Arctic Tundra food Chain

W.A.L.T- Make a food chain on a biome of your choice. 

This week we have been learning about the ecosystem. I really enjoyed learning about the food chains and biomes. I think I really did a good job of this activity and I found really fun to do, and I want to do this again! 

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Sources- http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/tundra.html

Infographic

W.A.L.T- Make an info graphic about something of your choice.

For the past week we had to make an info graphic of your choice, I did one on Top 3 medalist in Show Jumping FEI longines because I'm interested in show jumping. I think I did a pretty good job of researching it. Be sure to check out the rest of my blog and leave feedback!

Foodanator 3000

W.A.L.T-  Create an invention then create a poster persuading people to buy it.

I had a lot of fun creating and thinking of a cool idea that I hope will be invented in the future! I think I did a good job with the poster and creating an invention! I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave a comment and check out the rest of my blog!

The Quagga

W.A.L.T- Write a report on an extinct animal.

This week for literacy we learnt about endangered and extinct animals, I wrote about the Quagga. I think I did a good job of researching and writing about it and I hope to do something similar again.

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Sources --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga

Quagga

The Quagga was a plains zebra that lived in South Africa until it became extinct in the late 19th century. It was led to believe that it was a distinct species, but early genetic studies showed that it was a subspecies of the plains zebra. It became extinct due to ‘ruthless’ hunting/poaching, some people even called it a ‘planned extermination’ 

       The Quagga was mainly found living at south of the Orange River in grasslands and shrublands where they would thrive eating short grass, leaves, bark, roots and stem, therefore being grazers. 

       It was confirmed that quaggas were more like zebras than horses, with the quagga and mountain zebra sharing an ancestor 3-4 million years ago. Quaggas were 257cm long and 125-135cm tall at the shoulder. Its coat pattern was unique from other equids. It was more like a zebra in the front and like a horse in the rear. The Quaggas had brown and white stripes on the head and neck and a white belly, tail and legs. Stripes were boldest from the head and neck then gradually became fainter further down the body blending into a reddish brown. It also had a broad dark brown dorsal stripe on its back and a standing mane and tail with brown and white stripes. 

      Little is known about Quaggas behaviour, but it may have gathered into herds of 30-50. Quaggas have said to have lived widely and freely, yet considered to be more docile than Burchell's Zebra.

Music Madness

For this week theme we had to do work around music! I really enjoyed this week, especially creating the music using Chrome Music Lab. I think I did a pretty good job at the these two activities! I hope you enjoy and feel free to comment! Be sure to check out the rest of my blog!

Here is my favorite song I did, called Funky Chicken!

Funky Chicken

Here is the other thing we did!

Myths and Legends Settting

W.A.L.T- Describe a scene using a picture.

I had fun doing this activity and I think I did a pretty good job of it and hope to do something like this again. Please be sure to check out the rest of my blog and feel free to comment!

Enjoy!

Picture I chose

Large trees towering over the ground, looking up you see dust particles and falling leaves and the dim sunlight of midday peeking through the trees. Birds hop from branch to branch happily and bugs flying around. Gnarled tree roots stick out of the ground revealing their rotting corpses. Mist hangs around the forest making it feel airy. The occasional sound of wind blows around the undergrowth revealing twigs and stones that hang around as a piece of the forest. Birds and insects create a peaceful atmosphere and the water softly crashing against the river bank. Branches break off the trees making a snapping echo throughout the forest. The smell of damp grass and condensation fills your nose as rain drips off the leaves. The harsh smell of dirt and mud threatening to choke you lingers around like a bad smell. 

Fabulous Food Recount

W.A.L.T-  Write a recount about your favorite meal.

Our  theme this week is about food and for our activity on Wednesday we had to write about our favorite meals we have had in the past. I really liked doing this and I thought I did a pretty good job at this. I hope you like it and please leave a comment for feedback and be sure to check out the rest of my blog.

Tomato Gnocchi

Mmmmm, tomato gnocchi, my favourite of all favourite foods. Sometime ago my mum made the best gnocchi dish ever, my sister and I got to help even. Firstly, my mum boiled the potatoes until soft then she added the rest of the ingredients and mixed it thoroughly. 

