Summer Learning Journey Descriptive Writing

 The next step of learning about the summer learning journey was to find another picture, colour it in and describe it. e.g shapes, lines, colours, texture, whats in the background... 

You can see that this drawing is pretty plain. But the paint has a good texture on the pyramid and a little bit of texture on the sand. The background is just a blue sky with the pyramid and sand. My eye catches onto the little mountains on the right hand side far back behind the pyramid. There are lines that separate the sky from the sand and the 3 dimensional triangle. The colours there are not to many of either but they blend together nicely and they look good side by side.

Online Art

 Today Mrs Torrie came into room 4 along with room 3 and she talked to us about the Summer Learning Journey. The summer learning journey is when people set you tasks every week and you learn it, create it, then share it on your blog.

My colours I choose are really summery vibes then the dark blue and green in the background level out the colours.

My Art -

Composition - Coloured By Rylee

Composition - Mohammed Melehi

Kiwi Pavlova

 Today the year sevens went in pairs and used postermywall to create a homemade ice cream of our choice. We had to have more than one flavour and there has to be one fresh ingredient involved through the sweet. My partner was Jaimee and we decided to make a classic kiwi Pavlova ice cream. Tomorrow we will be making the proper ice cream during food tech.

This is how our poster turned out.  

Athletics Day 2020

 Last week Matawai School had an action packed week with Ag Day and Athletics. But athletics was the most challenging part of last week. 

We started off by lining up in our year groups with a whole lot of other schools and then all the year groups spread off into different sports activities. The year sevens rushed off to highjump. There were only 3 year seven girls from Matawai plus other girls from the different schools. I was proud of how I did but I was also proud of Hayley and Jaimee’s effort because we came top three for high jump. Jaimee = 1st, Hayley =2nd and me ( Rylee ) = 3rd. 

Shotput was up next and that is my least favorite activity for athletics because I don’t have the right technique so it either ends up as a throw or it just doesn't go very far at ALL! Anyway the lady put us into our order that our names were printed and I was the 2nd girl to go. My first shot out of 2 Kate the sports lady clarified it as too much of a throw and she said I could do better. My last shot was perfect and one of the boys ran a measuring tape out and I got approximately 7 - 8 meters.

Slowly walking with Hayley around the high jumpers as we rotated over to the long jump. We got back in our order and the boys were desperate for the girls to go first and they were saying “ladies first.” So we lined up. My heart was beating faster than a blink of an eye and before I knew it I was up. My first jump got about 3 meters then when I went for my second jump I got 1cm less than my first jump.

We headed over to the discus and we waited about 45 minutes to have our turn. And when we arrived over there the year 8’s were still waiting for their turn. So after a long time of waiting later I picked up the discus and threw it. But little did I know that Hayley’s Dad was  taking pictures of us when we threw the discus. He called them our ballerina poses. After my two throws my longest one was 11.2 meters.

Our last thing we had to do was… dun dun dunnnn!!! Sprints. So basically I didn’t get any placings in the sprints but I wasn’t very far behind Zoe Newman in every race. But I tried my hardest and am looking forward to doing it again next year, my final athletics at Matawai.

To finish the day I went and bought Hayley and myself a refreshing juicy ice block and did the team relays. My team did really well and got a solid third. My team had Hohepa, Jaimee, Maranga and myself. That's how I ended a wonderful day.

Pop Art Online

Today our cybersmart teacher ( Mrs Torrie ) saw how room 4 had done pop art with Mrs Allan in term 2 2020 and all our art was put up on the wall. Since Mrs Torrie teaches computer stuff so she got us to use the app called Lunapic which is a photo editing app and it's really cool.

Spooky Halloween Story Starters

Today for our writing we got given a task. We had to make as many spooky story starters  as we wanted. After we had finished writing we had to buddy up with a partner  and debate on what one was the best. There were only nine kids in my class today but we all went in completely different directions on what topics to write about. Everyone's turned out really cool and some people got the shivers from reading them.

And this is the one that I choose...

The Dog-Raffe-Dile

Tips Tricks & Fun With Rylee

Today in cyber smart room 4 carried on building our jingle brand which is when you make your own logo sort of thing. We started off a few weeks back by set out how we wanted it to look on a google drawing. We also had to take a selfie of ourselves then cropped it with remove background, so it wouldn't take up all the space on the wevideo. My jingle includes some music, text boxes and Sophia and myself talking at the end.

