Adventure Week

Last week we had a whole week of activities.
We got to choose out of lots of different activities.

On Monday, I went ten pin bowling, I won one game of two.

On Tuesday, I went out around botanical gardens, and around New Brighton, and took photos of different things listed on a piece of paper.

On Wednesday, I got to cook pizza, It was very filling and I couldn't eat my lunch.

On Thursday, We all went to jellie park for the day. I ended up getting bad sunburn.

And lastly on Friday, We had a fun day, But there wasn't much to do, and it got boring.

Photography Challenge

Photography Challenge

Today at school as part of our fun week, me, and a group of people went out of school.
We had to take photos of certain things with a group of 3 to 4 people, this was on a checklist that was clipped on a clipboard with a pen. we also got an ice cream at the end for one of the pictures we had to take.

Here are two collages of the photos we took.

Inquiry Update

Inquiry Update

For my Inquiry this term, Me and a group of people ran a Junior Christmas Disco. We had to organize lots of things, including what place we were going to donate to. we chose to donate all of the money we made, plus dog food donations to dog watch. they are a company that rescue stray dogs from the pound, and all the money will be going to scales and agility equipment for the dogs they look after.

We also had to organize things we were going to buy, decorations, and certain ideas like pre orders, and selling at the disco. This meant we had to learn to agree to disagree with each other.

Now all the Disco team have to do now, is donate to dog watch, which means we will get to see the dogs we did the disco for.

Overall I feel very proud of what I have contributed, and happy I get to help out the dogs at dog watch with our donations.

Collage

Collage

Today in maniakalani, we got to make a collage using different images, we used google drawings. 

Book Into Movie

This week we had to write something about a book we have been reading turning into a movie. the only book I have been reading has already become a movie, so I just had to make do with the date release from years ago.

-My Work-

Inquiry

For my Inquiry this term, Me and a few other people have been organizing a Junior Christmas disco.
The Inquiry topic is about helping people in our community, and the way we are helping out the community, and incorporating the topic into our disco, is by giving all the proceeds to a company called Dog Watch, This company looks after abandoned, stray, and abused dogs, and finds them a home when they are ready to be adopted, 

More recently we have been working on creating a song playlist and editing/printing our posters, order sheets, and also our flyers which will advertise our disco, and will contain useful information for Juniors attending the disco.

At the moment, we are working on getting our advertisements to the classrooms and buying and preparing all the decorations we are using to decorate the disco. We still need to go shopping to get our decorations and our items we will be selling at the disco.

I feel like my experience with organizing things will help us get along with our disco, and will hopefully help us in the long run.

Sherbet Science

Sherbet Science

This term we have been doing science experiments to learn the chemistry behind them. one of our
choices was sherbet.

Method 

This is how we made the sherbet

Ingredients- Plastic cup, measuring spoons, icing sugar, citric acid, and baking soda.

Step 1 Put 1 teaspoon of baking soda into a plastic cup.

Step 2 Put 1 teaspoon of citric acid into the same plastic cup.

Step 3 And finally add 2 tablespoons of icing sugar into the cup.

Hypothesis

Before the experiment, we thought that when we ate the sherbet, it would foam up and react with our saliva.
This is because we know that the saliva would react with something in the sherbet

Results

Our Hypothesis was correct, and the sherbet made our mouths foam. This is because our saliva reacts with
the acid that is in the baking soda, this makes the sherbet start to foam up. This happens because the saliva
breaks the bonds in the mixture

Conclusion

In conclusion, The sherbet is made from citric acid, icing sugar, and baking soda, which reacts with saliva
and makes the sherbet foam up in your mouth, this is because the saliva breaks the bonds in the sherbet

The Equation

In the chemistry behind the sherbet, there is an equation. The equation is the atoms used in
the sherbet, the atoms can be found on the periodic table. 

3NaHCO3 + C6H8O7 ➜ 3Na + C6 H5 O7 + 3H2O + 3CO2 

Maori Language Week

For Maori language week, We had to write a picture book in Te Reo, this is my book.
 

 I also had to record myself saying my Mihi.

Scratch Game

Scratch

At school I have been using scratch to make games and projects. Today, I made a music game on twinkle twinkle little star,This is it, But I haven't finished yet.

To play again, Just press green flag in top left corner.


Link To Website

Hokey Pokey Science Infographic

Hokey Pokey Info graphic

For science this term we have been making info graphics for science experiments we have been doing this year. My most recent info graphic was about hokey pokey. 

Info Graphic

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Science Info Graphics

Science Info Graphics

This year we have been making info graphics for Math, Literacy, and Science! here are two of my Science info graphics i have made earlier this term.

