Day 2 of Christmas Blogging

 

Day 1 of Christmas blogging

 

Current Events

Today Mrs Prendergast and Totara 3 done Current events quiz, there was a question about Adele and her losing weight, If you want to know how and why then keep reading.

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins losing just about 50 pounds in 13 months. We all know Adele right? You know the one who sings:

Someone Like You

Hello

Set fire to the rain

And all those other amazing songs. Yes her. Shes Gorgeous right!! Wondering how and why she lost weight?
The reason why she lost weight is because she has cut down drinking and is eating more real food. It doesn't matter what shape or size anyone is everyone is beautiful just the way they are.

How did she loose weight? Adele tried using the sirtfood diet which encourages to eat plant foods.

Kei Hea? ~ Where

This week during Te - Reo we have been learning:

Muri: Behind

Mua: In front

Raro: Under or Below

Runga: Above or on

Roto: In

With these words we had to make them into sentences by choosing a object that includes these words for example: Kei Runga i te turu te raku. That means The Pen is on the chair. Mrs Prendergast gave us a challenge or task to do at least 5 sentences in Maori on a different slide for every slide. This is my slide.

Interchange with Miss Prendergast

 During one of the weeks With Miss Prendergast in interchange we had a task to do a board game based on a voyage to Aotearoa ( New Zealand ).

We had a choice of working by our self or with a partner. I chose to be with a partner so I was with Porsha.

In our board game we had to include: Step backs or Move forwards.

On of my favourite push backs is: A whale - 0 - swallows you go back to the start.

My favourite move forwards: The waves pull you forwards go up a space.

Porsha added stars to show the navigation to New Zealand.

After we had included all of the instructions we needed we decided to decorate it with colour.

I am very happy with how this turned out and was definitely one of the best activities I have done with Miss P.

Narrative Writing

This week Mrs Prendergast gave us a task to complete about a narrative writing. So I done my experience about Christchurch with a twist that is fiction. So here is mine

What country has made a vaccine for covid - 19?

 Have you heard of the deadly virus that has been going around for roughly 9 months?

Covid - 19 has killed 1 person on the west coast in New Zealand, and 1,654 have confirmed cases in New Zealand. 1,531 people have recovered from the virus.

But luckily China has found a vaccine for Covid and are healing a bunch of people. If the vaccine gets around the world it will heal everyone with Covid.

My questions I have for this is:

1. What is in the vaccine? 

2. How did they get this idea?

3. How does this vaccine work and what does it contain?

My opinion if this gets around the world is " If the vaccine does get to everyone with covid will it cure them depending on how bad it is? ".

My opinion on how this information got around: " I think he or she took their time to go around and gather up all the information and made the right choice to let it out to the world ".

Taking the OAR

Are you taking the oar, or are you going to bed.
O for Ownership
A for Accountability
R for Responsibility
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 B is for Blame
E is for Excuses
D is for Denial
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If you are wanting to take the OAR when you get in trouble or make a mistake make sure you take the OAR so you get in less trouble if you go to BED then you will get in more trouble and have to take the consequences.

Current Events Review

2 walkers who went missing in Kahurangi National Park in June were found alive and well. How many days did they go missing for?

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A. 10

B. 19

C.20

If you said B you were correct they were missing for 19 days, They were well and healthy.

They got lost through fog and they got injured in a fall.

They went missing on May 2 and were found on May 21st.

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Interchange on Mondays

Every Monday for the next 9 weeks Totara hub is doing interchange. Mrs Prendergast my teacher is doing New Zealand history. Miss Power the leader of Totara hub is doing Science experiments. Miss Hines is doing around the world.
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Last week with Mrs Prendergast we did learning about the ancestors of the Maoris. I learnt new things about my culture and I am proud to be a Maori.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------With Miss Power we done spinning water this was fun and one of us spun it too fast and the cup broke when it hit the ground and everyone in my group got wet.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When Totara 3 went to Miss Hines we had to find all the continents in the world. Did you know there are six continents? I thought there was seven until I learnt about them.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------There are still 9 weeks to go with interchange and I cant wait to see what is going to happen with that.

Matariki creating

For the creating task I done a "How do different countries celebrate Matariki.
My countries were: NZ, Australia, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji.
How does your country, Town or family celebrate Matariki? My family and I go to the beach and release lanterns into the sky when it is dark.

Matariki evaluating

Should Matariki be a public holiday? Yes or no?
I think yes if you want to know why read my argument.
Do you think Matariki should be a public holiday??

Matariki analysing

For Matariki analysing I chose to do "Why does Matariki not stay around all year?"
For this one you had to explain why Matariki does not stay around all year.
I found out some new things about Matariki. I thought Matariki would stay for 2 - 3 days, but did you know it stays around for 11 months?!
This is my one.

Matariki applying

Mrs Prendergast gave us another 6 options for the Applying activities.
So I decided to do the lantern flying. For this activitie you would have to make a poster or invitation for lantern flying. You would have include Who, When, Why and where.
I hope you will come to see the lantern flying. Or you come fly a lantern. ( Its not real )

Matariki Understanding

Another one of the activities is understanding. We got given 6 options and I chose to do "Why was Matariki important to the early Maoris."
We had to include Why, When, Who and what. I added a extra slide of a "did you know?"
This took me about 1 day to do and I think this turned out okay.

Matariki Remembering

This week Totara 3 have been working on Matariki for the Maori new year.
There is: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, Creating.
Reading this will represent what the seven sisters and 2 brothers represent.
This is my one.

Maths Buddy

This week Totara 3 was given 4 maths buddy tasks to do over the week.
The task was called: Solid shapes 2
They were: Top side and front view, What solid will this net make. Repeating that again but with different questions.
My results were: 70 90 and 100%. I had to do the last task again because I got 70 but then I got 100.

What's In The News This Week?

Right now imagine you are Kylie Jenner. You are a 22 year old cosmetic model and your net worth is $900 million dollars!

There are 210 episodes of Keep up with the Kardashians. Keep up with the Kardashians is a very popular reality tv show. The series is worth more than Kylie. 

Kylie has been in the news recently and is now classified as a millionaire not a billionaire. 

This came surprisingly to me as I would have thought she was a billionaire.

Current events - Michel Jordan's

Today we did Current events, one of the questions was about these shoes:

The Air Jordan 1's which Michael Jordan wore in 1985 were bought for 943,000 in New Zealand dollars. That is a lot of money! We had to guess whose shoes they were and we found out that they were his! My  friends and I think his shoes were ugly because they looked really old and dirty. In my opinion they looked like they were thrown in mud.

Did you know Michel Jordan played for the Chicago bulls?
He was the best player of the team. He used to be able to dunk from the 3 throw line, that is a very far throw and dunk. He retired in 2003.

One day I hope to be like Michel Jordan.

Ancient Egypt

This Week we are learning about Ancient Egypt. To work out our topic we were given a set of tasks  to complete.
We had 3 small puzzles to complete, a word scramble and maths equations and after we get the equations right we got given a letter. After we got given our letters we had to see what the letters spelt out. After Isy, Hannah and I figured it out it spelt "Ancient Egypt". This took us all morning and half of the second block to complete.
This was a fun activity to do and hope to do it again.