Today In history

Today I did  some research about something that happend on todays date many many years ago. I chose to write about William Penn when he left England to sail the new world. Then I made a poster using canva and wrote 5 facts about it in my own words here is my  poster:

 Prototec

Today I did a Prototec, I did stage six and got 37 out of 40, Prototec is a math's website. Here is the certificate I got.

 History on this day

Today I did some Work on history on this day, We had to go onto a website to find out about a event that happend on todays date. Then we had to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) I chose to use canva to make a poster about the event. I chose to research Daffodil day which started in 1990 and is to raise money for cancer society.

 Pokémon Book review

Today I read a book from the Pokémon series that my sister has the book was called Journey to the Orange Island.

I did not enjoy this book it was extremely boring and only took me 20 minute's to read. I do  not recommend this book to anyone unless they like boring story's. The book was about 3 people who were trying to make it  to Valencia Island but they did not know how to get there without it taking forever, So they went on a haunted ride called a blimp .

 Prototec

 Today I did a Prototec, I did stage six but the taking a way from 1000 and adding up to 1000 was to hard and I got most of them wrong but the others were easy. I Scored 72% out of 100% here is my certificate I got:

 Arts and Crafts

Today I did some arts and crafts I created a puzzle using popsicle sticks. Here is a picture of my puzzle:

Here is how to make your own puzzle:

1. Get your supplies (Popsicle sticks and pens)

2. Line them up in a row and then draw whatever you want on it

3. flip the popsicle sticks over and then write a number on each one from 1-10

 Prototec

Today I did a Prototec, I did level six and got 35 out of 40. I got the same score as yesterday when I did it I think that the subtracting from 1000 is a little bit to hard and then I tried to do level 5 and I scored 58 out of 60 . On  level 6 I   had to do adding up to 1000 , Subtracting from 1000,addition to 20, Times tables and division and subtracting from 20. Here is my certificate I got:

 

 Coffee Powder Art

Today I found in idea on the learning from home website were you create art out of coffee powder I tried to make a butterfly but it looked more like a dogs face.

 Cupcakes

Today I baked some chocolate cupcakes using an dairy free recipe that I find online here is the recipe.

3 cups of flour

2/3 of cup of Cocoa Powder

1 teaspoon of salt

2 cups of sugar

2 water

2/3 cup oil

1 tablespoon of vanilla essence

2 tablespoons of lemon juice

1. Mix together the dry ingredients in a large bowl

2.Mix the wet stuff in another bowl

3. Mix together both bowls

4. Cook in a preheated oven for 25-30 minute's or until a toothpick comes out clean.

 I would recommend this recipe to someone who loves baking or chocolate

Click here for the recipie  

 History on this day

Today I did history on this day so we had to go onto this website and find an interesting thing that happened in history on todays date (25 August). When we had to research facts about it  and then made a DLO about it I chose to use Canva to make a poster the facts that we wrote had to  be written in our own words , Next we had to publish it on our blog. Captain James cook is the person who discovered Hawaii. Here is my Poster:

 Fractions

Today I did some work from Tuhura I had to make a google slide showing a fraction I did 9/10. Then I had to record a screencastify abut the fraction I chose to do and explain it in my own words here is my screencastify.

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 100 Word Challenge

Today I did a 100 word challenge it is where our teachers gives you a picture or video to write 100 words about you have 2 pictures to choose from each week. Here is the picture I am writing about today:

One day there was a girl named Mylie, she found a little stream down the road from her house she spent so much time there throwing stones into the creek, She even found a baby rabbit that was having a swim in the creek she realized that it was hurt and  had a broken leg so she took it home and cared for it until it was healed her parents didn't agree with having a bunny in the house so it had to live outside. The next day when she went back to the creek she was just about throw a stone into it when she saw a sign that said "PLEASE DO NOT THROW STONES", That ruined her day so she went home and sat in her room trying to figure out who put the sign up and why.

 Prototec

Today I did stage six on a  Prototec which is math's equations I got 35 out of 40 here is my certificate I got:

 Making ends meet math's

Today is the 7th day of New Zealand's alert level for lock down, I did some math's I had to fill out a google slide deck with a meal plane for a week I had to calculate the price all together and then post my  slides on my blog here is the slides I did:

 Clowning around

Today while I have been learning from I did some of the work from Nga Tangata (Reading), I had to read a story called Clowning around and then answer some questions on my blog about the story Then we had to do aa create task where we had to use Avatar maker to create a clown doctor. Here are the questions and my answers :

1. Retail the main Idea of from this text what was the story about?

Explaining how the clowns at Starship hospital are helpful and what they do as a job.

