How to grow a healthy plant

 Hey guys, welcome or welcome back to my blog!

In today's blog I am gonna be sharing How To Grow A Plant which is a piece of work I have worked through today analysing the steps of growing a healthy plant. I did this task for my reading and it was really fun and I really enjoyed it. My goal for this task was to make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions. 

I hope you learn something from this post and take out the time to plant something new. 

Question: What have you got planted in you garden?

Terrific Tree Diagrams

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In today's blog I am gonna be sharing my maths for last week ( Wk 3).

Last week we were all split up into groups of year 6's and 5's and learned a whole lot about probability. My task goal for last week was to Show all possible outcomes of an event using tree diagrams and organised lists. -L3 Probability and determine the theoretical probability of simple events using percentages, fractions and decimals. - L3 Probability. This task was a very interesting one and I learned heaps here is my work explaining terrific tree diagrams.

I hope you learned something from this post! Until next time!

My Lego Reflection

Hey Guys welcome or welcome back to my blog. 

In today's blog i'm gonna be sharing my reflection of my time with house of bricks. 

I really enjoyed my day of Lego and if you go through my posts you will see a more detailed writing of my post but for now, heres my reflection. 

My favourite Lego activity was the race car activity because I really enjoyed decorating the car and making it look like a real car and trying to make it go faster and faster down the ramp. I liked adding things that I thought would make it go faster. I also enjoyed finding the parts that would make the car look like a car and putting them on with the help of my buddy.

My least favourite Lego activity was making the mosaics because I did not know what I should design and after I made my first design I did not know what to do with it and I had to wreck it anyway. 

The activity that tested my perseverance the most was making the car because I tested my car and thought it went very far but seeing how far other cars went made me have to go back and keep adding to it so it could go faster.

The most challenging activity was making the car because when I looked around seeing everyone else's cars more modernised and better looking than my car I had to keep adding things to make it look better.

I did not enjoy working collaboratively with others because when I had an idea I could not always put it into the design. I could not always get my ideas and I had to be considerate to let other people’s ideas be put to work.

Thanks for reading 

The Month of The Holy Rosary (October)

Welcome or Welcome back to my blog, 

in today's blog post I am going to be telling you about The Holy Rosary. The Holy Rosary is a prayer that is dedicated to Mary the mother of Christ. The Modern day Rosary started when a man named St Dominic saw Mary and she told him to revive The Rosary in the Church. He did that and thats how The Rosary began, learn more in my slide.

What Have you learned from this post?? Comment below :)

Are Stereotypes Fair???

Hi guys welcome back to my blog. 

This week during writing we were learning about stereotypes. 
Stereotypes are beliefs of how the world works. An example of gender stereotypes is nurses are girls and doctors are boys. That how people think the world works, it might not be true or you may not agree but thats a stereotype. There are many kinds of stereotypes including gender stereotypes and race stereotypes. Stereotypes are not made to offend people their just made to make the world less complected. For writing I made a poster. Which familiar stereotypes can you see in my poster?? I hope you like my poster! Enjoy!

Fun and friendships!

 

Hi Everyone welcome to my blog. 

This week for reading we have been looking at good relationships. 

A  relationships could be a friendship, a relationship between a teacher and student, a relationship could be a relationship between a man and a women. This week I made a poem about friendship. 

Friends are people you can trust and rely on. 

So, who are your friends? I hope you enjoy

Should school be online?

 Should School Be Online?

Hi welcome to my blog.

During the past few weeks NZ has been in lock down so we have been learning online. During this time we had to write a lot of persuasive texts and this was one of them. We had a lot of time online and the question came, should we stay this way? I wrote this persuasive text to share my opinion on online school. Comment down below your opinion and why. Enjoy!

Should School be online? That's the question circling the internet in these trying times. But should school really be online? Everyone everywhere has a right to a good education and online learning could deprive children of that and that's why I think children should be taught from school. 