My Magnificent Wooden Stool

After lock down when kids came back to school, on Wednesdays Room 4 did Tech and these are sewing, cooking and woodwork. The year sevens which was Jaimee, Duncan, Hayley and myself did woodwork with Peter who was the woodwork teacher. We started making stools and they are about 25cm tall and around 30cm wide. To make our stools it took 9 weeks so that means 9 days. All of the skills we used to make this stool was... sawing, measuring, gluing, staining the wood, sanding and drilling holes. It was a really fun process to go through along beside friends.
Today was our last session in woodwork and next up is cooking with Mrs Bennett.
This is how my magnificent wooden stool turned out...

Creating My Own Music

Last week with our cybersmart teacher, Room 4 got introduced to a song website called 'Soundtrap'. First we had to find a picture of either an animal or a sport or something that we like. I finally chose a picture of a running cheetah. When we were making our music it had to match the mood of your picture. It was really confusing at the start for all of us, so we all struggled a bit but also had a lot of fun playing around and making beats. When we had finished our sound we had to fiddle around a little bit so we could add our beats onto the picture. The one main thing that I found challenging during this process would have to be getting the hang of the whole app.

AND HERE'S MY FINAL PRODUCT . . .

5 Resons Why Living In The Country Is Better Than Town

With some of our writing with Mrs Bennett we did persuasive writing which is a type of writing when you and another person is debating on something like e.g Zoos should be banned.
We are trying to convince our audience to think something the same way as us and see our point of view.

Hypertufa Pots

Last Thursday with Mrs Allan room four started to make Hypertufa pots and how we did that was . . .
Firstly we got a bit of cardboard and we shaped it into any kind of shape, I just did a simple square. Once you had your shape you put tape on it to keep the shape in place. Then you completely cover the cardboard on the outside and the inside. Once you have done that you grab another bit of cardboard to place on the bottom. You stick the bottom to the shape with loads of tape so it doesn't leak out. We had to make a small hole with our pencil at the bottom of the cardboard for a place for water to drip out of.

Then we mixed together perlite, concrete, water and Pete so it was in between lumpy and watery. Before we put any concrete into the cardboard we got some blue tack and a round container that fits perfectly inside of the cardboard. We made the bit of blue tack about 2cm long and stuck it into the hole we made and balanced the container on top. We carefully packed the concrete down the sides and at the bottom of the cardboard.

After 1 week we went up to the shade house where we had kept our Hypertufa pots. Room four rushed back to class to destroy our creations so we could get our pot out.
They look really cool but now our class smells like a garden centre.

Best Tech Yet

Today for tech the year 7's woodwork teacher was sick so our principal was going to do something with us. Mr Knight choose to do robotics with us. We had one and 1/2 hours to complete out robots and we were going to have a soccer game with them. Our teams were Duncan, Maranga and Jaimee then Hayley and myself. The skill we were focusing on was teamwork. Neither of the teams had finished our creations so Mr Knight said he will find some time so we can finish our robots and have a big soccer game. It was really hard to find the pieces that we needed and also how to connect the batteries. Overall it was really fun and a great way to fill in our tech time.  

Here's the robot Hayley and I are close to finishing . . .

My Own Music

Today with our cyber smart teacher we made our own beats and music by using incredibox, Turn art into music and digital rhythm maker. I decided to use incredibox. It was really fun playing around with the different sounds.
And these are how mine turned out . . .

1. Click on beats

2. Click here

Print Making

Today I finished the print bock part of my print making which was my maths for the last few Thursdays with Mrs Allan. Once I had finished putting the ink onto the lino I had to be very careful because I had to use a lino cutter so I could get rid of bits of the lino. I used the lino cutter to get rid of the whole background and made it a really rough texture.
Here is my art so far
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My Yeast Gif

Today in cyber smart our teacher Mrs Torrie knew what Mrs Bennett had started teaching us. We did a experiment using yeast. In class one day this week we got 4 bottles and filled them all up 3/4 of the way with water. One with cold water, one with warm water, one slightly warmer and the last one out of a kettle. After we did that, we tested the water to see the temperature and put the temperature on each bottle. We added around 1 tsp of sugar to each bottle of water. Then put in some yeast so it could make carbon dioxide. Straight away we put a balloon onto the top so it can blow up the balloon.

But in cyber smart today we made an awesome GIF showing our class experiment we did then show it on a Chromebook.

 

Reading A Story For Room 1

The last few Thursdays with Mrs Allan, we have been doing loads of really fun things. One of those things were reading a book for the little kids in our school. We had to read the book into a device while it was videoing us. Next up we had to take photos of every page in the book and line the photos up with my reading on the editing app. I used Wevideo so Room 1 can listen to it. And if they wanted to they could get the same book from our school library and follow on with the words.
HERE'S MINE . . .

