Teach myself a skill Term 4, Week 6

Teach myself a skill 

In the past four weeks, the Aroha team had to teach themselves a skill. My one to learn was to know all the numbers up to twenty in Afrikaans. I had had change the goal a couple of times to achieve it because I had to do other things which took up quite a lot of time.
My goal is: To learn how to say numbers up to 20 in Afrikaans (and some of the basic words and phrases). I think that I have done a good job on this because I spent a lot of time on it at school and at home.

My self reflection. Term 4, 2017

My self reflection. Term 4, 2017

This year, I had to write a self reflection on the way that I saw the year in my own words. Here is my reflection:

This year I learned how to multiply using algorithm, how to write an explanation and how to write an information report. The most challenging task that I had to do was to write and explanation piece but I wrote an information report instead. After my teacher, Mrs Price, told my group what we were doing wrong, I chose a different topic and completed the writing correctly. The most fun I had this year was when I went to South Clusters for high jump, long jump, and cricket ball throw, and got through to Western Bays.This year I got the jobs Techie in Term 1 and 2 and Peer Mediator in 3 and 4. Overall, I enjoyed the whole St Mary’s experience and I will never forget the wonderful people I met in those 6 years.

Healthy Hearts lunch : Week 3

This is my lunch in week 3

On these days I had...

Monday:

Cheese and Jam sandwich, chopped up apple ( 4 pieces ), almond bar covered a thin coat of chocolate, Mandarin, soft cheese, crackers, pretzels and ginger biscuit.

Heath Rating: ⅞ (I think)

Tuesday:

Cheese and Jam sandwich, chopped up apple ( 4 pieces ), almond bar covered a thin coat of chocolate, soft cheese, crackers, pretzels and ginger biscuit.

Heath Rating: 6/7  (I think)

Wednesday:

Cheese and Jam sandwich, chopped up apple ( 4 pieces ), almond bar covered a thin coat of chocolate, soft cheese, crackers, pretzels and ginger biscuit.

Heath Rating: 6/7 (I think)

Thursday:

Cheese and Jam sandwich, chopped up apple ( 4 pieces ), almond bar covered a thin coat of chocolate soft cheese, crackers,  pretzels, dates and apricots.

Heath Rating: 7/7 (I think)

Friday:

Cheese and Jam sandwich, chopped up apple ( 4 pieces ), almond bar covered a thin coat of chocolate soft cheese, crackers.

Heath Rating: 7/7 (I think)

I think that my lunch got better during the week, As my Health Rating got better scores.

(The fraction is about how good is the food out of how much food I had.)

Art skills : Term 4 Week 2 Topic : Austin's Butterfly

Art skills Topic : Austin's Butterfly   

This week another activity that we did for art was to watch this video called Austin's Butterfly. This video is about this boy who's picture of a butterfly changed a lot just by his peers giving him feedback (his picture are below).  Nobody touch his art besides himself which is pretty impressive. This video is about the values of great feedback and resilience. His art work show us the picture of a Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly that he was going to put on a card.

Art skills : Term 4 Week 2 Topic

Art skills  Topic : Drawing

This week the Aroha team has to focus on art. We had to draw one picture of one of these things : a Cute pig, a Cartoon Character or a Funny robot. I chose the Cute pig because I thought it might be a challenge i would like face. It turned out that was quite easy to draw. I leaned that many cute animals have a 0 on their tummy to make them look cute and that they have a really big head with small eyes. I have inserted the video for you so you can watch.

This is my drawing of a cute pig (I have changed a few things)!

My learning this term: Week 10, Term 3

 My learning this Term

This term I learnt how to write a good Speech, which I've written about before. There are 3 types of speeches: Information speeches, Persuasive speeches and humorous speeches. I choose to do a Persuasive speech because that is what I am strongest at. The hardest speech to write is a humorous speech and the easiest one to write is an information speech and that leaves persuasive speech in the middle. I didn't go in to the semis or the finals but I think I did great.

This week in our hubs we had to learn how to write a good descriptive piece. It went very well with my leaning goal which is ' To deliberately use written and visual language features when appropriate to enchane my writing e.g. similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole and so on.

I also learned how to times fractions and decimals. Say, if I had to times 2/3 by 4/5, it  equals 8/20. To do it you would need to times the under-lined numbers together:

2/4 X 4/5 = 8/?   and

2/4 X 4/5 = ?/20

8/? + ?/20 =8/20

I haven't quite learn how to do the decimals yet but I will go onto my Math Hub and learn how to.

Art gallery and library visit

Art gallery and library visit

Last week, the Aroha team rode into town and went to the Art gallery and Library for a school trip. Aroha Rua went first, then my hub, Aroha Tahi went next. My group went to the library first. At the Library we read a book that would have something to do with the Art gallery visit and then we did some black-out poems. A black-out poem is when you take a page with lots of words and you chose some of them and black out the rest so the chosen words stand out. After that we were aloud to go around the Library and take books out if you brought your Library card. I didn't but we could come back after school to get them. After that we ate lunch and read more books.


When we had finished we crossed the road to the Art gallery and meet our teacher, Fiona. We went for a walk up the stairs where the first art expedition which was by Jae Kang and her art piece was called 'Waves of your breath' and it's touchable, unlike all of the other ones. Most people thought that it was made of pastel or water paint, but it was made of a special ink. We walked back down and talked about the art for a bit before we went to see the next expedition, by Bob Jahnke. His art is made out of fluorescent tubes, shapes and mirrors. The art work is called 'ATA'. The mirrors are use to to make the effect of it going on forever until our eyes can't see the end anymore.  We have a quick look before we sit down to talk about the shapes representing some thing. After that we looked around again before we start our artwork.

We receive a black piece of wood and are told to add some crosses, squares and triangles. to it with the help of coloured pencils. We look around the expedition for some inspiration and continue with our art. once we'd finished that we moved over to the art room to do the other art we can't do in there. We first write our name on the back and then put art aprons on so uniforms don't get messy. We add more colours to our art and gather around the teaching table for the next instructing. We add paint to the art by painting Maori words, such as 'Tahi', the word I used. Once we had finished that, we took our aprons off and said "Good bye" to Fiona and went to collect our bags and get ready for our trip back to school. I hope that I can come back and see the expedition before it goes.

Jae kang's artwork

  One of Bobs Jahnke artworks