Have You Heard About Smart Surfing Before?

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about something called Smart Surfing. Smart Surfing is learning about how to search questions on Google by only using keywords. I learnt how to search by using keywords in my sentence. I also learnt that if you don’t use keywords it doesn't come up with what you are mainly looking for. For example: If I were to ask Google "what do spiders eat" Google will give me every page that says what or do. The keywords would be spiders and eat, so the whole question would be spiders eat? since "spiders eat" doesn't make sense you can change the word eat to diet so it is "spiders diet". Those are the main keywords so Google will give you all the pages that have spiders and diet. It will be better because it is narrowing it down to more information that is most likely what you are looking for. This is better to do because if you have the word “what” in your sentence, Google  finds all of the pages that start with “what”.  In the future I will now use keywords in my questions  to search on Google and it will come up with the right answers.

In the future will you use keywords when you search questions on Google?

Draw the Same Taskmaster Game

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to communicate to each other and contribute together. 

The teacher made a game for us called task masters we had a drawing that was outside on the window and there were little pictures on the paper, the runners had to go and look at the drawing while the drawers stayed inside. The runners had to tell the drawers what the drawing was so the drawers could draw the pictures. The runners were the only one that could see the drawing so they had to tell the drawer what to draw.

 I don’t think that we worked well in my team the first time.  The thing that didn’t work well was that I kept forgetting the drawing that the teacher had drawn on the paper so I had to keep going outside.    

It was hard to communicate and we were not allowed to point at the piece of paper to tell where they had to draw on the piece of paper so we had to say the direction for example top right corner. 

We changed places so now I was the drawer and the runners were yelling at me to draw the right thing. The thing that worked well was that we had two runners so it was faster so when one came inside to tell me what the drawing was the other one went outside and looked at the drawing. The thing that didn’t work well was that they were rushing me. It was challenging to draw the right thing in the right place. 

Have you ever played a activity like this before?

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A Terrifying Tsunami Evacuation

 On Friday there was a tsunami warning and we had to walk up the hill at the back of our school. 

When we got up on the hill I became scared about my sister because she was working on the water and I thought that the tsunami would happen but it didn't. I was worried at school because I thought the tsunami would come to our school when we were there, and I was trying to stay positive and help my friends to stay positive because they were sad and scared. 

After a while we noticed that there was a really dark bit in the water and there  was a long line across the water. 

My class played a quiz game on our teacher’s phone. We had to answer all the questions that the teacher asked us, and most of them were easy but some were hard.

We stayed up there for about four hours and I was bored and hungry, I also didn't really enjoy it when I was up on the hill.

When we were up on the hill there were very kind people that gave us food and water. 

After we were told that we were safe I felt safe and when I was up the hill I felt safe because we were up high.

Have you ever been in a tsunami or had a tsunami warning before?

Check Out This Great Kawa of Care DLO!!!

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about how to look after our Chromebooks. 

We had to make an animation or a comic. 

I learnt that we have to charge our Chromebook with no case on.

I enjoyed making an animation about learning how to take care of my Chromebook, when we made our screencastify it was hard because there were so many noises in the background but we managed to finished it, next time I might try to do a comic.

Do you know how to look after your Chromebook?

Mind Blowing Facts About Roy Lichtenstein

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Roy Lichtenstein and his art. 
We had to read some facts about Roy Lichtenstein and found the important ones and put them on a slide then we had to product what techniques we would use for our self portrait.
Roy Lichtenstein was a famous artist in the 50s-60s 
 I enjoyed writing down my techniques to use in my self portrait, It was hard to find important facts about Roy Lichtenstein, Next time I might use  bright colours in my self portrait.  
Have you ever seen a piece of art that Roy Lichtenstein has made?

The Amazing Trip to Kerikeri

 Hello everyone, on December the 2nd Te Maunga we went for a class trip. We went to The Parrot Place, park and the movies. At The Parrot Place we fed the birds and held them. My favorite bird was named Elmo. He was grey, white and a little bit black. At the park we played on the playground and after that we had Domino's pizza. At the movies we got a drink and an ice cream. We watched the Secret Garden.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 

Measurement that will blow your mind

 Hello everyone, in Te Maunga we have been learning about measurement. I learnt how to weigh using kilograms and grams. I also learnt how to measure using centimeters and millimeters. My favourite activity was growing in water, we measured the capsule and then it grew in the water so we measured the animal and saw the difference.