Lorde

Today I have done Activity Arts and Entertainment. I had a choice to do my Pepeha or a fact file about The New Zealand Singer Lorde. I enjoyed this activity because Lorde is my favorite singer

Action World

My class (Te Maunga) walked to Action world and my favorite activity was the inflatable climbing wall. When we got to action world the girls had to get changed and go on the water slide. I’m scared of water slides but its was fun after I had two turns we had to get changes and play. The first thing I went to was the inflatable climbing wall I got to the top twice but didn’t reach the bell I had so much fun and hope we go again sometime well not this year since this year is basically over.

Reading

My class Te Maunga has been learning about recycling When you recycle you put something that's recyclable in the recycling bin and then the rubbish truck will take it somewhere and put it in a landfill or sending it to China to get made into something new. Refuse is when you put it in the right bin so For example if you wanted to throw away a banana peel you would put it in food scraps, if you had paper it would go in the recycle and if you had a used tissue it would go in the rubbish. Reusing is when you have a zip lock bag and then you use it you can keep the zip lock bag and clean it then use it over and over again. If you had zip lock bags but you didn’t want to clean then reuse them you could stop buying them and reduce the amount of plastic you use.

Animation

My class Te Maunga has been learning about plants, like how they grow, what they need to grow and other stuff like that. One of the things I learnt plants need sun, water and the right climate it you tried grow a sunflower in the north pole it would not grow. A create task we did in our study was to make an animation so that is what this blog post is about.

Electricity

Today we did a makerspace about electricity. I missed half of it but when I was there for the lemon light, brainbox and something where you rub a comb on your head then put it over salt and pepper to see what happens to rub it on your head again then put it near water getting closer and closer to see what will happen. When we did lemon light I came halfway through but we put a N.Z ten cent coin on one side of a lemon, then on the other side we put a tiny nail thing and small clip thing that looked like crocodiles. When we did that with four lemons we put a tiny tint light bulb and if it lit up we did it right. We went to the next activity and we had to make fan spin while a light bulb was on and we did it. The last one we did didn’t work on any of us since the boys wet the comb entirely and rewind it because they weren’t meant to be that wet.

Plants

On Friday we had a Masterchef  junior day. A few terms ago on Matariki we planted silverbeet, parsley, carrot and celery in our garden. We gave the plants water and sunlight with the minerals they needed to survive. They started as sprouts and grew into proper plants.  On the day we had to get in groups of four or five then make and plan our dish. In my group was me, Amelia, Anika and Jacob. We made carrot and lemon pikelets we grated carrot and squeezed the lemon and grated lemon rind. I cooked and flipped them in the electric frying pan. When it came to the end we decorated it in fried banana and maple syrup. The teachers came to every table  and took photos and let us say some things about our dish. When they went to every table they said everybody sit on the mat, and she gave chocolates to a few winners. We won a prize for thinking out of the box and not making it too healthy but the most delicious. Everyone got a lollie if they did not get a chocolate.

Geometry

My class has been about geometry. I made a DLO (or a digital learning object) about geometry. It’s filled with the things I learnt from the activities we have been doing around geometry. I hope you enjoy.

Juicy

Amelia and I made an invention that would keep a juicy hard. We had so much hope in it but we shouldn’t have. Can you guess why? You probably did because it failed instead of a nice ice block we got a juice. So our invention did not work but it was fun making it.

Seasons

I learnt about the weather. I learnt that the hail can be really big and lightning forms when it's humid or cloudy. I made an animation about the weather its a bit strange but around the end there is a large bubble of information. I hope you enjoy my animation.

Right Thing

My class has been learning to be in the right place at the right time online. I made a slide about what I can be on at school time.

Time

We have been learning about time. Did you know that the big hand on the clock is the minute hand and the small hand is the hour hand? In an hour there is 60 minutes and in a minute there is 60 seconds.

Project Energize

My class, Te Maunga went to Project Energize. The first week we learnt the 4 food groups which are meat/meat alternatives, grains, dairy and fruit and veg. The next week we learnt what takeaways are good and bad for example it would be much more healthy to get sushi instead of butter chicken. The next week we learnt about fizzy and energy drinks. Water and milk are the best options and you should only have Gatorade if you have done sport and deserve it. The very last week we made hummus. Thea and I finished our work so we were the ones who actually made it. We opened the chickpeas put that in, some salt, pepper, peanut butter and squeezed lemon. After that we had it with crackers for a nice snack.

Cross country

Te Maunga did cross country practice to train for cross country. I don’t practice because I have a sore foot. Instead of training I would stand with a marker and put a dot on people's hand every time they came around the school and we do that to know when they have done five laps and not cheat and do less. When we put the fifth dot we would write the time then they would mark it in their book to record their time.

Animation

Cyber Smart

Hi I made a Google Drawing to tell people a little bit about being kind online and commenting.

Cyber Smart

 Hi, I made a drawing about screenshotting.

Infographic bog comment

We have been do cyber smart. We have been making infographics for blog commenting.

Animation

Here is my animation

What about Books

Today my class went into the whare to see an author named Adele Broadbent. She talked about her books and made up creatures and how they could be real. She asked us questions and we asked her questions. We enjoyed her talking about what she does and how she does it, but next time I should probably be a little quieter.