Celsius, Fahrenheit & Kelvin

 Kia Ora bloggers, This week at maths we are learning about temperature. We could choose out of three tasks, Making a poster to describe things about all the different scales of temperature, Doing a worksheet, Completing a series of questions. I choose to do the poster. I have only finished one of the posters. Next week I will do one on Fahrenheit and another on Kelvin. I found this interesting to do and find out how and why Celsius was created. 

What have you been learning in maths this week?

Source: Internet and Canva

Ocean pollution

 Kia ora bloggers, Today my class did a test on how to sustain/help the environment. we could not search anything up. The other day toroa did a wearables art show on ocean pollution. So I decided to do it on ocean pollution since I learned quite a bit the other day. I found this really fun and interesting. Have you done any tests yet?

Ocean pollution

Did you know if we don’t stop polluting our ocean our children or grandchildren won’t have an ocean? Ocean pollution is real and is affecting all of our marine life. Did you know that the Great Pacific garbage patch is the size of Texas and Texas is one of the biggest cities in the world?

Boyan Slat is one of the many people trying to help marine life by creating inventions to pick up rubbish in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. When Boyan Slat was 15 he went on holiday to Greece. He excepted to dive through shimmery, glassy water and see fish dart past his. Instead, he dived in and all he saw was plastic bags and plastic bottles. He was shocked to see how much plastic was in the ocean. The next day he thought to himself how can I help the ocean so people can dive into the glassy, shimmery water. He started inventing and invented a machine that picks up rubbish in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Did you know that heaps of marine animals die a year because of ocean polllution? Heaps of animals feel pain and frustration from losing loved ones. Heaps of animals mistake plastic for food. Some animals eat microplastics that they cant see.  So then the animals get caught and eaten by us, so, therefore, we, us humans are eating teeny microplastics. Heaps and heaps of jellyfish mistake plastic bags for food so then they get tangled up in the bags and pass away. We need to start acting now.

Coral bleaching is a real problem and I believe no animal should have its home taken away because of us humans. Coral bleaching is caused by sunscreen. It makes the coral lose its color and causes animals to leave their home. We need to protect coral so future generations can see coral in real life not just in pictures. The great barrier reef is home to over 1000 animals and is decreasing quickly. We need to start acting now, otherwise, it will be too late.

This is why I believe that no worthy animal should have its home taken away. There are many more reasons than this, on how pollution is affecting our planet and our ocean. There are millions of species that live in our ocean and that number is slowly decreasing. We need to save the blue heart of our world. We need to start acting now. 

Transformation

 Kia ora bloggers this week we have been learning about transformation. We did a slide on translation. We had to answer a series of questions about translation. I found this really fun to do. Have you ever done transformation?

Source: Mrs kerin & The internet 

Organic vs GMO

 Kia Ora Bloggers this week we have been doing pervasive writing and we had to make a plan on what to write. I did my piece on Why Organic food is better than GMOs. I did my plan on a padlet.  I found this really interesting and there were a lot of facts about it.

 

My Quirky Quick Write

 Kia Ora bloggers, At the start of every literacy session we do a quick write. We have to take inspiration from a picture and write as much as we can in 10 minutes. After 10 minutes is done, The teacher goes on a spinner wheel with everyone's name and spins it. Whoever it lands on has to share what they write. Also each week we have a focus like this week is personification, and in other weeks we have done similes, metaphors, and Alliteration. Thursday's picture was a door that leads to nowhere and had wooden boats everywhere. Here is the picture and what I write about it.

Buckingham Palace

 Kia ora Bloggers Today I have been exploring Buckingham palace. I went on a virtual tour and it was so cool. You could see the White drawing-room, the grand staircase, and the throne room. It was really cool because we all live far far away from Buckingham palace, yet we still get to see it ( just virtually). It was so real, you felt as if you were actually there.  Here is the link if you want to see yourself. Have you ever seen Buckingham palace in real life? Have you ever been on a virtual tour?

Source: Buckingham Palace

How to make mashed potatoes

 Kia ora Bloggers

Today I made a recipe on how to make mashed potatoes. We did this because we were learning about traditional Maori food and one of them was kumara. We could choose to make a tool to get Kumara or make a recipe with potatoes and I choose to make a recipe. I choose to make a recipe on how to make Mashed Potatoes. I found this task really fun and easy to do.  Are you having fun doing online school ? Have you ever researched kumara???

