Books... Make your world bigger?

Hi!

This week for my home learning blog I chose the...

Books Make Your World Bigger Activity!

All of the instructions that I had to follow are in the slide.

Also all my work is in the slide.

Here's the slide...

That was my work.

I hope you liked it.

Feel free to comment on my work.

Please also comment me some feedback.

Bye!

Fun and Creative... Reading?

Hi!

For the past couple of weeks we have been doing school journal work.

I haven't finished all my work yet since we have the rest of the week 

but I am sharing some of the creative parts.

I'm probably going to share the whole slide once it's finished.

For now I'm going to show some of the fun and creative parts.

For this activity we read...

Close to the edge.

For one of the activities we had to show all the types

of description and share it creatively.

Like it says in the top left corner.

For this activity we read...

Match report.

For that activity we had to find some of the cricketing 

words in the story and say what they mean in a creative way.

The instructions are in the top left corner.

For this story we read...

Kauri island.

So for this activity we had to write down all the plants.

Get a photo ( That's just what I wanted to do.)

Then we had to write a fact about each tree.

This is also part of the story

Kauri island.

Except it's another activity.

The instructions were clear 

and this is what I have.

This story that we read was a poem called...

The embarrassment expert.

The activity that we had to do was to make a 

piece of art matching the poem.

That was most of the interesting parts of my school journal work.

Feel free to comment of what I have done well.

Please also comment on what I can improve on so I can make the 

rest of my school journal work better.

Bye!

Cycling into the unknown...

Hi!

For the past two days we have been doing...

CYCLE SAFETY!

We were taught by some people from Christchurch City Council.

We have learnt how to be safe on the road.

We learnt the signals, I will tell you what they are.

- You put your left hand out to signal left

- You put your right hand out to signal right

- You put your right hand up in a stop motion to signal that your stopping

We learnt who gets to go first at intersections, I will tell you. 

- The people on the main road always go first

- The people going straight go first

- Left goes second

- Right goes last

When you are going around roundabouts you have to always give way to your right.

I had to borrow one of their helmets and bikes.

To borrow a helmet we have to wear a hair net.

My bike was called 'Black Thunder'.

You probably have had enough of me talking.

Here are some photos...

Us learning about signs

Grace playing one of the games.

Us playing shrinking square.

Maddie hiding from the camera.

Me biking.

Grace biking.

Maddie biking.

Shay biking.

My group lining up getting ready to cycle away.

Those were some of the photos.

I hope you liked seeing my blog.

Sadly, we don't have any photos of us on the road.

We only have photos of us at school on the first day.

I found that it was a lot easier and smoother on the court at school 

and that it was a lot more bumpy on the road.

I was a bit nervous when we first went on the road but after a bit it was fun and easy.

It was on the second day that we used our new skills on the road.

Feel free to comment on my blog and if you already 

knew some of these biking rules.
Bye!

Positives & Negatives...

Hi!

This week for my home learning blog post I chose.

POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES!

For this we had to do it on biteable.

It was my first time using biteable so I found it fun.

All the information about what I had to do is in the slide.

Enjoy...

That was the video.

I hope you liked it.

If it didn't work please comment 

that so I can try to fix it.
Sorry if the video is to big for the blog.
I don't know how to fix that yet.

Thank you for reading my blog.

Also thank you for watching the biteable.

Bye!

😃

Bird hat?

Hi! 

For the past THREE weeks we have been doing this.

We have only had two days to do this part though since we haven't gotten much time for it.

So what we had to do was to make our own invention and write about 5 cool parts of it.

The first slide is all of my explaining so you understand what the product is and what it does.

That was the information that you might need to know about the product.

Now here is the invention that I made.

That was my invention.

I hope you liked it.

Do you think it is a good invention or not?

Comment what you think and if you would buy it.

I will be blogging more about our inventions work
once we have done some more on it.

Bye!

Eclipse...

Hi!

Today for my Home Learning blog I chose the Eclipse blog post.

So I chose to make a Animaker.

All the information you might need to know is in the Video.

I didn't know to post it so I did a screencastify.

It isn't the best so I hope you enjoy.

That was the video.

I hope it worked.

If it didn't please comment.

If you liked it also comment or what I could improve on.
Bye!

Peters String

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Yesterday, for math, we did work on a slide about Peters string.

All we had to do was answer the questions, show our working out then show the answer.

I didn't find it that hard but it was a bit confusing since 

I did it at home because I wasn't at school that day.

Because of that I don't know if I did it right or wrong.

Here is my work.

Then if we finished we had to do the extension.

Here is the rest of my work.

That was my work.

I hope I did it right.

Feel free to comment if you think I answered it 

right or wrong with your working out.

I think I answered them right but it hasn't been marked yet so I don't know.

Bye!

The Best Age

Hi!

This week for my Home Learning blog post.

I chose 'The Best Age' activity.

All the information that you might need is in this slide.

Here's the slide...

That was my slide.

I hope you liked it.

Feel free to comment on what your favourite age is
and if you agree with what my friends and I answered.

Bye!

The 3 Writing Samples - Blue, Purple and Pink

Hi!

