Indian Christmas traditions

Today I am posting about a DLO I made on how in India they celebrate Christmas. 

I enjoyed creating this project because I was able to learn a little about geomtrey. I also liked learning new things about a different country. 

I found it hard to find out more information about The things they do on Christmas day though.

I hope you enjoy and learn something.

Fun fact: The red background I pt on my project actually symbolises purity, fertility and prosperity.

Fake News; I mean real News

Kia Ora,

Today I am  blog posting about, My media report on fake news.

This term for Cybersmart we have been learning about Media and what it is. For this task we had to create a Fake news report, and then we had to post it to our blog. 

I enjoyed this task and creating it it didn't take me very long but it was fun.

Hope you enjoy.

PS. Here is the link to carry on to Find out what happens next, I had to do this because I could no tlink it on the page. CLICK TO FIND OUT MORE!

CAMP MEDIA?

 Kia ora,

This post is about Media.

We had a school camp a few weeks ago and we came back after three days. 

When we got back to school a couple days later we were set with a task to create a Media like a newspaper or website, about an event that happened at camp.  

I created a website, it was something like the webstie Stuff. I enjoyed this task and made it as crative as I could.

I hope you enjoy it, also here is the link for when you see the dress, because the link won't come up on the red dress.
Dress

Amazing Angles

 Hi Bloggers,

over half of term four we learnt about Angles, I enjoyed it and it wasn't very hard; it was easy to understand and I enjoyed learning about them.

Our task, once we had learnt all about Angles. Was to create a DLO about Angles and to teach others about it.

I enjoyed doing this, but it took me a while to do because I used Canva and somethings were por's so I had to change a lots of things in the end.

Hope you enjoy and learn something.

Brilliant Ballad

Aloha bloggers, 

Today I am posting about a Ballad I wrote about a envent taht happened at camp. 

a few weeks ago we had a school camp and we went to woodend. Whilst we were at camp one night we played spotlight, and I had lots of fun. 

When we were given the task to write a ballad about something that you enjoyed and that happened at camp; I instantly chose spotlight because I had lots of fun and it was really, interesting to write a ballad about it. 

Enjoy.

MEDIA

 Aloha bloggers, 

Today we got back form technology and then we started learning about what things are Medias. 

Our task was to create a simple DLO telling others what medias we have been on in the last 24 hours, I made a google drawing about what I had been on. Enjoy.

The Golden Verse

 

Aloha Bloggers, 

Today I am blog posting about my RE work.

First our teacher read us the bible passage from Luke Chapter 6 verses 27-42. 

Our teacher read us the Golden passage, whichc you will find out about in the video below, but then we had to create a DLO about it and what it means and we had to create an example of what it is.

I enjoyed this task and had fun making it, I hope you learn something and enjoy.

Please leave a comment.

Commitment?

 Aloha Bloggers,

I have created a newspaper about how bishops and pries'st and deacons and vocations, how they are committed to their jobs and how they show it, and how they follow the rules.

My story is quite short but I didn't have to much to write about. I found this quite easy but fun as well. We have been finishing of work so this is the second to last thing I had to complete.

Here is my story. 

Maori book

 Kia Ora bloggers,

The last two weeks of school we have been finishing of work and just getting things completed, last week was Maori language week and we were learning about facts and different things.

We were given our task and set out to create it, our job was to make a DLO ( digital learning object) teaching someone about something in Maori like the months or greetings. I created a book on book creator teaching others the pronunciation of vowels in Maori, Maori colours and the days of the week in Maori.

I enjoyed creating this and I was new to this tool so I had a play around before I started but then I got the hang of it. I would recommend using this tool because its super fun and easy to use. 

Hope you enjoy and please leave a comment if you enjoyed.

Pixton

 Hi bloggers,

Today at school, we had an online learning project.

We had to pick four New DLO sites to use and kids form different schools taught us how to use them. Right now we were given the task to blog post about one of the new sites we were taught about today and I decided to write about pixton.                                                                                                         

Pixton is a really cool tool to use and you can create comics and you get to create your own avatar and you choose your own background as well you get to customize your character and put it into different types of templates. You can also move your characters position and change their moves.

If you would like to try out pixton Search in the bar Pixton sign up. 

I hope you learnt something from the blog post and I would recommend trying this tool out. Please leave a comment if you use this tool and if you enjoyed it or not.

Kowhaiwhai and Koru

 Hello bloggers,

Today I will be sharing a quick blog post about Koru's and Kowhaiwhai.

