Super Superhero

 Hey Bloggers,

This week we have had swimming in the afternoons, so we had some easy AKO work to do when we got back. One of the tasks was to create your own superhero, you had to include their origin story and how they use their powers for good.  

What would your Superheros name be? What would their powers be?

Till Next Time!

Packaging Present

Hey Bloggers, 

This week in maths we have been looking at nets, and on Tuesday we got given chocolate to make packaging for, we had to make a net first then put it together. My first mistake was that I didn't put any flaps on my net so I couldn't make the shape I wanted, however, I adapted and changed it into another shape.

Here is what my net looks like, as you will notice I have no flaps. Do you like my final outcome? Do you thing I could change anything?

 

Till next time Bloggers!

Wacky Weaving

 Hey Bloggers,

This Friday we did some weaving, we used bright colours to make the pattern pop.

What colours would you have chosen?

Till next time!

Terrific Hangi's and The Wonders Of Our Culture

 Hey Bloggers,

This term our topic for inquiry is cultures of different countries and we have been studying the culture of our own country, this includes making pavlova, however that is later on, right now we are focusing on Food, Haka, Korowai and Tā moko.

First is The Wonders Of Our Culture

We had three topics, Haka, Korowai and Tā Moko and we had to complete a slide about all of them I work with Sophie. Here are The Wonders Of Our Culture - 

 

Now I present to you Terrific Hangi!

Also, I am sorry you can't read the words, hope that the pictures are enough.

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Term 4, Finally!

 Hey Bloggers,

Welcome back to school! It is Term 4 and the last term for this year, Yay! We have a lot of stuff on this tern including tests, athletics, our final assembly and much more.

Over the holidays I went to Hanmer Springs with my best friend Sophie. What did you do over the holidays?

This week we have been practising athletics so we are ready for our athletics day next Friday, I can not wait! My favourite events are,

Long Jump - 

High Jump -  

Relays -  

What is your favourite event?

Till Next Time Bloggers

Sign Language

Hey Bloggers,

This week was Sign Language week and we all learnt how to sign our names. We then went onto a website called Sign Ninja to learn some more things in Sign. Finally, we took a video of us signing our names here is my one, Enjoy!

Do you know how to sign your name?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Wacky Science Website

Hey Bloggers, 

This term our literacy group has been doing science experiments and for the past 3 weeks, we have been paired off and creating our own experiments. I was working with Olivia and we did an experiment based around fossils. 

This website includes the questions we asked, our hypothesis and finally our results.

I hope you liked our website and that it was informative to you, What would you do for a science experiment? Also please give any feedback about it.

Till next time bloggers

Fantastic Fossils

 Hey Bloggers,

This week Olivia and I have been working on a science experiment involving making imprints in soil and sand. We are going to be observing these over a week to see how vivid they are over the period of time. We have created a slide with most of the information about it. We are also working on making a site that will be our final presentation. 

 

Do you know much about fossils? What interests you in science the most? Have you learnt something? Till next time bloggers!

Keep the forests Klean

Hey Bloggers,

For the past two weeks, we have been coding in python using a website called codesters Here is my code and pictures of my game, unfortunately, I can't post the actual thing onto my blog, however, I hope you will like what I can show you through the pictures.

Till next time!

Flight Science Report

 Hey Bloggers,

The past two weeks my literacy group have been working on a Flight science experiment. We used paper planes and we measured how far they went to see what design of paper plane can travel the furthest. 

My science report includes - My original hypothesis, the questions I asked myself, the materials I used and my observations/results.

 

  Till next time Bloggers!

It's not rocket science, or is it?

 Hey Bloggers,

This week we have been launching rockets into space (not really but...) Our rocket is made out of 1.5-litre bottles on the slide below is all of my teams work we have been doing, we do not have pictures of our rocket so far but there might be some eventually.

 

Till next time!

Samoan Virtual Classroom

Talofa bloggers,

Since the start of the year, we have been learning Samoan.  This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from.  If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

• Samoa as a country
• Link to a traditional dance video
• Basic greetings
• The alphabet
• Counting 1-10 in Samoan 
• Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples
• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

 

 I hope you enjoyed looking at my classroom and I would really like to know what you liked the most.

Fa!

 

Samoan Greetings

  Hey Bloggers,

Today we made an animation to show Samoan greetings. At the end is a translation, but I challenge you to try and figure out what they are saying before the end, Can you do it? Did you like the characters in it?

