Infomational Writing

Lamb To The Slaughter

Task Description: This week we read a short story by Rolad Dahl, who is a famous author and a author you may be familair with. We read the story and were quite shocked at what had happened it wasn't really a book for kids like us. It was about a women who murdered her husband with a frozen lamb leg, who then went on too lie to the police and make up stories. 

When we had finished reading the short story we analyzed the story. We looked at the setting character realationships, and message the story gave us. We also did an irony chart, and a bunch of questions about irony in the story. This wasn't too diffucult but it did take some thought and time to answer each question carefully.

Once we finished analyzing we did a book review along with a create task. Our task was to make a character map for Mary who is the wife of the husband who was murdered. We had to include things like her traits problems she faced solutions she used and how she changed throught the story. I enjoyed this part of the task as it was easy and kind of like a overall look on Mary's life and her actions.

That's all we did. I hope you enjoyed this task and will come back next week to see more!

Facile Fractions

Maths On Sratch

Since this week is tech week we decided to take our maths into coding. We used scratch too show and teach our learning. The first thing we did was learn about different types of transformations, thanks too a video Mrs Stone found on youtube it wasn't a problem. Then put our learning on slides and finally added it onto scratch. When we finished coding and testing it we screencastified and then put it on our blogs!
I hope you enjoyed this task. I definetly did, I am super excited about what we will be doing later on. We will be doing something like this for our animation so stay tuned during the ending of this term.

A Very Bad Puppet

A Way Of Talking

Tantalizing Transformations

Twisted Fairy Tales

The Rest Of The Week

Hello reader, I am just writing to inform you that for the rest of the week I will not be posting anymore school work. That is because for the rest of the week we won't be doing any school work. Tommorrow the year 8's are going to camp so that means we aren't going to have normal classes, we will be doing team building excersices. We are going to learn to work together and learnt to work with all kinds of people.




I so am just going to let you know that I won't be posting much. I will post about what we have been doing and also work that I haven't finish before yeah! I hope you will enjoy the post cause I am sure looking forward to it! It's going to be so much fun!

Concrete Coordinates

Zimbabwe

Trip To Xchange

A few days ago the robotics team that I have been apart of since last year, took a trip to Xchange. What's Xchange? I had a great experience loads of fun and would love to go again so here is my experience enjoy!

It started by meeting in the maker space at about 8 in the morning. We talked about what's gonna happen and we then boarded the bus. I sat with Jedida and Rozaidah, we talked and laughed alot I even did some filming which was fun. The ride was about 30 minutes long and we had soon arrived in Manukau!

I was starting to get excited I couldn't wait to meet the other students and people there. We walked in and immediately started looking around for a table to set up at we looked at 4 other different tables before deciding one on the side. I started by orginizing everthing on the ground then on the table and soon we were ready we had even decorated out table. I had some free time so I decided to go look around.

Other groups started setting up and I walked over to a table with a group of boys there. I asked them what there research was about and the told me about mangrove. Mangroves  are plants that grow at the bottom of water ways and block the little fish from getting any food.  They told me that there solution was to make a robot with a chain saw which would cut the mangroves, but they told me that they had a flaw in there idea. The flaw was that when the robot cuts the mangroves roots the mangrove may drop the seeds which would lead too more mangroves growing.

Soon it was time to go back to your tables and continue setting up. We were pretty much done and so we just sat there and waiting. Not long afterwards we had a group of students come into the room, they look just as excited as I did when I first walked in. Each of the groups did a thirty second pitch about what they have been doing. I was the person speaking from my group, I was pretty nervous. Once all the groups had finished their pitches the students we allowed to go and look at the differnet tables.

I went to the circuits part of the table but they didn't want my help they just told me not to do not to do that so I went to Marika. Marika was much nicer she allowed me to help and we spoke to our audeince together, people looked pretty please with what we were showing them too. Marika and I made a great explaining team and we had loads of fun part taking the Xchange. By the end of the students expedition we had 1 sticker which meant that one person liked our work, we weren't very happy but we didn't give up.

We had a snack went to the bathroom talked to other groups and just chilled while we waited for the next group. I didn't do too much just have some lemonade and I ate my chocolate muffin. Once I finished I got the table orginized and ready for the next group. The next group of kids we a bit younger than the others they looked like kids from primary schools, but we welcomed as much as we could.

Once again we all did ouf pitches but this time I didn't do the talking it was Marika all I did was stand there and give her support. Marika did very well and I was just as nervous standing up there with her in front of those people I had never met before. We had just finished doing our pitches and allowed to return to our table when a crowd of people had arrived once again I tried to help out with the circuits and failed miserably. I went back to helping Marika with the bin compactor and most teachers were interested they like the idea and some of them even decided to give us stickers it was really cool!

Once our table had less of a crowd Me and Marika decided to take a break. I went to a table with 2 girls sitting their waiting for people to come along. I went asked them about what they had been up too in their school. They told us that they were also working with mangroves. I asked them what they would do to make it viral but they told us that they were focusing on making it work first. Before I finished my break I decided to walk around and check out the space we were in and even tell some people about the school I was from. I was in pretty much the brightest coloured school uniform there was there so I reall stood out.


Once when the group finished we were all reileved and tired. We had lunch and then sat down for a small meeting, we were congratulated and told our certificates would be sent to our school and then told to pack up. I started by taking down our decorations then returning people chromebooks to their owners. Once that was all done me and Toby pushed the table to the place it was getting unfolded at. We had done it we finished our trip to exchange.


Overall I think that this trip was a sucess and I had loads of fun working and sharing my passion for robotics and engineering. I am a proud memeber of the robotics ropu and have loved all the trips we have had so far. I would also like to say a huge thank you to everyone who made this trip possible who helped take car of us and even created Xchange. Thank you dear reader I hoped you enjoyed reading my experience at exchange.

The End

Fairy Tales

Coordinate Conundrums

Navigation Compare & Contrast

Longitude & Latitude

Pick A Path

It Used To Be Green Once

Task Description: This week we read a short story written by Praticia Grace. We read the story and talked about the setting plots and main characters. I like this part it was really cool because we were all working together as a group to analyse the data and it really made me think. After we had finished reading the short story we had to answered the questions, and once we finished the questions we made a role play. The role play was about how the kid's mother always yelled and beeped her car horn on the way to shopping so she pick things up for her neighbours.

Ramadan

Home

Task Decription: This Week we are learning to analyes and revise novel we are also thinking about predictions. This time we real a school journal and the story was called home, we started by making predictions and reading the first part and talking about how it's different than our predictions. Once we finished making predictions we went off and answered these questions. Our create task was too make a role play about what would happen if meyer returned back. Anyways I hope you enjoy!

Fairy Tales

Update On My Dad Is Crazy

Hello there a few weeks ago I made a blog post about my dad bring home and army jeep.  If you haven't seen that post then here is the link.

Well we finally told her about it 2 days ago and her expression was super funny. It started with her looking confused and not believing us but then when we convinced her that it actually was ours she lost it. She freaked out and told my dad to get it out of the yard now. It was very funny and I was cracking up!

Afterwards she made my dad take it somewhere else, so it's currently parked at my dad's friends house and my dad's friend will soon be the owner. Yes I know my dad bought a jeep only to sell it to only get 3 thousand dollars. I think that it wasn't to good of an idea cause it had to pros and cons. But at least I can say that I have been in a vehicle that once carried weapons of destruction, no that's not actually a good things But I hope you enjoyed!