From Planning to Writing!

 Kia Ora!

From last week to this week, my hub has been focusing on Explanation writing and we got to pick what to write about! While others wrote about the butterfly cycle, how to build a car and more I decided to write about the evolution of racism in  America. I focused on how many wrong decisions were made back then and how Racism is shown nowadays. I enjoyed writing about this because I wanted to show I felt about Racism myself but struggled with finding some information. In the end I am proud with what I have written and how it has turned out! Here is the link to my finished writing, and this is the link to my writing plan!

How to find Fractions of whole numbers

 Kia Ora!

This week we were focusing on 'How to find Fractions of whole numbers' and had to explain how to do it for our create.  At the start I was a bit confused but after a while I got it. Here is the link to my original one!

The plan...

Welcome back!

After the holidays and I'm back with what I do for learning! 

This week for writing, we had to fill out a planning template for next weeks writing.  We could write about anything we want but it has to be an explanation writing. 

After thinking for a while, I decided to do mine about explaining what Racism is and why it's bad.  I wanted to do this topic because I think it's important and I think it's unfair how they are judged.

I enjoyed researching about this and learning more about this, but struggled to find vocab and language features to use in my writing.

Overall I think I did well in my planning and would love for some feedback!

 Here is the link!

We can BE multiple things!

 Kia Ora!

Last week and this week for Reading, we are focusing on what it's like to be in a community.  Even though I was sick on the first Workshop day, I looked at the benefits of being in a community  and the downfalls. For example:A benefit would be they have a a purpose or a goal to aim, and a disadvantage could be if people start to change their minds on the purpose of the group and start conflicts with the group.

On the First workshop we had to read all the texts and watch an inspiring video to get us ready for the create in a couple days. They were all about different ways of bonding or how they followed their goal with grit. For the create it was inspired by a beatitudes poem we read for R.E last week, we had to write a poem but every line had to start with the word "Be".

Like Be inspiring, Be helpful, etc. After writing my poem I decided to turn it into a poster and with the help of canva I made a rainbow inspired one.  I really enjoyed writing this and am proud of my finished product. The only things I really struggled with was trying to find better describing words and what theme my poster was going to be. Here is the link to my original one and below is a picture of my poster.

If you were in a community, what will your communities purpose be?

Recall conversions between decimals, fractions & percentages

 Morena!

For Week 9 maths, we were focusing on Recall conversions between decimals, fractions & percentages.  Basically, It's translating them to each other! 

So 0.6=6/10 or 3/5=60%. For our Create task this week we had several choices to choose from like make a kahoot, create a maths game on scratch, a video explaining what the goal was or create a poster of how to do it! I chose the last option and defined it well I guess?

I struggled and found it easy at the same time.  I understand how to do it but it was pretty hard to define what to do. Either way, here is the Link for the original one and a picture is below. After reading this, is there anything I could of done better?

Toothpick sculpting=Geometry

 Hello everyone!

Maths this week was very creative! Art x maths how fun does that sound? Anyways this week we have been focusing on geometry and 3d shapes! Out of only toothpicks and blue tack we had to sculpt our way to create two 3d shapes. Even though It took a while to gather both of those items, I created two shapes and are going to say how many Vertices, faces and edges they have! (Sorry the pictures are blurry)

Square based pyramid

Faces:5

Edges:8

Vertices:5

Polyhedron

Faces:8

Edges:18

Vertices:12

If you had to build a 3d shape,which one would it be?

                                                                                             

The Mystery activity..

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As I said in my last post, this week for Reading and Writing we are focusing on Instructions. Personally, I loved reading this week! Our goal was to learn when it was good to skim and scan and when it is good to read it  We got given four instructions to choose from BUT, we didn't know what the outcome would be..

I chose to do the one with a grassy background (Link Here). Here is the list of  the Mysterious Instructions..

Begin by finding a space with soft ground or outside on the grass

Bend down into a squat position 

Put your feet a little wider than shoulder-width apart.

Put your hands between your legs, touching the ground. 

Jump upward, and softly land back to the position you began in.

Try this again, but this time see how many you can do it in a row without stopping.

Try this another time but while jumping up, click your heels together. 

This was so  fun and entertaining! In the end the instructions led me to do some frog kind of jumps.  I got tired really easily but these are fun and good for fitness on wet days. My high score was 19! Do you want to give it a try? What will your  score be?