Writing Assessment Review - WGA

 Hi guys today in WGA we looked at reviewing our writing test. We looked at our Term 1 and Term 4 test. We had to look back at our scores and see if we improved or went down. After you looked at your tests and reread them you had to look at what you need to improve to get a level higher on the Rubric score. The 7 things you a scored on are Ideas, Structure, Organization, Vocabulary, Sentence, Punctuation, and Spelling. After you reviewed every thing you have to give yourself some next steps so you know what you should do to improve. 

The things I need to improve on are Ideas, Structure, and Vocabulary. My next steps to help me improve are looking back my work more then once so I can fully see what I have done and what I need to look at and look at my structure and what is in my sentence and paragraphs. I need to also learn some other words that are better then just the normal ones so then I can improve with my vocab. 

Creative Writing - WGA

Hi guys today in wga we started looking at a photo, Miss Birtch told us a part of the picture and then told us to describe it. Later on after we did that she got us to introduce a character, describe the character, give a reason to why the character is there, introduce a problem, and then we had the choice to resolve the problem or leave it on a cliffhanger. Here is what I wrote and I hope you enjoy.

The pitch black sky was scattered with stars, the dark brown trees twigs was covered in a small layer of snow. The Trees grew bigger and bigger with more snow eventually covering the twigs. 
The white snow covered the green grass, small pieces of stray grass poke out of the snow, some close to the tree some far away. Small pawprints followed behind the dark brown cat, the cat was as fluffy as it could get, it was no where near effected by snow.

The dark brown cat had pure green eyes, the cat had many black spots arounds its entire body. The cat was for sure curious, the dark brown cat could never mind its own business. The cat was trying to finds its way into the light brown house. The cat looked around every single nook and cranny but couldn't find a single way in, the cat was very desperate now. 

The cat walked around near the front door, the cat could hear something but it didn't know where it was coming from, the cat turned left and then saw a golden fluffy dog. The dog barked at the smaller cat, the cat started running as fast as it could not wanting to get caught. The dog chased after the poor cat. The dog thought that the cat was a toy, the cat on the other hand thought it was going to die.

There was a noise of a door opening and someone talking, the cat took it as a sign and ran straight into the house, the dog shortly followed after. There was a huge ruckus happening inside the house. A human grabbed the collar that was around the dogs neck, and the cat went into the furthest corner. It was quite for a bit, one of the humans went inside of kitchen looking for something, the human pulled out a food can, and feed it to the cat, the cat was confused but ate it.

Healthy Menu - Health

 Hi guys today in health we were finishing off what we started yesterday in health. In health we looked at healthy eating, or activity was to create a healthy menu for the week. This took a bit since I didn't really have any ideas of what foods to put on the slide, as well as finding pictures that would match. Here is my work and i hope you enjoy it.

100 Word Challenge

 Hi guys today in wga we did an 100 word challenge. Th picture for the 100 word challenge was a pool. Here is the picture 

Here is what I wrote and I hope you enjoy 

The smell of chlorine was all around the place, the splashing sounds of water and people screaming were evident as well. We were at a water park. It was a very warm day today and the sun was shining and being as bright as ever. I saw people putting on sunscreen, some having less and some having a lot more, almost making them look like ghosts. I walked around the pool going to the deeper end of the pool, there were a lot of people at the deep end, and less down the shallow. I decided I would jump in.

Maths - ANGLES

 Hi guys today in math's me and Carla did a slide on different types of angles and what they are. We also had to put a picture on so you know what it looks like. Here is my blog and I hope you enjoy it.

logo

 Hi guys today me and Carla finished what we ad started yesterday. Before you had to make your logo you had to look at some things for inspiration, colour pallets that you might use, some other ideas, fonts that might go with your product, and words or phrases that may go. Our business idea that we thought of was  plushies on a key chain. We just saw some plushies and thought it could be cool as keychains. We came up with your logo by taking colours that would look good together, have a symbol or something that relates to our idea and just put them together. On our logo there is a chain symbol which represents that it is a key chain or there is just a chain. Our idea represents Taha Hinengaro because it can be used as stress toy and more.
Here is our logo.

Persuasive writing review

 Hi guys today in wga we are looking at reviewing persuasive writing.  The topic we were given is to write an persuasive essay about te importance of business and enterprise in school. Here is what I wrote and I hope you enjoy it.



I think that it is important to learn about business and enterprise in school. I think that it is important because it helps you in your future in what you actually need and what you want to do when you are older. It just sets you up for the future that is why I think that it is important to learn this in school. Here are some reasons on why it should be taught in school.

