brainbox, Piskel, Music Lab, Spheros and Word Art. Our teachers had planed to do a school Toolkit because it was STEM {Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths } Week. The Seniors and middles filled in a google form to choose which toolkit they want to go in. If you were a presenter you could only fill in 1 box because, you had to present the other 2.

The 1st toolkit I didn't present I went to one. The toolkit I went to was Drones that was in the hall. We started by getting into groups of 4. then one of us had to open our Chromebook an get the website to control the drone. The presenters showed us a slideshow of how to use them. Once they were done they showed us how to fly it and we finally got to fly it too. Each person from a group got a turn to fly it. When it was the next groups turn all the drones had gotten there battery wasted and they couldn't fly anymore. Lucky the Spheros presenters were next door on the other side of the hall. They had let us borrow a few Spheros so we could have a go. We had lots and lots of fun. The bell had rung it's time for morning tea. After Morning tea it was the next toolkit. 

On the second toolkit Nora and I presented in the hall 14 people had come! We had casted our slideshow on the screen and we called the role everyone was here. We had started of our slideshow by introducing our self then we had read the slideshow to them. After that we had let them have sandpit time where they got to use Book Creator. They had all created amazing comics. And some people were even brave enough to present there own Book/Comic. 

The 3rd toolkit was pretty much the same as the first one but the 3rd one only had girls in it. I really enjoy doing toolkits and seeing others enjoy too I hope we can do Toolkits again next term and  the tern after that. I hope you enjoyed reading my blog see you later!!!!👋👋👋

Student Led Toolkits 2021!

 Student Led Toolkits 2021!

Salaam Bloggers, Today I will tell you about Toolkits 2021! On Thursday 20th May we went to Owairaka school. Some came to present some came to view. There were 3 different toolkits we had to go to. If you were presenting you could only go to 2 toolkits because you need to present one of them. Everyone had to have 2 or 3 people in their team's. I had a buddy who's name was Nora here is her blog link https://wpsnorat.blogspot.com/ I didn't get to present but I did get to look at 3 different toolkits. The 1st one was Book Creator. 2nd was learning how to make books with google slides. The 3rd one was Coding with Minecraft.

In Book Creator you can make comics and stories. You can choose how many pages you want. You can change the background and you can do much more on it. I chose to do a comic I did a comic about a unicorn. I added a couple of characters too. While I was at home I made another one too. This website is very fun if you want to be creative and be an author when you grow up.

When we learned how to make a book using google slides. I thought it would be boring but it wasn't. I added photo's in my book and you can also add animations and pictures from other websites. You can use the text box to write your story and you can keep adding more slides to make a complete book. 

Coding with Minecraft keeps you busy and makes you smarter. You just have to go on the website and choose a game out of the 3.  All 3 of them are quite similar because it is all about coding. Me and Nora both did the same things so we coded together. If we needed help we could ask each other. 

The toolkit presentations were finished but there were people from Fusion to talk to us about Cyber Safety. Also if you want to be a Technician like them. After they left we all had to go back to school and do our schoolwork.

Year 6 Spark Arena Trip!🚌🚌

 Year 6 Spark Arena Trip!🚌🚌

Salaam bloggers, Today I will write about the Year 6 Spark Arena trip! All the year 6 had arrived from the bus to Spark Arena! It was so huge and it looked like a fine built building. We waited for the teachers to settle us down. The first place we had to go to had lots of instruments and it had a stage. Everyone sat down and we met Suzy Cato. She told us about all three activities nice and clear. She also introduced us to the CEO of Spark Arena and the person who organised all of the fun his name was Brendan Hines. There was a place called Happy Place, Van Gogh, and Sounds Fun.

There were also 2 other schools that came. Their names were Royal Road and Lincoln Heights. Our school had the opportunity to go to the Happy Place first and Royal Road and Lincoln Heights had to go to Sounds Fun first. After a while of introducing we all went of to our stations.

We went upstairs and entered the gates of Happy Place! It was a giant cookie door. Inside there were XO Letters with pictures of lips. Next to it was a slide. Then when you enter through the next room there is a very deep colourful ball pit! Everyone had a go at it. They jumped in or did a flip. After you had had your turn you could go to other rooms with different places to take pictures. There was an upside down room, a room that says HAPPY in it. There was a room with a unicorn, a room with a giant cookie with chocolate chips you could put your face through. There was also a room that has 3 different things in it, like white coloured chains. There was also a side of the room disco themed and a room with rubber duckies and a bath tub. We had finished taking pictures so we went through the other door and saw marry gold flowers everywhere. The room next to it had a giant transparent case with confetti in it that was flying with air. We could go inside and lay with it.

