A Tower Of News

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we did a steam challenge. The steam challenge was to make the tallest tower we can out of 2 sheets of newspaper and 30 cm of tape. Me Izaiah and Muscles were in a group together and we worked well together but we took too long for planning. In the end we only just finished but the base was too flimsy and we knew it would not hold. Once we were called to measure our tower I went up and kept trying to stand our tower up but in the end it didn’t work. We learnt that for the base we used newspaper is way too flimsy for it to work. I think we did well at working as a group and not giving up even though it may have gotten hard at times. I think next time we could be a bit faster so we get the tower 100% done.

A Fabulous Comedy

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to make our own short movies. Me and my buddies (Izaiah F & Kingi) chose to make our movie about problems only New Zealanders will understand which are, top and tail, when your nana says “back in my day…”, when your friend 1-ups you in everything, the overprotective mum, when you don’t have shoes, hori socks, asking parents to go to the bro’s house, when all the good parts of the boil up are gone and  when your at the marae and your in the back of the food line . I enjoy learning about how to cause more effect with different camera shots and learning how to make a really good and easy to understand script. Because me and my buddies were making a comedy we had to make each problem funny so I had to try and make the problems that I did funny. I learnt a couple new camera shots like an upward shot which is from the ground looking up and a side view shot which is from the left or right side of the character. I really enjoyed making the script but I think we need to speed up the process a bit. We haven’t made our movie yet but when it’s made I will put it on my blog. Would you like to watch this movie? If you have some tips write them down below in the comments. Thank you.

Steps To A Magnificent Blog Post

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about how to make a quality blog post. We learnt about the 6 steps of a quality blog post which are: a catchy title, an introduction, the DLO, your reflection on what you learnt, the sources of where your photos are from if needed and the question. The reason these steps are important is because it makes your audience want to read and comment on your posts. I learnt that the title actually is important because before I just thought it was the learning that was important and nothing else. A challenge I had to overcome was finding catchy titles for my posts but I think I did well so far since I learnt this. I enjoyed learning about this because I enjoy making blog posts and DLOs. Did these steps help you at all? Thank you.

The Amazing Subtraction Strategy

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about word problems . except for Me and my friend Ben, we learnt a new maths strategy called borrowing and paying back which is helpful because it’s good for some equations but also for some equations it doesn’t work at all for example 387 - 264 because there is no borrowing required in this equation. The reason Mr Lindsay taught us this is because me and Ben are really into maths and are both good at it. This strategy helps me a lot in subtraction because it is a really straightforward strategy. This is also quite an easy strategy to learn. I think my next step for maths would be percentages and fractions of certain numbers.Here is my DLO to explain the strategy. What do you think about this strategy?

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Kapa Haka Dress Rehearsal

yesterday 17/9/19 The Kapa Haka Roopu went to the memorial hall in Kaikohe for our dress rehearsal for the upcoming Kaikohe Cultural Festival. The reason we had a dress rehearsal for the cultural festival was to find out what the stage is like and how much space there was so we knew we could line up how we usually do. Unfortunately we weren't able to because the amount of space there was coming on to the stage was a lot smaller. Also we were not staying for all the performances because the hall would be filled up with whanau so there wasn't going to be enough room for us to stay. I think we did quite well but we still have a few things to work on. I really enjoyed watching the other groups performances my favourite group was the older group from Kaikohe East because they did an amazing hip hop dance. I really can’t wait for our real performance on Thursday.

Character Dimensions

In Te Ngahere we made character dimension DLOs. I really enjoyed doing this because I like describing dimensions of characters. If you don’t know what character dimensions are they are how you describe a character in a story or movie. The 1st dimension is describing how the characters look like if one is a female or a male and what the character is wearing. The 2nd dimension is describing their phobias/fears, their weaknesses ,their dreams and their backstory. Then finally the 3rd dimension describes their wants and desires, who they really are and the choices they have made. Here is my character DLO to give further information about character dimensions.

Word Problems

In Te Ngahere we have been practising our word problems in maths. We were trying to find out how to change word problems into number problems. I personally really enjoyed doing this because maths is my favourite subject and doing this I get better and better at word problems. I think next time I could write in my book a bit neater and explain my working a bit better. Here is one of the questions we did.