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Diwali

A few weeks ago was Diwali. Diwali is an indian celebration with, dancing, singing, and yummy food. For Diwali, sometimes neighbours would give you cooked food. Diwali is can be celebrated anywere, but mainly in india. Women also use powered rice with food colouring to make a Diwali patterens  outside there door, or some were else. Did you know that Diwali is the Indian vestival of light? For this task we had to create a rangoli - the thing with powered rice - but we had the choice to do it on paper, with chalk on the concrete, or digitaly. I chose to do it on paper. For the rangoli we had to watch a video and copy what it was doing. We were able to do any shape we wanted. Heres a link to see a Diwali presintation, and heres another link to see a book on epic all about diwali. Heres a video link that takes you to youtube to watch a video about Diwali. I enjoyed drawing and colouring in my rongali. I found it difficult to choose which shape I was going to use. I hope yoy like my rongali and please leave a comment if you do.

Portrait art

 For the past few weeks we have been making portrait art. For this task we had to get a picture of ourselfs taken and then put it behind a laminat sheet, then outline the picture witha sharp pointed vivid or sharpie, sharpie is best. After that, take the picture out from under neath the laminating sheet and flip it over, and start mixing the paint colours to match your face. Then when you've done start painting you're face, neck and ears. Then make the colours of you're shirt, and paint that. Then make the colour of your hair, paint your hair, then make the colour of your eyes, then your lips, and finally,once ypur dry, put a sheet of coloured paper behind you and your done. I enjoyed painting my self and chosing the colour of my background. I found it difficult to mix the colours and make my face, and eyes. In the end the skin that I created eneded up looking a bit sun burnt. If you want make portrait art, be warned, some bit's are harder than others, espeically the skin. I ended up with the inside of my mouth blue, and part of my eyebrow blue as well, because the back ground that I had choose was blue, and buy the time I was done there had been bits that I had for gotten about. We were learning how to blend paint to match our skin, or our hair.

Service poster

For the past few weeks me and my class have been working on service posters. We chose a template, and made a different background, fonts and colours so it didn't look like the origanal. My favourite part was deciding on the background and changing the fonts. I found it difficult to come up with what I was going to put on the poster for what you should do to show service. Our cyber smart teacher told us that on our posters and videos that we make on canva, we should have no more than 3 colours, and 3 fonts.  My service poster includes, what showing service means, what you should do to show service, and 5 things that you could do. Have you ever been on canva, at home, or at school? If you don't know what canva is, then you should get it, and be able to make lots of cool posters, videos and much, much more. I hope you like my poster as much as I do! Our DLO - digital learning object - was to learn to use canva.

My 2021 Acievements

For the past week or so we have been working on canva. In case you didn't know canva is an amazing thing that you can use to make posters and videos. For this task we had to make a video of ourselfs then make 3 more tabs with our 3 2021 achievements. On the tabs we had to add our achievements, audio, animation, and coloured background. Our cybersmart teacher told us that we should never have more that 3 backgrounds, no more than 3 fonts, and no more than 3 colours. I enjoyed adding audio, adding back gronds, adding animation, and chosing fonts. The only thing that I found difficult was chosing my last achievement that I was going to do because I couldn't think of anything. Have you ever been on canva before? Because if you haven't then you should definitally get it. I hope you like my canva slide as much as I do!

Is chocolate one of the best desserts ever?🍫

 Do you like chocolate? My speech is all about it! But my speech is not a happy speech about chocolate, its about the sad story of chocolate. When I read my speech in front of the class I got into the semi-finals and then the finals. My favourite part of writing my speech was doing the research and watching the video about the bitter side of chocolate. Do you even know what the bitter side of chocolate is? Read my speech and learn all about it. When I read my speech in front of the whole school, I got 3rd place. I hope you like it. And remeber, chocoate is not all that it's cut out to be. 

                                                                                                                                                                                       Is chocolate the best food ever?