It is important to learn business and enterprise in school because it sets you up for your future. It also teaches you how to manage money as well. It teaches you how to not over spend when your buying things, prepares you for your career choices in your future, spending money on needs over wants, making investments that will help you later on, as well as this prepares us for our market day near the end of the term. This also prepares you for when if you want to start your own business you will already know some things that needs to happen and you will be prepared for it. It will help you knowing how to budget when you need it.  

Some jobs need you to know how to do this as well. Here are some examples on why you would need this later on in the future. Later on you could want to go to college, but you would have to save to be able to go. Since you learnt how to already save and more in school you would be able to know what to do almost straight away. If you want to start your own business you would need to know how to manage money and other things, in school you should have learned it so you would know what to do what you need, how to advertise your business as well as knowing how to manage your money on buying what you actually need in order to start.

Those were my reasons why it is important to have been taught this in school because you need it for your future since you would basically use it in  your everyday life, and sets you up for what you want to do and more. 

B+E - Vocab

 Hi guys today and yesterday in wga we have been looking at business and enterprise as well as how to manage money. For the first task that we were given is that we had to make a DLO about what certain words mean. (Ones that a relevant to the subject/the ones we used in the mix in match) Here is the work that i have done and I hope you enjoy it.

Drama

 Hi guys today in drama we are writing a reflection, and listing things we enjoy and certain genres or style s that we have learnt during the term. After you did those two you link a video of theatre and say which genre and style it is. Here is what I did and I hope you enjoy it.


Some things that we learnt about was we looked at clowning, F.A.R.T.S Which stood for different types of things (Focus, Action, Role, Tension, and Space), we looked at different types of theatre. The most recent thing we looked at was also more different types of theatre,   Comedy, Tragedy , Melodrama, Physical Drama, and Epic Drama. My favourite game that we played in drama was Park Bench.

1. Tragedy - I enjoy a lot of things about this genre because not all things turn out happy in the end, as well as it is pretty interesting. Something I have seen that is in the movie Romeo and Juliet.
2. Comedy - I like the genre comedy because you need to laugh once in while as well as its fun just to watch people be funny. Something I have watched in this genre is Dead pool.
3. Melodrama - I liked melodrama because I also like action films like Marvel and DC, They also are pretty interesting but you can easily figure out what happens. A film I have watched like this is Spiderman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzDZRMVZ63M
A link to a Theatre piece that is Melodrama.

WGA - Game

 Hi guys today in WGA we started looking at three activites that you could choose out of any of them to do. The activity that I decide to do was create a game, which had you doe this with a partner. I did this with Carla. The game had to include one ball two cones and a five minute timer. It didn't take that long to come up with a game. Here is what we did and I hope you enjoy it.

Create a game activity
Partner - Carla

 . 2x cones 

.  1x Ball

Closer Cone

1. Put the cones 2 - 1 meters apart and grab the ball.

2. The first team in line has to roll the ball in between the cones without touching the cones in the process.

3. Each time the person gets the ball in between the cones the cones will get closer and closer.

4. Each team will have a 5 minute timer to do this and try to get more in between the cones.

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Reflection

 Hi guys today in WGA We are working on writing a reflection blog since we have done a lot of things that Miss Birtch doesn't know we have done. There are four points that we have to include in our reflection writing. Here is my writing and I hope you enjoy it.


I showed most of my CARR values, I showed commitment by finishing my work on time basically all the time, I showed resilience by still doing my work if I thought it was hard, I showed respect by listening to the teachers and not talking when they are, and I showed achievement by having no over due work that I had to finish on my own time. An update on my arts kete is that I found it pretty boring, I wasn't expecting much while doing it but I found it pretty boring to be honest. I have only done a few stiches for my name as well. I'm working on cross stitching the first letter of my name. I act the same with a reliever teacher because they are still a teacher even though they aren't my main one. A goal that I want to set for the end of the week is having every single piece of work done.

 

Litmus paper - science

 Hi guys today in science we are looking at Litmus Paper.

Litmus is a tree lichen fungi and is made into small paper strips or liquid for testing acids or alkaline.

1. Blue litmus paper determines if something is acidic. It turns read in solutions with a pH less than 7
2. Red litmus paper determines if something is alkaline. It turns blue in solutions with a pH greater than 7.


Litmus experiment:

Materials:
1. Red litmus paper
2. Blue litmus paper
3. Sodium hydroxide 
4. Hydrochloric acid 
5.pipette
6. 4 test tubes

Steps:
1. Rip the litmus paper in half and put half in each test tube.
2. Add 3 drops of hydrochloric acid to the red litmus paper in test tube 1.
3. Add 3 drips of hydrochloric acid to the blue litmus paper in test tube 2.
4. Add 3 drops of sodium hydroxide to the blue litmus paper in test tube 3.
5. Add 3 drops of sodium hydroxide to the red litmus paper in test tube 4.

