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

Caritas Blogger: Term 3, Week 8

                                               Caritas

Caritas is an organization that raise money for the poor and needy and travel around the world to help. They traveled all over New Zealand, all the Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Africa, Thailand, India, Afghanistan, and many more places. They have 21 staff bases and teach the Gospel values. Here is a link to the Caritas web site  http://www.caritas.org.nz/who-we-are

Last term, the Aroha team did a challenge to help fundraiser for Caritas. We had to create an arcade with that had something to do with Caritas. My teams one was a tap challenge and having to walk to the estuary and collect water with a bucket. The bucket gets VERY heavy when it is full. Kids in Africa have to do that every day.

Caritas is an amazing charity that changes live every day. They are like 'The good Samaritan' parable, Luke 10:25-37. A summery of the story is that a man got robbed and many people that passed him didn't help except one man who was a different to him. He Bandaged him and took him on his donkey to the nearest Inn an took care of him for awhile an gave the Inn keeper some money to help. The people that walked past the injured man weren't very good neighbors but the man that did help was a very good neighbor. Caritas is a lot like the good neighbor and they are showing us what to be like.