Tag: Reading

A Week of Progress!

Kia Ora, reader.

Today I am settling my finished work onto my blog post to show what I’ve been learning this week.

We were focusing on three specific people; Sir Bom Gillies, Maurice Gee and Sir Edmund Hillary. The three are very aspiring and were fantastic leaders for New Zealand! Then we looked through Matariki; the Maori New Year.

 

📚 Reading

For reading this week, we were given options to research about three national aspiring people; Sir Robert Gillies, Sir Edmund Hillary & Maurice Gee. I chose to write about Sir Robert Nairn Bom Gillies on a Google drawing using desired colours which I think would match the theme of Sir Gillies. On my DLO I’ve provided information about him. (His birth date and death date is under the title).  As you can see – I found online, a photo of his younger self (top), then a photo of himself (bottom). On the right bottom corner, portrays a drawn soldier holding a walkie talkie or some sort – I added it to fill in small gaps and represent Sir Gillies when he was in War.

I hope you like my DLO, and that I provided enough information about him. If you have questions about him, ask me in the comments please!

🧮 Maths

Moving on to Maths, last week, we did a pre-test looking through Prime and Composite numbers; thankfully way before that, our substitute teacher taught us all about Primes and Composites, so pretty much I got a decent score. When we finished gathering more knowledge about Prime and Composites, we finished the Post-test on it, now our new pre-test is Data Sources. My score was 75% because I got the first two answers wrong!! Let’s hope I do great on my post-test!

What I’ve learnt about Prime and Composites, a Prime number only has two factors, the two factors being the number 1 and its number alone. For composite, they have more than two factors, so any number that could add up to this number.

For example: Prime Number –

7 Is a prime number, here are number(s) that could multiply to 7;  7 x 1 = 7,   1 x 7 = 7. But if I were to do another number to replace the 1, like; 2 x 7 = 14, it’s not able to make 7! So you see how only two specific numbers could add up to 7? The numbers that created the 7 are called ‘Factors’ mentioned earlier. That’s what makes it a Prime number, because only two specific Factors were able to make the number 7.

Next example; Composite Number.

The number 7 is a prime number so it couldn’t be a composite! A composite has more than 2 factors, so if it has 2 factors that’s considered a Prime Number. Let’s use the number 6 as a demonstration; 6 x 1 = 6, 3 x 2 = 6. Can you see how four factors (1, 2, 3 ,6) were able to multiply to six? There were more than two factors.

I hope I did well explaining those! Please let me know if you’d like to know more about Composites and prime numbers or if you want an easier explanation about them. (I’m afraid that’s the easiest I could explain.. 😓!)

💻 Topic / Inquiry

For the Topic / Inquiry, we looked  through Matariki, the biography DLO (yes the exact one from the Reading Topic), then the Passion Project. (Look on my blog before this post, for an idea about a ‘Passion Project.’ if you have no clue what it is.)

Starting on my Matariki DLO, using the Google browser, Google Drawing, I really tried my best to create a dark purple gradient in the background to represent the sky when its night, in order for the star cluster which are added in the left top corner with listed names beneath them, to fit perfectly. The scattered rounded boxes are information about the Stars celebrated for the Maori New Year, and they’re a gradient colour some dark some light.

The title; “Te Tau Hou Maori” means ‘The Maori New Year” in Maori! Let me know if you have questions about Matariki!

Atlas, for my Passion Project this week, was actually an old one I’ve made but never got the chance to express it. It’s about the letter D and in which I did a Dragon fruit. I actually learnt A LOT creating this passion project, or it’s either my knowledge with a dragon fruit is very poor, but If you’re a HUGE fan of dragon fruit, or if you’re interested, I reckon you’re the perfect fit to look at my Passion Project! Check it out and let me know if you learnt anything fascinating 👀 ! Dragon Fruit.

Thanks for reading! Hope you’ve learnt something here, and if you’re wondering what I’ve done for the subject Writing, it was just my Matariki DLO. Cheers, God Bless !!

 

This Week’s Reflection!

Kia Ora, Reader!

As we all know; its Friday — and I know its your favourite weekday 😆 ! (Personally I prefer Wednesdays) And since this week is almost ending, I think it’s appropriate for me to reflect on my working for each subject this week !!

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Starting with Reading this week; we watched this animated film based on the Gallipoli World War on YouTube, titled; “Beyond The Lines“. We had to re-write this story in one of the characters shown perspectives, descriptively.

The film followed two children as they read letters from their grandpa, written during his time in war. Reading the letters, the children’s imagination transports to the front lines of the war, seeing the world as their  grandfather once did. The character I chose to write their perspective, was the grandpa.

