What Am I?

Today in pairs we did what am I. We got put into pairs and we had 5 different category's. They were 1. Animal 2. Vegetable 3. Fruit 4. Sport 5. Pet. When we got into our pairs we started doing what we had to do. What am I is where you have different category's and you put down things to give people hints about what you are. 

 My Holiday

In the first week of the holidays I was with my mum. I didn't do much I just watched movies, took my cousin to the park, and hung out with my family. The movies I watched were Grown ups 1 & 2, all of the Cars movies, Lion king, and a few other ones. 

In the second week of the holidays of I was with my dad. On The Monday we didn't do anything just hung out. On Tuesday we had a movies marathon. We watched many different movies. On Wednesday we went to Move X which is a trampoline park. After that we went to the mall to get haircuts. After haircuts we just walked around trying on clothes. On Wednesday my step sister Lucy and I stayed at my step nanas house for the night. On Thursday morning Lucy and I took the dogs for a walk to the playground. When we got back we packed up our stuff then we went back home. For the rest of the day we were outside on the trampoline. On Friday we just watched movies again. Then on Saturday I went back to my mums and for the rest of Saturday and the Sunday I just did random things. 

Orca Drawing and Facts

Orca

Yesterday we learnt how to draw a Orca with Anton the whale man. After drawing and coloring our Orca we watched the video again and found facts. We wrote down the facts in our writing book. Link to Video.

Facts about the Orca:

1. Its the largest member of the dolphin family.

2. Its also called the killer whale.

3. There noticeable because of their black and white colours.

4.  The male has a really big dorsal fin.

5. They have a bulbous head.

6. The rostrum/nubbin is like a nose.

7. They have big sharp teeth.

8. They like eating stingrays.

9.  They have a really distinctive flipper like a big paddle.

10. The flipper looks a bit like a lemon.

11. They dot beside its eye is an ear.

12. The pupil is shaped like a 'c'.

13. The blowhole is the nostril.

14. The tail is called a fluke.

15. The tail is black on the the top and white on the bottom. Same with the body.

16. Their lower jaw is white.

17. Their stomach pattern is shaped like a wave.

18. They have something called a saddle and its grey.

19. The saddle identifies them like a fingerprint.

20. People track them by identifying the saddle.

21.  They have a white patch beside their eye.

22. They are super fast.

23. They are considered a mammal.

24. The scientific name for an Orca is an Orcinus Orca. 

  My Dad

A choice activity today for school is to make a blog post about your dad or caregiver. I am doing one about my dad. I have to write about the things that make him special, things I love about him, etc. 

My dad. I love my dad because he is a super cool guy, he works really hard every day to support the family and help us. My dad and I like some of the same things like cars, 4WD, mud, building things, rottweilers, need for speed, play fighting, listening to rock music, and spending time together. My sisters and I like to annoy him by calling him old man Jenkins, and Rodina Dwang. We like to go to the Waimakariri river to go 4WD and sometimes he gives me a driving lesson. 

 Prototecs

Today for maths I was doing my prototecs and on my first I got 97% which is really good and then on my second I got 100%! I finally got 100% on my prototec. I don't know if this means I go onto stage 8 now. I am really happy that I got 100%.

Paralympics Tasks 

For my reading activity I did one that is were I have a word and then I have to try get as many words as I can out, but the letters have to be the same as the original word. They word I had was 'Paralympian'.  I struggled with this word a little bit. If you do a 2 or 3 letter word you 1 point, if you do a 4 letter word you get 2 points, and if you do a 5 letter or over word you get 5 points. Here are my words. There is one name that I did.

Original word: Paralympian

My words: Man, mail, map, pan, Liam, air, play, nap, rap, ramp.                  

Total points: 13

 Art

This afternoon for school the senior syndicate had many different choices on what they can do. I chose do an art activity. I drew two very simple things. A flower and a dinosaur. I didn't color them in because I liked them without color. They are both very simple, but I like them. Here they are.

 My Prototecs

Kia Ora, today in lock down I had to do school work. At 9am I went on a google meet with my classroom to talk about what my classroom will be doing today. I started off the morning by doing my reading. After I had a break I got into my maths. My maths was to do 2 prototecs, maths buddy tasks, and then 15 minutes on prodigy or sumdog. I think today I did pretty good on my prototec. Here are my prototec results.

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  Baking - Weet-Bix Slice

Today in room 21 we did some baking. We baked weet-bix slice. Weet-Bix slice is crushed up weet-bix with things like butter, cocoa powder, flour, etc. We doubled the batch. We got into groups of 4 and then we chose a number between 1-4. Once we had our number we went into groups with the people that had the same number as yourself. Link to the recipe: Click here. We had 4 groups making a double and Miss McCombie also made a double batch. For the thinner slices they got put into the oven for 10 minutes. With the thicker slices they got put into the oven for 15 minutes. Here are the ingredients.

