Toki Film Festival

Toki Film Festival Review

 Kia Ora Awahono School,

Actors:Jayden, Harrison

I am Luke from Karoro School, now I'm going to do a film review, and the one that I’ll be reviewing is The Farm, I really liked the lake and the end part because the lake had a good timed sound effect, the splash, and the ending was funny because a cow licked someone's hand. The sound quality from the mics was good too. It wasn’t bussing from the wind. Overall it was really well done!


 Paragrey rap. By: Diana, Antonia and Eva from St Patrick's.

 Hello St Patrick's School my name is Atawhai, and I personally think that this was a great rap. The rap was really catchy and the scenery was great, it showed a lot of great shots of Greymouth and the special effects were really good. The words were repeating, so were the images, and that made it sound and look really good. It really represented the theme, OUR PLACE, and of course our place is here in Greymouth. Well done!👍

 Kids Country Calendar Review

 Hi, my name is Harper and I go to Karoro School. I liked this movie best because it was full of cows! The cows were absolutely great actors! The baby cows were all so cute. I love how you filmed the cows being milked and the big machine swirling all the milk around. The car driving to the farm at the start and the car driving away at the end was really clever. But when the farmer was saying welcome you couldn’t hear him very well. Putting the Country Calendar music on at the start gained lots of interest. Your film really represented our place.

Book Review by Harper

Book Report

Title: Roald Dahls Revolting Rhymes
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
What Made Me Read It: I love Roald Dahl’s books, they’re always amazingly funny. So when I saw this book I decided to give it a go.
What It Is About: This book has all your favorite fairytales in it. Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs. Each story is presented as a very long and funny rhyme. Here is a small extract from Goldilocks and the Three Bears:

“This famous wicked little tale
Should never have been put on sale.
It is a mystery to me
Why loving parents cannot see
That this is actually a book
About a brazen little crook.”
Had the chance I wouldn’t fail
To clap young Goldilocks in jail.
Now imagine how you’d feel
If you had cooked a lovely meal,
Delicious porridge, steaming hot,
Fresh coffee in the coffee-pot,
With maybe toast and marmalade,
The table beautifully laid,
One place for you and one for dad,
Another for your little lad.
Then dad cries, ‘Golly-gosh! Gee-whizz!
‘Oh cripes! How hot this porridge is!’’

To find out what happens next, read Roald Dahls Revolting Rhymes!

Division Bookwork by Lucy

W.A.L.T understand division. Division is in the family of facts, and can also be made into multiplication,

E.G.... 6÷7 in the same as 7x_=6.

 This is the way I think that division is a-lot easier to do.

Animation by Lucy

 Today we learnt how to do Animation, I, for one Really enjoyed it, and this is how we did it...

• Go to Explore and find a garden background,
• Find a blue cartoon butterfly on Explore,
• Put the butterfly on one side of the slide,
• Duplicate the slide by tapping the slide that your on with two fingers, move the blue butterfly forward a really small bit, do this repeatedly,
• Add another character from Explore on slide 1 and Ctrl+C it,
• Go to slide 2 and press Ctrl+V, move your other character a small bit, 
• Do this repeatedly.

Maybe you could have a go sometime!😊😀

Animation by Atawhai

W.A.L.T make animation on slides.

• We typed in the picture we wanted and put png on the end so the background was not see - able. 
• We had to move it slowly other wise it looked kind of bad.
• We also had to duplicate the slides.        I really enjoyed this. It might take up some time but the results at the end are great!  THANKS to Mrs Minehan.

Animation by Seth

WALT make animations on a slide. First use PNG to get a transparent background.be patient. Embed it onto our blog change the html to make it move on our blog. This was easy for me. You should give it a try some time. This may be hard for you but it's a lot of fun.

The Incredible Jumping Spider Report by Emma

 Jumping spiders are a living insect. They are invertebrates, which means that they have no backbone. Jumping spiders are solitary witch means that they don’t work together. They can live for three whole years. There are many different types of jumping spiders all over the world.

 Habitat
Jumping spiders live in a web made out of their shiny silk but they don’t catch their food there. Some even live in houses in cracks or under old floor boards. You have to be careful where you step because if you have wooden tiles they blend in very well.

 Special features
 Jumping Spiders make their houses with their own silk. They are not venomous. They are great dancers but all they do is wave their arms in the air. They hunt their prey on their fuzzy little feet. Their eyesight is very good because they have six eyes on their head they can see in every direction. They’re great at disguising when a predator is near.

 Food and Sleep
The jumping spider eats one main thing which is other insects. The way they do it is, they pounce on their prey from behind then use their strong jaws to eat it.

 Distance and Speed
The jumping spider is very speedy because it can jump about 10cm each jump, which is a lot for a little spider. If you try to catch one you have a high chance of it escaping your hand. 

