2nd wonderful week out of lockdown!

Kia ora, hello peoples,

Over the past week I have done many more activities/work. This post is going to show you my art and inquiry task:

For inquiry we have been studying global issues. Global issues are issues that are happening around the world. First we had to make a word art with as many global issues as we could think of on it. Then we had to pick a global issue and look a bit further into it. I chose poverty. We had to find at least 4 videos to do with our global issue and write a description next to each of them. All of my information was put on a slideshow, here are my findings:


Our art task was to create some koru art, koru is the Maori word for loop. We first had to sketch out our design, then go over it in vivid so it was clear. Next we got pastels and coloured our design in, we had to blend part of our design aswell. Whatever leftover blank space on our paper we got to dye it. Here is my koru art:

Have you ever thought about global issues and how bad they are? Have you made a koru art before? If you have what kind of design did you do?

See ya later!

Yours sincerely,

Sophie

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Fabulous First Week Back

Kia ora, hello peoples,

Lockdown is over, hurray! I am so pleased to be back at school, it is great to see all my friends! Normality is back, and work is now much easier as we can just ask for assistance rather than emailing and waiting! I am going to show you some of my work I did this week.

First up is my numeracy work. Mr Gillstrom has taught us how to use Kaggle (kaggle.com). Kaggle is a website that is a bit like a calculator but a little more complex. There are a few symbols that would change though like; a times symbol would equal a astrisk, a exponent to would equal a **2 and so on. Here are a couple examples when i used Kaggle:

Equation: 23+(8+4-10) =

Equaton: (92- 8 x 2) ÷ 5 =

For literacy we are creating our own website about The Wizard of Oz. We are making this on sites.google.com. We get 4 weeks to complete it and can draft our work out into a doc first. On our website we have to include the following:

• atleast 3 important characters
• atleast 3 important themes
• and atleast 3 important symbols

I am going to have 6 characters, 3-4 themes, and 3-4 symbols. At the moment I am researching/planning out my characters descriptions. Here is one of my descriptions:

Have you ever used Kaggle for maths? If you haven't, why not give it a go!?

Have you created a website before? What was it about? 

See ya later,

Yours sincerely,

Sophie

A mouthful of MATHS, LITERACY, and ... FRIDAY/FRI-YAY TASKS!!!

Kia ora, hello peoples,

Over the week I have done multiple maths and literacy tasks but I have picked my favourite ones to show you. I am also going to show you my Friday task which I did today.

So first for my maths task, Mr Gillstrom set us a fun and challenging task to do over two days. We first had to fill out a table that had 21 multiplication & division fraction equations to solve. Mr Gillstrom accidently put a subtraction problem in there but I decided to still do it, as the day before we did a similar sheet but with addition & subtraction. My answers looked a bit like this:

After we solved them we had to complete an escape room that Mr Gillstrom designed. It was rather fun but quite challenging. If Mr Gillstrom set another escape room to do I would be happy to give it a go.

Now for literacy, as our focus is the Wizard of Oz we had to write a short story that partly is to do with the Wizard of Oz. By partly I mean that we had to take a chunk of the Wizard of Oz and turn it upside down. As Oz is such a happy place by 'upside down' we had to make the part of the story we chose creepy, like as creepy as we want. Our short story had to be 300 words minimum, and there was no maximum. I made my story 570 words long, here it is,
P.S. it is over all of the following 3 slides:

Creepy right?

And now my Friday task. The task I chose to do was; design an animal enclosure. We could pick any animal we liked as we made sure we put our animal in its habitat where it can survive. There were also a few questions we had to answer, here were the questions with my answers:

• What is similar about the enclosures and what is different? 

The similarities are that the animals are all in a habitat where they can live and survive. Depending on what food they need will change there habitat a lot as they need to be around there diet. Differences are like I said before, if they are a carnivore, herbivore, or any other type of ore, whatsoever they need to be around there diet.

• Why would there need to be differences about for each enclosure? 

Some animals need to live around lots of trees but others may need to be around water or a desert. Also animals need to live in the right temperature for them, otherwise they might not survive.

