Things about me

 

Today we did the second summer learning journey challenge and we had to write about our culture and about where we come from. We wrote stuff with takutai aswell.

Summer learning journey #1

 

Today with Takutai we started practising for the summer learning journey. We watched a video and we got "invited" to a three-day voyage. So we had to list ten food things we would bring with us. So Me and my buddy chose these things.

My diya

 

Hello, today for our Diwali stuff we made Diyas a while ago and are posting them on our blog when we are done. We used modeling clay to shape small round pots with a thin bottom because if it has a thick bottom it won't dry as quick.  If you are making them with someone else you could put your initials on the bottom so they don't get mixed up. You can put cool patterns on your still wet Diya.

Next, it's time to paint, you could use pretty colours and bright colours and not too much black at all because Diwali is the festival of light so you want the colours to be bright. You could use a pencil to get in the markings and paint them. The paint drys super quick because its on proper clay. Its super fun to paint and you can put them all around your house. When you shape it it takes atleast 1-2 days to fully dry.

Then you can put candles in them. Once you have shaped and painted then you can put little candle inside light it and there you have your Diya. These were super fun to make and I finished a couple of days ago. We are taking them home once we are done and we get to keep them. I am super happy about how mine turned out and how all the patterns look. Hope you enjoy, bye.

Key word hunt and brief summary of Fly me up

 

Today, we had to read the article fly me up and then fill out this form. It was really interesting and fun.  I also liked the story and had a lot of things rushing in and out of my head while reading through the article. The article was really beautiful and had many hopeful things in the story. I hope you enjoy, bye.

Digital rangoli pattern and real life rangoli pattern

 

Hello, for our Diwali stuff we had to make rangoli, first in our maths books then do it digitally it was fun but I don't really love the one I did digitally. I searched up rangoli patterns and came up with an idea. I made the pattern and coloured it in with really bright colours. Then I just copied it onto my Chromebook, it was super fun but a little time consuming because I had to get the right shapes and copy them and also put them in the right places. Rangoli is a sign of welcome and they are meant to be sacred welcoming areas, they are also said to bring good luck.

Ms. Farrs muesli

 

Today, while the year sevens were at tech, Ms. Farr brought in her muesli that she brings in every morning and she gave a small portion to each of the year sixes in a red cup, we all had a bit of milk in it and it was so yummy, but there were definitely some things that I would change about it. I loved trying the crunchy muesli with dried fruits, overall it was delicious. 

Matariki vs diwali, compare and contrast

 

For our celebrations work, we had to do a compare and contrast. We basically had to compare both of them and then find out the things they do similarly. It was really fun and I couldn't really figure out what they had similar. So I hope you enjoy, Bye.

Nutritious cereal

 

Hello, for the next 5 weeks we are going to be researching, and making our own muesli. This week we are researching health ratings for cereals, week 2 we are going to plan what we are going to make and make a recipe, week 3 we are going to design our muesli box, week 4 we are going to make our muesli box and week 5 we are going to make our muesli. We are going to do this every Friday when the year 7s and 8s are at tech. Bye, hope you enjoy. 

Quatrains

There was a monkey called Blade

who had a very nice house maid

he was swinging from some trees

and fell into a bucket of bees

There is a man called Santa Claus

and he likes to give presents

one night he felt animal paws

and the animal knocked him to the floor

I like to eat chocolate

its very good for you

but dont eat too much

or you'll do a big poo

There was a plant his name was France

and liked anyway to dance

One of his branches went *SNAP*

and he can no longer do tap

Caption: Here is my Quatrain poems, I really hope you like them. I worked very hard on them. What one is your favourite, my favourite is the last one. All you have to do is make a rhyme scheme and it has to rhyme with something, it is four lines, the poem is really easy to make, you can make it about anything. Bye, hope you enjoy.

Limericks

There was once a dog named Billy (A)

and he liked to be very silly (A)

he saw another dog (B)

and fell on a log (B)

and his owners started calling him Milly (A)

There was once a mouse called Brad (A)

and people thought he very rad (A)

he was eating some cheese (B)

then along came some bees (B)

and the king was a very massive lad (A)

Caption: Hello, these are some limericks that I wrote. I hope you like them because it took me a bit to write them. It was confusing at the start but then I got the hang of it. The first one is about my dog called Billy and the second one is about a mouse I found and I called it Brad. There has to be five lines in a limerick, the first two and the last line have to rhyme and the third and fourth line have to rhyme, the three lines that rhyme have to have 7-10 syllables and the two that rhyme have to have 5-7 syllables. Anyway hope you enjoyed, Bye.

