Today for Literacy, we looked at book covers and how they are designed. We looked at some different book covers, and then tried to create our own. I made a horror book cover, showcasing an old house with a ghost looking through the broken windows, and gravestones surrounding the house. I called the book ‘The Lost Soul’ after some inspiration from Google. Here is my book cover below.
Throughout the past two weeks, the year 8 girls in Tangaroa and Ata hapara have done two sessions of self defence in the hall on Tuesdays. We worked with the teacher to learn lots of different self defence moves and listened to stories about girls using self defence in unsafe situations. We started with learning flick kicks to the shins and punches and then worked our way up to acting out situations where we had to use our self defence.
Throughout the two sessions, I learnt a lot of kicks, punches, and moves that could help in the future. If I did it again, I would be ready to learn more stuff and become more experienced. I think I showed resilience and success by keeping trying, and completing both sessions in order to get a certificate.
Today was the first session of action stations for the term.
I chose to do ‘It’s Quiz Night,’ we began with getting into our teams, and then played 4 different rounds, Capital cities, Word unscrambling, Flags, and two word clues to find one main word. Me and my team, Amber, Anika, and Jayde, lasted the majority of the quiz tied in first place, until the last round, we got 10/12 and ended the game in 2nd place, tied. I enjoyed playing the round where we had to unscramble letters, but I didn’t like the last round as much, as it was pretty difficult.
Today for Mahi-a-tahi I have been learning some basic French words using duolingo. Three of the things I have learnt were that in French a cat is called chat, A woman is called femme, and to say “a croissant and an orange” in French, you say “un croissant et une orange.”
As part of the spring Learning Journey, I have created an infographic poster showing five interesting facts about New Zealand’s native Kowhai tree.
Here is my poster:
As part of the Spring learning journey, I have chosen to create 4 math problems using things you would find in spring. I made a different problem for each subtraction, multiplication, addition, and division. My first problem is about flowers, the second is fairy bread, the third being bunny rabbits, and the fourth one is about candy.
Here are my math problems:
As part of the Spring learning journey, I have created a spring sense poem on Canva. The senses my poem includes are what you can hear, what you can feel, and what you can see. Here is my finished poem:
Yesterday for Literacy, we read a fake article on a newly introduced idea of New Zealand schools finishing at 5:00 pm. After reading through this, we had to make a fake letter/email that we would supposedly send off, about our concerns on the new idea. Here is my letter.
For our work around Matariki, and working towards writing a few Matariki inspired pieces of writing, I have created an infographic about all the Matariki stars and what they represent.
Recently we have been doing a lot of work around Matariki, and as one of my literacy writing tasks, I have written a non-fiction text about Matariki, and it’s stories in different countries.
Here is my piece of writing :
Around the world, Matariki is seen as a beautiful star cluster for many cultures. Celebrated, and worshiped for as long as 20,000 years, it is recognised by many names, from the Pleiades, to Freyja’s hens. Here are some of the stories, and names that follow Matariki.
In and around Greek, and often in some English-speaking countries, Matariki is known as the Pleiades. These stars are often referred to as the seven daughters of Atlas, a Titan who held up the sky, And the ocean nymph Pleione, the protectress of sailing.
The 7 sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, were thought to have been translated to the night sky, as a cluster of stars. The Pleiades are associated with rain.
Matariki in Japanese culture is known as Subaru, usually referred to as being seven stars. ‘Subaru’ also means ‘unite’ or ‘unity’ in Japanese. For followers of the Shinto religion, the stars are a collection of jewels, which were used to bring Amaterasu, the sun goddess and ruler of the universe, out of a cave.
In India, the star cluster is known as Krittika, the wives of the seven wise men named ‘Seven Rishis’ or ‘Seven Sages’. They are also known as the six mothers of the war god Murugan who developed six faces, one for each of them.