For a couple of weeks, starting some time last week, 

we have been doing work in description.

Since I don't want to make you read the whole doc 

I will show you some parts of the things we have been doing.

This work is one of the first things we did.

All we had to do is read each writing sample and we had to answer...

What are your thoughts on these three writing samples?

What are the strengths?

What could be improved?

There are three writing samples that we had to read.

Here is the first one...

Sample 1

My bedroom is at the end of the hallway. 

When you walk into my room it is a big open space with cream/white coloured walls. 

I have a window seat looking out onto the street where I love to sit and read. 

It’s decorated with pillows and a big blanket. 

I have a queen size bed also decorated with pillows and blankets. 

My bedroom has a desk to do homework, a dresser for my clothes, a bookshelf and a nightstand beside my bed. 

Aside from the furniture in my room, I have two comfy areas where I just relax. 

Here is my thoughts about this writing sample...

I think that the blue piece of writing is factual but not descriptive.

It has lots of 'I have' so they could include different sentence starters.

That was sample one and my thoughts.

Now here is the second one.

Sample 2

My bedroom is a four-walled space, painted blue/turquoise on the bottom and grey on the top with a white trim in the middle dividing the two colors.

In one of the corners of my room is my queen size bed with grey sheets and a white comforter that has dots of blue/turquoise and coral on it.

Right in front of my bed is a white dresser with a TV on it.

In the corner diagonal from my bed is a grey chair.

On the wall to the right of the chair is my closet, then my mirror is in the last corner.

Beside the mirror is a white door with a silver handle.

The last thing in my room is a small dresser beside my bed.

Here are my thoughts about this writing sample...

I think that the purple piece of writing is a bit more descriptive but it isn’t that interesting throughout the writing just in parts.

So to improve it they could have description throughout the writing.

That was sample 2 and my thoughts.

Now last but not least.

Sample 3

My bedroom is a safety net with swirling colors hugging the walls.

In one of the corners of my room my queen size bed sits, waiting for the weight of my body at the end of the day.

Right in front of my bed is a delicate white dresser that holds all my secrets.

Diagonal from the bed standing to attention is my chair.

On the wall to the right of the chair is the object that stares back at me looking for my successes and my failures.

Beside it is a curved, small, snow colored door with a sparkling silver handle.

This is my sanctuary. This is my haven. This is my safe place.

Now here are my thoughts on this writing sample...

I think that the pink piece of writing is very descriptive and explains what her room is to her.

It uses repetition in the last 3 sentences stating a point.

Those were all the writing samples and my thoughts.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my work.

Feel free to comment what writing sample is your favorite.

The pink writing sample was my favorite.

Did you notice how the samples improved?

Bye!

Inventions that changed the world - The start of the slide

Hi!

This week we have been learning about 

inventions that changed the world.

Here is the link we used to find 

the Inventors and inventions.

It is the Inventor Hall Of Fame.

LINK

Since we haven't done much on the slide so 

far I just screenshotted the slides that we have done.

So here is the slide screenshots.

Those were my screenshots of the slide

I hope you learnt about some new inventors.

I didn't know about any of them until I looked.

Feel free to comment on my work or if 

you know some good inventors.

Next week I think we will be doing some more on our 

invention work and I will post it as soon as I think 

there is enough interesting work to show.

Bye!

ANZAC DAY!

Hi!

For the past couple of days we have been doing some ANZAC work.

All we had to do is read the text then we had to make a DLO 

about 5 facts we want to write about.

Next we had to make a mini inquiry about one of the things in the text.

Then we had to post our DLO.

I chose to post my whole slide so there is the DLO and the Mini inquiry.

This is the drawing where we got our instructions from.

Here is my slide.

I hope you learn some more things about ANZAC day.

That was my slide.

I hope you liked it.

What facts did you already know in this slide?

Feel free to comment if you knew some of the facts 

already or if most of these you didn't know.

Bye!

Innovation - Home Learning

Hi!

For this week my home learning 

I chose the Innovation activity.

I found this activity fun thinking of a idea.

All the information you will

need to know is in this slide.

I hope you like it.

That was my slide.

Feel free to comment a positive, thoughtful and 

helpful comment if you want to about my work.

Thank you for reading my blog.

Bye!

Toothpick Squares

Hi!

Today for math we did something called toothpick squares.

For this all we had to do is find out how many toothpicks 

you need to make 9 squares in a row.

I didn't find that part very hard because all I had to do is count each square as 3 toothpicks and for the last square I counted 4 toothpicks.

It will be easier to understand the photo of my work.

That was the main part of my math today.

If we had finished that we had to do the challenge.

For the challenge all we had to do was try to find the least 

amount of toothpicks you can use for 9 squares.

At first I didn't understand how because I thought

 that you had to leave it in a line.

Then I realized that you have to move where the squares are so you

 can use one toothpick for one side of two squares.

My lower score out of my two square things was 22.

Here is my work.

That was the challenge part of my math.

Thank you for reading my blog.

Feel free to come up with you own ideas to use the 

lowest amount of toothpicks for 9 squares 

and comment your lowest score.

I hope you liked reading about my math work today.

Bye!