 

Till next time Bloggers! 

:D

Precious Parachute (Kind of)

 Hey Bloggers,

For our Inquiry this term we are looking into rockets and space, eventually, we will be making our own rockets, But what goes up must come down right? Our task was to make a parachute, combined with air our rocket should be safe, but we must test it first.

So for the past two Inquiry sessions, Thursday and Monday, we have been making parachutes. Our task was to have the slowest time, with two hex nuts tied to it at the bottom. I was in a group with Pippa and Sophie, our first parachute used fabric and string, it was too fast so we had to come up with another plan, for our second parachute we used thick paper and string.

Here is the photo of the actual parachute:

Here is the picture of the diagram, the bigger one is the final design and the smaller one was our original idea.

Maths Terms

Hey Bloggers, 

For Maths this week we have been learning what terms are, terms are when you have one number to start and then you have a rule that tells you to count up in a number. Watch my video to help explain it more.   

Can you figure out what term 12, 15 and 20 would be? What if you started with 12 and took away 8, how many blocks would there be?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Welcome Back For Term 3!

Hey Bloggers,

Welcome Back, I hope you have enjoyed your holidays! I had a lot of fun skiing and playing netball, however, I am ready to get back to doing schoolwork again as I have a very busy term coming up!

This term for Literacy we are going to be writing hypothesis, conducting science experiments and then writing about them. For Maths, we are doing Numer & Algebra, Including how to use terms. 

I think I am most excited for our Inquiry this term though because we are going to be learning how to build rockets! We are having a team of Ambassadors teach us about space rockets and things we need to know when building our own ones. 

I also have a big sporting term ahead including Basketball next Monday and Winter Sport next Friday.

How busy is your term? Did enjoy your break? What did you do throughout the holidays? I hope you enjoy your term coming up!

Till Next Time Bloggers!

The Southern Lights

Hey Bloggers,

Today we are making art with the southern lights. The Southern Lights ( also known as Aurora Australis ) is created by the sun and makes solar winds that travel at 750 kilometres per second, they the travel towards the earth and some of the wind breaks through the magnetic pole fields. This makes the oxygen collide with the solar wind to create The Southern Lights! 

Have you ever made art to do with The Southern Lights? 

Till next time!

Matariki Magic

Hey Bloggers,

The past couple of weeks Sophie and I have been working on an animation about how to find Matariki, This video is directed to students year 1 - 6. 

Is there anything I can work on? Did you find the video informative?  

 

Till Next Time

Volume in Maths

Hey Bloggers,

This week we have been learning about volume in shapes. Our task was to make an adobe spark to show how to figure out the problem we made up. Did you figure out the answer before I told you? If you did, great job.

Till next time

Awesome ASCII

Hey Bloggers,

Today we learnt about Binary and ASCII. 

Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers.  You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself!  Try watching this video to give it a go yourself! 

ASCII is a set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard).  I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code!  Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my image below!  

What do you think? Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII? Could you have a try for yourself? Can you work out how to write my initials in ASCII from the pattern above?

Till next time Bloggers

Poor in Poverty

Hey Bloggers,

This past week we have been studying more pictures to do with irony. We then choose one of the pictures the teachers showed us to explain what they mean. I choose one to do with poverty because that is the topic I choose. 

Till next time bloggers!

Inquriy Irony

Hey Bloggers,

Last week we made comics, I made mine with Sophie. We made them about irony and specifically ours about verbal irony, this project will lead onto when we make artwork with irony. Verbal Irony is when you say something you don't mean. I hope you can relate to this comic. 

Till next time Bloggers!

Cool Koru Art

Hey Bloggers, 

Today we made a video to show what we have been doing over the past few weeks, this video was made on adobe spark. Have you ever used adobe spark?

Till next time!

Koru Art

Hey Bloggers,
For the last two Fridays, we have been making koru art, the black part of mine is dyed and the rest is pastels. Have you ever done koru art before? What colours did you use?

Till next time!

Isometric Maths

Hey Bloggers, 

Today we used blocks to make a shape, then we drew it on isometric paper and finally coloured it in. Have you used isometric paper before? What shape did you draw? 

Till next time bloggers!

