Google Ninja

Today we learnt how to use google docs properly by using a doc which taught a whole range of different things.

Seawalls Tairāwhiti

Yesterday (Tuesday 24th October), our hub was shown the Seawalls Tairāwhiti art.
Seawalls Tairāwhiti was an event where artists came into Gisborne and painted and sprayed pieces of art on walls all around Gisborne with the theme of "save our oceans".
We all chose a piece of art that spoke to us.
I personally chose this art, "Cracked Ink", by Sean Duffel. The reason this art spoke to me is all the detail. To me, the two characters represent humanity. The way their turned away from each other shows how we're ignoring our problems and disagreeing with ourselves. Especially since they have their eyes closed.
I feel that the reason the artist drew blue "waves" along the bottom showed to me that we're trying to cover our problems by trying to cover our dirt and trash with "lovely" water.
I see the objects in the background as coral. For me it's saying how we bleach our coral colorless. But I also see them as if they were the tall ugly buildings that we surround ourselves with.

Shop Day

At Gisborne Intermediate, there is an important day called "Shop Day". What happens is all classes come up with a product to sell at lunchtime of Wednesday 24rd October, tomorrow. Our classes have decided to sell Candy Bags, Candy Floss and Savoury Pies.
The money we earn (or hope to earn) will go to future trips for our class at the end of the term.
We hope we can earn lots.
-Chenoa

Manaiakalani

Manaiakalani is an organisation that teachers young children how to use social media and the internet in general. Today they taught us how to get help if weŕe being cyberbullied.

Report - Drama Teacher

For a Literacy Report, I decided to do mine on the lack of a drama teacher at Gisint, since it had to be school related. This was a practise for the upcoming Assessment (posted before this, scroll down to see).

Report Assessment

As an assessment for literacy, we wrote a report (a topic of anything we wanted) that was marked with the "Student Writing Rubric". This rubric is made of seven parts, Idea, Structure, Organisation, Vocabulary, Sentence Structure, Punctuation and Spelling. The highest mark you could get using this Rubric is 42 which gets you to level 6b. This piece of mine got the mark 42 landing me at 6b, the highest mark.
This piece is about the counseling at Gisint.

Science Fair Poster

The Science Fair Poster is quite different from the Science Fair Project. Instead of testing an experiment, you demonstrate an explanation of anything in the Material World, Living World, etc. Eg. Animal Life-Cycle, The Water Cycle.

For my Science Poster, I decided to do the Life Cycle of a Butterfly.