2020 the year that was!

 Kia Ora welcome to or back to my blog.

I cant beleive the year is almost over. 2020 has been an interesting year, And its almost over. With all the bad news about Covid 19 and other things we haven't been acknolegening all the good things that have happened, Here are 5 good things that have happened in 2020.  

1. you may of heard your grandparents talking about drive in movie theaters well they have made a comeback. With all the covid restrictions we have to social distance so that means movie theathers had to close down. Which made an opening for Drive in movie theaters. Drive in Concerts are now a thing too.

2.  Have you relised that nowdays because of Covid we can wear whatever we want outside. Sweatpants and t-shirts became exeptable and it was our reiality. So I guess we cant  just walk out in our Pjs but who knows that might be next.

3.  We relised that home schooling kinda sucks, Now we can appericate our teachers and all there hard work. Teachers don't get an amazing pay rate so maybe the next thing to happen is going to be a worldwide teacher pay rise. Its a little much but its not impossible.

So there we have the top 3 things that happend in 2020 that was actually good, If you want to find out more things here is a website: 50 good things that happened in 2020

Speaking of things that have happened in 2020, In literacy we have been thinking about 2020 and what we have been doing. surprisingly we have done a lot at marshland school. Its been a crazy year for everything. After we wrote our senteces we had to turn it into a book. Here is my story. 

2020 The year that was!

                                        What is the best thing that has happened this year for you? 

Interesting Ice

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This week has been really awesome. I can't believe that its nearly term 4 which means school is almost over. I am really excited for next term because we are going surfing, year 8s graduation and formal. I am sad that the year 8s are leaving but i can;t wait to be a year eight.,but i need to get through this year first.

For literacy we have been looking at procedral writing and learning how to write science reports. Our task was to create a website with the infromation we already had. We only had 25 minutes to make it, which was a challenge. We used adobe spark to create it, here is mine: Ice Melting Experiment

The Big Bad Wolf

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Wolves in yellowstone were such an amazing help to the environment. They even changed the course of a river.

But the wolves in france changed france in a bad way. They killed over 12,000 animals and left the farmers with not much money at all.

Overall I like wolves and think they help the world in a really positive way but unfortuneltly some wolves are like the wolves in france.

Beautiful Biodiversity

 Kia Ora  

Welcome back to or back to my blog. This week has been fun and I am really sad because covid is back in New Zealand, but thankfully its only in auckland. The bad thing is that next week I might have to miss the netball winter tournament because we can't have gatterings of more than 100 people. I really hope we go into level 1 or even no level.

For Literacy we have been learning about Yellowstone national park and making Minecraft worlds, one world was before the wolfs were introduced and one after the wolfs started a trophic cascade. I really enjoyed naking them and had fun. Here it is:

 

Splendid Science

Kia Ora welcome back to my blog. I hope you have had an amazing week so far. I am really excited because the year 7's and 8's are going on a skiing trip soon. I've never been skiing and can't wait to go. I am also really nervous because I really don't want to fall over but to be honest I know I will.  

For Literacy we have been learning how to write a proper science report. I have had load of fun because every week we do a science experiment and its been really fun. This week we have been looking at "what liquid will ice melt the fastest in?" and the results shocked me!

Super Science

Kia Ora welcome back to my blog, I hope you have had a good week back at school. Its unfortunate that new zealand has new case's of covid-19 but we've gotten rid of it before and we can do it again. I really miss online school because I got so much done and got to do anything I wanted to do in the afternoon because I got all my work done.

For Literacy we are learning about science and Space. Yesterday in my literacy group we did an experiment. We are learning about how to write a proper science report, Here is my science slide. Every week I will add an experement to the slide. Here it is: 

(Sorry I can't upload the slide, so here is a screenshot)

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?

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

My inferences about the wicked Twits

Kia Ora, welcome to or back to my blog.

I hope you have had a great time back at school.
For literacy we have been learning about making inferences. We have been reading a book called The Twits. The book is about a married couple who are really nasty and gross.

 Everyday we watch a short video and make inferences about the people. Our task was to write down our inferences on one side and on the other side we wrote the evidence from the text. To make an inference you take clues from a text or image and add them to your thoughts and prior knowledge and then you can make an inference, for example, here is an image...you can tell that the lady is angry because she is frowning and pointing

I used google drawing to create a display of my inferences

What do you think Mrs and Mr Twit are like?
Bye for now!

My Work From This Week

Hello, Welcome to or back to my blog, I hope you have had an exellent week. I am really happy to be going back to school. I am going to miss online learning, Here is all my work from this week...

First of all I had litracy. In my litracy group we have been learning about Roald Dahl. We have been reading "going solo".  Its all about what roald did before he became a writer. Roald had a terrible crash. Our task was to make a biography about Roald. We could use whatever site we wanted, execept for google slides and google docs.. I made a website...Here is a link: Roald Dahl

Now for maths... For maths we have been learning about diameters, We had a map and we had to work out the diameter of the seven. It was really fun meausuring all the wonders. I thought it was going to be hard but it was actully really easy. Here it is...

Last of all...today is friday so we get fun tasks and we get to choose what we want to do from a slide on our site... I decied to make a top hat drawing, I inclued a person to make the top hat not look lost... Are you good at drawing? Here it is..

Going solo: plane crash!

In literacy we have been reading Going Solo by Roald Dahl. It tells his story from where Boy left off. He went to Africa to work for The Shell Company and he has many adventures there. Some of these are really funny. He then joined the RAF to fly in WW2. We have recreated a part of the story where his plane crashes in the desert. He manages to survive although he is blinded by the crash and badly injured. He does get his sight back eventually.Going Solo is a great novel! what do you think happens next?
                                                           

Lottie the amazing nurse

Kia Ora welcome back to my blog. I hope you are having an awesome day.When I had A meeting with my teacher this morning, We learnt about Lottie the nurse. She was a 1 of 10 New Zealand nurses on the hospital ship called the Maheno. It was really sad but cool to learn about it. most days Lottie wrote a diary entery. Our task was to write a diary entery of what our bubble is like or something about your experience in your bubble. I thought it would be cool to write about the last day of school... Here it is... who is in your bubble?

What I think Auschwitz Concentration Camp would look like....Pixilart!

Hello fellow people the world.

For reading we are doing a novel study. The book that we are doing is The boy in the stripped pyjamas.

Personally I really like this book! Our task was to make a pixilart that showed what we the Auschwitz Concentration Camp looks like.  Here is mine               

The red rectangle at the top is a train. The white builing with the blue stripes is where they send the prisoners to get poisend. The soilders trick the prisoners by saying they are going to have a shower. The building with the black circles are where they burn the bodys. The 2 white buildings with the green are where the soilders stay,the green repesents grass. The 4 white buildings are where the prisoners stay. Bye for now!

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