The Birth Of Jesus

This week we created a piece of art of a nativity scene then today we had to retell the story of Jesus' birth. I enjoyed doing this because we got to do art. Next time I will try to make the background look better.

What Is Advent To Catholics?

W.A.L.T... Describe what advent means to Catholics and how we celebrate it
My favourite part of my slideshow is the Advent Wreath. Next time I will try to add more information

Friction

W.A.L.T... slow the marble down using friction - waku

I enjoyed doing this because we got to make slime. Next time we will try not to ruin our slime by adding too much water

What Is A Jesse Tree?

WALT Combine and condense ideas and information from a range of texts to form and synthesise a new idea

WALT Describe what a Jesse Tree is and identify the significance of the symbols

Camp 2016

Earlier this term the year 5,6,7 and 8's went on camp. This is my camp reflection. 

Fair Test: Biscuit Dunking

This week we have been doing a fair test in a group. My group decided to do biscuit dunking. I enjoyed doing this because we got to experiment which biscuit was the best to dunk. Next time we will try to make it more fair by measuring the temperature.

Addition Using Working Form

Jesse Tree

Gravity

W.AL.T… Locate keywords and summarise information in our own words.

I enjoyed making this because I learnt more about gravity. Next time I will add more information.

Marble Game - Forces and Motion

This term we have been making our own marble game in groups. After we finished deciding our game we had to create it using our own materials. We then made a DLO about our game and the forces and motions we used. I enjoyed doing this because we got to create our own game. Next time we will go into more detail. 

Technology

This term we have been working on our own inquiries. We had to choose a subject, think of 3 questions and then research and answer them. I enjoyed doing this because I got to learn more about technology. Next time I will take more time to research and think of more in depth questions.

Reintroducing Wolves - Grey Wolf Facts

I enjoyed making this because I got to learn more about wolves. Next time I will research more information to put in

Transformation

This term my class has been looking at transformations. We then made a digital object to show our learning. I enjoyed making this because I got to learn that enlargement also means making it smaller. Next time I will add more information.

Decomposing? What Happens?

During the past weeks my group has been looking at decomposing. We were seeing if some rubbish would decompose in a small landfill. I enjoyed doing this because we got to see what happens to rubbish when it decomposes. What I did not enjoy was that our landfill smelt. Next time we will take photos while we are mixing the landfill

How Much Do You Know About Recycling?

With a buddy we made a quiz about recycling because we are learning about why recycling is important

I enjoyed making this because I worked well with my buddy and it was enjoyable to make. Next time I will add more challenging questions. What I found frustrating was when we hyperlinked the slide and it didn't work.

How Is Polyester Made From Recycled Bottles?

During the past few weeks we have been working on writing an explanation about how plastic bottles are recycled into polyester. I enjoyed writing this because we watched a video explaining to us how it is done then we wrote it in our own words. Next time I will add more add more information in the last 3 paragraphs

Do you ever look at the tag of your clothes and wonder what polyester is made from? Well it is made from the plastic bottles you recycle and throw away. They are shipped to China and goes through a procedure that is a laborious job and takes more than 10 hours to sort, put through machines and made into clothing. Do you want to learn the whole process of how your polyester clothes are made? Well if you do keep reading.

It all begins when you recycle your plastic bottles at home. When they arrive in the Bottling Recycling Centre the bottles get put in a machine to shred them. Why is this? When you recycle your bottles there will be some liquid left in the bottle. What shredding does is gets rid of the excess water so it won’t affect the quality of the finished product. They then get wrapped in cellophane and get shipped all around the world to China

Once they arrive in China they get sorted, coloured from clear. Clear plastic can be made into white fabric or fabric that can be dyed. Numerous clear bottles have coloured stickers or lids on them. These have got to go. They head to have a bath. The lids are made from a different type of plastic which makes them float. The workers then manually strain them from the top. For the stickers there is a separate bath. When you are around this bath you have to be very careful because there is a soda that is very bad for the skin but very good for the stickers.

When they come out of the baths they are very wet so the next step is the oven where they get mixed with other plastics. To make white cloth you need to combine it with the light coloured plastic. About 10 hours they have to spend in the rotating drum where the plastic is slowly drying out. Underneath the workers have to manually maneuver a cart to catch the plastic while minding their heads on other rotating drums.

