Favourite Shortcut

Kia ora bloggers!!!

I recently asked the class to share their favourite shortcut so I thought it only fair that I share mine. My favourite shortcut helps me to make ‘macrons’. A macron is the line you see above vowels to indicate that the vowel has a long vowel sound. This is very useful because I’m making a big effort to use more Māori words.

All you do is hold the letter down and a menu appears.

Then you select the mark you want. These marks are called diacritical marks. This link will explain more about them. They are used in lots of different languages.

I used to find the words with the macrons on the internet and copy and paste them into my document. Often I’d have to change the size and font as well so this is a big timesaver! Thank you Basma for showing this to me.

I hope this is useful to you someday. Please share your favourite shortcut.

Noho ora mai

About Us

Kia ora bloggers, It’s week 8 and this is our first class post of 2024. We are room 6 and we are from Hay Park School. We are a class of year 4, 5 and 6 students. Our school is in Mt Roskill, Auckland. There are 29 students in our class and about 160 students in our school.

Our local maunga (mountain) is Puketāpapa / Mt Roskill. Puketāpapa was a fortified pa under Māori occupation from at least the 13th or 14th century but was no longer intensively occupied when European settlers moved into the area in the mid-1800s. In 1841 Ngāti Whātua (local iwi) exchanged 13,000 acres, which included Puketāpapa, with the Crown.

Please comment and tell us about your school.

Thanks

Positively Replying

Today we worked with Whaea Tanya on replying to comments. We learnt we need to be specific when saying Thank you, or someone might think we are thanking them for just being alive.


Here you can see how we construct replies and a couple that one of the students made.
I found it tricky because although I have replies they don’t all have a questions so what do you say? – What would you reply?

Media Use Using Scratch

Hello Bloggers,

Hope you are looking forward to the long weekend. We have been using Scratch to show some of our learning during Cybersmart. I decided to create my own ‘simple’ example so I could remember how to code and get images to share with the class. My Scratch video is about my ‘media use’. When I’m at home I and I want a break from my planning I like to watch YouTube or Tik Tok videos. I really enjoy watching sports, cooking, and videos about politics. Let me know what your video habits are.

Thanks for watching.

“Quiet on the Set!”

Around the school you can hear the words, “Quiet on the set!”, “Action!” and “Cut!”. You can see superheroes, detectives, zombies, doctors, gamers and more. Williams class have been working hard to complete the filming for their film festival movies. Students have been learning to be organised and work cooperatively. It’s been both fun and challenging. Filming is nearly complete and editing will begin shortly. Check our blogs to find out more about our filming experiences and let us know how your filming is going.

Today in Cybersmart went discussed all the learning we did last term and made it into a Graphic Novel. It was brilliant making a our own comic.

We could pick the characters and what they were saying to make our own story. Reminding people what they can share.

Williams Class Weekly 9th June 2023

Talofa Lava Bloggers,

We’ve been really busy and it’s been a long time since our last post (actually in term 1) so we thought we’d do a catch up post …

Orewa Surf Trip

Last term we went on a bus to Orewa which is about an hour away. We went to learn how to surf. It was difficult standing up. We fell over heaps of times. Some people managed to stand up for 10 seconds. Later we had free swimming time but they didn’t let us go very deep. The water was cold at first but we got used to it quickly.

Basketball

The year 5&6 students went on a basketball trip. We saw heaps of teams. We had a run around then we practised. Later we played some games. We tried hard and had fun. We learned a lot and when we were back at school we had a class challenge.

Art Trip

We went to the C0rban Estate Art place. Our teachers were Whaea Penny and Whaea Molly. They talked about Matariki and how it related to our art. They taught us how to work with pastel and how to draw New Zealand birds and plants. We used colour pastels in layers. We coloured the bird a basic colour then we added lighter and darker colours to part of the birds. At the end we used clay paint to make the night sky in the background. It was so much fun.

Dance

We learned to do a dance with Millie. She is a dance instructor. It was fun learning the dance moves and she told us to do our own style. At the end we had to share our dance with the class. We had to remember it all … and it was easy to remember. We hope we get to do it again.

Hope you enjoyed our post. Let us know what you have been doing in the comments … bye

Williams Class Weekly 10th March 2023

 

Some of us went to the Zone Cricket tournament. We had to follow all the rules carefully.  We won 2 games and lost 1. We gave 3 cheers to the other teams and high-fived them. We versed Dominion Road, Three Kings and Halsey Drive schools. Afterwards we had pizza and played on the playground. We also had ice blocks when we got back to school.

The next zone tournament is football in 3 weeks. There will be a boys and a girls team. There will be trials next week.

This week we also learned about rounding and expanding numbers. Working with big numbers in the hundred thousands was kind of hard. We had to do lots of examples. We also learned that without zero you can’t make numbers like 100, 1000, 10 000, 100 000 or 1 000 000.

Have a great weekend.

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Goodbye : )