Nativity Scene

 WALT: Review the reading strategies we have been learning this term.

In Room 2 our hotspot is all about reviewing the stuff we did this year.

We had to make a animation about the Nativity Scene.

Have you ever made something like this?

Advent - Patient

WALT: Read a monologue

In Room 2 for our R.E we have been learning about the virtue Patience. 

Today we had to read a monologue. It was a bit challenging because I had to read it by myself.

The monologue we had to read was about what Patience is. 

Covenants - Gods Agreements

 WALT: Understand Gods Covenants

For RE in Room 2 we have been learning about Gods agreements - Covenants. Covenants are big agreements that God made with people living on Earth. For example, God made a Covenant with Noah because once he sent the big flood, he said ¨I won´t send anymore floods.¨

Symmetry Art for Maths

 WALT: Create Symmetrical Art

 In Maths in Room 2 we have been learning about Geometry, particularly symmetry. We have made Symmetry Sculptures, and today we have made symmetry art. We got 2 different pieces of coloured card paper, and we folded one in half, made a design, and then picked what side was better. 

We cut the folded line and then cut figure out.  We put the figure on one side, and put the leftover paper on the other. 

Have you ever made a design like this?

Symmetry Sculpture

 WALT: Make a sculpture that is symmetrical!

In Room 2 we are learning about symmetry for Maths. Today, Miss Pownall gave us around 9 pieces of paper, then we arranged all the paper together. Miss Pownall stapled them together! It was our job to fold it and make it symmetrical! 

Have you ever done something like this?

Here it is:

R.E: Virtue - Serving - John 13 1 - 17

 WALT: Understand the virtue of serving 

In Room 2 our virtue for these 2 weeks is Serving, We had to get into buddies and make a comic strip on John 13 1 - 17. This bible story was about the Washing Of The Feet. Me and Alex made this comic.

Have you ever made a comic before? (Zoom in to see the picture better)

St Francis of Assisi - R.E

 WALT: Understand the life of a saint 

In Room 2 we have been learning about All Souls Day and how people become saints. After learning more about the saints, we got to get into buddies and make a slide about ONE saint. Me and Londyn were paired up together, and it took around 3 R.E sessions to complete. We chose St Francis of Assisi.

Did you know St Francis of Assisi's Feast day is on October the 4th? 

Here is the slide!

Communion of Saints

 WALT: Know who is part of the Communion of Saints

In Room 2 our R.E task was to make a Google Drawing of The Communion of Saints. There is 3 sections of the group. 

• People going through Purgatory
• People in Heaven
• Living people

Here this the D.L.O. (Thanks to Dakota for helping me!)

Inquiry, Technology - The design process: Brainstorm

 WALT: Follow the Technology Design Process (TDP)

In Room 2 for our Inquiry we are following the TDP because we are going to make Christmas decorations. Our client was Ms Rooney and she asked for Catholic Christmas Decorations and the first thing we had to do was to make a brainstorm about what we would do!

Environmental Problem - Writing Piece - Wildfires 🔥

 WALT: Write an explanation 

In Room 2 these past 2 weeks we have been focusing on environmental problems and how the world is reacting to it. One of our task was to write and explanation about an environmental problem, and I chose Wildfires, since it is 2 problems in 1 because it also harms the problem: Deforestation. Wildfires burn down our forests and animals homes, so its a big threat to our Earth! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Here is the writing piece:

Did you know that if we don't try to help the effect of Wildfires on our Earth, 8,000 Wildfires could happen in the next year? Wildfires are a much bigger threat to the earth than you think, because at the end of this year, there will have been around 4,000 - 5,000 Wildfires. That's crazy! How big is this issue? How can we fix it?

If you are in a country where it’s very sunny, like Australia, there is a much higher chance of a Wildfire happening. Australia is also known for their Wildfires, and the amount of fires that are occurring is just going to get larger if we don’t try and find solutions.

The Wildfires are the sun. The second they touch something, there is no escape for it. Wildfires are just like a house fire. Wildfires travel fast and aren't a help for the Earth, because all the smoke rises to the air, and pollutes it. Wildfires are also another reason why birds are going extinct. The air makes it hard to breathe and their homes are all burned to ashes. 

The main reason why these wild raging Wildfires are appearing are because of cigarette butts. People who smoke carelessly throw them into a bush, or in a forest. The cigarette butt could still be on fire, or very hot and that starts a fire. Lots of people, and animals, especially Koalas. Now all of you are probably not aware of how many Koalas are actually damaged. Around 60,000 are hurt or pass away from Wildfires. Koalas live in the forest and when a Wildfire occurs, it ruins their homes and damages them. Lots of Koalas get terribly affected, and it's so unfair. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

So, How can we try to stop this madness? Some solutions we could use to narrow down the amount of fires are: Keep your vehicles off dry grass, and make sure your campfire is ice cold before leaving, or going to sleep or when you wake up, there might be a huge Wildfire! Usually fires happen in unpopulated areas, or they can happen naturally by the heat of sunlight, or a lighting strike, because all a Wildfire needs to occur is just fuel, oxygen and heat. Some days in certain countries the chance of a Wildfire could go straight up from 40% to 70%!! 

A huge reason why we need to stop Wildfires is because lots of people and species are affected by it. Wildfires are linked with deforestation, so a Wildfire is basically 2 problems in 1, since they destroy forest’s and lots of animals' homes, including birds and other animals who use forest’s as a place they can use to live, get teared down to ruins. Stopping Wildfires is a must. If we do somehow make a huge effect on Wildfires. That number of 5,000 could go down to around 500 - 1,000!

