2020 Extension Reflection

2020 (as you know,) has been very unusual due to the virus. There are lots of highlights and lowlights to this year. For example, one highlight: during lockdown, I got to hang out with my family, and do family activities together. One lowlight: we had to stay inside for most of level four unless one person from he house had to go shopping. During lockdown, I went to the same classes, maths, literacy, and home class, and even extension. 

Firstly, term one is hard to remember because it feels so long ago. But I do remember that it was close to the end of a school day, and then we heard Mr Burt call out on the speaker that we were going into lockdown. This made me both happy (because I was going to sleep in, and spend time with my family,) and also worried because I didn't know how the future would look, and how the rest of this year would go, and also because the virus sounded very dangerous, and like it had already hit a few people, or even countries.

Next, term two it started with everyone still in lockdown, and online learning starting back up again after a two week holiday (in lockdown.) Term two is also a bit hard to remember, but I do remember doing lots of learning online, and seeing my friends and teachers on google meets. 

Then, after a long second term, it was term three. In the beginning of term three, exciting things were happening, including year 8 camp, and then another lockdown. After lockdown, the rest of term 3 happened, and then term 4 started. Term 4 has been quite exciting, with different things and events happening, and also lots of warnings and advice college. Overall, 2020 has been quite a weird year, and if I could thank all of the essential workers, I would. That is my reflection.

Art Alive Expo 2020

 Art Alive Expo 2020,

Today, we had our art expo. This was quite interesting, and I really enjoyed walking around the school, and looking at different art pieces. First, we started at the new entries/ year 1's class rooms. There was a lot of art in these classrooms, and they were very stunning. Their artwork includes tie dye monsters, fish made out of paper plates, and animal portraits made out of paper plaits and paint.

These were very beautiful. I also spotted in the hallway of the year 1 classes, bubble art. This looked very cool, and I'm guessing they were fun to make. In room 18, there was art hanging on pieces of string, and half of a page of paper said dirty hands and showed painted hand prints below, and showed when the hands were clean. Then we went and saw the year 7 and 8 extension art, which was terrific. rm 19 had Piet Mondrian art, and room 21 had paper butterfly hanging from a string.  room 23 had tie dye shirts, and  team 3 overall had artwork that was fun to look at because of the vibrant colours included. Team 2 had different self portraits using different things like shapes and colour. 

   Team 4 had different pieces of art about each of their cultures. For example, Maori, Pacific, and more.

Team 5 had different artists for different classes. Room 11 had Sebastiao Salgado, room 5 had Andy Warhol, room 4 had Vincent Van Goph , room 3 had Georges Seurat, room 2 had Alberto Giacometti, and room 1 had Edvar Munch.

Limerick Poem Literacy

 Walt: express ideas in poetry form.

Task Description:

For reading this week, we learnt about limericks. At the end of this presentation, is my own limerick.

Extension Art T4W8

Task Description:

For extension art this term, I had to create a landscape which represents both me, and New Zealand ( the country where I live.) As you may be able to see, there is a Samoan beach fale and flag, and a table with an L&P bottle, pineapple lumps, and chips. All of these things are at a beach in New Zealand, so it all adds up together, to represent me, my culture, and my country.

 

Reading Kiwi Kids T4W8

 Walt: Locate and summarise ideas within a range of texts.

Task Description:

For reading this week, we got to choose one or two kiwi kids articles, and write/ answer questions about them in this presentation. 

Te Reo Kei hea a?

 Walt: To say where someone is 

Task Description:

For Te Reo this week, we learnt about Maori names of city's/places in New Zealand.

Pastel Art Work in Room 1: The Scream

Task Description:

For art rotations this term, we have been rotating to different classes, learning about different artist, and making different pieces of art. Here is my pastel painting that I made in room 1. It's supposed to be my own pastel art work of the scream, because we learnt about Edvard Munch in room 1. Here is my Pastel Art work.

Reading Piet Mondrian T4W6

Walt: identify the author’s purpose

 

Task Description:

For reading this week, two reading groups got an artist, and my group was learning about Piet Mondrian. Here is the presentation for this week.

Maths Fractions Warm up T4W6

 WALT: revise our fractions learning

Task Description:

This task is a  warm up for maths this week. For this task, we focused on fractions.

Manaiakalani Film Festival Poster

 

Task Description:

This task was about the Manaiakalani Film Festival. For this task, we had to write what happened on the day (and what the festival is actually about.) We also had to write something about two of our Favorited movies.

Athletics Day 2020

 

Task Description:

This task is about athletics. For this task, we had to create a poster, or write a writing, about athletics day. Here is my poster, which shows some writing talking about what happened on the day, and also some pictures about sports (just to show what I mean about sports.)

Bedmas T4W5

Walt: Use the correct order of operations when solving algebraic equations

 

Task Description:

This task is for maths this week. For this task, I got to learn more about bedmas.

Timetable Warm Up T4W5

Task Description:

This task was a warm up for maths this week. This task was about multiplication. The aim of this task was to practice our timetables by doubling and tripling and more.

Art Alive Rotation: Andy Warhol T4W4

Task Description:

This task is apart of the inquiry rotations. For this task, we learnt about Andy Warhol, a famous pop art artist.

