Kia ora everyone,

This week for reading we looked at a text called “don’t sit if you want to keep fit”, in this text the author talks about how sitting for long periods of time will eventually cause health problems down the line. The text included lots of side by side situations which clearly showed that standing was way better for your health, during our workshops we discussed what we thought of the text and answered questions on a google document. For our create we had to make a response to the text, in which we would include a piece of furniture design by us.

Here is my response to the text,

Question

Do you sit or stand more during the day?

Kia Ora everyone, and welcome back to my blog!

For the last four weeks of Term 3 we were learning about ‘How we can be Champions on Peace’. 

Firstly we learnt about the different symbols of peace. Some of these are, the olive branch, the dove, the v sign & the peace sign. These symbols represent peace because whenever someone sees them they immediately think of unity, love & peace.

With these symbols in mind I created a Peace Artwork. My Peace Artwork represents peace because I used the peace sign and also used the colour blue which is the primary colour for peace.

We also researched some real life champions of peace and wrote a short biography. I wrote about Malala Yousafzai I thought this person was a champion of peace because she fought for women to be able to have the same education as men and she was also the youngest person ever to win a Nobel peace prize.

We also created a peace prayer book. I have attached my peace prayer book here. 

I enjoyed learning about peace because it can help us become better people so that we can spread peace throughout the world.

I learnt that peace can exist everywhere like in different cultures, religions & people. Peace is also a fundamental component to the world because without it Earth would be an unhappy place filled with war and violence. 

One way I plan on being a champion of peace is by treating people with love, compassion, kindness and respect. 

 

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This week in Math we have started a new unit, can you guess what we’re doing……..Geometry! I was a bit intrigued, seeing as we had last done geometry just around this month last year. We were taught about translations, lines of symmetry, position and orientation.

For our first create of this unit we were tasked to create our very own floor pattern using at least six different shapes and six complimentary colours (Colours that go well together), I presented this using google drawings because all of the shapes were there for me to use.

The shapes I used were:

Square

Circle

Diamond

Heart

Heptagon

Triangle

Question

Have you ever designed your own pattern?

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My goal was to identify several ideas, discuss the author’s stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text.

This week for reading we read a text called “How to fall”. The text was about a girl called Maia who gets into an argument with her Mother, the argument started after Maia’s mum told her that they were moving to Hamilton without her father and sister for her Mum’s job. Maia tried to tell her parents that she didn’t want to leave her friends and wanted to stay behind, but her parents wouldn’t listen to her. So she inevitably had to move to Hamilton leaving everything behind. When she arrived in Hamilton she went to her Aunt’s roller derby and watched her play. After the game her Aunt asked her if she wanted to go to training with her, reluctantly Maia agreed  and ended up enjoying herself. Her Aunt taught her how to safely fall and Maia learnt that she shouldn’t be embarrassed if she falls down and what mattered was that she got back up.

We had to create a response to the text for the first task, here is what I did.

 

For the second part of the create we had to write a mock diary entry for how we thought Maia would write it and add in things that we thought would fit with the character.

Maia’s Diary by nikismit

 

Reflection

This create was really fun to make especially the diary entry, next time I would probably write more on the response to text create. But other than that it was really cool to write about this.

 

Question 

Have you ever experienced change before?

(Could be like moving houses such as Maia or something different)

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Every week on Tuesday we have been doing science workshops, our main focus has been electricity. We learnt about the two types of energy, can you guess what they are?………….. Renewable and non-renewable. Renewable energy is a type of energy that can be restored simultaneously, some examples are wind power, geothermal energy and hydroelectric power. Whereas non-renewable energy is a type of energy that will run out and not be here forever, for example, fossil fuel, coal & oil.

Today for our science workshop we looked at the question, “Can we get a buzzer to work?”. My hypothesis was that when we put the nails in the water, connect the buzzer and add salt, the buzzer would start beeping. But I learnt that there were other steps that I had to take into consideration, such as how if you put the same nails in the water, the buzzer won’t work. We also learnt about how when you add salt into the water it separates and changes into sodium ions and chloride ions,  the two ions flow through the water and conduct electricity to make the buzzer beep continuously.

My hypothesis was incorrect because I did not put the correct nails into the water.

The materials that we used were:

(T) beaker

(S) beaker

Specimen jar

Two zinc nails

Two Copper nails

3/4 water for an empty jar

Salt

Buzzer ( with clips )

Reflection:

Something I found interesting during this workshop was learning about how when salt is put into water it separates into chloride & sodium ions. If I was to do this experiment again or something similar I now know that I need to use two nails that are different materials.

Question:

Have you ever done an experiment like this before?

Kia Ora everyone,

welcome back to my blog. Today I will show you another math DLO I created about the mid winter breakfast. Though this time we had to use the same options but for 45 guests. If we wanted to level up on Hero then we had to double the guest amount and add two more food items that the guests could choose from.

I decided to present this on google slides because it was easier to put the graphs on.

 

Question

Have you ever been to a mid winter breakfast?

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Welcome back to my blog. Today we are going to be taking a look at what I have been doing in maths this week. We were tasked to create a tree diagram for our schools very own mid winter breakfast, which will be taking place next week.

The items that a guest could choose were hot cakes, sausage sizzle, porridge and hot chocolate.

Question:

Have you ever made a tree diagram?

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This week for Maths my class has been looking at Probability, Probability is when something is likely, unlikely, possible, impossible or certain. We had a choice of whether we rolled a dice or flipped a coin a number of times, I chose to flip a coin 25 times. I then had to transfer the data I got from the flips onto a graph, which I did on google sheets & took a screenshot of it to put on the slide.

Our task was to:

• Create a DLO with your data collection and graph
• Explain what you did 
• Explain what you notice
• Show the probability of each number or picture showing

Reflection

For this task I think that I did pretty well, although there are a few things that I would change in this presentation, but overall this was fun to complete and blog.

 

 

Question

Have you heard of Probability?

Kia Ora

welcome back to my blog, today we will be looking at what I have been doing in reading. Our task was to create a DLO on any platform that includes 5-6 important text events and features from the text. For each event write a statement about what this makes you think about. We also had to identify one important idea and justify why it is important.

For this DLO I decided to create it on a google slide because I thought it would be fun to do it on a slide.

 

Reflection:

This create was really fun because I got to learn about what fair trade companies are and how they believe that everyone should be paid fairly. Next time I would probably add more about the features from the next.

 

 

Question:

Have you ever heard of fair trade companies?