Meet The Kakapo!

Walt: evaluate information in a text

Task Description:
This week focused on Kakapo. Kakapo are very special in New Zealand as their really rare. One of our tasks we had to follow to complete this weeks task was to make a information web based on Kakapo. I choose four categories to write about. Protection, What's on the menu, growing up, and habitat. Both growing up and what's on the menu are all similar subjects all based on food and feeding. Hopefully this information web can give you enough information to inform you about how these birds live. 

Closer Look: Link Here!

Measuring Angles!

Walt: measure angles using a protractor.

Disclaimer:
This is from two weeks ago.
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Task Description:
For this task we had to measure angles and calculate them as well! This task was easy at calculating those sides weren't as hard as thought.

Zebrafish!!

Walt: To understand Zebrafish. 

Disclaimer:
This work is a week old.
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Task Description:
Last week for science we were focusing on Zebrafish, why? Well since Zebrafish has close cells as humans we wanted to look further into Zebrafish. From this task I have learn't that Zebrafish has similar cells in their pancreas as humans, which makes us similar to Zebrafish more than Monkeys.

De-Extinction!

Bringing back extinct species is not worthwhile

Science. Scientists. De-extinction. How can these all lead to “ Oh let’s bring back extinct species! “ I really have no clue! All though extinct species may be cool but where are they going to live? What are they going to eat? Who is going to look after them? Well! This article will inform YOU why we SHOULDN'T bring back extinct species.

Health:

There is a down side about de-extinction! Extinct animals can carry retroviruses, which can lead to a massive breakout around the world. Usually cells convert DNA to RNA, ( a ribonucleic acid is a polymeric molecule. ) but! With retroviruses the process goes backwards. RNA to DNA, crazy right! Viruses can move at a fast pace, even faster than thought. Especially if these viruses are fast at reproducing. Now this is a reason why extinct species shouldn’t be brought back to life.

Environment:

More than 99 percent of the 8.7 million species have all died out, crazy right! Well this must mean each species has died at different times, and after those times our earth has had a huge change effect. Which must mean all food and environment must have changed and so those species wouldn’t be used to the new food and environment. So how can they live? Well I'm not sure either! I guess de-extinction isn’t a good idea after all…

Animal Welfare:

Scientists can use species for a solely human purpose, they have the ability to harm those species, not a great plan at all. If we decided to bring back extinct species, there shouldn’t be any harm towards them because these species are not bought to be studied but brought back to enjoy life. 

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Task Description:

To create a persuasive writing. Based on bringing back extinct species is not worthwhile at all. This piece of writing is helping others understand why I don't support de-extinction, do you support de-extinction? 

De-Extinction!

Walt: Discuss and justify an opinion on a topic. 

Task Description:
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This week's task was based around de-extinction, how can scientists bring extinct species back? Well this weeks tasks answered our answers all about de-extinction.
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Our steps:
Our first task was to read our text and highlight the key words so we could understand our text for this week. After we were able to understand our text this week we had to answer at set of questions, each based on de-extinction. After each question was answered we got the opportunity to create a poster based on one of the three main categorises. I choose cloning to share with others, as for cloning I choose a very popular species that was the first mammal to be cloned!

Mathematics - Area

Walt: Find the Area and perimeter of shapes. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on area and perimeter for mathematics. But this week we got given two different presentations to complete. The first was perimeter and the second was area! This task was about area that was extremely fun. I haven't completed this presentation but I wanted to share my results with you all.

Life Processes!

Walt: Identify key information in a text. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on the life processes. This task included understanding the phrase " Mrs Gren. " , completing various tasks, identifying key information in a text to complete our work this week. My highlight from this task was I got to understand and learn about the different life processes and how I could know if a object was non living or living.

Is It Alive?

Walt: for a specific purpose

Is it alive?

All living things move in some way, a pencil on the other hand can not. Movement is important in life as you need to move to different places. But! As a pencil all you must do is write. But is it still alive? The answer is NO! Pencils have no type of way of moving, but if being controlled by a human it can move.

Respiration is the next life processes. Respiration is a chemical reaction that happens to release energy from food. All living organisms breathe and at a normal pace to keep alive. Pencil’s don’t have a nose or mouth to breathe in and out of, so they have no type of way of respiration which leads to a non living organism.