Koru's are the most common design found in Kowhaiwhai patterns.  Koru is The Maori word for loop and they are shaped like a spiral Koru symbolises, New life, Growth, Strength and peace. Koru's are used in Maori art, carving and tattoos.

Kowhaiwhai's are usually found on roofs of Maori meeting houses, Kowhiawhai represents Maori history, and Family trees of the tribe. Ponga's are also a type of plant and design and they grow all around New Zealand and they are usually found in wet damp places.

I hope you learn't something from the blog post

Pirate shanty

Hello Bloggers,

This term for half the term our school is learning about pirates and for reading one of our tasks was to create a DLO on pirate talk.

I found this task fun and easy.

I did this with a group of friends and after doing a bit of thinking I came up with a pirate shanty we could do.

My group thought it was a good idea so we took a recording of us singing our pirate shanty, im sorry if our singing is really bad.

I hope you enjoy our pirate shanty and please leave a comment of what you think. 

 Pirate Shanty click the link to listen to the song hope you enjoy.

Cipher wheel

Aloha Bloggers,
In topic we have been learning about cipher wheels and in the war men would use it to send codes to the enemies and the enemy would haft to decode the message and fast in case it had important information.
There have been codes that have never been figured out.
So in class we created a cipher wheel and gave it to a buddy and we would give them a number on the start of a letter.
I stuck sticky notes all around the school and then I gave my buddy a note to start with and then she had to find the other notes which would lead her to the treasure. the treasure was a Crunchie bar.
Here is a picture of my cipher wheel.

The onion Wives

Hi Bloggers,

Matariki is coming up very soon and I am very excited.

Our class has been doing a lot of research on Matariki, and we have been learning about the different myths that are believed in different countries.

Our task was to pick a country and look at the myth they believed for the Pleiades ( Matariki).

At first I picked the Egypt Myth, but I couldn't find anything really and it was talking about different stars so I decided to go with India.

I looked at the onion wives story and I was really interested I thought the myth was really cool.

I made a DLO about it and I want to share it with you guys.

I found using my own words to describe the story a little hard but then I got the hang of it.

Here's my story hope you enjoy.

Jesus Mission

Hey Bloggers,

I have done a comic strip for RE, and I would love to share it with you.

For RE we have been learning about the things Jesus did after he was baptised. Our Teacher gave us the task to create a comic strip and we had to include what Jesus life was like before we did this we watched a few videos and we took notes and did some research.

I made a comic strip on canva comic strip.

Here's the link to canva comic strip Canva 

I enjoyed making the comic strip, at first I struggled to start because I didn't know if I would make it animated or what.

I wouldn't say mine is a comic but its sort of supposed to be one.

I hope you like my presentation please leave a comment. 

Local News

Bonjour Bloggers,
I have done some exciting RE work,
We were learning about Jesus's baptism and what happened during this time.
We had to finish our first task and then we moved onto this task which I enjoyed very much.
For this activity we watched a video and did some research about the video.
After that we had to use this News paper generator to create a story, I first created the title and started to write about Jesus's baptism and I included the information I got from the story.
I used my five words, Who, What, When, Where, Why.
I enjoyed this because I got to learn a lot more about Jesus's baptism and I also enjoyed creating the newspaper.
Here is my presentation.

Matariki

Today in class we have been finishing off our Matariki DLO's.
For reading we have been doing a lot of research on Matariki so we could teach others about it.
I used a google drawing to create my DLO.
I enjoyed this task and I found it fun, but I kind of found the tool I was using a bit boring but I will pick something more interesting next time.
Something I found hard was to find lots of information to describe what Matariki is.
Hope you learn something and enjoy.

Mahinga Kai

Gods Wrath and Anger

Hi Bloggers,
I have done an RE task ( religious education), I was put with a buddy and we were given a task too read a bible verse from Ezekiel chapter 20 verse 22, once we finished reading that we had to draw a picture, of what the bible verse is about after we drew the picture we wrote down the bible verse and then we showed our teacher.
The moral of this task was about how God protects us and we are like his children, and all the bible verses that were given to us all, were about how God is like a mother eagle protecting her children or a shepherd protecting his sheep.
How can I show others that I can be the holy spirit
One of the questions our teacher asked us was,
How can I show others that I can be the Holy Spirit.
I can show that by being kind, using my manners, and also being proud to speak of my belief in God. This is How can show that I have the Holy Spirit.
Down below is the bible verse I looked at yesterday and there's the picture I also created.


