FAKE NEWS?!

 Kia Ora Everyone!!

WALT: (We are learning to ask questions that help judge the quality of media products)

For cybersmart this week, we did more media. This time we learned how to spot fake media, or fake news sites. Here are some ways you can know if it's fake or not!:

1: Look for fake URLs. If they end with .Lo or .com.co, they're probably fake.

2: Dissect the layout, look for grammatical errors and incorrect dates, bold claims with no sources and sensationalist images.

3: Dig deeper, find out who wrote the article, and who supports the site, if this information does not exist, or you need to register for the information, then question why.

Our task was to make a fake news report about something that would be fake or kind or click bait-y like say something with a picture and then the information is way more boring then you would think! Here is mine! I had a lot of fun making it and I hope you like it!

 

My Camp Ballad

 Kia Ora everyone!

Last week, we were learning about ballads. Ballads are a type of poem. The way Ms Wilton explained it, there are three stanzas and in each of those there was an AA, BB, A rhythm, so the first two rhyme, the second two have a different rhyme, and the last one has the same rhyming sound as the first two.

All our ballads were supposed to be about camp. I did three, but one is boring and one is inappropriate for my blog :D So this one will be about the orientating at camp!

Enjoy! <3

Ah, we’d found a spot, Zippy had been out staring

Soon the year seven girls came sneering

We were too loud, shut ups came from different voices

There were too many people, we had to rethink our choices

I could hear to the side, Tini swearing.

Alright, I’ve had enough, Sara shouted

For her, it was too crowded

She tried to move back, but there was a branch in the way

So she had to still, and just hope and pray

But with voices, she was still surrounded.

Soon lights shone through the distance

Our voices shut off and we tried to conceal our existence 

It came closer and closer, our hearts started to beat

Oh no, it was Pete

Us girls were quiet, pretending we didn’t see, being resistant

Camp media!

Kia Ora Everyone!

Media I've Consumed Over The Last 24 Hours!

 What is Media? Media is something you consume, like information, or pictures. You are consuming Media all the time everyday! Here is the Media I could think of that I've consumed:

The Golden Rule~

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This morning we read a bible reading about treating people as you would like to be treated, you know, that kind of reading. This is the bible reading numbers: Luke 6:27-42.

We read it a few times, then we got our task. Our task was to make a DLO about the golden rule.

By the way, the golden rule is "Do to others as you would have them do to you." This is my DLO, I decided to make a poster!

Being a Presenter for the Student Summit 2020!

Kia Ora friends and family!

Today I am blogging about the 2020 Student Summit. In this summit, there were four sessions. Each session lasted for about twenty minutes. For the first two sessions, I was a presenter, with Caleb and Micah. During them, Micah and Caleb were talking, and I was answering questions in the chat. 

We were doing our sessions about stop motion. I learnt a lot about stop motion. I really enjoyed making examples too! Here is one of them, I did it with paper, turning it.

If you want to try one of these download Stop Motion Maker on the Chrome Web Store.

Have an amazing day!

My Vatican Inquiry! ♥️

 Kia Ora Everyone! ♥️

Welcome to my Blog again! This is about my Inquiry for R.E. Let's begin! ♥️

First, we had to choose a topic about the Pope to do our inquiry's on, I chose to do the Vatican City. Then we needed three key questions about it. Next we had to create our Inquiry. It was very fun researching about the Vatican. Okay, enjoy my post! ♥️

Koru and Kowhaiwhai

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WALT: Drawing on what you have learnt about the use of koru and kowhaiwhai featuring in Māori Art, describe what, how and why these are used.

We had information and links to click on, this is what I have learnt about Korus and Kowhaiwhai whilst answering the questions. Enjoy!

Using the information we have gathered from the sites along with your own research, create a timeline of how pirates operated in the past and present. Include information and names of pirates and location from the 15th Century until now.

This is my Timeline, hope you enjoy!

Names of famous pirates: 

Zheng Yi Sao.

The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the late 1700s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share of his business. When her husband died six years later, she took command of the fleet.

Over the next decade, the pirate queen built a fleet of over 1,800 ships and 70,000 men. On land and sea, Zheng Yi Sao’s power rivaled the emperor himself. Time and again, her ships triumphed over the emperor’s ships. When she was ready to retire, Zheng Yi Sao surrendered - on her own terms, of course. Even though there was a price on her head, she was able to negotiate her freedom, living in peace and prosperity for the rest of her days.

Anne Bonny

Anne Bonny was one of the most famous female pirates, and another Mary Read. They had collaborated after they had war with each other. It seemed that Anne had some type of romantic feelings for Mary since she was named Mark and was dressed as a man. It was clear for Anne’s current husband that she was in love with him/her.