My Amazing Street Art

When everyone came back to school after lock down, Room 4's very first art project was a bit of art called street art. Mrs Bennett showed us some images off google so we knew what we were really doing. During my progress of making my street art I used . . .
- Water colour
- Fine black pen to go around the outline
- Colouring in pencils
That's all I used to make my creation but everyone else in Room 4 made there street art completely different.

Here is my street art...

Animation

My Thursday In Room 4

Today in room 4 we had Mrs Allan for the second time since being back at school. This Thursday we also made a time table of our day just like last week. Our P.E focus for term 2 is skipping with a skipping rope. It is actually really fun. 

I'M REALLY LOVING THURSDAYS WITH MRS ALLAN!!!

Lockdown 2020 Bubble Moments

A few days ago our writing task was to write down things that happened during the lockdown time. so we all made it a bit different on a goggle doc. So I put a background a title and the circles stand for the bubbles because we were in a bubble for so long.

A Great Thursday With Mrs Allan

Today is Thursday with Mrs Allan we made a table on a doc and put what we were going to do for the day and what time we do that. We also were learning print art in maths. I started off with some maths because I brain doesn't  work as well when its the afternoon. next up I did some writing and we had to ask some questions about a sport and a friend had to answer the questions. Reading and Genius Hour. It was a great day back with Mrs Allan.
This Is My Table from Today . . .

1950's Interview With Grandparents

Mrs Bennett this term gave us the task to do all of this decade work, so far it was very different back in the 1950's.

What was the year when you were 11?

What do you remember about school and the way you were taught?

Who was your favourite singer or band and how did you listen to their music?

Did you play sports for school or a club? What sports did you play and who did you play for?

What technology/new technology do you remember having in your home?

Can you recall any significant world events?

What was one of your favourite shows as a kid?

What's one of your favourite childhood memories?

What did you want to be when you grew up?

Nannas Answers -

1. 11 - 1969

2. Had one room, sat at desks with your age, one teacher, marching teams

3. Leo sayer

4. Rode horses for fun

5. Record player, slide projector

6. Flooding, ( name - Holt ) prime minister drowned in 1967

7. Little house on the prairie

8. Riding horses

9. Train hostess

Grandads Answers -

1. 11 - 1967

2. Write on a black board, strap, light the fire to heat the class, mow the lawns

3. Kenny rogers, radio, record player

4. Rugby for waikohu college, whatatutu primary school

5. TV, radio,

6. Moon landing, wahine sinking

7. My favourite martian

8. Going to car racing every year for a school trip, Liked riding horses, playing rugby

9. Butcher 

P.s he says his rugby team was the best and how his team won against a team that was 2 years above him, the score was 3 to 6.

My Decade Box

Room fours topic at the moment is Decade & Time. At home we all went and found some sort of box. To Make mine a bit more creative and different I did paper mache all over the box. It looks really cool.
This Is how It Turned Out . . .

Homemade Lava Lamp

Today I tried out a homemade lava lamp, this is how i made it . . .
1. In any type of jar fill it up 3/4 of the way with any kind of cooking oil.
2. In another bowl pour around 1/4 cup of white vinegar and add a food colouring then mix.
3. When you are adding the food colouring add it until the colour is quite dark.
4. Put in the baking soda after you have combined all the ingredients.
4. This is what it will hopefully turn out like . . .

Putting Up A Tent

Today I thought I might put up a tent and Arlo and I can Play in it. Arlo grabbed out a whole lot of toys while I grabbed all my school work to do in the tent for a change of location. I took 1 of my favourite books. I'm also preparing for 24 hours outside so that means I'll have to sleep in a tent. I'll be writing a blog post about 24 hours outside on Saturday because that is when I'll be doing that challenge.

Making a Chocolate Cake

Today I made a cake at Mrs Bayley's while Andy went to work for a little bit and mum got groceries in town. I made a incredible chocolate cake. I got to take half home while Roger and Lauren got to keep the other half at there place to eat. 
THIS IS THE FINISHED RESULT . . . 

Ben's ANZAC Competition

Every week someone named Ben makes a colouring in competition but this week he set us kids and adults a task to create something to do with ANZAC using any kind of materials that we want or have around our place. Then we have a week to complete our creation and send a picture to him.
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE DONE!!

 

Anzac Day

I thought I might do some things to do for Anzac day and this is what I did . . .

Nature Artwork

This week for school our teacher gave room 4 a task to make a incredible bit of artwork all from nature. I thought I might as well do something different to what everyone else would do so I did . . . 
A heart shaped out of flax / harakeke. Once I had a shape of a heart that I was happy with I added Autumn leaves and lots of other things. 
This is how it turned out . . . 

