The Keeper of The Lost Cities

Hey bloggers, 

This week for our 'Non swimmers task' I wrote a book review on a really good book called The keeper of the lost cities. It is about a 12 year old girl called Sophie Foster she has telepathy ability, she can read minds. I think that this book is a 4/5 stars. This book is like another version of Harry Potter, the author Shannon Messenger.  

Have a good day,

Olivia Ionita 

 

Hey, Bloggers in class we have been researching things about NZ. This blog post is about the difference and changes in the Hāngī. I found it a bit difficult explaining the modern kind of Hāngī. I think it is quite interesting that people came up with something like this in the olden days

.

Have a good day 

~Olivia~

Crazy Ki-o-Rahi

Hey, Bloggers, we have been learning about the game ki-o-Rahi we have read the legend and learnt a bit of the basic rules. I made a poster about the game and I have rewritten the legend in my own words.  It is a bit confusing that the legend doesn't have anything to do with the game. The version on this poster is shortened, if you want to read the whole story click here. 

Have a good day

~Olivia~

Learning Traditional Maori Culture

 Hey, Bloggers today we have been learning about, Tā moko (Maori tattooing), Haka (Tribal Dancing) and Kākahu or Korowai (Maori cloaks) using these examples we have been looking at the differences between the past and the present (the changes made in the use, design and materials). We have done this because we are preparing for the future when we will have to do this ourselves. 

    

Have a good day,

~Olivia~ 

My Holidays & The Cat in the Hat!

 Hey Bloggers, How were your holidays?

Yesterday for literacy we made a table of we think the characters on the story of the cat in the hat behave. There are 5 headings speech, thoughts, effects on others, Actons and looks. What are you doing for literacy? For example, this was a follow up from children's books. In the holidays I went to hammer springs for a day trip, The waterslides were closed so I couldn't go on them.    

 

What did you do in the holidays? 

Have a great day 

~Olivia~

B.U.S.H Rocket video

BUSH. Rocket video.

This term for inquiry we were launching plastic rockets. Our  team is called BUSH we came 2nd in my class. It went round about 60m but went way farther on the practices. Then we had to make a video about making our rocket. BUSH means batman, units, Scolding, Hippos (don't ask why).

This is my groups video

 

Have a great day!

~Olivia~

Wacky Science Website

Hey Bloggers, 

This term our literacy group has been doing science experiments and for the past 3 weeks, we have been paired off and creating our own experiments. I was working with Zara and we did an experiment based around fossils. 

This website includes the questions we asked, our hypothesis and finally our results.

Click on the image to take you to the website, 

Have a wonderful day,

Olivia 
 

Sign Ninja

Hey blogger friends,

Today we were learning New Zealand sign language because it is NZSL week.  For our task we were playing a game called sign ninja. On this, we learn all sorts of things like colours, foods, numbers and soon to learn shapes. Here I am signing my name                                         

Bye bloggers!

Informational experiments

For literacy, this week are doing science experiments my science experiment was about fossilization here is our hypothesis. I think Softer soils will hold the imprint better than soils/dirt that is harder. This was not made around the research we did because the research we did only told us about fossils, not about the soils. I think that the sandy soils with fossilizing better due to the fact that fossils are mostly found in sedimentary rock (sand, silt or clay). There are some minor differences we will take into thought like for example that sand cracks very easily when it is dry so we won’t we able move the plate. Although I think our experiment will work very well and we will get good results.  Here is a picture 

 

Have a good week

~Olivia~

Perfect (but not so perfect) PSA's

Today we were doing coding and we were told to put out an issue that we thought needed more attention,   in our community I have noticed that we have had a lot of rubbish lately so I made a PSA about it. PSA stands for public service announcement. 

My message is not to litter, I choose this because I thought is a message that everybody knows about but doesn't take action. The audience mainly for everyone who can read, I made it applauding by making it interactive.      

  

Have a great day 

~Olivia~

Samoan Digital Classroom

Talofa bloggers,

Since the start of the year we have been learning Samoan.  This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from.  If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

Samoa as a country

Link to a traditional dance video

Basic greetings

The alphabet

How to count 1-10 

Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples

An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most.

Fa!

Beautiful Samoan

Today we were learning Samoan but this time we did an animation, the animation was about simple Samoan greetings ( Having a simple conversation between two people). Here are the meanings if you can't spot them in the animation. If you didn't know Samoa is a Polynesian island located in the pacific ocean about 4 hours away from New Zealand and has a population of about 200,000.   

Tālofa - Hello

O ā mai ‘oe? - how are you?

