Mele Creative Writing
I am a New Zealand Native Tree, my bark is dark brown and spiky at the bottom. If you feel my bark it will be very rough, my leaves are long,flat, green and spongy. My leaves will start to turn white in three to four years. I really like the flowers that I have on me. They are White with a little yellow. They have a green stem, and if I am not grown yet I am purple. I can also grow up to 12 meters. You can find me near Streams and other wet
areas.
Today in Inquiry, TWP 4 & 6 are learning about all Native Trees. We did an activity about what different type of leaves and what tree they belong to, the other activity we did was what native tree is this. I worked with Aurora, and she was helping me understand the different kind of trees and leaves. I really had fun learning about Native Tree and leaves. Here is my Actives.
Today my group and I explored a Native Tree, and the Tree was an Ponga Tree.We are learning about New Zealand Native Trees, because it is important to all pacific islanders, and it can help us when we are sick. Some plants can be used for medicine like a Kawakawa, we did an activity about our Ponga tree, and explored all the different thing in it, I also made an word art .Here is my activities.
Today at home, I did a Cybersmart Challenge, about me and things i like to do. I like this because you guys out there get to kwn me, Here is my activity.
Today i filled out something about our group work and how we worked together on our diorama. I rated how we worked together, and what we can do to improve. Here it is.
In RE Saint Threase Whanau Group, made a Graffiti Page about Pentecost, If you don't know what Pentecost is, it's when the Holy Spirit comes down on the disciples and makes speck God word, with Courage. We all, found Key words about Pentecost and had fun. Here is our Graffiti Page.
Today TWP 4 went to Life Education, and are learning about body parts in our digest system, we all had to get facts about five different body parts in our system. When we got the five body parts, we wrote facts about them and what we know. I did that i had fun doing it learning new things, and learning about out System in our body. Here is a Picture.
Today in Maori TWP 4 are learning sentences in Maori and the first Sentence was Ke Te Pehea ... Ahua. We did this activity about the sentence and how to reply and we had to choose five classmates to reply and the reply was ke te Ora Ahau, and ora means well, and they had to pick of what they are feeling right now.We are all learning to express how we're feeling in te reo Māor. My five Classmates where Moala ,Maraia, Melenaite, Ana ,Krystal. After that i did a screencastify with all their voices and now i am blogging it. I hope you like it. Here is my Audio and Activity.
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Moala , Melenaite, Maraia , Krystal, Ana
Today in math i have been answering Multiplication questions, useing place value. Today's hard question was 54 x 5, first of what i did was separated 54 in a tidy numbers 50 and 4 then I draw 5 circles and put the number in them and then i do, 5 x 4 = 20 and then 5 x 50 = 250 and the 20 + 250 = 270.Therefore 54 x 5 is 270.
This week I have been learning about Jesu Ascension and what Ascension is. I have done an activity about what Ascension is. Here is my Activity
Today in RE, TWP are working on Jesus' Ascension and what we known about it . We had an activity to match columns, there were sentences that we had to match in column a and combined it with column b. We also had to create a storyboard of the main things that we had in the columns. Here is my activity!
1. Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, 50 days before Ascension Day.
2. On Thursday of the week that followed Palm Sunday, Jesus had his last meal with his Apostle.
3. The day after his last supper Jesus was put to death on a cross on Carvely Hill. 4. Jesus laid in the tomb for 3 days and then God raised him up.
5. After his resurrection Jesus showed himself to his friends and some of them that didn't recognize him.
6. He spent time with his apostle and told them that he was going to return to his Father.
7. 50 days after Palm Sunday Jesus was taken by God to share his glory in heaven.
8. Because Jesus entered heaven in glory he made it possible for his followers to do the same.
Today in Inquiring, TWP 4 did this activity about Plants and Tahuna Tōrea, we first went back to Tahuna Tōrea and imagined that we were there and went back to when we had our moment of awe. If you don't know what awe is, it means like a moment of wonder. We made an activity about it . I hope you learn more about it, What we are learning about to allow our inner response to flow and be captured in words form. Here is my Learning!!!
