Art coloring book!

 Today for cybersmart in Hub Mako we used this google tool called Art Coloring Book, and it is a website where you can get famous paintings and recolor them to your tastes. I really enjoyed choosing what colors to put in, but sometimes I would accidently move the picture and then I couldn't put the colors in.  Overall it was a fun activity to do, and I really enjoyed it. One thing I would recommend to Art coloring book is to make more colors and shades to use. Here are my transformed paintings: (By the way I chose the watermelon seller by Hafidh Al-Droubi and Young Man in the Costume of a Majo by Edouard Manet.) Please leave a comment on my work.

PIG MORE AERODYNAMIC THAN LOBSTER?

 Today in Hub Mako we made some fake news for a manaiakalani task. I decided to make mine on google drawings. You can probably guess what it is about. I really enjoyed doing this task, but it was hard to use all the space I had. To fix this problem I added a different story down the bottom which should be unreadable, but still noticeable. Also, don't try and read it because I just spammed my keyboard and copy and pasted it into lines. I decided to make the layout kind of like news page. Hope you like it, and please leave a comment.

THE AWESOMELY AMAZING BALL.

 In Cybersmart we have been learning about media and what it actually is. Today we made our own 'media'. I decided to do mine on google drawings and I based it on those incredibly annoying ads on TV. I tried to make it as out there and in your face as possible. I found it easy to get all the shapes together and make the layout of the ad, but it was hard to get exactly what I had in my mind because of the limits that drawings has. An example of this was when I was trying to make a light effect along the perimeter of the ball, I couldn't because drawings doesn't have the ability to blend colors and make colors blurred to achieve the desired effect. but here is the finished result. Please leave a comment.

New Zealand Ninja Warrior!!!!

 For the past couple of weeks we have been making games on Microsoft Makecode Arcade. I thought it was really fun to make them and I am really happy with the result. I am just sad that we couldn't finish it because you can definitely tell that it is not finished. My game is not impossible - just try to find the secret path at the end - it IS there. Thanks to Tonui Collab for letting us make these and I look forward to hopefully do this again sometime. I found it hard to finish my game to the finest detail, and I actually didn't finish so that was sad. But it is still playable and you can win. Or can you? Can you beat my game?Here is a link to my game: New Zealand Ninja Warrior (NEW UPDATE)

Tipu question/answer game!

Today in Hub Mako we are making a game for tipu in schools (maori learning)! It is a question and answer game and I think its really cool. I found it quite tricky to find the code to add to the pre-existing code to make it better, and then code them the right way. If you are seeing this game it might/might not be finished but it will update as I update it. I really enjoyed doing this and I will definitely look forward to updating and finishing this game. I really enjoy easter eggs in games so I added a few into my game! See if you can find them.  Thanks to Tutoro from Gisborne Boys High School for making the base code. Please leave a comment. Here is my game:

Tipu video

For Cybersmart we were tasked with making a video showing some maori words and also using a voice changer. I decided to make mine about the aftermath of a nuclear war/explosion in china. When I started the video, I didn't realise it had to have maori words in it, so sorry for the change of scene at the start. I found it fun to use all the voice changers and test to see what was the best one for my video. I found it hard to get the right voice as well. Here is my video, please leave a comment

Lockdown free write!

In the lockdown while learning at home we did a free write about the lockdown and how we think of it. I found it hard to put all of the points together. This is my piece of writing: please leave a comment.

The lockdown. It's stripped us of our freedom by keeping us in our neighbourhood at all times. However, it’s for our own good. New Zealand has eliminated the virus. It's working. Unsurprisingly, cases have dropped since the start of the lockdown. It IS working. This isn't all for nothing. We have successfully eliminated community transmission in New Zealand according to David Clark and Jacinda Ardern. So far, it has been the best possible outcome that could have happened to NZ.

 I think that Jacinda Ardern has handled this crisis very, very well. She has led us through these unprecedented times very well and even my mum- who is a national supporter- thinks so too. If we hold together and listen to the experts, we can get through this. I know we can. New Zealand is setting an example to other countries, by managing to win the battle against Covid-19. But we still have not won the war. That's a long way off, but we'll get there. Recently, we moved into level two. We have been steadily moving down levels and soon we might be in level one.

 It IS working. This isn't all for nothing. By listening to the experts and the government, we have successfully eliminated covid-19 from New Zealand for now, and before we know it, we could be back in glorious level two. kia kaha New Zealand.

Term 4 and whole year recount!

I think the past year has been one of my best. My time as a student at Wainui Beach School is drawing to a close, but I have had a rich six years as a student of this school. I feel I am ready to transition to Gis int and I want to end the year on a high.

I think one of the best experiences from this year has been Camp Kaitawa and the Google Summit in Auckland. They were both out of Gisborne and were both well worth the trip. I have had lots of experiences this year, such as Inter School rugby, School Patrols, House Captains, and many many more. I have achieved lots this year and I hope to achieve more and new things at intermediate. I hope to achieve my goal for the end of the year, which is to win the Kohn cup, which would be the best possible way to end the year for me. For those who do not know, the Kohn cup is a cup presented to a year six boy and the winner gets their name placed on the wooden board at the back of the hall. There is also the Collier cup for year six girls.

Again, I think I have had an awesome time this year and in my time at WBS and I will be content when I leave this school. I learnt so much and will learn more in my new school. Some of my friends are going to different intermediates and I will have the opportunity to make new friends, while retaining some friends from WBS. Please leave a comment.

MARAE NOHO!!!!!! :D

Last Thursday and Friday the school went in a visit to Te-Poho-a-Rawiri marae for a overnight stay. We did activities on both days. On the Thursday night nui did our kapa-haka routine, so we could get some feedback on it. I thought it awesome and we smashed it out of the park but that's my opinion. I fin kapa-haka really fun and the activities were fun also. On the first day the activities that I did were: Handball, walking, and these log hand-eye coordination games. On the second day I wasn't feeling well so I don't know what activities my group did. Over all the marae noho was fun and it sucked that I spent most of the second day lying in the shade. Please leave a comment

REFUGEE

For the first week back of term three we have jumped right into our learning. For our reading group we have been assigned a task were we have to read little snippets of this book called refugee every week and then we have to answer questions about the part of the book we have read. It is a really good book as far as I can tell. It is about three children and their families in different periods of time, trying to emigrate to other countries to escape from war and starvation. One of the kids and his family are in Nazi Germany, 1939, trying to escape from the treatment they get for being Jews. They try to get to Cuba. On the other side of the world. One is in Cuba, 1994, trying to get to America to escape from starvation in Cuba, and the last one is in Syria, 2015, and I don't know where they are going just yet, trying to escape from war and political unrest in Syria. It is a really good book and it is written by Alan Gratz. Please leave a comment on this post. :D.

My Goals

Yesterday in room 1 we made a drawing to put in what type of learner we thought we were, what learning we were most proud of and what we will try to work on. we had to choose either our avatar or a picture that represents us to say our goals. I have made mine and this is it:
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