They had been together for awhile now. This is when they had hit Jamaica and started a pirate war. They were caught and arrested in prison. Jack aka Anne’s husband was hung when he had gotten arrested. Mary and Anne were also supposed to get hung but they were both pregnant. So they held the death sentence and stayed behind bars until they gave birth. Unfortunately, Mary had an illness and died or she died while giving birth. Then Anne got to live for another few years and was freed by her rich father. She died at the age of 85, 1782!

Introduction

The Golden Age: 1650 - 1730

Throughout history there have been people willing to rob others transporting goods on the water. These people, known as pirates usually targeted ships, but sometimes they would attack coastal towns. Pirates have existed since ancient times. They threatened the trading routes of ancient Greece, and seized cargoes of grain and olive oil from Roman ships. Piracy still exists today in some parts of the world, especially the South China Seas.

The Gunsway Heist!

1695

Henry Every (Avery) Was only active for 2 years but committed the biggest act of piracy in history. He and his crew joined forces with Thomas Tew and his crew to be the perpetrators of The Gunsway Heist with which they stole $600,172,000. And then found the pirate sanctuary Lebratailia.

Modern Pirates! 

Where they operate:

Somalia has a huge coastline, wrapped around the Horn of Africa. In 2008 many pirate attacks were launched in the narrow channel known as The Gulf of Aden. In response to these attacks and the economic effect they were having on this popular shipping channel, a fleet of international warships are now on daily patrol. Pirates are now known to be using “mother ships” so they can launch attacks further out at sea.

Somali pirates don’t wear eye patches, and instead of swords, they have RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades). They use small, fast speedboats to get around and work with crews of ten or so. Once they find a good target, they launch hooks and rope ladders up to board the ship and overwhelm the crew. They often attack at night.

That was in Somalia, in South East Asia they attacked Sulu and Celebes seas as well as Malacca Strait and Bangladesh.

Has the location where pirates sailed changed over time? Yes, These days pirates are mostly sailing around Africa and China but in the olden days they worked around mainly the Carribean.

How Did Pirates Use Cipher Wheels?

This Term, our whole school is learning about Pirates.  This week we were creating and learning about cipher wheels. I see you wondering how cipher wheels relate to Pirates? Let me tell you. They would use them to send secret messages to each other! Here are some links to know about how cipher wheels work!!!!!!

Read about codes and ciphers here.

Learn some more about ciphers and codes here.

Watch a video about cipher here.

Watch this video about the Caesar Cipher.

Use this interactive to explore creating messages.

The Pleiades - The Flint Boys!

Kia Ora Everyone!

This week, because it's Matariki, we are looking at the Pleiades. The Pleiades are a set of stars the most countries can see. For us, we call the Pleiades Matariki, but in other cultures they call it different. I chose to do the flint boys, it is what the Black God Navajo called them. 

This is the backstory of the Myth, Hope you enjoy! :)

Key Idea #4! Comic Strip

Kia Ora Everyone!

Today, we are doing a comic strip on Jesus' life after his baptism. We had three videos to take notes from.

Jesus is baptised by John

Jesus enters the desert 

Jesus visits the synagogue

We also had resources we were allowed to make the comic strips on, so I chose to do a canva comic strip!


Here is mine!

Jesus was Baptized News Paper Article.

Our task this week was to write a newspaper article about "being there when Jesus was baptized." We had resources to look on as well to get the feel of when Jesus was baptized.

Matariiki

Because Matariki is coming up, we obviously had to do a DLO about what we had learnt with the resources our teacher had given us. We had four resources and picked information out of all of them for our DLO's. I learnt a lot, stuff that I had forgotten like what Matariki means (Tiny Eyeballs) and I learnt new things, like the meanings of the stars.

The Light

WALT: Choose a Title or Image of the Holy Spirit. How can you show to others that you can be the Holy Spirit?

The C.E.R.R. Café!

Kia Ora Everyone!

This week, in Room 6, our class has invented a C.E.R.R. Café! Ms. Wilton thought of inventing the C.E.R.R. Café because it would give students a nice time to relax or eat something if they're hungry. But, most things aren't free...
We implemented a system with "C.E.R.R. Tokens". The red one is for Compassion, The yellow one is for Excellence, the blue one is for Responsibility and the green one is for Respect. We are given these if Ms. Wilton see's us showing one of these values.
So that is how we pay for things. 
The year 8's have also gotten jobs to do at the Café! But not all of them. I have been assigned to a Cook. There is another Cook that works with me but he does nothing usually. Just kidding. There is a also a cashier and a cleaner. We have a cute little fake till and everything!

In my opinion, I think the Café is a really good idea and is really cute because, it is a fun way to make the class happy, it makes me happy when I serve people at the desk because their faces light up! I love "working" in the C.E.R.R. Café! 

Goldilocks!

Throughout quarantine, our class have been writing pick-a-path stories! We were split into writing groups and giving a prompt. For my group - it was this:








Next we had to do a specific amount of planning each week for our stories. Now - we're done! Here's mine:

My Cookies!