Beyondthelines - THE LITERACY SHED

  • This film really had me at the edge of my seat! Which I think is very awesome, you should definitely check it out 👍 .

Here’s the link to the video: Film

Link to my writing: Beyond The Lines Beyond the Lines

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Moving on, for Writing; we’re still looking at our descriptive Ice Writing. Basically, we did an experiment on Ice using five of our senses — Touch, feel, hear, smell and taste. Then we had to write it in a document, descriptively.

I re-wrote mine because I got feedback on the previous one, gaining more ideas as an indication to restart. However, I’m upset. Me personally, I’m not very happy with how my writing turned out — Here’s the link to the writing(!): Ice writing Please give me idea(s) to improve the writing!

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Converting Metric Units | Passy's World of Mathematics

Our focus for Maths, is converting measurements — speaking of, we did pre / post tests too. Anyways, our Math work is based on the textbooks we’re given, we’re looking through pages 120 through 124, Unit 6 Topic 1 — Conversion of metric measures.

I’m seriously doing great at maths for someone who isn’t the brightest at that subject 😁 !

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For Inquiry, we did our substitute teachers work.

Our substitute, came up with something called a “Passion Project”.  — We look up literally any topic; could be animals, objects, food, countries – you name it! Finding a topic, you do research about this topic — find facts about this topic not many people know of. (We write facts on a document shared by our substitute, we make a copy of it first!)

When finished writing about facts and things about your topic, look for a suitable / appropriate music genre that could match your topic! It doesn’t need to match if you don’t want it to. Then lastly — look for images related to your topic and change the colour theme to match your topic to top it off!

You can look at my passion project as an idea of what I’m implying to. Let me know if you’d like to know more about passion projects!

For my passion project, I choose to show the one I’ve done about the famous (AKA; my favourite) restaurant; KFC. KFC Passion Project!

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Lastly, when finished everything, for our spare space / extra learning, we’re doing a DLO about the famous guy my school is named after — Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay — getting the honour of being on the $5 note. Heres my DLO on Sir Edmund — although I’m not sure if I’m finished all my work 😅.

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Thank you for reading ! I’m sure that’s everything we’ve done this week, I really enjoyed it — Hope you enjoyed it too! I don’t have any questions to ask.

Have a great day ! ♡ God bless.

25. Learning Week

Kia Ora, reader! This week our class Room 9 has been multitasking.. We worked on three subjects which are Maths, Writing and Inquiry.

-Starting off for writing,  we did an experiment on ice using our five senses, Touch, Hearing, Sight, Smell and Taste. (yes this is relevant just keep reading) – We then had to write on a Google Document or any website related to writing on how we felt in a descriptive way when experimenting with ice. – LINK 

For Maths, we are focusing on Geometry, Nets and Prisms, what we’ve done is learnt about 3d shapes and how to identify them as a net – We also learnt about the parallel and perpendicular to bases, vertices, sides and what a oblique is. With my DLO I am happy to show you.

For reading, we do our substitutes teachers work, we were looking at this story called, Castle on the Cliff. LINK

Basically in the story, there are three friends, named, Isla, Tama and Matiu. Matiu was the main brave friend, Isla was for the laughs, and Tama was quiet and smart. The friends went adventuring to this castle on a cliff and legends say it was haunted.

For our extra learning, we were revolving around the word Reciprocity and had to make a DLO out of it by writing the meanings;

Pretty sure that’s all, thanks for reading!

24. Bee Business – Reading Slides

Halo olaketa! (Solomon Island language week)

For this week’s reading, the two reading groups – Tui and Karearea, were focusing on these sets of slides about bees(!):
Slides: 11, 13 and 14 are skipped because I obviously haven’t finished them in due time.

Anyways, I’m going to list the meanings of things for each slide. The third slide speaks for itself and slide four is about listing the things from the videos for slide three. Slide 5 – 6  is about awesome words and their meanings,  slides 7 and 9 is both related, and slide 8 was a poster I’ve made on Canva (And it has a link to it.) And slide 10- 17 are all related (I believe) but not finished because I haven’t read the book because I don’t have much time to.

Thanks to Naomi and Papyrus AI my writing is now better! And thanks to you, for reading this post ❤. Please inform me if anything troubles you just by commenting and feel free to ask me any questions, did I forget anything? Just know I’ll always be there to reply! Have a remarkable day, remember, God loves you, bye! 😁

24. Fair Chocolate – Reading

Hi 🤗

Last week, me and my reading group started with this slideshow about ‘ Chocolate ‘ But before we even settled to make a copy, we did a little reading about Fair Chocolate* and this book – ‘Dashing Doggies’*. After reading those articles, we then saw some videos talking about fair trade* and how chocolate was made*. Then we made a copy of a slideshow about the few things we’ve seen.

