Reading Tasks - Artemis Fowl

 Kia ora everyone!

So for the past weeks I have been working on these reading tasks based around my book. The goal I've been working on for this week is:

Evaluate the writer’s purpose and consider how structure and language have been used to suit purpose.

Here is my final product:

Whats your favourite novel that you've read and why?

Maths - Angles

Kia ora, this week for maths we have been working on angles.

The Goal was: Use appropriate scales, devices, and metric units for measuring angles.

This is what I had to do:

      

Task 1) Pick a flag and investigate some of the following:-

You may like to draw this out on paper or put in on a google drawing. If you’d like it printed, email it to me before Morning Tea.

What shapes can you see in it?  

There is a cross, two very stretched wide triangles and then two other triangles on the left and right.

Can you describe them and their angles?

The cross is more stretched width ways then length. The triangles at the top and the bottom are also stretched more width ways. Then there are also those two triangles on the side that are almost symmetrical but one point is just a smidge more longer than the others.

Does the flag have any lines of reflective symmetry, if so how many lines?

There is a lot of symmetry in this flag from to bottom and even from left to right. Both the black and the green triangles reflect again on the opposite direction.

Can you find any pairs of parallel lines?  If so mark them on your flag.

There are some lines parallel to each other but they’re on an angle. Here they are:

It is where I put the white lines

Are there any lines perpendicular to one another?

No, not that I can tell.

Task 2)

On a doc/drawing or slide collate a range of pictures showing angles in the real world - think creatively they are literally everywhere! 

Infographic - Equal Education

Hello, thanks for checking out my blog.

This week for writing I have been making an infographic about Equal Education. 

Here is my goal: Deliberately use written and visual language features when appropriate to enhance writing.

Here is my Infographic:

What do you think equity means compared to equality?

Evaluating Purpose - Artemis Fowl

 Kia ora everybody.

For the past weeks in reading we have all chosen a novel. I chose Artemis Fowl and I am almost up to chapter seven.

 The goal I was working on today was: 

Evaluate the writer’s purpose and consider how structure and language have been used to suit purpose.

Here is my finished task:

What is your favourite book? What is it about?

Cantamath W2

 Talofa lava everybody, his week some of us have been trying out for the cantamath team.

Since I have already talked about cantamath in the past math blog but this week we did something different.

Instead of trialling in teams we did it individually and we got given a sheet full of questions that we had to answer, some were much more challenging then others. Although I think it was good because I felt like I had a range of different questions to try and solve.

Have you ever tried cantamath?

Speech Writing #3

 Kia ora everyone, here is another part of my speech that I am currently writing.

I have picked one of my favourite paragraphs that I have written so far to share with you.

Here is is:

Let's make a difference, we can do this, from schools to parliament, let's make a wave of action and goodness to positively affect this world.Imagine living in a world where classrooms were stacked up with books and education was free.

Imagine living in a life where everybody had clear access to a bus or free transportation and there are multiple boarding schools throughout each city.

Imagine living in a world where every child or even just human, was able to go through life where they were taught properly and were guided well enough to provide help to the generation to come.

Hope you find that piece of writing interesting and maybe even a bit persuasive, but if you have any questions or feedback feel free to say in the comments.

What is one way you can think of that would help these problems?

Cantamath

 Kia ora everyone, welcome to my blog.

So you may be wondering why I haven't been posting many maths blogs lately and that is because I have been working on cantamath for the past two weeks. 

One of the questions we had to figure out was:

What is the sum up to 50?

This got the whole class thinking but by the time people got to that question the timer ended and we all had to go back to the classroom. But me and a friend decided to prepare for questions like that and we came up with a way to solve questions like this a little faster.

Have you ever tried doing cantamath? Did you enjoy it?

Cybersmart - Blog Comment Reaction

 Hola everybody.

Here is my cybersmart task. It is basically a comic strip about what some people may feel when they get a bad or good comment. (I did it about a bad comment)

 

What would you do in this situation?

Speech Planning - Part two

 Kia Ora everyone, here is my writing task done for this week. 

We basically had to just write the second paragraph for our speech. But I have now properly decided on what I am basing my speech on and it is - Making school affordable for everyone and decreasing the amount of poverty

Here is my Draft:

57,000,000

A strangely big number, am I right?

Could you imagine sitting there, not being able to move forward in life, because you know that your education was not efficient enough to give you a well deserved career?

Let me reiterate this number, 57,000,000, that's how many kids have to miss out on an education and a bright future. It's unbelievable to imagine that instead of being where you are today you could be like those people, sitting at home, looking for some leftover scraps in the cupboard, all because you weren’t qualified enough to get a proper, well paid job. 

Overwhelmed, that's how you should feel, listening to this, because I’m telling you now that this is one big, world wide challenge that needs all of us if something was going to even change the slightest.

Now, now is the time to change this, now is the time to realise that we are facing a huge crisis that will affect our future and the generation to come. You can make a change, put yourself out there and let people know that you are willing to help them.

Hope you like how I have started my plan, what are some more world wide problems that you could think of?

For Or Against - Space Exploration

Hello guys, here is my reading task for this week. 

Me and a partner read a book called Space Exploration and the book was kind of like a debate. One side of the debate is talking about how exploring space is a waste of money and they think that we should spend that money on medicine and looking for cures.

But then the other side of the debate said that they think that exploring space is needed and they also believe that one day it will save the world.

Goals: Use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking

Make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions, using more sophisticated texts.

Here is our opinion:

Relationships with other texts:

I have found that usually debates like this have rhetorical questions. I’ve also found that the good arguments point out not only the bad things about the other side but the what people can benefit from their own.

