From Planning to Writing!

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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?

The easiest treat recipe!

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This week for Reading and Writing we are focusing on Instructions.  We were focusing on how to write good,understanding Instructions just by using under 100 words. I chose a recipe me and my brother had already did earlier this week. Corn flake  treats! (Even though me and my brother used rice krispies).  I enjoyed writing instructions for this recipe since its so easy! I think the only thing I really struggled with was taking photos with my Chromebook and having to write under 100 words, (I just fit with 99).  Here is a photo of my finished and here is the link to my original piece. :)

I really recommend this treat if you have a special occasion coming  or just need to make a  sweet treat. It's super easy and super quick as well! Would you like to try this recipe?

An investigation related to maths?

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Maths this week was focused on Statistical Investigation, ans mine was focused on the population in some places around New Zealand. A Statistical Investigation is something that shows data and reveals  its answer.  Using the data/information that we have gathered we had to make a graph that shows what we have found clearly.We also had to do two variables that also suited the information we have found. I have found four interesting facts when I finished. I figured out that:

•   Auckland has more then triple the amount that Christchurch has
• Christchurch has 343,993 more people then Nelson
• Nelson has the least amount of people out of all the places
• The most common amount of people in a large city is 400,000+

 I think I struggled most with collecting  my data, but other then that I really enjoyed my finished project!

If there anything Incorrect or I need to work on please leave it in the comments.

Here is the Link for it and a picture down below:

Imagination is key!

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Writing this week was focused on poetry and we could write about anything we could like! After a while of thinking coming up with many ideas I chose to write about an Imaginary city that I had in a dream! The type of poem I decided to do was a rhyming poem, and I love the ending that I came up with. I struggled with some words that rhyme with each other so I used the website rhyme zone to help me! Here is the link for my writing:Here 

After reading it, is there anything I could Improve on?

Will it be a fantastic future?

 Morena!

For this week we were focusing on how important hobbies were to making us happy, we had multiple choices for what our finished project was gonna be:

• A top 10 poster about "Hobbies for Happiness"

• A how to guide for your favourite hobby (this could be a video)

• Invent a new hobby - could it incorporate both the physical and creative side

• Write an article of fun hobbies to try during lockdown - think about what we can do during lockdown and what we can't (get creative with what people have at their house)

• A poster/video for the most popular hobby in 20 years from now...

I chose the last one and created a landscape poster using canva! Even though it only said one hobby I couldn't choose between two so I just wrote for both of them! The two ones I thought of was hover ball (a sport where you ride hover boards and can move with the ball but only for 5 seconds) and time travelling (this could be helpful to solve problems later in the future or in the past or present for us).

I chose this one because I enjoy using my imagination to create a creative outcome! I personally think that the only thing I troubled with was describing my hover ball idea. Here is my DLO:

I would love to get some feedback so if you have some leave it in the comments!

Do you have a growth mindset?

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For this week as you know New Zealand is Lockdown and that means distance learning. 

 We are continuing from last weeks task and are focusing on mindset. First what is mindset? Mindset is a way you think of things.  There are two know ones, a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is a person who doesn't take challenges and thinks inside of the box, while a growth mindset is when your willing to do challenges and new things. 

We got given the task to complete a template based off one of the texts we got given. I chose the text about competitors helping or caring other competitors in the Olympics.  We had three templates to choose from and I chose template one meaning I have to pick an Important idea from the text and explain why it was important and how I have shown it. I loved writing about it especially about how I personally have shown it but struggled a bit about my grammar. Here is the link to the one as well as the picture below: Link

Even though this was a task this was not our task. 

Our task was to write about a person who has shown grit or have proven that they have a growth mindset. I chose Bethany Hamilton, a surfer known for being attacked by a shark while surfing and losing an arm! But this didn't stop her from continuing to surf. I also explained what mindset was and what I have learnt after the text! I originally used canva to do it but moved it to google drawing for a better image.  Here is the link:Mindset

What mindset do you have?

Peace week is back!

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This week was inner peace week and our hub had to colour in a peace symbol.  I decided to do the two finger hand sign to represent peace! We also had to find a story online that represents peace and I found one I really liked! 

The story was about a king who wanted an exquisite piece of art that was peaceful for his castle so he started a competition across the land. Various famous artist entered but were surprised to find out the winning artwork. From a far the art looked like a 'anger storm' covered with red shades, but if you look closely you might notice the green bush with a mother dove taking care of her eggs.

I learnt from this story that you don't have to look peaceful to be peaceful, even if they appear to be furious.