Predators
Birds are one of the predators to the jumping spider because they try and eat them. They protect themselves by mimicking another animal that is a predator of their predator.

 The importance of jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are very important because they pounce on other annoying insects and eat them. Without them we would have a lot of bad insects. Unfortunately they eat good ones too.

 As you can see the Jumping spider is an amazing little insect.

Butterfly Report Writing

Butterflies by Karmi

Butterflies are living because they fly, eat, grow and move . Butterflies are invertebrate insects they don’t have a backbone or spine. Butterflies are solitary insects they don’t live in colonies like ants or bees .

 Habitat
 Butterflies live in forests as well as in our own backyards. We must plant flowers so the butterflies drink nectar .

 Features
 The butterfly has a long coiled tongue called the proboscis . It is a hollow tube it works like a Drinking straw to suck up nectar . It has spots on its wings that look like eyes to fright birds .

 Food
 Most butterflies feed on nectar from flowers. And they sleep at night time not at day time.

 Predators
 The butterfly predator is cats ,rats , frogs , spiders and dogs .

Division

WALT understand division problems.

Using the Masking Tool by Rian

We are learning to mask images to give a little bit of  OOMPH! First we go to the explore tool and choose i picture what ever you're doing it about. You click the plus and it will add the picture.Then  you just click on it and go to mask image and choose your shape. Don't click a shape that get rid of the other pictures. you can also change your outline just click the pencil and beside it click the lines and change the thickness. And you can go try.

Example of a a mindmap using Mindmiester

Honey Bees by Jenny Barrow

We have been learning to use Screencastify

Me riding a graife

Today we made our best work into a Screencastify to share on our blog. 
This is my favourite piece of work because I got to work on it with my friend Lucy.
Me and my friend Lucy took a bit of time making this.
Maybe you could try it one day?

Today we made a ScreenCastify of our best work to share on our blog. I choose this ScreenCastify because I liked the writing, it's different.  I like the amazing photos and I want people to see the photos that I have put up on the slide.

How I Ruined a Picnic by Zade

WALT create a book out of a piece of our writing using Book Creator.

How I Ruined a Family Picnic

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

The Spider and the Picnic by Emma

WALT turn our writing into a book using Book Creator.

The Spider and the Picnic

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

Robots by Riley, Cameron, Emma and Casey

Small World By Molly

AO Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form, and express ideas I am learning to include visual information in my writing including images, graphs and charts. I am learning to revise and rework my writing for clarity, impact and purpose. I am learning to support my main ideas with important details.

 Small World


 It is a lovely hot sunny day at Limestone beach. Ahhhh there is a red and white checkered blanket falling on top of me. I thought this was the end of the world. Then I felt a big heavy squishy lump sit next to me. Sorry I forgot to introduce myself I am Sammy the Sandfly. Any way let's get on with the story. Then I smelt the stinkiest smell it was Marmite. I quickly flew away. When the stinky beast had finished his smelly sandwich I crawled up to his ankles and bit them. I quietly cackled moo ha ha ha ha. Oh No he had found me. I stared right into his eyes. He tried to swat me but I dodged him. Then I flew into the dark and gloomy shade under a palm tree. As the clouds came over I went to a lady in her bikini. I flew into her sunburnt thighs and stuck my fangs into her. As she got out of the sea she rapped her sandy towel around her. She hadn't noticed the bit until she started to dry her legs. She screamed and started to rapidly scratch her leg. She swatted me while I was in the air. I was in pain I fell to the ground. I'm dying. THE END!!

Reading Response by Emma

Quick Writes Insects

Spider Facts Reading Response By Cameron

Respect Poster Cybersmart

WALT use the word art tool to make a poster about RESPECT. Then we will blog about the process.

We had to use a border and border dash.We had to use Word Art and the fill in colour to make our words stand out. We used fonts colours and we got to add a background in once we had added in all the words related to Respect we knew. By Jessica

WALT use the word art tool to make a poster about RESPECT.

It was great watching the sesame street video and it gave me some ideas for words for my poster! First we went onto Google Drive, then we created a new Google Drawing, next we went to insert Word art, and last, we changed the colour and went to the box next to highlight, and changed the size of the highlight. By Zade 

Are there any more words that you think I could add in to show respect?

 WALT use the word art tool to make a poster about RESPECT. Then we will blog about the process.
 For my Respect poster I went on to Word Art and it would take you to a little box and you would spell your word in there and it would come up like mine but blank. To get the colours you would  have to go into the painting box and it would come up with colours. You would have to choose a colour. then you  press the pencil and it comes out with the outline but to get the dots you have to go to border dash and then press the seven dots and then it will come up like mine.                              When you're finished with that you can go in to explore and type up backgrounds and pick the one    that suits all the other colours. After you have your backgrounds you go into arrange, order, and      send to back then your officially done. By Libbie

Padlet All About Insects

Matariki Scratch by Casey

Kiwi Report by Emma

I am learning to include visual information in my writing including images, graphs and charts. I am learning to organise my text into basic paragraphs.