Who likes chocolate? You probably do, but have you ever considered where it came from? I´m here to tell you the bitter side of chocolate, but first the sweet side.

Firstly, chocolate is delicious, it's sweet and perfect for dessert. It’s difficult to imagine that the chocolate chip cookie, one of the world’s most beloved sweet treats, was actually invented by accident in 1930 when Ruth Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, were running the Toll House Inn on Route 18 near Whitman, Massachusetts. Mrs. Wakefield prepared all the food for the guests at the inn and had gained an enviable local reputation for her impressive range of desserts.

Secondly, here's the bitter side. The journey from cocoa bean to chocolate bar is rife with corruption, violence, and exploitation. People, many of them children, are being forced to do illegal work just so we can eat chocolate. Unfortunately if you know how it starts then it might not be  possible to enjoy chocolate. People are forced to be slaves because of it. 60 percent to 2 thirds of the world's cocoa beans come from west africa, mainly in two countries, Ghana and Ivory Coast. The people in Africa have to cut the cocoa pods off the cocoa trees without using machines, only machetes, which are a big knife. Cocoa pods have cocoa beans in them, which are mandatory if you want to make chocolate. Once the farmers have 30 - 35 tons of chocolate they take it to the port where the beans are shipped off to big chocolate companies that you've probably never heard of. 400 cocoa beans = 1 pound of chocolate. The cocoa farmers get less than 1 dollar a day or about 200 dollars a year which is about as much as adult workers can get here in a day. The big chocolate companies get a huge amount of money from the chocolate we eat. I think the farmers should get more of the money because they work every day, their children work every day, and they barely get 1 dollar.

Lastly, Ivory Coast has lost more than 85 percent of its forests because farmers destroy the native trees to grow the cocoa trees. Cocoa trees make about 30 pods a year, which is enough for 2 tons. Each pod contains about 40 seeds. If a farmer has the choice of protecting the rain forests or feeding their families then they don't have much of a choice at all. Sadly sometimes bad people come and kill the farmers if they know that they have money that they want. 

What I'm trying to tell you is that chocolate shouldn't make people slaves or destroy forests. I think we do need chocolate, but the farmers should have a choice if they want to work at the cocoa farms or not, and if they do then they should be paid a whole lot more. Thank you for listening to my speech and I hope you agree with me that chocolate shouldn´t cause slavery.

My saint is Joseph

For the past few weeks we have been learning about saints. Our RE our task was to create a google drawing about our saint. We also had answer 4 questions that were, what is your saint called? Why do you think your saint is important to our school? What is and interesting fact about your saint? What is one saying of your saint that we can use to guide the way through our lives?. My saint is St Joseph. Did you know that his favourite colour was either red or gold?

I enjoyed learning about my saint and creating the google drawing. I found it difficult to get his hair because when I tried polyline, it didn´t work. When I tried scribble, it didn't work. When I tried curve, it didn't work. So then I finally decided to use a shape and it still turned out bad, but it was better than trying to make it myself. My DLO ( Digital learning object) was to create a google drawing about my saint including facts around it and a picture of Saint Joseph. For this task I got the eyes from google search, I used shapes to make the head, hands, legs, and body, and I polylined the mouth. Theres also a picture of Saint Joseph in the background that you can look at if you want.

Beatitudes.

A few weeks ago was social justice week, so our teacher told us to create a poster about one of the beatitudes. The beatitude that I chose was, ¨Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.¨ The poster had to have the saying on it and pictures that were related to your saying. I enjoyed adding the images that I chose and choosing the font for the saying. I found it difficult to choose the saying that I was going to use because there were so many of them. For the task I had to choose a background, add in images, and add in the saying. I did my poster on google slides, but you had the choice to do google drawing or google slide. I hope you like my poster!

Pepper and water.

During our lockdown learning this task was all about science. We learnt about this really cool experiment with pepper, water, and dish washing liquid.