My new thinking:

I think that when you are writing something like a speech or debate you need something to make the listener/reader think and that’s why you would want to put in some hard hitting rhetorical questions.

Thanks for reading my blog.

What do you think about this situation?

Speech Planning - Equal Education

Hello everyone.

Here is my blog post and I am going to show you my current planning for my speech coming up.

(Also this is my task for Writing)

I am focusing on people's education and how unfair the costs are.

There are also lot's of little problems below so take a look:

Quality education

• We do not have many people raising their hand to help out and tutor let alone teach.

• Disabled people and people who are just struggling to learn are not getting enough attention

• It is about improving people's lives and preparing them for a future, it has been proven that the quality of your education has a huge impact on your future career.

• Volunteer to tutor

• Raise awareness about how having an equal amount of education is important

• We need to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to have a good education or even have an education at all.

Rhetorical Questions

• A strangely big number, am I right?

• Could you imagine sitting there, not being able to move forward in life, because you know that your education was not efficient enough to give you a well deserved career?

57,000,000

A strangely big number, am I right?

Could you imagine sitting there, not being able to move forward in life, because you know that your education was not efficient enough to give you a well deserved career?

Probably not, you may be sitting here wondering..

Thanks for looking at the start of my speech and I hope it shows you where I am hoping to head with this task.

What are some other things you could focus your speech on? (Another problem)

Robots - Reading Task

Kia Ora everybody, welcome back to my blog.

This time we were reading a book called Humans - An endangered species.

For our task we had to make a screencastify (With a buddy) about our real life connections towards the text and our opinion on what the author was trying to say.

Our goal was: Make connections between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts.Think while reading, pick up new information, and come up with new ideas and new thinking.

Finished Task:

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zGGRS9tLP4zB78F4FgN76C0eKzENpOCl/view

(Only use that is the video doesn't work)

Do you think that we should keep making human robots?

Writing - Hansel & Gretel Plot 2

Hello everybody this is my writing blog for the week!

I have split the google drawing in half because I thought it would be easier to read that way.

Anyways this is my second part of the Hansel and Gretel story, I have tried to use some interesting vocabulary such as: 

"The room was giving me sour vibes."

Or

"Melting marshmallows."

What do you think will happen next?

Maths Task - Ratios

Kia Ora, here is my maths for the week!

We were doing ratios and I decided to do the second question. It was about tree stumps and how much they would cost with a discount.

I definitely know that I could've done this better and more efficient for example, I could've used Standard written form. 

Anyways here is my working:

 

Thanks for checking out my blog!!

What is the most recent strategy you have used and why?

Book Review - Reading Task

Kia Ora everyone
Welcome back to my blog.
This week in reading we were using the Fantastic's again and detecting whether the author is using positive or negative intent to impact the reader. My create task was to make a book review about the book Wonder.

Here is what I've done:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vT0k3XYq0-PxNPBVMvFO0PZyINB-7fncSYx96OkC3OAznMsuBRPQicU53m8iZ3Rp_BwlHjXd-pY2urR/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Have you ever read the book wonder?

Maths Task - Area & Perimeter

Hello!!

My maths task this week had two different questions that you can choose from and I just did both because I had time.

In the first one we were learning about the perimeter and area of the backfield and then we tried it with and without different things such as the hall.

The next one was about the amount of people n our Kaupeka hub compared to the rest of the school. Turns out that our hub is more that one fifth of the whole school.

Here are some photos of my working out:

What is your favourite maths strategy to use while solving the area of something?

Writing Task - Hansel & Gretel

Kia ora, thanks for checking out my blog.

For my first writing task for this term we have been rewriting the start of the book Hansel & Gretel. We also have been focusing on the Fantastic's just like my reading.

We looked at a few different writing methods such as repetition for effect, adjectives and similes. We have also been making sentences that have things to do with tasting and smelling (basically all the senses).

Finished Task:

How would you describe the taste of your favourite lolly?

Reading Task - Fantastics

Hello everyone, I'm back.

For the first week of this term we have been learning about the fantastic's. It's basically what you would look for in books and your own writing.
They make you more aware about the senses and things while your writing a story.

For this task we had a slide with the story of little red riding hood and we had to find sentences that included the fantastic's such as:

With a smile and a swing of her cape. She skipped energetically through the dense undergrowth of the woodland.

That sentence is an action





Then we had to use other stories and do the same thing, here are the sentences that I picked up:

Do you think you can make up a sentence that includes the fantastic Imagining?

Shapes & Nets - Maths Task

Hello everyone, here is my maths blog for this week.

We were learning about shapes and nets and I have been focusing on two different goals.

Goal 1)  Level 4 - Relate 3D models to 2D representations, and vice versa

Goal 2) Level 4 - Identify and sort 2D and 3D shapes into classes. Define the properties of the shapes and justify the decisions made.

For the first goal here is the link to what I needed to do: Link

Q1:

a. Her net was right and I know because I tested it and it made what she wanted it to

b. I could also work in the shape below. (in the shape of a W)

Q2:

a. Her half a net was correct and I managed to make it

This is the full net

Q3:

Here is an icosahedron and I made a net below.

Q4:

I made this one just forgot to take a picture so here is what it would've looked like...

Here is my next task:

What other things can you find in the shape of a cone that I have not already named?

Making Connections - Reading Task

Kia ora everybody, thanks for coming to read my blog.

This week my goal for reading was to...
Make connections between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts.

To be honest, this DLO should explain the rest:



I read a book called: Once a Panther

Have you got any connections towards this topic?

And if not, what do you personally think about it?