Christmas Trivia - Idea 10
For the next 2 weeks of this year are going to be very chaotic so the Teacher have set us 12 different Christmas tasks for the next 2 weeks, each day we will have to complete 1 of them. This one is 10 Christmas trivia question's.
Idea 2 - Christmas Around The World
The next 2 weeks of this year are going to be very chaotic so the Teacher have set us 12 different Christmas tasks for the next 2 weeks, each day we will have to complete 1 of them. For this task I had to find how 10 different languages say Happy Christmas then make a word search for them. Here is the word search - (there are no spaces between the words)
Book Review, FANTASTIC MR FOX
This week I read Fantastic Mr Fox for the first time in a couple years. Then I decided to write a book review about it.
PrEP
PrEP is a thing we do at school to learn about money. We make applications, letters and cvs to apply for a PrEP job. The jobs that you can apply for are advertising agency, The Warehouse, Banker, Police or your own venture. Where you can be CEO, Secretary, Treasurer, Quality control or a worker. We do PrEP for 2 weeks, and get paid 8 taniwhas (that's what we called our money this year) a day every 2 hours.. We can get a bonus pay but they can also doc pay. We have 2 markets where groups can sale there products. There is mini market where some groups choose to sell and then the big market where everyone sells.
This year my job was working in the Warehouse. We got all of the materials each group needed to make there product. The people who worked in the Warehouse started work 1 week more money then everyone else which means we got payed overtime. I really loved working in the Warehouse getting orders ready for each group. When it came to the last day of PrEP the mini market we got all of our money to spend. I had 144 taniwhas to spend at the market. I brought some string art, lucky dips, a paper Christmas tree, calendar, a plant and a bees wax rap. I found PrEP really fun this year and I will miss it next year.
Iceberg PMI Chart
For the past few weeks in reading our work has revolved around icebergs. This is the PMI (Plus Minus Interesting) chart. For this we had to read each article and write a plus, Minus and a Interesting.
Maths DLO, Week 5
First for maths this week we had to make our family. We could be married, Single or in a relation ship. Then you could pick if you had kids, pets and you could pick a car that is either diesel or petrol.
I choose to be married with 4 kids. I have 1 dog and have a petrol car.
Then we were randomly give a wage or a salary. I got a salary of $42,000 a year which means I get $807.69 a week. Then we were random given a Tax, Mortgage and Groceries bill. We were then given a fortune card which could give you money or take away money.
We treated each day as a week and after 4 weeks we got Insurance, SKY TV, Vehicle, Phone, Internet and Electricity. After I had payed everything over the 4 weeks (4 days) I am in debt by $315.07.
Here is my balance sheet -
DLO - DRSABCDs
Last weekend I had companions for St John. One of the things I learnt that helped me at companions was DRSABCDs. So I made a drawing showing you what each letter stands for and what to do for it.
Life cycle of an Iceberg
For reading this week we read a article an then had to make a diagram of the life cycle of an iceberg. With pictures and labels.
Explanation on a great learner
For writing we have been working on explanation writing. Then we had to writ an explanation on what we think makes a great learner. So hear is my writing.
What makes a great learner?
Definition - A learner is someone who gains skills or knowledge through practising, studying or being taught. But to be a great learner is someone who is Committed to their learning, there Organised they make sure they have the right equipment at the right place at the right time. Above all they are Persistent they give new things a go and when they fail they try and try again, they never give up.
A great learner is committed to their learning, their studies and their work. If you're committed to something like your learning you're willing to make adjustments from where you are learning to how you are learning. For example if you committed to your piece of writing you will finish because you're committed and you want to finish, but if you aren’t committed to the writing you won’t finish the work you won’t care if you finish it. They have to be committed, if they aren’t they won’t finish their work, they won’t listen. They won’t learn.
To be a Great learner you have to be organised for learning. To be organised for learning you have to have the right ejectment, Pens to write down notes, notebooks to write lessons on, so you can look back at it to refresh your memory of what you have learnt before a test.. A chrome or device to write assessments and essays. Another reason why you have to be organised is to make sure you are ready to get to class on time, so you don’t miss any of the learning. For example if you weren’t organise you could sleep in and have to rush to get ready and get to class, but you just miss the class and now you won’t know what you missed, then in a test about that thing you were supposed to learn in that class but you missed that class, so you fail the test.
