Plants, plants and plants

For this week, our reading activities were all based on growing plants.

This activity, we had to create an infographic about the 6 essential elements you need to grow a plant

6 essential elements you need to grow a plant by Amy

Here's a video about the 5 needs of a plant

Our Orchard

Spring's here and our school garden is busy with bees.

Yesterday Mary came back to our school to have a look at our Orchard. They're all doing really well and the trees Micki, Chloe, Jenayde and I planted (Patricia-apple, Pitunia-Plum) have grown about 5-10cm which is awesome!

What fruit trees do you like?

Here are some photos:

                       

My Pepeha

 This is Maori Language week and for one of my reading activities, it was to create our pepeha. 

This is the main structure for your Pepeha:

Ko _____ tōku Maunga

(_____ is my mourtain)

Ko _____ tōku awa

(The _____ is my river)

Ko _____ tōku iwi

(_____ is my iwi)

No _____ Ahau

(_____ I am from)

Ko _____ tōku Papa

(_____ is my father)

Ko _____ tōku Mama

(_____ is my mother)

Ko _____ tōku ingoa Whānau

(_____ is the name of my family-surname)

Ko _____ Ahau

(I am _____)

Nō reira tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa

(Therefore greetings, greetings, greetings)

And this is my pepeha.

Tongan Language Week: foods

This is our acitivity for the Tongan Language Week. Micki and I decided to work together and focus on the dishes of Tongan, we created a slideshow on the different dishes. One intersting thing was that Tongans use the umu to cook most of their foods, and the main ingredients were fish, lots and lots of fish.
Our favourite dish is the Faikakai Topai. What is your favourite dish? 

Pig Heart Boy New Book Cover

 This activity is set by Miss McCombie, and as you can see here, it is to design a new book cover for Pig Heart Boy.

Zara and I first had a draft and listed all the must have, we chose that type of font because it is quite bold and can eye-catching. We also made that catch phrase because it technically sums up the whole story in that one sentence, although it might be quite similar to the catchphrase on the actual book.

I decided to have a pig on my background because the title have pig in it and so it would be nice to give it a visual.

And of course, the author must be put on.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post.

Pig Heart Boy: PMI

 This is the acitivity Mrs North set us to do today about Cameron receiving the money that the magazines gave to have unlimited access to his story.

And we had to make a PMI (Positive, Negative, Interesting) chart of all the possiblities of what would happen if he receives the money.

Do you have anymore suggestions for any of these?

Cameron Diary Entry Screencastify

 This screencastify is of me reading a diary entry I wrote, pretending I'm the main character from Pig Heart Boy - Cameron. I'm sorry if there are some spoiler points in this entry. 

This task was for our reading set by Miss McCombie. I wrote the diary entry quite quickly, but it's just recording that took the most time. 

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this way of presentation.

Cinnamon for Synonyms

 One of the activity for this week was learning about synonyms. Miss McCombie made a Google Drawing With a chart and words scattered around it. We had to drag the words under the correct colum to match the word. This short and fun acitvity was to help us with our synonyms. I knew most of these words but I had some trouble with a couple of them. 

What is your favourite words out of these? My favourite is probably serene, which means calm, peaceful and undisturbed. 

Accuracy and speed activity

 On Monday afternoon, our class went onto the Astroturf to do two acitivities. One is about accuracy and the other speed.

The accuracy acitivity: there is one hula hoop laid at a distance, then you have to try roll a tennis ball into the hoop.

The speed activity: have cones set out in a line with some distances, then you run from a line to one of the cones and put a ball on the cone, and then you run back and do the same things until all the cones have a ball on top of it. Then you run back and forwards again to collect the balls back in. One important rule: you can only have one ball in your hands.

These two activities took 30 mins to play in total because we played many rounds.

Here are some photos from these two activities:

Hyperbole Recount: Waking Up Early

 Do you like waking up early? I know I definitely don't. For our writing, we were told to write a hyperbole recount so I decided to write about how I feel when I wake up every morning.

A hyperbole is something that is exaggerated to an extent that is not real.

Comment down below if you feel like this every morning too.

Week 4 Vocabulary

This is our week 4 vocabulary activity. Do you know any of these words meanings? What is your favourite word? My favourite word is probably moron.

Pumpkin Soup

On Wednesday, our class made pumpkin soup. I love pumpkin soup, do you?

Here is the ingredients:

2 pumpkin chopped

4 white potatoes grated

2 large onions diced

1 cup of red lentils

4 vegetable stock cubes

Bunch of parsley

1L boiled water

2 tbsp cumin

2 tbsp curry powder

This is how you make it:

Put everything into a slow cooker and cook for 4 hours on high.