Manuia fa’afetai - well, thank you

Ae ā ‘o? - How about you?

Manuia fo’i fa’afetai - I am fine also thank you

Manuia le aso - Have a good day

Tōfā - Goodby

How long can it fly?

For Inquiry this week/ last week we were making parachutes and the one that took the longest to land.on the ground won. To build this rocket you had the materials of. 

Paper, tape, fabric, bubble wrap, glue and string. This is the digram of our initial design and our final one too only made with some slight changes      

For our initial design, we got a piece of bubble wrap and a yellow cloth stuck them together using tape,

but then we realised the design was too heavy and would fall to the ground in a matter of seconds but we still tested to see how it would float. For this design, we were going to add 2 additional pieces of paper to put on top so they could steer the parachute in a pretty even direction but we ran out of time and never got to build it. For our first test on this parachute, we got 1.25 seconds.

For our final design, we used everything in the photo above and since the nuts were too heavy we deiced only to use a light piece of blue fabric. The size of the parachute was made larger due to the fact we had a much larger piece of fabric. We did not change the parachute in any way or made any additional changes. Our final performance was great our score wasn't as great as many others but we did come out with 1.88 seconds. I would not change anything only make it larger if we did this again.                     

Have a great day 

Yours ~Olivia ~

What did this week!

Kia Ora Bloggers,

I know it has been AGES since I have posted but anyway this blog post will cover most of what I have done this week. PS. These Holidays were so much fun! I have had a good brake and I hope you have had one too

 

Literacy 

This week of literacy we have been learning about different scientists My all-time favourite scientist/ astronomer  Galileo Galili so we had to fill out a template about him here is my version of it. To the right of my information is my poster about him to go with the piece of writing.

      

Math

For math, we have been learning about equations these questions here were Manley just recap questions so we could remember from the holidays. This and last team we had been leaning about equations/ Algebra, a queation could be like 2x – 4 = 2 .       

Science badges

I have finished my geology science badge after the whole holidays of working on that! Down below is the front page of my website!

Have a great week and weekend stay healthy and stay safe 

Yours ~Olivia~  

 

What are the Southern Lights

This week it has been a great last week, I Was only ate school for 2 days! Anyway 

Today we were learning about the Southern Lights here is my knowledge. First of all the Southern Lights or the Aurora Australis, Aurora comes from the Roman word Goddess of Dawn. The Aurora lights are usually the colours greenish but sometimes red or blue. The Aurora lights are formed by the sun bursting out flames of fire from the sun, they spray towards the Earth. But the magnetic field stops it, usually, there are flames that get through when they enter the Earths atmosphere they collide with the oxygen bubbles and create the light.

Here is my Aurora Australis  

I hope you like it, have a lovely day!

~Olivia~

Mysterious Matariki

Maori

In Maori for the last couple of weeks me, Zoe and Sophia have been working on a puppet show showing the story of Matariki. I do all the voices and most of the puppet movements this was very fun I would really enjoy doing it again! Me and Zoe planned the script and Sophia added the important bits. The video is about 1-2 minutes long, I hope you like It!

Have a great day! 

~Olivia~

Wonder the wonderful book

Hey bloggers,

for literacy today we were doing Genre we had to pick a book and write the different genre in it as you can see I chose the book wonder.  If you don't know, Wonder is a heartwarming story about a boy who is born with some skin problems and his face looks a bit different. He starts school and everybody is talking about him and makes fun of him. But he finds a friend and warms up to everyone. 

 This is my work,  

I hope you like it, have a great day!

~Olivia~

Hitchhickers Guide To The Galaxy

Hey bloggers,

Literacy

This week we were working on symbols in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy we had to write five symbols mine were, Heart of gold,  the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Ford, The dolphins, The vogons and towels. The one I am showing you is the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy book by Ford.   

 Have a great day!

~Olivia~

Do you Know what ASCII is?

Today we are learning about Binary and ASCII. 

Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers.  You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself!  Try watching this video to give it a go yourself!

ASCII is a set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard).  I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code!  Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my image below! 




What do you think?  Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII?  Could you have a try for yourself?  Can you work out how to write my initials in ASCII from the pattern above?

Have a great day

~OLivia~

Do you want to know who the real Superheros are?

Kia Ora Bloggers,

I hope you are having a great day!!

