Screencastify

 Screencastify 

At the moment Moana Learning Hub has been learning about Screencastify. Today, we logged on and tried to read a story from Epic while the Screencastify was filming. It was my first time on screencastify, so at first I didn't really know what it was.  Screencastify is what we use to expand our learning. Sometimes the teachers will say to us that we need to film ourselves reading our work, then send it to our teachers  so they know what we have completed. This is my video that I made, I'm reading a few pages of a story because it was my first time on Screencastify today. 

Screencastify Video- 40 seconds long

Gymnastics Festival Practices

 Gymnastics Festival Practices

At the moment MLH  we are practicing gymnastics for the festival. Every year there is a gymnastics festival for most schools in Gisborne.   It's optional if you would like to participate in this festival. I am going to participate in the gymnastics festival this year. Sadly last year our school did not do the gymnastics festival because it got cancelled by COVID-19. 

There are grades that you can enter in for different levels, like D grade, C grade, B grade, A advanced and A grade. The difference between A advanced and A grade is that A grade make up their own floor routine but in A advanced is when they give you a routine but you do all the other A things. 

I'm in B grade,  so that means they give me routines and I need to practise lots until I get it off by heart. In 2019 I participated in C grade. Every Monday and Friday lunch time we practice our routines. I love Gymnastics!   If you're a girl and you're in B grade you need to do vault, floor and beam.  If you're a boy and your in B grade you need to do bar, vault and floor. My favourite thing in gymnastics is bar so I'm a bit disappointed that girls don't do bar. 

In the gymnastics festival there are the individual grades and then there is a dance that is called the rhythmical dance.  I'm in Wainui Beach school rhythmical dance team. We have been doing lots of learning about backflip tucks. Our coach is called Jacks. She is a very good teacher because she knows lots of things about gymnastics, beat , line placing, music and flips.  The Gisborne gymnastics club is very big and the floor is like a big mat but it has springs underneath and then soft padding underneath. I'm very excited for the Gisborne gymnastics festival.   

Big think - Kawa of care

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In MLH we had a challenge to create a big think poster in only thirty mininuts. My buddy was lila. Here is what we made. 

Little Blue Penguins

At Wainui Beach School our inquiry topic is about Little Blue Penguins. It has been very interesting learning all about Little Blue Penguins in class. I have learnt lots of new information.  Have a look on the slides to see their life cycle. Click the right arrow two turn to the next page because there are two pages.

Code Cracking

 Code Cracking

Moana cinderkit dose something that is called code cracking. Code cracking is when you go to a class with different people that are not just in your class and you have  a teacher that may not be your teacher.  That teacher teachers you new sounds and words, its just like spelling but you get to do some games sometime. At the start of the year everyone dose a  test and that's how the teachers know what class you're meant to go to because they will  be all the same level. 

With my code cracking i'm in room four with koka B, It's very cool because she plays games with us sometimes. At code cracking we need to take our book's and a blue pen. We do lots of things in our book. In the room four we firstly  learn new sounds and then think of as much words as we can that have those two letters inside the word. 

After we make up a sentence that has some of those words we thought of, all the sounds we learnt today. Code cracking teachers me lots of new things.  Every morning I go to room three. I like code cracking because I get to be with another and in another class,  because I like doing something different. Code cracking is everyday after morning tea. 

There are about Thirty people in my code cracking group. Code cracking is a change for me but it has taught me lots of things, Like new sounds and words. My favourite learning was learning about CVC  words. Code cracking is very fun!  

Horu Hopu Tournament

                                                     Horu Hopu  Tournament

Arriving at school                                                                                                                                    Early in the morning everyone in the Hou Hopu team arrived at school. My mum was a helper and was going to take so kids in her car. The Hour Hopu team had to be at school 7.45.  Koka Rozie told us who we were going to travel with to Pathathi. My mum Took Lila, Prince, Koka Rozie (my teacher), Amos       ( my brother) And me. Pathathai is forty mininuts up the coast. It was fun travelling in the same car. 

Arriving At Paratahi                                                                                                                                   We arrived at Parathai, the people who were running the tournament  were setting up. A man  came to the tournament with his cooking station, and he was going to make every school stirfry. Our team was playing a game first, vs Manatuki school, on field one. 

Before the games                                                                                                                                              We got taught Hour Hopu at school by some people who ran Turanga health. When they came to our school they taught us with atac, center and defender positions.  At the tournament they had center and defender and we were aloud two people to go into other scoring zones. 

Games on                                                                                                                                                  Wind blew the poi through the air, at the same time as the ref blew the starting wissel. The game was one. Manatuki caught the ball, and through it to one of them team  member was about to catch the string of the poi but Hunter intercepted and caught the string of the poi. The poi looped backward and then flung in the air. There was a few more pased then the other team got the ball. The other  team had scored three points and there was only ten seconds life Wainui team tried to score but the time was up. We found the first  game very hard because the ref didn't tell us witch way our team was going.  We had a few more games and then we got stir fry. The stir fry was very delicious, with lots of fresh veges and meat.  

Getting Better                                                                                                                                          Every game and every half we noticed that out team was getting better and better, by improving on our passes to get it directly to the person and we noticed that  we were looking for the space. It was coming up to be our last game. I was nervous + excited. We sat down under the shady bushy tree before our game.

The Last Game+ Getting Back To School                                                                                              Loudly the buzzer beeped to start the last game. We were on. The Boy from the other team through the poi up in the air, Wainui  caught the string of the poi stroke it backwards before passing. It was a tuf game. Wainui Caught  the ball and the ending person through the poi to other team member in the scoring done. We scored! At the end of the game Wainui  had one with four 1. After we packed up and had then end of day karakia. Finally we Travelled to school. That was a fun experience I had. At the end of the day we had a talk about what our team improved through the games.