What I learned about Matariki🌌

This is my drawing about what I learned from the Matariki quiz I did on Monday. I got only one question wrong. It was really fun because quizzes are fun.
My favorite part was doing the quiz. It was really easy because you couldn't get anything wrong. To be BTB, I could have researched about the thing I learned.

Random artwork

This is my random artwork of the week. I used polyline to create it. All you have to do is drag polyline over the other lines, then when you have finished, you have to join your two starting lines together. It sounds really confusing, but it's not.
My favorite part was creating the different shapes. The most challenging part was making it all fit onto the google drawing. To be BTB (better than before,) I could have made more shapes, or written a bit more about it.

Dear past me...

This is my "Dear past me" writing. I had to plan for it before, then once I had planned for it, I had to use the planning to write my actual writing. It was really fun to write because it was like I was writing to the past me, telling them/me what to expect.
My favorite part was writing it. The hardest part was putting the writing into paragraphs and ordering it correctly. I didn't get all of my planning into my actual copy, but I got most of it and added a bit more. To be BTB, I could have written a bit more about what I did in lockdown, and gone into details.

Dear Past Me Planning 📜

This is my planning for my "Dear past me" writing. I had to answer the questions that were on drawing. Most of the answers are in my actual "Dear past me" writing now.
My favorite part of the activity was answering the "What did you do in lockdown" question because what I did was fun, and I actually interacted with other people. The most challenging part of the activity was finding out the exact time, day, date, and month that level 4 started. To be BTB,  I could have added more questions.

Three things I would change about the world

This is my writing on what I would change about the world. It was for my blog contract work. I had different ones at the start, but they were practically impossible and slightly dumb.

My favorite part of the activity was thinking of the ideas, no matter how impossible they were. It was hard to pick the three least impossible ideas because most of them were pretty impossible. To be BTB, I could have written a bit more about each of the things I would change.

Three things I would change about the world.

1. I would change it so that there were more electric cars than petrol cars. I would do this because, one, it would help the environment greatly, and two, because we wouldn’t have to keep ruining nature by mining for petrol. 

2. I would change it so that not as many people would be homeless. I’m not sure how I would achieve this, but I’d still try.

3. I would make it so that it was illegal to mistreat animals. This may already be a law, but I’m still doing it.

My Biome Quiz

This is a quiz about biomes. You might want to look at the slide I made about biomes before completing this quiz. You can fill in this quiz a number of times.
My favorite part of making this quiz was writing down the questions because it was fun to make them up. The hardest part was writing down all of the options you could choose because there were lots of them. To be BTB, I could have written a few more questions.

The Six Biomes

This is my biome slide about each and every one of the different biome. Each biome has a slide. My favorite biome is grasslands because there are lots of animals. The grasslands would probably be one of the more dangerous in terms of animals as well.
My favorite part of the activity was watching the video and answering the questions because it was fun. It was hard to find a background for the "Tropical rainforest" slide because I couldn't find a background that was actually the tropical rainforest. The first one I found was actually in New Zealand. To be BTB, I could have wrote some more facts about biomes.

Area of Irregular shapes

This is my maths drawing for Wednesday. This week we are working on measurement. I had to find the area of all of the shapes. The hardest one was number 8. The rest of them were easier to figure out. The grey rectangles in the middle of 9 and 10 are holes.
My favorite part of the activity was figuring the area out. The hardest part was figuring out where to put the lines on number 8. To be BTB, I could have made the text easier to read.
 

My labeled ecosystem

This is my ecosystem. I had to make it, then I had to take a picture and label it. I collected everything from around our house. The egg was from our fridge though.
It was hard to get the dirt and the grass because our lawn was mowed a few days ago and it was really short. It was also hard to get the water to stay in one place because it kept moving around. My favorite part was putting it all together because I could imagine an animal living in it. I caught a moth, but without a lid, it kept flying out, so I gave up on it. To be BTB, I could have made a stream with some sticks on the side to act as a river through the leaf forest.

Ecosystems and how humans are affecting them

This is my activity about ecosystems and how we are affecting them. I had to watch a video about ecosystems and how we are affecting them. Then I had to answer the questions on the google drawing. There was also a site about the Great Ocean Cleanup.
My favorite part of the activity was answering the questions and looking at the site about the Great Ocean Cleanup because I wanted to find out how they collected all of the rubbish. It wasn't really challenging to do much. To be BTB, I could have added a photo or two.

