Magic LIghts

Kia Ora 

Welcome back to my blog.

 
For a couple of weeks we have been learning about Matariki and today we have been learning about the southern lights. The southern lights are lights that light up the sky. There are southern and northern lights, The southern lights are near the south pole and the northern lights are near the north pole. There are many myths about the mysterious lights and how they are made. The sun gets so hot that little bits of the sun brake off and come towards the earth at a fast speed because the earth is in line with the sun. The earth is protected because it has a magnetic field that surrounds the earth. So when the sun bits come towards the earth and hits the earth most of the bits are deflected but some of the bits make it through the atmosphere and makes the bright lights. The colors can be green,purple, pink and sometimes blue.

After learning about the lights we got to make some art that is based on the lights. First we had to rip a piece of paper to make a mountain range. Then we got some black paper and taped our moutain range to the black piece of paper. Then we got a paint brush and white paint and flicked the white paint onto our paper to make stars. Once we had our stars we had to wait for the paint to dry. Then we got some pastles and drew on the moutains. Then we smudged the pastles up to the top of the page to make the lights on top of the mountains.

Here it is:

My Voki On The Book Wild Boy

Kia ora bloggers,

When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open ended questions that would help me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adults intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next we got to chose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3 advanced questions about it.  Our create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with Voki and it was about a book called Wild Boy. Here is a link: Wild Boy

                 

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realise how important it is to do this when reading to understand the text better.

Do you ever do further research when you are reading a book to deepen your understanding?

My Initials in ASCII

Kia Ora,

I've had an amazing day, how was your day? This week was a fun week but I can't wait for the weekend. I really want to go home and sleep to be honest... I had loads of fun a tech, in my tech group we are making bread and trying different colors, flavors and shapes. Its really sad that New Zealand has 3 new cases of Covid-19 but I know we will keep it under control.

After tech we were learning about ASCII, ASCII is one of the codes that revolve around Binary. Binary is what technologe uses to work. It is really confusing in the start but one you get used to it its easy to understand. To find out your name in binary you will need to do this...

Then you will need to find the letters in your name and write what number they are like this:

Then you will need to see what numbers it takes to make your number using these numbers...

64 32 16 8 4 2 1

it helps to make a table like this:

And thats how you find out what your name is in ASCII.

Instead on doing our names we had to do our initials so we did that process but instead of using our name we used our initials. We got to chose colors for the ones and the zeros and the spaces...We got to make a keychain or a braclet, And I chose to make a keychain with the colors pink,purple and blue. Here it is:

Cindy Stone book cover

Hey Readers!

How has your week been? Mines been pretty good. We've done some fun stuff this week but I'm looking forward to the weekend. I'm really upset that New Zealand has 3 new cases of Covornavirus but I know we can keep it under control and I hope we won't have to go back to level 4, it was fun but I'm enjoying school.

So, This week for literacy we've been looking at Fractured Fairy Tales... We watched a coulple videos and learnt how to fracture a story. Once we've done all the planning we are going to make our own fractured fairy tale. Yesterday we got to make our front cover for our book using book creator. I chose to do my story based on cinderella but im going to make a modern version, anyway here is my book cover...

My Super Siapo

Hello, Welcome back to my blog.

I have had an amazing week. I hope you have also had a good week.What did you do this week that was fun? I am happy that New Zealand has eliminated covid-19. Jacinda Ardern has done an excellent job at keeping New Zealand safe. Every wednesday we have been learning about Samoa and the Samoan culture.

One of the oldest and most important traditions of Samoa is the Siapo or Tapa.  It is a type of cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree.  It is very time consuming, because the bark must be harvested, stripped, separated, scraped, and beaten before it can be used.  It is then laid out in the sun to dry.

The artist uses natural dyes, created from items such as berries, bark, and nuts to make patterns on the cloth.  

There are 13 traditional patterns used on siapo that represent things common to Samoan culture such as nets, coconut leaves, shells and flowers.

Situational Irony

Hello welcome to or back to my blog. I hope you have had a good monday so far. I am really happy that New Zealand is going to level one. Its been really hard being in lockdown and im happy that there is not going to be many restrictions.

For inquiry we have been learning about the 3 different ways of irony. Last week we had to get in pairs and make a comic strip of one of the 3 ways of irony. I went with Pippa and we chose to make a comic strip on Situational Irony. Pippa and I really enjoyed making this.. I hope you like it!

The 3 LIttle Pigs WIth A Twist

Kia Ora

Welcome back or to my blog. I hope you have had an amazing week so far. I had a fun week and really enjoyed doing literacy. Im really happy that New Zealand is doing really good, and we have had no covid-19 cases for a while. School has been really different but the teachers have done everything they could to keep school the same as normal.

For Literacy today we have been looking at Fractured Fariy tales. Today we read a story from Roald Dahl, about the 3 little pigs. It was really weird and a little bit sad. Our Task was to design a fairy castel and write the Background,Rising Action,Climax,Falling Action and the resolution. It was really fun and I really like my castle.
Bye For Now