Fisherman

Walt: think critically about what we read.

Task Description: Today I had to actually do a task about newspaper which was about a story that I read. So when I finished that I wen ton to this one this took me a long time to finish, but at least I managed to finish it. Any ways hope you enjoyed!

Newspaper article

Walt: think critically about what we read

Task Description:  What we did was read a story which was supposed to be the link which says website. You might have found out that none of the links work well that is because we had trouble trying to fix it but sorry. Anyway I really hope you enjoyed!

Kayak Jingle

Walt: make connections with what we already know with what we read.



Task description: This task was actually really fun. I had to do another Jingle which was just like my other one which was about washing powders. That jingle was fun too! I really enjoyed this that I couldn't even do my own beat so I got my friend to do it for me! I really enjoyed this hope you did too!

Opions

Walt: express our personal opinions.

kayaks

Walt: Make connections with what we already know and with what we have read. 

What we did for this ask was we had to design a kayak by using a site. It was rally cool the reason why we did this was because we are learning about boats and Maori boats. I really enjoyed this!

Task Description: What I had to do for this task was actually learn about Maori boats first and pacific boats too. Then I got to do more with kayaks and boats. I had to design these 2 boats with a lot of detail. This was really fun!

Waka

Walt: make connections.

Maths problems

Walt: solving fractions.
 

Task Description: So what I did was I got forced to learn about fractions. As some people already know I don't really like fractions. I would per fir times table or even decimals, but I learned that fractions are similar to times tables. So I had to go through other presentations and they were all fractions. The good thing was I managed to finish all of them. Check it out I really enjoyed it, I hope you enjoyed it too!. 

Food critic

Walt: express our personal opinions.

Salty crunch  

If I was a salty chocolate lover I would love this chocolate, but I didn’t.

This salted caramel chocolate is known to be called hokey pokey and the brand it comes from is Cantibury.  This chocolate cost $5 dollars and this is the only flavour of its kind. This chocolate has chunks of hokey pokey.

It smelt good so I was really enjoying it. It felt good it wasn’t weird.Popping the chocolate in my mouth I had a good feeling about it. Then I felt hard bits of hokey pokey coming against my gum. I hate salted chocolate so at first I thought it was going to be delicious, because of the all of the chocolate melting in my mouth.

For the chocolate that I ate I would have to say that the brand should improve to not make it that salty.  The brand should improve putting less chunks even though that is the point of the chocolate which is hokey pokey. I still wouldn’t want that much hokey pokey in there.

To judge this chocolate I have to give it a 4.  I loved the chocolate, but not the caramel hokey pokey. I would never eat this again.

Task Description: What I did for this task was, we all had to taste test each chocolate some of us had the same one and some of us had different ones. I was so nervous we all went through this doc all together that showed what it felt like, smelt like, what it looked like. Then finally we got to taste the chocolate. While we were eating it we had to think about how it tasted while it was in our mouth. I didn't really like it, but if you are a salty lover then you would really love it. Hope you enjoy my story.

Maths problems

Walt: solving fractions.
 

Task Description: You should already know that I really hate fraction, but I made it through both questions. I struggled as you should already know, but the good thing is I found it quit easy. It was fun doing this. Hope you enjoy!

Maths problems

Walt: solving fractions.
 

Task Description: For this task I struggled, becasue I don't really like fractions. The good thing is I gave it a go I have never liked fractions so it was hard. I shouldn't be saying that I don't like fractions because everyone tells me it is just like times table. I have tried my best so check it out.

Dear Diary

Walt: think critically about what we read.

Task Description: What I first did was read pacific sites about how they managed in the past. Then I did another post that was similar to this go check it out the link is right here. I really enjoyed doing this post. Hope you enjoy!

Comparison

Walt: think critically about what we read.
 Task description: What we did was read articals about islanders voyagers. Then we wrote what would we do if we had travel these days people would mostly go on planes. People back in the day will be travelling on a boat. Hope you enjoy!

Castaway story

Walt: Write from the 1st perosn

Opening my eyes seeing birds flying around up in the beautiful sky. I got up hoping that somebody could possibly be there, I couldn’t believe it was just me there. I walked around admiring the beautiful island noticing delicious crabs, scary bugs and hairy spiders. I was terrified.

After admiring the island I got wood and used my useless boat that had popped from the rocks and hard objects. I made a squared house out of wood twigs and sticks. I got fronds and weaved them to make the sticks and wood stay together. Then I ripped my boat and put it over my square shaped house so if water came on top I wouldn’t get wet. I thought to myself I guess this is what it feels to be the only one alive, I really hope someone could save me.

