Paralympic Maths

This is a maths activity I did about the Paralympics. I had to present the information in a graph or chart.

The hardest part was figuring out how to actually make the graph. Once I'd figured that out, I changed a few settings and it was easy.

My favorite part was changing the looks of the graph. To be BTB, I could have made the writing bigger.

Delta Questions

These are the five questions I would ask Jacinda Ardern and/or Ashley Bloomfield about Delta Outbreak if I ever got the chance. 

The hardest part about this was actually thinking about it and seeing what I would actually want to know. I don't really know much because I haven't really researched it. My favorite part about this was reading a few articles about it. They were cool because you could see what other people were doing, and see what you would do. To be BTB, Better Than Before, I could have added more colour or added research about the questions.

Electricity

This is my energy inquiry. I had to choose something to do with energy then make a informative slide and a creative thing to do with whatever our topic was. We could work in pairs, but I didn't, so it made it harder. I chose to do electricity because I wanted to make a bike-powered charger, but I didn't have enough time. The first topic I chose was Hydro-energy, but it was too hard to create a thing explaining/showing what Hydro-energy was. 

The hardest part was reading it out to the class because I'm not really good at that stuff. To be BTB, I could have made my slide more interesting. I wanted to draw something to do with electricity and how it worked, but I couldn't think of anything.

ANZAC Morse Code

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This is my ANZAC literacy post. I had to choose one thing from the Taiao site to do. I chose the morse code because it looked really interesting and I didn't know anything about it except S.O.S and "e". Now I know my name ~ -- .. .-. --- ~ and a little but more. If your bored and want to come up with a way to communicate with your friends, use Morse. (Or Pig-latin.) If you want a way to talk in class, just tap your message in morse code with a pencil, and your teacher will never suspect a thing! (Jk.) 

My favorite part was encrypting the messages. it was really hard because the messages were really long. The hardest part was making the morse code part. To be BTB, I could have added more colour.

Solar Video

This is my (and Lucy's) video about solar energy in our school. We had to find a place in our school that needed a bit more energy/solar energy, then brainstorm and create a model of that place with cardboard or other materials (we used cardboard.) We chose the pool for our place and created the whole area out of a big piece of cardboard, several hot glue sticks, and a vivid marker. We also made bleachers (a fancy name for seats), the changing rooms (where you change, obviously), and the storage/other stuff room (where the heater is).

Some things we added were:

A black floor to the pool (to make it warmer)

Solar tubes in the changing rooms and the storage room

Solar panels to help the heater

Stairs (could we could)

My favorite part was making the actual model. We had to wait for the glue gun though, and that was a long wait. The hardest part was making the video because I couldn't go on the Wevideo video at the same time as Lucy, so it was just all-out confusion. To be BTB, (better than before), we could have taken a picture of the actual pool.

Solar Energy

This is my solar energy post. I had to brainstorm the questions and answer them. The blue writing is "How does the wind and the sun affect your daily life?", and the yellow writing is "What activities do you do that engage the energy of the sun and the wind?".

The hardest part was thinking of ways that the sun affects my daily life. Even though I know it affects my life heaps, I just couldn't think of ways that it did. To be BTB, I think I could have added more to the "How does the wind and sun affect your daily life?" part.

When you Trap a Tiger- Book review

This is my book report for the Summer Reading Challenge on 'When you Trap a Tiger'. I chose this book because it was one of the books from the Hokitika library, and it was new to me. It was also Korean-based. The book was sad to me in the end, and I cried a little. One of the things I really liked about the book was how relatable it was, and the Halmoni in the book is so like mine (-;. I will definitely read this book again and will recommend it to as many people as I can. 

My favorite bit was reading the book and seeing other people's opinions about it. It got a 4.2/5 on Goodreads. The hardest bit was writing why I liked the book in a non-cheesy or 'me' kind-of sentence. To be BTB, I could have added a bit more about the book and the Author, Tae Keller.

My Colouring Book Activity

This is my first activity for the Summer Learning Journey. I first did her with black hair and a red and green kimono because I was listening to Santa, Tell Me, and other Christmas songs while my classmates were singing and dancing along (not very well). Then, because my favorite color is purple, I changed it. I don't really like the background because it doesn't look very natural. 

I think my favorite part was coloring because I like art and mucking around. The hardest part was doing the flowers because they were all separate. To be BTB, I could have searched up color schemes and then used them, but I had a limited amount of colors I could use.

How to play Shark Attack!

This is my video on how to play Shark Attack. Shark Attack is a fun game that is a bit like Farmer Farmer, Run Chicken Run, and Seaweed Tag. I didn't want to talk in my video, so I just used words. I also didn't want any people because trying to record was hard. In the end, all I used was WeVideo, and some of my previous videos. To be BTB, I could have made it a bit more interesting. I added a bit of a quirk at the end, but when I actually made the video, it wasn't near Christmas, so in the end, I just postponed the video. 

I hope you learned how to play Shark Attack, and have a very merry Christmas!

 

 

My street art

This is my street-art activity. I could make a song or piece of at with a message. I chose to do something about global warming. I did it on Kleki, a digital art app. It was really hard because I did it in a rush, so I forgot about the layers, and the colours of pages, etc. 

My favorite part was doing the penguins, but it was also one of the hardest parts because of the eyes and beaks. The hardest part was filling in the water because I made a layer the wrong color, so I couldn't color in the layer behind the one with the white (annoying art difficulties). To be BTB, I could have taken a little more care.

About the Lake Ohau fires

 This is my Lake Ohau fires drawing. We did a quiz about what had happened on the news recently, and Lake Ohau was mentioned. After the quiz, we had to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) about the Lake Ohau fires. You could do a video as well, but I chose to do this. We had to include the five "W's" into our DLO. 

I found getting some information, like when the fire was put out hard because none of the articles I visited told me the information I wanted. My favorite part was looking into the stories of the residents of Lake Ohau village because they were all different. I got most of my information from one story in particular. To be BTB, I could have made it more different than all the other times I have done a drawing, and put in macrons for the "O" in "Ohau".

My "I am" poem📜

Today we made "I am" poems. We had to find 10 of our favorite phrases from our “Myself” poem and turn it into another poem by writing one short sentence about what was special to us about the phrases. The most special phrase to me was "I am my greenstone, protecting me from the sea.". It's special because I got my greenstone for my 10th birthday and it's supposed to protect me from getting drowned.

My favorite part of the activity was writing what was special about the phrases that I chose, even though it took a long time. The hardest part of the activity was actually choosing the phrases because there were lots of choices.

Myself Poem

This is my "Myself" poem. I had to brainstorm things from my childhood, or a specific time/place. I chose my entire childhood. Each sentence has a special meaning or memory to me, eg, “My little stuffed toy” is a stuffed bunny-rabbit called Rebecca. 

My favorite part of the activity was remembering things/quotes/actions that are important to me. 

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.

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.

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.

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.