Greetings, Reader.
New term, and the last 🥳! On this post, I’ll be recapping my learning in the first week 📚. Not only I’ve learnt a few things you might learn new things too!
📖 Reading / Literacy
Starting off with literacy, we were looking at tides and how they function. Honestly I’m really glad to learn about tides, because the next time I go to the beach, I’m gonna brag and annoy my family with how the tide works. Anyway, I introduce you to my very specific writing about The Science of Tides; Link to Writing
If there are any questions or if I forgot to add something that defines tides, please inform me by commenting! While you’re at it, tell me if you learnt something new about tides from my writing!
For reading, my group (Kereru) is looking at this school journal book ‘Mahi Tahi’, at the content ‘Testing the Waters.”
The protagonist in this story is a little kid named Tāne, fishing with his dad. They spot these men with heavy fishing gear. One man in particular was digging this long black rod into the lake — it’s to test the pH level, which measures how acidic or basic the water is.
This algae which is highly toxic to mammals, called Algae Blooms, drastically changes the pH levels making it toxic. The algae suffocates the freshwater fish, so the man is making it safe for fishes and mammals by testing the water and clearing them out.
This is a brief way of explaining this book, if you want to know more I’d be more than happy to tell you!
📐 Maths
Next for Maths, we looked through algebra—Algebra may seem scary but honestly that was my thoughts too before I even started it, I wanted to hurdle in a corner and cry mentally and physically when I saw the solving 2x+7=15. But actually It’s pretty easy and adaptable once you understand it. As a matter of fact, you don’t know it but you use algebra in your day-to-day life, like financially, cooking, speed, time, and more.
What Is A Linear Equation?
Recalling my experience, the first concept we looked through was Linear Equations. It turns out, the name “Linear” tells you everything you need to know about what this tool does.
A linear equation is an equation (meaning it has an equal sign) that uses variables. Here’s what that means and why these equations are the foundation of so much Maths:
Linear equation means an even equation—like a perfectly balanced balance scale, one side that’s equal to the other, also referring to this specific symbol ‘=’.
As you correctly noted, the equal sign means both the left side and the right side are precisely equal. I think of this as a balance scale (which I mentioned in the previous paragraph): whatever is on the left must perfectly balance what is on the right.
A perfect example is this linear relationship: .
This equation tells a story: the value of is always 5 units more than the value of .
- If , then .
- If , then .
Hope this helped, not sure if I explained well, but this is all the information I could provide—just ask questions then I’ll try to help out! I also did a little digging on Google and found a diagram that would surely help you out. This diagram is very helpful in my opinion. 
If you have any questions feel free to ask them!
📝 Writing
Lastly for writing last week, we started a new unit on explanation writing, which is super practical. We specifically looked at breaking down the water cycle (how does it rain?) into clear, sequential steps. It was surprisingly fun to structure the information logically, moving from Evaporation to Condensation to Precipitation in a way that flows easily for the reader. It made me realise that good writing is often just a matter of good organisation. Link <— LINK TO WRITING)
I hope you could learn a thing or two from my writing about rain!
Thank you for reading! Remember, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Have a nice day, Adios.
