Christmas At my House

 This is one of our Christmas activities (Not 12 Days of Christmas), which we had to describe what Christmas means at our house and what it's like. Here is my presentation.

12 Days of Christmas - Activity 2

For the second activity we had to make a word find with Merry Christmas in different languages. Here is mine. 

12 Days of Christmas - Activity 1

For the first Christmas activity, we had to take a screenshot of something related to Christmas (with a few clues) and see if our blog viewers can guess what it is. Here are my clues:

- Its colours are red and gold

- It helps Santa a lot on Christmas eve

PrEP Awards

 In the past 2-3 weeks we have been doing PrEP, which if you didn't know, is a business event where our whole school starts ventures (Business Groups) or signs up to be in something like the PrEP Police force, the Warehouse, the Advertising agency ect. Today at Assembly I received an award for my service in the Advertising agency.

Space Task 2

 As you may have seen from my previous post I have started a new topic around space. For the second task we had to complete a google drawing about what astronauts need/take to space. Here is mine.

Space Task 1

This week we started a new literacy topic which was either space or NZ disasters. I have chosen to do Space, for the first task we had to complete a planet report about a planet of our choice, I have chosen Mercury because it is the smallest and closest to the sun. 

Wk3 Whanau Time Video

This week our Principal asked us to make a short film about overcoming a task that is challenging or that you have never done before. Emil, Jacob, Toby and I decided to make a film about going up the 'Big Fort' at our school (I have actually been up there before). Here is the video.

Moa Create Task

For the past couple weeks we have been doing reading tasks around Moa's extinction and facts about them. One of the tasks was a create task, for this we had to choose another extinct animal and write some facts about it and how it got extinct. I chose to do my one on the Haast Eagle mostly because it was the predator of the Moas. Here is the link to my create task.

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Moa Reading tasks

This week we started a new reading topic around Moas and their extinction and so on. We have 4 tasks (plus a create task) that we had to complete before the end of the week. I found these tasks reasonably easy because they didn't take much time to do. Here are the links to the tasks.

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task 4

PrEP Letters and C.V.'s

 This term Grey Main are going to have our annual PrEP (Primary Enterprise Program) which is similar to a market. We have small market where ventures can choose to make some products for that and the big market which is the same but all ventures have to enter some sort of item. This year's theme is Christmas, so we can make gifts, ornaments and so on. There are also jobs outside the classroom, for example, the PrEP Police, the Advertising Agency, the bank, the Warehouse and also people who help the younger learners with their ventures. I have decided to apply for the Police (Yr 8's only) and the Advertising Agency.

Welcome Back!

This week is the first week back to school in term 4. It has been pretty relaxed as we needed time to get back into the swing of things. However, as part of the very few things that I have done this week, I have done my Prototec for this week. (I apologize about the screenshot quality).

 

Maths Wk9 Term 3

This week for maths I thought I would share my level of maths on my blog so you can get a better idea of what level I am working at for maths. Here is my Prototec and word problems doc for the week.

Prototec:

Word Problems:

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Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

This week for Maori language week our we had the task of making a google map and answering questions around Maori history. We also did a scavenger hunt today to find the Maori phrase. We would run around the school and found numbers which had letters next to them taped to the windows of the classrooms, then make the phrase out of those letters. Since I am an ambassador at this school, I had to record how many times my teacher used Te Reo. I found those to be quite fun activities, here is my Google my map.

Link just in case it doesn't work: Link

Maths Word Problems Wk8

 This week we had another document filled with word problems, this week I found the questions more difficult than last week but I managed to complete them. Also, there were a lot more questions than last week so it took me quite a bit longer. Here is the link:

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What does Gravity do? Explanation Writing

During this week and last week I have completed my fourth explanation writing about what gravity does. It wasn't the longest piece of writing I have ever done but I think I have reached the success criteria. Here is the link:

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Pluto tasks

This week for reading we started a topic about Pluto. We have to complete four tasks, then we could start doing the "create" task where we had to either make a pamphlet about Pluto or a short film about a scientist explaining things about Pluto. Here is the link to my task (I included the second task as well).

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Pluto task 4

This week as you may have seen on my previous post we have started doing tasks on Pluto. This task here is task four and it is a synthesis chart. We had to fill in things like the main idea of each text and then compare them, here it is.

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More Images

As you may have seen with my previous post, we have been working on making funny/cool images by using a site to help remove the background of your photo and a site to find basically any image for your new background that you want. Here are the images that I have made.

