Scientific Sci-fi

 Hey Bloggers,

This week was our first full week in lockdown since 2020, hopefully, it will be our last. This week has been awesome as the teachers have set us some really cool tasks, however, my favourite one was when we had to create a story that was out of this world (Literally!) We got to choose between four pictures to base our story off of what we saw. The picture I chose was of a man on the moon, so here is my story

Every step was pain, knowing that the oxygen was going to run out soon, all I could do is hold my breath, literally. I was so close, I could see the base only 60 metres to go. But then, the dreaded noise started, it meant I only had at the most 40 metres of oxygen, I wasn't going to make it back to the base. And because I was panicking my oxygen was running out faster, I only had 35 metres.

20 metres,

10 metres,

5 metres, I was still 20 metres to the base, I never imagined this would be how I die, sure I imagined aliens taking my oxygen away, or getting too close to the sun then blowing up. But I never thought I would just run out of oxygen, no tragic backstory,  just me simply running out of oxygen. At least I was doing the job I loved right? “Well, this is the end for me,” I thought to myself until I heard them calling my name, I looked up and 5 metres away was my colleague with a brand new oxygen tank, they walked over to me and undid my current oxygen tank, which made me panic for a second but once they had given me the new tank I was fine. We walk back to the base and I forget all my worries, I am safe now, or so I think…...

Did you like the story? What are you doing in lockdown?

Stay Safe Bloggers!

Till Next Time!

The Ghost On The Wall

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Today is day 3 of lockdown and one of the tasks I did yesterday was creating a short ghost story and making a poster to promote the story. My story is called the ghost on the wall, it starts off really slow then becomes really dark towards the end. So, read on if you dare.........

From the day we moved into our new house on the hill, I could tell there was something spooky about it. From the way the trees seemed to speak to each other, to how I would wake up sometimes to the sound of screams, but it wasn’t until I meet him that I truly began to understand what was going on.

It was a dark winters day but my sister and I went outside to play, it was another one of “those days” as my mother liked to call them, however, we were sick of sitting inside day after day while the wind howled and the rain fell. We were taking turns pushing each other on the swing when I saw him, sitting on the wall at the edge of the garden,

“Who are you?’ I asked, “And what are you doing here? You do know this is private property, right?” I added. 

“Names are not important,” he said mysteriously

“Well then, could you leave now? You’re scaring my sister” The truth is my sister didn’t even look fazed by this mystery boy, I was more scared myself.

“Ok, I’ll go now” and with that, he leapt off the wall towards us. I was confused but pulled my sister behind me in case he was one of those axe murderers I saw in films I watched. But when he started running towards us, he just disappeared like he was never there. Of course, I was totally freaked out so I grabbed my sister and sprinted back to the house.

That night I heard screaming and I think my sister heard it too, I rolled over to go back to sleep and that’s when I heard it, the tapping on my window. It all happened so quickly, but then my door started creaking open, I knew my mother and sister went back to sleep, so it couldn’t have been them. I grabbed the nearest weapon looking thing which turned out to be a candlestick, the tapping didn’t stop this whole time and when my door opened fully there he was again standing with a rope in his hands. I screamed as loud as I could, but somehow it got so muffled that it was nearly impossible to hear, it was just me and the mystery boy, I threw a book at him, the world seemed to move in slow motion, but as the book looked like it was going to hit him it went straight through him, and that’s when I realised that he wasn’t human at all he was a ………...GHOST!     

Did you enjoy the story? Do you have any feedback?
Stay safe in Lockdown Bloggers!
Till next time!
Zara

Scarlet Witch Website

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I know I haven't posted in a while as I have been busy with production work. And I am so excited because we finally get to perform it next week. But during the time we weren't doing production we were working on our websites for literacy. 

We started off by picking a superhero that interested us, then gathering information about them and putting it all into a website. I chose Wanda Maimoff AKA Scarlet Witch, she was a very interesting character to do, she had a deep dark backstory and was a fascinating character. We got marked on these my mark was a 5A which is the second-highest mark. Feel free to give me any feedback even though I can't use it I will use it next time.