Where in the world

 

     This is my where in the world google doc, its somewhere to Tokyo Japan. It was quite difficult. I had to measure the distance which was easy. So all I had to do was bunny click on one of the each ends and click measure distance and click the track from it and it will tell you down the bottom how many km ( kilometres ) there is. Hope you enjoy, bye.

….. to Tokyo, Japan	The Distance (in   kilometres)	Flight Time	Stopovers	Cost of a Ticket
Auckland, New Zealand	8858.22km	10h 30m
Canberra, Australia	8099.78km	15h 10m
Berlin, Germany	9648.82km	14h 30m
Beijing, China	2105.72km	6h 25m
Bangkok, Thailand	4522.73km	6h 25m
London, United  Kingdom	10458.90km	12h 10m

Capillary action

 

Today the year 6`s did a science experiment, it was amazing. We got 6 cups and put them in a circle, then we put the water in 3 cups 1 away from each other and put a few drops of food colouring in 1 cup with water each, then we put folded paper towels in between one of the cups with food colouring and one of the empty cups, watch the water molecules be absorbed and travel up the paper towel into the other cup and see the two colours mix. We also put a flower in the red cup and are going to leave it over the weekend and see if it travels to the white part of the flower. Hope you enjoy, bye.

Cleirhew poems

There was a girl called Katie

she was not a matey

she liked to eat Mcdonalds

but then she got the wobbles.

There was a bear called Paddington 

He liked to eat lamingtons

one day he was eating a sandwich

and got a little itch

There was a girl called Dora

she had a monkey called Boots

she was a giant explorer 

and went on some adventures for loot

There was a boy called Terry 

and he was very merry

He liked to be funny

but it didn't entertain the Bunny's

Caption: These are poems called Cleirhew poems, they are very fun to make. All you do is think of a person you know or  a famous person or a friend or a book character and think what they like doing and and what sort of stuff they do and like and the first two and last two can rhyme or the first and last one can rhyme, it is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Hope you can make one by my instructions or just search up how to make one. Hope you enjoy, Bye 

2 Epitaph poems

 Here lies a male called Brad pail

and he liked to bite his nail

one day he bit them way too hard

and found himself in a hole in the yard.

Here lies Drew Starkey

he liked to be barkey

one day he got splashed

then he lashed

and barkey he was no more

Caption: I hope you like my poem about Drew and Brad whoever they may be, but I hope you like these 2 poems because I put a lot of hard work into these Epitaphs. They were really fun to do, maybe you could tell me what Epitaph is your favourite. I really hope you enjoy this blog post and my Epitaphs, have a good rest of your day. Bye.

Acrostic poem about Mothers

Moody mums get very mad

Overly annoyed when you dont clean your room

They need a lot of me time

Heart full of love

Encourage you for whatever you want to do in life

Respect you through everything

Scary when angry at us children

Caption: This is my acrostic poem about mums, I really like this poem and I hope you do too. It took me a little time but I really love this poem. First we had to do a poem just to practice and had to come up with 5 ideas for each letter, then we went to do our proper one and publish it onto our blog. I hope you like my poem about mothers, bye.

Instagram post

 

For our Paralympic stuff, we ad to make an Instagram post on a Paralympian, it was really fun but tricky, we didn't actually post it to instagram, we are posting it to our blog instead. Hope you enjoyed this blog post, bye.

5 things I know about Japan.

 

For our paralympics we had to make 5 things we know about Japan, here is mine I dont know much about Japan so it was quite tricky but I hope you enjoyed this, bye.

Paralympics

 

For our Paralympics we had to answer some questions about the Paralympics, it was hard doing the research but it was fun writing stuff down. I write down the questions and then put the answer down. I really hope you learnt something from me, bye.

Profiles of Paralympians

 

For Paralympic stuff we had to make profiles of and man and a woman Paralympian, it was really fun. I chose to do Sophie pascoe and Daniel Dias. Hope you like it, bye.

Paralympic sports

 

For our Paralympic we had to make a presentation of Paralympic sports, it was tricky and a bit hard. I got through it and a lot of the other Paralympic stuff. Hope you liked it, bye