For inquiry, we were looking  at images that had a global issue behind them I chose this one, we had to write what we thought is meant here is mine:  

Everybody knows that there is a global pandemic going on in the world at the moment and this art totally represents our unspoken heroes at the moment. This photo to me looks like a nurse/ doctor wearing a superhero mask.  I can tell because of the scrub and the way she has tided her hair up. I think that this image has a clear reminder to all people that some people are work even harder than them but some get paid less.  What do you think this picture is trying to tell you?

Have a great day 

Olivia

Billy is sooo Ironic

Hey bloggers,

We have been learning as a hub about irony there are 3 types of Irony, Situational Irony, dramatic Irony and Verbal Irony. Situational Irony is when something happens but it is unexpected, you would expect to see a human walking a dog but instead, you saw the dog walking a human that would be Situational Irony.

 Dramatic Irony: for example, you go to the cinema and you watch a movie where the audience knows that the character is going to die but the character and their friends don't know that. Lastly Verbal Irony is when the character says the opposite of what is actually happening, for example, let's say there is a thunderstorm outside and a person says in a sarcastic tone 

"What a lovely day!"      

This is mine, what type of irony do you think me and my friend used?

 

Go and check out Isabella blog 

Have a lovely day!

~Olivia~

Marvellous Mathematics

Literacy

For math this week we did algebra. For algebra, we did sequences we were to investigate the rule. Work out the differences between each term and the next, explore the patterns and list the nest few terms. Some of them were challenging but most of them were easy. I think I did well with this task next time I think I could challenge myself to do the task a bit quicker.

Literacy

For literacy this week we were doing themes we had to get three done by the end of the week but I did four. The one I will share with you today is Improbability, impossibly and Absurdity this one was one of the most fun out of all of the themes I did. Here is a screenshot

  

 Maori

Over the past few weeks, we were doing Koru art we have done so many things I can't wait to show you. First, we did Koru pastel art, 2nd we did bone carving designs and made them out of playdough and lastly, we made bone carvings out of air-dry clay.  Here is a video

Lastly have a great day, 

~Olivia~  

 
   

Vicious Vogon's

Kia ora bloggers

I hope you had a good week, today I will share my literacy for this week. This week we were told to write a theme in the book (hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) one theme had to be 4 paragraphs and there were 5 themes we had to write mine was on language and communication. Here it is, have you read this book I think the most powerful language in this book is the Vogons and their poetry what about you?   

Have a great day!

~Olivia~

Marvellous Mathematics

Kia Ora bloggers,

This week for maths we were doing polygons and angles. We have been looking at the interior and exterior angles of shape as well a drawing shapes with a compass (Not a north-south compass the compass you draw circles with).

Here is some of my knowledge,

Thanks for your time,

~Olivia~

     

The Legend of... The Island of the Dolls

Hey bloggers, 

How are you? I hope you had a good week because I did 😀. 

Moving on in this blog post I will share everything I did over the week!

Literacy

For literacy this week we were focusing a lot on the book we are reading if you don't know we are reading  The Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy if you think you would be interested in this book check out the link.  

As I was saying we were focusing on the book a lot, one of the activities (the one I am going to share) is all about finding a legendary place and write about it mine was the Island of the Dolls in Mexico. Here is a photo

Maths

For math this week we were focusing on angles and measurement the task I am showing you is about measuring and naming angles. For example in angle FBI is 150 degrees so it is an obtuse angle. But the angle CVS is a reflex angle because the degrees is over 180    

This week has been a very good week and I have had a lot of fun,

Have you ever read the book Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy? If you have don't spoil anything for me

Have a lovely week,

~Olivia~ 

   

      

Can you draw in 90 seconds??

Kia ora bloggers, 

I hope you had a great week I sure did, today  I will be sharing my math, literacy and a Friday challenge task. This week for literacy we were doing different activities to do with the book we are The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy one of these examples is when we had to write 2-3 paragraphs of what we would have done differently if we were in Arthur's shoes this is mine, 

  

Down here you will also see some math this week for maths we were learning how to calculate the volume of different shapes, for the task I am going to show you is about the volume of prims. For this task, we were given the volume of 240cm3 and were told to find out the measurements to a prim (I calculated all of them). The next image is 90-second art I did this for my Friday challenge art,  

This week I am happy that I finally learnt the whole song to my piece in piano exam book, 

Do you learn an instrument??

Have a great weekend

~Olivia~

Have you ever heard of a Coriraggdaysis??

Kia Ora fellow bloggers,

I hope you are having a lovely day.

Over the week I have learnt about what Irony is and the different types and about (They are verbal, situational and dramatic irony the all-state a different purpose such as Verbal irony is when someone says something but it is not what they mean the most common types of this is sarcasm, situational irony is when something happens that is not expected, the last is dramatic when the audience knows something that the characters don't) something else we were learning about was bureaucracy. 