Now one of the most important things about being a great learner is being persistent. Yes persistent, giving everything a go even if it is new, and if you fail you try again and again until you learn that new thing. This is an important attribute for a great learner. If a great learner wasn’t persistent they wouldn’t be a great learner and wouldn’t achieve much. Imagine if the Wright brothers were not persistent and gave up when the first Air plane they made didn’t work, if they had, we wouldn’t have air planes around today.
In conclusion I think the 3 most important traits you have to have to be a great learner is being committed to your learning, to be organised and above all being persistent never giving up even when it seems you should give up.
Green puppy born in Italy
Cristian Mallocci a sheep farmer might be expect an occasional black sheep amongst his flock. But how surprised he was when earlier this month, the Mallocci's dog, Spelacchia gave birth to a litter of five pups four of them with white fur just like there mixed breed mother. The other pup wad covered with green fur giving him the name Pistacchio. While the other 4 pups are up for adoption on the Italian island of Sardinia. Pistacchio is staying with the Mallocci family.
The farmer told CNN: "We are keeping him, he arrived in a dark time but he will bring luck!"
Though rear green puppy's are born there was white German Shepherd in North Carolina who gave birth to an unusually coloured pup in January, whose owners later named him Hulk.
I think this is amazing because it is so rare and they are viewing that he will bring luck in suck a dark time.
Current events, Question 6
Current events is a thing we do each week. We go into group and answer question about things in the news from around the world. The we pick one of the questions and write a blog post about that question.
What caused the middle lanes of the Auckland Harbour Bridge to close at the start of the holidays?
a. it was damaged when a truck flipped over in strong winds
b. a minor earthquake caused damage to the road surface
c. a bus hit an oil tanker causing it to leak oil on the road
Answer A - It was damaged when a truck flipped over in strong winds. A new permanent strut has been crafted in Whangārei to replace the temporary fixture reinforcing the structure, after it was badly damaged on September 18.
Tuesday morning saw the Auckland Harbour Bridge close completely to motorists for about an hour as wind gusts reached 98 kilometres per hour. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency has warned that further lane closures are possible if severe gusts continue. It comes after the bridge was severely damaged on September 18 when a “freak’ gust of wind blew a truck into the bridge.
Sports Probability/Basketball
WALT: Use a tree diagram to find all possible outcomes and make predictions
For Maths today we watched a video showing us who to draw a tree graph to find out the probability for something. Then we had to choose one of the sports from a slide the teacher sent to us. My group choose basketball, here is our results.
Mistletoe Bay Camp
Next week my class is going on camp to mistletoe bay. So this week our tasks revolve around that. For this task we had to make a trail from our school to Mistletoe bay. Then pick 3 places we will go though on the way there and put a photo of that place and a fact. We also had to find the distant from start to finish, it was 269km from Grey Main to Mistletoe bay in a straight line.
Going down to my Nana and Granddad's farm - Hobbies
One of my other hobbies is going down to my Nana and Granddad's on a long weekend or school holidays. My favourite thing to do there is feed the calves. Right now it is calving seasons. They have 500 milking cows so that is around 500 calves. To feed the calves we wake up early and milk the cows who have had there calves. Then we take some of that milk and put in a sport of trough with pink teas of the ends so the calves can sucks on them to get to milk. The hardest part is teaching the new calves to drink the milk. You have to put your fingers in there mouth and guide them to the trough. I can't wait until the holidays so we can go down there.
Netball
One of my favourite hobbies is netball. This year I was on the Paroa Junior A netball team. We were very successful and won all of our games then won first in our grade, which was a first for me. In netball I play GK or GD but I prefer GK. This year I was very lucky and also made it onto the school ASB netball netball team. We first won Grey District then went on to win West Coast.
Parachute - Science Experiment
Another science experiment we did in science was making a parachute out of a plastic bag and sting. Then we dropped them from top of the big fort with a peg of the bottom. My group deiced to cut our bag into a hexagon shape. Our parachute whet down pretty slowly but was not the slowest. It was fun, but if I did it again I would make my shape a rectangle and make the strings longer.
Spinning Water - Science Experiment
For one of our science experiments we did a experiment called spinning water. It is were you make 2 holes in a cup opposite each other and thread a peace of string though them then tie it at the top so you can hold the string like a handle. Then fill the cup with water and then spin it around in a circle.
