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Monday, 30 August 2021

Online Workshops/Teacher Groups

Online workshops - Teacher Groups

As you know that at the moment the whole of New Zealand is in alert level 4 lockdown. That means no- one can go to school or work, only if you are an essential worker like police, nerce, doctor, firefighter & Ambulance person... and more. Most people still do school but just online with their teachers. I like lockdown so far because we get heaps of time to do our work that needs to be done.


I prefer to do my work at school with my friends but thats okay that we are at home because it's just like a bigger holiday with school work. At Least we can be in our bubble with my lovely family.


Everyday I go onto my class sight and go to the workshop on my level. It is very different online compared to every day school life, but thats okay. I still enjoy the workshops / teacher groups.



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Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Lockdown learning

 Lockdown learning 

As you know at the moment the whole country New Zealand is in level four lockdown. That means that we can't go to school, so we do everything online just like a normal day, but your just at home instead of school.  Every day I have to do Two google meets for all of my writing, math, reading & Strand groups. I find lockdown very interesting. 

It's very different in google meets -to- normal life. We all need to stay in our own bubble to stay safe and to make sure that the virus doesn't spread and make more and more people unwell. New Zealand's Prime Minister = Jacinda Ardern has made lots of good questions to help keep New Zealand safe!

Some of my google meets have heaps of people in them and some have hardly any! I've liked lockdown because I get a nice break!

Monday, 16 August 2021

Thick & Thin Questions

                                             Thick & Thin Questions

What are thick and thin questions?:  Thick and thin question are different types of questions.  Thick questions makes people think more and different ideas that match to the topic.  Also a thick question means that there may be different thoughts and answers to that question.  Usually when somebody says that's a thick or thin question they normally a wanting an answer. 

Most people use thick and thin sentences every day in daily life.  I love when somebody asks me a thick and interesting question.  Thick and thin questions are a bit different in different ways to  explain and use. 

Try using thick and thin questions in everyday life. There are different ways to use a thick or thin questions. Not all thick questions stat with; is it possible. 

This is a thick question:  Is it possible to come invisible? Using that one question , heaps of people will have different opinions/thoughts. What do you think about: Is it possible to come invisible? My opinion is that you can camouflage and hide in or under something, you could hide in the sea, behind a dark cloak, where white clothes in the snow.   There is heaps of different ways to hide, but you never actually come/ go invisible. 

                                             Have you ever answered a thick question?

Monday, 9 August 2021

Story-Starters

Story-Starters 

 Every week  Moana Learning Hub get to do story starters. They  are very interesting. A story starter is a sentence we need to use at the start of our quick write. I have found the sentence starters very interesting & fun.

 There are success criterias that we have to follow to make sure our stories are high quality, have lots of detail, have interesting & describing words, also to make sure that we include similes, nouns, adjectivesidioms, verbs, adverbs. 

I find the sentence starters very helpful to get my stories started.  Every week Moana Learning Hub need to have finished two story starters. Everytime I start a story starter I use a different sentence to start each piece of descriptive writing.  

Normally we write for twenty-five mininuts then edit for five - ten mininuts to make sure that we have got enough words and sentences in our story starters. Once we have finished both story starters we need to edit and check to make sure that we have followed the Success criteria correctly.  

Here are some slides that show what we use to start our stories and which sentence starters are used every week. 

Monday, 2 August 2021

Olympic Learning

                                   Olympic Learning

                                                  What have we been learning

At  the moment MLH has been learning about the olympics. I have found the challenge quite hard but i've been learning so much new information. The Olympic booklet is a booklet that has heaps of little activities for us to complete. I have loved learning about the Olympics, because I get to find out so much information that I don't know yet.  

                                                      whats in the booklet

In one part of the booklet there are 2 mascots from tokyo ( to show us what a mascot really looks like ), so then we need to design an  Aotearoa mascot, I needed to do heaps of drafts.  It took a long time to do one page of the booklet, because on one page there is so many different activities that we all need to complete.  There also are lots of questions that are very interesting, all about the athletes, sports, results, countries,  age,  opening ceremony, & techniek. 

                                                  Info about the olympics

Did you know that the 2020 olympics were in Tokyo? In the Tokyo 2020 olympics there were 33 different sports but different competitions with'n just one sport. There were 11,090 athletes that competed in the Tokyo 2020 olympics. The olympics go on every four years. 

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