In conclusion, the faster we try to stop these the better the Earth would be much healthier because there isn’t so much pollution going around. Australia is suffering a huge drought with all their fires. If we help we will help the firefighters from doing so much work and it will help all the people who suffer from these terrible fires. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

..Maths Question - Finishing Week 2..Year 5..

 WALT: Practice our maths knowledge

In Room 2 our teacher has told us to finish our Maths Work for Week 1 and Week 2. Once we had finished the Math Slide we picked one of the slides that we did and share it to our blog explaining the strategy we used to complete it.

 The strategy I used for this slide is: I used circles for each car, and I knew that if each car was 2 cars, all I had to to was count in 2 and add 1 instead of 2 when there was a half a car, since half of 2 is 1. 

Where in the wold is NBC Quacker!?

 WALT: Use our imagination!

In Room 1 and Room 2 we have been doing writing, and for our writing we had to use a picture of a duck and put him anywhere! Dakota in our class had originally made the duck and it represents our school! We call him "NBC Quacker" We had to use our imagination, and I think its very funny, my classmates did too!

(Credits to Dakota for the Duck Picture) 

My duck is right now is at a Press Conference, and her name is Jacinda Quackdern and is making a very important announcement to her fellow ducklings. We better not disturb her! It looks "very" important. She is talking about how ducks will rule the world!? Oh no.. I will never watch the news anymore! 

I have just heard very important new from HUMANS! The ducks are right now taking over all the hot-dog stands.. OH NO! Now there is a Quack Kong? He is taking over the skyscraper! NOOOOO! Wait.. I see something outside...

Environmental Problems: School Work - Climate Change!

 WALT:  Solve problems and solutions

In Room 2 we have been learning about environmental problems. One of the tasks we had to do was to make a slideshow about one problem around our Earth. I did mine about Climate Change. I thought that Climate Change was a big problem and that the slideshow would get people to understand it more.

Kadoo African Drummers coming to our school!

 WALT: Reflect on our experience

Today, at NBC we were lucky enough to have some Kadoo African drummers come to our school to teach us a special song from their country and let people have some turns on the drums! They also taught us some dances. I got to have a turn on one of the drums and it was so amazing, I was so excited and very grateful that I got picked! 

They are from West Africa, which to be honest, is a long way for Christchurch! A fun fact about West Africa, the 14th-century king was the richest person in all history of Celebrity Net Worth site! (That's a lot of money!)

The atmosphere was very happy, joyful and full of sound! The people on the drums were amazing because they kept all the rythm on the same track. 

Their songs were very unique and we were very lucky to be taught them! My favourite part was probably having a turn on the drums and being able to be doing some cool dances!

Here are some photos of some students having a turn on the drums! 👀

Going to the Dump, VERY EXCITING! 😮

 WALT: Reflect on our Waste and how we use it.

On Friday the 21st of October Room 2 went to the Bromely Dump. We went there because our virtue for these 2 weeks is Stewardship and taking care of the environment. 3 parents came to help us:  Shelly, Sarah and Jackie. Our first activity was learning everything a proper compost needs

• Green foods (they don't actually have to be green, it means to be fresh food scraps

• Brown foods (They are dried up grass, or hay)

• Micro Organisms (it is just dirt that helps with the compost and worms)

• Water (to help everything come together)

We all got to hold a worm at one point, and a fun fact about them, they actually spell letters on you hand! But you should ALWAYS WET YOUR HAND because our hands are hot, and it could kill the worm because they breathe through their skin. 

We all had a turn at different rotations, the first one was where you tore newspaper into streamers, and you had to dip them into a bucket and fluff them up for the worms. The next one was where you used a shovel or your hands too pick up some worms from dirt, or worm castings. If there were no worms you would put it to the side.

The last one was where you got into buddies and filled up your watering can. Your friend would put worm tea into and you would give it to the plants it was very fun.

Here is a photo!

 

Problems in our Environment, the new Covid!

 WALT: The world is speaking to us

In Room 2 we have been talking about problems in our Environment, and Pope Benedict's quote, "The World is talking to us. Me and Dakota made a google drawing about 2 Environmental problems and what the world would be saying about it.

KWL On the Issue of our Environment

 WALT: Identify prior knowledge

We are learning about all the problem in our world, e.g: Wildfires and pollution. We are also learning about why it is happening, e.g: Deforestation is happening because we are cutting down tree's and lots of problems could happen if we don' stop soon. 

We made a KWL {What I Know, What I think I know, and What I want to learn} 

Understand the Beatitudes

 WALT: Understand the Beatitudes

For our R.E we are learning about the Beatitudes. We had to rewrite them in our own words. I did it with Dakota and it helped me and Dakota understand them. 

Do, Re, Mi NZSL

 WALT: Understand Music Notes

Today I made a video showing you the NZSL hand signs for Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So,l, La, Ti, Do

Watch the video and follow along. We have been learning how to read Music Notes and this is why I am doing it.

Māori Days of the week

 WALT: Say the days of the week

In Room 2 we have been learning about our 2nd language, Māori. It is Māori week this week and one of out activities on our Māori  slides were to find out the days of the week in Māori and how to pronounce them properly. A way that helps me pronounce the Māori days of the week properly is to listen to the last 2 letters of the Māori days of the week. They are all different. 

Monday = Rāhina - Pronunciation Rā - Hi - Na 

Tuesday = Rātu   - Pronunciation  Rā - Tu 

Wednesday = Rāapa - Pronunciation  Rāa - Pa.

 Thursday =  Rāpare - Pronunciation   Rā - pa - re

Friday = Rāmare - Pronunciation  Rā - ma - ere

Saturday = Rāhoroi - Pronunciation Rā - ho - roi

Sunday =  Rātapu - Pronunciation Rā - ta - pu