Since 2020 when the virus got serious most learning has gone online to make sure that the virus does not spread as much but during this period children of different backgrounds have been deprived of their learning. 

Each family has a different situation and some may not be able to afford devices used for online learning which would cause their children not to participate in school activities. Even in a case where all parents have enough devices to share and are working from home it is hard to control your children while video conferencing with your colleagues. 

Not only that, online school affects children's health as well. Learning at home is a very unhealthy choice especially when learning is online. Screen time and not enough exercise can cause children to have bad eyesight and with food coming in more often it can cause children to add on some extra weight that may be harmful for their health, but with a fixed diet at school your children will be forced to be eating what is packed for them and only what is packed for them, with often exercise during breaks and fitness. 

More dangers of online school is not having supervised care. Without the attention of teachers or parents, children can get distracted and do things that have nothing to do with school work and could be harmful for their thinking at a young age. 

Lastly, I think that learning from home could affect children's school and social life. Being far from your teachers can make it harder for them to communicate with their teachers and with questions unanswered the children can be misled and won't know how to do their work handing in bad work at the end of the day with teachers wondering what happened. 

Many children have no siblings and a lack of a social life could cause children not to be used to being around children so when living in the real world it will be hard for them to be used to being around other people and it will be hard for them to develop good team building skills. Moreover, learning from home can make kids miss meets and instead of a classmate chasing them down to remind them, they end up missing their workshop and forgetting about what to do, this will cause their grades to drop severely after a couple times of missing meets.

So in conclusion for all these reasons school should be taught from school. 

What do you think? Do you really want your child's grades to drop because they are too lazy to wake up in the morning?

Lego day!

 Hi guys,

Last week on Friday a Lady named Rachel from house of bricks came to our school with lots of Lego!

We have been learning about Character and Collaboration for P.B.L and this was our booster to get some Character juices boosting through us. We had a few fun challenges that we had to get through, through the day that we all really enjoyed. The first activity that my group went through was the Mosaics. This was a fun activity for many people but this just wasn't my thing I like art but after a while of making designs made of Lego and breaking it apart i was a bit getting a bit bored but after morning tea I was in for a real treat! After morning tea we all headed to year 7 and 8 hub where Lego of different shapes, sizes and colours were scattered across mats. We sat down listening to Rachel as she explained the next task. The task was to go over to a mat of our choice which already had small brown bases for everyone to build upon. When we had chosen a mat we would start building something for a period of 5 minutes after the 5 minutes was over we had to pass it round to the next person clockwise and they would continue building on our base for another 5 minutes and pass it round to the next person. So I started building a Pre-school. My Pre-school was going very successfully until the 5 minutes was over and I passed it to the boy next to me for him to continue, and everything from then on just changed! At first he was building on to make my Pre-school then he saw a eyeball in the Lego pile and stuck it on and my Pre-school become a Eye-school. We  went round and round in a circle and my creation kept becoming more and more eyeballnised ( if that even is a word ) until my Pre-school came to one person who changed it completely. This girl took every single eye-ball out of the Pre-school and returned it to what it was first supposed to be an ordinary Pre-school.  Soon after our time was up and we went to the next rotation. We got into peers to make a super fast, super speedy speeding race car. We were all given wheels to start our creation with. Me and my buddy looked round for things that would make it go a larger distance faster. We thought that weight at the back would make it go fast so thats what we did. We went back and forth testing our race car until time was up. We all sat down and watched cars race down the ramp. Ours was first. We were against someone and we won. We had a chance...although we thought. As more and more cars went down the ramp we knew we were not gonna be on that podium. In the end we were no where close to the top, although our car did go down the ramp we lost, and what a great loss it was.

Comment down below what you like to do with Lego!

Junk food or no junk food?

 Hi Everyone and welcome back to my blog, 

Today I have a debate that needs to be settled among the schools. Should schools have junk food?

Comment below to share your views on the subject. Enjoy!

