Do you have a growth mindset?

 Kia Ora Everyone!

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!

 Kia Ora everyone!

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

 Hey everybody!

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...

 Hello everyone!

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?