For this task me and my sister had to put water on the plate and sprinkle some pepper on the water. Then you put a tiny bit of dishwashing liquid on your finger, dip your finger into the water, and watch the magic! All the pepper should move to the side and there will be a big gap in the middle were there is no water. 

I enjoyed doing the experiment with my sister and watching all the pepper move to the side when your finger hits the water. The water monocles are strongly attracted together and when we add soap we break down this water tension and the water monocles quickly spread out carrying the pepper with it. If you add less pepper it's able to spread out even further. Here's a link that takes you to youtube so you can learn about the experiment and maybe try it out at home.

5 fun facts about the paralympics.

This week for our lockdown learning we have been learning about the Paralympics. The Paralympics is like the Olympics except it's for people with disabilities and difficulties. The paralympics was created when Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition for British World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries in England in 1948. The paralympic games date back to 1948 when an achery tournament for 16 individuals in wheel chairs at an english hospital as part of the patients rehibitation. 

I enjoyed researching facts about the paralympics because I find the Paralympics very interesting. In this task the only thing I found difficult was finding the 5th and 4th fact to put on the google drawing.Have you ever seen anyone competing in the Paralympics? I find it really interesting watching the people competing and doing all the amazing things that they do with disabilities, it's really amazing watching them doing the Paralympics. Heres a link that takes you to youtube to watch and learn all the about the amazing Paralympics. 

The great escape!

For this week's lockdown learning one of our tasks that we had to do was a maths digital escape room. We had to click on the furniture in the digital escape room and decode the message by answering maths questions. We had the option to do this and I decided to do it but the questions were so hard I had to get my mum to help me with it.

I enjoyed decoding the message even though it didn't make much sense. For me the message that me and my mum decoded was maths mastce, which isn't a word. I found it difficult to figure out some of the questions because they were really hard. And the bottom of the slide some had the answer written behind 2 letters so it was hard to pick which one I was going to use, but it really depended on wether it made sense or not.

When you figure out a question you have to get the answer sheet and write the letter that you got from the maths question. At the bottom of the answer sheet there are letters with the answers muddled up with numbers and you had to type the letter next to the answer on the answer sheet. And when you've finished you should have decoded a message. Me and my mum did all the questions but we only decoded the first word, Maths. Have you ever been in an escape room? Digitally or reality. 

Fizz inflator!

 Today for our lockdown learning one of our tasks was to create a science experiment. Me and my mum did the task because our teacher said it would be really fun and it was. I really liked the part when the balloon started filling up. But if it filled up to much then it would pop.

For this task we had to fill a bottle with a tiny bit of vinegar and then use a funnel and attach the funnel to the balloon and fill it - not all the way - with baking soda and then attach the balloon to the plastic bottle, tip the balloon so the baking soda is falling into the vinegar, and then watch it rise!

I enjoyed doing the experiment and watching the balloon rise. I found it difficult to know when to stop the balloon from filling up so it wouldn't pop. I think the amount the balloon rises can be controlled by the amount of vinegar and baking soda is put into it. I dont think the size of the bottle affects how much the ballon fills, I think it only affects the amount of time it takes to fill the balloon because if the bottle is bigger it will take a longer amount of time because of the height and if the bottle is smaller than it would take a shorter amount of time. Here's a link to see the site that I got the experiment instructions from, theres also a video on it that you can watch.  

The great outdoors!

During lockdown we were set a task to do something outdoors. We were doing it because our teacher thought we should go outside because I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I like lockdown because I get to stay inside, sleep, watch TV, and play on my chromebook.

Me and my sisters decided that we would take videos and pictures of us jumping and playing on the trampoline because we thought it would be really, really fun to do something that we do everyday to put on my blog and my sisters liked the idea of being on my blog.

I enjoyed jumping and playing with my sisters on the trampoline but it was hard to get them not to say something crazy,  especially my youngest sister. I found it difficult to get to the tramp on time before the 3 second timer on my chromebook ran out and the video or photo started. I hope you like the photos. Sorry I could'nt get the video link for you to watch it.🌳 

The amazing race!