Findings:
The blue litmus paper with hydrochloric acid went red.
The blue litmus paper with sodium hydroxide didn't change.
The red litmus paper with Hydrochloric acid didn't change. (made the liquid yellow)
The red litmus paper with sodium hydroxide went blue.

 Conclusion:
In conclusion blue litmus is a acidic, red litmus is alkaline.

Science - Baking soda/sherbet

Today in science we are looking Baking Soda

My 10 points for baking soda 

10. scrub away scuff marks on your wall 
9. Using it as deodorant
8. Cleans your sink and gets rid of the smell
7. Clean your grout lines (in between your tiles)
6. Makes a better cleaning product 
5. Helps kitty litter 
4. Oven cleaner
3. Wash build up from your hair
2. Make a deodorant for your carpet
1. Its a good laundry booster 

Recipe:

1 tsp citric acid
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp icing sugar 

Put all ingredients into a zip lock bag, stir and enjoy 

Materials :

1. Citrus acid
2. Baking soda
3. Raro
4. Cup
5. tsp

Steps : 

1. Get your cup
2. Put Raro in your cup
3. Put in 1/4 tsp of baking soda in
4. 1tsp of citrus acid 
5. Mix

Findings :

When putting sherbet in your mouth it fizzles then dissolves quickly.
The ingredient in sherbet that is tingly on your tounge is baking soda.

Conclusion :

In conclusion baking soda has a bunch of different uses 

Meme - Reading work

 Hi guys today we started reading a story name MeMe & Me. The story is about a girl who gets a new phone but it takes a turn. After you started reading the book you have some questions to do here is what is what I did for it and I hope you enjoy.


There was a girl named Nina who really wanted a phone to the point where she would beg her parents all day for a phone, her parents told her that she would have to make her own money for them to buy her a phone. Eventually Nina started cleaning her grans house for money to get a phone. Her parents ended up buying her phone. When she had her phone she posted a photo of herself but it ended up having blue eyes. Which here friend mentioned to her. Later on she met MeMe.  Later on she goes to the shops with her mum without her phone and MeMe gets really mad and starts being really rude to Nina. Nina later on gets tired and takes out the sim card on her phone and cuts it.
MeMe was someone who Nina meet through her chat logs who was her friend for a bit. I don't know if MeMe is a human or a robot.
I don't really think something like this could happen in real life, it could happen that there is someone you become friends with online but then start being rude to you, but it its unlikely that they will look like you enough to be able to say you could be twins.
I don't know what the author is trying to tell us through the story.

Hurumanu - Reading

 Hi guys today I'm doing the work for reading. The book that I'm reading is called Four of a Kind, the book is about a team which has four boys in it, but they feel out of place since they see that here isn't any boys playing besides them. After you read the story there is some questions and vocab words you have to do. Here is the work I did for it and I hope you enjoy.

I think that the problem at the start of the story is that they are confused that there isn't any boys there besides them.
We find out that there is so much boys on the teams because the school couldn't find a rugby coach for that year so they went to netball.
The reaction to there being a few boys on the team is that people were staring, some laughed this was because Dayton had his shirt on backwards.
I think that the moral of this story is that anyone from any gender can play any sports they want, as well as even if there is a sport which is dominated by one gender you shouldn't be afraid to play that sport while being the opposite gender.
In my opinion I don't think that there is any boys or girls sports. If you look at most sports there will be a separate team for girls, boys, or its a mixed team. Also anyone can do any sport they want to despite their gender.

Vocab 

Spectators - Spectator means that they are watch someone or they are watching someone do something.
Gleamed - Gleamed means to shine brightly or to use it as someone smiling.
Radius - Radius is a way to describe length or an area.
Erratically - Erratically is a type of behavior which is something unpredictable or doing something fast or silly.
Whakama - Whakama means to be in shame or embarrassed 

Bacteria

Hi guys today in science we are looking at bacteria. We watched two videos about bacteria and what it does and all the different types of it. We are also learning about what happens to it and how they live.

Bacteria is shaped like a rod or a spiral. Bacteria is both good and bad since it helps you in different ways as well as its bad. Bacteria is also inside of your cells and is makes up 90% of it. Bacteria also adapts.

WALT
To look and different types of Bacteria.

What is Bacteria?
1. Feeding :
Most bacteria are consumers, this means they cant make their own food in sunlight, which means they have to feed by using other living things. Bacteria doesn't have a digestive system like other things. Bacteria will wait for things to decompose before they eat it. They start to eat things when they are more rotten.

