My Public Service Announcement

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

This week and last week, on Wednesdays after we get back from Technology, we have been learning how to code. We used a website called codesters. It teaches you how to code but still has things to drag and drop. Our task was to make a PSA(Public Service Announcement). My PSA is about littering and how it kills wildlife. It starts with a person walking through a forest and drops a plastic bag, then a hedgehog comes and gets trapped in the plastic bag. After that, another person comes through the forest and talks about how plastic and littering is killing our wildlife.

Thanks for reading! Bye.

Koru Art

Kia Ora Bloggers,

The past few weeks, we have been making a Maori koru necklace. First, we looked at some drawings done by Raewyn Harris, then we drew our own with pastels. Then we had to sketch out 3 designs for a koru necklace. Out of those 3, we had to pick one and make it out of air-dry clay. I picked one with two hearts and korus inside of the hearts. the smaller heart represents my immediate family and the bigger heart represents my extended family. Here is a video of the whole process. The voice-over feature wasn't working for me so I couldn't do a voice-over.

See you next time!

Wondrous Week 8

Kiaora Bloggers,

This week we started a new subject for technology. My group has moved into cooking/food. We will be making bread and pasta throughout the term. For the first class, we made a simple loaf of bread to get to know the techniques of making and kneading the dough. It was delicious.

For Numeracy this week, we have been focussing on finding a way to always win a game. the game we had to win was called take 3.

How to play: There are 21 counters and 2 players. each player has a go and can choose to take either 1, 2, or 3 counters. Whoever takes the last counter wins.

I figured out that the way to win every time is to go first and to make the remaining amount of counters a multiple of 4. That way you can always win because no matter how many the other player takes, you can always make it a multiple of 4 again. And when you get to 4, the other player can take away 1, 2, or 3 but cannot get the last counter, so you win.

In Literacy, we have been continuing on with our websites. I finished the layout for my website so now all I have to do is the writing. I have written 2/9 of the texases. We are not allowed to do it in school time anymore because we will be moving onto our next study. Here is a picture of what my Themes page looks like.

See you next time:)

Fri-yay tasks!

Kia Ora bloggers,
Today we had our technology tasks again. This time I chose to make a pizza. I made the dough and let it sit for about an hour then I rolled it out. When I went to get some tinned tomatoes to put on it, I realized there were no tinned tomatoes. Instead, I had to use some leftover sauce from dinner the night before, it tasted just as good. I only put on salami, onions, and cheese because I don't like anything else on it.

The other task that I did was to design my own birthday cake. I made it on a website but it wouldn't let me take a screenshot or download it. It had 5 layers. 2 of them were chocolate flavoured and the other 3 were vanilla. On the outside, I put cream and drew some cow print on it with icing.

See you next time!

Friyay Tasks

Kia ora bloggers,
Because it is Friday today, we got to do tasks that are a little different from usual. Instead of literacy and numeracy, we did stuff a little more creative. We did stuff from our tech classes today. I chose to do a sewing task. We had to get some old material that we had around our house and turn it into something new. I found these sweatpants in my mums room and decided to make it into a 3 piece clothing set. I don't think I'll ever wear the top but it was really fun to make. I made some sweat shorts, a top, and a scrunchie.

This is the second task that I did today was to design a food truck. I like cow print at the moment so I decided to make it cow-themed. The menu has Moookies and Cream, Chocolate Mooose, Mooogurt and Cream, and Moookey Poookey. Moookies and cream is vanilla ice cream with big cookie chunks to resemble cow print. Chocolate Mooose is chocolate ice cream. Mooogurt and Cream is vanilla ice cream with some frozen yogurt on top. Mookey and Poookey is Hokey Pokey.

See you next time:)