🔸Feelings in Maori🔸

Today is Tuesday and we had a google meet at 10:55am (the usual early time) but I joined at 11:15am because I slept in. By the time I joined, Whaea Sam (Breakout Tahi-1 teacher) had her screen presented and was asking some students a question and the question was "kei te pehea koe?" In English, she was asking "how are you?" and we had to say "kei te (feeling in Maori ) ahau." For example, when she asked me "kei te pehea koe Tina?" I would reply with "kei te hiamoe ahau" and hiamoe means sleepy in Maori. I can't really explain the task I was given but here is my work.

How do you say "how are you?" in your native language?

💮Wēteri Kura Pepeha💮

 Today is the beginning of Maori language week and today my teachers introduced the class to 6 new blog badges. The badges looked like this:

This blog post is about a pepeha. Today we were split into 3 different google meets for our breakouts to learn. I was in breakout Toru (which means 3 in Maori) and our goal was to make pepeha about our school. We were given permission on how we wanted to present and display our pepeha. I was going to make paper pop-ups but I was in a hurry so I just did one for our Maunga. What I found challenging was trying to say and pronounce the Maori words. What I enjoyed was making a mountain pop up and decorating my slides. Next time I think I might try and make all pop-ups. This is how my pepeha looked and sounded like.

Have you ever made a Pepeha before?

🚀🌠SPACE CHASE🚀🌠

Today for distance learning my challenge/task was to make a chase game using scratch. We had to use scratch to create our game because of the coding that you can use. In my scratch game there was an error with the score board, the error was whenever my rover touched the star the score was supposed to give a point but it didn't so I decided to double the points. The name of my game is ¨SPACE CHASE¨ and you can play it by clicking on this link - SPACE GAME, The steps are here -> SCRATCH . Moving on to how you can control the little rover and that is pretty easy in my opinion, you just use your up, down, right and left arrow keys. Watch out for the alien distraction that follows you wherever you go. I found testing the game out and fixing the mistakes I made with the codes the part I actually enjoyed. A little note: I think it only works with Chromebooks and laptops. What I found challenging about this task were coding the timer, score and the movement of the rover, I face some more problems in this video below! I hope you enjoy SPACE CHASE!

Have you ever made a chase game using scratch?

And if you have what challenges did you come across?

🌠Star shade origami🌠

 Today I made a Star shade origami using a template my mum printed out for me. This is the link to the steps on how to make the Star shade origami . I enjoyed playing with my star shade and the thing I really liked about it, was the part when I had to do the mountain folds and the valley folds to make it. The part I found challenging was when I had to fold the major fold lines. What I think I could do next time is to probably do a challenge with my brothers and see who can make it the fastest without the steps and we´ll have 3 practice rounds. Anyway, this is my star shade and I!   

Have you made a star shade before?