End of year reflection...

My time here has ended at Hay Park, here is my end of year reflection I have made. It includes what I have learnt from a friend from over the year and how my learning has changed since we have been using Chromebooks in McCahon class. What I have mainly enjoyed here at Hay Park is all the opportunity's that are available here at our school. However I would not be were I am; in my learning if it wasn't for my teacher Mrs Kingston, she has been the best teacher I have ever had. I am going to miss you McCahon class next year.

Ako Hiko Launch...

Hi,

Bloggers from all over the world!

Tonight kids from Hay Park School have been chosen to represent Hay Park School in the Ako HIko Launch. We have been given an opportunity to build up our confidence with a special person named Andrew Patterson, we asked him questions that we were not that sure about. However in the end we got all our questions answered, we have been looking forward to this day ever since we got our notices, from our wonderful teachers that motivate us to come to school everyday!

Genius Hour: Reflection

Genius Hour: Reflection

• What?

I have been making a questionnaire for a professional event designer to answer as part as my project, however I am working on finding appropriate sites to get all of my factual information from. I am trying to get in contact with college event managers to see what the skills and techniques are, for when you are and event manager.

• So what?

I have been doing this project because it is part of our learning in class, we have been collaborating with May Road School on a project called Genius Hour.Genius Hour is a great way to share our thinking and learning in school, and to collaborate with others around us.

• Now what?

My goal for next time is to be able to get more research and be able to keep in touch with an event manager at all times, however I must make sure that I am ready for when it’s time to make our presentations in class.

This is my Reflection on my genius hour project at the moment Joshua and I are working on keeping in touch with a college event manager, and finding factual information about what skills are needed to be and event manager. By the end of the week I am hoping that we will be able to start our presentation, with high level vocab and punctuation in the texts.

Slam Poetry!

Slam Poetry!

Maybe you wanna be a netball player

 Or even a Hockey player,

 Intercepting Until every single one of your opponents

 are on the ground,

 As you watch the crowd 

 very proud,

 Scoring goals, reaching for gold, 

Teamwork 

 It’s all you could possibly wish for!

In class this term we have been studdying poetry, this type of poetry is called slam poetry! What is slam poetry? A slam is a knock out performance poetry competition in which poets perform their own work to a time limit and are given scores based on content, style, delivery and level of audience response.This is my slam poetry about what I want to be when I'm older, as you can see every time a new sentence starts I make a new line. When I make new lines it make's the reader more interested in what I'm writing about, however if I have big long sentences the reader get's bored and stop's half way through!

Coding Progress...

This is my progress from code.org, I have improved alot since the first day I joined! I have been practising everyday and night. I have been enjoying myself every time I do codes, I always am trying to push myself really hard! I personally think that my next steps for coding is to finish off stage two and make it to stage seven!Maybe I could even maybe start looking at making my own game, or even starting up a gaming company!

Blog Commenting challenge!

In class we have been told to complete a commenting challenge, were we have to complete 3 comments from other schools, 3 comments from our own school and post 3 new blog post by the end of the week! So that you can go onto the second stage of your blog's look! I am so excited for the next stage of blinging my blog. Hopefully I can complete this challenge so that I can prove that I am not just doing this for a challenge but I am also doing this because I am a self managed learner.

Quality blog commenting!

This is my comment on May Road School's origami morning they had, in class we have been studying how to right a quality comment here are three reasons on how I make a quality comment on someone's blog:

1. I have Made  sure that it is at least 6 sentence long.
2. I have Added at least one greeting, and one question!
3. Last but not least I have added in my blog so that they can come and comment on my blog. 

Learning to code: Reflection

This week we have been learning to use code, we have been using code because it's great for problem solving however also that we understand what happens when we are playing games. Coding can also help you with your probleming solving when doing maths! What was my reflection about after I had a go on coding?

What?

I have been learning to code using http://learn.code.org/. It has loads of levels to challenge  yourself, it makes you feel like you want to learn more and more about coding.

So What?

 I learned how to use coding, however I also learnt the codes to different things like left and right codes. Their all different, they are also how computer sites are made that we use in our everyday resources.

Now What?

       My goal next is to reach more harder levels. I would like to be able to reach level 20 before the end of tomorrow.

My Online Code DLO!

This presentation is about how you can be cyber smart online, when you are online you need to make sure that you don't give out factual information about yourself or any friends and family. However you must make sure that when you are online you can be trusted by an older adult or family member. Just remember that the online world is very dangerous so just be cyber smart online at home and also in school then nothing bad will happen.

I wonder project....

These are some of my ideas for a genius hour project I'm working on, for the past 2 weeks we have been brain storming all our ideas for when we go and work with May Road School! We are going to work with May Road School on a project called Genius hour it's when we take a plain old ordinary question and put it into an ungoogleable question! I am looking very forward to this, I am very excited to work with new students and see what different ideas we have and compare them into a genius hour project.

The mighty SPLASH!

This is a Free verse poem about the mighty SPLASH, this free verse poem is it's called this because you are free to right what ever you want to! In class we have been studying poetry, this is our 3rd piece of poetry we have learnt about  this term!

Themeparks

The call of the conch

How to take take a screen shot and post in onto your blog!

 Rose and I have made a screen cast of how to post a screenshot to a blog. This is a really clear way to share your learning!

My comment to Rose

Explanation writing 18/08/14

In week 4 of term 3 our class has been focusing on learning how to write great explanations about how sound travels underwater. We have expanded our vocabulary in our inquiry topic ‘The Noisy Reef,’ and learnt about the structure of a great explanation piece. It was quite a challenge, but we really enjoyed watching clips to stimulate our ideas and having discussions about terms which were new to us.  