Mash-up

Hey Bloggers,

This week is our first week back at school, for literacy we have stuck to doing the same work as we were doing in lockdown. for numeracy, we have been using Isometric paper to draw 3D shapes. Here are some of my maths from this week

And here is some of my lockdown literacy work, I did a review on part of the book we are reading called The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

I think that how Douglas Adams wrote this part of the story was as though he was the whale, it made me feel sad for the whale, but also it helped me understand the story better. I think the whale choose some interesting questions but the questions fit the type of story it is. I loved how he named the wind and ground just before he died meaning no one will know what he said.

I don’t think that Douglas left anything out however, he possibly could have added a little bit more about the plants. The portrayal of the whale was as accurate as a whale if it was in that situation, so I think that it was a pretty accurate but who knows because no one has been in that situation before.

Have you ever read this book? If so do you think that my review was accurate? 

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Covid-19 update

Hey Bloggers,
Can you believe that we are finally back at school? I feels great! I was so excited to come back to school and see my friends and teachers. This week we have been making stuff to put in a time capsule that will be opened in 40 years. We all wrote a letter and filled out a form that will go into the time capsule. What have you been doing on your first week back at school? Here is the letter for the time capsule.

21st May 2020

Dear Future generation 

My name is Zara, I am 11 years old,

I like art and I have 0 siblings, 1 dog and my Mum and Dad as my family,

On 25th March 2020, New Zealand went into lockdown because there was a virus that was spreading across the globe. People were dying and we wanted to flatten the curve. Our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern led the country to make it safe for everyone, It is now May the 18th and we have just emerged from lockdown, today is our first day back at school for 8 long weeks.

During lockdown I spent more time with my family than I normally would, I did lots of arts and crafts, whenever I went out in public I would have to stay 2 or more metres away from someone else that is not in my bubble. Your bubble is the family that you live in your house with. The only thing that was open was the supermarket, doctors and pharmacies, I could only go for walks and that was it. For some reason, everyone was hoarding toilet paper, flour, sugar and bottled water. 

But there is one good side to all of this. World pollution and global warming have gone down, waterways have been clearer and some people in Venice have been able to see jellyfish in their waterways, that never happens. What is world pollution like now? I hope that in the future (now for you) that world pollution is as good as it is these days because then climate change will slow down and Venice and other countries will not sink.

What is the world like now? Have there been any other world pandemics? If so what was it like for you? Do you still use planes and cars? I hope that you don’t have to go through anything we did because it was horrible.

Kind regards,

Zara 

What do you think about the global impact has been good? Do you think we should keep it up?

Till next time Bloggers!

Chapter Summary

Hey Bloggers,
Today we did a chapter summary on chapters 7-10 in our book. Our book is a science fiction book called The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, so far I have found the book both confusing and interesting. Have you ever read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy?
Here is my summary -
Till Next Time Bloggers!

My dream birthday cake

Hey bloggers,
On Friday we were challenged to make our own dream cakes. What would your dream cake look like? What flavour would it be? I am interested to know what your cake would be.
Here is my dream cake

Do you like it?
Till next time bloggers!

Verbal Irony (Sarcasm)

Hey Bloggers, 

Today we looked at different types of Irony, there are 3 types of Irony I choose Verbal irony. Verbal Irony is when you say something you don't mean (sarcasm) Have you ever seen or heard Verbal Irony? 

Anyway here is my piece - “What happens if your Mum decides that she wants to keep the twins?”

“She raised 4 kids, 2 were twins I don’t think she will want to raise any other kids.”

“What happens if she leaves the twins all on their own?”

“Oh no, you’re right she is going to leave them to head down to the pub at the edge of the road to have a few. Wait she’ll take the twins with her and give them some as well.”

“Arrrrrrgggg” *runs back to the house*

Till next time bloggers!

The day I couldn't get hold of...

Hey Bloggers,
Today I have been going back into the past to find a day I couldn't quite get a grip on. Have you ever not been able to get a grip on a day? What day was it and what did you do? 
Here is mine - 

I open my eyes to see my mother standing over me, shaking the bed, I walk straight past her and walk to the bathroom. I stare at the mirror for a while hoping that I get some memories to find out what day it is, Nothing. My mother walks in and starts fussing over my hair, well that’s normal. 

I have left my strange family at home as I set out to school, I enter the gates, looking for something out of the ordinary. My friends run towards me, grab my arms and drag me off to the school building. The classroom seems normal apart from the fact the teachers are dressed more formally maybe I missed dress-up day? No not possible with my mum around.

