Writing Sample 2015

Cross Country by Haihana

“Its greens turn” Mrs Simeon shouted. I stood by room two waving the flag. Green team got onto the court and lined up. We were all loud and proud to be in the green team with our faces with green words and symbols on us. We walked around the court saying our chant. I heard the crowd laughing because our chant was hilarious.

After the parade we walked over to the farm where we would race.Massimo and I got into a little conversation.

“Massimo are you racing” I asked

“Nah because I can't race with the stitches in my chin the doctor said ” he replied

As we slowly made it to the farm, Mrs Paraha told us to sit on the tarpaulin and not to stand. I sat down and watched the five year olds getting ready to race. After them went the six year olds and so forth. After sitting on the tarpaulin for what it felt like hours, I got up and did some stretching because the year 8’s were next.

“Are you all ready?” said Whaea Rosina.

“YES!!!” we all shouted.

“On your marks, get set, GO!!!” Whaea Rosina shouted,

I took off a little bit slow. I saw Esmonde right up the front sprinting like a bullet. I speed up because I heard everyone cheering for us. I passed Tipi and Jade. I felt my heart pumping as fast as a train. I caught up to Harlym and Te Ari Jack around the corner by the fence next to Mr Lindsay and passed them which put me in third place. I already felt my stomach tighten up as I was coming up onto the hill. Esmonde just came down the hill and said “Good on you Haihana”

I responded back saying “you too”

I saw Journey right in front of me. We both sprinted down the hill around all the corners and finished our first lap.

“Run Haihana!!!” Mrs Simeon shouted

She tried to encourage me to come second place or third. I started picking my pace up. Journey was right next to me. We jogged up the hill around the cones and through the paddock. I saw the finish line up ahead. I heard  Massimo and everyone screaming and saying Go Haihana and Journey. I sprinted really fast as I could. But Journey just passed me and made it into second place. I came third. I sat down huffing and puffing and thought to myself  that I did better than I expected.

To sum up I was Happy and proud to have run and come third. I had fun and it was the best cross country.

Mihi 2015

Unit 1-4 Waea Mai Video.

Creating my own game.

Hi everybody

My aim was to learn about computer programming, particularly how to design my own game.  I used Tynker, Code and Sploder to research and gain a better understanding of how it works.  I looked at a few YouTube video's on-line but found I learnt more by just jumping in and exploring.

My game:

So the aim of my game is to pass all of the levels. You only get three lives. The games an RPG shooting game and the other game is an adventure parkour game. The games are still not finished but I hope you will enjoy it here is the link to play it 

 1st game:  http://www.sploder.com/?s=d004l3pw 

2nd game:  http://www.sploder.com/publish.php?

PHPSESSID=bc3af922e92e49f0fed67960122356c1&s=d004lb3t#kickdown

What I need to improve on:

I need to make more levels and maybe make a scoreboard, so people can see who has the top score or to improve on their performance.

2014 chromebook review.

Purpose: to inform our ministry of education, that future focused learning has made a big difference to how we learn which has helped us to achieve in our learning.

WALT: write an annotated report about the learning that took place in my classroom and how the learning helped me to become a successful student.

Future focused learning.

Throughout term 1 we were learning how to use a chromebook. Our main focus was on typing faster with all our fingers and learning how Google Drive works.

During my previous years, I worked with exercise books, out of library books, pencil and pens and two class laptops. This year, I  focused on digital learning by using chromebooks and ipads. Technology such as chromebooks is a `new and improved way to learn’ rather than use a pen and exercise book. I have found out that if you use these digital devices it can help you to improve in your spelling and reading.

On our chromebooks we can access our teachers work she post onto our Room 6 Site. We have a blog that we can post our work on, for our family to see as well as the rest of our school.  We can also put our work onto our drive and go to it when ever we want because it autosaves the last thing we typed on it.  

We have google to help us with information that we choose to use. We use Sumdog, Mangahigh and other cool learning websites that can help us to improve on our maths, reading and writing. With Mangahigh and Sumdog it has got me learning more with my maths because I find the maths games fun.

I have learnt how to make movies and put it onto youtube and edit it. It was pretty hard to learn but I enjoyed the work and it was cool to see my movie when I had finished it.

We are able to share our work with our buddy’s and teachers so they can give us a helpful comments.  I can also use the read&write app to help me to edit. It is a lot easier for me to edit now because a digital voice reads my work out and I can hear my mistakes.

Throughout this year I have been an active learner because of the chromebooks. I have learnt a lot with chromebooks about blogs and different websites that can help me to become a digital citizen. Using chromebooks has helped me to achieve in reading, writing and maths.

5 Nation Mounted Games

What has helped me to become a better writer.