It was time for us to go to Sounds Fun. Sounds Fun was in the same room we had to go to when we first arrived. We got into 3 groups and did three activities. 1 was where you play instruments with headphones on to learn them. In the 2nd activity were they showed you how to use a Trombone. The 3rd activity was a loop machine were we got to record our voice and edit it. I got to do the Trombone first. We had to blow a raspberry through a small funnel type thing. It then would make a noise. Next we had to put the funnel into the Trombone and blow a raspberry and VIOLA! It would sound like a Trombone. I got to do the Loop Machine next and the instrument learning area last.

All of us went into the Van Gogh art centre. There was large screens with amazing art on it. There was also messages the artist had wrote. Everyone enjoyed it. We went outside and they gave us lunch packs. It had a sandwich, apple, juice and chips in it. Everyone enjoyed coming to Spark Arena. We all wish we can come again and enjoy the fun.

Life living in Trenches❗

Life living in Trenches❗

Salaam Bloggers. On Wednesday 14th April we had to live in the Trenches for ANZAC Day! Our teachers had got lots and lots of strings and tide the around the place. They tide them low so they could look like you were in the bottom of trenches. If we put our heads, arms, legs or stand up we would get shot by a NERF Gun!

First we had to get our Art book stationary and enter the Trenches! Then we did a basic facts test while there was noise of gunfire. 

After that we did ANZAC Maths. We all got question sheets and answer sheets. The sheets included how many people went to War. How many people weren't able to survive. The years the Wars were and a fact.

 We did some exercises in the Trenches! 

We then rote a letter to our parents pretending we were in a real Trench.  Here is my letter. 

Dear family, I am having a very hard time in these trenches. It is like living in the most horrible dungeon! It is not like at home here. It does not have any fresh food here. We can’t even take showers or wash ourselves. The rats here would be as big as cats!. The food here would be raw and hard. Everyday we would have to eat, sleep, and fight in the same place. Lots of people would get injured and lots would die. It is also very scary when there would be gunshots and bombs. People would be screaming for help from others. There would be no beds and it would be freezing at night. Dear family I hope you are in great health. Please hope I will be too. Goodbye from Ayana Rizwan.

We also had to write a Poem here is my Poem

Insane amounts of people dying.

Nothing to eat but hard biscuits.

Joining his partner so none could fall hurt but...

Urgent trips to the hospital here we go again.

Rat’s stealing our things while we are not around.

Yawning people waking up early “ I don’t wanna wake up” they say.

It was time for morning tea. It was too wet so we played in the hall. After that our Ms Sands one of our teacher had split us in 2 groups. My group went swimming first the other did Art. The pool was freezing when we got in. It also started raining. We all had some swimming but I was too cold. Right when me and my friend Amara got out it started hailing! The ice fell on my and it almost broke my little finger.

We had ran into the classroom and crawled back under the strings. Miss Daly told us what to do. We had to get our art book and draw lines. We were doing picto draw! Ms Sands was reading a book about Gallipoli. We had to hear what she was saying and draw it on our books. 

Finally it finished the day was over but....... There was still more to go! We had to find a buddy and one of us had to put it on. Then we had to find a piece of string. Our buddy had to guide us and we had to keep tying the string to an ice block stick. 

Then that was the end of the day. Everyone had so much fun I hope we do this again. What would you do for ANZAC Day?

Family Fun Day!

Family Fun Day!

Assalamualaikum Everyone, on Friday 19th March we had a Family Fun Day! It included a bunch of fun activity's like Slippery Slide, Bouncy Castle Obstacle Course, Wheels, Pool and an Inflatable water slide. There was also a bake sale. If some people didn't have wheels they could go to the sand pit and use the magic play box. We also had to dress in our house colour. There was Pukeko - Green,  Tui - Yellow, Kea - Red and the best house! Ruru - Blue. The houses had rotations to go on each activity. My group got to go to the Wheels first. There was a lot of bikes and scooters to play with.  You could bring any kind of wheels like, Cars, Wheelies,  Roller blades and more.

My favourite activity was when we got to do the Bouncy Castle Obstacle Course. It was fun because there was tyres you had to go through a wall a tunnel and a GIANT slide.  I really enjoy Family Fun Day and I wish we had every Term!

Here are some pictures of Family Fun Day!

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My Self Portrait!

 My Self Portrait!

Salaam Everyone, Today I will tell you about our self portraits! In the first Term of school we always do a different type of self portrait. Last year we did a portrait of the past century's. This year we did Picasso Art!!! It's really fun first we had to watch a video and copy what they are doing. We could style it however we want. The person who created Picasso Art is Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso paints people however he wants. If someone turns to the left he paints them to the left. If someone turns to the right he paints them on the right. He paints anything. Even animals. He is also one of the most popular painters. A lot of people do Picasso art now. Most of the people in our class room is finished. Here is a video of the Picasso Art. And a picture of my Picasso Art.

LINK TO PICASSO ART VIDEO

My Picasso Art!