Kia Ora everyone!
Last week on friday, our task for topic was to identify changes in matter and physical change and chemical change. In our morning hangout, Ms Wilton said we could do something like baking, but the main task was oobleck. I din't want to make oobleck, so I chose to bake. Specifically chocolate chip cookies.
I made a small batch and a big batch. I used my sisters recipe, and when she makes them, they're delicious! I can't say the same for when I made them though, they kind of had no flavour.. I did forget to take photos, but they were eaten in two days!
I was confused by the changes, but my sister said that it was a chemical change.
I hope you have a great day and keep up what your doing!

Milk Plastic? Will it Work!

For Topic this week, we are learning about "Changes in Matter". We had to identify the difference between Physical and Chemical change. After we went and learned about it there were experiments that we got to choose from that you can do with HOUSEHOLD items. I decided to do Milk Plastic Tags.
This is how mine went...

That is when I first put one cup of milk into the glass.

This is when I put it in the microwave for 2 minutes.

After adding the vinegar in and mixing a tiny bit.

After mixing for a minute.

This is after straining.

These is all the colours I wanted to make my plastic.

I added my mixture into the colours and mixed (I only used the yellow in the end.)

And Done!!!!! Now I have to wait 2 or more days for it to dry!

Online School...

As of today, most of New Zealand should have been starting Term 2 online (if they go to school). At first I thought it was going to be scary and I didn't want to show my face on the 'Hangout' sessions. But in the end it was alright. There wasn't much talking to be done and it isn't that bad to say "good morning" them mute. And you didn't have to speak, you could type in the chat. the work is a little bit overwhelming but I think everyone including myself will get used to it. And for lunch we get and 1 hour and 10 minute break, so yeah, I ain't complaining!
I hope that everyone stays safe through this time of disruption in our community.

My DLO on Saint Maximilian Kolbe!

Saint Maximilian Kolbe was born on the 8th of January, 1894. He was born Raymund, but changed his name when he became a Franciscan Priest. As a young man, Maximilian got Tuberculosis. In his student days, he started a Militia, a group that worships Mary. On the 1st of September, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Maximilian Kolbe and the rest of the people in his Militia got put into a German Work Camp. There, they were badly beaten and hurt, even starved. Especially Maximilian. After that, they were put in another camp in Auschwitz, where Maximilian died trying to save someones life.

Click on this for my voki: https://www.voki.com/site/pickup?scid=16136513&chsm=61488458cb6edc55b37ab8af16d2bf92

Our Own Diary Entries on a time in Alexander Aitken's life.

Hi Everyone!

This week we read the book The ANZAC Violin by Jennifer Beck and Robyn Belton. The book was about Alexander Aitken traveling with a Violin through WW1. In the book, he got shot, and was taken in an ambulance train, in that scene there was a part from his Diary. That was part of our task, we had to write our own Diary Entries for any part of the story, like being down in the trenches or being shot, stuff like that. I had really fun writing because it's my passion, but thinking of something to write about was a bit hard. In the end I wrote about  the trenches, here is my post!
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As I passed my wounded violin to my mate, his face lit up, he loved repairing things. I saw him pick up a piece of wire from a heavy bag of seeds that we used as a cabinet. Then he started to tie weird knots with the wire, he looked up and knew I was confused. "I was a boy scout, he said." I nodded. I backed my head onto the clay and dirt infused wall on the left side of the trench. "Ey, Alec, you want some soup?" Benny said to me, he had his beany over his eyes so I couldn't make eye contact with him. "Uh, no thanks." I gulped saliva. "Aight mate, all the more for me." Then I heard the sachet of soup open, it was a fast rip, but I heard it in slow motion. the paper ripped first, then you heard the tinfoil crackle. You could tell it was cheap. Hot air blew on my face and I turned my face around. I looked over to my left, there was an ocean. I watched it spiral and crash, I loved the sounds. But then I heard something that wasn’t a wave smashing...

My Basic Facts for week 2!

This week was the first week we started to do our "basic facts" for 2020. Last year, I was working on stage 5 and had 6 for my basic facts. I wasn't doing good at both of them and I wouldn't do 6 a week like I was supposed to, I would only do like 3 every 2 weeks. At the end of last year I tried stage 7, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, the things I struggled on for it, I worked through and now, even doing timed I am getting scores I can be proud of. Some of the sums on Prototec Basic Facts Level 7 consist of Multiplication, Division, Converting Fractions, Percentages and Decimals and also Square roots and factors. I am doing well for the timed test as well. I enjoy seeing my score go up everyday, it sometimes is a little hard on timed but I get better every time right? I have nothing I would do differently about my Basic Facts! Here are some of my tests:

I hope one day this year to be doing level 8!