Info graphics

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Talent Quest Update

Talent Quest Update

This year I have been working on Talent Quest, The talent quest just started yesterday and will be going for 2 weeks. It has been running smoothly aside from the fact that some little kids didn't show up, and that the script was mucked up. I'm looking forward to doing more of the talent quest.

The Logo for Talent Quest.

Talent Quest

Talent Quest

For the last two terms, I have been working on Talent Quest for Rāwhiti School.  This has been really challenging to do talent quest, AND do my work. we are just wrapping up talent quest right now with most of, if not all of the work finished. 

Here are many things we struggled with finishing

• The Script we are using on the day.
• Getting people into our sign up spreadsheet, and getting them on certain days.
• Getting people from around the classrooms
• Fixing errors in certain documents
• Making sure we get everything in the sign up sheets, certificates, ETC. 

And a lot more!

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Make A Connection

• If the post reminds you of something, add it into the comment!

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Video

This Is What Happens When You Have A Stroke

This Is What Happens When You Pay Attention In Math

Bar Graphs

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about bar graphs. I learnt that bar graphs have, tittles, bars, and labels, there are horizontal, and vertical, labels. Here is an example of my learning

Inquiry Reflection

Inquiry Reflection

At the beginning of the term, I did a quiz on the Careers NZ website and discovered
that some jobs might interest me are Graphic Designer, Chef, and Digital Artist.

From my Strengths Explorer Survey I discovered that my top three strengths are relater
discoverer, and organizer.    

Thinking about these I decided to focus on the career of a digital artist.

I got information from the Careers website, as well as my own personal experience.

I organised my information into a  slideshow and presented it to my classmates and the
year 6 students at our Rāwhiti Career Expo.

One thing I learned is how much digital artists get paid, which is around $20-70 per hour.

What we have been learning.

What we have been learning.

At school, for inquiry we have been doing work on careers, and learning stuff about careers we might pursue in the future, we presented our work to year 6's.This is my work. also, we have been learning about our strengths, and what makes us different.

For my careers, I chose digital artist, Click here to find out more. and my strengths are that i am a organizer, discoverer, and relater.

For my career, I used my strengths,by organizing my information, discovering, and asking questions about my career.

Minecraft Dream Whare

At school over the last few weeks, Me, and a few others got chosen for a Minecraft challenge, the challenge was making our dream Whare (House) in Minecraft.

Riley, and I worked together to build the house shown above but I missed out on quite a few sessions, but i still helped a lot with it. It was very fun and I really enjoyed it.

We had to make a few changes, either due to feedback, or to make the house aesthetically pleasing, or because of features that didn't work, such as the panda habitat. 

Maths

The other day in maths we watched a video, and made a google drawing to explain what polygons are, and the difference between irregular, and regular polygons, This is my google drawing. We are also working on explaning angles, but I haven't finished this yet.

Family Focus

Family Focus

Today I read an article about real migrants, and learnt from a video the reasons why people migrate, and that there’s 2 different factors, push and pull factors, push factors are things that, well push you out, such as war, politics, and many more, pull factors are, literally what pulls you to another country, these are more positive as its your own choice.

The main reasons this family chose to move was because of the fathers job, and to focus on family life

But what are the push and pull factors in this story? Well, maybe the pull factor was the fact that the Farther in this story,Fabio had a job in new zealand, so he had to leave, But the pull might have been that the family would like to focus on family, and New Zealand was a good place.

But moving to another country will always be hard, and here are the reasons why I would be pushed, and/or pulled out of New Zealand

Pushed out

-War

-Better healthcare?

-for my future career

-Family

Pulled towards

-Cultural side of things

-To learn interesting stuff

And so on so forth.

But where would i go? I would probably like to live in China, because I would like to live there, and has many pull factors.

Voyagers Infographic

Dream Jobs

Dream Jobs

Over the last few weeks we have been learning all about jobs and careers.
Just yesterday we took a test to determine possible jobs for the future.
Here is my narrowed down group of 5, i originally had 40,
but i picked out key ones i would enjoy.

1.Animator/Digital artist

2.Art director.

3.Graphic designer.

4.User experience designer

5.Cook/Chef

Kupe and the Giant Wheke

Reflection On Rotations

Today at school we did a rotation workshop. In the morning, we wrote our names on a sheet, we got to choose out of A, B and C. me, and my friends all choose to go in B.

The first workshop we went to was with Nogo, we learnt some Te Reo and later on we are going to learn another language.

