3 novels

 LI: To make a DLO of 3 novels I read this term

The novels I read this term was the skulduggery pleasant's books they are really fun to read and sometimes I wish I had magic like them and I wish that magic like in the books were real to. From when I got the first got the skulduggery pleasant book it was a really exicting because of the cool adventure skulduggery have have with his partner. 

What I love about being a Pacific Islander

 LI: To tell others what we love about being a Pacific Islander 

What I love about being a Pacific Islander is the food and I love showing others what it mean's to be a Pacific Islander. The thing I liked about this activity is that I got to talk about my Tongan culture and my favourite food Puaka (Pig).

Six Photots

 LI: To pick Six Photos and tell others what they mean to us.

These six photo's represent the fun times I had in camp, home the ocean and Including camp and school I loved doing everything and making new memories in each of these place's. My favourite activity was camp because it was my first time going to camp and it was really fun we got to climbe something called the High Beam but my favourite was the kanuking because it was my first time doing something on the water other then sailing.

Tasty Pacific

 LI: To tell others what your favourite Tongan food is

One of my favourite parts of being Tongan is the food is amazing and yummy my favourite food is Pig becasue how the skin is so nice and theres so much meat in the Pigs. My uncle and Dad sometimes let me cook the pig it takes 4 hours to do that but it nice when its cooked then we all eat the pig. And have heaps of other food like lu and Otai. 

A group of people I like working with.

 LI: To write about a group I enjoying working with

The group of people I like working with is my rugby team becasue we get to play and evole from our mistakes in rugby. And we get to have the feeling of when we tackle our oppents we love it when we run with the ball and break the lines of defence. My favourite part about this DLO is that I got share my interest in rugby with others. 

Our Ocean

 LI: To write what it means to us about being a child of this Ocean

Me and my group wrote what we think it means to be a child of this Ocean. I feel like being a child of this Ocean is very important to us pacific people. What I enjoyed about doing this DLO isn that I could share my feelings with other people. 

Fortnite Coordinates

 LI: To wriute the coordinates on the map.

For this task I showed the coordinates of a old Fortnite map I don't when this map was created. The thing I found interesting is that this is how the army tells others where they are or where to go. Lots of people play Fortnite, I think Loot Lake is still on the Fortnite map mybe I don't know. Fortnite is really cool Epic games add new things every time they add a new season I started playing in season 7. 

A letter to my future self

 LI: To write a letter to my future self

LockDown Memories 2021

 LI: To tell a story through images that reflects our experiences in the current Covid Alert Level 3 and 4 Lockdown that we can display in our class in Term 4.

This years lockdown has been really hard and doing online learning is also very hard because you run out of things to write and things to put on you your blogs but my parents know how to keep my learning moving so that I have lots of blogs for others to read.

Animation Challenge

 LI: To create an animation

This is a DLO of showing how to make a short animation film on a google presentation. It shows that to make your peraon move it has to be small steps at a time. And if you want to move the arms you have to do the same as the steps.

What I liked about this activity is that I learnt how to make my own animation. 

An important object in my life

 LI: To tell others a object that is important in my ife

The object that is important in my life is the traditional Maori necklace it was given to me when I turn 11 years old and it was from a speical friend of mine. And ever since i've never taken it off becasue it is like a good luck charm and I feel like it's important that we keep those close to us if its in person or not. And this is why this object is important to me.   

Who am I?

 LI: To find information that answers your questions and tell us about an important person in history in your own words.

This DLO shows information about very well known people from America to Tongan some you might know or some you might not, we had to find information and tell them in our own words.

The thing I found fun about this activity is that I could learn new things about these famous people.

Food Tech

Li: To make a recipe for others

 

This week for Food Tech me and my brother made DLO on how to make mash potatoes and mince. We watched our mum make it and thats how we know she's really good at cooking and our dad is really good at making the mash potatoes. When they make the food and give it to us it taste really really yum we had it for dinner last night but it was our dad who made the food becuase our mum was busy doing some work.  

Character Excitment Chart

 LI: To explore how events in a story can change the emotions of a character

Our task was to create an excitement chart to plot the level of action and character’s emotions over time in our manga stories.

It was interesting because I got to write about my Character and I got to write my Characters Excitement on chart called Character Excitement.