Loss of Biodiversity Create Task T4W4

Task Description:

This task is also apart of literacy this week. This is a create task about the causes and effects of the loss of biodiversity.

Reading Loss of Biodiversity T4W4

Task Description:

This task was apart of literacy/reading this week. For this task, the focus was loss of biodiversity (and what biodiversity actually is.) Here is the reading part of the topic for literacy this week.

Guy Fawkes Story T4W4

Task Description:

This task was about Guy Fawkes. For this task, we had to tell the story of Guy Fawkes. Here is the story of Guy Fawkes, and why we celebrate it.

Alphabet Multiplication T4W4

Task Description

This task was a warm up for the next presentation for maths this week. For this task, we had to find the letters from the words on the side, at the top and multiply the numbers.

Algebra Everywhere T4W4

Walt: graph a simple algebraic equation

 

Task Description:

This task was about algebra. For this task, there were different tasks, some were for years 7's, and some were for year 8's. After finishing these slides, we did a algebra pop quiz.

Art Alive Rotation: Alberto Giacometti T4W3

Task Description:

This task is apart of art alive (the inquiry theme for this term.) For this task (since we are doing class rotation,) we went to Ms Tapuke's class and learnt about Alberto Giacometti.

Plastic Pollution Explanation Writing

Did you know that it takes some plastic over 400 years to break down? Some of that plastic is slowly breaking down in our oceans, on land, and even in the stomachs of birds, fish, and sea animals. Plastic is made from natural materials such as cellulose, coal, natural gas, salt and crude oil. Plastic pollution is a big problem, and is killing the planet, and the creatures on it.

Firstly, microbeads. Microbeads are tiny bits of plastics that can be found in some products such as toothpaste, facial scrubs, hand sanitiser and more. But microbeads are not good for our oceans, Microbeads could leach toxic chemicals to any animal that consumes it. Microbeads are banned in some countries like Canada, USA, Sweden, France, UK, Scotland, Netherlands, Wales, South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Northern Ireland and Australia.

Next, small packaging. lots of small packaging, and bits of plastic are found in animals (fish, birds, sea animals and more.) to solve this problem, we could buy things in bulk. By buying (foods, drinks, and more) in bulk, you don’t have lots of small packaging, but bigger containers and cardboard packaging that contains more, and isn’t small enough to fit in a sea turtle stomach. Things like single serving yogurts, or travel sized toiletries, could change into bigger containers of yogurt, and bigger tubes of toothpaste, soaps, and more toiletries.

A lot of plastic can be found holding your food, and maybe around the house. Plastic is a part of our daily lives, and it’s getting worse for the environment. We could reduce our use of plastic by (at the supermarket,) using reusable bags instead of plastic bags (which are banned in NZ), and (anywhere,) using metal water bottles instead of plastic water bottles, and maybe when you eat out, or even at home, instead of using plastic straws and cooking, and eating utensils, use metal, glass, or just reusable straws and cooking and eating utensils.

In conclusion, plastic is a problem on our planet, it can be found in lots of different things, including packaging, as microbeads in products. The microbeads in some products can lead to the ocean, and into fish, which people eat. But there are ways to replace it, for example, using mesh/reusable bags to carry our vegetables at the supermarket, or reuse packaging. You could reuse packaging for things like art, or to fix something. It’s much better in your house as art, then in a seagull's stomach. Remember the five R’s, reduce, reuse, recycle, re purpose, and refuse.

Plastic Pollution Writing Slides

Walt: to organise our ideas into paragraphs

Task Description:

This task was about plastic pollution, and solutions to some of the problems. For this task, I got to practice for the writing test, focusing on a topic, and writing about it.

10 Facts About Niue T4W2

Task Description:

For Niuean Language Week this week, the task for this afternoon was to create a poster showing 10 facts about Niue. Here is my poster.

Te Reo Time T4W2

Task Description:

For Te Reo Maori this week, the focus of this task was time. For this task, I got to learn things about Time in Maori like half past, time, minute and more. 

Awesome Algebra T4W2

 Walt: Find the rule for a pattern

Task Description:

Since there is going to be testing soon, for this task we practised algebra.

Reading Plastic Pollution T4W1

Walt: summarise key information in a text

Task Description:

This task was about plastic pollution. For this task, on this slide, there are videos, texts, and word groups all about plastic pollution.

Artist Inquiry T4W1

Task Description:

Today we had to complete the work on this slide, and look at Sebastiao Salgado's work as a photographer.

Maths Line Graphs W1T4

Task Description:

This is the first maths task for term 4. This task is about line graphs, and about how to read, and make them. for the create task, I got to make a line graph. 

Minotaur Maze Video T3W10

Task Description:

This task was apart of the maths maze task for this week. here is a video of my group (Alison, Tuluinga, and Amira) showing our maze.

Term 3 Highlights Poster T3W10

Task Description:
Since it is the last day of school for term 3 today, we had to create a poster/slides showing the highlights of term 3, and what we are looking forward to for term 4. Here is my poster of my highlights, what I am looking forward to, and some photos from the term.