Summer learning journey Day 4 , Week 1 , Activity 2

Hello and welcome back and this is a summer learning journey blog.

Task:

Imagine that you were allowed to change your name to anything that you wanted.

On your blog, tell us what you would change your name to and why you would choose that name.

Name: Brittany.

Why:

Because when I watched a cheerleading  movie called bring it on and one of the cheerleaders were called Brittany and she was my favourite.   

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Summer learning journey Day 4 , Week 1 , Activity 1

Hello and welcome back , today I am doing a summer learning journey blog.

Task:

Here are two videos about Serena Williams and Venus Williams. Choose one to watch (or watch both!)

On your blog, tell us three things that you learned from watching this video, as well as one thing you would still like to know.

What I learnt about Serena Williams!

Born on September  26 , 1981 in Saginaw , Michigan.

Her parents are Richard and Oracene Williams.

She started playing tennis at the age of  3!

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Summer learning journey Day 3 , Week 1 , Activity 1

Hello and welcome this is a summer learning journey blog.

Task:

Imagine that you could be a superhero for a day. What three superpowers would you most like to have?

On your blog, please list the three superpowers, tell us why you have chosen each one, and tell us what you are going to do with them.

Superpowers

• laser vision because I could brake things
• freezing powers because if I needed to make things cold
• netball shooting powers because I would get loads of points in a game

Summer learning journey Day 2 , Week 1 , Activity 3

Hello and welcome back and this is another summer learning journey blog.

Task:

On your blog, recount a time when you (or someone you know) did something brave.

At School camp I was a bit scared of going on the small zip-line but I done it anyway and really enjoyed it.

Summer learning journey Day 2 , Week 1 , Activity 2

Hello and welcome back to my blog and today I have got another summer learning journey blog.

Task:

For this activity, let’s imagine that you were Neil Armstrong.

On your blog, write a short poem describing how you felt when you first set foot on the moon.

Poem:

Bounce on the moon

and soon I will be

in a space shuttle

and there was a suttle movement on the moon

When I got back there was self-improvement on how to be a astronaut

Thank you

Summer learning journey Day 2 , Week 1 , Activity 1

Hello and welcome back to my blog and today I have got another summer learning journey blog.

Task:

for this activity, compare and contrast these two aviators. You could use this Venn diagram.On your blog, share your comparison between the two aviators.

                                                      Thank you

                                              

Summer learning Journey Day 1 , Week 1 , Activity 3

Hello and welcome back to my blog and I have got another summer learning journey blog.

Day 1 , Week 1 , Activity 3 

Task:

Please choose a charity that you are interested in.Read about the charity.

SPCA

5 Facts

• The SPCA was founded in England in 1824.
• The SPCA came to New Zealand in 1872.
• The animals that used the SPCA in the early days were from the early settlers in New Zealand.
• The SPCA looks after all types of animals.
• The SPCA saves around 670,000 dogs!

Thank you😎

Summer learning Journey Day 1 , Week 1 , Activity 2

Hello and welcome back to my blog and I have got another summer learning blog to complete.

Day 1, Week 1, Activity 2

Task:

Please think about your own culture. Where does your family come from? What is important or special to you and your family? What language do you speak?On your blog, please tell us about your culture.My name is Dakota I am 9 years old and my family comes from Christchurch in New Zealand I speak English and I live by kaiapoi.The thing that is special to my family is motorbikes.Because my Dad has been racing for 33 years , my brother has been racing for 10 years and I have been racing for 4 years.

My family also likes going outdoors.I live on lifestyle block in marshlands so recently Dad and I mowed the lawns and I find it fun and watching the front and then turning around and seeing the grass cut.

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Summer learning journey Day 1 week 1 activity 1

Hello and welcome back to my blog and I am doing summer learning this holidays.What you do is you blog posts through the holidays and you can win some really cool prizes you can also win an I-pad.

Day 1, Week 1, Activity 1
Task:Imagine that you were invited to join Nainoa for three weeks at sea. You are asked to pack your own food. List 10 food items that you could take on the trip. Remember you will not have a fridge or freezer!On your blog, post your list of 10 food items you would take on an ocean voyage. 1. Lollies2. Fruit 3.Bread  4. Apples 5. Cheese6. Noodles7. Mandarins 

8. Chips

9. Oreo's 

10. Strawberry's 

Hilarious Haiku's

This week for writing on Tuesday we focused on writing haiku's. Elsha and  I wrote a few haiku's together. They were a bit funny and interesting to read. Haiku's are a short poem that has three lines. The first and last line both have to have five syllables, while the second with seven. They don't have to rhyme, but some of ours do.
Here as an example of a haiku to show you what it looks like.
An ocean voyage
As waves break over the bow
The sea welcomes me

Here is ours

The dog barked at me

I then jumped and screamed so loud

Neighbors came quickly

Life is just awesome

I am always having fun

Even when I’m Numb

Sun sun sun sun sun,

It is so much fun fun fun

Even when it’s done

Thank you for reading.

Have you ever written a haiku? If not, give it a try!