Manga Comic

 LI: To illustrate our writing in the style of anime/manga

Our challenge today was to turn the events in our 6 sentence stories into a manga comic strip. I enjoyed because this because I got to write about my favourite person in Anime.

This activity was fun because I got to make my own story about Kageyama

6 Sentence Story

 LI: Use 6 sentences to set up the structure of a narrative

To help us put our learning this week together we were asked to write a 6 sentence story. This story will be used as the text in our manga comic DLO. 

List Poem

 LI: To write a list poem that describes a topic by painting a picture with your words.

Today we wrote list poems about an anime character. Our challenge was to use descriptive language features to paint a clear picture with our words

I enjoyed writing this poem because I got to pretened to act like my charater in a poem.

Cinquain Poem

 LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe an anime character

This week we have been exploring the world of anime and manga. Our challenge today was to write a cinquain poem to help us strengthen our connections to description that describes our favourite anime/manga character. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun. 

Katsudo Shashin Animation

LI: to create an animation

One of the oldest surviving pieces of Japanese animation may be a nameless, dateless, approximately 3-second film known as “Katsudo Shashin“ (literally “Action Photo“). It simply features a boy writing the words 活動写真 katsudo shashin and then doffing his cap.

Our challenge

today was to use our animation skills to create our own 3 second ‘action photo’ using our own manga character.

I enjoyed this because I got to learn somethings new well doing this.

Own Design Character Profile

 LI: To create a character profile

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Our challenge was to design our own anime/manga character. Our next challenge was to draw the character on our chromebooks or on paper. I chose to draw my character on chormebook because it helps me to draw on paper

Our final challenge was to write a paragraph that describes our character.

I enjoyed this challenge because I got to explain my persons personality. 

Anime/Manga Character Profile

LI: To create a character profile

Our challenge was to choose our favourite anime/manga character. Our next challenge was to draw the character on our chromebooks or on paper. I chose to draw my character on chormebook because I had all ready started on it.

Our final challenge was to write a paragraph that describes our character and explains why this character is your favourite

I enjoyed this challenge because I got to show who I wanted to be in my own volleyball team. 

Manga Artist

LI: To read for meaning and understanding

 

Our challenge today was to use our smart searching skills to create a DLO in our own words that tells us about the life of our favourite manga artist or a well known manga artist. A fact I found interesting is that he made Haikyuu because it just suprised me that someone that had played volleyball made a volleyball series. 

The History of Manga

LI: To read for meaning and understanding

Our challenge today was to complete a reading comprehension about the history of Manga to show that we are reading for meaning and understanding. Our final challenge in this activity was to create a DLO to share the information we found out. A fact I found interesting is how different the Japanese comics are to US comics because I thought all comics were the same.

Maths

LI: To define the terms and understand the properties of 2D shapes.

                

Our challenge today was to answer some questions about geometry some of the questions were about line segments and vertexs and vertices it was really fun to do geometry. Because I got to evolve my learning on geometry and find out new ways to get the answer to the questions.

Skulduggery Pleasant

 LI: To show my favourite books on a DLO. 

I started to read these books when I was 11 years old they have really cool stroies about magic, monsters and lots more the Author who made these books is Derek Landy he is Irish and started his first book in 2007 this is when Skulduggery Pleasant meet Stephine. Skulduggery Pleasant is not his real name it is the name he took to protect his real name, just like Skulduggery Pleasant Stephine Changed her name to Valkyrie Cain and then together they saved the world. In all of the books they have new enemies to defeat and even new friends to meet.      

How proud I am about my cultures

 LI: To show how proud I am about my cultures

This DLO shows all my cultures and how proud I am about my cultures the amazing thing I love about all my cultures is that I get to explore facts and other stuff about them like food and discovers my culture made. They all have unique things about well to me they do they reflect things about me and the way I am towards others.

Customised Shoes

 LI:To show our passion by designing shoes.

These shoes represent my favourite basketball player which is Michael Jordan and my favourite culture is Tongan. One day I'm going to be like Michael Jordan and make my own shoes and I'm going to call them Air Tahaafes which represents my last name and then I'm going to make more and more different kind of shoes and be sponsored by Nike, All Stars and Adidas which are my 3 FAVOURITE SHOE BRANDS.