In His Blood

G'day 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 adult's 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.  Ours create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with Renderforest and it was about a book called ‘In the blood’

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realise 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?

Magical Matariki - Abode Spark

Hey Blogger,
today I was learning abo Matariki my task was to. Create a video or animation (with voice-over) to teach a junior student how to identify the Matariki constellation. I choose to present this on abode spark. Here it is.

Did you learn something?

ASCII

Gday bloggers,

For my technology task, I hade to work out my name and Initials in ASCII. ASCII is a type of language that computers use to translate code into English. quiet like what I am doing right now. How I worked this out was, I worked out my name in binary then added 1 to the back of it and then if needed to add 0 to make 7. ASCII has to be worked out in 7. Then I choose different colors to suit 1 and 0. Here is my DLO.

 Do you know how to work out Binary?

THE AWESOME BOOK COVER!

Hey bloggers,
for literacy, we are learning about fractured fairy tales. For my activity, I had to make a fractured fairy tale. So I choose the fairy tale the three little pigs, and I fractured it by changing the pigs to kiwis and the wolf to a wallaby. Here is the sequence the story goes in.

Here is the book cover for the three little kiwis and the big bad wallaby.

Have you done fractured fairy tales before?

Awesome Algebra

Hey bloggers,
For this week's maths, I am doing Algebra. For my activity, I had to come up with an expression and an answer to these questions. An expression is a sentence with a minimum of two numbers and at least one math operation. This math operation can be addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and others.

Next, I had to come up with my own question and then I had to find an expression and answers for it.answer to my question

Do you know the answer to my question? Can you find an expression for my Equation?

We Can't Feed The Poor But We Can Fund A War!

Hey bloggers,
For inquiry, I am learning about global issues. For this task, the teachers laid out different pieces of art that represent different global issues. Then my class got told to write what each image represents. After we wrote what each image represents we had to single out one image that they thought had the most impact and write about it. We had to write about what it meant and we had to write at least one paragraph. Here is mine.

Do you agree?

Cool Comic Strips

Hey bloggers,
for inquiry, we are learning about irony and global issues. We had to make a comic strip with some sort of irony. Irony can come in many different forms, Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic. The irony is something that happens, but you expect the exact opposite. For example, rugby players playing a game of rugby with a hockey puck. Here is a comic strip of situational irony. I made this on Google draw.

Have you made a comic strip before?

Super Siapo

Hey Bloggers,
For my classes technology time, we have been creating a Siapo. A siapo is 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 culture such as nets, coconut leaves, shells, and flowers.

Of course, we did not use the bark or the natural dyes because it would be too time-consuming, so instead, we used Paper, pastels, and Brown dye. Here is the final product.

   

Have you made a Siapo before? Did it turn out good?

Rig the game!

Hey bloggers,
for my maths this week we were laying a game, this game was called take three. How you play take three, is you start off with 21. Now P1 can take the numbers 1, 2, and 3 from 21. Say P1 takes 3 then there would be 18 left, now P2 can take away any numbers between 1 and 3 etcetera, etcetera.  How you win is you have to get the last number or token.

For my task today we had to rig this game so it is impossible for your opponent to win. How I worked this out was making a table and playing a few games and seeing if there are any patterns. The pattern I found was the people who are on 8 and 4 always in the game. so I found out that they were both multiples of 4. In conclusion, you have to be on a multiple of four to win the game.

Have you played this game before? Will you play it now?

The Bone art

Hey Bloggers,
for inquiry, my class is making something called a Maori bone necklace, but instead of bone, we used air-dried clay. A Maori bone necklace is a necklace made of bone and has some sort of Maori design on it. They are also known as Manaia, Manaia was made of moa bones, but now they are made of cattle, oxen, deer, goats, and camels. Of course, because moas are extinct.

The first step was to research and sketch a few designs of something that can represent something about you. The second step was making it in play-doh so you now it is possible to make with air-dried clay. The third step was to sketch your final design and write about what is important in it.
The last step is by far the most fun bit was to make it with air dry clay.

He is an abode spark with the final design and some interesting facts.

Have you made a bone necklace before?

Cool castle work

Hey blogger,

For my literacy work today my teachers read the class a book called the three little pigs. If you are not familiar with this story please press on this link. For my task, I had to write something called a story mountain. A story mountain is a metaphoric term for a narrative story, which means that there is a setting, rising action, Climate, falling action, and the resolution. Here is a diagram



My task today was to create a castle on google draw and then pinpoint all the story mountain of the three little pigs.

  What is your favourite ferry tale?