  Secondly after mixing it into a dough she then sprinkled flour on the bench and rolled a piece out to look like a snake and cut it into little pieces while showing my sister and I. After a long time of cutting little pieces off the dough she then let them sit while she made the sauce to go with it.

   Finally the gnocchi was ready, I smelt the gnocchi from down the hallway and man it smelt soooooo gooooood. I rushed down the hallway before my mum could say “dinners ready’’ I then immediately served myself with the biggest serving of gnocchi. I quickly took a bite of the deliciousness I was about to eat. The taste filled my mouth with amazingness, the sweet flavored, acidic, sour flavored, or balanced tomato the creamy gnocchi, the salty olives and the flavour of the spices mixed through the dish. 

   The best food ever.

Our Timetable Change

In our Kotuku team, our teachers have decided to change our timetable to make things less stressful and to make learning more fun for us. Along with our timetable we will be learning about themes, so next weeks theme is going to be Ocean/Sea. We will be learning about that in our different subjects by doing, science project and reading/writing about it. Most people were pleased to see our timetable change, as was I, I can't wait to get into our new system of learning at school!

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Our themes for the rest of the year

T3 W9- Ocean/Sea

T3 W10- 80's (as well as a dress up day)

T4 W1- Hero's vs Villans

T4 W3- Food (maybe a shared lunch)

T4 W4- Myths and Legends

T4 W5- Music

T4 W6- Extinct Animals

T4 W7- Cartoon/Anime/Animation

T4 W8- Ecosystems

T4 W9- Marvel

This is our new timetable

Circumference and Diameter

W.A.L.T-  investigate the pattern between a circular object's circumference and its diameter.
For the past week, room 9A math have been learning about Pi, Circumference and Diameter. We had to get a piece of string and measure a circular object and then get a metre ruler and measure it, the circumference is the area/outside of the circle and the diameter is the width, we then had to divide the measurements together. However the answers all had to be the same, therefor that's how Pi comes into the equation, the first couple numbers of Pi are 3.14159 and every circle no matter how big has to start with those numbers, well at least numbers close to Pi.
I really enjoyed doing this activity and I hope to do something like this again, though I found it hard to get the exact measurements of the circles and messed up with some of the measurements.

I hope you enjoy and be sure to check out the rest of my blog and leave feedback! 

Fibonacci Sequence

W.A.L.T-  Recognize Fibonacci numbers in nature.

Fibonacci numbers are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 ect. You get those numbers by starting with 0 & 1 add those two together and you get 1, 1+1= 2, 2+1= 2, 3+2= 5 and so on that's how the pattern works. This will create patterns in fruits, veges and plants. When growing off the branch, Fibonacci can be viewed in their stems and veins. The more they grow out the higher the sequence is. Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician an was considered to be 'the most talented Western mathematician in the middle ages' the name Fibonacci was made up in 1838 and short for filius Fibonacci.

Reflection: I found it hard to find the pattern in the numbers at first but I soon got it in the end. I also really enjoyed doing this.

Sources: Fibonacci & Fibonacci numbers

In this image it has 8

Buddy Writing!

On Tuesday for writing we went to our buddy class and shared our writing! And if we were finished we could write a story with our buddy. Me and my buddy wrote a story about going on a boat to Antarctica and being the only kid on the boat! I really enjoyed doing this activity and I hope to do it again! Be sure to leave feedback and check out the rest of my blog!

Sources- https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/?tgif=d

Here is my writing!

MY BIG TRIP TO ANTARCTICA

On Tuesday, I went on a big ship that was called The Humongous Ship that took me to Antarctica! The ship was 20 stories high and it had a whole deck that had two bunnies in it, and it had a big lollipop forest in it! It also had a pool table that was 200m long. It took us 4 weeks to get to Antarctica,. I felt excited and shy on the boat, I was the only kid on board. I saw lots of penguins and seals even big icebergs! As soon as I got off the boat I ran into the snow and made a heated igloo, I also made 20 snowmen because I was bored. I felt hot because I so many layers of jerseys and jackets. It was really windy!

My Mosaic Art

W.A.L.T- We are learning to do make a mosaic digital art for our calendar art.

I really enjoyed making doing this and I'm currently doing another one because I really like it. I chose to do one of my favorite animals a Giraffe. We did it on google drawings, got a picture off the internet then used poly line to make little shapes to trace over the picture and then delete the picture afterwards. I hope you like it and feel free to comment or check out the rest of my blog.