Junk food should be allowed and served at school

Junk food, delicious food served at takeaways but not at school. Yes not at school! Wouldn't you love to open your lunch box and see a juicy burger and some french fries waiting for you to dig in? Don't you think that schools these days are getting a little unfair. 

A lack of food can cause a lack of energy which would cause a slump in children's focus. Why can't they just eat normal food you ask, not many kids like the food put in their lunchboxes and that causes them not to eat it due to a lack of appetite.

These are some more reasons why Junk food should be allowed and served at school.

Ever forgot your lunch and the teachers gave you something disgusting to eat but you had to eat it because you had no lunch. Ever been tired one morning and don't want to go to school, junk food waiting for you can boost your excitement and make you extra ready to get to school. 

So teachers and parents, pack a nice big burger, hot dog or more in your child's lunch. Do you agree that it will bring a brighter day to your child's life?

Umbrella- A story of empathy, love and gratfullness

 Hi again, 

We have been writing a small chunk of the short film Umbrella which is all about a girl who went to visit an orphanage and her whole life was changed. Through a small act of kindness she had made the greatest choice of her life. Here is my chunk comment below what you think!

-Umbrella-

One foggy dawn, while the dew fell upon the leaves, the door to Miss Elm’s Home for Children sprang open with a bang! The girl with the stunning, sunshine yellow umbrella tiptoed reluctantly into the orphanage, quickly finding a safe home for her umbrella. And not wanting to be seen Boris crisply whipped his head round the door frame so he was hidden from view. Standing off to the side the little girl watched the glorious scene as the children searched in the box for her lost treasures. A smile glistened across the girl's face as she watched the other young girl clutch the doll as if she was her own mother. The girl's smile swiftly melted as she looked over to the umbrella stand that was left with puddles of cold water. Her beloved umbrella had been stolen before her very eyes.

I hope you like the story for the real clip search Umbrella short film on YouTube or click the link below.

Link to clip=Umbrella ( short film )

Tumu's birthday months!!

 Hi again and welcome to my blog!

My goal was to display data using a stem and leaf graph, choose an appropriate data, display using more than one variable, interpret information from graphs plan an investigation. To do this we first collected data on everyone favourite numbers and favourite activity. Later today we made graph about everyone's birthdays. First we collected everyone's birthday data by standing up when they called out our names then we made a sheet with everyone's months and went through the steps of making a graph. Next we got to make our own graph. We had all the data already so we just had to put it into two charts. After doing that we put the charts on a google drawing and made some statements about the graphs.

These are my graphs I hope you like them

What month do you think has the most birthdays?

The secret to multiplication.

 Hi guys,

Today I am gonna be showing you the secret to  multiplication. Multiplication is very easy and can be not  that complicated. Here is the video! I hope you enjoy and learn the secret to Multiplication.

What have you learnt  from this post? Comment below

How to tell the time

Hi welcome back to my blog! Today I am teaching you how to tell the time. When your telling the time on a digital clock there is a 24 hour time. Thats when the time says the numbers on going after the 12pm it continues with 13 14 and 15 instead of 1 2 and 3. You can learn all about it in my slideshow! I hope you enjoy! 

What did you learn from this post?

Tumu's tremendous town trip!

 Tumu Town Trip!

Hi everyone! Thank you for tuning into my blog today! On Thursday 20th of May 2021 me and my hub went on a fun trip to town. We had so much fun and I hope you have fun reading and learning all about our trip! We first stopped at Margaret Mahy. At Margret Mahy we stopped and talked about what we were going to do that day then Rata went to Victoria square named after Queen Victoria.

Victoria Square!

On our way to Victoria Square we saw lots of Māori artwork. When we got there we got to explore. I saw a pou. It has a lot of Maori designs on it. There was a picnic table that talked about sharing and gathering together. We also saw a statue of Queen Victoria and Captain Cook. I learned that Captain Cook was the first Englishman to step foot on New Zealand. We also saw a maori mat. It talked about gathering together and sharing. It was number 8 of the 13 mats in New Zealand. We also drew the pou and its designs as we leaned on the picnic table. Victoria Square was super fun and super cool, but I knew there was a lot more fun ahead of me!

