How to be sustainable

 Kia ora! Welcome back to my blog. This blog will be showing my explanation text about how to be sustainable. 

How to be sustainable. 
Sustainability. It is the idea that us humans will save the goodness of our planet in friendly ways for
future generations.Everyone can be sustainable. You can do this in many

ways, such as being all electric, reducing plastic usage
and growing your own food.
Being all Electric
Being all electric isn’t easy. It means having an
electric car, solar paneled house and an electric
fireplace. The reason why it is so important to have
an electric car is because petrol cars release
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and cause
global warming to be a bigger problem. Electric cars
are easy to charge, use no petrol (which means your
saving heaps), and are better for the environment.
Solar panels are better too, because they use sunlight
instead of turbines. Electric fireplaces are also
better than gas powered ones, because gas is a fossil
fuel; bad for the environment.
Reducing plastic usage
It is important to reduce your plastic usage because
plastic will always go into the bin, or the ocean which
is even worse. The plastic will get eaten by sea creatures,
which means no fish for dinner. Ways you can decrease
plastic usage is by wrapping our food in beeswax wraps.
These are reusable, and environmentally friendly
wrapping material, also super easy to make. Maybe if
you buy a bag of cookies with plastic wrap, instead you
could bake the cookies yourself.
Growing your own food.
It is better to grow your own food, because when you
buy it, it usually comes in plastic wrapping or has to
get shipped from overseas. You know why the plastic is
bad, but why the shipping? When shipping food across
seas, it requires a lot of fossil fuels to power the ship,
and sometimes,  you have to burn them. Burning fossil
fuels is bad, because it sends dirty air into our lungs,
and up into the atmosphere, which like I said earlier,
is bad.

Conclusion
In conclusion, our world is in danger. There are many
worldwide problems. These are only a few of the ways
we can help our world, but if we want our world to be
healthy, we need to take action, NOW. 
Glossary:
Turbine - A metal piece that spins around to make
electricity
Fossil fuels - A type of energy producer such as coal,
oil and natural gas.
Atmosphere - The layer or layers of gases around
a planet.

Thank you for reading my blog. Which one of these do you already do?

Maths Knowledge week 9

 Kia ora! This blog is about my math knowledge week 9. We chose a goal to try and make green on Hero, and then answered questions to prove we could do it. Here is my goal: 

Say the number 1 /1000, 1 /100’, 1 /10, 1, 10, before or after any number.

And here are my answers:

Thank you for reading my blog. Try figure out one of the answers and see if you get it right!

I baked something without knowing what it was...

Kia ora! Welcome to my blog. This blog is about my reading, writing and maths from week 7. First I will share my reading.

In reading, we were learning about what is ok to skim and scan and what you have to read properly. We were given some intructuions to follow without knowing what we were making. I chose the baking one and here are the instructions we had to follow: 

I made it and it turned out to be scones: 

Next, my writing. Our writing this week was linked to our reading, about instructions. But instead, we were writing them this time. We had to choose something to write instuctions for how to do, and make them clear to read. I chose how to tie a shoelace.

And last, maths. This week we were learning about the four types of transformation. We had to create a logo that showed at least two. They are, reflection,rotation,translation,enlargment. Here is my logo for sunglasses.

I used all four of them. I used enlargment  for the one in the middle, translation when moving them around in an oval, rotation when rotating them different ways and I tried to make it the same on both sides. That is all for this blog today, thanks for reading!

What was your favourite part of this blog?

What's the destination?

 Kia ora and welcome back to my blog. This blog should be quick, because I only have one thing to share with you. In my math class this week, we were doing grid references and compass directions. We had to create something that showed our understanding of them. I created a map with a path to follow:

Try doing this yourself!

The directions are: 

Start at p6, then move north 3 spaces, east 2 spaces, south 3 spaces,

west 10 spaces, south 2 spaces, west 4 spaces, where are you?

Where did you end up?

5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.

Kia ora, and welcome back to my blog. This blog is about the ten poems I wrote for our create week 6. We were learning about poem writing, and learnt about 4 different poem types. This included, Rhyming, Shape poem, Haiku and riddle. I chose a haiku, 10 actuually. The structure of a haiku is, 

First line: 5 syllables

Second line: 7 syllables

Third line: 5 syllables.

