Reflection of GEG Summit

Sanford gave us a recount and reflection of our day at the GEG summit at Hobsonville Point Primary School.

Daffodil Day

On Friday we were collecting money for cancer and Daffodil day.  We went over just before basketball and put our money on the coin trail.  

Raukawa made us this pic collage to show off what we were doing.

Self Monitoring

CS Lewis reading group have been learning about the comprehension strategy of self monitoring.

Here is what Connor thinks it's all about:

Our Marae Visit - 19.08.15

What did we learn today?

* I learnt that the first Maori King was born where the airport is now (Anaru)
* I learnt that now only Maori people built the marae - there were lots of different cultures (Ayush)
* Taiahas used to be made out of whale bone (Merekara)
* We learnt about our ancestors (Brianna)
* Rowandale's logo is the kite that the two brothers flew (Natalie)
* The two brothers had to weave their kite string around the mountain (Charlotte)
* One of the ancestors had a moko of two birds hongi-ing each other (Victoria)
* Tane had no girlfriend so he made one out of dirt.  The gods said he had to hongi her to make her alive (Jahvarn)
* The taiaha was from Manaia (Sanford)
* The carvings had a story (Tina)
* Tane separated his mother and father (Tiana)
* The backbone of the marae reporesents our cultures (Kruz)
* There were a lot of patterns from a lot of different cultures (Afizah)
* The pukana originates from arguments (Unique)
* We learnt the body parts about our Marae (Raukawa)
* Matua has been at the marae for 7 years (Neha)
* The paintings on the roof represented veins and blood (Amy)
* The ribs of the marae held them up (Rawiri)
* Carvings originated from the patterns in the wood that the bugs made (Christian)
* The marae fundraising began in 1971 (Meleana)
* The carvings remember the people that passed away (Heremia)
* The weaving stairs represent the stairway to heaven (Angelina)

V*I*E*W*S

Our goal at the beginning of the term was to have 10000 views by the end of Week 5.

It's Monday of Week 5 right now.....and we are currently at 9965!!  Sanford told me that means it's only 35 more views until we reach our goal.

I wonder if we'll get there by tonight??

Miss J

Weekend Homework - Maths challenge

Answers will be given out at 11.30 on Monday.  Have a go and see if you can solve our problems!

Leave a comment and your working out if you are brave enough :-)

Miss J

Anaru's reflection

Jahvarn's reflection about GEGNZ

Jahvarn experimenting with animation



By Jahvarn

GEGNZ 2015

On Wednesday 12 August, 20 Titans, 10 Marvellous Meerkats, Miss J, Mrs Lee and Mr Davidson went to the Google Kids Summit at Hobsonville Point School.

Miss J's group taught first.  They taught the other kids about animation on google slides.  It was cool because so many people wanted to go that it got moved to the library.  The internet kept dropping out but we still managed to get our ideas across.  It was awesome.  Some people made some very creative animations.

Mrs Lee's group taught in the last session.  They had heaps of people too in their session who were very excited about google cardboard.  The photospheres were amazing and the cardboard apps were really, really fun.

When we weren't teaching we got to go to sessions.  Some people went to writing ones, some people learnt about wriitng music and doing music videos.  There was a good session called cool apps and we learnt how to do a powtoon.  WE also went on a tour of the school.  It was really flash and had no walls inside and the playground was pretty cool.

We won some good prizes at prize giving.  Neha won a chromecast, we won some vouchers.

Make sure you watch out for our thoughts and reflections from the day!

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Google Slides Animation Powerpoint

On Wednesday 12 August we are presenting at the GEG Summit at Hobsonville Point Primary School.  Anyone who wants to learn how to do animation on google slides is welcome to have a look.  Please comment if you find it useful, or if there's anything we can improve on.

Cook Islands Language Week

This week we celebrated Cook Islands language week at school.

We put together a research project as a class.  We collaborated on google slides.  We each chose something to research and contribute a page.

We worked together really well.  We focussed on our research, not copying words off the internet and making sure we put it in our own words, making our pages easy to read by using good publishing skills.

We hope you learn something!

Powhiri

On Friday 31 July we had a powhiri for our new teachers and new students.  A few Titans had some very important roles during the powhiri.  See if you can spot them!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3