Today in Religious Education ( RE ) TWP 4 are learning to recognise that Jesus promised a place for people i n Heaven. My whanau group St. Therese, has some year 5 and 6 in there, so I worked with Xavier, t get this activity done. The activity is about "What we know about Jesus Ascension", and the meaning of Ascension is like when Jesus went up into heaven, Ascension means up you go up in the sky. I had fun working with Xavier and finishing this activity . Here is my Work.
Yesterday on the 10th of May TWP 4&6 went to Tahuna Torea Park and discovered the different Native Trees and plants, and how the Mangroves can survive the mud. We all had a fun time there, we search and discovered the areas of the Bush walk , Sand Dune and Mangroves. I really liked how we wrote down every Native trees we saw and felt it,like if it was rough or soft.
My favorite part about the trip was that we learnt more about trees and nature,and it can help me because we have been learning about Plants. Here is my Activities.
Today in Class we have made an graffitied page about St. Therese. We chose her because she is an loving person and kind person that healed the sick. My Whanaua Group made and Graffitied page and added information, about St. Therese. We had fun making it and putting interesting information in. Here is Our Graffitied Page.
This week in Inquiry i have learnt some new words and meaning for them. I watched a video and got the most important words and foundx the meaning . Here are my Words 😃😃👍
Autotroph - They make their own organic molecules,rather than getting them by eating other organisms. Photosynthesis - Photosynthesis
is a process by a green plant and their certain organisms,transforming light energy into chemical energy. Multicellular - More than one cell.
Mosses - A small flowerless green plant that
grows in damps.
Terrestrial - Evolved on land.
Fern - A plant which has feathery or leafy frouns.
Protesis - A single cell organism.
Conifer - A type of tree that bears cones
and needle like leaves. Seed Plants -A plant that produces seeds.
This week i have been reading this article about how "Trees Talk to Each Other". In this one study Suzanne Simard watch a Douglas Fir being attacked by insects and sent warning to pine tree and the the pine tree sent defense to the Douglas Fir and protective the Douglas Fir.Did you know that Trees can talk to each other in cooperative ways. I have learned new words and found the meaning to them, and I have retold part of the sorry if you want to read the whole article, Link. Here is my Writing.
What is the article about?
Trees are social creatures, that can talk with each other in cooperative
ways, that hold lessons for humans, too, ecologist Suzanne Simard
say suzanne grew up in Canadian forests, and then she became a
forest ecologist. She is now a professor at the University of British
Columbia.
Trees are linked into neighboring trees by an underground network
of Fungi. In one study Suzanne watched a Douglas Fir (a plant) that was
being attacked
by insects then in some way sent warning signals to a pine tree for
defense enzymes to protect the Douglas Fir against the insects.
Glossary
Enzymes - Enzymes are a substance that produce, by a living organism
which acts as a catalyst
Ecology - Ecology The branch of biology that deals with the relations
of organisms to one another and to their physical surround.Facilitate - Facilitate is when you make a move or an action.
Today Saint Pius X Catholic School (SPX) and I had a very special mass, about Mothers Day, all the reader's came with their mum to read there part. It was very special to all the mother's and at the end Father Felise belled all the Mothers.
This week TWP 4 and I k and started working on our Mother's day writing, we all had to write ten things of what we appreciate about Mother, Nana,Consins, and then choose your top three and the in our tides handwriting we wrote it and i was proud of mine.
We started Quilling our colour of paper, i really like the colour it was red,white pink and maroon, quilling is when you get a piece of paper and twirly the piece of paper and then glue it on the piece of paper. Here is a video Link.
Here is my Writing , I appreciate my mum because, when I am sad or mad she makes me warm by giving me a hug. I know my mum loves me, because when I am facing hard times she helps get through them. I love my mum because she makes me feel loved and she support me in every choice I make. I appreciate my Nana because she surprises me, with gifts and makes me warm. I know my Nana loves because she helps me when I get hurt. I love my Nana because she loves me unconditionally.
I really like making this cards . Here are some pictures.
