The last 2 weeks of this term, my reading group has been learning about kauri gum and have been reading Digging for Kauri Gum. The book is about kauri gum and gum diggers. Before we read the book, we had to do the prior knowledge slide and read the book with Whaea Debb. We had to do a diary and an advertisement about kauri gum and what you can use it for. Something I now know is that they used kauri gum for chewing gum that they use for stomach upsets.

Today, Maitreya I and Asharntaye had to do an E-symposium, our E-symposium was about digital mosaic artwork.

At first, we were nervous because we had no practice, and we were busy and had a lot of things scheduled for the week, so that’s why we messed up a bit at the start.

We recorded it so the audience could listen when we finished the E-symposium. This is a slide of some of the students’ mosaics, which also shows one that shows a demonstration of how to make it and the process.

This is a chart of my results from my basic facts tests for terms 1 and 2.

What I noticed was that, in addition to all of my other bars, my division bar went up 13 more, so it was 13 for last term and now 26.

There were hard and easy ones, but out of all of them, my subtraction was the easiest for me. Division is the one we have been focusing on this term, which is why I think that I improved a lot in it. These are my results.

This week, my class finished chapter 3 of our Maths-No Problem maths books. To explain and demonstrate what we learned, we needed to show what we noticed in a word problem. It took me time to finish and understand the work, but I got it finished. This is my work; it’s blurry, but you can see some of it.

Today, my class was doing an equation on the Polypad for a division in our No Problem Maths workbook.

The question was 18 divided by 3. This is what the equation looked like.

This is my recreation of the equation in the Polypad division equation. My favorite part was doing the equation.

This term, we have been setting our learning goals.

We created a slide show to present to our whanau conferences.

For the start of the learning, we had six slides: the reading slide, the maths slide, the writing slide, the spelling slide, and the blogging slide. This is my learning slide.

This term, my group and I were reading Torty the Lucky Tortoise. The book is about a lucky tortoise that a young stretcher-bearer named Stewart found in the port of Salonika in Greece. The book also has some facts about the First World War. The First World War started in 1914 and ended in 1918. 18,000 New Zealanders died, and 40,000 were injured.

Stewart found Torty in the port of Salonika; he saw Torty crossing a track as he watched in horror. Torty got squashed by a gun carriage. Surprisingly, Torty was alive, not squashed.

When he went to check on Torty, he realised that there were 2 deep grooves in her shell, and she had lost some toes, and a small piece of her shell was missing. Stewart asked the local people about the tortoise. They all thought she was over one hundred years old. Stewart decided to take Torty with him back to New Zealand. On the way back to New Zealand, Torty went into hibernation. The Greece winter was from November to January, but Torty quickly adapted to the New Zealand winter.

Today, we tried using the website Punaha Reo.

The game we played was about kai. Some of the kupu I learned were kanga, papaka, miraka, tote, and mereni wai, some of which were hard to guess and some were easy to guess. Kanga means corn, mereni wai means watermelon, and papaka means crab.

At the end, when we finished the game, we had to take a screenshot of our score.

We also had a chance to play more of the game.

My score was 210.

This week, my class created a water cycle on Google Slides.

The first step was to make the maunga so the river could stream down. Our teacher also made a maunga for us to see what it can look like.

Next, we went on to insert images to put in trees for the maunga. I used 2 different kinds of trees, a beige kind of looking one and a brown one.

Then we made our river from our pepeha. I forgot what my river was, so I just did the Tautoro awa and maunga.

After that I made the clouds for the rain. I went into gifs and stickers to find the rain I wanted on stickers.

Then, after everything, I made the labels for the pictures in Maori and English.

Finally, I made my recording doing the Tautoro pepeha.

This term, my class and I made a model of the water cycle for work.

First, we had to get into pairs of 2. Our class was uneven, so my buddy and I had another person on our team. Then, Whaea Annie gave us our plastic bag to draw the water cycle on.

After that, we had to draw the water cycle on the bag, including the mountains, the ocean, the clouds, the rain, everything.

After we were finished, we had to give it to the teacher to be filled with blue-dyed water.

Then, after a couple of days, the sun’s heat will make the water evaporate into a gas called water vapour.

Then, the water from the clouds will rain down, trickling on the plastic bag, which is called condensation.