Slice:

300g Butter, melted                         

8 weet-bix (crushed)

1 cup of sugar

2 cups of flour

2 Tbsp of cocoa powder

2 tsp baking powder

2 drops of vanilla essences

Icing:

Icing sugar

Cocoa powder

Hot water

 Hitting The Target - Rewritten

For writing in term 2 we started to look at our story telling story which is hitting the target. After we looked at the story we had to write it again in our own way, but we had to keep the main points of the story. 

There was a young man named Felix. He wanted to be the best archer in his country. Felix wanted to be the best so all he did was practice and practice until he hit a bullseye.

One day after he won a competition a short man came up to Felix and started conversation. "You're good but, I know someone better," the short man spoke. "Impossible," Felix replied. "Well, follow me and I shall show you to him." Felix followed the young man. They arrived at a barn. "Follow me."

As they walked Felix looked around. On one side of the barn there were about a hundred archery targets red circles within blue circles. Every target had an arrow stuck perfectly in the center of the bullseye.

The unknown man came out to say hello "Hello, my name is Jeffery," the man spoke. "Hi, I'm Felix," Felix replied. "How do you do it?" Felix asked. "Do what?" Jeffery asked. "How do you get your arrow in the exact center of the bullseye?" "Well," Jeffery started "you do things your way and I do things my way. You see first I shoot the arrow, then I paint the target around". 

Felix looked at him with a confused look. "So your cheating." "Yes, yes I am," Jeffery confessed. "Well that's not very fair," Felix spoke. "Like I said, you do things your way and I do things my way," Jeffery walked away before Felix could reply. He was left there confused and disappointed. 

 Volleyball - Olympics

In class I started working on a DLO (digital learning object) about the Olympics. I chose a sport that is in the Olympics and I picked 5 questions that I wanted to know the answer to. When I had my questions I searched one up and when I found the answer I went back onto my DLO and wrote the answer in my own words. I answered my questions on a Canva. 

 Problem Solving - Math

For the past couple of weeks in math I have been making a DLO (Digital Learning Object) like a google slide, canva, powtoon, etc about different ways to solve a maths problem. I got given five different strategies to solve a problem and then I had to one every slide. On that slide I had to explain how to use that strategy to solve your problem. I came up with my own questions like everyone else did. My whole math class had to do this. 

 Food Wastage Facts

For another one of my reading activities I had to read an article about food waste. After reading the article I had to research about food waste and find 5 different facts and put them onto a google drawing. Link to article.

 Helping Our Planet

For our reading we have three different task to do. The one I did today was where I had to read an article, pick out 10 words, find the definition of those words, put all of the information I collected onto a google drawing, then post it on my blog. Link to article.

 Who Are Refugees?

For our second reading activity we had to read an article and then make a copy of a google drawing. With the google drawing we had to connect with the writer. Article

  Refugee Poem

For one of my reading activities we had to read an article about refugees. When we finished reading the article we had to make an acrostic poem. The poem had to be about our thoughts and feeling on refugees. Article

 Road Safety

For reading this week we looked into road safety. We had articles to look at about road safety, and we had different activity's to finish. For the activity I did I had to read the article and find ten words to write the meaning to. I made a google drawing with my ten words and their meanings. Here is a link to the article is used. Road Safety Article.

In Another Life

Kia Ora, over this past week for Writing we made a fictional story to make our reader feel emotion. Our Learning Intention this week wast to deepen our understanding of descriptive language by creating feelings for our reader, such as empathy. We also looked into the effects of short sentences. Our story is based on the movie Marley and Me. We worked in buddy's to write this story. My buddy is Luna. Here is a link to her blog. Luna's Blog. What do you think about our story? What do you think  we could add to it? 

My heart breaks as I walk into the cold room. I see him on the table. I bend over to give him his favorite toy. I felt my knees get weak, as I saw him lying there, nearly lifeless. I can't help but burst into tears. I hear Marley crying and it breaks my heart even more. I feel colorless. I get on my knees to pray that he will live to see another day. I start to have flashbacks to the first time we played fetch. I remember that he never gave me back the bone, and ran as fast as his little legs could go, so that I could never catch him. I wish I could protect him from his fate. I feel so helpless. The nurse comes in with a needle, I want to take it from her hands, so I could have more time with my great dog. I told him that I loved him, one last time, as the nurse injected him with the end of his life. ¨I love you Marley, we will meet again in another life¨

 Signing My Name In Sign Language

In reading for the week we had to learn how to sign our full names. We also had to learn about Sign Language. We had to film ourselves signing our full name. We had to do this activity because it is New Zealand Sign Language Week. Here is my video.