This week I learnt a new part to my piano exam piece no I can almost play half of the song! Today I will be sharing one of my Fri-yay tasks for this task we had to draw an animal that didn't exist mine is called a Coriratggdaysis this is what it looks like, 

it is a Cat, panda unicorn, tiger and giraffe mixed! 

This week I did well at completing my tasks on time but I think I need to work on giving myself short brakes in between 

What would you call this animal???

Have a great day 

~Olivia~

A Day I couldn't get a hold of...

Our task for today was to write about A Day I couldn't get a hold of, In 3-4 paragraphs (use 3-4 sentences per paragraph), tell us about a day that you couldn’t quite get a handle on, making it Interesting. Mine was about the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes this a day (I mean it was night, but moving on) I will never forget

 Did you feel the Earthquake??

Have a nice day!

~Olivia~

What I have been doing

These lockdown days me and my family have been doing a lot of things but my highlights were backing a lot of cakes my favourite is down below and painting my favourite has been a fruit bowl full with fruit! Here are the photos

What do you think? 

Have a great day 

~Olivia~

Themes #2

For Literacy today we were told to make a program and write a short dialogue (aim for between 5 to 8 lines for each character) between a person and an animal that has suddenly learned to talk. Mine is about...




What was your favourite part??
Olivia

Rotational Symmetry Names

Today for my Extra for Ninja's task I did Rotational Symmetry Names this means: the shape or image can be rotated and it still looks the same. This was a very fun task, This is the link to the site  I strongly recommend that you try this :) 

Here is mine 

 
Can you guess what Font I am using?
~Olivia~

More Measurement

Today for our task we had to (For all of them we had to estimate then measure) 

1. Make a paper plane out of paper and then estimate how far you think it will fly
2. From a standing position, with both feet together, how far do you think you can jump forward
3. From standing still, then jumping upwards and reaching with your arm,  how high do you estimate you can reach?
4. You know now how far forward you can jump, but can you estimate how high you can jump? (No trampolines allowed!)

This task I felt was easy 

Here is my slide 

Yours 

~Olivia~

Themes in stories

For Literacy today we were told to make a program and write a short dialogue (aim for between 5 to 8 lines for each character) between a person and an animal that has suddenly learned to talk.

For an extra challenge, pick a theme from the next slide (or create your own if you think you have a really good one) that would fit your conversation.  Use that theme to create some dialogue between an animal and a person. I did Environmentalism here is my scratch

Have a great day 

 ~Olivia~

Mischief Motorbikes #2

Today I played the motorbike game again I found this on Math Playground It is a good website where you can play maths games again I did equivalent fractions I came 1st on one of my races. Have you used Math playground before? If you have Comment down below what game you played!

My user today was Player993

Have a great day

~Olivia~

Lock-down Math

Today for Maths I did Problem-solving and Social Distancing for social distancing we had to find out the perimeter of our gardens, and the second activity we have to see how many $2 could fit in            2 metres and how many $10 notes could fit in 2 meters. Here is my work

Have a Great Day! 

Olivia

 

Jack Staples

The first task today was to write a bit about our favourite story and we were meant to make a poster in canvas that relates to the theme in the story. My favourite is Jack Staples even though I have only read the first 2 books In the series ( there are 3)  I know who will win and how. My favourite characters are

• Jack Staples 
• Alexa Dreager 
• Time 
• Mrs Dumphy 
• Arthur Greaves 
• Poet  

Mischief Motorbikes (Extra for ninjas)

One of the extra for ninjas activities was Play some games on Math Playground. This is a website where you can play math games I played a Motorbike game (No Reason) the questions were to do with equivalent fractions (Or simplifying fractions) it is a cool game. I came 1st here is proof :)

(And yes I know my username was cool) 

Have a great day

~Olivia~

Social Distancing Mathematics

Today For math we were doing Social Distancing Math our Teacher Mrs Davies made a cool video for us These are the Questions and below that id my work  Are you doing Social Distancing Mathematics if you are in what way? Did I get any Questions wrong??

This is what I did All the information is down on the screenshot? 

Have a great day 

~Olivia ~

Super Schedules

One of my tasks for today was to make a schedule of what my day would look like when I am not at school. My DLO I made a schedule on canva this is a website where you can create pretty much anything! There is the link to the website  I hope you like my schedule!!! 

How have you been keeping yourself busy??

Have a great day!!!

~Olivia~