School Cluster Logo

W.A.L.T- create a logo to represent our school cluster using google drawing or a logo design site.

I really enjoyed making this logo and use my creative juices. I found it hard though to come up with the colors of the background because each color has a meaning, but that's in my explanation on why I did the logo. I hope you like it!

I did this because I feel it represents us moving or following the path of learning together because our cluster means 'the path to discover'. The koru is us growing up and following the journey of learning and knowledge. The stars represent Matariki, a new year and a fresh start for the way we learn now. The colours in the background, blue and purple, mean: confidence and knowledge.

(I drew the koru myself - I wanted it to fade in along with the background but I couldn't make it do this)

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-Cybella

Teacher Recipe

W.A.L.T- We are learning to write instructions.

Last week we had to write a teacher recipe explaining how to make a teacher or an ideal teacher you'd want as yours. We had to include, instructions, title (what your making/goal) and the method. I really enjoyed using my imagination on this and I hope to do something like this again. 

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Enjoy!

(Made by Google Docs)

My Ideal Teacher

Ingredients/equipment:

• A sprinkle of powdered  kindness 
• A cup of understanding and trust 
• A bulb of the knowledge plant 
• 2 cups of human blood
• 5 strands of human hair (Any colour)
• All human organs (dead or alive)
• Cauldron (Any size)
• Human shaped mold
• Dirt from the school grounds (as much as you want, the more dirt the more loyal the teacher is to that school)

Method:

1. Fill the pot with the blood and organs and boil it until it’s boiling and thick.
2. Put the strands of hair in the pot while stirring for 5 minutes.  (It should start glowing)
3. After stirring the pot let it sit while you crush the bulb of the knowledge plant. After crushing it put it into the pot. (The mixture will turn green)
4. Mix until it starts to feel like clay then make a well in the center (A hole in the center of the mixture) and put in the powdered kindness and a cup of understanding and trust.
5. After doing that it will turn to liquid and then turn to stone, so quickly poor it into the human shaped mold and leave overnight.
6. When its been at least 24 hrs burry the mold/mixture into the ground. (Note it has to be at least 4m or it wont work) 
7. Leave it in the ground for 3 days and on the third day your teacher will appear.  Quickly sprinkle the dirt from the school grounds over the teacher so it knows it belongs to that school.

My Logo

W.A.L.T- We are learning to create logos that represent ourselves.

For reading lesson we were asked to create a logo about ourselves using google drawing or any other logo making websites. Before making the logo we had to learn about them and what makes a logo. We learn't about how different colors, fonts and shapes help our logo reflect our self. I really enjoyed making this logo and hope to do it again! 

I hope you like it! Feel free to comment on the rest of my blog to leave feedback.

The colours:

-Red represents for me: Anger and food

-Orange represents for me: Art

The logo:

-Horse represents my love in horses and equine sport

-The pencil represents my love for drawing

Please note I drew this myself!

Welcome to NZ Poster

Today we made a poster trying to persuade people to come to NZ! I really enjoyed doing this and making the poster. I hope you liked it! Make sure to comment and check out the rest of my blog!! 

Risky Way Home...

W.A.L.T- Describe a moment in time with the inspiration of a picture.

I hope you enjoy my writing. I found writing about this was cool, I really like using my imagination and picturing myself in this moment. Feel free to comment my blog! 

Here is the picture I wrote about!

Journey to Home

My sweaty fists clenched the rope trying to keep my balance. I could feel my legs shaking under me like I was about to slip into the cold murky water, who knew what was in it?! Watching my feet move across the rotting planks, I heard a plank plunge into the water instantly seizing my attention. All I could hear was the water thrashing against the bank and could only smell the smelly sweat that fell from my forehead invading my nostrils threatening to choke me. I felt sorry for the people behind me as they waited for me to take my time walking across the bridge. I wondered if this was going to be the end of me and my class.

Optical Illusions

This is a slide that was done with google slides show on optical illusions. This was one of the early finishers work that we could do for inquiry and I thought it would be cool to search up some optical illusions to share. I really enjoyed trying to find the illusions, some of them were a bit weird and some really cool! Next time I might put more about the illusions and how they work and how they trick your brain/eyes. I hope you enjoy my slide show! And feel free to comment to leave some feedback.

