What is blackout poetry? You extract a piece of text (credit them), find words that join up to make sentences, and black out the rest. Here is my blackout poetry about cats.
The slides have been renamed to Our polyline drawings because it is now a collaboration slide with my friends. If you don’t know what this is, I made ‘bytes’ that are made of polyline in Google slides. This is the 11th installment but you can go see previous ones on slide 2.
This is an IXL activity but in the maths group I am in, we are learning about subtracting and adding decimals. For example, the problem above is 3.9+9.7. You can use the algorithm strategy for adding decimals. .9 and .7 are in the tenths value. Add them up, carry the 1 in .16 to the ones place. 1+3+9 is 13. So our answer is 13.6.
This Cybersmart task showed us examples of the Kawa of Care. Holding Chromebooks with two hands, having no food or drink around the Chromebook, and keeping it in the same place are some of the parts of the Kawa of Care.
This Cybersmart task taught us to use certain things in Google Drawings, such as word art, borders, and text boxes. I chose to make a wanted poster about my cat Lily. Here is the result. (Lily is actually a very good cat)
For an activity, our class made a Kākahu, a Maori cloak made from feathers. Every feather has a name, and what they like. For example, I am Phyu Sin, I like cats because they are cute.
A pepeha is a way to introduce yourself and tell a story. Your school, your family, your suburb, many things are in your pepeha. It also makes connections to the land, like the mountain you live near, the river, and the ocean. Here is my pepeha that I made in Canva.
What is affirmation? Affirmation means ‘giving support and encouragement’ and Team Tui thought of their own motivational words, or words of affirmation. An example of some words of affirmation is ‘ I am an amazing person.’ Positive thinking can boost confidence/self-esteem. Here is a video of our words of affirmation.
The word expo means a large exhibition, which is what happened on Friday. First, there was an assembly featuring the year 8’s leave (all the best to them). Then, the exhibition started. Many other students came to explore Team Tui’s classes and their cultural arts. There was also a sale running to raise money for the year 8 leavers’ hoodies.
