2020 Poem

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It's almost the holidays! are you excited? For the last few weeks this term we have been working on a book that explains how our 2020 yet in poem form. We had to write about all the activities we did this year. I wrote about all the fun things we did this year like camp, then isolation, Sport and more.

This is my book:

Ta moko

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 This term for inquiry we are learning about different cultures. For one of our tasks, we had to pick and learn about either Ta moko, Korowai/Kakahu, or the Haka. I chose to do the Ta moko.                            The Ta moko is a traditional Maori tattoo that is done on your face. We had to write the present vs the past for the materials used, design, and why it's done. The Ta moko used to be done by Chisels dipped in dark pigment, now it is done with needles. The designs used to be based on Maori tribes, now they are done base on Your family, prosperity, travel, strength, and your career path.

Here is the slide with my work on it:

Literacy - Antagonists and Protagonists

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How were your holidays? I did not do a lot in the holidays but for our first week back at school, we have been doing lots of different things like athletic practice, kiwi buddies, and more. This term for literacy we have been stating to write kid's books. Before we started forming what our story was about we learned about Protagonists and Antagonists and what makes them either the protagonist or the antagonist. For our task, we had to find 4 stories and write the antagonist and the protagonist and why they are the antagonist or protagonist. I did the three little pigs, Cinderella, Snow White and the seven dwarfs, and sleeping beauty

Here is a screenshot:

Sign language

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This Wednesday we had been learning sign language. We played this game to help learn different words like colors, food, and more. We also learned the alphabet. It will not let me add the video of me saying "My name is Sienna" in sign language but here is the sign language alphabet so you can learn how to spell your name.

Here is the link to the game if you want to try it!: link

Minecraft Eiffel tower

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For math, we had to find a famous landmark and build it in Minecraft. After we made it on miecraft we had to write about what shapes it is made of and where it was located. I chose to build the Eiffle tower. 

Here is my slide:

Science of Dreams

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This week we have gotten a few topics and we had to research one of them, I chose to research about dreams. I have learned a lot about dreams doing this, like how you have up to 4 - 6 dreams each night but only remember some of it! or depending on your mood before you go to sleep affects what your dreams about, if you are frustrated you are more likely to have a dream about you falling, failing, or getting attacked.

Here is the doc:

Movie times

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We have been learning about 24 hour time and how to convert Am/Pm. Today we got given the task to make a table of movie times the included: The movie, The running time of the movie (in minutes), The starting time of your movie (in 24 hour time), and a question like (what time would you leave the cinema?)

My three chosen movies were: Dora, Frozen, and frozen 2

Here is the slide:

Minecraft kitchen ISS

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For my literacy task, we had been looking at the ISS (International Space Station ), we had to go into a Minecraft world that had the ISS in it. We had to add in a different module to the ship that we thought maybe needed in a space station. 

The ISS has heaps of different modules each used for different things to researching and studying about things that are in space like the stars, planets, satellites, and many more things that you may not know about.

I added a kitchen, I thought a kitchen would be important to add so you could cook and eat food.

here are some screenshots:

Kitchen interior

Whole kitchen interior

Kitchen exterior

Minecraft clock

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This week for maths we have been looking at time and how to convert 12 hour time to 24 hour time. We had to create a digital and analog clock on Minecraft. My analog clock showed 3:00 and the digital clock showed 3:00 in 24 hour time (15:00)

Here is a screenshot:

Skin care buisness

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This Wednesday we got into groups and made businesses with them, we did this so we could have a better understanding of how businesses work and what you should be prepared for if you ever start one. We did a skincare business. 

My group made a skincare business that had things like serums, Cleansers, moisturizers, face masks, lip balms, and more.

This is the slide we did it on (it is not fully finished yet):

      

Spin wheel outcomes

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For numeracy, we had to make an animation showing how to figure out how many outcomes there are spinning the wheel or flipping a coin. I chose to spin a wheel

Here is my animation about how to figure it out: 

PSA Coding

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 On Wednesdays, after tech, we have been doing coding.  We had to code a PSA (Public service announcement) to spread awareness about a problem we have around the world.

My chosen issue was littering. I chose to do littering because we need to stop because it ruins the environment and can kill the animals. I tried to make the PSA interesting by making clickable things.

Here are screenshots of the coding and the PSA:

Science report - Flight

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In literacy this term we are doing science. For the past few weeks, we have been looking at flight, and we had to do an experiment based on it. My experiment was if I change the different types of paper will it affect how the paper plane fly? When we finished the experiment I found out that the different types of paper do affect the flight. We had to write in a table about how the experiment went.

Here is the  link to the doc: Link

Here is a screenshot of it: 

Science report

Hi,

This week in literacy we had to fill out a doc reflecting on our experiment we did.

Our experiment was about capillary action. Capillary action is the ability of something to move up or through something without the assistance of external forces like gravity, Like for example how plants absorb water, water goes through the soil and Capillary Action helps the water travel from the soil to the plant.

My experiment was with celery and water. we used different temperatured water and put the celery in for a certain amount of time to see how fast it goes up the celery or how quick you see a color change in it.

Here is the link to the doc: Link

Rocket Challenge Parachute

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This term for inquiry we are building rockets, part of this challenge we got given the task to make a parachute. The parachute had to hold up to two hex nuts, the goal was to make a parachute that took the longest time to hit the ground. After we had to write down our original design then any changes we made Here is the slide:

Budget shopping

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On Wednesday we got given the task to buy food to last for a week with a budget of $170 for a family of four. The family of four each had a different allergy and we had to get food to last a week and feed all of them. One of them had no allergies, One was vegan, one was gluten-free and the other was dairy-free

To do this I just looked up food with those things in it (vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free)

This is my slide of the food throughout the week.

Terms

In numeracy, we have been doing terms,

we got given the task to make a presentation on how to do it.

This is mine:

Is there anything you think I could to do to make it better

Website - Genre

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This week we finished the last part of our website (Genre). 

For this, we wrote about the genres in the book and wrote how the book shows those genres.

In this book, I think the genres that show are Comedy and Sci-Fi. 

If you want to have a look at my website here is the link: Link

Here is a screenshot:

Matariki poem animation

Hey guys,

This week we have been learning about Matariki.

We got given the task to either make a poem, a book, and many other options.

I chose to make a poem. For the poem, we had to write it and then animate it. 

Comment if there is anything you think I could do to change it or make it better.

Here is the poem and the animation:

Website - Symbols

Hey guys,
This week for literacy I finished writing the symbols for my website.
We had to write 5 symbols. The symbols I did were the hitchhiker's guide, Magrathea, The Vogons, The improbability drive, and Slartibartfast.
If your not sure what those are, they are apart of the book and if you want to see more about them you can have a look at my website
Here is a link to my website: Link
Here is a screenshot: