Genomics Fun Day!

Genomics Fun Day!

Today team 5 got the opportunity to do genomics fun day with Glen Innes and Glen Brae School. You may wonder what we did! Continue reading to find out more!

The day started with a welcoming ceremony and both Karakia and Mahi was presented by Skye and Viliami. After we welcomed both Glen Innes and Glen Brae we all separated into groups of 6,7, or 8. My group was called “ Dynamites “ who had seven members. Skye, Calais, Rosie, Leilani, Miah, Lilo, and Candice. 

As a group during this day we got to complete different challenges and win a bunch of prizes! All challenges were quite hard to complete as genomics isn’t the easiest subject to take. One challenge we had to complete multiple questions that were given to us on a piece of paper. Now this challenge I wasn’t quite involved in as the answers to those questions were hard to find as my brain wasn’t functioning.

After all challenges we got to win different prizes! Our team the dynamites got top prizes as we completed the questions first with the most points.

Overall this genomics fun day was quite surprising! Thank you to all the teachers who organized this genomics day, everything was planned so well and everything turned out fun and exciting!

Mixture Of Word Problems!

Walt: Use different strategies to solve a mixture of world problems.

Task Description:
This week we focused on different strategies problems. Our teacher gave us a set of questions that are at different levels and our task was to complete them all. Each slide that was full of problems where quite easy but some where difficult.

K-pop!

This week for our Inquiry we got the opportunity to learn and understand k-pop. Mrs Stone taught room 5 how to learn k-pop and what trainees do before becoming a professional k-pop star.

Mrs Stone presented us a video of the trainees and what they go through. As a trainee they starve, they have to be a specific weight, and they can’t eat too much or too less.

Once we understood the k-pop industry we got to learn a k-pop dance ourselves. In a group of five we learned ddu-du-du-du by Blackpink. The practice part of the dance was extremely fun because we went through so much decisions. Once we learned a k-pop dance we got to perform to a bunch of girls.

One highlight from k-pop class was learning to dance a different way in front of girls.

What Makes An Effective Leader?

Walt: Identify and use features of explanation writing.

Disclaimer:
* This is last weeks work * - W1T4
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Task Description:
This week we focused on explanation writing. This piece of writing was based on what makes an effective leader? Our tasks was to list three reasons why and give an example. Once our planing was done and complete we had to write a introduction,, three paragraphs, and the conclusion.

Mixture Of Problems 1!

Walt: Use different strategies to solve a mixture of word problems.

Task Description:
This week we got given a mixture of problems. Our tasks was to complete a set of problems that we got given. On the each slide of maths problems I had to identify what operation to use to solve the problem I was given, and by doing this it helped me work more problems out faster. 

Science/Genomics: Cheek DNA Test!

Science: Cheek DNA Test 

This afternoon we got the opportunity to do a cheek dna test. You may wonder what this may be? Well we got to scrape the inside of our mouths and see what they look like under neath a microscope. 

Our very first task was to scrape the inside of our mouths with a Popsicle stick. With those scrapings from our mouths we placed that onto a slide that has Sodium Chloride INJ BP, we also had to share that one slide with a buddy. After that we had to wait a while for it all to dry so we could see the scrapings from inside of our mouths clearly. Once that time went passed we got the opportunity to see the insides of our mouths underneath a microscope.  

Underneath a microscope I could see purple bits which is properly from the scrapings from the inside of our mouths. 

Overall the check DNA test was a fun experience. Getting the chance to see the insides of our mouths underneath a microscope was a very fun opportunity.