Link for story: Click here

Math Knowledge

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Today I decided to do Multiplication for Math Knowledge! It didn't take that long since the questions were pretty easy. The only ones I really need to think about was the 9x, but otherwise It went pretty well. Sadly I lost the google sheet but I still have the questions and answers in my book!

8x7= 56 12x8= 96 4x5= 20 11x11= 121 5x9= 45 9x10= 90 12x5= 60 3x6= 18 3x12= 36 10x12= 120 5x5= 25 4x12= 48 4x8= 32 11x7= 77

There's science in happiness?

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Term 3 has started again and so has the PBL question! For the next term we will be focusing on happiness! For the first lesson I learned about 'The Science of Happiness' which are the chemicals that cause happy emotions. They are Oxytocin-Love, Serotonin-Mood, Dopamine-Reward and Endorphins-Painkiller! We had to also list a few ways to make you more happy! I enjoyed learning this because I never had learnt about this before. 

I think I struggled most with was listing 3 ways to increase your happiness because I don't know what my viewers and people surrounding me enjoy.  Here is a picture of my final project and Click here for the actual thing!

Revise, Rework, Repeat!

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For the past couple of weeks, everyone in Kaupeka has been writing a Newspaper article about the crime that Goldilocks had committed. We had to include many different features in the text such as: Data, Interviews and even a interesting headline. This week we had to improve our first introduction paragraph. For my create I decided to add my 5 w's (what, when, who, why, where) to make the writing more interesting. Here is my create! Click here to see the original one! Is there anything I could improve on?

Kiwi Kids News review

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Reading this week was easy and entertaining! It was fun to read about different writing Genres and how different each one is. I read Four Genres: National, World, Odd stuff and sport. If you would like a look at where I got these articles Click here! 

Here is what I thought of them!

National:

I loved reading this article since I have a interest in skiing myself and this could be useful for Kiwis all across the South Island. 

I enjoyed the metaphors used in the text and loved the sentence:“Last week Canterbury’s Mt Hutt has opened its slopes for the season, after a new sprinkling of snow dusted the mountains.”

World:

Learning about this was pretty peculiar. The fact that China picks how much children to have is strange, but cool to learn about!

It was strange to see what life is like form across the world and the rules their country lives by!

Odd stuff:

This video was about a man who was confident enough to go swimming in Antarctica and the Arctic! It was so interesting while he talks about the risks about swimming in small tunnels between ice!

This man really cares about the environment and desperately wants to save these landscapes from climate change. He even holds a world record!

Sport:

The Olympics have always interested me and always have wanted to watch them in person. Sadly this year it seems like spectators are banned!

Many interesting facts are in this article and I overall was really focused on  this text! 

The struggles of waking up...

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This weak for reading we had to write about something we do everyday. We got inspired by an amazing story Ms Newbould had wrote about Matariki! We had a limit of 100 words to write it and I chose waking up. I really enjoyed my piece of writing and was happy with my final product. Here it is:

Like a war zone, my body was battling to get out of my toasty blankets, surrounding me like a cocoon. Decisions went round and round in my head not knowing which one to choose. A bizarre sound occurred, “BEEP, BEEP, BEEP”. The urge to hit it off the side table was growing by every''BEEP”.  The scent of bacon and eggs had made it to my room, swirling around, luring me to creep out to the kitchen. I could see rays of sunlight peeking through my blinds as footsteps crept up the hallway. Oh no… Mum has arrived. 

Is there anything I can work on?

How much maths knowledge can you take?

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This week our teachers were trying out something called "Maths knowledge". There are 4 goals that you can possibly do! I chose to do Know groupings of 10’s, 100’s & 1000's in 7 digit numbers and wrote down the answers in my book. Here are my questions-since every ones questions are different, and my working out: If I got one wrong please tell me!

How fun would this be?

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This week for maths we were focusing on perimeter, area and volume of shapes. To know the perimeter of a shape,you add all the length of the sides together. For area you times the length by width, and for volume and all three numbers together. The task this week was pretty fun! We had to design a game for the Top team challenge (a day when you just do enjoyable activities). I designed game using water balloons and a hat (bucket drilled to a rectangle piece of wood with handles down the bottom so it can balance).  The team would be split into two sides one will be throwing and one will be catching. From a distance of each other, the throwing team will try throw three water balloons into the hat on the other side, if they get three in its a point. I used google drawing to display my learning. Click here to see it better and more clearly!

Would you like to play this game? Answer in the comments!