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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 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.

My Energy Word No. 2🌩🗱🗲

This is my second energy word map. I did it about potential energy. Potential energy is in everything. If you kicked a ball up a hill, it would gain potential energy at the top of the hill. When it rolled back down again, that potential energy would turn into kinetic energy. 

The hardest part was finding a picture. The first picture is really confusing, and I don't get it, but the second picture shows how much potential energy something would have. A would have low potential energy, B would have high potential energy, and C would have low potential energy. To be BTB, I could have added more facts about how potential energy related to energy.

My Energy word No. 1🌩🗱🗲

This is my energy word for T-shaped literacy. I had to choose a word about energy then fill out the google drawing. Not knowing I was supposed to do only one word, I did three. This one was the first one I did. Solar panels are my second favorite way of getting energy. My first is wind turbines.

My favorite part was making the picture. Because I couldn't find any pictures that fitted what I wanted, I had to make one. To be BTB, I could have added more to my definition. The hardest part was saying how it related to energy. It relates in a lot of ways, but I just couldn't put it into words!

🌩Energy Venn Diagram🌩

This is my energy Venn diagram that I made for literacy. I had to read text A and text B then compare them and do the usual Venn diagram stuff. It was really hard to compare them because they didn't really have much actual information. 

My favorite part was looking at the Gen Less site because it had some really cool ways to conserve energy and some really different things than what you normally see energy sites. To be BTB, I could have added more to what both of the sites have in common.

Text A - https://www.eia.gov/kids/using-and-saving-energy/

Text B - https://genless.govt.nz/ 

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.

Antarctica

This is my Antarctica slide that tells you all about Antarctica. It was for maths/literacy because I had to research the coldest and the hottest countries, and people debated if Antarctica was a country or not.

It was hard to do lots of research because it took ages. My favorite part was making the flag because I go to use Kleki. To be BTB, I could have added more information.

Street Art in Christchurch

These are my questions and answers for our T-Shaped literacy article. For T-shaped literacy, we are reading and learning about street art. We were looking at an article about Christchurch street art. I learnt that after the earthquake, people wanted to fill in the gaps in their city and make it a more beautiful place to be. People painted to bring joy, and they also painted to emphasize how much everyone lost.

I enjoyed looking at the art because they were all so cool and they all had different stories behind them. The hardest part was answering so of the questions, because the article doesn't tell you exactly what the answer is. I had to bend the answers a little. To be BTB, (Better Than Before), I could have written more, and made it less confusing. I also could have added the article.

Venn diagram for sportsmanship

This is my venn-diagram about sportsmanship. We had to read and compare two different situations that had different displays of sportsmanship. The first text was about a display of bad sportsmanship from Novak Djokovic in tennis. This is the link to the text: text a. The other text was about a man who was running a marathon that stopped for a rival that had gone the wrong way. He showed good sportsmanship and integrity.

I liked reading the texts because they were very different. It was hard to think of similarities at first, but then I got more ideas. To be BTB I could have written down more ideas

My 'Theme' activity for novel studies

This is my 'Theme' activity for my novel studies book. I had to explain what the author's message was through the book in my own words. I also had to explain what I learnt when I finished the book. Did you know that this is a true story? 

The hardest part was explaining what the author's message was through the book. To be BTB, I could have explained what the author's message was in more detail.

My 'Character' activity for novel studies

This is my character activity for my novel study book, 'My Brothers war'. I had to explain the feelings and places that were throughout the book in the climaxes, times, and moods.

The hardest part was describing the places because some words didn't really correctly describe them. To be BTB, I could have described the places in more detail, and the different moods better.

 

My "Plot" activity for Novel studies

This is my plot activity for my novel study, 'My Brothers war'. I had to retell the main events or the skeleton of the story. I also had to tell both sides of the book, Williams and Edmunds. It was hard to change from one side to the other. My favorite part of the activity was re-reading the bits of the story that were funny because they made me laugh. The hardest part was thinking of words to describe certain things in the story. To be BTB, I could have gone into more detail about the story.

Character Descriptions

This is my character activity for my novel study book, 'My Brothers war'. I had to explain the two main characters traits, which was easy because the whole book is about their different traits. They have really similar traits because they are brothers.

My favorite part was reading through the book again a bit to see how similar their traits were because there were bits where the two brothers did some things really similarly. The hardest part was thinking of some words to describe their traits because even though I knew what they were like, I couldn't find a word for that particular thing/feeling. To be BTB, I could have added more words or described the activity better.

My Brother's war: Activity one.

This is the first activity about the novel we are reading. We had to read the back, the sleeve if it had one and the cover to try and predict what the book would be about. The underlined text is what the book says. 

I enjoyed this activity because we got to try and guess what the book was about. It was fun because I might be horribly wrong. The hardest part was actually writing down what I thought it might be about because I can't write what the book already says. To be BTB, I could have made it a bit clearer.

Book review of Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes

This is my book review on Aru Shah and the tree of wishes. I had to do it for Literacy medals. I chose this book because I read it kind of recently and because it is a good book. I really liked it.
My favorite part of the activity was looking for pictures of the covers because there are three different covers for Aru Shah and the Song of Death. The hardest part of the activity was finding out the name for the wishing tree because I thought it was something totally different. To be BTB, I could have written more about the book and what it was about.

Inference jigsaw and T-chart

This is my inference jigsaw.
The goal was to infer the sentence that we choose from the story "4 of a kind".
It was hard to choose a sentence, but fun to infer it because you never know what the character is really thinking!

THREE FACTS THAT I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MAUI AND THE FISH

THREE FACTS THAT I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MAUI AND THE FISH

Today we read about Maui's fish. Here are three interesting facts I discovered about Maui.

1. I didn't know that Maui's grandmother's name was Murirangawhenua.

2. The North Island is Maui's great fish and the South Island is the waka.

3. If the legend is true, lots of people will be living on a huge fish.