•  Is it the same for humans?

Animals habitat is completely different to a human's because nature, like it is to humans, is a big part of an animals life. Maybe nature to animals is more important than it is to humans as we humans live in man-made (a house) and animals live in the outdoors.

Anyway, I decided to make a panda's enclosure because my favourite animal is a panda. I made sure it had a stream to drink from with rocks in it so the panda can cross from one side to the other, a lot of trees and bamboo, so the panda has shelter and food, and a grassy area where the panda can play. Here is my drawing:

Have you learnt about fraction addition, subtraction, multiplication or division?

Do you like horror? Have you ever written a creepy story?

If you were to design an animal enclosure what would it be? What is your favourite animal?

See ya later!

Yours sincerely,

Sophie  :D

Creative Cake

Kia ora, hello peoples,

It is yet again Friday, which means there are more fun tasks the teachers have set. The task I chose to do today was; design your dream birthday cake! This task was really fun, but there was some criteria we had to stick to. We had to have the following:

• a theme
• at least five layers of cake
• only made of edible stuff
• the flavour of each layer
• the decorations for each layer
• colours for each layer
• and any surprise(s)

One of the first ideas that popped into my head for the theme was Harry Potter. I have liked Harry Potter for a few years now and it wasn't to hard to come up with a design for the cake. I made a five tier cake with the five flavours. Here are the layers from bottom to top; chocolate, choc chip, orange, lemon and vanilla. The chocolate cake was brown, the choc chip cake was light brown with choc chips, the orange cake was orange, the lemon cake was yellow and the vanilla cake was a light beige colour. In between each layer was some strawberry buttercream. 

On the outside of the cake it was coated with chocolate icing and there are shortbread cookies with icing of lightning bolts and glasses stuck all around the outside of the cake. The surprise fills the whole centre of the cake, it is raspberry jam! 

Here is an image of the inside of my cake:

Here is the outside of my cake:

Here is the birds-eye view of my cake:

Would you like to design a cake ? If so what flavours and what theme would it be?

See ya later!

Yours sincerely,

Sophie :D

Fabulous Fabric Fun! 🧵😀

Kia ora, hello bloggers,

This task I am going to show you would definitely be one of my top tasks I have done in lockdown. I am blogging this a bit late but it took longer than I anticipated. This task was one of the Technology Tasks that were set on Friday and I finished it Tuesday evening! I am quite pleased with my final product and I am glad I took on the challenge!

The Technology Task I decided to do was Fabric Fun. I had to find a recycled material and sew something out of it. I hand-sewed a cushion, here are the materials/items I used:

Left over blind material ( for the cover ), my old pillow ( for the stuffing ), buttons ( for decorating ) thread, a needle and scissors. 

It started out like the photo above and the final product was this:

Throughout this process I learnt two things. 1; How to sew a button onto fabric and 2; How to do the invisible stitch. My buttons are quite sturdy and the invisible stitch is nearly invisible!

I now have a homemade decoration for my couch in the lounge!

See ya later!

Yours sincerely,

Sophie :D

Fabulous Food Truck 🧁🚚

Kia ora, hello peoples,

On Friday's we get given a list of tasks we can choose from. The three options this week were; design a food truck, create a made up animal, design a flag that represents your family. I decided to design a food truck.

The food truck had to meet the following criteria:

• what it sells (only one type of food)
• a menu that has four differnt variations of that food
• what type of vehicle it is (eg van, car, truck)
• how it looks when it is shut
• how it looks when it is open
• the logo
• and what the aprons look like 

My food truck sells four variations of cupcakes; chunky chocolate, choc chip extreme, vanilla decorative and rich red velvet. The company is called Cupcake Express. It was a double decker bus but it now is a double decker food truck.

Here is the menu:

This the layout of my food truck:

This is the truck when it is shut up and ready to move:

This is the truck when it is open and ready for customers:

Here is the apron, it has the logo on it:

I hope you liked my food truck. What kind of food truck would you open if you had the choice?

Good bye for now!

Yours sincerely,

Sophie :D