Stop burning fossil fuels!

For reading we read an article about how climate change is our biggest challenge, the greenhouse effect and how it impacts our planet and how we can try to lessen the effect climate change has on our planet. For the create task, we had to make a poster about one of the main messages of the article, it needed to be concise and had to be a 20 word max. Here is my create!

My 'Be' Word Brick!

For reading we have been learning about community, and what brings our community together, and how it's important to be a part of a community, I think it's important to be a part of a community because it surrounds you with people who can relate to you and people you can lean on when you need help or something, it can also sometimes improve your social and mental wellbeing! 

We also had to read a text that was based on the Beatitudes from the Bible. I had a choice to make either my own 'be' poem, a words brick, or to plan an event for your community (hypothetically of course). I chose to do a word brick. Here is my reading create!

Question: Are you a part of a community? 

My time at Camp! [repost]

For writing we had to make a reflection about how we showed the 6 c's during the camp experience. The 6 c's are: collaboration, creativity, communication, critical thinking, character, and global citizenship! Camp was really fun and I would do it again if I could. Here is my work!

Rate and ratio pt.2!

For math, I got to do rates and ratio again! We had 4 questions I had to choose to work on, and explain how to work them out, 1 ratio question and 1 rate question. Here is my create!

The Pyramids of Giza!

 For this week's math task we have learned about 2D and 3D shapes. For the create we had to make a 3D model of a real life building, and its 2D representation, like the Tower of London or your house! We had to use this website "Online isometric drawing tool". Here is my create!

How to tie a tie

For writing we had to make instructions on anything we wanted. The instructions needed to have no more than 150 words and 8 steps. I decided to make instructions on how to tie a tie, specifically a "full windsor" knot. Here is my create!

Reading Instructions

This week's reading task was to read and follow instructions. We had to choose 1 out of 5 different sets of instructions, read them and see what we ended up with. I was a bit confused on some of the steps, but I followed them the best I could, and then I ended up with a penguin! I think my penguin looks pretty good! Here is what I have done.

    

Statistical Investigation

 For math my workshop did a statistical investigation. We had to gather some data and make some sort of chart on google sheets, and had to make an infographic about it. We needed to have a title, a screenshot of the data, our chart, and 2 statements on how we understand and analysed our data. Here is my infographic and my chart and data.

My Haiku!

 For writing we have learning about poetry. We had 4 types of poems to choose from, a haiku, rhymed poetry, riddle poem, and a shape poem. I chose to do a haiku. My genre for my haiku was football/soccer. Here is my haiku.

What's your favorite type of poem?

Top 10 Hobbies for Happiness!

 For reading we have been about hobbies and how it affects your happiness. We had multiple choices to pick from to do our create on, I did a top 10 poster for "hobbies for happiness". Here is my create.

Do you have any hobbies?

rate and ratio

 For math we learnt about rates and ratios, there was 4 questions I had to choose to work on. The question I worked on was: Mrs Newbould’s car uses 11 litres of petrol for every 120km. How much petrol is needed to travel the 360 km to her friend's house in Dunedin? Here is what I have done for my create task:

speech

For writing the teacher paired us up and we had to write comments/feedback on each others speech. Here is the feedback that I have gotten on my speech.

The lighter red highlight is what I added to my conclusion:

"There is no clear answer to this question because the way one would answer this question depends on what kind of person they are. For example, some people might find peace and happiness if they had enough discretionary income to do whatever they want. On the other hand, others might believe that there are more important things in life such as living in a safe location and having good relationships with friends and family members, but at the end of the day, the amount of money you have won’t matter. “Money is not everything in life. "Some believe no relationship is possible without money but no amount of money can buy love or happiness” Quote by Chitra Withane. Does money buy you happiness?"

Money Can't Buy Happiness

Natalie T -  Persuasive Text; For

Money Can’t Buy Happiness 

Introduction:

Money can't buy happiness, but it can improve the things that make us happy.

It is a common saying that money can't buy happiness. What does this really mean? It means that you don't need to be rich in order to have a good life and experience joy. 

Paragraph 1:

As my first statement, if anything, having more money just brings more responsibility and stress instead of happiness. The expression also means that you don’t need luxurious items in order to feel happy: simple things like nature, family time and hobbies are likely to make you happy without any extra effort or expense on your part.

Paragraph 2:

Secondly, money isn’t always the key to happiness. I have done research and found many studies that have been done to see if there is a correlation between wealth and happiness. One study of 26 countries found that people who live in wealthier countries tend to be happier than those who live in poorer countries. The study also found similar results when looking at people within each country, regardless of how wealthy the country was overall.

Paragraph 3:

To sum up what has been said so far, money can't buy happiness, but obviously it can make life easier. With money, we are able to get things like food and water. But in the end, these things are not going to be what we will remember when we think back on our lives, it’ll be the happy moments in life, like the ones we achieve without money, like the moments with family or friends.