I wrote ten of these, not all of them were my best work because it was hard to think of the words but some of them I loved. Here they are:

Thank you for reading. My question for you is, what was you favourite one of my haikus and do you think you could write one about the same thing but differently?

Jiggly Jelly Cake

Kia ora, this week in the Kaupeka Hub we have been learning about hobbies. Our goal is: use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking. I have learnt that a hobby is something you like to do, such as a sport or another activity that brings you happiness. We were tasked to create something that showed our understanding of hobbies, or create a video teaching someone how to do your hobby. I created a video about baking. I made lots of seperate videos then combined them and edited it, maybe you could try this while you are in lockdown!

My reflection is:

Next time I might make the instructions a bit more clear; there were some times when I played and paused the video too fast and you couldn't see what I was doing.

Question: What is your hobby? You never know, you may have lots!

What kind of mindset do you have?

 Kia ora welcome back to my blog. In this blog I will share about my new learning on a growth mindset. This week in Kaupeka hub we have been learning about a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. This is a growth mindset and fixed mindset.

Now that you know what a growth and fixed mindset is, I am going to share what I have created. I have created a poster on J.K Rowling to show what kind of mindset she has.

I chose to use google drawings for a poster because it clearly explains what I have learned and is really simple.

Thank you for reading my blog, what kind of mindset do you have? Maybe both?

Students should be PAID for what they do at school.

 Kia ora, welcome back to my blog. In this blog I will be sharing all about why I think students should be paid for certain things at school. This week we were tasked to write a persuasive text about any topic from the following:

I chose Students should be paid to go to school, but that seemed a little unreasonable to me so I changed it up to make it certain things. Here is my text:

Why students should get paid for certain things at school

I strongly believe that students should be paid to do certain things at school. It is important that students will be acknowledged in their classroom for what they do at school, but is acknowledgement enough? Some children would like more than acknowledgement, like an award or badge. I will share with you my opinion on why students should be paid money.

Firstly, some of the activities the students do is something an adult might get paid for. For example, a band. Adults get paid to perform on stage with their musical instruments, so why not children? We can rock it like adults can’t we?! While our music choice might not be the same, our skills and perfection may be the same. So I just don’t understand why we don’t get paid? And things like Kapa Haka, people have to pay to get in so they can watch, but their money doesn’t go to the people they pay to watch! We will put in just as much effort and time to do this as an adult, but still no pay!

Secondly, the money doesn’t have to be much! It would be just a small amount to give us appreciation for what we have done. And maybe a certificate to make the appreciation last. We could then save up the money all together and do something for the whole school or club, to help make it be more known to others. And maybe the school could save up for another event like a performance for another club or a party for the people who performed.

Lastly, the students who aren’t in the clubs will then want to join, because they know they will get paid. Wouldn’t it be great if every child was in a club? People would be making new friends, experiencing new talents and having a great time. Although it may cost a bit more money for the school or the organisation, it is all about the children, right?

To sum up my opinion, I am sure that students should be paid for some of the things that they do, my first reason because then it is fair that the people who are hard working get rewarded, and also because it could all add up to students making new friends, discovering new talents and having lots of fun.  

Thank you for reading my blog. What is your opinion on my topic?

Another knowledge

 This week in kaupeka we were tasked to another knowledge test with another goal. The goal I chose was a L4 goal and it was: Say the number 1 /1000, 1 /100’, 1 /10, 1, 10, before or after. I did my work in my book copying off these questions:

I then took a photo and uploaded it to this page:

Thank you for reading, maybe challenge yourslef to answer one of the question I had to do, and comment your answer!

Oh no! There's a sheep on the loose...

This week our goal is: Select from a wide range of genres when reading independently. We were tasked to create this blog and share our new learning About these articles: Blues win trans-tasman rugby title Runaway sheep on the loose in New Plymouth Should we keep pets?

Blues win trans - tasman rugby title

Title: Blues win trans - tasman rugby title

My opinion, because I don’t like the blues, is that there should be two tournaments and the winner of each tournament , the Australian tournament and New Zealand tournament and then the winners of each tournament v each other. The shapes they used were Titles, Describing words, paragraphs..