Before

  We did this activity for fun. We were doing it for       something called the amazing race. We did just for     fun, no competition, just fun.                                       For this task I had to get 10 books and make a   skyscraper out of them and only three of them could   be closed the rest had to be open. I thought it would   be a good idea to pile the 7 books open at the bottom and the others closed on top. Have you ever made a tower of books? You should because it's really fun. I really liked the way it looked when it was finished.

And after.

For this challenge I created an obstacle for me and my sisters to do. We had to hold a bucket full of water and do the obstacle while holding it.

First we had to jump over bamboo sticks, next we had to walk through blue mini soccer goals, then we had to go under the chair, then we had to tight rope on a broom, and lastly we had to run through a path made of bamboo sticks and run back.

We had to time each other on it, I was 24.40 seconds, my other sister got 33.80, and my youngest sister got roughly 31.85 seconds.

I enjoyed making and running the obstacle course. But I found it difficult to run with a bucket full of water.

Have you ever created an obstacle course?

We were to use the word geometry and make 10 words out of it. My words were:

The

Melt

Got

Get

Them

There

Thermal

Geo

Goth

Her.

Amazing facts about dolpins.

This week for our lockdown learn, create, share in reading we had to choose out of a number of animals to write 5 facts or create a food chain including that animal or create a google drawing poster about that animal. The animal that I chose was dolphins and I decided to write a 5 fact poster on google slides. What's your favourite animal? Mine is an octopus.

For this task I typed out 5 facts that I researched in digital books and videos and typed them in my own words in a textbox in google slides. 

I enjoyed choosing the images on the slide and researching the facts. I found it difficult to find the 5th fact because the researching that I did had lots of facts and it was difficult to choose a 5th fact and put it in my own words.

Did you know that bottlenose dolphins have 70 - 140 teeth??!! That is a lot of teeth. And did you know that they only have one set of teeth their whole lives? And they live about 40 years, which means that they have the same teeth for 40 years. Here's a link to see 5 fun facts about dolphins. And here's a link to a video that transports you to youtube to watch it and learn more about dolphins. Here's a link to see super senses and how dolphins navigate to find objects under water.

The fun faith title page!

A few weeks ago we were learning about Faith and what it means to us. We learnt it because we were learning about Faith because that was our RE value for the term.

To make the poster we had to write the word Faith at the top and then chose a few bible quotes to write on the page. And we also had to write what we feel about Faith and then draw some pictures around it that represent Faith. I sketched and then coloured a bible, hands praying, a candle, a few crosses, and multiple hearts.

Do you know what Faith means? Or what you can do to create Faith inside you? Do you think you might like to create a fun faith title page? Its really fun!

Heres a link to see a video about a puppet and a man describing faith. And heres another video about kids describing faith and what it means to them.

Enjoy Japan and these facts.

Kon'nichiwa! - Hello.

For the past few weeks me and my class have been learning about Japan.                                                  I enjoyed learning about people and the celebrations that they have in Japan. Did you know that Japan has a childrens day on May the 4th? Childrens day is like mothers or fathers day exept for children. I found it difficult to learn about animals becasue in all the books that we read on our chromebooks they only had 1 or 2 facts about aimals.

Do you want to know about the Japanese flag? If you do than did you know that the red circle on the Japanese flag is actually a sun? Japan in also sometimes called the land of the rising sun. Heres a link to learn all about the nintendo video games designer. And heres another link to learn about Japan, and heres a link to learn about Its cool to learn about countries: Japan. We were learning about Japan because it really interesting an the Tokoyo Olympics were held in Tokyo, Japan. Did you know that cherry blossoms are the main plants in Japan. Have you ever been any were in Japan or near Japan? I haven't.