My Ocean Creature

Yesterday, we learned about the three regions of the ocean; the open ocean upper region, the open ocean upper region, and the intertidal region. Today we had to create our own creature in one of these regions. Then we had to write about them, like where they lived, what they ate, what ate them, things like that.
I enjoyed creating the animal because I like making stuff. The hardest part was thinking of what it was going to be a clash of. Instead of the seal, I was going to have a dinosaur that looked a bit like a Brontosaurus, but with flippers and a whale tail. To be BTB, I could have made my creature look a bit funkier, like have a Narwhal horn and maybe some Walrus tusks.

Common Multiples

This is my maths activity for Friday. I had to find out the common multiples for each of the pairs of numbers. If we had forgotten what common multiples were, we could watch the video.
I enjoyed making the background for this activity. Once I understood what it meant by "common multiples" it wasn't so hard. At first, I thought it meant "common multiples" meant the same as common factors, so I completed the task with the wrong idea. Luckily, Lucy and Miro kindly told me that I was wrong. I changed it slightly so that I had to find the first three common multiples, otherwise, I wouldn't have known what to look up to. To be BTB, I could have made the drawing more interesting, eg, put in some more common multiples.

Maths for Thursday

This is my maths activity for Thursday. We are working on factors to 100. Half of them were prime numbers, so they only had 2 factors. (One, and their own number.) If we didn't know what to do or had forgotten what factors were, we watched the video of the teacher explaining what factors were.
My favorite part was making the background. The hardest part was remembering all of 44's factors. To be BTB, I could have picked some more numbers then written down the factors for them.

Saltwater Ecosystems

This is my saltwater ecosystems drawing/graph. I had to watch a video on saltwater and freshwater ecosystems, then answer the questions. Once we had finished completing the question, we had to also take a quiz about saltwater ecosystems. It was really easy.
My favorite part was taking the quiz because it was kind of fun. The most challenging part was adding animals to each catagory because I couldn't remember them all and because there weren't many Benthos.

Jump Photos

This is my "extra for experts" work. I did the "Jump Photo's" activity. I took photos of Rewa jumping on our trampoline. Rewa was trying to look really, really happy. I think she succeeded. She always looks happy! I also have some photos of Bella jumping that I took a while ago on my camera. I will try to download them off my camera.
I enjoyed taking the photo's because photography is one of my hobbies. It wasn't hard to do much. To be BTB, I could have taken photos of Rewa in a funny position, eg, meditating.

My Possum Drawing

This is my possum drawing. I had to read an article about where possums originated, why they introduced them to New Zealand, and why they have become a pest. Then after I did that, I had to build or draw an ideal possum habitat. I went outside and collected some leaves, ferns, and branches. Then I stacked them against a rock. To be BTB, I could have added water.
My favorite part was building the possum habitat, but hardest part was taking a photo of it because I kept losing wifi. To be BTB, I could have been more creative in building my ideal possum habitat.

My Ecosystem

This is the picture of my ecosystem. It is my garden. You can't really see the labels though.
There are birds, trees, a garden patch with soil, a hedgehog, a fence, and more things.
I enjoyed drawing it because I like drawing things. The most challenging part was taking a photo of my drawing after I drew it. To be BTB, I could have used a black pen to write the words.

Ecosystems vocabulary slide

This is my ecosystem vocabulary slide. I had to explain what the words on the slide meant, then take pictures of them. I found it hard to take the pictures because Chromebooks aren't good at taking them and it was raining outside. My favorite part was looking around outside for birds. (I didn't find any). Next time, to be BTB, I could take better/more photos.

Maths for Tuesday

Today for maths I had to write down the square roots of the numbers and explain my working. There was a video explaining how to do it. I found the activity easy because I know my times-tables well and because yesterday we did an activity on squaring numbers. To be BTB, I could have explained my working better, like added division in.

Maths for Monday

This is my maths drawing for Monday. I had to square six numbers and write down the answers.
The hardest one to figure out was 14 x 14 because it was the biggest number. The easiest was 4 x 4 because it was the smallest number. I liked figuring out 14 x 14 because it was hard. Next time, to be BTB, I could have made it a bit more interesting, eg, add some more equations.

My Pet WordCloud

This is my WordCloud of my pets. I have pet fish. Their names are Comet (a Comet fish), and Angel (a Fantail fish). Comet is really fast and flighty, whereas Angel is still and calm. We have had Angel for two years, and Comet for a year and a half. Angel is the orange-and-white fish. She likes to rest on the bottom of the barrel. Comet is the bigger, orange fish. He likes to eat the algae off the side of the tank.
It was hard to take the photos because Comet kept moving into the wrong place. My favorite part was coloring the word cloud in. To be BTB, I could have said more about my fishes.