After 4 hours, hand blend the soup until there is a smooth consistency.

Serve and enjoy.

Serving tip: Serve with some warm bread if liked

Here's some photos of us preparing and having the soup.

Prototec Science

This is the 3 Prototec Science that I did this week.

Give it a go and tell me how you went.

Underwater Cameras

As one of our reading activities, we had to invent our own underwater camera/s. 

I did two. One is more of the basic type you see people have, and the other one is more unique.

Here it is⬇️ 

Basic type:

Unique Fish Camera:

Malorie Blackman

This is a poster about Malorie Blackman and her family, prizes and books. Have you read any of her books? I've read the Pig Heart Boy, and MAN it's awsome.

Brainpop

This is the Brainpop activity for our reading this week, I got 5/5 for the Hard Quiz, and it was about animals.

Give it a go and tell me how you got on!

Oxymoron

This is one of the reading activities this week. Oxymorons is two words of opposite meanings put together.

Do you have a oxymoron you want to share? put it in the comments below👇

Evidence: Pig Heart Boy

For this term's book, we are reading Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman. I finished the book already but I'm not going to spoil it for you, I can only tell you it is a really interesting book. Anyways, this is one of the activities, writing evidence that Cameron wanted to be like his friends.

My pepeha

This is my pepeha, what is yours?

Iqbal Masih's Diary

This is a screencastify of me reading out a diary entry I wrote. I hope you can hear the expressions in my voice.

Negative numbers

This is the 2 math activities I did this week, it is about negative numbers.

It was quite easy for me because I have done it before. Have you learned Negative numbers before.

Iqbal Masih poster

This is a information poster about Iqbal Masih.

Did you learn anything about Iqbal in this poster? Or do you have anything that you know that I haven't added on here?

Temperatures around New Zealand

As a math activity at school, my group was set to make a google sheet of the temperatures around NZ.

Where is the hottest place and where is the coldest?

Week 10 Vocabulary

This is Week 10's Vocabulary

What is your favourite word and did you learn any new words in this slide?

Child Labour Poster

Learn more about child labour on this poster. Let's work together to stop child labour.

Child labor emergancy pack

This is a slideshow I made including 10 things I would give to a kid in child labor. Which one would you think is the most important? 

Comment down below and tell me.

Writing activity: Virtual tour to Japan (Updated)

This is an updated version of the virtual tour to Japan, I found that most of the link didn't work so I did a little adjusting. 

Tried my hardest to make you feel like you are actually in Japan.

Hope you like it

Screencastify of how to insert audio

This is a screencastify I made to teach you how to insert audio into slide. Sadly, it is not avaliable on Google Docs or Google Drawings.

But anyways, have fun!

Spelling bee week 7

This is this week's 20 words.

Measurement Conversions-Mass

This is the measurement conversions-mass work-slide

Spelling bee Week 6

This is the 20 Spelling bee words for this week, I'll be posting 20 words each week.

Enjoy!

Where in the world

This is the 3 activities for 'Where in the world' on the Reading section of our Remote Learning Site

Enjoy

Epic book: Unicorn Islands

This is the two books I read today. Unicorn Island

It is about when a girl, Sam moves to a small South Carolina town full of secrets, she stumbles upon the truth behind Lost Luck, Foggy Harbor’s biggest mystery.

Covid-19 Poster

This is a poster of Covid-19 we did on the first day back to school

5 Fun Facts about Paris

On Wednesday, for the daily Hangout meet, our class had to choose a destination, and find 5 interesting facts about them, here's what I got!

Enjoy!

Lockdown beautiful day

This is a beautiful picture I took at my window

P.S. doesn't it look like a painting?

Lockdown day I don't know (2)

This is a sewing project I’m working on, it is called cross-stitching.

Can you see what part I have done and what I still need to work on? 

Let me know in the comments below

This is the plan sheet thing so that I know what I’m doing.

Why don’t you give it a go too!

Lockdown day I don't know, but now in level 2😃😃😃

Look at me go!!! Already at level 6 for Steps, a few more and I would be done.

While the crisis level is going down, my Steps level is going up!

Lockdown day 29 24/04/2020 (1)

Look at this little kid, can you guess who it is?

Lockdown day 26 21/04/2020

Today I drew mum holding me in front of sand sculptures. At that time I was only a few months old.👶

   

Lockdown day 21 16/04/2020

I saw this picture of me holding hands with Olaf, when my family and I visited Hong Kong Disneyland. 

Oh boy that was fun, and I can understand why Olaf is such a happy snowman!⛄

Lockdown day 19-20 14/04/2020-15/04/2020

I was looking through the photo albums yesterday and found this, and I was like, "I'm gonna draw that!", which astually turned out quite good!

Me about to perform in China