As I move into a new role I say farewell to Wesley Intermediate and my wonderful class Kōwhai. Next year there will be a new teacher with a new blog for their class. All the best for 2023!!
Wow, what fun, I learnt a lot today, the new screencast app by google is neat to use to record with. Creating music using specific instruments and stamps to make the music or sound. Here is an image of my music using colour.I picked in the Sky for this piece because I love blue and the idea of flying and being free.
click the link to check out my music –
Or you can watch this video of my first attempt…
This piece was made with ‘On the Street’ and seems a lot darker, even looking at the colours it comes across as frenzied and dangerous. What kind of music would you make?
I used ‘World Cup’ by Ishowspeed because I enjoyed the high notes that were inspiring. Here is how I see the music. I heard the music without knowing. the name of the song and had green at the bottom, once I knew the name of the song and the focus I added the football.
I really enjoyed using sumo paint as I haven’t used it for a while.
I also listened to ‘Here to Stay’ by General Fiyrah. The beat was neat and fun to listen to here is my colour image for the song.
This was fun making my own piece of music.
Our group was reading a story called Something Alive. I can kind of relate as I come from Tonga, although I have been there I don’t know everything about Tonga. I found the task easy because I used the story as a reference. I knew about first point of view and third and I want to know about second point of you.
We have been learning about different cultures. To see what we know, we played Carmen San Diego. Our teacher found 3 cases for us to investigate. My favourite was finding the Mask of Tutankhamun. We had to find the evil ‘VILE’ crook. I giggled to myself because VILE is an anagram for evil.
I found it fun because it used Google Earth Voyager. I would like to learn to create my own game, in the app google earth.
In one of the games, I got lost and couldn’t find the villain.
Due to the weather today and forecast for the rest of the day we are having athletics only for those interested in going to Central Zone Tuesday 22 November. I found it interesting the number of students who said Miss put me down for this or that and then didn’t show up, because yes they did need to register their interest in an activity to participate.
The day started with the races, the longest to the shortest. Some students were deteremined to run in every single event. We tried to warn them but off they went. The field events were different though as you could try out for more than one, it was just to wet to attempt high jump.
The frustrating part was we had very little rain.
We have been learning about squared numbers and the phrase ‘to the power of’.
I like how 10 to the power of 8 is just 1 with 8 zeros on the end a much quicker way to write it. I even learnt that squared numbers make a square when coloured in and the square root is the opposite of a squared number.
We have been checking our understanding of timestables. Did you know the 3×4 can be drawn in a box 3 squares by 4 squares? And the squared numbers such as 9, 16 and 25 when drawn make a perfect square, that is it has even sides.
By Lennox
It was easy colouring the squares. I found it interesting that numbers that are make square are called squared numbers. I had never learnt about square root before.
This week being the end of term was full of a range of task to do and complete, students had the choice of investiating chinese Language or Tuvalu Language.
This presentation was complete by Tina and Shannon. They had fun creating the information they found in canva and converting to Google Slides. Great work Ladies.
Last Week Wesley Intermediate went to camp. Well most of them, a few had to stay at school. This is a recount of what I did at Totara Spring Camp
On Wednesday I:
My favourite part of the day was being on the water, I love to kayak. I didn’t think I was going to get a chance to be on the water because the first instructor asked us ot be on land. But we decided the right turn needed ot be modelled so student could see how to do it against the current.
The worst part of the day was swimming in the current, it was stronger than I thought.
Next time I would ensure we have a person behind us with the rope to help when we get runaway kayaks.
I was pretty happy we all had great time even if the water was cold.