2020 Tokyo Olympics

Kia ora Bloggers, 

This is my Biteable trailer about the Tokyo Olympics. I made this for Cybersmart- we were learning how to make our blogs social. I think this was a good idea because more people will comment on our blogs.

Have you been watching the Tokyo Olympics?

Source: Biteable.com

2020 Tokyo Olympics on Biteable.

Animals, Animals. Animals

 Kia ora Bloggers,

Today I finished off my Infomation report on Animals Cruelty, Testing, and racing. I did this topic because I believe that every animal should have the right to live in its natural habitat or in a nice kind and caring environment. Do you believe that every animal should have freedom???   Watch this clip on animal cruelty 

Welcome to Marshland School

 Kia Ora Bloggers, Today we made a video on why people should come to Marshland school. I was in a group with Max, Luke, and Will. We showed all the cool things in our school like the tractor, sandpit, library, scooter track, and super cool playgrounds. We made our video on WeVideo. I found this really fun to work with people I have never worked with.

Pretty Prancing Parris

 Kia Ora Bloggers, A Few days ago we did a slide about an NZ Artist, and I choose Parris Goebel. One slide is about "Is dance an art" (write in the comment below if you think dance is an art or not) And another about Parris and one on her quote. I did it with my friend Hamish Make sure to check out his blog (https://marhamishp.blogspot.com/) Have a good day

Q+A!!!

 Kia ora Bloggers, This week for reading we have been reading a book about war and the Waihi gold miners strike. Our teacher gave us some questions that we had to answer. Lots of the questions got me thinking. I found this really fun researching all the questions.

Have any of your family members been in war???

Pink shirt day!!!

 Kia ora bloggers, today is pink shirt day, and to celebrate our school made us dress up in pink clothes. It is so cool to see so many people supporting the anti-bullying day. Pink shirt day is a day that is against bullying. We had to bring a 2 dollar coin that would be donated to the Mental Health Foundation. The photos below are of all my friends

 Did you have pink shirt day today?  Did you dress up?

The Army Scene

Kia ora bloggers, yesterday for literacy my group had to make a scene from our book. My group's book was about the army and the Waihi gold mine strike. I did a scene from the gold mine. It was about how badly treated gold miners were. Have you ever learned about gold mines???

Being the best version of you!!!!

 Kia ora bloggers this term we have been learning how to be the best version of ourselves. At the end of the term, we all made a google slide on all we learnt about being the best version of you. We all included things like Mood Boosters, Friendships, and Growth mindsets. Have you ever made a slide about being the best version of yourself?????

How To Do A Quality E-mail

 Kia Ora bloggers, Today our teacher Mrs. Kerin Taught us how to do a quality E-mail. We E-mailed her about whether or not pets should be allowed on public transport. I think pets should be allowed on public transport. After we wrote the E-mail and Mrs. Kerin said it was good we had to put it on a google draw, we had to point out all the things in a quality E-mail. Do you know how to do a Quality E-mail?

Moari Weather animation

Kia ora bloggers today I am going to share with you my Moari weather animation. I did the animation with my friend Hamish. The animation is very short. I find animations very fun.  Do you like doing animation? Make sure to check out Hamish's blog https://marhamishp.blogspot.com/ 

Maths work

 Kia ora bloggers, today I am going to share my math work with you. For maths, we have been doing word problems and decimals. I really like math and thought this was very fun. What are you doing for math right now? Have you done decimals or word problems?  Or, if you are an adult, do you estimate the final cost as you shop? Bye for now

My Pepha

Kia Ora Bloggers, Today I am sharing my pepha with you. We do pephas every year and we add more and more each year. Pephas are used to make connections with other people. Have you made a pepha before? I found this really fun learning about where my ancestors were from and my friends too. Do you know where ancestors are from?  

Literacy

 Kia Ora Bloggers, This week my literacy class has been doing things that are from the site called Wonderopolis. I created my own wonderopolis about the ocean and why it is blue here is the slide 

Have you used wonderopolis before?

Do you know why the ocean is blue?

Google Scavenger Hunt

Hi, today I did a google Scavenger hunt. We had to complete tasks on a doc and use the explore button to search things up without leaving the doc. I think that is pretty cool. When you are on a doc do you use the explore button?