2. List 3 ways that Dr U Who Can help people in the hospital!

If they are worried about having a surgery or something she can make them laugh and make them forget about there fears.

Play tricks on the children that are funny so that they are happier then before.

They put smiles on peoples faces.

3.In your own words explain how laughter is the best medicine!

Because it makes you happy and helps you when you  are scared or something.

 Arts and Crafts

Today While I have been learning from Home I decided to do some arts and crafts I spelt my name by twisting together pipe cleaners, Then I drew a family port trait here is my work I did:

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 Te Whare Tapa Wha

Today is the 6th day of New Zealand's Alert level 4, So our teachers have been sending out some school work to do home. I am doing some of the work from Health , We had to watch a video off YouTube, Look at a picture from a google slide and then review a slide set about what we ae learning and then do the kahoot based on our task and share our work onto our blog as proof that we completed it. Te Whare Tapa Wha is 4 ways to Well being, Well being is how you feel and things like that. Here are the questions and my answers to the questions.

1.Have you heard about Te Whare Tapa Wha before?

No I have not heard of it before.

2.What are the 4 dimensions that make up the Whare?

  Physical (Taha Tinana) 

Spiritual (Taha Wairua)

Mental and emotional (Taha Hinengaro)

Family and social (Taha Whanau)

3.Why do you think the model looks like a wharenui house ?

Because it makes it sound/look like home when explaining the things about it.

4. Why do we need to take care of our well being?

To make sure that we are happy and things like that.

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 Baking (Cinnamon Donuts)

Today while I was learning from home I chose to bake some donuts, I used an old Fashioned Butter Milk recipe I found lying around. Here is the ingredients and method of how to make the donuts.

              Ingredients

• 3 cups of plain flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1teaspoon of cinnamon
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 3 Table spoons of Golden Syrup
• 1 Teaspoon of vanilla essence

Method

Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl ( Flour , Sugar , Baking powder , Baking Soda and cinnamon)

In another large bowl mix together the milk , butter , golden syrup and vanilla essence add to the dry ingredients and make sure it is mixed until well combined.

Cook in preheated oven on 160° for 8 to 12 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean

Kate Sheppard Bingo board 

Today while I have been learning from home I Did some work about Kate Sheppard who is a New Zealand hero is on the New Zealand $10 note she is the lady who made woman be able to vote by getting over 2500 people to sign her petition and then took it to the government and they agreed with her. We had to read a story about Kate Sheppard and then choose 3 activity's that make a bingo and then post our finished work on our blog, Did you know before Kate Sheppard made woman be able to vote all the woman could do was stay home and cook and clean if they were married and had children and then got a divorce the father got to keep the children. here is the bingo board we had to choose our activities off: 

My first choice to do the Main ideas where we had to write what the main message of the text is and what the passage is mostly about.

The second one I am doing is Vocabulary, We had to pick four vocabulary words from in the story that we either didn't know the meaning of or are important the understanding of the text.

My third choice was to do the Details, I had to find out what the 3 details are that support the main idea.

Here is my work:

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Today in History 

Today I am writing about History on todays date I had to choose a topic and then make a DLO a DLO is a Digital learning Object such as google slides and goggle drawings and things like that about it writing 5 facts or more in my own words. The Topic I chose to research was Ice-cream Pie Day which is on the 18th of august, It started out by putting ice-cream onto pies and then become a thing that lots of countries do around the world on the18th of august every year. here is my DLO I used Canva to create a poster:

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 Learning from home

today I did the 100 word challenge where we have a picture or video to write 100 words about this is the picture I have to write about:

Once apon a time there was a girl named Bellah she would dream all the time but most of the time they were silly dreams, she never stopped dreaming but then one day she had a dream that she was going to get a puppy and a bunny and that came true so from then on all of the dreams she had become true. She had keeped her puppy from then right until it passed away they did so many un things together such as going for walk, swimming in rivers and playing on the beach Bellah loved her puppy and wished she would never stop dreaming which also became true.