Runaway sheep on the loose in New Plymouth

Title: Runaway sheep on the loose

My opinion on the text is that they should set up a trap for the sheep to go into and then the sheep will be caught. Some of the shapes they have used a headline pun, and paragraphs.

Should we keep pets?

Title: Should We Keep pets?

My opinion is that we should keep pets so we can have company and so the dogs can be looked after and not be treated badly. Also I think that if you go away a lot then you have to leave your pet alone But I would rather have a pet with me to keep me company

My learning went great because I learned some cool new information and how to identify different genres!

Pronunciation of genres, john - rers.

What was your favourite article???

Topple!

 Kia ora, welcome back to my blog. This week I have something AWESOME to share with you, my MATHS. This week for maths we spent Tuesday working on perimetre and area, and then Wednesday was volume and metric units. We were then tasked yesterday, to create a game for the Top Team challenge. It is all about team building, with a whole lot of challenges. If my game wins, it will be part of a top team game! We had to add all the realting units to the game, if it was going to be entered. Here is my game!

Thank you for reading my blog. I really hope my game gets through. What was your favourite part of the game?

The oil spill, Turangawaewae and Otago problem solving

 Kia ora whanau! Kei te pehea koutou? 

This week in the kaupeka hub we have been doing some very fun learning. In maths, I was chosen for a problem solving competition. We answered five questions on a test, and I can't wait to get back my results. One of the questions that I found hard was this, 

You have to figure out what the letters mean on this question. Remember, A is one letter the whole time. Same with B and C. Try figure it out and answer it in the comments.

Okay, next is my Writing. This week we were writing poems about our turangawaewae and we had to do something called show don't tell when you have to show them about your place but you write it down. It was quite hard to do but here is mine.

In the distance, you see only sky,   

Waves are crashing right before your eye,  

With the bright warm sun, way up high.

You dive in the water, it makes you freeze,

You notice the water is like a cool breeze,

Then you dive again, the sand scraping your knees.

It’s time to go home, you’ve had a lovely lucky day,

You want some ice cream, so you go and pay,

And then it's time to go to bed and pray,

That tomorrow will be just like today.

Now last but not least, reading. This week for reading we were challenging the text with questions. We did this on a google drawing and added some pictures. Here is mine so far: (I might need to change some things)

Thank you for reading my blog. Can you guess where my turangawaewae is from reading the text?

Poems

 Kia ora! Welcome back! This blog is about Week 9 Term 1. First is my Reading. This week for reading we were creating landmarks for NZ. We read some texts to insprie us, I read about The chch museum and The Eiffel tower. So I thought of an idea to make a museum tower. This is my work:

Now, Writing. This week for writing we were doing poems. We had to write it about chch and ngai tahu together in a poem. Here is my poem:

A tale of Ōtautahi where there lies stories of toil and mahi. Over 800 years ago, Ngai Tahu came to NZ. They rode the ocean navigating with the stars, as they voyaged on waka. Ngai Tahu meaning, the people of Tahu, linking to their ancestor, Tahu Potiki.By the 1830’s, Ngāi Tahu had built a thriving industry supplying whaling vessels and had become the backbone of the South Island economy.

A tale of Ōtautahi where there lies stories of toil and mahi. Time passed, and more happened, the treaty,  te tiriti o waitangi. Then the pakeha. And more. More people from other countries started living here. Then, now. Now we have sheep as our thing, and we are very good at sport. But we are also very unlucky too. The earthquakes and mosque attacks. Unlucky.

A tale of Ōtautahi where there lies stories of toil and mahi. Now as a nation, we move forward with each other. It is like, Jacinda Ardern drives the car and everybody else is in the back seat. The car is New Zealand. Schooling and Education is a lot better than what it used to be, same with clothes and food. A tale of Ōtautahi where there lies stories of toil and mahi.

And now, Maths. This week for maths we were doing transformation. We had to use this shape and show it for all types of transfrormation: Reflection, Rotation, Translation, and Enlargment:"

Then we had to create our own kowhaiwhai pattern. A kowhaiwhai pattern is when a maori design is repeated into a pattern, like mine!