Now that the plastic bottles have been broken down and mixed it is time for the next step. Since you can’t make fabric with just bits of plastic it is  put through a rotating screw that is 270° to melt the plastic. Since you don’t want to make fabric from a clump you put it through a sieve to make it into thread. Beneath workers are collecting the thread in a container. The thread still isn't strong enough to make cloth yet so it is stretched and combined with heat several times to bond the fibers together.

After all that time and effort you need to tear it apart again. The fluff that comes out is the raw substance to make polyester. After it has been teared apart again it looks like cotton wool yet it is a man-made substance. However the rest of this process happens in a different factory.

In another machine it is scraped into a very rough cloth. It is then loaded on the other side to be carded. Being carded is when the bonded fibers are brushed together so they lie in a similar direction so the material is stronger. The sheet of polyester felt is then ready to turn into thread which is done in another machine. This machine will tease it out into thread and spin it onto a bobbin.

This next step is a delicate process. A machine will make miniscule loops on the surface of the fabric and another machine will do the total opposite. It will tear the loops, this will make the fabric feel softer.

The entire process is now finished and it is finally time to make clothing. Material artists will mark out the latest designs with their templates. The layout will then get sent to workers who will make your trash into trendy gear.

There you go from what started out from your rubbish has been turned into clothes by going through a time consuming process. Sorting the bottles and putting it through many machines. But it was all worth it to make your clothing.

Quadrilaterals? Test your Knowledge

This week we have been learning the properties of Quadrilaterals. We then created a Digital Object to show our learning

I enjoyed making this because this app is creative and the animations are innovative

Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron

This week we made our own nets to make a 3d shape

Triangles

Today we were making a digital object using our own triangles

Descriptive Paragraphs - The Race

W.A.L.T Write descriptive paragraphs

I enjoyed writing this because it is descriptive next time I will use more words that are interesting

On the congested Biking Track, it was 28 degrees, the sun was scorching hot and the competitors were racing their hearts out. On the other side of the fence families are cheering and motivating the athletes. Rivals on the track, an unbeatable athlete passes biker after biker. From first place to last place is the unstoppable athlete.

Families trying to escape the fence are clicking their cameras distracting the athletes. On the track the athletes are trying to ignore the flashes of the camera and continue riding. Almost at the destination, the unbeatable athlete close to go over the finish line and once again conquer the race. But then suddenly a victorious athletes zooms past to be the first and only athlete to beat the invincible athlete.

How to Comment on Blogs - Positive Thoughtful Helpful

Today we have been creating a digital object about how to comment on blogs

Make sure to do the Quiz at the end!

I liked doing this because me and my buddy worked well together and that we included a quiz. Next time we will add more questions on the quiz

Angles, Triangles, Quadrilaterals

Today we have been learning the names and types of angles, triangles and quadrilaterals

Symbols of the Olympics - The Torch and Rings

W.A.L.T Locate an use a range of texts for specific purposes

Next time I will make it more interesting by using a different app

Multiplying using Place Value

This week we have been learning how to multiply using place value

Mihi Animation

This week I made my Mihi since it was Maori Language Week. We then recorded ourselves saying our Mihi.

Māori Language Week - Learn Māori Pronunciations

This week we were learning about  Māori pronunciations. We then had to make a digital object to help use remember the sounds. Next time I will make the pictures more laid out.

Probabilty

Today we have been looking at jellybeans. There were 6 yellow jellybeans and 6 red jellybeans. We mixed them up in 3 bowls. We then went up and chose one from a random bowl. If we got a yellow jellybean we got to take all 6 of them if we got red we lost. We then had to make a digital object to show our learning.  

The Underwater City

This week we have been writing some narratives. In our narrative writing we had to include similes alliteration and emotive language

Long ago there was an owl called Jerry, the thing with Jerry was he was depressed. He also had no friends and he lived all alone. One day he decided to go out and start adventuring and try to make some new friends. First he decided to fly up a gigantic tree to see if any owls up there would like to be his friends, but no one would.