Boxing

This week and last week we had to mess around with a few tools to make some cool images, I decided to go all out with this one because to make this I had to remove the guy from the image, make another copy of him without the background of the image, and then stick him back on so I can tilt him without tilting the whole image. After I had done that, I got a gif of a blast and put it on my hand and put lines under him to make it look like he was flying away after I punched him. I hope you like it, it was really fun to make. (I put the super saiyan hair on me because I think it fits with the blast on my fist).

Explanation Writing #3

This week we have started yet another piece of explanation writing, this week I have done it about why volcanoes erupt and that sort of thing. Enjoy!

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Maths Word Problems

This week for maths we had to complete these ten word problems, I found them reasonably easy.

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Porky Pig Enlargement

This week we had to chose a cartoon character and enlarge it by using a scale factor. First we drew squares on the original photo and then enlarge it square by square. Here is a photo.

Explanation Writing 2

This week we had to do another piece of explanation writing, this time I did it on the rain/water cycle. Here is the link to my writing. LiNk.

Prototec Wk 3

This week I had to do another 3 Prototec maths tasks, I am working at the stage 7 level. Here it is (I apologize for the size, there is no size between XL and original size)

Scale Factor DLO

This week for maths we have been learning about scale factors, which I have learned before last year. We had to make a DLO, here is mine:

Explanation Writing

Last week we had to make a piece of explanation writing and I chose to do it on the swinging water experiment. Here it is.

Explanation Writing

| Swinging Water |

Swinging water is a fun experiment for everyone, however, you may never have figured out why this works, I am about to tell you.


The water stays in the cup because it is moving in a circular (centripetal) motion and it wants to escape from the bottom of the cup, because the cup has a bottom, the water cannot escape. That is why it stays flat in the cup.


What you will need to do this experiment:

A piece of string

A plastic cup

Water

Scissors/thumbtack

Once you have all the things gathered up, use your scissors/thumbtack to make a hole on both sides of the cup at the top, make it so your choice of string can fit. Thread the string from the outside in through both holes, tie it at the top. You now have all you need for this experiment, all you need to do now is fill the cup halfway with water.


Go to an outside area and swing it around, the water will stay in the cup.

Rotation

For this weeks math activities we had to make a DLO on either translation, rotation, reflection and enlargements, I chose rotation. Here is my DLO.

More Matariki

I have completed another Matariki activity, its a google drawing about what Matariki is and what they usually do for it.

Matariki

For Matariki we have been doing some activities around what it is about and the story and things like that. Here is my Matariki story slide.

Book week

This week was Book Week and at the end of the week we had to dress up as a book character. I dressed up as Frank from Bad Dad (like on the photo). Also throughout the week we could go in the library and try and find the ticket hiding in one of the pages in one of more than 8,000 books!

Assembly

This week for assembly we (T1) are running it. At assembly we are going to share some of our work that wen have been doing throughout the term like Pharaoh and Picasso art, some report writing and more. I am going to share a paragraph from my Sydney writing.

The Sydney Opera House is a performing arts centre that lies on the south side of the harbour next to the harbour bridge. The predicted cost for the Sydney Opera House was 7 million but the actual cost turned out to be 102 million, a huge difference from what they expected. The Sydney Opera House can hold up to 5,738 people in the seats. You might be wondering why the Sydney Opera House is the shape it is, well, it was designed by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon, however I do not know why he made it that shape. Those were some facts about one of Sydney's biggest attractions.

Prototec Wk10

This week we had to complete some more prototec maths tasks and I did well this week because I got 100% on all of my tasks.

The Sydney Opera House

This week for report writing we had to choose between the Sydney Opera House or sharks and I have chosen the Sydney Opera House. There we had to start with a middle paragraph and then the other two paragraphs and then the introduction and the conclusion, a different way to do it but we did it anyway.

Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is quite a big building with a very sleek design to it, and not only that, there have been some big names in there as well as a big time to make it with a lot of workers.

The Sydney Opera House was built to, in the words of Joseph Cahill, ‘help mould a better and more enlightened community’. It has definitely enlightened the Sydney community because the Opera House has had some big names like the Foo Fighters in 2006 and Tame Impala in 2011 and again in 2015. According to Google, around eight million people have visited the Sydney Opera House in it’s 61 year history.