Then with Julie we went to the other workshop were we learnt about acting and played acting games.

With Sharon we watched a movie, but every time somebody said my we wrote down the word after my. I got 15.

Post Similarities-Personal Connection-And Change I'm Going To Make

Post Similarities

-Both have information on how to help out.
-Both have their own opinions section.

-They both have sub-headings to break up the text.

-Includes ways certain things affect the ocean.

-Both about protecting a form of live animals.

Differences

-Mine is about marine life, the other is about birds.

-Some different ways to help out.

-Different wording of things.

-Different reference pages.

-Link to their blogpost-

https://rsbrileyl.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-keep-our-oceans-clean-and-safe.html#comment-form

Personal Connection

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I can connect to this because I always use reusable bags.

Change I'm Going To Make

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I'm going to be more careful with how i use plastic and pick up after my pets messes.

What I Have Been Learning Over The Last Few Weeks

What I have been learning

So far over the last few weeks, I have learnt how to make a pick a path story, and learnt how they work. I wrote mine about someone stranded on an island, The post including the story is below this post.

I’ve also, worked on research about how to keep our oceans clean and safe and things that cause damage to our oceans.

Stranded.

How to keep our oceans safe and healthy

How to keep our oceans safe and healthy

Our oceans are in danger of being damaged by things that we do in our everyday life, which can be dangerous for both us, and marine life.

What causes damage.

The things that damages our oceans are plastic bags, because they may decide to fly away on a windy day, this damages our marine life the most because marine life sees it as food, consumes the plastic, and causes major damage.

Oil spills are also something that damages our ocean, these are caused by people being careless around the ocean, equipment breaking down natural disasters, and more.Dirty water also affects our ocean as this affects our marine life as the water is not clean and therefore our

marine life gets sick.

How to prevent it

Know you may be asking, how do I prevent this from happening? I don’t want our marine life to suffer. Here are a couple of ways to help because i don't want this to happen either,

1,Organise a beach clean-up, to clean-up plastic, rubbish, ect

To help get rid of unnecessary rubbish.

2,Try reduce putting rubbish, and even dirty water down drains! This goes through the drains into the oceans and if we keep putting rubbish down the drains, it may drastically damage marine life.

3, Try reducing using plastic bags, try using fabric reusable bags, so that if your bags do decide to fly away, it won’t be harming the marine life as much as plastic bags.

4,Be careful with rubbish around the beach, as these can fly away into the sea and causemarine damage, try using less rubbish that may be unnecessary around the beach, and when you can, put the rubbish in a bin.

My opinion

My opinion on this is that- it’s horrible that our marine life are in danger of being harmed, but if we can do something about it, it will definitely help.

-Links-

https://greenerideal.com/news/environment/0613-how-do-plastic-bags-affect-our-environment/

https://www.mfe.govt.nz/marine/we-all-have-role-play/what-you-can-do

Reflection

I think overall I did okay, but there are things i could improve on, such as, The formating,
Could be more organised, My persuasive argument could be more persuasive and I could use
a more extended vocabulary.

Manaiakalani-Sumopaint artwork

Manaiakalani-Sumopaint

Today, with manaiakalani,
we got to draw an image of anything we would like, at first i drew a
scenery, but something happened so I ended up drawing a underwater city.
I found the overlay layer option very helpful

Technology Center

Technology Center

This Term on Thursdays I have been going to Technology
(tech for short)

And my subjects have been foods and woodwork.

In foods, more recently we have
been making bread products and we have also made,
quesadillas+carrot and raisin salad, burgers, and more.

In woodwork we are making a picture frame,
first a mini version, and later on we are going to make a
bigger and more finished version. Before that we made a
name-tag, mine is a letter H.

I'm looking forward to seeing what else we can do for
tech in the future.

Milos-Drawing

MILOS

For a few weeks I have been doing something called MILOS.

(MILOS stand for My Independent Learning Options)

For my MILOS I have been learning how to further my drawing skills, I am specifically learning how to draw birds,and in the end, after I have learnt, I am going to draw an illustration based on each classrooms native birds.

-Next steps-

The things i need to do next are,

Discover different ways to draw birds, and find out what each classrooms birds are.

Text-to-self and text-to-text Holly

Text-to-self

I connect to this text because i have been interested in ocean
pollution because when i was younger i had no idea how the ocean would
get polluted and wanted to learn more about it.

Text-to-text

Similarities between texts

-both about/include information about oil spills.

-both include lots of info about the damage caused.

-both have a story to tell

Differences

-One talks about the many ocean pollutions, the other talks about one type.  

-The stories told are different