I left a slideshow un-skipped (Slide 14) despite the fact I’m not finished it, maybe I will finish it one day, but I said MAYBE so 🤷. Even despite the fact I haven’t finished, I’ve done a bit of work on the slides after slide 16.

* What is fair trade? (Slide 3)

* How is chocolate made? (Slide 6)

* Fair Chocolate (Slide 9)

* Dashing Doggies (slide 13)

That’s some of everything I have for today, thanks for reading ❤. Please inform me if anything troubles you just by commenting and feel free to ask me any questions, did I forget anything? Just know I’ll always be there to reply! Have a loving day, remember, God loves you, good to see you again!

 

 

24. Reducing our Footprint – Reading

Hola, Como Estas? (Hello, How are you?)

This week’s reading slides were about Reducing Footprints. I’m going to explain some of the slides on the slideshow below.

Slides 2-5 is the Read Journal and on slide 4 I wrote some ways on how to reduce your footprint. First is travelling smart, second is changing the way you eat, third changing how much you buy, and fourth, lastly, saving power. Some of these ways to reduce footprints, I stole them from google, but wrote the definition’s myself.

Slide 6-9 is the vocab. Then lastly slide 10-15 is Reading online (different articles). I’ve hidden slide 12 because I don’t understand it.

Thank you for reading!! Please inform me if anything troubles you by commenting and feel free to ask me any questions, did I forget anything? Just know I’ll always be there to reply! Have a blessed day, God loves you, Adiós.❤ (God loves  you, Bye.❤)

 

24. Down the Drain environment – Reading

Hello, last week, we were focusing on this slideshow for reading. It’s about drains, and how we could save the ocean.

I skipped some slides due to the fact I couldn’t finish them on time which is unfair to be honest, so if you’re a bit confused that’s on me, sorry. Credits on the last slide

Anyway, here’s my slideshow:

Thank you for reading!! Please inform me if anything troubles you by commenting and ask me any questions, I’ll always be there to reply. Have a blessed day, God loves you! ❤

24. Bugs – Reading

Hello. This week for reading, my reading group worked on a slideshow about bugs and we’ve learnt about Invertebrates. Credits for the slideshow template are on the last slide! I’ve skipped some slides because I haven’t done them.

THANK YOU FOR READING! Please inform me if anything troubles you by commenting, I’ll always be there to reply🔥. God loves youu! ❤

24. Worm Farm

HELLO. This week we’ve created a worm farm in class! Before I get into details talking about our worm farm, I want to show this slide show we’ve also worked on, why not check it out before we get started on talking about our worm farm? (ALSO WATCH THE VIDEOS IN THE SLIDESHOWS – you don’t need too tho but if you did you’d understand more)

After you’ve read my slide show (Which I’d appreciate if you did), time to talk about our worm farm like I said. 😁

Each table had two ice cream containers on them, we then received a tool to create 20 holes on the bottom of one of the containers, one person pokes 3 holes each. After we’ve done that, one of us gets sent to collect pieces of bark outside, and then add the barks in the container with no holes. Then we stack the containers, adding the container with holes on top of the one with no holes. Our teacher poured the worms in a newspaper for each table, one person from each table collects the worms in a newspaper CAREFULLY in a specific way, they were tiger worms. Once that step is over, we take the worm full newspaper, and tip it in the top container. After that, we added our leftover vegetable from our lunch and fed it to our worms, then we damped tissue paper and a old clothing of PJ’s to top it off over the food, that leaves the worms left with a dark and moist environment, that’s how they get the motivation to eat your food faster. And finally, the cherry on top was the lid of an ice cream container.

THANK YOU FOR READING! Please inform me if anything troubles you by commenting, I’ll always be there to reply🔥. God bless youuu!! 🙏 ❤

 

24. Group reading – Fallen leaves

Kia Ora, reader. This week’s group reading book is ‘Fallen leaves’. Fallen leaves is a historical story that was set in 1845. It shows the point of view of a young Māori protaganist, Haora. Haora works in the printery at Kororāreka (his home town) at the time when war was building between Ngāpuhi chief Hone Heke and the British troops.

Here’s our slideshow with the activities we had to finish relating to the story, I had two of my classmates helping in this slideshow, which was Hineahuone and Danielle. There were two extra slides, but we hid them because we assumed that was for our teacher to do. Appreciate it if you watch the slideshow and ask me any questions about it. Thank you for reading!