The day passes by and seems to be ordinary, until just before lunch time. The teachers call for us to line up in our homegroups, we walk in silence to the hall. There are big lights, cameras and all of the chairs are lined up on the stage, it all comes rushing back to me now today is... SCHOOL PHOTOS DAY!  

Till next time Bloggers!

Last day on earth

Hey Bloggers,
Can you imagine that the world is about to end and you are the only one that knows about it, what do you do? Well here is what I would do.

I would wake up and go to the Maccas for breakfast, I wouldn’t tell anyone the world was gonna end because I just want everyone to act normal not go stir crazy because the world is gonna end. I would get an egg McMuffin with 2 hash browns and exactly 32 fries from Maccas!
Next, I would round up all of my family members (not my cousins) and friends and have a huge party with popcorn, lollies and other snacks. We would watch stuff on Netflix and put all of the disco lights on and watch all the adults do cringe dance moves!
Finally, I would visit all the restaurants in Christchurch and eat something from all of them. I would especially be looking forward to all the Indian restaurants and dumplings, I would probably be full after that so I will go to sleep for two reasons 1, help me not feel sick 2, so I don’t have to be awake when the world ends.
That is my last day on earth

Till next time bloggers!

Mad Scientist

Hey Bloggers,

Today we made character descriptions based on a mad scientist we have read about in a science fiction book. Do you like science fiction? Anyway here is my description - 

Brain (what do they think)- She wants to create a country where everything is free. 

Eyes( what she sees in the world) - She sees the world as grey and wants more colour.

Mouth (Quote from the scientist) - “If it’s not for your family then who is it for?”

Hand (Her treasure) - Her family 

Heel (Her weakness) - Losing her family 

Heart (What does she want to accomplish)- To help cheer up the world 

Back (Her background) - She was an orphan as her parents died when she was a newborn (this is why she doesn’t want to lose her family)then she got adopted when she was 5 and stayed there until she could move out to college.

Name - Nicola Charles  

And here is a picture to go with it - 

New and Improved Scratch Project!

Hey Bloggers,
Sorry about the last project, fortunately, I have made a new one that is hopefully better. Sorry you can't compare them.
Till next time!

Scratch Video

Hey Bloggers,
Today I have made a scratch video that reflects the story we read for literacy today (The book was online) which was about a talking cat, our task was to create something similar and add a moral. My moral was Fear was made to be conquered. All you need to do is click the green flag and watch the story. Have you ever made a scratch before?
Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted this project. But check out my new version of it
Till next time!

The Tortoise and the Hare

Hey Bloggers,
Today I have made a poster about The Tortoise and the Hare moral. A moral is like a lesson the story teaches you. I choose The Tortoise and the Hare because it is a classic story with a fun moral.
What is your favourite story?

Till next time!

Class Schedule

Hey Bloggers,
Finally, I am doing schoolwork! (Even if it is online!) Today I have been creating an online class schedule. What have you been doing for online school?

Till next time!

Covid-19 Update - Day 5

Hey Bloggers,
This past week has been crazy, and today is the 5th official day of lockdown. I have been playing board games, reading, doing some form of school work and at night I have been watching Netflix movies. Do you have Netflix? If you do what movie/movies do you recommend? As it is school holidays right now I thought I could post weekly updates about Covid-19 and what I have been doing. Till next time!

Sestina

Hey Bloggers,
We are sending our sestinas to Fairfield Intermediate in Hamilton. A sestina is a poem that has six words in a line and six lines, you could also have a flowing sestina by having words from the line before. Have you ever seen of written a sestina before? Well, you have now because here is mine!

I saw a man in the 

Shadows, I remember his red eyes 

My dog starts going crazy at 

A mountain of gold, it's the 

Missing gold I have been searching 

For, my journey is now over.

Waste of Food Essay

Hey Bloggers,
I have finally finished my essay and edited it, my essay is about Food waste. Have you ever written an essay? What was it about? Till Next Time!

