Matrix :)

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While half of the class was at swimming the non swimmers stayed behind to complete some tasks off of a matrix we had been given.

My first task was to make a rhyming book on book creator about how my 2020 was, this is the book I made...

My next task was to do a review on a movie, I chose the movie nerve, here is the review I did...

Hope you liked it :)

Hangi - Then vs Now

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As I said in my last blog post we have been learning about Maori traditions, heritage and culture.

Our second task was to create a poster on hangi's then vs now. I showed the then vs now of what they cooked the hangi in. Here is my poster:

Did you learn anything about a hangi? :)
 

Tā moko

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For the past few weeks, we have been doing Inquiry. Our topic for this term is culture, tradition and heritage.

Our task was to choose a Maori tradition and learn about the past and present of different things to do with the tradition.

I went with India-Grace and we chose to learn about Tā moko. Here is the work we did :)

NZSL :)

 As you may know, we have tech on Wednesdays, so while we are back at school we focus on something different every week or 2 weeks, as you should know this week is signed language week. We have been learning lots of different things about sign language. Here is the NZSL alphabet...

We learnt the alphabet, how to say our name and lots of different other things. We used this website to learn our sign language, you can use this to learn NZSL for yourself :)

We also had to make a video of us signing our name but unfortunatley it wouldn't upload to my blog. 

Dreams

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This week we have gotten a few topics and we had to research one of them, I chose to research about dreams. I have learned a lot about dreams doing this, like how you have up to 4 - 6 dreams each night but only remember some of it! or depending on your mood before you go to sleep affects what your dreams about, if you are frustrated you are more likely to have a dream about you falling, failing, or getting attacked.

Here is the doc:

ISS :)

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For the last few days in Gillstrom literacy we have been focusing on the ISS (International Space Station), we watched this video so we could get a good understanding of it. The purpose of the ISS is to bring research and answers about the satellites. While we were watching the video we wrote down some notes that could help us write a timeline, this is the timeline that I made.

My timeline explains what happens during the years in the ISS

Our next task was to create our own module on an ISS world on Minecraft, I chose to create a kitchen so the people in the ISS can sit down and eat their food also because they don't really have anywhere that they can just relax. As I was writing this I realised that if they sit on a seat they will float up in the air so they might have to have seatbelts or something to keep them on the seat. Here are some screenshots of my module.

I hope you liked it :)

Skin Care Business

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This Wednesday we got into groups and came up with our own business. We did this so we could have an understanding of how businesses work and what you should be prepared for if you ever start one. My group made a skincare business. This is the slide we created (It's not finished yet)

Have a good day :)

Maths Experiment :)

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In maths, we are working on probability and this week we got to create our own experiment with a partner. I went with Jess and our experiment had to be about how many times you can roll a one with two dice

This is what we did.

See you next week :)

Flight

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For literacy this term we are doing science, each week we have a different topic that we focus on. This week we were focusing on flight, we got to go with a partner and come up with our own experiment I went with Sienna and our question was does the type of paper on a paper plane affect the flight. Each week we write a science report on our experiment here is mine:

See you next week! : )

Samoan Virtual 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

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

Fa!

The Southern Lights

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In Maori, we have been looking at Matariki and the southern lights/ aurora's, today we started a piece of art to do with these lights. Here are some facts we have learnt:

The name Aurora comes from the Latin word that means sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn.

An Aurora is a natural light that appears in the sky, usually, the colour is green but can sometimes be either blue or red.

The natural light usually occurs in the 'aurora zone' near the arctic poles, the north and the south.

Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere.

Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields.

As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.

For our piece of art, we started off by ripping a piece of paper to make our hills, we taped that on hand flicked white paint onto make the milky way. Next, we used chalk pastels and drew on the white paper in a pattern with our choice of colours. Afterwards, we used different fingers to spread the pastel to create the lights, after everything has set you use light yellow paint to create the Matariki stars and you are done!

Here is how mine turned out:

Matariki Book

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For the past few Fridays, we have been focusing on Matariki. We learned about the Seven Stars and how it all started.

For our create we got to choose out of a few different things that we could do. Bailee and I chose to make up our own book. Here is what we made

Yogi Bear :)

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For Literacy today we got to chose and movie we like, make a poster and then write a short description about it. Here is mine:

I really liked doing this tasked even though I had to do it at home but I liked being able to be creative. I also love making posters and putting lots of different things on it to make it unique.

Have you seen Yogi Bear? :)