Writing - Skydiving 

Today in writing we had to write a story about how we (writing class) thought skydiving would be. But with our writing we couldn't use the words skydiving or skydive so that made it a lot harder. This story was a lot of fun to write. It was also hard because I have never been skydiving before. 

Walking closer to the edge of the plane I start to get nervous. I jump out of the plane and all I can hear are my screams. At first I was so scared but I'm actually having a lot of fun. The feeling was like when I bounce really high on the trampoline. As I was getting closer to the ground I had to pull the leaver to get my parachute out. When I reach the ground I get unattached from the guy holding onto me. Running over to my friends I tell them how much fun it was. This was definitely an activity I would do again. I am really proud of myself for over coming my fear of heights. 

 Sailing Trip With Syndicate

Last week on Wednesday we went on a Sailing trip with the Senior Syndicate. We had to bring spare change of clothes, 2 pairs of shoes (One pair for going in the water and another pair for going to the lake and back), big packed lunch, water bottle, jacket, togs, and a wet suit if you have one. We went to Lake Rua. To get to the lake we went by bus. We were at the lake for the whole day. I made a slide show about our trip. This my slide. Have you ever gone Sailing?

Reading

For our reading activity this week we had to make a video or D.L.O (Digital Learning Object) about how to make a detailed comment on blog. I made a google slide and for every slide it was a different step. Steps: starting off, getting your comment ready, introduction, thoughtful, helpful, question, signing off, publishing your comment. Here is my slide.

 America's Cup Winner's Through The Years

For one of our reading activity's we had to add up how many times America, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Australia won the America's Cup. The information we had to collect was the defenders, challengers and how many times each country won. We had to add up all of our information on a google sheet, table, etc. I chose to put my information onto a google sheet. After adding up all of my information I put all of it into a pie chart. Here is my work.

Link to my google sheet with the information on it. Click Here.

Pie Chart

 Ordering Decimals Screencastify

For our maths this week we learnt about ordering decimals. We had 3 different practice sheets that we had to complete about ordering decimals. After we finished doing those practice sheets we had to make a screencastify explaining how to order decimals. I have finished my practice sheets and making my screenscastify. Here it is. Have you ever ordered decimals.

 Manu Characterisation

For our writing/storytelling we have listened to a book called 'The Way Finder' its about a boy and his tribe having to leave there island because they had no food or water. So they sailed along the sea to find a new island. But in the middle of the story there is a massive storm and Manu's brother (the way finder) gets hit with a paddle and dies. Then Manu becomes the new way finder and has to look for a new island. For our characterisation we had to list down 12 things that we think Manu would look like and we passed our book to someone else and they would draw him. I passed my book to my friend Tiare and she drew Manu from all 12 things I described about him. These are things I said I thought Manu would look like. Dark tan skin, freckles, short, big eyes, small ears, bushy eyebrows, short beard, big smile, skinny, brown hair, blue eyes, and mid - length hair. Here is her drawing. Have you ever heard of the book 'The Way Finder'?

Activity 1 - History Of The America's Cup

 History Of The America's Cup

For one of our reading activity's we had to read an article about the history of America's Cup. Then we had to find ten different questions to ask my teacher. With the questions we found the answer had to be on the article. We had to put our ten questions down on a google slide, google drawing, google doc, and more things like those. My teacher hasn't answered these questions yet but if you want to try answer some there will be a link to the article. History of the America's Cup article.

Questions:

1. When was the America's Cup first contested?

2. How many years has the Americans won the America cup until they lost it?

3. When did Australia win the cup form America?

4. When did America win the 100 Guinea Cup?

5. What happened to all but 3 J-Class boats before WW2?

6. What yacht club did the Americans donate the trophy to in 1852?

7. Why is this trophy called the America's Cup?

8. Why is there no second place?

9. How many times did Sir Thomas Lipton challenge between 1899 and 1930?

10. When did the French malletier Louis Vuitton become involved in the America's Cup?

  Zucchini Brownie

A couple of weeks ago and today we made Zucchini Brownie. We got some Zucchini's from the garden in our school. We had groups and the groups were the people sitting at our table my group was Sophie, Zara, Emma, Leandri, and I. In the garden we found one massive Zucchini/Marrow Leandri and I named him John. We washed our hands before making these and all of the equipment was clean. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar, 1/2 of canola or vegetable oil, 2 cups of all-purposed flour, 1/4 of coco powder, 2 cups of shredded zucchini, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda, 3/4 cups of chocolate chips we used dark chocolate and we didn't put salt in it. Here are some photos.