Sensitivity. The ability to detect changes in the environment around us. All living organisms have sensitivity to detect changes, as a pencil it doesn't have sensitivity. Pencil’s don’t need sensitivity but some pencils are created to have sensitivity like pencils that are used on screens.

All living organisms start from small things like eggs, and seeds that grow into bigger living organisms. Pencils actually grow smaller exactly the opposite to how other living organisms grow. This is because you use a pencil to draw.

The fifth life process is reproduction. Reproduction is the ability to reproduce babies to create generations. There is asexual reproduction and sexual reproudction. Pencil can’t reproduce, their made to draw but not have babies.

Living organisms excretion, getting rid of waste inside of your body. This is to release gas or waste from your body to clean the inside to keep healthy. Pencil’s don’t have waste inside of their body’s to get rid of. They can shed once sharpened but that’s basically not excretion.

The very last life process is the most important process to keep alive. Nutrition. Food is one of the very most important sources on this world. This is because food has nutrition that keeps all living organisms alive and healthy. But does pencils need nutrition? The answer is no! The reason that backs up this statement is that pencils don’t need nutrition and it can’t eat any sort of food. Pencils are made to do specific things but it wasn’t made to eat. 

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Task Description:

This week we have been focusing on the seven life process, this can also be called " Mrs Gren. ". Our task this week was to understand the seven life process clearly, and write a following piece of writing that included information about what we understand about the seven life process. But there's a twist! We got the opportunity to choose an object in class and see if that object was living or not by using the seven life processes!

M&M Craziness!

Walt: Write for a specific audience 

Have you ever tried to break a guinness world record? Pisirina, Eden, Delijah, and Leilani attempt to break ONE guinness world record! They tried to eat 21 M&M in one minute, but! There’s a twist, they had to be blindfolded while eating M&M with chopsticks! Crazy right.

The four girls tried multiple strategies to eat 21 M&M in one minute. But how did they get to this stage? Mrs Tapuke ( a loving teacher. ) provided the materials the group needed to complete this record. These materials included a large pack of tasty M&M , a few chopsticks, bowls and of course blindfolds.

All four girls had a bubbly emotion as they prepared and practiced to break a guinness world record. Each girl had a chopstick and tried their best to eat as much M&M’s as they can WITHOUT a blindfold. As time went by the challenged had begun! Delijah ate 12 M&M’s with a blindfold! Their top record! This was their highest record of eating the most M&M’s.

Pisirina, Eden, Delijah, and Leilani all enjoyed attempting to break a guinness world record. Each one of them enjoyed working as a team and getting the opportunity to eat tasty M&M to break guinness world record.

Would you try this challenge?

Our Fishie Assembly!

Walt: To let others understand what a immersion assembly is. 

Immersion Assembly

Our first day was full of bubbly and happy emotions during all events we did. On this exciting day we got the opportunity to attend an exciting immersion assembly!

Each year group presented a presentation to explain what each year group will be focusing on this term. Team 5 is focusing on how are all living organisms connected. As for the rest of our school they’ll be focusing on examining underwater creatures.

Year seven and eight students will be doing science and learning new information about underwater creatures. As for the team five teachers they presented a song about cells that connect each living thing together. The song that the team five teachers presented was extremely exciting it was also unique as other team teachers only presented a presentation.

This term I'm excited for many journeys coming ahead. Mostly excited to learn many facts about living creatures.

Extreme Weather!

Walt: discuss and justify our opinion on a topic.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on extreme weather. Our task was to create a poster based on a couple extreme weather and we must explain what each extreme weather is and how they damage the world. The four weather I choose is Thunderstorms, Tsunami, Cyclone, and Winter Storms. 

Biography - Greta Thunberg!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on using graphic organisers. This is to help us in the future to write each one of our paragraphs make sense. Graphic organisers are helpful so we understand what to write in each paragraph. The first graphic organiser we had to create was about Greta Thunberg, and the second graphic organiser we had to create about was a famous person or someone we admire. This task I found fun and easy as I knew that this would be helpful for future time. 

Graphic Organiser - Jungkook!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing. 