Poem Parody Of Book Of The Road

Out on SH1 for Blenheim,
left at Dunedin on SH1, to Hanmer Springs,
Hamner Springs through Methven on SH7,
turn left at Hastings and follow SH1 to Palmerston North (not numbered)
Have lunch there?
Turn right beyond Timaru near Twizel to meet SH1
right again to SH2 there left Samariz, allow time to see The Palms, Bottle lake forest and Flax where eggs bennie (so Zara says) and esp.
Travis wetlands (if open) (Have tea at Samariz - get the butter chicken, carry on Inland Scenic Route to Marshland School.
Note #1 Purple Toroa #2 11 Te Korari Street 
By Kendrick Smithyman and Zara

Still Confused Bloggers? Well, this is the directions to Marshland School from Fairfield School as a poem called The Book Of The Road by Kendrick Smithyman. As you might be able to tell these directions are jumbled up so don't try and follow them, you might never get here! Have you ever made a Poem Parody? If so what poem did you recreate?

Till Next Time!

Samoan Numbers 1-10 game

Hey Bloggers,
Today we have made a scratch game about Samoan numbers 1-10. Give this game a go it is fun. Tell me what numbers you learnt. Have you used scratch before?

Till next time!

Binary Code

Hey Bloggers,
We have been learning binary. This is a binary code can you figure it out? Do you know binary?

This is my code:

0111111110

0110110110

0111111110

0101111010

0100000010

0111111110

0000000000

0000000000

0000000000

0000000000

0000000000

0000000000

0000000000

Samoan Numbers 1-10

Hey Bloggers,
We have been learning some Samoan. This language is very similar to Maori, so you might recognise some numbers. Do you know any Samoan?
 
Samoan Numbers 1-10 on Biteable. Till next time!

My Identity

Hey bloggers,
As part of our inquiry this term, we have made a slide to explain our family background. What country/countries are you from?  Till next time!

Kidsline Poster

Hey Bloggers,
In inquiry, we have been searching for organisations in our community and then making a poster about one of them. Would you ever use Kidsline? Do you like my poster?

Till next time

This is just to say-Poem

Hey bloggers,
Today we made a parody of the poem, This is just to say. By William Carlos Williams
I choose someone had stolen a ship. All the words in blue are the words I change. I also changed 3 other words can you tell which ones? Do you like my version? Is there anything I could change?
Till next time

Maths Digital Workbook

Hey bloggers,
This is going to be my digital workbook so throughout the year so you can keep up with my work. At the start, you will find statistical investigations. 
Till next time

What a waste

Hey bloggers,
This slide is on how much food we are wasting and ways we can reduce the waste of food. Will you use any of these methods to reduce food waste? If so which ones?
Till next time

10 ways to have a better conversation

Hey bloggers,

This is an animation Pippa and I made is on our inquiry topic Making connections. Note: this animation has 700 slides so it takes forever to load! 

Are you super talkative or are you shy? If you managed to load the animation, would you use any of the tips we gave you?

Till next time

My Awesome Portrait

Hey Bloggers, 

Welcome to my second blog post. 

As it is the start of the year, teachers challenge us to do lots of artwork, which means we have a lot to complete. This piece of artwork is my portrait. Our portraits were inspired by the artist Romero Britto, whose art is full of colour. We made our portraits represent us. 

I am not a good artist, but I tried. Here is My Awesome Portrait 

As you can see I have a dog, his name is Cooper. Also, I am an only child. 

Can you find anything you Bloggers enjoy as well? Can you tell what 2 other things I like?

Till next time.

Waste of Money

Hey Bloggers, Zara here
Welcome back to my blog for this year. I really enjoyed my holidays. Did you?
This term our writing focus is Waste. This is my writing on Waste of Money

Do you ever wonder what you are spending your money on and if it is really worth it? This text is about Waste. But more importantly Waste Of Money.

Do you ever buy branded clothing because it is "Trending" Well what happens when suddenly the trend changes, what do you do? You would most likely go out and buy the new "Trending" outfit. So what happens to the new outfit you just bought? More Importantly the money.

The money you just spent was for no reason. So how can you stop wasting money? Well, you could, Sleep on it (think about what you want to spend money on overnight), This can help by letting the cost of things sink in and might help you change your mind.

Stop spending so much on food, plan what you are going to need for a week and how much you will need to spend. Another option is that you put a limit on how much money is on your credit card, that should make you spend more wisely.

In conclusion, I believe that money should be spent wisely and not be wasted on things "just because".

Sources
25 Unnecessary Wastes of money
How to stop spending money

Remember to follow my blog so you get informed when I post something.
Till next time, Zara