super hero design

 Hello, bloggers today we have been making super hero's we had to talk about their origin story, their powers, their name, and what they do. I made a supervillain not a superhero hope you enjoy it. 

                                                         what would your superhero or villain be called?

2020 book creator craziness

 Kia ora bloggers this week we have been making books on 2020 and what we have done at school this year, we had to write it in rhyming couplets and put an image to go along with it. I had  17 rhyming couplets in my book. 2020 has been a decent year but covid made it a lot worse.  

I think I did really well  I hope you guys enjoy my book, click on the bookshelf in the virtual classroom to read the book 

 

                                       what would you put in your book?

crazy cuba google tour builder

kia ora bloggers today I made a google tour builder with the same information as my google earth tour on Cuba, I did the places Havana, La Cabaña, Church of St. Franciso of Paula, Topes te Collantes, and Hutia which is a native animal. which are dotted all over the map, what country would you do?

https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/tour/ahJzfmd3ZWItdG91cmJ1aWxkZXJyEQsSBFRvdXIYgIDgga6P9AkM

Google earth Cuba information report

 Hello bloggers over the past couple of works we have been making information reports on a country we choose, then we would put all the writing on google earth so you can go and see what I am describing. For my country I choose Cuba, I did the places Havana, La Cabaña, Church of St. Franciso of Paula, Topes te Collantes, and Hutia which is a native animal 

 

https://earth.google.com/earth/rpc/cc/drive?state=%7B%22ids%22%3A%5B%221bkHZ5J2OwqkJDmNP--DN5PJqwrIYLyu3%22%5D%2C%22action%22%3A%22open%22%2C%22userId%22%3A%22110304254759111581418%22%2C%22resourceKeys%22%3A%7B%7D%7D&usp=sharing

                                                   what country would you do?

perfect packaging

 Kia ora bloggers, this week we have been making packaging for lollies, chocolate, and biscuits out of paper. I got 3 milk chocolate bars, I decided on the net by measuring how long the chocolate was and for my shape, I picked a square-based pyramid because it looked a lot better than a cube. Here is what my net looks like. 

 My design had everything apart from a lid because I did not know how to put a lid on a triangle.

                                                      what shape would you make? 

How a hangi has changed

 Hello, bloggers over the past couple of weeks we have been making a poster on how the hangi has changed. Like how it used to be cooked underground and now it's cooked above ground. Hope you enjoy, leave any feedback in the comments :).

down below is my DLO/ poster. 

New Zealand culture

 Kia ora bloggers this week we have been learning about New Zealand's culture, heritage, and traditions. We had to make a slide that showed how Korowai,  ta moko, and the haka had changed. We showed how the materials, use, design, presentation, and why it's done had changed. I hope you like it leave any feedback in the comments :).

   

paper weaving

 Hello,b bloggers today we made a paper weaving we got some card and cut lines with a craft knife. Then we would weave bits of paper through to make a pattern. Here is mine, hope you enjoy leave any feedback in the comments. ;)

                                                                             

                                                                                  

My holidays

 Hello, bloggers, I'm going to be talking about my holidays and the start of school.

These holidays I went to Twizel we did a 3 and a half hour hike to get to the glacier at mt cook we also went biking. Other than that I played rocket league and watched youtube.

This week for reading at school we have made a storyboard we could choose from three stories and I chose hatchet. we had to show man vs man man vs self and man vs nature.

For man vs nature, I have shown the part where he gets attacked by a bear. Then for man vs self I showed the part where he wanted to kill himself. And for man vs man, I have shown the part where he was mad at his mum and a different man kissing in a car.  

 

crazy crystals

 Hello bloggers this week we have been growing crystals with borex, sugar and salt. We had to find write some notes about what happend and the science behind it. Hope you enjoy leave any feedback in the comments. 

super sign language

 Hello, bloggers, this week is sign language week. so we have been learning to introduce ourselves in sign. 

What I'm saying in the clip is "hello my name is Leo" hope you enjoy,  leave any feedback in the comments. 

dissolve scientific report

Hi, bloggers this week we have been seeing which substances dissolve in hot water. We had to write a scientific report on our experiment, and then we had to show it in a cool way I chose canva . hope you enjoy leave any feedback in the comments. :0

The big bad wolf ?

 Hello, bloggers this week we have been learning about wolves and if they're good or bad. We had to make A word art and right three paragraphs about them in France, Yellowstone, and our personal opinion about wolves. Hope you enjoy leave any feedback in the comments.

                                                      What do you think about wolves?

crazy python code PSA

 Hello, bloggers, these past couple of Wednesdays we have been coding a PSA.my message was to eat your vegetables because a lot of kids go hungry every day and would love to eat what we throw away. The audience is young kids, I tried to make it appealing by adding a superhero. What happens is the kid says that if you eat your veggies you will turn out like the superhero, then the superhero flies up into the air. Hope you enjoy, leave any feedback in the comments. 