How humans can hear?

This is my diagram showing how us humans can hear, I personally think we catch the sound in a sound wave and it vibrates throughout our hears and we listen to the different pitches forming throughout our ears! Take a look and tell me what you think about my diagram! 

Hay Parks A Netball Team's big Win!

Look what we brought back! From representing our one and only school! 

A big shout out to my mum for helping coach our team. However well done to the team for trying our best and look were our best got us!   

Coral Reefs

 This afternoon I have been learning to use Google maps!

Nga Mihi Move note

https://www.movenote.com/v/e29t77QKx7oi1

Today I was trying out a new app called Move note, I recorded myself  saying my mihi and put my mihi presentation on too! I really enjoyed try this new app out and can't wait till next time!

Xtra math Progress

                                                         Xtra math progress

                                 

This is my xtra-math progress. When ever I go on Xtra-Math each week I get better and better at the same time. 86 is my highest score for race the teacher at addition. I am very proud of myself because I have beaten my score which use to be 83 so I am really hopeing I go up to the next stage which is Subtration! :D

Hps Polluting the world ( First go)

<a href="http://goanimate.com/videos/09SXgU4wXIOw?utm_source=embed&uid=0Vj9flYgyv8I" target="_blank">hps polluting the world</a> by <a href="http://goanimate.com/user/0Vj9flYgyv8I" target="_blank">Carleece Hurt-Pickering</a> on <a href='http://goanimate.com?utm_source=embed' target="_blank">GoAnimate</a><br/><iframe scrolling="no" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" width="400" height="258" src="http://goanimate.com/player/embed/09SXgU4wXIOw"></iframe>


 My first go on Go Animate take a look and tell me what you think!

3D square based pyramid

This is my 3D dimensional shape I made during class time, in maths we have been studding geometry, 2D and 3D shapes. 

Three things I learnt about geometry and shapes today was :

• That the face's of the shape is the flat sides on the shape.
• The edges are the straight lines around the 3D shape.
• Lastly the Vertex are the corners, the lines that join together.  

My Key Competency Word Cloud

For me it’s important to be able to take on new skills and to include others in group discussions. I am able to listen and respect others ideas in a group, I am also very open to new ideas and ways to learn for my learning.

One of the things my teacher loves about me is that I can take on challenges. I can persevere to improve on my personal goals. I am able to ask questions because remember... smart kids ask questions! I am able to communicate by helping  people that are struggling with their work. I take risks in different situations. I take every opportunities that I am given. I can learn from my mistakes. I know my rights and responsibility at school and outside of school. I can communicate to others. I use collaboration with my team and others,I like to share my idea's to other's and my team in and out of class.

Another amazing thing my teacher loves about me is that I am safe online and I can always catch up on my work if I am well behind everyone. Like when I am on my Chromebook I can use ICT to gain information online. When I use language, symbols and text on my blog I am sharing my learning all around the world! In class I can understand and use words and numbers in many ways to the best of my ability. In many ways I can  share my learning through visual arts and performance.

There's no I in TEAM!

Nga Manawa

                

This term we are learning about mangroves and marine habitats. Here is my Nga Manawa presentation. It shows what Nga Manawa do to keep our environment safe, and information about it.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy

Not so long ago I joined Khan academy along with a few other people in my class,we joined because the site was a great site to use in our learning. Math's is a very important aspect of my life because of many reasons but most of all is how much I love it! So when we are able to try new math sites out I love giving everything a go.  

This is my second time using Stop animation

This is my groups stop animation movie we made on rubbish and polluting , the whole message was to tell everyone to stop polluting the world with rubbish. So that we can have a great environment and so that our world is a rubbish free area.

                                                  Xtra-Math progress-Addition  

This is my xtra-math progress. When ever I go on Xtra-Math each week I get better and better at the same time. 83 is my highest score for race the teacher at addition. I hope I go up to the next stage which is Subtration! :D

Xtra Math progress

Xtra maths progress

This is the test I did in Xtramath and I answered all the addition questions under 3 seconds. But I  got a few wrong that I need to work on for next time. Xtramth helps me learn my basic facts really well. You can visit the website by clicking here. 

My Flipping eBook on Goal setting term 2

This is my Flipping eBook I made about my goals for term 2. I had fun using : Flip Snack. I enjoyed choosing my template, cover and background.

Ocean currents

 

We have been learning about ocean currents and using Thinglink to create content which other people can use to learn. 

Three things  I have learnt about ocean currents:

• Ocean currents can be caused by heat and and salt water.
• If there were no ocean currents around the world, the ocean would be still.
• Ocean currents go around the world to make it more warm and not so cold for us.

Harbor Seals

This term we have been learning about Marine Habitats.
I have been learning about the Harbor Seal.
Three cool facts I learnt:

• Harbor Seals can weigh up to 300 pounds.
• Harbor Seals are called pinnipeds because they have flippers instead of feet. 
• Harbor Seals are mostly found on the shore of California. 

Xtra math basic facts test

 In class we have being going onto xtramath for our basics facts and this is my progress I got from xtramath.
If you get a red X that means that you got the questions wrong. Grey squares mean that you missed the questions out. Yellow squares mean that I got the answer right but answered it to slow. Finally, the green squares mean that you answered the question right and on time. My next step for xtramath is to be able to answer the questions a bit more faster than I usually do.

Welcome to my blog!

 My Totem pole presentation
  Talofa lava everyone. Welcome to my blog! My first post will be about my totem pole presentation,it shows all the different totem poles in the world.

 Carleece