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?

Peace Week

 This Week in Kaupeka hub we have been working on inner peace. We were tasked to create something that showed others what inner peace was to us and what the four walls of peace were. Here is mine:

I also create a drawing to show some more about peace.

Thank you for reading. What was your favourite picture?

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?