Dakota's Eco the environment blog

EcoMe and Erica

On Wednesday the 8th of may Erica Lingard came in to talk about her company EcoMe. The company is about saving the environment so all the stuff she makes is friendly to the green bin.What inspired her to make the company is when she worked at a preschool,one of her jobs at the preschool was when the preschool closed she would take out the trash,then one day she looked at the rubbish and it was huge so Erica had a plan to start the company.It has only been a couple of months since she started her products so far are...

Stainless steel straws

forever pegs (marine grave)

Reusable bags

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What are you doing to help the environment?  

Dakota's student teacher spectacular blog

This term my hub have been lucky enough to have some student teachers.There were only 2 student teachers 1 in home base 3 and 1 in home base 1.I am in home base 3 so I was so excited to find out that we had student teacher in my class.The student teachers name in our class is Miss Thomas.Miss Tomas used to motorbike ride and I love motorbike riding and she also went to a place in Fiji called Suva.In Suva there was a school and it looked very old and runned down but the students had done some painting and wrote some prayers on the walls.Thank - you for reading my blog

Do you have a student teacher in your hub at the moment? 

Dakota's wonderful winter sport blog

This year Tumu Hub have been going to winter sport there were many of sports to play like netball ,  soccer , Hockey and tackle rugby.I picked hockey because I thought that it would be good to choose a new sport to play because I have played many sports but avoided hockey so I went along to the try outs and then waited a couple days then found out that I was in the A team , I was so excited.The first winter sport game was nervous but we done really and that luck has carried on and now my team is un defeated in our actual games but in the north zones tournament we came third so we didn't quite get to centrals but we almost did because the top team go to centrals. As I have been through the season I have definitely been running loads and doing way more fitness then I used to.
This is my team.

                         Back row
                         Gianna Samantha Charlie Oliver
                         Front row
                         Benjamin Lily Dakota Jin hee



What winter sport do you play?
Do you like sport?

Dakota's interesting innovation blog

This term in PBL Tumu have been learning about innovation.We want to learn about innovation because we want to have some background knowledge on how things work.

Innovation is when you find a problem in the world and you make something that will solve that problem.

There have been some struggles for this PBL because most people have already created things that we need and we don't really need any thing else but I still know that there is still something waiting to be created.

My group thought about making an alarm for noise so when the hub gets to loud the siren will go off and it will say "Tumu is to loud Tumu is to loud".

This is a video about some kids who found a problem then solved it

What problems do you know that need to be solved?

Radical reading

In reading this term our focus has been looking at articles about climate change.

I have learnt that:

We are doing so much bad things to the earth and we need to stop.

That there is a big garbage patch in the middle of the pacific ocean called the great pacific garbage it is as about the size of  Texas two times  . 

New words that I have discovered are:

Methane gas :Cow farts😂

Greenhouse gases :Bad gases that come from cars , Factories and other gases like that. 

Compost :A bin that you can put food scraps in such as banana peels and other peels like that.

This is my climate change poster:

Do you like my poster ?

                                        

DAKOTA'S chilly winter sports tortamant blog

Finally the day has come I am playing my first game of hockey.I don't know why but the sport people put me in the A team.The people in my team are Lily.F , Charlie.G , Jin-hee , Gianna , Jack , Benjamin and Me.My coach is Lily.F's Dad Brendan.

In the tournament Our team won all the games at the end everyone felt pumped it felt amazing it was like you just walked in a room and the was a person standing there with your favourite thing.
Thank you for reading my blog
SIGNED:Dakota

Dakota's spectacular S.U.W

                                                                    S.U.W

...................By Dakota...................

This term we have been doing some S.U.W writing which stands for silent understerbed writing
For example we could make up a story or write a recount also finish off work.Everyone made great story's watch out for our new resales 

              Here is some of my S.U.W Writing

Slime catastrophe

‘We are so good at making slime why can’t you let us Muuuuuuum !’ I yelled.BTW I’m Jojo siwa you probably know who I am and I’m with my friend Miranda sings.We Want to make slime but my mum won’t let us because apparently we are bad at making at slime.

    How do you think the story ends? click here to find out

Dakota's Razzle Dazzle PBL Reflection

PBL - Term 1

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about kindness and the big question was: How can we build community through our actions?

First, we explored some collaborative activities and discussed how we could include kindness and build a sense of community through our actions at camp. Next, we were organised into groups where we had to unpack the above question. In our groups we considered how we could spread community and kindness through our entire school community. We decided that we would offer something that was free and would make others happy.

We created an action plan and we decided that we should do a gift basket for the teachers for all the hard work they do.

Reflection:

For our final product our group made a gift basket for the staff.

We think we built a sense of community in the school by making staff feel happy and making the school a better place.

I contributed by buying some stuff and coming up with some idea that made a big difference.

I think the PBL might impact on others by making them feel like everyone cares about them and making the school a better place for the students,parents and staff.

What I learned about working with others was that we are all different in our learning ways but in a way we are all the the same

this is our action plan

Welcome Nau mai, haere mai ki tēnei taonga

Welcome

Welcome to my very own blog for learning. I look forward to sharing my learning with teachers, my school, my family and friends anywhere.