In His Blood

Kia ora bloggers,

When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open-ended questions that would help me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adults intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next, we got to chose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3 advanced questions about it.  Our create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with Renderforest and it was about a book called ‘In his blood’

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realise how important it is to do this when reading to understand the text better.

Do you ever do further research when you are reading a book to deepen your understanding?

Ta ta and have a lovely day.

Matariki the movie

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Today me, Kadyn and Jordan have made a movie for you all. Its called Matariki the movie. This task was fun to do, we got to choose how we wanted to make it as you will see we have chosen to do an animation once we finished with making the animation we did a voice over so now it is a movie that you all can watch. I really hope that you all like our movie, but for now ta ta and have a lovely day 

End of angles and the start of algebra

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Most of this week I was home sick but hopefully, by the time you read this, I will be all feeling all better. While I was sick I have still been doing my school work, well most of it...

This post is about my maths. We have been learning how to find the missing angle without measuring but calculating it. The other part of our maths was the beginning of algebra. We had to work out a formula which would help us to find how many matchsticks were in a shape. Ta ta see you back here with another post soon.

         

Fractured fairy tale - Billy Goats Gruff

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It's me, Billy! Today I have a book I'm working on called Billy Goats Gruff using Book creator. Now I know this book has been made before but this is my fractured fairy tale. A fractured fairy tale is where you use a normal fairy tale [Billy Goats gruff] and only change a tiny bit. What I changed was insted of a troll it is a yeti. Anyway, bloggers thats it for today ta ta now!!!   

Angles the Robot

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Today in maths we had to make a robot on google drawings and then we had to measure it using a protractor but before we did that we had to estimate the angles on the robot. Now we had to use a protractor to see if we estimated. You might see this robot in an animation in the future. Here is Angles the robot hope you like him. But for now ta ta and have a lovely day.

Sunny Siapo

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One of the oldest and most important traditions of Samoa is the Siapo or Tapa.  It is a type of cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree.  It is very time-consuming because the bark must be harvested, stripped, separated, scraped and beaten before it can be used.  It is then laid out in the sun to dry.

The artist uses natural dyes, created from items such as berries, bark, and nuts to make patterns on the cloth. 

There are 13 traditional patterns used on siapo that represent things common to Samoan culture such as nets, coconut leaves, shells and flowers.

Here is my siapo I hope you like it and ta ta darlings ツ

The Blind teacher

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Today we made a cool comic on Irony, but not just any irony dramatic irony!!!  Its where a blind teacher is about to teach a kid but he can't find the kid, but you lot all know where the kid is that is how it is dramatic irony. Any way ta ta and enjoy the comic.

Nick the Necklace

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Welcome to another post, today we used Adobe Spark like last time in literacy but last time it was on an old man but that's not important. [You can go check it out] By the way my necklace is not called Nick but it can be if you want just tell me in the comments below. Any way Thats all today so ta ta

Plumpy Piggys

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Today I have made a fairy tail caste but that's not what I'm here to tell you about. I'm here to tell you about the three little pigs so you all know about the fairy tail well this one is different. It was made by Roald dahl but I don't have enough time to tell you any way we just had to show the Background, Rising action, Climax, Falling action and resolution. Well that's it today guys ta ta darlings

Angels angles

Kia ora bloggers,

For numeracy today, we have started to learn about angles. 

We learnt about 3 different angles today - acute (less than 90°), right angle (90°), and obtuse (larger than 90° but smaller than 180°).  We also learnt how to use a protractor to measure angles.  We know that we need to measure an angle from a vertice (a corner where two straight lines meet).

For our create task, we had to measure three different angles on the first letter of our name - can you figure out if they are acute, right angle or obtuse?