Link to where I found some of the illusions---> https://www.optics4kids.org/illusions

The Bezerk Bull

W.A.L.T- Today we are learning to write narratives.

I really enjoyed using my imagination for this story, I also really like the story starter as well. But I found it hard to figure out how to end the rest of the story. I hope you enjoy! And feel free to give me some feedback! And check out the rest of my blog! 

The story starter picture.

The Bull Chase

It was the day for the bull run, the town square was full of life. I could smell the fresh tacos being made, this place and time was the best time to sell food. I lined up for the run, sweat was dripping from my head like a tap that hadn’t been turned off properly. All the people around me looked nervous and sweaty too. All the people that were doing the run wore white T-shirts to signify that they were doing the run. It was a tradition for all the men that came of age. I wore baggy shorts and a baggy T-shirt that stuck to the sweaty parts of my body. I could hear the bulls getting ready, their hooves were stomping furiously like a thunderstorm. Everyone was holding their breath until… the horn blew.

  We all bolted the thundering hooves shook the earth. My entire focus was to get to the end without being stabbed with the bulls monstrous horns. People from the side lines were cheering and saying the often “Awe” when someone got hit. I turned my head around to see the bulls, which I knew was a bad idea because it slowed me down. I seized a bulls attention, its eyes stared me down like a lioness in the savanna hunting a zebra, and this time I was the zebra. The bull chased me off course, startling everyone around me. I could hears its hooves behind me and it's bell around its neck jingling around. It chased me to the small harbor where most tourist would go, but instead today they were at the bull chase. I thought going into the water was a good idea so I did. I jumped into the salty water, the water only going up to my ankles. I could hear the bull splashing in behind me, the water splashed up soaking every inch on my body making my t-shirt see through. I kept running unaware of the drop off that laid ahead. I fell my head and body getting dunked into the cold water. I tried Trying to gasp for air as I bobbed up and down. I could feel the bulls breath behind me, I winced at every movement of the bull. I shivered in the cold water thinking this was the end. I could feel my shirt being lifted as well as me. Was it my saviors? I thought in confusion. I rotated my head around to be greeted with the foul smell of bull breath…  

Guess What? Sheep Can Recognize Human Faces!

W.A.L.T- Use key words to summaries articles and turn it into a Screencastify.

I loved making a news report using Screencastify! I loved being creative with my work! But it was hard to not make it so long and boring. Feel free to comment and give feedback!

Rocky Riddles

W.A.L.T- do animations on a google slide!

I loved this activity last year and I did it again this year, its really fun to create my imagination! This is more of a riddle, it took me a while to get, but its simple when you think about it. Try your best! And feel free to check out the rest of my blog, and I would really appreciate some feedback as well! 

Explain It!

W.A.L.T- We are learning to write explanations.

Last week we started learning about how to write explanations. We had the choice of writing about: scissors, wheelbarrows, pencil sharper, bike, bow and arrow, stapler, can opener, clothes peg, and Lego bricks. I chose scissors. I really enjoyed writing this explanation! But it was a bit difficult to choose what object to explain. I think next time i'll improve my google drawing and add more info. Here's my writing! Make sure to check out the rest of my blog and feel free to give me some feedback!
Link to class site on what I'm learning!

How do Scissors Work?

My scissors diagram.

What are Scissors?

Scissors are a common school supply that cuts through paper, fabric, string and cardboard. They have two handles and a blade. The handles make it easier to hold and the blade cuts. They are very handy in cutting pieces of paper to save you having to rip it. There are different parts in scissors: blade, handle, pivot point, finger rest, stopper, finger ring, inner blade and point tip.

How to use Scissors

Using Scissors is simple, you hold the two handles with the middle finger and the thumb. The middle finger goes on the the bottom finger hold and the thumb goes in the top one. Then when you want to cut, move your thumb in an up and down motion. Then simply cut the paper with the top and bottom blade on the paper.

How Scissors Work

A pair of scissors consist of a pair metal blades. They are made to be sharp like a knife. The blades are set up so that when you squeeze the handles, the sharp edges meet each other and cross each other very closely cutting through any thin material such as, paper, fabric, string and cardboard.