Cool Covid - 19 poster.

Hey bloggers,
For Inquiry, my class all made a COVID 19 poster, the best poster will be put up around our school. The poster had to include a title, body text, and small text. To make it better I spread out the writing and made sure I did not overcrowd my poster. I put the yellow lines to catch the eye of the reader and made it so it pushed your eyes towards the texts.

Have you used Canva before? Did you learn anything?

The man of war

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 realized 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 realized 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 make some inferences about what I have written. Do you think the elderly man is happy?

Fabulous Python!

Hey Bloggers

For math this week I am doing algebra. Today I am going to show you how to work out an algebra question.

 How I did this was I opened a google sheet, then I put days, tom and tia all going below each other. Next, I put the days going horizontal above the days, from 0 to 7. Then I counted down from 20 in 2's

and counting up from 0 in 2.5's. Once I finished that I looked for the point were Tia had more money than Tom. To make this work for a question you times how much you are adding by the number of days.

What answer did you get?

The twits Chapter one Hairy Faces Inference!

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 ‘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.

I used Google Draw to create a display of my inferences I have made about Mr and Mrs Twit. 

Have you read The Twits before?  Do you agree with my inferences? What inferences would you make about the characters?

See you next time!

Last week ( week 5 )

Hey bloggers,

Things have been good because new Zealand getting out of lockdown on Monday. This means back to school and no more online learning. Although it has been kinder fun it will be good to be back at school. Today I am going to show you literacy, numeracy, and a Friday task.

literacy
for my favorite literacy task, I had to make a timeline about Roald dahl. This timeline had to include place and time of birth, schools, work, and death. I had to show this in a creative way so I choose a website called render forest. Here it is.

    
Math
For math this week I was learning how to add and subtract fractions. I also learned how to multiply and divided fractions. To go with this we also had to do an escape room which was really fun. Here is the escape room I had to do.
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Friday task
For my Friday task, I had to go onto Google Maps and choose a country (not NZ), zoom in and have a look around the different city names and regions. Once I had chosen my country, I start doing some research about the cuisine in that country. What do they eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? What are some popular snacks? I write these down in a list, then compare them to what you to what I eat. Are there any differences?

What are you doing during the lockdown?

fabulous online learning ( week 4 )

Hey bloggers,

Welcome back to another week of online learning, this week was as fun as usual. School is on track to be back on the 18th of May. Really excited to get back. This week. I am going to show you my favorite activity from each of my subjects.

Literacy

For my favorite literacy task, I actually got to choose to do this.  It was an information report about black mambas. Although I have a fear of snakes know, It was fun learning about them. They are really interesting.

Math 

For math this week, I was reviewing how to find an area or circumference. All my tasks this week were quite similar. But I choose the review on finding areas in circles because I find the most fun out of it.

Friday task 

My task is to design a dream birthday cake - make it an original design! 

Anything is possible and affordable - the budget is as much money as you need. Here it is.

What have you been doing during the lockdown?

Online Learning week 3! Wacky half week!

Hey bloggers,

 Welcome back to another week, this week I am going to choose my favorite literacy task, numeracy task, technology, and Friday task. From now on I will be doing only one blog post a week and it will feature the activities I have just mentioned.

Literacy
For my favorite literacy task, I had to do an information report about giraffes. They had to include six things, an Introduction, a Giraffe description, habitat, diet, something interesting, and fun facts. An information report is something you do when someone wants information on an animal or subject.
Numeracy
My favorite numeracy task, I had to work on my coordinates work and learn what a cartesian plane is. A Cartesian plane is basically the thing you use to work on your coordinates, it is a plane that has many squares on it and has 2 rows of numbers in the middle. These numbers are on both sides of 0. I also had to play a few games and get used to working on a cartesian plane. I took screenshots of all the endings of the games that I had played.


Technology
For my technology task, I made a pizza and made a pizza box for my pizza. Then I had to get some taste feedback and see if I can improve my recipe.

Friday task

For my Friday task, I had a range of activities to choose from, I choose to design a food truck and design a menu to go with the truck. I choose a pizza truck because pizza is my favorite food. Here are the screenshots of my truck and menu. I found this task quite hard.

What have you been doing during the lockdown?