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Drama

 Focus. What do I want? Be able to get to all the checkpoints

Action. What am i doing to get what i want? Jumping and completing levels

Role. Who am I? Crash Bandicoot

Tension. What's in my way? the  Jumps and gaps

Space/Time. When where am I   As long as it takes

 Today in history

Today in class I had to read something about today in history(11 August) and then I had to make a DLO with 5 facts about it then post it on my blog, I did my poster about Jack Lovelock who was a New Zealand athlete who competed in the Olympics in 19336. Here is my poster I created using canva:

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 100 word challenge

Today in class I had to do the 100 word challenge, which is when Miss Birtch gives us a Picture to write 100 words about and post it on our blog here is the picture I am writing about

once  upon a time there was a girl she had no friends except for her pet dragon called Alfredo, Once she tripped over and then Alfredo picked her up and took her for a ride to a magical land called Dragon place, It was filled with heaps and heaps of dragons all different colors and sizes. Then she made another friend called Pete, he was a grumpy dragon he could blow fire when he was angry. One week later when he got very angry he made the whole town blow up from blowing his fire, So all of  the dragons had to find a new place to live.

 Cybersmart

Today in class we were doing a profile all about ourselves and we also learned how to make sure pictures you are using off google are copyright and you do not get told off for using someone else images. We had to post our profile on our blog and then we had a question to answer on our blog.

Why is it important you use google images with permission?

It is important because the person that took the photo created the piece of art might not  want it being used for things that you want to use them for, and you could get in trouble for not using them with permission. 

Here is my profile that I created:

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kate sheppard

Time line of Kate Sheppard

Today in class we were reading story's and watching videos about Kate Sheppard who is a New Zealand hero and is on the New Zealand $10 note, She was the person who made ladies be able to vote because men thought that ladies were just meant to stay home and cook and clean. Did you know in the olden days if you got divorced the father would have to keep the children not the Mother. We had to read a story and then answer some questions about Kate Sheppard and then make a timeline of her life and big steps to help the world ,Here is my work:

Kate Sheppard Reading Comprehension 

Answer the following questions in full sentences,
aiming for 2-3 sentences for each! 

1. Where was Kate Sheppard born?

She was born in Liverpool which is england in 1847 and then moved to Christchurch in New Zealand in 1668 and got married in 1871.

2. Why do you think Kate Sheppard was chosen to be on the $10 note? (write a paragraph)

She is on the $10 note because she is a New Zealand hero, Because she is the lady who made women be able to vote. SHe was in the Women's christian Temperance Union in New Zealand to help the poor.

3. What was Kate Sheppard fighting for, how did she achieve it? (write a paragraph)

She was trying to make women be able to vote and then she went and wrote a petition and got men to sign it. There were over 2500 people who signed it. Then it went to the prime minister or someone and they agreed with it,SHe only had 6 weeks to get people to sign it.

4. What are three actions Kate Sheppard took in her quest to allow women the right to vote?

Made a petition

Got heaps of people to sign the petition.

Took it to the parliament to get them to accept the petition.

5. What do you think Kate Sheppard would feel knowing Jacinda Ardern is our Prime Minister now? Why would she feel that way? 

I think that she would be happy because Jacinda is helping out New Zealand.

6. Make a copy and fill in the  timeline of main events from Kate Sheppard’s life. 

• Use Images With Permission (like we learned in Cybersmart) 

• Share your final copy to your blog

• Save in HUR1 folder

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Making Ginger Beer

Ingredients and equipment for making ginger 

Equipment:

Spoons

Kettle

Bowl

Beaker

Cloth Sieve

Funnel

Plastic bottle and cap.

Materials.

For a group of 3

50ml warm water

1/2 tsp active dried yeast

1/2 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp ground ginger.

For 1 litre

3/4 cup sugar

1/2tsp cream of tartar

1L cold water

Juice of 1/2 lemon

1 tsp ginger beer bug.

Method

1.In a large bowl, Put in the sugar and cream of tartar, Then add the warm water.

2.Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding the cold water.

3.Add the ginger beer bug to the large bowl of cold water.

4.Stir well and then pour into your clean bottle

5 Label your bottle with you group names.

6.place all the bottles in the class container

7.Store in a cool dark place for one week before drinking.

8Make sure you open the bottle in the kitchen sink as it might overflow, Open the cap bit by bit to allow the air to escape.

The ginger beer must be drunk over the 6 days.

You must provide your own bottle.

We wanted to see how yeast was best activated. To do this we used 3 Conical flasks a teaspoon of yeast in each one some warm water in each one and sugar in one of the flasks ,we then put a balloon on top of each flask. We found out that the flask had the yeast and sugar inflated the balloon it showed that when yeast has sugar it activates and creates a gas called carbon dioxide gas.