The Finest 3 Ingredient Chocolate Cake In A Cup

The Finest 3 Ingredient Chocolate Cake In A Cup -

Today when I was on my chrome book I went on YouTube for half an hour. On 5 - minute crafts and one of the videos I found a cake in a cup. I went straight to the kitchen and tried it. In our cupboards we had no nutella so I used about ¼ of a cup of chocolate chips.

Ingredients - 

1 big spoon of Nutella / any kind of melted chocolate

1 egg

½ tablespoons of plain flour

1. Keep on mixing your batter until it looks like a real cake batter. 

2. Place the mixture in the cup into the microwave for 1 minute.

3. Take it out of the microwave and make some cream to put on top ( optional )

4. Taste and enjoy!!!

Blog Post Graph

Kia Ora

Today we were learning how to make graphs with anything but today we did our blog posts with our 2019 and 2020.

You can see that in December 2019 I have the most blog posts and in 5 other months I have done no blog posts. August 2019 and October has the same amount posts just like March 2020 and June 2019 has the same amount of posts.

This is our class one the same as the one above but we put all the class's blog posts in 2019 and 2020. Hayley has lots of blog posts but she had an advantage because she did the Summer Learning Journey. 

As you can see Myself and Violet has both done 39 blog posts and Hayley has done 82 blog posts more than me.

I enjoyed comparing the amount of blog posts.

Have you ever made a graph?

Ma Te Wa

My Pepeha 2020

Room 4 today was learning and remembering how to use screencastify and use tour builder and also google earth with our cyber smart teacher.

Bike Track

Rm 4  enviro project is to recreate our old bike track outside so we can have some fun. 5 kids including me went with our principal to discuss and show us what we need to do, how to get started and some designing tools that we can do on some i-pads that we will be getting later on in the year. This is what it looks like at the moment. We are just waiting for some stock to chew it all down. 
Does your school have a bike track?

   

Sunflower Art

Outside at Matawai School Room 1 planted some sunflowers and they inspired room 4 to do a sketch and paint them. They were tall and healthy looking sunflowers. The bees were surrounding them.

Making Delicious Muffins

This afternoon I got home and decided to make white chocolate chip chocolate muffins for school. WOW!! THEY ARE DELICIOUS!! I thought to myself.
Have you every made muffins or eaten them before?

Do you like muffins?

Whats your favourite kind of muffins?

Weet- bix Tryathlon

People were cheering on their kids from the sideline while me and Jessica were waiting patiently with excitement, the nerves were kicking in even though we were the last group. We lined up like brave soldiers. (even though it was only a Weet-bix Tryathlon not war) before we knew it these words came out of a man's mouth . . . ON YOUR MARKS GET SET GO!! So a group of 11 year old girls sprinted into the pool. The bright light beaming on us. 

We ran out ripping our cap off. I threw it to Jessica's auntie running to the bikes searching for my bike. I found it wandering out to the road so I could jump on and take off. There were many people cheering for me. The 1st lap was done for the 2nd lap I sighed. Jessica and I put our arms together and made a bridge and the people took a photo. We were getting close to the Olympic pools. We jumped off our bike and put it away as we started to sprint to the finish.

We grabbed a drink of water on the way to the finish then threw it onto the ground. Heading towards the finish line people were cheering and yelling. COME ON YOU CAN DO IT! We carried on and strived for the end. Crossing the finish line felt like a relief, getting the medal made me feel I did really well.

By Rylee Geary

The Amazing Gold Coast Trip

In April Me and my family are going to the Gold Coast / Australia for 2 weeks and this is like where we are staying and things like that.

Whanau Writing / Art

KO WAI AHAU? | ABOUT ME

Kia ora I’m Rylee, I go to Matawai School and I am a year 7. I live in a country with my Mum, Step Dad and little Brother. I also live about 15 minutes from Matawai.

I love to play soccer and cricket out on the farm. Coming to school every day is great. I do so much fun stuff and have a good amount of friends to play and talk with. Reading is one of my favorite subjects. I have 2 favorite authors: David Willams and Roald Dahl. My goal for 2020 is doing better at math.

My best friend lives in town and we don’t get to see each other as much anymore. I made some friends the first day at Matawai School 3 years ago. I’m looking forward to the start of 2020.
Ma te wa

Facts About Koalas

We started writing facts that we know about Koalas in our reading book, then we jumped onto a device and started to research more on them and grow our knowledge bigger. Some of room 4 started to make posters on a google drawing. I finished mine last night and this is the final result . . .

All About Me 2020

It's the starting of 2020 & I thought to make a poster to show everyone what I like. Do we have anythings in common?