Stop Deforestation/ No Global Warming!

We have all heard of climate change right? But do you know how deforestation affects the world? Deforestation is where people cut down trees and forests which leads to animals losing their homes and  adds carbon dioxide into the air as well as removing the ability to absorb existing carbon dioxide. Trees also absorb water during the rainy season and if they are cut down the possibility of flooding increases. Forests and trees also help to prevent soil erosion because they provide shelter to rain and wind which obviously moves the land. Roots help secure the soil and when they are removed it disturbs the soil!

Did you learn anything new?

Thank you for reading!

Reading W9/ Blessed Beatitudes

 For reading this week we learnt about the beatitudes and how being in a community can help us. The Beatitudes are...

For our create task we got a choice between creating an event for your community, a word brick or a Be Poem.  I choose a Be Poem, here is mine.

Here is the link for a closer look

I hope you learnt something new

Thank you for reading!

Writing W9/ School Camp!

 This week for writing we had to write about camp and how we showed the 6 C's (Collabaration, Communication, Creativity, Critictal Thinking, Character and Global Citizenship

 Here is mine. 

Here is the link for a closer look

Did you learn anything new?

Thank you for reading!

Maths W9/Decimals

 This week for maths we had to constuct a google drawing of 5 maths word problems.  Here is my google drawing. The first question is about my dog Charlotte and how much dog food she gets a day, the second one is about my friend Amelie, the third is about my friend Elise, the one after that is about Mimi and the last is about Rocky the pony I ride.

Here is the link for a closer look.

Did you get any of the questions correct?

Thank you for reading

Maths and Multiples?

 This week for maths we had to learn about multiples, here is my google drawing.

Here is the link for a closer look!

Hopefully my google drawing explained how to find out what the multiples of a number is. We actually also had to learn about factors, however I didn't realise that so my teacher gave me three to do and here is the link to that.

Did you learn anything new?

Thanks for reading

Writing Riddle Poems!

 This week for writing we were lucky enough to be writing a poem of... Free Choice! I was so happy to find out we could finally choose what to write about, they did give us some options on which sort of poem we wrote, I choose a riddle poem and this is what I ended up with. 

Here is the Link for a closer look

I usually like writing poems depending on what I'm writing it about and I really enjoyed writing this though it did include quite a bit of thought!

What do you think my poem was about?!

My favourite hobby: Equestrianism

 This week for reading we were looking at the realationship between hobbies and happiness. 

Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

 And... We are back to lockdown again which means distance learning. These last two weeks for reading we learnt about growth mindsets and why they are better than a fixed one. For our work we had to make a google drawing about someone we thought showed a growth mindset, I choose Pippa Funnell! Here is my google drawing.

Here is the link for a closer look.

Who do you think shows a growth mindset!

Thank you for reading!

Emotional Literacy

 This Term our focus for PBL is emotional literacy so we have been learning about the different aspects of it, and this time we were learning about Emotional Literacy. But what is it? Emotional Literacy is to

Share your emotions

Know and identify your emotions

Know or reconise how others are feeling.

Know how to deal with your emotions

Boosting your self esteem.

The tasks we did to help our understanding were to sort different emotions into separate groups. So we made a cross with half the lines being something different all the time ( high energy, low energy, pleasent and unpleasent. So for example in one of the boxes were the calm and happy emotions and some being low energy and pleasent (such as calm). We also had to do another task asking us when we felt particular emotions this is mine.

Thank you for reading this blog post, hopefully you learnt some thing new.

Reading/Inner Peace

 These last two weeks we have been reading about inner peace and how to get it. We had to choose a section of and article and read it, the section I choose was of physical health and I learnt that in order to get full physical health you need to eat healthy, exercise regularly and get a good sleep. The create task however was to choose a shape and draw what you believe peace is, in it. I drew on paper rather than digitally because I find easier, so I split my shape into thirds and drew at piture of a lake, me sitting on the paddock fence watching my favourite pony Rocky and a portrait of my pets. I really enjoyed this create task seeing as I love drawing but I found harder to come up with the idea.