Yellowstone national park minecraft

 Hello, bloggers this week we have been learning about wolves and trophic cascades. I made a Minecraft world based on Yellowstone that shows the park with and without wolves. You can see on the before the world it's barren and dead, but after there is greenery and wildlife. I'm going to show it to you on a screencastify.  what does the fox say? 

super Samoan classroom

 Talofa bloggers,

Since the start of the year we have been learning Samoan.  This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from.  If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

• Samoa as a country

• Link to a traditional dance video

• Basic greetings

• The alphabet

• How to count 1-10 

• Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples

• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most.

Fa!

cool coke and mentos experiment

 Hello bloggers, this week we have been doing an experiment on coke and mentos our question was would mentos react the same way with other fizzy drinks as it does with coke? Here is my scientific report on what we did, it includes the question, hypothesis, materials, variables, procedure, results, and conclusion.

Hope you enjoy, leave any feedback in the comments.

  

awesome oil adobe spark

Oil is in and around our world, even in places you wouldn’t imagine. We use oil for cooking but we also use crude oil. The pumping and transporting of crude oil around the globe often have environmental effects. We have looked at various texts and videos to learn about some of these effects, and it ‘good’ timing as there was a recent oil spill (24 July 2020) in Mauritius that we could investigate.

Check out my video to learn more about oil, and see the simulation we did in class about cleaning oil from water.

What did you learn about oil?

pretty ugly parachutes.

 Hi, bloggers this week we made some parachutes to see what design would work best. We had to think like an engineer, we had to imagine, ask, create, and improve. Here is me and my group's work.

first, try 

We used String 2 bolts Green fabric cut on corners. We had a fairly big parachute it was 40 cm long and 32 cm wide we made it fairly big because that increases drag, and it will fall slower. We thought that we should add more fabric on the top but we realized that would make it heavier. Our design fell in 1.05 seconds, which isn't very good.     

  

second try.

We added more fabric on the bottom of the parachute so it keeps its shape.  When falling We saw it fall slower before we changed it fell in 1 sec .5 when we changed it. it fell in 2.00 seconds. We changed it one more time and added more fabric 1.44 it did bad so we took the new fabric off.

 

What melts ice the fastest

Hello, bloggers this week we have been seeing what would melt ice the fastest. we write a hypothesis here is my presentation on what we have been doing hope you enjoy.

   

  

                                            

  

super space tic tac toe

Hello bloggers, his week for inquiry we did a space tic tac toe we had to do 3 tasks to finish it. We did this to further understand our knowledge of space and rockets. for the first slide, We had to make our own rocket and talk about the price of rockets. And for the second slide, we had to make a planet. 

This is not done 

do you know the names of the 8 planets?

science experiment

Hello, bloggers this term our inquiry is on science. And to prepare us we have been doing some experiments in literacy and writing about them using scientific language. This week we have done an experiment. We were seeing what would dissolve faster a crushed up aspirin or a normal aspirin.

 

Have you ever done a scientific experiment? 

 

deeper questions

Kia ora bloggers,

When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open ended questions that would help me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adults intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next we got to chose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3 advanced questions about it.  Our create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with voki and it was about a book called ‘cicadas ’

https://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=16603786&chsm=42dda8317423ade54c3b4da5f0e9c5ca

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realize how important it is to do this when reading to understand the text better.

Do you ever do further research when you are reading a book to deepen your understanding?

Weeks blog post

Hi, bloggers here is this week's blog post.

For maths, we did a worksheet on liner numbers and spatial patterns.

here is my one we marked it after and I got at least half of the questions correct. 

  

   

And here is my inquiry work it is on global issues. I am doing my work on clean drinking water which is a big problem in third world countries https://water.org/.It is a work in progress.  

  

And for literacy, I made a book cover on book creator for my fractured fairy tale, called the three little farmers.

If you could fracture a fairy tale what would you change?

wonderful world issues pictures.

Kia ora this week we looked at some world issues art, there were a couple pieces of art and we had to choose which one we would write a paragraph on. I chose this one, it shows a man not letting a poor child get any water.

I hope you enjoy it.

here is a place to donate to help get clean water in third world countries https://water.org/donate/.

Samoan art

Kia ora bloggers this week we made Samoan art. 

We made one of the oldest and most important traditions of Samoa is the Siapo or Tapa.  It is a type of cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree.  It is very time-consuming, because the bark must be harvested, stripped, separated, scraped, and beaten before it can be used.  It is then laid out in the sun to dry.

The artist uses natural dyes, created from items such as berries, bark, and nuts to make patterns on the cloth.  

There are 13 traditional patterns used on siapo that represent things common to Samoan cultures such as nets, coconut leaves, shells, and flowers.

Here is my design. Hope you enjoy it.

The background is brown dye.

irony comic

 Kia ora this week in inquiry we have been learning about irony here is me and my friends comic.
I think I did pretty good.

  The irony is that it looks like I'm doing work but I'm looking at memes instead. it's ironic because its The opposite of what you expect. this type of irony is situational irony.  [:

have you ever made a comic strip? ]

Tremendous three little pigs.