 Vocabulary

Today in class we have been  learning about Kate Sheppard and then after we had to do research some words and find out what they mean and then do some different activity's

Suffrage, The  right to vote in different things.

Convince, Makes someone believe something.

Parliament, is a building that is were  the prime minister and people like that do there work.

Prohibitionist. Is a member of a a political party.

Then we had to read a story and answer some question's

1. What year did Maori men get to vote? They could vote by 1887

2.Why did most people think women should not vote?   Because they are supposed to stay at home and cook and clean.    

3.what does the phrase  "Drinking their wages" Mean? It means there spending there money.

4. How did the WTCU help the poor? They made things that could help them such as food and clothes.

5. What was the main form of protest that the women used to change the law?   That woman could now vote.

6. Why is Kate Sheppard on our $10 note Because she is a new Zealand hero.

 Reading

In class today we have been working on some of our reading work in our reading groups, I am in Fabulous readers. We had to read a story called Mohawk and then answer some question on our blog. There were 5 questions in total. 

1.Why do you think Leo wanted a Mohawk for his first day at his new school?

Because He wanted to stand out

2.How did the other kids react, Why did they react that way?

They felt weird out because it was a new hairstyle for him.

3.How did Matua Glen react to Leos Mohawk?

He had a kind of face that Leo has nether seen.

4.What were some examples from the website of Matua Glen of who had the mohawk hairstyle in history?

The people that used to have mohawks in history was soldiers

5.Besides hairstyles, how could someone protest against there appearance?

They could protest using there clothes and stuff like that.

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 Chili Tasting

         Today in class we are doing chili tasting but first we had to research about chilis. 

Section 1

Chilis are fruit there are some really spicy ones and then ones that aren't that spices. The hottest Chilis in the world are The Carolina Pepper. Challis can be used in a variety of ways dipped in sauces, cut up in salad or just by them self. They can come in all different sizes and colors

Section 2

Section 3

The six hottest chilis in the world are

 1.The Carolina Pepper which is grown in South Carolina

2. Ghost peppers they are grown in India

3.Pot chili is from Mexico.

4.The sunny yellow pepper came from South America

5.Infinty chillin from England

6.Naga Viper from England

Section 4

What is the Scoville Chili scale?

It is a scale of how hot the chilis are it has different colors so green is the lowest and red is the hottest there are colors in between like orange and yellow as well.

The chili that we tasted is  the hottest chili in the world, Carolina Reaper. I found out that water does not help make your mouth not so hot. I think by using Coke I would be able to remove the spiciness from my mouth.

 Stand up follow up activities

Today in class I had to catch up on some work from last week because I was away, I had to read a story and then answer some questions on my blog.

1.What is the name of laws that ensures we have the right to protest in New Zealand.

The New Zealand bill of rights act 1990.

2.When did soldiers invade Parihaka?

5th November 1881

3.How many woman signed the woman's suffrage petition. 24000 and at least 20 men.

4.What is New Zealand's most famous Hikoi?

Whinna Cooper.

What is the meaning of these words?

Suffrage

The right to vote

Union

Becoming a team and working together.

Watersider

When the edge a river or ocean meet together.

Have you ever been involved in a protest?

No I have not

vocabulary

Today in class we have been working on activity's around protest when we had watched a video and read a story and made our timeline we had to work on some vocabulary work, where we had to find out what some words mean.

Climate Change

Things that are changing in our climate.

Campaign 

its like a poster thing

Demonstration

A demonstration is when someone is showing someone else what they are supposed to do so that they know what to do.

Zero carbon no carborn in the air 

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 Digital dig

Today in class we have been working on  a set of slides if we had finished the other set so I completed it and then put it on my blog her is my set of slides I could not do one slide because my computer is set up differently so it would not work.

 Touchpad practice

Today in class we have been learning about using our touchpads on our Chromebook and then we had to go  through a set of slide and do the different activity's on there, then we had to upload our slides onto a a blogpost here is my slides.

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 100 word Challenge

Today in class we are doing the 100 word challenge our teacher gives us a picture and we have to write 100 words about no more then 100 words or less then 100 words.

Here is the picture I am writing about:

One day there was a hockey team, training for an upcoming tournament. When one of the people hit the other team mate on the leg and made it snap in half he had to get rushed to the hospital where they tried to put it back into the right place he had to have surgery to get it fixed and then he could not play hockey for whole year which he did not like because he loved hockey. When he was able to play hockey again the other team mates set up a welcome back party and made a really big apology.

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