                                              I hope you enjoyed this blog and learned something!

 Thank you for reading!

Maths/ Directions and Distances

 This week for maths the task we had to do was to draw a map (of your choice) digitally and write some questions challenging you to use your knowledge on the subject. This is the drawing I ended up with.

I did my map on the equestrian centre I go to. 

Here is the link for a closer look.

Thank you for reading!

Reading/Matariki

 This week for reading we were to do a infographic explaining what Matariki was. Here is mine.

This infographic tells you 5 facts about Matariki, how it is celebrated, The nine stars, And if it is a public holiday or not.

Thank you for reading this blog!

Did you learn anything new about Matariki?

Rainbow Reading/Teaching Te Reo

 Welcome to this new blog post! This week we were working the Fantastics! But what are they? 

As you see up top, those are the Fantastics. The task we were to do was read through an article of our choice and highlight words and sentences the colour of the Fantastics. If the word was excited or sad then it would be highlighted red as a feeling which is first on the fantastic rainbow. There were also some images of what made an article so for example the headline, strap line and more. The article I read was about teaching Te Reo in schools. Here is a screenshot of what I've done.

Click here for a closer look! Link

Thank you for reading this blog!

Maths in 2020 Term 3

 This time my goal was Use a broad range of mental strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

The strategies were Equal adjustment, Place Value and Reversibility .

My favourite was probably Place value because it was the easiest for me.

A place value question!

552+231=?

All you need to do is add the hundreds together.

500+200=700

And then add the tens together

50+30=80

And then add the ones together!

2+1=3

So the answer is 783!

Did you learn anything new?

My Turangawaewae

 This Week for Literacy we had to write a show not tell descriptive text. Show not tell means you can't tell the reader directly what you are talking about I described wheat as Yellow scratchy forage as it describes what I'm talking about but it doesn't mention the word hay.

Here is a screenshot of my writing doc.

Click on this link for a closer look!

Can you guess what my Turangawaewae was?!

Thanks for Reading!

Place Value in Kaupeka!

 This week for maths we did multiplication Place Value. Which took a long time to understand but in the end I did it, so here is my create!

For a closer look click on this link

The tasks we had to do were create two word problems and show your working through the answer as you see on the left of the google drawing and there were also 6 questions you had to answer (and of course you needed to show your working out for that too) on the right. 

Which was your favourite word problem???

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog!

Bye

Statistical Investigation/Maths Wk 8

 This week we were learning how do a statistical investigation and collect data! I chose the question "what is your favourite dog breed" out of a Labrador Retriever, Chihuahua, Border Collie, Beagle and a Golden Retriever!

                          

                                                      This is my slide I hope you enjoy!

Reading + Sweet Home 3d

 This week for Reading we had to create a google drawing about a facility you would like to add to New Zealand! It had to be related to Turangawaewae and NZ so I decided, we didn't have an agility centre (for dogs) in NZ so why not make one (obviously this probably won't happen) I decided that the relation to NZ would be that all the equipment would be Eco friendly and NZ made! Here is the google drawing I created!

If you would like a closer look here is my Link

The website I used was called Sweet Home 3D this is awesome to make houses and buildings like mine! It's really detailed and fun the only thing is if you use the online version (instead of downloading) you have to keep the tab open or you have to restart, I had to restart 3 times!

I hope you enjoyed my blog today!

What facility would you like to make?

Native Animals in New Zealand (Kaupeka Newspaper)

 Hello Everyone!

This task we were challenged with writing an article about something related to NZ! So I decided to do an article about Native Animals of NZ, in the article I tell you about the kiwis relatives and how you tell a few animals apart if you are interested here is my link.

Native Animals of NZ!

I hope you enjoyed my blog today!

Which animal was your favourite?

Pa Week!!!

 Maths Pa: The aim of this task was to make a pa with correct and even lines, here is Corrine's and my pa.

Our Pa!

Writing Pa: This task we had to write an Real Estate ad to sell a Pa

Here is mine!

Link

Reading Pa: This task was to create an AD on the Pa you made in maths 

Here is mine!

Thanks for Reading!