Kia ora bloggers today for literacy we have been working out the main points of a story. The points are the climax, rising action, background, falling action, and resolution. We did it on rohal dahls revolting rhymes book where he changes up the fairy tale. The fairy tale we chose was the three little pigs. What we had to do was make a castle and put our writing around it. Here is my on  hope you enjoy. [: 

awsome adobe spark

Kia ora bloggers,
This week for literacy we have been learning about inferencing and show not tell.  When we read something, we automatically start making inferences, so it is important when we write that we give clues in our writing that allow people to make inferences.  We want to show them - not tell them.
For example:  Paul was frustrated when he got to the bus stop and realised he had just missed the bus.  But instead I could write “Running as fast as he could, Paul turned the corner only to see the back of the bus as it pulled away.  Throwing his bag down on the ground and sighing out loud, Paul realised that he had no choice, but to sit and wait for the next bus to arrive - 20 minutes from now”  You can infer from me saying ‘throwing his bag down and sighing out loud’ that he is frustrated.
Our task was to create a video that accompanied a piece of writing about an elderly man.  We used Adobe Spark to do this.
Have a look at my video and see if you can you make some inferences about what I have written.
Do you think the elderly man is happy?

maths

Kia ora Bloggers,

This week in maths we have been looking at angles and polygons. We have been determining the interior angles of a shape as well as drawing some shapes using a compass- not a North/South compass, but a pair of compasses that you draw circles with. Kia

A little run down of my knowledge is this.

And here are some examples of the work we have done on angles.

 

Have you ever drawn anything other than a circle with a compass? Here is the link to a tutorial showing you how to do it. Have

wonderful worksheet maths.

kia ora bloggers welcome to week one hope you have a good day.

In maths this week we learned how to read angles on a protracter and to help we did a worksheet.
The task was to answer all the questions and use an online protractor to get the angles.
I think I did pretty good.

 
 Doing this made me confident with Angles and now I know how to read a protracter. Thanks for looking at my post see you next week.

terrible twits

Kia ora Bloggers,

This week we have been looking carefully at making inferences when we read or watch something.  

An inference is when we take clues from a text or image, and 

add them to our thoughts or prior knowledge and make an inference.  

For example,  when I look at this photo, I might make the inference that 

this photo was taken in a food factory as everyone is wearing hair 

nets and this is required in all food factories.

The text that we read a snippet out of was ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.

Once we had read the first few chapters where they described the main characters, Mr. and Mrs. Twit, we then had to make some inferences based on the clues that Roald Dahl had given in the text.

Have you read the Twits before?

See you in the next post.

This weeks blog post

this week for Friday tasks I did a task on making an animal enclosure and your hand to make your dream for any animal an answer some questions

• What is similar about them and what is different? nearly all of them have water but the difference is the animals that live there  
• Why would there need to be differences in each enclosure? because some animals live in water some live in snow and some live in the mountains etc.
• What do animals need?  animals need food and water like us and some animals need to swim in water like fish
•  Is it the same for humans? not really because we have a roof over our head

in my enclosure, I would have a massive body of water for my honey badger and big trees every were with big rocks to climb and lodes of food.

 

super survival

This is my animation on the chapter survival from going solo I hope you like it. the chapter survival is about him crashing and going blind for a while.  it's not finished. 



have you read the book before? and do you like it?

rare animals in corona virus.

in this map have marked the locations of animals in different places there has been sea lions in Buenos Aires Argentina,stray dogs on high ways in Delhi India,
deers in Nara Japan, 
sheep on the highway in Istanbul turkey, 
sea birds swimming in clear water in Venice Italy,
and mountain goats Llandudno wales    
     

fantastic family flag

Kia ora today we made family flags here is mine. I made it with pixel art and I think I did a pretty good job.          I put a cat in it because I have a pet cat and the colors are every one in my family's favorite colors. leave any feedback in the comments.

brilliant bubble pictures

Today took bubble pictures, what we did was we put and old toilet roll on the camera to make it look like a bubble.

here is mine, leave any feedback in the comments.

 

my diary entry

Today we did a diary entry on what it's like in isolation here is my one.

It's been 21 days in lockdown now and it's getting really boring. The thing that Has changed the most is school. We do it online now instead of in class. It's boring because we can't go out and see our friends or play sports. And we have to stay two meters away from anyone not in our bubble. I miss playing football the most but at least I get to play on my device a lot.

leave any feedback in the comments thank you.

I drew Guapofrom Kleptocats

Today I drew Guapo from Kleptocats. I think I did pretty good even though it was my first try.

David Williams section from book

Today I listened to David Walliams read a section from the world's worst children about Trish the troll. every day he reads a new section from the book and puts it online. here are some screenshots and the link to it.

   

kea kids news

Today I read kea kids news and did some of the trivia and watched some videos. here are some screenshots of it.

gamefroot game

This is my gamefroot game I did a classic map but changed it to be different. leave any feedback in the comments. there's a cheat find it and you will win.




my game  here's the link 

what I have been doing

I have been sitting on my gaming chair and playing video games and playing with my cats to keep myself busy. There is a chance that someone three mins from my house has the virus.