Sitting for a couple of  minutes I thought that someone was there. Until I noticed it was my stomach grumbling for food. I got rocks and a long, thin piece of wood. I sharpened the wood at the end to make it look like a spear, I made a couple more for other occasions. I washed off, then two delicious crabs came around I got my dangerous spear and threw it at one of them. Then I quickly got the spear out of the hurt crab and threw it at the other crab. I made fire with twigs wood and rocks it took a long time, but I managed to make it, I cooked the crab and had a good feast.

I really really wanted to get off this island so I decided to write the word help on the golden sand so people could help me If they passed by, like anyone was. I thought that wasn’t good enough. So I was so dramatic I wrote sos ( save our souls) all over the place that was how much I wanted to get off the island. I then made smoke so people could tell that someone was on this island. I struggled to make smoke I got green leaves and sticks to help, It was really hard but thank goodness I made some smoke.

I tried finding some objects to make clothes and more food ,I had never felt this hungry before. Suddenly I heard a loud noise that was really really annoying. It was a helicopter coming passed the island so I yelled as loud as I could and I was waving my hands. He came near me and the wind was so strong that  it broke down my house, but I wouldn’t need it any longer. The person threw me down a ladder. I climbed up I thanked him so much and I was so happy to go back home again.

Task Description: What the class did was we all had to write each paragraph together so we didn't rush and make mistakes without anyone helping. We then edited each one as we were writing. Then once we finished our story. We got a buddy to check and we fixed up the mistaked bits. We then had to do a DLO. My DLO is the picture that you can see. We also saw clips of the movie Castaway. It was realy funny. Hope you enjoy my story!

Fishing lure choices

Walt: think critically about what we read.

Task Description:  What I did was read a lot of reading sites for me to understand about fishing lures. Then I had to do a presentation which you could check out on my blog. Hope you enjoy!

Lures

Task Description: What we did was reading a lot of articals and I mean a lot. Once we understood what each of them meant then we could start this presentation. We had to do 2 paragraphs explaining what a lure is. Then we moved on to the next slide which showed what fish prey was and what it would arttact to. 

Haiku poem

Maori fishing techniques

Walt: synthesise information from across multiple texts.

Task Description: What I had to do was read articals that was all about maori and fishing tools. Once we finished reading those articals. Then we started the presentation. We also had to follow the instruction that was on the presentation, but we had to delete because we wouldn't want to show anybody our instruction. Hope you enjoy!

Goodbye viewers

Goodbye viewers! Today it is obviously the last day of school. I won't be blogging in the holidays, it is because I have nothing to blog with. Just in case stay tuned, because you never know if I can just come on magically. I will miss my chrome book and this class. Hope you have an amazing holiday!

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Estuaries and Ecosystem

Walt: synthesise information from across multiple texts.

Food web

Estuaries

This term I learnt about ecosystems and right now I have figured out what estuaries mean.  An ecosystem is a food web that shows what theses animals do to help our environment. So for example Birds help us in many ways so what birds do is it would eat seeds, and then it would actually poop and make trees. If there is more trees than there is more insects. So this year I actually made bird feeders, because no birds than no trees.  Back to estuaries, estuaries is when there is fresh water coming together with the salt water.

Task Description: I was actually meant to do a movie, but since it is the end of the year I couldn't use the I macs. So instead I had to do a blog post about estuaries and ecosystems. I was really upset that I couldn't do the movie, but the good thing is that I managed to do it properly. This script will be coming out in my movie next term. Hope you enjoy!

Eating crickets at school!

Walt: write narrative using descriptive language.

Have you ever tasted dead crickets at school before? When our class sat on the mat. Our teacher showed us a video of a girl eating crickets. I was so confused that I said to my friend “ did our teacher have too much coffee or what!”. I haven’t did this before, but maybe it might be as easy as it looks.  

When the video was done it was time to eat the crickets. As My teacher came around tipping the disgusting looking crickets. I was so scared to even touch it, but it was time I picked one up before anyone even touched it. Then I gave it a go I was absolutely petrified, But then I had a few more it was still yuck. The weird thing was I ate 12 crickets!

I am so happy that it is over. If I had to do that again I am pretty sure I could be confident, but I wouldn't do it if I had to eat a handful. Funny and weird thing to say, I wouldn't mind doing it again.

Task Description: What we had to do was just get straight into it. We watched a video about a girl eat 3 crickets Alive!. Lucky our one was dead. But I am so happy that it is over.