Some Student's Reading Responses

WALT use information in the text to find the main idea and supporting details.

I am learning to summarise the main ideas in the text I read.
I am learning to use illustrations, text box's, graphs and diagrams to help make inferences so I get more information from the text.

Matariki Weaving Day

Cartoon Me Ruma Rima

We have been learning how to create a safe picture of ourselves to put on the internet. Here are some of our fabulous pictures. Thank you to Mrs Minehan for showing us how to use the polyline tool for this activity.

We have been learning to make our self portrait.

(1) take a picture of your self.
(2) put it in a google drawing.
(3) use the polyline tool and draw around your face.
(4) make your drawing of your face fade away.
(5) draw the rest of your body.
(6) use the scribble tool to draw your nose.
(7) if you want to, add in some circles for the eyes.
(8) delete your picture
(9) add in a colourful background

Do you want to have a go?
Well then go to google drive!!!
Hope you liked the activity.
Hi my name is Casey
We are learning to make Cartoon me
 Step 1. Take a picture of you in a google drawing .
Step 2.  Polyline to trace around the outside of  picture you put in. 
Step 3. Colour in your face with a colour  of your choice and go into  custom, there will be to strips, one will make the colour of  your face darker and the other one will make it look transparent.  I then copied over the eyes and the mouth, then do a line on your nose. 
Step 4. Go into tools and go into explore and find a background that you like and cover the whole page with it. 
Step 5. Go into arrange go to order  push setbackwoods in toll all of it cames through. Done!
Kia Ora my name is Molly.  We have been learning to be cybersmart and create our own images using Google Drawing. We really enjoyed doing it . First you create a google drawing then you go into insert and click image and go to camera and take a photo of your self . Insert the photo into the google drawing. I went into the polyline tool and started drawing around my face. Once my face was drawn ,I deleted my photo. I added a cool background picture. This was so much fun, you should try and make one, I would love to see it on your blog.

Kia ora my name is Karmi .We have been learning to create  our own images using Google drawing.
I took a  selfie of  myself and I learnt to use the polyline tool, which is found in the lines tab.
 This tool is used to colour the picture in. I enjoyed using this tool and I found  the tool easy to use.
 I deleted my photo and added a colourful background. You should have a go, and put it on your blog, I  would love to see it.

Cameron here from Karoro school.
As part of being CyberSmart, we learnt to make self portraits on Google drawing.
(1)We took a picture of ourselves.
(2)  We used the polyline tool to go around the parts of our body.
(3) When finished we deleted our picture of ourselvers so were left with a cartoon looking you.
(4) I used scribble to do my nose.
(5) Then we added a colourful background.
I found it easy in some parts but in others it was hard especially doing my ears.
Do you want to make one? It is a challenging lot of fun!

Noho Marae at Arahura West Coast and Lake Mahinapua

 

Ruma Rima and Ruma Whitu had a fabulous time staying on and learning about the Arahura Marae, its history through carvings on the whare walls, the special place and significance of pounamu at the Arahura River and some place based learning around the history connecting two carvings and Lake Mahinapua. Thank you to Jerry who captivated the children with his knowledge and stories. Also to all the parents and teachers who help us at camp. Nga mihi nui.

The Great Spaghetti Marshmallow Challenge

Class Created Haiku Poem

We are learning to write a Haiku poem using the correct syllable pattern. 

Blue Guru Indian Dance and Instrument Visit

It was great fun learning about Indian dance and some of the musical instruments used in Indian dance. We learnt to do some Bollywood moves. Thank you to Blue Guru for sharing their expertise with us.

Kawa of Care

We have been learning how to follow the Kawa of Care.
The Kawa of Care teaches us to look after our device and to be cyber smart.

Blue Bots

It was wonderful having Allanah King working with us this week. We are learning through the new Digital Technology Curriculum Area. We were lucky enough to have the use of Blue Bots, that she supplied to us, for our session in the library. The children were very excited about using these and  some great learning took place.

Chapter Chat Wonder

We have been showing our understanding of the book Wonder written by R J Palacio. We have been doing this through Chapter Chat and Tweeting our work. Here are some of our reading responses so far.

Ormie the Pig

Video Prompt Writing

WALT support our ideas with detail

WALT use a range of written features to engage the audience (simile, metaphor, alliteration)

WALT use some complex sentences to create pace, flow and interest.

WALT include commas for lists, exclamation marks, question marks and speech marks in our writing.

Reading Response Hayden

Reading Response by Atawhai

Reading Response by Harper on Te Tiriti o Waitangi

The Paper Chain Challenge