The Sydney Opera House is a performing arts centre that lies on the south side of the harbour next to the harbour bridge. The predicted cost for the Sydney Opera House was 7 million but the actual cost turned out to be 102 million, a huge difference from what they expected. The Sydney Opera House can hold up to 5,738 people in the seats. You might be wondering why the Sydney Opera House is the shape it is, well, it was designed by the Danish architect Jorn Utson, however I do not know why he made it that shape. Those were some facts about one of Sydney's biggest attractions.

The Sydney Opera House is such an eye-catching shape that surely it would take a while to build right? Well, it was expected to take just four years to build,but in reality it took another ten years to finish with a total time of fourteen years. Of course with such a big big structure it needed a lot of workers to help build, well that is the case with the Opera House because it needed a total of 10,000 workers! Although with so many workers there would have to be a couple deaths and in the Opera House’s situation there were sixteen unfortunate deaths.

In conclusion the Sydney Opera House is definitely a recognisable structure and it has had quite a history.

Prototec

This week like all the other weeks we had to complete some prototec tasks. Once we complete our prototec tasks we take a screenshot of the certificate and put it in a google drawing.

Argentina Report

This week we had to write a report about an animal or a country and before you think I have already done this about dogs we had to do it last week and this week. This week my report was about Argentina.

Argentina

Argentina is a country in South America, it is quite large sitting at 2.78 million ㎢ and a population of 44.49 million. Argentina’s main sport is football, but along with football there are a whole lot of other things that Argentinians like to do.

Did you know that organised football in Argentina has been running since 1867! One of the best players in the world is Argentine, Lionel Messi. He has earned a total of 34 trophies, these include ten La Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League titles and five Ballon d’or awards. Messi has been playing for the same club his whole life, Barcelona. He started his career when he was thirteen back when he just started playing in the U14’s for Newell’s Old Boys in 1995 and he played for them for another five years.

One of the other things Argentines like to do is dancing, specifically the Tango. The Tango originated in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, in the 1880’s. The Tango is a dance that involves a lot of smooth and sharp movements and also long strides which means you need to be physically ready to be able to learn the Tango. The Tango came from the candombe ceremonies of the african slaves.

In Argentina there are also a lot of different foods to try. Some of these include: Empanadas, Dulce de leche and Chimichurri, these foods can probably be found in other places, it's just native to Argentina. According to Google, Asados are the most popular food in Argentina. Argentina's cuisine looks good to me!

Argentina is quite an interesting place with all of their different foods, I didn’t even know that the Tango originated in Argentina. I think that Argentina would be a great place for anyone to visit!

Mars Comprehension Task

This week for the comprehension task we had to answer some questions about Mars! There isn't much else to say about it so I'll leave you with the link.

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Dogs Writing

This week for reports writing we had to choose an animal or a country, I chose dog breeds and abilities. This type of writing was just an informative piece of writing with a few paragraphs, nothing different.

Dogs

Dogs are a great pet to have, they are very loving animals and science has shown that they are more loving than cats. Dogs are quite common animals to have as pets because they... wait I’m getting too far into this let’s get to the cool things about some breeds of dogs.

For example, the cool thing about Bloodhounds is that they are the dog breed with the best smelling ability, so good in fact it can be used as evidence in a court of law! Following the bloodhound, there is the Basset hound and the Beagle. The dog breeds with the best hearing are, first of all, the Poodle then the Golden Retriever and the Labrador Retriever. Those are just some of the cool abilities dogs have.

Now, if you have a dog you have probably said “We’ve got the best dog in the world” and I’m not going to stop you from believing that because everyone has their own taste, however, the most popular dog breed from 2014 - 2018 is the Labrador Retriever as there is around 35 thousand of them according to the Dog Blog. There is one dog breed that is quite different from others and that is the Newfoundland dog breed. The things that make them different from the others is, firstly their webbed feet to help them through the water, also another thing to help them in the water is their water resistant coat which has two layers, the outer coat is coarse and long and the undercoat is soft and dense.

There are also some cool things that are the same throughout all dog breeds like; their wet nose, now they have a wet nose because it helps them absorb scent chemicals and then once the scents are absorbed they lick their nose to help them understand the smell more, isn’t that smart! Now this next one isn’t so much about the dogs but it’s quite cool. In an interview in 2013, Paul McCartney said that at the end of the Beatles song ‘A day in the life’ they added a frequency that only dogs can hear which I think is quite cool.