20 As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you.

My picture 

Oakley Creek

Hey Bloggers,

I am back at school and blog posting again, when I got back to school I was so excited and I couldn't wait to do some reading with the teacher.

The teacher had changed our activities and made some of her own for us to do and she would give us a story to read and we got to pick any activity we wanted.

I decided to draw my character and label her name and who the author was and what the story was called, the story was called Oakley creek and it was about a girl who started hanging out with the

(cool) kids, and one day she lied to her mother and said she had got detention and had to go help at school on a Saturday but she was actually going to Oakley creek with the (cool) kids.

When I drew her picture I found it frustrating because I messed up a lot of the time or I couldn't draw the shape right.

I finished and was happy with the end result I would love some feedback on what you think of my drawing.
The book was bye Kate Paris.

Following In Jesus Footsteps

Aloha bloggers,

Today we are back at school, which is exciting but I miss being at home in my pj's. 

We have been doing RE most of the day today and we were recapping on virtues and what they are. 

We had to make a video on what virtues are and examples of virtues in my video it will explain what virtues are. 

I enjoyed this task and have had fun using bitable to create my video.

I had to add a few things to my video and then it had to rebuild the video three times because I kept making changes and it took a really long time. 

Hope you enjoy my DLO.

Becoming more like Jesus on Biteable.

ICT OUTDOORS

Guten tag bloggers,

Yet again I have done another reading activity for my story ICT OUTDOORS. 

The story is about a teacher named Mrs Thompson, who teaches gym class and there is a girl named Emma who is really good with computers and Mrs Thompson would usually let Emma sit out of gym class but one day she didn't and she was not in a good mood. She sent the class running and called Emma over and they both found out she was some type of humanoid. 

My task was to describe the story from Mrs Thompson's point of view. 

I enjoyed this task because I liked being able to be descriptive and tell it form another characters point of view, something I didn't enjoy was trying to tell the story similar from Mrs Thompson's point of view. 

Hope you enjoy it and please leave a comment.

Creating

7. 

I walked through the gates and was greeted by Emma telling me about the
kittens at the SPCA. 

I wasn’t really in the mood so I rudely brushed her off, I don’t know why but
I just couldn’t be bothered being interested. 

My head was pounding and the voices of the children echoed around my head
like an empty cave. 
The pounding never stopped and my body felt numb and tingly, I didn’t know

what was going on, I couldn’t make a scene not with all the children around. 

I got to Gym class and I was not in a good mood.

And this time I was not letting Emma off the hook, with Gym class. She tried
to persuade me but I just snapped at her and pointed to the back of the line,
I could tell she was not happy. 

She made a smart yet kind of funny remark but I just glared at her. 

I made the class go two laps around the field and called Emma over, I showed
her the palm of my hand and in the middle was a flashing red light saying virus.

“HELP ME” I whispered to her

My body froze and I fell to the ground, wriggling sizzling and making sounds
a computer would make when water has been spilt on it…… to be continued. 

ICT OUTDOORS

Aloha bloggers,

I have done another reading activity for my story ICT Outdoors, it was about a girl named Emma who didn't like sport but she was great with computers, her teacher would usually let Emma sit out of sport but one day the teacher started acting weird and realised she was half computer half human. For this activity we to write answers for the questions we were given here is my work.

Enjoy.

My Magic

Kia Ora bloggers,

It is Technology today, and our teacher gave us a bunch of activities to choose from. One of the activities was a magic trick with paper towels. Down below will be the link to the video of the magic trick.

I enjoyed this activity, because it was lots of fun and I enjoyed experimenting.

I think this is a physical change, because the colour comes out from the bottom of the paper, and the appearance changes but no new substance is created.

Here is the link to video Magic

Here is a short video of me trying the magic trick.

Oobleck!

Today for quarantine school tech. We were learning about states of matter, and we had to do an experiment which was creating oobleck and then we had to do an observation doc and a discovery doc on what the process was like and what we learnt, but I wasn't able to get my docs on my blog post but here are some pictures of my oobleck. 

Here is a video of my process. 

Hope you enjoy and please leave a comment.

The question in my discovery doc was: Why does oobleck act like it does?
and after some research I found out the reason why, its because when you squeeze the oobleck really hard the water evaporates but when you release it the cornstarch reacts and then it melts.
To make oobleck you just need:
1 1/2 cups of corn starch,
and
1 cup of water also you can add food colouring to make the oobleck a nice colour like red or blue. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Virtues

Aloha bloggers,

Whilst in lock down, we have been doing a lot of online school.