Scarlet Witch Website

Have you ever heard of Scarlet Witch before?

Till Next Time Bloggers!!

S.T.E.A.M.

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This Wednesday we did stuff to do with S.T.E.A.M. which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. Our task was to make anything that was capable to hold an egg and keep it safe when dropped from a 5-meter height. Our materials were:  3 sheets of A4 photocopy paper, A plastic bag, 1m of string, 1 sheet of A5 thin card, Sellotape, Scissors and Paper to sketch design on. 

 

What would you have done for your design?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Precious Pixel Art

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This term we are doing the production of Aladdin, when we aren't working on our scenes, practising lines, songs and dances, we are working on tasks that have been set for us. Each task is to do with Aladdin, the first task I did was create pixel art of my favourite character, I couldn't choose so I just did Princess Jasmine instead. Currently, I am working on making a palace in Minecraft, I can't wait to show you when I am done.

Have you ever used pixel art? What do you think I could have done differently next time?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Night at the Disco

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As today is Wednesday we had Tech, followed by K.O.S (Keeping Ourselves Safe) Today we were shown a small comic, we had to interpret what it was about. The comic I choose was called Night at the Disco, it was about a girl who was having a fun time at the disco with her friend, but then her friend got dragged off by some girls that were mean to her because she had a lazy eye, they kept turning their backs to her. We then had to finish it off in a way we thought would be suitable. I choose to make her friend come back to her and turn her back to the mean girls.

What would you have made the ending? Do you think it was nice how the girls treated the other girl?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Te Tirriti O Waitangi - Maori Point of View

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Today we are working on a Voki that tells a story in the opinion of one of the Maori or British settlers about The Treaty of Waitangi, I chose the Maori Point of view because I think their side of the story could be captured more like a short story. We had to include how we saw any problems that occurred during and after the treaty was being signed. 

Did you think my story captured the concept of being in a Maori person's shoes? What do you think I could improve on? 

Till Next Time Bloggers!

6 Months in a Leaky Boat

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I know that Waitangi day was a while ago now but in class, we have still been working on posters about the Journey the first British settlers took to New Zealand and what they experienced on the way, we also had to include some information about why the Treaty of Waitangi was created.

Did you ever do anything to do with Te Tiriti o Waitangi? Have you ever visited Waitangi?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

K.O.S.

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For the past two weeks, we have been work on Keeping Ourselves Safe At Home posters, the posters must include a scenario when you're at home and some danger arises, then some options that a least one leads to you being safe, finally some consequences that go with the options. I used Canva to make mine, Do you think it's easy to read? Do you have any other feedback for me?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

All About Me

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As it is the start of the term we have to create lots of artwork and information about ourselves. 

Our first task was to create ourselves as LEGO characters, we started by doing our faces and then our hair, followed by our clothes and shoes. The last step was to add colour! I choose the colour scheme of blue and purple. I also coloured my skin yellow so I looked like a true LEGO character!

 Our second task was to create a Canva including facts about ourselves and some photos. My photos of myself were my bitmoji and she has pink hair so excuse that part about her! The video includes fun facts about me, some hobbies, my fav food and drink and my Favorite colour.

Till Next Time!

Pepeha On Spark

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This week we have been working on our pepeha's and presenting them in a creative way. We used adobe spark, we added a few photos, some music and BAM we were done. For some of the images, I had to take them off the internet, like the ones of my parents for example.

Have you ever used adobe spark before? Can you relate to anything in my pepeha?

Till Next Time Bloggers!

Wonderful Wainui Camp!

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Welcome back to another year of hard work! Last week we were at camp and now I get to share my favourite moment with you. I have lots of memories from camp but this was my favourite one, there is some information about it and then a quick animation. 

How were your holidays? What did you do? Are you having any school camp this year?

Till Next Time Bloggers

Super Superhero

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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

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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

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

What colours would you have chosen?

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Terrific Hangi's and The Wonders Of Our Culture

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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!