Lowest Common Multiple

 LI: to understand LCM.

This week we learnt about the lowest common multiple (LCM). A lowest common multiple is a lowest number that two numbers share in there multiples (Ex: 5: 5,10,15,20 - 4: 4,8,12,16,20). Both numbers share 20 and its the lowest multiple you can get out of 5 and 4. 

Highest Common Factor

 LI: to understand how HCF works.

This week we learnt about the highest common factor (HCF). The highest common factor are the two numbers that are the same that is the highest factor. If you the example above it will make more sense. A factor is an multiplication equation you can do to make a certain number (Ex: 24: 24x1,12x2,8x3 etc). 

What is Inertia?

 LI: To learn about Inertia

This week we learnt about Inertia, Inertia is a force of physics. There are 3 laws of Inertia. The three are Inertia of Rest, Inertia of Motion and Inertia of Direction. Inertia is the tendency to resist a change of motion. You experience Inertia all the time, for example when in a car and the car suddenly stops you jerk forward because of the change of velocity or speed. For this activity name, name, name, name and I worked collaboratively to create

Choices Explanation

 LI: to write an explanation

Why is it Important to Make Wise Choices?

Have you ever thought about how many marine animals die of plastic pollution? Every year 8 million metric tons of plastic enter our oceans, now they circulate across our oceans harming marine life, polluting our reefs, and being swept up on to our coastlines. How would you feel if your home was overrun by plastic?

Due to our careless acts we put the lives of many marine animals at risk, and some people don’t recognise that. If we throw rubbish on the ground without a second thought, that plastic gets caught up by the wind or leads to our drains. Once the plastic is in our drains it's most likely that it’ll end up in our oceans. Most of the rubbish in our oceans gets swept away by our ocean currents, that takes it to one place. That place is called the sea of plastic, the plastic that travels there builds up so much that it’s not even inhabitable for marine life anymore.

Approximately 8 million pieces of plastic make their way to our oceans. Plastic is a material that has a long durability. So when they enter our waters it means the plastic won't be breaking down for another decade or two. When they do break down they turn into micro plastics that end up in our fish. So when we eat fish the micro plastics not only end up hurting the fish it ends up entering our bodies causing harm for us. 

Marine animals die all over the world due to plastic pollution so please for the sake of our marine animals and even for yourself, be aware of the plastic that you throw on the ground. If everyone makes a wise choice, I think we would have a bright future. 

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For our task for writing this week we created an explanation about what wise choice we could make. For an example you could make a wise choice by not doing illegal drugs, or helping the environment. I made mine about how our oceans are being polluted by plastic and its harming our marine life. I chose for "Making a wise choice" was that we should be aware of how much rubbish is polluting the enviroment. 

If I were Prime Minister

 LI: to think about a change I would make.

If I were prime minister I would If I were Prime Minister I would focus on the economic development in New Zealand. Right now New Zealand is under a stage of level 2 quarantine, so it's a struggle to keep the economy going. I think if I focus on that there will be enough money to distribute across the economy.

Political Party Vote

 LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice 

To decide which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision. If I was 18 I would vote for Labour because when we had the christchurch attacks they put the country at ease by demanding justice. This means if Labour Won the election in my electorate Shirin Brown would be our member of parliament and Jacinda Ardern would remain the Prime Minister. The Labour party is the left leaning of NZ and National is the right leaning of NZ.

DARE to make a choice

 LI: to make the right choices in life.

This week we worked in pairs to create a DLO about the “DARE to make a choice” program and were learning about how we are the most important people in the world and how to keep our body safe from drugs. In this DLO we are explaining why it is important to make wise choices in a drugs situation. We learnt about how drugs can affect us and the aftermath when you misuse drugs. In this DLO we were writing answers in paragraphs to the questions coming from the program.

Maths

LI: to learn ratios and proportions. 

For our maths challenge this week we were tasked at solving a question using ratios and proportions. A ratio is like a fraction but it is compared part to part. So for an example the fraction 1/4 would be 1:3 in ratio's. This question had us figure out the amount of minutes he had juggling cubes and the seconds.

Maori Language Week

 LI: to learn about the maori culture.

 

For our last task for the Maori language week activities, we worked in groups or pairs to create a google map showing Maori place names. We also put the meanings behind the names of the places all over New Zealand.

Hitori/History - Maori Language Week

 LI: to learn about the Maori culture.