We have been doing a lot of RE, and one of the things we were learning about was virtues. Virtues means, doing a good deed for God and doing good things to please God. Showing Grace and peace is also a virtue. 

For our task we had to create a Venn diagram on how Jesus showed virtues and how we show virtues, in the middle we had to write what virtues we show that are similar to the virtues Jesus shows. 

Hope you enjoy, and please leave a comment. 

The wimpy prince

Hello everyone, 

Today during reading I did another activity. The story I was reading was princess Erina and it was about how she waited for the prince for so long but he never came so she went to find him and she learnt how to be independent on her journey, and then she found a prince in a tower and he said he was waiting for her to rescue him and that anyone could be anything nowadays. The task was to create a poem about the wimpy prince. Something I found hard was coming up with feeling words, but I enjoyed describing the character.

Hope you enjoy and please leave a comment. 

Applying
4.

  The 

 Weak, useless, 

 Hiding, sleeping, waiting, 

 Tired, scared, bored, joyful, 

 Prince

Anzac biscuits

Today is the day before Anzac day, and for online school we were given activities to do for ANZAC, one of the activities was to make ANZAC biscuits and post them on your blog and explain how they were created. So ANZAC biscuits were first created in world war one and the first recipe was published in 1921. Later on people started putting coconut in them, and the new recipe came out in 1927. They were made because they were a treat for the soldiers and some soldiers described them as an energiser food and they could last a very long time. Here are some photos of my biscuits. 

Please leave a comment. 

This is before they were cooked. 

                     And below is after they were cooked. 

Here is the link to the recipe.

The Lickety Split Car Cleaner

Hello everyone, I have done another reading activity that I would like to share. So for reading we were reading the same text the un-washable truck. And this time we had to create a car cleaner that doesn't let mud attach itself to any car. I enjoyed this activity because I was able to just throw my ideas into one big creation. Something I found hard was tracing things.

Please leave a comment and enjoy. 

Surprise in a cup

Hi Everyone.

Again I have done another activity for topic, and this activity was called cake in a mug. It was a recipe on how to create a five minute cake. The recipe was simple and then we only had to put the mixture in the microwave for 70-90 seconds. I enjoyed this activity because the cake tasted good and it was fun to make. I think this activity was a physical change because there was no new substance but the mixture started out as slop but then it started to rise. 

If you would like to give this a go then just search up Chelsea chocolate mug cake. 

Here are some photo's of how my cakes turned out. 

 If you wanted to get creative you could

                                                                       add cream or chocolate on top. 

The Wave Of Colour

Kia ora, everybody. 

Today we would usually go to tech, but because school's are in lock down I have had to do technology from home. For technology we had to look at videos and gather as much information as we could about physical changes and chemical changes. An example of a physical change is if you put a mentos inside a coke bottle it will fizz and create carbon dioxide but it is a physical change because the carbon dioxide was already in their so their was no substance. A chemical change is when you mix things together and it creates a substance like if you mix a gummy bear and hydroxide together it would create a gas which would be a substance. So when learning about these I had to pick an experiment to do and I chose the colourful milk one. I think this experiment was a physical change because there was no substance created.

please enjoy my video.

The interview!!!

In lock down I have recently started online school, and I was reading an article called the un-washable truck. The story was about a boy named Sam and his dad gave him ten bucks so Sam would clean his truck for him, so Sam agreed but when he saw the truck it was covered from head to toe in mud and he made 4 attempts to clean it and then finally he did. I was given a heap of activities related to this story and one of them was to create a news report on the un-washable truck I also had to include a interview with Sam. I really enjoyed this task because I was able to get creative and I found it fun, something I found difficult was when I had to add as much as I could. Other than that I hope you enjoy.

Applying 

3. Create a news flash story about the un-washable truck and include an interview with Sam.

Characters: Lucy the reporter, Sam, Jim and Beverly the news host people. 

Jim: Well hello Lucy, it sounds like you are coming live from where it all started.

Lucy: Yes Jim this is where the un-washable truck lives, and some people described it as the mud
monster and others, mount mud. 

But this very moment, we are going to meet the boy who defeated this mud with his bare hands.

Alright we will bring you with us.

Knock Knock 

Creek Creek  

Lucy: Why hello there Sam, we are here to interview you about the un-washable truck.

Sam: Oh I didn’t know about this but, ok.

So the news reporters went in and sat down on the couch inside Sam’s house. 