Task Description: 
This week we are focusing on using graphic organiser to organiser our writing. Once we created a graphic organiser about Greta Thuberg we were able to create a graphic organiser about a famous person we admire or someone we admire. This graphic organiser is all about Jungkook!

Adding And Subtracting Fractions And Decimals!

Walt: Add and subtract fractions and decimals.
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Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on adding and subtracting fractions and decimals. Our task was to answer all of our questions about both fractions and decimals and either answer them by adding or subtracting. Most fractions and decimal questions were quite easy and simple!

Graphic Organiser - Greta Thunberg!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing.

Task Description: 
This week we are focusing on using a graphic organiser to plan our writing. We learned that if you use a graphic organiser you are able to write your paragraph correctly, by taking the information from the graphic and using it in our paragraphs to make it make sense. Our graphic organiser was based around Great Thunberg, whose a hard working young girl who is fighting for climate change.

Scratch - World Journey!

Scratch - World Journey!

Task Description:

Today i'm sharing with you all my inquiry for term 2. This inquiry task consist of background I drew on hyper studio, which is were I get to select a image of the country, continent, and world map to complete my backgrounds. We had to create these background too show a world journey. 

After we had finish our backgrounds we had to code an animation to show to our classmates. To code we used Scratch to code them together, the coding part was simple as I already knew how to code from 2018. 

After coding we screencastify our scratch project to share with others. Our main focus for this was to understand how coding works!

Link to Scratch Project:  

Maths Lesson!

The Difference Between Level 3 And 4!

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Level 3 Difference:

Level 3 is for year 5 and 6. This stage is for others who aren't able to give a good explanation about their work. For example level 3's figure their problems out without a good explanation, which isn't showing what your work was.

Level 4 Difference:

As for a level 4, this is for year 7 and 8's. People who are in level 4 are able in showing others a good explanation about how they solved their problem they were given, as well as knowing their timetables well. Knowing your timetables well is important as doing timetables it's easy to solve your problem you were given.

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What we did?

Today we have been working on solving a level 3 question. This question consist of us working as a team and giving a detailed explanation to our classmates. The question we were given was based on a three kids getting a bunch of lollies! And our task was to solve how much lollies they will have in total by the end of the week! 

By the second day of solving this problem we were able to understand and solve it!

Our problem we had to figure out!

Informational Writing!

Walt: Vary The Start And Length Of Sentences We Write.

Task Description:
We are focusing on starting our sentences with different words and having different lengths of sentences we write. This is important for the future as we know how not to keep a story boring or even to short/long stories. I enjoyed our writing task because I got to know different ways on writing a story.

Frozen Food - Book Review

Walt: Condense and paraphrase key ideas in a text. 

Title: Frozen Food

Author: Philippa Werry

Genre: Fiction

What happened? Key facts.
In this story the author explained to her readers on how people in Scott Base live and what they do to live. The key facts were mostly about how they eat and what they do to prepare the food for their people.

Did you enjoy this text?
I really enjoyed this text because I got to learn on how people in Scott Base live, as well as what they do to eat and cooked/prepare their food.

Key message/what did I learn?
The key message that I learned from our text was that it isn’t easy living in antarctica, and the way they live is not similar at all to how people live her in New Zealand.

Who would I recommend this book too?
I would recommend this book to my friend Tha Zin whose age 11 and is a girl. The reason why I would recommend this book to Tha Zin is because she enjoys learning new facts about other countries beside New Zealand, and I find that she would enjoy learning about new facts about Scott Base.
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Task Description:

This task here is a book review, this book review consist of information about our book this week. Our task was to share with others what we read this week and hook them to read the book them-self. To complete our task we had to answer multiple questions, the main questions that we had to answer was what were the key facts? And key message/ what we learnt. Lately I have been enjoying our book reviews because I get to share with others our book as well as getting to learn new books and write about them. Enjoy!

Dinosaur Trail! Information Poster!

Walt: condense and paraphrase key ideas in a text.

Task Description:
You may wonder what could this be? Well that will no longer be a thought. How? Well , i'm going to explain to you what this task is. Well firstly let me explain what our task was to do. Our teacher assigned us to a create task which was to create a information poster! Which is what I have here, our task was to create a information poster that mentioned organised facts about our book this week which is what I am sharing with yous all this week. Enjoy! 

Link to view poster: Here!