I hope you like my slide and decide you want to go to Japan someday and see a cherry blossom. I hope learned all about Japan

The Olympic games

Kia ora! This week for reading we were learning about the Olympic games because the Olympic games were happening in Tokyo, Japan. On the slides that I was creating I had to write facts about the Olympic games, the ancient Olympics, the opening ceremony, and the Olympic Mascots.Did you know that there is a Olympic Mascot and a Paralympic mascot? Paralympic means an Olympic game but for disabled people. Did you know that in the Ancient Olympics the men doing the Olympics ran naked because there clothes were to heavy to run in? Have you ever watched the Olympic games in real life or on TV before? Here is a link. Here's another link, and here's the last link. This last link takes you to Kiddle so you can learn about the Olympics. I enjoyed looking up facts and searching for imformation. I found it difficult to put the facts and research into my own words and I also found it difficult to chose some of the backgrounds because I couldn't find a background based on the theme of the slide so I setteled on tie diy backgrounds. Next time I would change some of my facts and the way I wrote them and also I would change some of my backgrounds.

Matariki Quizlet!

Talofa bloggers! For the past week we have been learning about Matariki. - Did you know that in the Matariki star cluster there are actually 9 stars including the parents and all the sisters? - So for matariki we read a story and listened and watched 2 videos about it, then we did a slide about the authors purpose and if you were an early finisher you were allowed to go on to quizlet and learn about words like full moon, kite, and ancestors in Maori. We were told to screenshot our sucsess and our points that we got playing the Matariki themed games on Quizlet. On the game match it took me 16.6 secounds to match all of the words to there answers and that put me in 1st place and I unlocked the match badge. Have you ever been on Quizlet before? If you haven't then you should go on it. I enjoyed playing the games especially match because I was really good at it and it was easy. I found it difficult to memorise the answers on the flash cards thing on Quizlet. On the task write I got 4 things incorrect and 5 things correct as you can see on one of the screenshots that I uploaded on to this blogpost.   

Next time I would do more games and earn more bages and unlock more things. On quizlet the thing you first start with is flash cards. Flash cards is the thing that you go on to learn about whatever your doing on quizlet. But if you already know every thing that your doing on quizlet - if you do go on it - then you can just skip it and go straight onto one of the games. 

3, 2, 1... Lift off!

 Today for science were doing a water rocket science experiment. I think the rocket will shoot into the sky like a rocket because it is called a water rocket. I think it will fly over 5 meters into the air and then come crashing to the ground. I have no idea what a water rocket is so I'm very exited to find out how high it will fly and what it will do.

Have you ever used a aqua pod? An aqua pod is a orange looking launch pad that is used to launch a water rocket. To make the water rocket fly you first had to fill a 1/3 of it with water. Then you had to attach the bottel onto the valve. But to that so you don't spill the water from the bottle in the process you had to put the bottel on the ground - the right side up - and then put the valve on to the aqua pod onto the bottle turn it the right way up and you have it all set up. The rubber ring around the valve was there to hold the bottl eso it didn't spill any water while it was upside down.

Then you had to use the pump and pump it with your foot 8 - 12 times. After that you need to stand at least 5 meters away. And if your the one thats going to pull the string at the end then you should were saftey glasses. When you've finished setting up you need to stand 5 meters away and if your the one to pull the hold the string on the end and go as far away as can and then - maybe to a count down because its fun - ... Pull the string! And the bottle takes off! It goes about 5 meters into the air and then it comes down and while its in the air the water shoots out of it because of the air pressure. I think the more water the higher it goes because with more water it will spend more time in the air because it needs to release all that water and staying the air for longer causes it to go higher and higher and the more pumps you do will increase the air pressure which will make it go higher. Heres a link to see a video of the water rocket taking af and landing. Heres a another link to see a simmilar video.

This is just before blast off.

I enjoyed watching the water rocket blast off and watching the water shoot out of it. I found it difficult to wait for it to take off because the first time we did it it didn't work so Miss Hickling did extra pumps and then she tried it again and it worked. When we did the experiment we did it with our buddy class. The water rocket flew about 5 meters into the air and then came down. 

This is what it looked like when it was all put together.