For our first task of the Maori language week activities we worked in pairs to create a DLO (digital learning object) to explain what is Maori language week and why is Te Reo Maori important. Maori language week is a week where schools all over nz learn about the Maori culture. 

Whakatauki - Proverbs - Maori Language Week

 LI: to learn about the Maori culture

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For this activity we worked in pairs to choose a whakatauki to explain the meaning behind it and the lesson it tells. A whakatauki is the Maori way of saying proverb. We also created a vocaroo explaining in voice. Click on the link above to hear it.

Maori App - Maori Language Week

 LI: to learn more about the Maori culture.

For one of our tasks for Maori language week, we worked in groups or pairs to create a slide show of a quiz of certain Maori questions. Before we made the questions we made information slides to help/prepare people if they don't know something about the Maori culture. We made five questions using Maori into english translation and the English into Maori translation.

Tuakana Teina

 LI: to help the juniors of our school make art.

Tuakan Teina means the relationship of a older person to a younger person. Tuakana Teina relates to what we have done today because one of our younger classrooms visited us to learn how to make pattern art. We taught them how to use the chalk properly, how to hold the glue and how to put the string on. Our art on the other hand was already finished, so we coated our art with glue and let it to dry. Before this we gathered inspiration from online art to add into our art. It helped us a lot when we were trying to draw/design the patterns.

Family Tree - Te Reo Challenges

 LI: to make a family tree.

For our Te Reo challenge this week we made a family tree of our families. For my family tree I asked my family members to find out my family that I didn't know about. To make my family tree I started simple, I started with me and my brothers, then my parents, than their parents. After that I did my cousins, aunties and uncles.

Its Cool 2b Me! - DARE Program

LI: to have confidence in yourself.

For one of our tasks for the DARE (Drugs awareness) program we did this dlo asking us the qualities we look in friends, our wishes, great values about ourselves, our favorite foods, our goals, someone else we would like to strive to be like, the fun things we like doing and our best friends. All of these questions made us aware of how its cool to be us.

Biology

 LI:To look for evidence in the data/an image and infer what might be happening.

For one of biology tasks we worked as a group to read an image about what was happening. After that we created a slide about what the different words in science. We had to figure out the definitions of the words linked with empirical.

Biology

  LI: To understand the meaning behind the acronym MRSCGREN.

MRS C GREN is an acronym for the life processes. MRS C GREN stands for: Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Cells, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition. These are all the things in something living. For example, plant and humans. To create this DLO we used collaboration, skimming and scanning for key words to help us select and reject information needed to create our DLO. 

Sunflower Painting

 LI: to paint a still life of sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh.

For our art session we did some art that was based on the style of Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh is a famous artist from the 1853 to 1890. In his time he wasn't known as a famous artist. He made over 900 paintings and he only sold 2 of them. We chose to make our paintings based on one of Vincents paintings called "Sunflowers". We used different techniques like dabbing, twist and flick, and straight strokes.

Science Equipment

 LI: to learn the different uses of each science equipment we learnt at tech.

For this task today we worked in our table groups to create an interactive slide show about the different uses and definitions about the science equipment the we learnt about at tech. In our group we added information about Bunsen burners, test tubes, funnels and etc.  

Represent School at an Outside Function

 LI: To represent my school at an outside function.

For one of my care award tasks, I was tasked to represent my school at an outside function. So to complete  this challenge I used my experience with going to tech weekly. I used the experience of going to tech because it is an outside function that is not learnt in school grounds..This term we are doing science and right now we are experimenting with rocket science. .I represent my school by going to tech every week. 

Duffy Books in School

 Today PBS were given duffy books that we picked. The books I got were called Ninja kid 3 and a Tom Gates book. I'm really thankful for the books and I'm excited to read them. We would like to thank Duffy books we were given books in a level two pandemic. I think these books help inspire kids all over New Zealand to read books, and lastly thanks to DBIS for giving our books. I looking forward to see what Ninja kid has on his next mission.

 

Vincent Van Gogh Timeline

 LI: To create a timeline to show the life of Vincent van Gogh.

Our challenge was to make a timeline about Vincent van Gogh life. To do this we worked in groups and we collabprated by using Padlet. He was an artist from the post impessionist movement, witch meant he made art that were still life paintings that captured a moment in time. Something interesting I found about something in his life was that he cut of a piece of his ear and sent it to his girlfriend, I found it interesting because its just weird.