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Diary WW1

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there.

 

For Reading and Writing we were learning about the Trenches in World War 1 creating our own diary entries and Imagining how or what would we do if we were in WW1. Creating ideas and learning new information about ANZAC was so fun to work on. We went onto this site that took us to all of the NZ soldiers diary’s and what they wrought thought the War. We used Google vids to help us record our own diary entries. I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to share my ideas with my classmates and teachers and helping me learn more about ANZAC, Something I found very interesting was that how our class got to discover the site we use to look on Hami Graces Diary and the other NZ soldiers. I realized that how tight the trenches were.

Time Traveller’s Podcast ft Samuel Marsden

Samuel Marsden

For this activity we were challenged to create a podcast about Reverend Samuel Marsden. We have used our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden as if we were talking to him. On Adobe Express we used the Podcast tool to record our voices and script we collaborated together and had created. For our roles Armani and Amorangi was Samuel Marsden, and the hosts were Jaeliyah, Hasna, and Valencia. I enjoyed doing this fun activity because we all got turns in taking part and we joined our knowledge of Samuel Marsden together and it helped us get more understandment.

I learnt while doing this task was to always use expression in what your saying because it makes it sound better and be confident because if your not confident no one will hear you speak up.

Mapping The Migratory Flight of the Kuaka

LI: To use Google My Maps to show the migratory flight path of the Kuaka.

For our task we learnt about the Kuaka bird and where it travels daily around New Zealand. Going onto Google maps and going on Google to search up where does the kuaka bird travel around New Zealand when they get back from Alaska. We all know we got a lot of questions why can’t the kuaka bird just stay in one place around New Zealand. The food that that the Kuaka bird eats is Worms , Shellfish and Insects they usually eat it around Coastal Areas like beaches. They stop around New Zealand to refuel their body to have energy to fly to Alaska to their breeding grounds. A interesting fact about the Kuaka bird is that they fly up to 12,000 kilometers from Alaska to New Zealand.

 

The Kuaka

LI: To create an infographic that tells others about the migration of the kuaka

Something interesting I found out about the Kuaka was that they are one of the most fastest bird in New Zealand they can fly from New Zealand to Alaska back under 11 days. From this DLO I can see a lot of information about the Kuaka bird Apperance , Fun Facts , Habitat and Diet talking about where it lives and what it eats and super fun facts about it and when did they come to New Zealand.

 

 

Dot to Dot Connections

LI: To draw the lines between the words to show how the connections you have made.

As a group create a blog blurb that explains the information in our own words. If you collaborated say what this means and how this helped you combine your knowledge because we know what the definition of words that are simallar to flying and kuaka. Something our group found interesting was how good our teamwork was and how collaborate with eachother because we talked to eachother as a group and helped ones that were sturggling.

Photo Story

LI: To understand the concept of visual storytelling.

Our task was creating a Photo story of our walk to Pt England Reserve by using the photos from the walk. To create a story by using photos we want to put the photos in the right order explaining how fun our walk was I always wondered how long it was. One thing I liked about our walk was playing sports after we walked to Pt England Reserve.

Camp Collage / Movie

LI: To create a collage of images or short movie that reflects my time at camp

Our camp at Kokako Lodge in Hunua was showing what we did at Kokako Lodge. My collage or movie show was about the activities we did and how we did it. I chose these photos because it can show the world on how we felt and what we looked like. My favourite part of camp was the great pancake race because we get to eat the pancakes and decorate it.

The Kokako

LI: To use our smart searching skills

Our Year 7/8 camp was at Kokako Lodge in Hunua. Our challenge today was to use our smart searching skills to find out about the kokako bird and create an infographic to share the facts we researched in our own words. Something I found interesting about the kokako bird was that the kokako bird is a large song bird.

A Moment In Time

LI: To write a poem that describes a moment in time

At camp we had lots of challenge activities to try. Our challenge in with our poem was to chose our words carefully so that we painted a clear picture of what we were describing in the mind of our readers and I have described what it was like to to feel facing our fears while challenging ourself to the activities we were doing at camp. We chose this challenge because we can tell the world how we felt facing our fears and the activities.

 

What Samuel Marsden Saw

LI: To use the information in the diary extract to create an image of what we think Samuel Marsden saw when he sailed down the Tamaki awa.

We used Adobe Express to to create what Samuel Marsden saw back in 1830.We included using Adobe Express and used AI to help us because we can give the words to give what should we put in what Samuel Marsden saw back in the day. We learnt that we have to give more details in AI to get the photo or drawing we want.