Well, now you know your dogs are not just pets, they are quite smart animals who know what they are doing!

Rhys A

Prototec

Every week for maths we have to do one Prototec task a day, we choose the level of maths that we are up to and it gives us a sheet worth of equations to solve. Here are my Prototec certificates for this week.

(if you can't see the fineprint the score percentages are: 100, 95, 97, 97, 95)

Maths Maintenance

This week, like every other week, we had to do maths maintenance, which, if you didn't know, is just a series of maths questions each day Monday through Thursday. Here is the link for my maths maintenance.

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Wk 7 Vocab

This week for the vocab task the words were from an article about conspiracy theories. If you don't know the vocab tasks that we do they are just selected from an article that we had in the certain week.

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Timetable

This week we were introduced to our own timetable. For the timetable we had to have a certain amount of hours of a topic and spread it throughout the week. Here is the link to my timetable.

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The Treehouse Series Book Review

This week we had to do a book review on one of our favourite books (series') and writing a review. I did mine about Andy Griffiths' and Terry Denton's Treehouse books. Here it is.

Pharaohs

This week for topic one of the activities was to make a google drawing about pharaohs, it didn't need to be much but just a little bit. Here is mine.

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The Sahara Desert

This week for topic we have been focusing on Ancient Egypt. One of the activities was to make a factual google drawing about the Sahara Desert, Here is mine.

The Nile River

This week for topic we have been focusing on Ancient Egypt. One of the tasks was to make a DLO on the Nile River and include some facts. Here is mine.

Mummification

This week we are back at physical school and for our topic this week we are learning about Ancient Egypt. We could choose a topic around Ancient Egypt and study it. I have chosen mummification, here is my drawing.

Titanic Newspaper

For this Titanic activity we had to make a newspaper from the day after the Titanic's sinking and write something based around that, I made mine on google drawing . Here is my newspaper.

Buoyant force | Titanic

for this Titanic activity we had to have a look at buoyant force or buoyancy. There is not much else to say here because I have said a lot in this following drawing.

Titanic Diary

Like you may have seen in a previous post of mine, we are doing work around the Titanic. For this activity we had to make at least three diary entries from the perspective of a passenger, crew or even the captain of the Titanic. Here is my slide.

Titanic Timeline

For this activity around the Titanic we had to make a timeline of the Titanic's journey, starting from building it, to the crash. Here is my timeline.

Titanic Information

This week our focus is on the Titanic (I will have more posts around this topic). For this activity we had to make something that has all of the information that you have learned about the Titanic and it's tragedy. Here is my slide.

Probability Workbooks Wk4

This week for maths we have been doing probability workbooks. These had a range of different probability questions and the second one also has ratios. Here are mine.

Westamaths Workbook

This year since we're all locked up we can't do Westamaths, which is a maths competition for all of the schools on the West Coast of the South Island, so in practice we did this workbook that our school's Westamaths teacher prepared for us to do. Here it is (And I'm not even sure if I got these right)!

The Breakfast Pie

As you can tell by the title this post is about a pie, me and my mum made this pie yesterday (at the time when I post this) and it was something that she had made before but we added hash browns. I named it the 'Breakfast' pie because the ingredients are something you would have for breakfast.

All you have to do is get a pie dish of the size that you want, grease it, add 2 rolls of sausage filling that you get from the store and it looks a bit like dog roll, press it down nice and flat. Now add the Hash Browns, you can have any shape for these as long as they fit in your dish, do one layer of these. Now add the eggs and I'm not exactly sure on how many but make a reasonable layer of them as well. Now to give it a nice pie top add some cheese but not to much that you can't see the eggs under, just a little bit (as you can see in the photo). Here is our attempt of this pie and these photos can be a guide for you.

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'The Day of The Dead' Reading Activities

This week for our reading activities we read an article and answered questions about 'The Day of the Dead', and we also defined some words from the day of the dead article. Here are the links to both of those activities. Questions | Vocab.

Day Of The Dead Word Find

As you may have seen on my blog, I have a post about 'The day of the dead' and this is a follow up post about my 'The day of the dead' word find/ word search. The words are from the vocabulary from "The day of the dead" article.

Autumn Writing

This week one of our writing tasks was to create a descriptive piece of writing about Autumn. For this we didn't have to make it too big, sort of like a poem. Here is my piece of writing.

