Category: Hanga | Create

Collaborative Art

LI:  To use different types of warm and cool colours to recreate a world-known painting from Van Gogh.

This week’s art is about Van Gogh and his famous art piece “The Starry Night”. The Class was divided into 2 groups of 16 people, 1 of each group remade “The Starry Night” in warm colours and cool colours digitally. Each group divided 16 pieces of the Starry Night with each person in the group. Working as a collaborative team we gathered all or pieces to 1 DLO to finally reach our desired outcome.

I found this activity fun and helpful because it helps us collaborate together as a team and get used to talking with different people.

Moko-Ika-Hikuwaru

Moka Ika Waru is a Taniwha that has 8 tails and it’s a Water Maori Legend. We had to use our imagination and our own skills to create our own taniwha  without tracing.  It lives in deep oceans with dangerous currents. This myth makes the Moka Ika Waru a special creature in panmure.

I found this activity fun because it helps me use my own skills and imagination on creating things.

Brochure

LI: To remember and give information about Kokako Lodge.

After camp, we created a brochure about information and highlights about our experiences at Kokako Lodge. We used our persuasive skills and gave reasons to why our audience would want to go. We used pictures to show what it is like at Kokako Lodge and what they have to offer.

I found this activity entertaining because we explained our audiences why they should go to Kokako Lodge so they could have a fun time there.

Moment in Time

LI: To recount and explore the learning and experiences from our Year 7/8 camp

Our group wrote a poem based on our senses like auditory, tactile, visual, and kinesthetic. We used our prior knowledge of the senses and unpacked different words and ideas that describes the Hunua Falls. These moment in time poems represent our experience at Kokako Lodge. One of our ideas were “The waterfall was falling down”. We then used word hippo to find more powerful words to strengthen our poems.

I found this activity helpful because it helps me find more powerful words to make my text more interesting. 

Collage

LI: To create a collage of photos to represent our experience at Kokako Lodge.

Our class created a collage of photos representing the time and experience we had at Kokako Lodge. The collage shows our achievements and the fun we experienced while being at camp. These photos also showcase the challenges we faced and how we overcame them. The collage we created is like a portfolio, that can give us a reminder on how we accomplished these difficult achievements.  

I found this activity fun because it gives us a reminder of the adventures we went on.

Digital Escape Rooms

LI: To create a digital escape room that allows others to practise their knowledge of prefixes and suffixes

       

This week I learnt how to create a digital escape room using Google forms. All my questions are on the affixes because writing the questions/answers and wrong answers really made me think about the definitions for the suffix. At the end I needed to find a partner, so me and my partner could try out each other’s escape room and give each other feedback on our escape room. 

I found this activity fun because I learnt how to create digital escape rooms so others could practise their knowledge.

Mrs Anderson has created a page on our site with all our escape rooms on it. Click on this link to crack our codes and increase your knowledge of affixes.

Basic Facts Challenge

LI: To recall basic facts at speed

   

Today we began our basic facts challenge. The purpose of this challenge is to increase the speed we can recall these facts as this knowledge will help us when we are working with larger numbers. My time today was 3 minutes and 50 seconds. My goal for next time is to complete Multiplication on random. To achieve this I will need to practise my Multiplications while I’m at home.

SSR Selfie – Philip Reeve Night Flights

I read 9 page about the Philip Reeve Night Flights book which it was made by Ian Mcque.

The story was about In the dangerous future world of Mortal Engines, huge motorized cities hunt, attack and devour each other. It in their that Anna’s home was consumed by Arkangel, the Great Predator City. She was separated from her parents and kept as a slave in the dark belly of arkangel – but Anna in determined to be free again.

I enjoyed this activity because I read a book about the Philip Reeve Night Flights. I did well at finding words. I need to improve on reading properly.

 

Commanding Conversation

I completed a can-do task called Commanding Conversation.

First, I had to pick an image.

Next, I had to think of a name for the people that is on the image. For an example: There are 2 girls in the picture, so the little girl name is Katie and the women will be Kate who is Katie’s Mother.

Last, I had to type in a conversation that describes the image.

I enjoyed this activity because I typed down a conversation on many different kind of images.