Month: June 2025

Chrome Music Maker

Today we got challenged to blog two activities from the Winter Learning Journey site, I came upon a really cool activite that really hooked me in to do so much more and be more creative and the site was called Chrome Music Lab. What Chrome Music Lab Song maker is a website created by Google that gives a big heap of interactive music samples, designed to make learning about music more accessible and fun. I have had lots of fun with this site and I really think you should give it a try because it is real fun to play with. Here is a song I made to give you a  example of what it sounds and looks like. If you don’t have anything to do in the School Holidays you can use the Winter Learning Journey site that I have linked or do the Summer Learning Journey I hope you fun in the Holidays, Ka Kite.  Winter Learning Journey

Impact of Volcanoes

Our challenge was to research the impact of a specific volcanic eruption in Aotearoa. We could choose from Mt Tarawera or Whakaari. Me and my partner chose Whakaari, one thing we found out was 70 percent of its bottom is fully submerged deep underneath the sea. I found this task really fun because we got to learn more about how lethal and terminal the Whakaari volcano is.

Volcano Poem

  • We have been exploring cinquain poems. A cinquain poem. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives that describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun. 
  • We used our poem to show our understanding of volcanoes.
  • Something I found interesting about this was we could make powerful description to make our poems sound better.

Word Problems DLO

This term for Maths Group 4 made a DLO about Word Problems, I liked how we started to help one another to use the right strategies in order to get the correct answers, the one thing that I loved and enjoyed about the Maths DLO was us collabrorating together to make something the represents Group 4’s book work.   

Why Maungarei Sleeps – Porquoi story

It is told that long ago, before Maori ancestors set foot on New Zealand there was a mountain named Maungarei the Troublemaker, she was a little mountain and she was naughty and horrible. She would make other Maunga around her erupt and would cause the other Maunga to cry out lava because of her silly and crazy behavior. Now her whanau found out she was uncontrollable then they were furious and were scared of her, making them feel petrified and sad they couldn’t do anything. All they could do was just sit there and watch the environment change with the gases shooting into the air. 

People on the land were not safe they thought they were a threat to Maungarei. But Maungarei she had caused a lot of trouble and she couldn’t control herself. It was like her brain couldn’t work anymore and her behavior was getting out of hand. 

All of the maunga couldn’t stand seeing the other Maunga’s volcanic heart go broken which would cause them to explode and would change the environment with dioxides filling the air making people around the mountain getting injuries which would also make people pay for the damages but Maungarei never knew she had to change someday. 

Days later Maungarei’s Koro came to speak with her and he asked her “Moko you have to change this behavior. “It has caused a lot of damage to Tamaki Makaurau and even beyond the pacific ocean” Koro said. 

“But it is fun, have you seen how cool it is to see other Maunga explode” Maungarei replied. 

“Moko please your behavior has caused too much and now you need to settle down and be quiet as a mouse and don’t cause trouble anymore ok moko, Ka pai” Koro said. 

“Yes Koro,” Maungarei replied. 

Soon Maungarei had started to apologize to all the Maunga around her and started to close her eyes while saying goodbye as she peacefully went dormant. It went peaceful and the people that lived around Maungarei lived in harmony and were not aware of Maungarei anymore, their environment started changing everyday and the environment suddenly filled the air with happiness and joy, making Maungarei and the people live in peace. Maungarei’s Volcanic heart is still in her but she has put it to rest and till this day she has not been forgotten yet.

Volcano Animation

This term we had a challenge to make a animation of how a volcano erupts, if you are wondering what a volcano is, is that it is a landform or a vent of the earths crust. There are 4 layers in the earth Mantle, Outer core, Inner core and the Earths crust, the features that the volcano has is the Crater, Main vent, Secondary vent and the Magma chamber where it stores all the lava and magma. How it explodes is that there are these objects under the volcano which makes it erupt and they are called tectonic plates. They first collide together and pressure builds up and then soon reaches the crater and explodes some of the lava comes out of the secondary vents which makes it go everywhere with dioxides going up into the air which makes the air not very good to breathe in.