Conclusion:

There is no clear answer to this question because the way one would answer this question depends on what kind of person they are. For example, some people might find peace and happiness if they had enough discretionary income to do whatever they want. On the other hand, others might believe that there are more important things in life such as living in a safe location and having good relationships with friends and family members, but at the end of the day, the amount of money you have won’t matter. “Money can’t buy happiness” Quote by Howard Hughes.

My Inner Peace!

For the past two weeks in reading we have been learning about inner peace and what it means/looks to us, there are four types of inner peace: spiritual, social, physical, and mental. We had to make a digital or physical shape full of things that brought us peace, like reading a book or something. 

 

1. What does inner peace look like to you?

Inner peace is something that makes you calm and mellow, like zoning out and listening to music.

2. Describe what you have written/drawn.

I drew the beach, because whenever me and my family go there, it brings me peace,  and I also drew a tv and a book, I have also drawn 'me' listening to music and I have wrote down "Family".

3. Consider the 4 walls, which one are you most at peace with and which one do you need to work on?

I think I am most at peace with my spiritual health and I need to work on my physical health.  

Emotional Literacy

We learnt about emotional literacy; emotional literacy is the ability to express our feelings and read other people's feelings, using speech or any other form of communication. 

For the task we made a grid, and were given an envelope of different feelings, like, happy or angry. We had to sort them out if you had low or high energy while feeling them and if they were a please or unpleasant feeling

Through the Islands!

L4 Goal: Communicate and interpret locations and directions, using compass directions, distances, and grid references.

Guess Which Fast Food Company Made a Gaming Console?

L4 Goal: Select from a wide range of genre when reading independently

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For reading we had to structure a blog post about the different articles we found on Kiwi Kids News. They all had to be in different genres, these are the article's I chose.

   1.  KFC Console - Interest Article

When I first saw this article I thought it was fake, and I thought it was desperate to try to get more money; But kudos to KFC for being innovative enough to create the first chicken-based console. The idea is a clever way to combine your love of grilled chicken, their fried chicken, and your favorite games. 

   2.  Darth Vader House - Real Estate

When I first saw this article I thought it was a really nice and pretty cool how you can buy the main antagonist of a very popular and famous movie series house!

   3.  Five people arrested for stealing Lady Gaga’s dogs - Crimes

I think this is actually kind of funny because, I mean, 5 people stealing the dog's of a celebrity. But as I'm reading through the article (and the comments) it's kind of sad.

Learning grid references!

Level 4 - Communicate and interpret locations and directions, using compass directions, distances, and grid references. 

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For math we learnt how to read a map and use coordinations, for the create task we had to create a map with our own coordinations! Here is my work.

Math Knowledge

 

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Reading Term 2 Week 6

Emily survived the chaos of the Guardian Academy, but Max Griffin has stolen the Mother Stone. With it, the Elf King forges new Amulets that will give him the power to invade and destroy the nation of Windsor.

Question: Have you read Amulet?

Reading!!

This week for reading I had to make a venn diagram on two landmarks, one from Christchurch and one from any other landmarks from the rest of world. For the Christchurch landmark I did the Canterbury Museum, the other world landmark I chose The Great Wall of China.

Here is my reading work:

My Kōhaiwhai pattern in math!

 For math I had to make a Kōhaiwhai pattern for math! I also had to use gridded paper to make examples of reflection, rotation, translation, and enlargement.  

Here is my Kōhaiwhai Pattern:

Here is my maths this week:

Poetry Writing!

For writing I had to make a poem based on public places, buildings, and people in Ōtautahi. And we had to mention the Ngāi Tahu tribe at least once in the poem. We had to make a free verse poem. Here is my poem!

 

magical math!

 Goal: complete a statistical investigation by collecting, displaying and discussing data determine appropriate variables and data collection methods. Choose an appropriate data display. Analyse a data sample. Use a database (spreadsheet) to collect and organise data. Evaluate findings and form conclusions.

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I had to use a google sheet of information that my teacher made, it was about the Maori population in 19th century. I made a bar chart of the information that was laid out. I soon made a google slide with my bar chart, full of information and 3 statements about the graph. Here is my work:    

Graph

Table

Math!

Goal: L4 Communicate and interpret locations and directions, using compass directions, distances, and grid references.

This week in maths we learned on how to plot coordinates and directions. We also learned how to use a map! We needed to do find the coordinates from Kaiapoi Pa to Onawe Pa. Here is my work!

Pā Week!

This week everything was based on Māori Pā's. For math we had to make our pā and measure the outsides. For writing we had to describe the pā we made in maths. And for reading we made to make a modern real estate advertisement about Māori Pā's. Here is the slide with all my creates!