The next place he decided to go was to a place where all the owls hang out. It was called Owl City. It was packed with all the owls in the whole world. Once he arrived there he asked some owls that he thought were also lonely if they wanted to be his friend. The answer he got was, I already have friends sorry. He then decided that he would go to the beach to see if not owls but seagulls would be his friends.

He flew all the way to the beach and stayed up in the air to search for some seagulls that could be his friends. Unfortunately the sky was empty as a blank piece of paper. He was looking down at the beach and he saw a shovel the was just left there stuck in the sand. He flew down to it and tried to get it out of the sand. While he was trying to pull it out. He pulled to one side and heard a noise. He found that there was a secret entrance to a hidden city. He flew through the very long tunnel. It was as long as a snake. Finally he reached the end of the tunnel.

He went through the doorway and found a miraculous mermaid Molly greeting him. He just then realized he couldn’t breath. He swam back to the tunnel to take a breath. Molly  then told him there is a shop where you can buy things so you can breath underwater. Molly offered to get him something from the shop so he wouldn’t have to swim underwater yet and Jerry said sure.

A couple minutes later Molly came back with a suit to help him breath. It fitted Jerry perfectly. Once he had put it on he started swimming around. He just then thought that he wasn’t feeling depressed anymore. He had made a friend. Molly the mermaid had become his friend. Molly then gave Jerry a tour around the underwater city and her house. Jerry thought that Molly’s house was so majestic. Molly also took him to some other mermaids in the city and to the ruler of the city to confirm if he could stay. The ruler of the city said “of course you can”. He was thrilled to have a friend.

After he had finished having a good time with his new friends, he went back home. He promised Molly he would visit every day and Molly was also very overjoyed.

Dividing Emazing Fractions

This week for maths I have been learning how to divide fractions. When we finished learning we had to create a digital object to prove we could do it.

King Street Bridge

W.A.L.T... Ask questions about the text before during and after. Sometimes the questions are answered in the text, sometimes we have to use our prior knowledge and what is in the text to answer our question.

Does Music Help Us Learn While We Work?

This week we have been writing to persuade our teacher that music will help us with our work or it will distract us from our completing it. Before we started our writing we had been looking at different examples on what made a good persuasive text.

In my opinion I believe that it depends on the person if they like to listen to music while they work or not. Some get distracted, some think that it helps them learn. For me I think that it helps me learn but I believe that we should get a choice if we want to listen to music or not.

My first point is, the music could inspire the people who work better with music. The music we listen to would be inspiring to us wouldn’t they? Sometimes we run out of ideas and we don’t know what to write next. When that happens to us we could listen to the song and think what it is really about. We could then add that idea to our writing. But for the people who get distracted by the music would just get off task and all of their ideas would float out of their head.

Another reason is, if we listen to music, the people who learn better with it would be more quiet. If we are focused on the music and our work there would be less talking or no talking at all. While we are listening to the music we would be lost in our work and music that there would be no talking or noise. Others would just start tapping and making even more noise. Would you like it if there was lots of noise and talking or some peace and quiet?

My final reason is, you would gain more trust in everyone. Trust is something that you need to have to let us listen to music. You have to trust that we are listening to appropriate music and that we are getting our work done while music is in the background. People who can’t listen to music while doing their work would stop learning and you would have to take away the music.

Therefore I believe that we should have a choice between listening to music or not because everyone is an individual and we all learn in various ways.

Decimals

This week we were learning about decimals and how to add and subtract them. We had to create a digital object to show what we have learnt.

Past and Present // Application

The 7 Sacraments

W.A.L.T... Identify the Sacraments of Initiation, Healing, and Commitment

James and the Giant Peach // Analysis

Choose one word that describes a character in the book very well. Give 5 reasons for your choice

Character: Aunt Spiker & Aunt Sponge

Word: Cruel

Reasons:

1.  They never call James by his real name

2. They didn’t let James have any toys or books

3. They never let James go outside on his own

4. They always make James all the chores for them

5. They don’t let James play with any other children

Personal Qualities

This week we were learning about our personal qualities

  // Personal Qualities //

I am...

I am shy because I don’t like talking in front of large crowds.

I am reliable because I listen well and follow instructions.

I am organised because I like things neat.

I am kind because I help others.

I am patient because I don’t rush people when they can’t do something.

Welcome to my Learning Blog

Welcome to my Learning Blog