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!

SLJ - Teaser - Arts Day 1

This is a SLJ Teaser. I chose to do activity one for day one. I had to make a profile page for Lorde. Here is the one that I made. I hope you enjoy.

SLJ, Practise Activity: Special Meals.

This bonus activity is about your favourite food. What is my favourite food? After I find that out I will put a picture in. Out of savoury foods, my favourite food would be Hash Browns. I like Hash Browns because the taste and texture is appealing to me. Out of sweet foods, I like my mums Apply Crumble. She uses cornflakes which makes a nice crunch and cinnamon, which gives a nice taste. It of course has apples as well.

Hash Browns:

I got this image from Times Food.











Apple Crumble:

I got this image from Curious Cuisiniere.

What's Under the Sea?

This week, my reading group and also another reading group in my class were to do a digital activity on everything we learnt about Under The Sea, and things surrounding that topic.
Things I learnt.
I learnt that humans have only mapped 3% of the sea floor! The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. It is around the Mariana Islands. In the Mariana Trench there are some amazing animals, such as: The Dumbo Octopus, Blind/No Eyed Shrimp and the Barrleye Fish, Now, the dumbo Octopus is called that because it's tentacles look like Dumbo's ears. Did you know, there are things underwater like volcanoes? They are called Black Smokers. This is because when they "erupt" they spew out hot black gas. These Black Smokers help some creatures under the water live, like the Blind/No eyed shrimp, because they like to hang around the heat. Did you know, you could put Mt. Everest in the Mariana Trench and there would still be two Kilometres left at the bottom. This is because the Mariana Trench is eleven Kilometres deep and Mt. Everest is nine Kilometres. Did you know, that the water pressure down that deep would crush everything in your body and you'd die instantly? You can only survive down there with a specially made watercraft.
Now, this is my infographic that I have made on all this information.

Rot Ya Teeth!

For a few weeks now, our class has been doing Science. We've been learning about "Fair-testing". Fair-testing is where you have an experiment and when you fair-test it, you're keeping everything fair, keep it equal. But then we did Variables. A Variable is something you change or you vary. Our group (Mikaela, Felix and I) and every group had to make six variables up.

Our group was doing the experiment "Rot Ya Teeth". We used egg shells as teeth and got different types of fizzy drink: Cola, No sugar Cola, Lemonade, No Sugar Lemonade.

But before we made the experiment, we had to had to make 3 things we could measure of the end result. Out of the things we could measure, we chose how rotten/dark the egg shell had gotten in colour. Out of our six variables, we chose to change the types of drinks.

After we started our experiment, we left our cups of eggs in fizzy up in the windowsill for a week. When we got them down after the week we made a science board. Every group had to make one about they're experiments. We had to put all the information in, graphs or diagrams, all the variables and measurements. It took days, but on the day of the science fair, our group finished, and our board looks great.

The results were, cola was the most rot and dark in colour. The next was cola no sugar. Then lemonade, then lemonade no sugar. But lemonade no sugar's drink in the cup turned pee yellow, for some reason I don't know of. The cola's drinks went kinda milky and lost some colour. Lemonade stayed the same.

But before all that, we started small. Miss Wilton gave us little containers and we got to choose our groups. We put water in the containers then went outside and put different amounts of Barroca into the containers. That was when we learnt what a fair-test was. After that we did blood splatter. Miss Wilton made fake blood, and we measured it on the same surface. But we measured how big the splat was using the same amount of blood but from different distances, the different distances was the variable. Then we learnt how to graph our fair-tests. This was all so fun, but then we got into our own experiments, which all the information is in these other paragraphs.

Here are the photos of our science board.

My Mihi! Play and enjoy!

This week, as it is Maori Language Week, Our class was doing our Mihi's on a game called Gamefroot. It gave us a tutorial for a Mihi. It's kind of like coding, but because we had a tutorial, you don't have to do much/any coding, unless your doing the script. Anyway, this is my Mihi. Play it, and enjoy.

Infographic About Wind.

This week, we have been learning about wind and how it works. We had to make an infographic about wind. An infographic is something you make that can involve, pictures, diagrams, symbols, flow charts, numbers and letters to explain something in a fun way.

Wind is air. Hot air and cold air actually. So, when you get hot air, it'll come down for awhile and then rise again, because hot air is less dense than cold air. When the hot air rises it empties a space for the cold air to come. And the cold air will stay because it is more dense. This forms a cycle and makes wind. Then you get sea breezes and land breezes. A sea breeze is: The land will heat up more easily than the sea, so the air will get hot on the land, the the hot air rises. That makes a space for the air off of the sea, that is a sea breeze. It's like a cooling fan on a hot day at the beach. A land breeze is the complete opposite. Land breeze will happen at night. So, the land cools faster than the sea, so when the hot air rises from the sea, the cold air from the land will replace it. That's my understanding of wind.
WALT: Think critically when looking at the information in the texts.
Here is my infographic, for a bit I didn't know what to do, so it's not exactly perfect. (You may have to zoom in).