Maths Workbooks

This week we had to do two maths workbooks, one about number word problems and one about perimetre, area and volume. These workbooks are one of the things that we do weekly for maths.

Blondies

Last week I got a comment on my Instant pudding biscuits and it was from my former teacher, Mrs Gully, and she said she had been baking blondies (White chocolate brownies). So I sent her an email asking for the recipe and last weekend me and my mum tried it out, here they are!

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I might have a follow up post with the recipe, so look out for it!

School Mornings Descriptive Writing

This week for writing we had to complete a descriptive piece about our school mornings. Including all the aspects of your morning until you head off to school, here is mine

Instant Pudding Biscuit Photos

So I've already posted the recipe for these biscuits but I got a few comments asking for the photos, so I have some before and after photos of the Strawberry flavor biscuits (Me and my mum made vanilla flavor the first time). Also something I missed out when I did the first post on these I forgot to say only press them down a SMALL bit!

Before

After

Keep it up New Zealand!

New Zealand is doing great at handling Coronavirus, we are getting around 10 cases a day in the last week or so, shown by the graph below. We should definitely listen to the prime minister about locking in our gains and not relaxing now, because we are doing great! Ka pai New Zealand!

(Please remember we are still in level 4 and we don't move to level 3 until 11:59pm 27 April.)

Drawing for fun

I was bored one afternoon so I decided to draw this cool looking illusion that I remember drawing last year, It's called 'Pursuit Curves', it's surprisingly easy to draw one of these and I think it has a cool 3D look.

Instant Pudding Biscuits

In the weekend me and my mum made some instant pudding biscuits and they were so delicious I had to share the recipe with everyone.

Instant Pudding Biscuits

Ingredients:
12 Tbsp butter
1 Cup sugar
1 egg
1 packet of Gregg's instant desserts (any flavor)
1 1/2 Cup flour
1 Tbsp Baking powder
3 Tbsp Cornflour

Cream butter and sugar. Beat in the egg. Add pudding packet and remaining ingredients. Mix well and roll into balls WITHOUT floury hands. Bake at 190 deg. for 10 mins (If needed turn tray at 5 mins). bakes 22 - 24.

A Special Place

This week for writing we had to think of a place that is special to you or you enjoy being at that place, I chose my living room on a winters day. Here it is.

Anne Frank activities

This week for reading our teacher set us a few tasks around Annelies Marie Frank/Anne Frank. There was one about vocabulary from the article that we read, one about questions about her life and one was about choosing a different WWII diarist. Here is my WWII diarist fact file.

(I couldn't get the other activities because they were a pain to get onto blogger.)

Math Maintenance Term 2 Wk1

This week I have completed my maths maintenance tasks, which are just a mix of different math problems e.g. lollies cost $2.75 and Jack paid with a five dollar note, what change did he get? We get 20 questions per day to answer a week, here is the Link.

Hide and Seek Activity

It is officially the start of schooling from home and today I have completed an activity about a playing hide and seek or spotlight and I had to write about all the things you can recall. here is mine.

Coronavirus Outbreak

We all know what is going on around the world today so I just wanted to say, keep safe everyone wash your hands, keep your distance, don't touch your face and only leave your house if you really need to. All the best to everyone!

Task C | Mistletoe Bay activities

This is task C of the Mistletoe Bay study and for this one we had to find a creature, plant or type of thing that lives on the shore. I chose the Grapsid/Grapsidae crab, here it is.

Task B | Mistletoe Bay activities

This is task B of the Mistletoe Bay camp study and for this one we had to write a paragraph about one of our camp highlights and make a 'moment in time' piece of writing. here is mine.

A Moment In Time

When we went fishing on camp I enjoyed seeing people laughing and having fun although I didn’t enjoy the bait smell. The feeling of the squishy slimy bait, and hearing everyone talking and having fun with one another. Fishing was one of my camp highlights.

Task A | Mistletoe Bay Activities

So I have a few posts for the Mistletoe Bay activities this year and I have another one for you and for this one we had to pretty much write a review for one of the activities we did on camp. Here is mine.

Task 4 | Mistletoe Bay activities

As you might have seen in previous posts we have been completing Mistletoe Bay camp activities. In task 4 we had to find a place in the Marlborough Sounds and do a google drawing about it. Here is mine.

Task 2 | Mistletoe Bay activities

This is Task number two of our after camp tasks. We had to choose out of a list of things to write a definition of it. I have chosen the 'King tide', here is my definition.