Margret Mahy!

Our next rotation was with Mrs Carney. We walked over to Margret Mahy park with our parent helpers and teacher aids. At Margret Mahy we met Mrs Carney and started our rotation. We talked about what was important in the park and the story behind it being built. We talked about how people were afraid of coming out from their homes after the earthquake and how they made the park to attract people back to the city. After we learned all that important information we got to have a scavenger hunt! We got into buddies. My buddy was Lucy. We walked around looking for the things on the list. After that we talked about the things on the list and its connection to New Zealand. After we all got pieces of paper and some crayons. We put our paper against one of our favorite carvings and rubbed our crayon against it making the design appear on the paper. After a few more minutes of drawing we all moved back to our spot and had some morning tea and continued onto the next rotation. 

The Mats and Tuna!

The first mat we saw was the one in the Margaret mahy park. Mrs Bryce told us what it ment and how the designs all had different meanings. This mat was about playing, having fun and family. One of the patterns looked like leaves. It talked about healing leafs that were actually used to heal. We thought they added healing leaves because people might get hurt at the park. Next we went out of the park. We looked at some other mats around Christchurch. We saw three mats with Mrs Bryce. It was super fun but the fun had only just begun. Next we headed over to the Eels. We were super blessed and lucky because we got to feed them. I learned that the Moari name for Eels was Tuna. I also learned that the Tuna in cans were pronounced Chu-na. We all got some cat food to feed the Eels. I saw one but it did not eat from my spoon so I just dropped the food in the water. Beth was really lucky because the eel ate the food right off her spoon! I loved that rotation because we got to feed the eels!

Waka!

The Waka was my last rotation but it was my favourite! I had been waiting all day for that moment. When I saw other people on the Waka I thought it would be easy to just glide across the water… But I was wrong! I headed onto the water and we used Moari commands to know when to move in the water. When the commander would say some magic words we would start. We would chant He! When we put the oars in the water, we would say Ha! When we hit on the put. When I went back and forth on the water creating ripples. It was so fun! It was my first ever time on any kind of boat! Yes, it was my favorite but again I tell you it was hard work! 

I loved my trip and I highly recommend going! I had a time of my life and still learned so much! On this trip the thing I found most interesting was why they built Margaret mahy. The trip has helped me with my PBL because I have learned all this information and seen all this artwork and I would love to incorporate them into our school!Did you know about those things before this post? Comment down below and tell me all your experiences and learning about those places before and after the post.

Whakatauki

Hello, this week in Te reo we have been learning about Whakatauki's. A Whakatauki is a Moari saying, proverb or quote. Whakatauki's are usually used in speechs. Today I am gonna share a Whakatauki with you! 

What do you think that this Whakatauki is about and what does it mean to you? Comment below. See you soon!

Tūranga

Tūranga

Ki ora and welcome back to my blog. Today I did some research about the Tūranga Library. I hope you enjoy.

The Tūranga Library is a very sophisticated and aesthetic building. It is worth 92 million NZ dollars. After the earthquake this library is one of the most iconic buildings. The Tūranga Library is a 5 storey building. It is a fun place for the whole family. The building was first opened on 12 of October 2018 and has since become the cities living room. It has a large range of fun activities for children and adults of all ages. From video games to pop up books and much more. It has a cafe where adults can catch up and grab a cup of tea. There are also many spaces for quite studying so as the 5th and 4th floor. It is welcome to everyone.

Have you been to Tūranga? You really should visit! Comment down below on your past expriences.

Early Christchurch and Christchurch now

 Ki ora, 

Today I was learning about Ōtautahi-Christchurch. The name Ōtautahi comes from the Moari cheif tuatahi. He owned a large amount of Ōtautahi coming from the Margret Mahy Playground stretching out a bit.  Today the area the tautahi owned is replaced with the Margret Mahy Playground which is a fun family playground known throughout New Zealand. The Playground was built after the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. The first settlers in Christchurch were the European Moa Hunters. They set forests on fire so they could use the Moas for food. Between 1500 and 1700 the North Island Moari came to Christchurch. By then the Moa hunters were all killed or left Christchurch. 