Thank you for reading. What was your favourite part?

Walking through New Zealand

 Kia ora koutou! This blog is about my reading, writing and maths. Last week, I told you the name of my new place for chch, The Walk Through NZ. I finally finished it with my friend Izzy, and I think it looks really cool. I put a lot of work into it so I hope you like it!

Now maths. This week for maths we were doing a statictical investigation. A statictical investigation is when you collect data (information) and put it into a graph to show the data. My data is about Te Reo Speakers In NZ By Age. Here is the slide I made: 

Lastly, writing. This week for writing, we did a newsletter. I hasn't come out yet, but it hopefully will be soon. I wrote this article about young vinnies. My friend (Tash) is also doing one about young vinnies so please read hers too. This is mine:

Thank you for reading my blog. What part of this blog  did you like the most? Do you think the walk through nz should be a real place?

Kaupeka news

 Kia ora koutou! Welcome back to my blog. This week I will be sharing about, Writing, Reading and Health and P.E. But first, the one that links to the title, WRITING!

This week for writing, we were tasked to come up with an idea for Kaupeka news. Kaupeka news is a newspaper including all the schools clubs and events that happen throughout the year. I had to come up with and idea about what my article would be about. So, I chose Young Vinnies. Next week I will write the article for the newspaper about how Young Vinnies is showing service to the school by fundrasing and helping others. Please read my article when it comes out!

Now Reading. For reading this week the teachers assigned us to read two articles from the Kaupeka hub site and make notes about what we learned from each text. Then with the information we collected, next week we will create a place we think chch needs. The following words is the name of the place I am making. If you think you know what it might be then add a comment please!: The Walk through NZ.

And last thing for today, just something we did I enjoyed and wanted to share with you. In Health and P.E this week, we were given the task to put some food into their food group. This is what I did: 

Thank you for reading my blog. If you think I put something in the wrong spot, please tell me!

A long long time ago...

 Kia ora and Welcome back to my blog! This blog is the first one I have done this year because we are just getting into blogging. This blog is about last week's writing. We have been learning about the treay of Waitangi and important people from those times. We were tasked to create a postcard from somebody in the past, to somebody else in the past. 

I chose Henry Williams because I think he had a very important job with the treaty, translating it. The treaty was first written in English, then Henry William and his son, Edward translated it to Maori. I made my postcard to the Queen, who in that time was Queen Victoria. I even designed the stamp myself.

Thank you for reading. Did you learn anything new from this blog?

I tell you, you tell me!

We are learning to work together and give clear instructions to our partner. We learnt this because it is important to know how to work together.We had to get a partner, I chose Beth. Then we had to direct each other (without looking) where certain pictures are. Check out our slides:

My slide:

Beth's slide

We made a couple of mistakes but we learnt a lot and had fun. Next time we will try and be a bit more specific about where things are!

What was your favourite part about this blog?

HEINZ BEANZ

 Kia ora koutou! Welcome back to my blog. Today I am going to share a quick slideshow I made about the short film HEINZ BEANZ. If you haven't seen the film, here it is.

Here is my follow up

Chocolate for breakfast

 Kia ora koutou, welcome back to my blog.

This week we in the Tumu hub have been learning about balanced argumenmts. Our learning intention is, explore different text types, and use use language that is suitable to the topic, audience and purpose and use text features that is appropriate to the purpose. We were tasked to fill in a document about a balanced arguments text this week with the name of the book, arguments against, arguments for, and your opinion. Here is mine!!!!

I hope you enjoyed my poster. What is your opinion on chocolate for breakfast????

Bad vs Good blog comments!

This week, I partnered up with Zoe and we  have been learning about what makes a good blog comment vs what makes a bad blog comment. We learnt that a blog comment should include the following:

• Positive sentence

• Thoughtful sentence

• Helpful sentence

• Name at the end

Here is a google drawing showing our learning about what makes a good blog comment

We learnt that bad comments don't include the following:

• Positive sentence

• Helpful sentence

• Thoughtful sentence

Did you like our blog and learn something new from it?