Sam: Well I wasn’t really expecting a Mountain of mud, but I knew it was going to be a challenge.

Lucy: I bet it was a challenge and what encouraged you to clean the truck. 

Sam: Well my dad said if I cleaned it he would give me ten bucks, and when I saw the truck I thought it
was a job for more than ten bucks but I only got ten bucks. 

Lucy: Oh so you did it for money. One last question, how did you feel once all the mud was off the truck. 

Sam: I was over the moon with joy, it felt like a huge accomplishment and I was so happy it was done. 

Lucy: Well you are one persistent boy, so congratulations Sam, and that's why we are giving you this
new water gun 7000 for your effort.  

The news reporters gave Sam his reward and he had a big smile on his face. 

Beverly: What a wonderful young boy and what an amazing story, thank you Lucy, talk to you later.

Reading Activity, The Scary Jump

WALT use ITTM ( I think that means)

For reading my group read a book called the Big jump. This story was about the coolest kid at school was afraid to jump of and zip line down the tallest tower, then his class mates asked him what took so long and then he blamed it on another guy that was up their with him at the time. The task was to create the scariest zip line ever. This is my one I created please enjoy and leave a comment.

Amazing, Brave, Fierce, Anzac Mascots

In reading we have been learning about animals that were part of WW1 and WW2. Our task was to create a DLO ( digital learning object) , to tell others about what we new and how mascots (animals) were used in the war. I found this task very exciting and I learnt a lot about the war and how animals were used in it, one part I did find difficult was to explain everything in the correct order and give as much information as I could without over explaining it. 

Please leave a comment and enjoy the presentation. 

The Dooms Day Diary Entry

During class, our teacher called us down and she started to read a book to us, it was called The Anzac Violin by Jennifer beck and Illustrated by Robyn Belton. This book was about a man who carried a violin almost everywhere he went during the war, and he would play to the men at night in there cabins and they all loved it, it also was a diary entry about his experience and how he felt. We were given a task to write a better diary entry about a certain moment in the book and we had to create a better version, we used an attributes chart that had what we heard, saw, the location, temperature and movement, we described everything and then wrote a paragraph we could only use 6 full stops. This task I found tricky but I enjoyed it because I love descriptive writing and I like creating sad yet descriptive story's. Here is my writing please leave a comment on what you enjoyed and what I could do better.

  

The man beside me was screaming in pain, I tried to tune it out, then slowly I heard him take his last breath and he died right beside me, the thought of my life ending at this very moment scared me what would happen to me and what about the violin, I tried to stay calm and relax but it is very hard to when you don’t know if your life is about to end or not. It was still daylight and If I popped up I would be killed instantly. I was in agonising pain and my leg was throbbing, but I had to stay low. I was lying in my own blood coloured snow, I hoped that nobody spotted it and I didn’t get found, I just had to wait it out till sundown. I heard the sound of bullets whirring past me and the bombs were getting closer and closer, Then I could hear snow rustling about and I could hear people on the other side crawling and coming closer, I was going to risk my own life but didn’t care I screamed out to one of the guys on my left. They are coming from the right, fire at the ready. Later that night it was dark and gloomy, and I started scuttling through the snow, I shuffled around dead bodies and hurt comrades, the thought that all these mean had normal wonderful lives and know their time is over. when I finally made it to one of the shell holes, I slumped down into it and I was dealt to immediately, this day I would never forget.

TECH!

I listen'd to the sound of my mum telling me to wake up, I then remembered that it was the first time I would go to Hornby high and do Technology. The best part was the second school that was going there to do Technology was the school my friends went to. The first thing we did was go into a small room with another teacher for 40 minutes and we looked into science. For science the Teacher had a little electric machine so if you wanted to you stood in a circle and there were two people who were holding one metal peg each and then the rest of the class were holding hands, the teacher started to crank up the machine and then slowly electricity was flowing through one hand and into the other persons. Later on we walked down to Engineering and made a key ring out of acrylic, I loved doing this because I got to use new machines and I learnt about lots of different tools and how you can use them, although when we were doing this I found it really hard filing the shape and curving it and smoothing it out, but I tried. Something I would have done differently is I probably would have picked and easier shape but in the end it was good that I challenged myself.

If you have been to Tech what was your favourite part?

This is picture of my key ring 

SLJ day 4 activity 2 My new name

This activity was if I could change my name to anything I wanted, what would I change it to and why. Here is my name and why I chose it. 

please leave a comment and enjoy.