What have you learned. Comment below

Blogtastic Blogging!

Welcome again to my blog,

Today I will be showing you how to  be an awesome blogger! Its also got a lot of information about it including: How to make a good blog post, good blog comment and how to embed. To write a good blog post you need a catchy title to hook your readers to read your post. Next you need an introduction like this explaining what your post is about.  After that you need a body. The body includes your blog post. Usually it includes a DLO or maybe a picture. Last you need a conclusion. The conclusion wraps everything together. Everything about commenting and embedding. I hope you learn something from my post.

What have you learned today? Write in the comments

Terrific Tumu Tree's!

 Team Leaf's

Good Evening everyone, this post is about Tumu's team flowers and leafs and what they represent. There are four tree's: Rātā, Mānia, Kōhia and Korokio. 

I Hope you like this. Do you have any of these leafs or flowers around your home? Comment down below if you do. 

Postcard

 Kia ora,

This week I have been working on a Maori postcard. This postcard is about the Treaty of Waitangi.

I created a stamp and a letter that was supposed to be made in the 1840s. I really enjoyed creating my stamp. I found it a bit hard to trace around the New Zealand map. 

I hope you enjoy this post.

☘️Super Stunning St Patricks day☘️

 Happy St Patricks day! Today I have gathered up many posts about St Pattys day. I found out many fun facts about St Patrick and what he did while he was alive. I was very impressed by what I had learned and I hope you are impressed too. 

What have you learnt from this post?

Classic, Cool, Classy Comic

 Ki ora!

This week we have been working on our te reo. We had new Kupu O Te Weke the week. 

I really enjoyed my time making this create. This comic is about to people who are having a conversation half te reo half english. 

I hope you enjoy it! 

Kei te pēhea koe? Answer in the comments! Bye!

R.E Oscar Romero

 Ki ora, 

Today me and my hub at St Francis of a Assisi Catholic school made posters, slideshows or screencastifys about Oscar Romero. 

Oscar Romero is a saint that lived a couple of years ago. He gave up his life for the right thing. He wanted to make sure that the world was safe and fair for everyone that lived in it. He wanted to make the world a better place to live in. 

Because its lent we learned about Oscar Romero. Lent is a time for us to care more about people. 

Oscar Romero - finding a way to work together to transform our world into one that promotes love, hope and justice for all. 

Below is a poster about Oscar Romero

The treaty of Waitangi

 Kia ora everyone, 

Recently I made a poster about the treaty of Waitangi. The treaty of Waitangi is a agreement between the Māori and the British. The British made a agreement with the Māori that said that the British had sovereignty over Māori the  that means that the British are the boss over the Māori translation of the treaty did not say the same thing they thought they were working together. 

Every year in February we celebrate Waitangi. These are some more facts and ideas about Waitangi, I hope you enjoy it!

What have you learned about Waitangi from this post? 

My Māori Conversation Comic

 My Maori Conversation Comic

This past week we have been working on our Māori. For our create we made a comic conversation either on a google drawing or on a slideshow. I chose a slideshow. We had special kupu/words that we had to learn and memorise. We had questions that we had to add to our comic. I hope you enjoy my comic :>

Here are some questions in Māori answer : Ko wai tō ingoa/Whats your name? 

Answer in the comments! Bye!

 Duolingo french

Hi guys, welcome 2021! To kick this year off I started learning french!

French is a popular language and I had on my goals for the year to learn a new language. To learn french I am using an app called duolingo. Duolingo has multiple languages you can learn from. So far I have learned a few words about people like femme which means girl. There are also heaps of other things you can do, you can read a book in the language your learning to increase your vocab. 

You should check it out if your interested in learning a new language. 

Down below is a photo of the duolingo have fun!!!