2. Reproduction :
Bacteria does not have any gender. One bacteria does not need another bacteria to reproduce. The name for the reproduction is Mitosis. They make more bacteria by constantly splitting when they need too. They can split every 15 - 20 minutes. The smaller cells are named daughter cells which means they will become identical, it will be the same colour and look the same. They will keep of splitting unless there isn't any more food. When the get to a certain size they have to spilt, which is the only way bacteria can live.

3. Excretion : 
The food bacteria eat is important to help them be able to live. It gives them energy and helps them grow, damaged parts and also repair them. They pass waste products out of them cells membrane, and into what they are living on or in. They produce substances which could be poisonous if they are living on something or in. Bacteria feeds on living things and cause diseases and are called pathogenic bacteria and they are harmful to you.

4. Breathing : 
All different types of living things need oxygen so their cells can covert food into energy. The process is called respiration. Bacteria are able to carry out both aerobic and anaerobic respiration. Respiration is when there is heaps of oxygen Anaerobic respiration are carbon dioxide which is breathed out, water, and heat. That is why bacteria starts to decompose substances like a dead body. The temperature goes up. Bacteria can breathe even if there is even no oxygen.

Women's Suffrage - Choice Board DLO

 Hi, guys today in Nga Tangata P4 We looked at more things to do with the Women's Suffrage movement. For this period we split off into our reading groups to look at some more articles and reading tasks to do. For my group, we looked at three different texts that were all different lengths but were about the same kind of things. They were pretty informative texts as well. For the task, we had to do we looked at a bingo board and chose some tasks to do. I only did two tasks because Carla and I came up with a different task to do instead of one of the other tasks that were on the choice board. We decided to make a Kahoot. Here is the DLO I created for the two tasks on the choice board. I hope you enjoy it.

Women suffrage

 Hi, guys today in Nga Tangata P3 we were looking at things to do with women suffrage and Kate Sheppard. We looked at some videos about her and looked at some facts. For something we have to do is do some Vocab words. After you had finished the vocab you started on reading a small article and doing the questions which were given. Here it is and I hope you enjoy it.

Suffrage - Suffrage means the right to vote in political elections.
Convince - Convince means trying to talk to someone and try to have them believe in what you are telling them.
Parliament - Parliament means a group of people who represent a nation in politics.
Prohibitionist - Prohibitionist is someone who participants in the prohibition (Which is the action of forbidding something)

Questions - 
In 1867, Maori men gained the right to be able to vote on who would be the government.
I think that people back in the olden days thought that women shouldn't vote was because worldwide it was believed that women should stay in the kitchen, clean, and also stay home to look after their children.
The statement "Drinking their wages" means that the men who made the money went out to go drinking instead of help spending their money to help their families.
The WCTU helped the poor by visiting hospitals, prisons, set up soup kitchens, and also tried to get men to stop drinking their wages.
The main form of protest that women used to change the law was people writing newspapers, giving out leaflets, and also holding protest gatherings which speeches.
Kate Sheppard is on our $10 note to remember what Kate Sheppard did and to also remember her.

Using images from google with permisson

 Hi, guys today in Tuhura we looked at why it is important to use images with permission. We did a short activity where it was a small thing about you and putting some pictures in. But we had to find some images that would allow us to use them. To do this you go on tools and the press usage rights and the press creative commons license. You have to put some images in for things about me as well. A short question is "Why is it important to use Google images with permissions only? Add your profile that you have created"
My answer is that it's important to use images with permission only because if it's something that someone has created they may have wanted to get paid for it, or they may feel sad to disappointed that the image that they have created is being used without permission. As well as you may get copyrighted by the person who made it and you may have to pay them for it. Here is my All about me and I hope you enjoy it.

 

Drama - Five elements

 Hi, guys today in drama we looked at all different types of things but we were kind of focused on the five elements. The five elements have an abbreviation to them, the abbreviation for it is FARTS. F stands for focus, A stands for action, R stands for the role, T stands for tension, And S stands for space.

The elements mean different types of things, Role means who am I, Action is what you are doing, Focus means What do I ant, Space/time is Where, and what time and tension are what is in the way.

I chose a character and their name is Satoru Fujinuma.
My character is from a show and it's named Erased. 

My characters role is the main character (Satoru Fujinuma
His focus is trying to get back in time and saving a girl from the past.
The time of it is his present time and 18 years in the past.
Something that he is doing is trying to save people while he tries to save himself.
Something that is in his way is his old teacher in primary/kindergarten, who is trying to stop him from saving the girl in the past.