Thursday, December 16, 2021

My Animated Pepeha - Te Reo Maori

 



For this task, my class and I had to use the website 'Scratch' to animate our Pepeha. I found this really enjoyable! But it was quite challenging because this is my first time to use Scratch, and to do coding! Also because this took me lots of takes until I finally thought that my pronunciation sounded right. 

Overall, I learnt how to pronounce new Maori words, do coding, use scratch, and to do some animation!

 Maybe next time, I will keep practicing and try new things so that my Pepeha can be more interesting.

My Pepeha - Tagalog

 

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

 My Passion Project


My Passion Project is to improve in my piano skills by practicing in my spare time for 15-30 minutes.      

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Liam's Terrifying Dream



(Story Starter)

When he closed his eyes, drifted off to sleep, his real life began. Every night his dreams would take him on the greatest adventures. It was when he was asleep that he felt most alive…


 “Look! Look down there!”  His voice could just be heard above the sound of the airplane's engine and the shrieking wind in their ears. “Can you see it?” 



For some reason, they weren’t falling from the wing of ‘NZW.’ It was like a simulation. They could see the whole country of New Zealand, including Lake Taupo and a whole bunch of cities! There were large, puffy, cotton- like clouds surrounding them, what could go wrong? 


“Next stop, Land Jiggles!” said by an unknown, low toned voice. “Land Jiggles? Where’s that?” “You’ll see,” the strange voice replied.


After minutes of sight-seeing, Liam started to feel like they were about to slip off! “What? What’s going on?!” His heart stopped, as greyish clouds rushed past, Liam’s long, blonde hair started dancing like a Rockstar.  The plane where they had just been sitting was getting smaller and smaller, while leaving his brother Gian behind! 


Liam felt alarmed, but had nothing he could do! His stomach dropped, then came memorable flashbacks. But soon in his dream, Liam passed out. Off he went, falling in mid air.


Liam tossed and turned in his creaky bed while mumbling “Help!” He kept wiggling and jiggling, whimpering until finally, he felt like he landed on a soft, white marshmallow. “THUD!”


Suddenly, Liam woke up, all sweaty while in a weird position on the ground. It was 7:30 a.m. “Phew” he said feeling relieved, “It was only a dream.” As Liam slowly opened his bedroom door, he saw Gian, his older brother with his eyes all droopy. 


Gian stared at Liam, looking like a zombie child. “LIAM! I just had the craziest dream ever! I was riding on the wing of a plane then accidentally fell off!” Liam was in disbelief, “WHAT?”


Liam gasped for air and sat straight up on his drooled bed. He felt all wobbly from all this fiddle. “Is this still part of my dream???”


Wednesday, December 1, 2021

A Little Kindness Goes a Long Way

 My Comic Book

This week, our class is learning about how we show kindness to people around us. For our task, we have to make a comic story about kindness. I also learnt that what comes around, goes around. So if you do good deeds, something good will happen to you too.

I used the websites: Story Board and Book Creator

Tu Meke Tuatara

 


Me and Neha's task is to research about how penguins get affected by environmental issues and how we can stop that from happening.

We learnt how to research as partners and work together. This was a bit difficult because we could only communicate online instead of talking in person. But in the end, we still managed to do that by only speaking in text, and in meetings!

I find this activity really enjoyable and fun!