Amazing Matariki Magic

Kia ora, hello peoples,

For our Maori Studies we have been learning about Matariki. We had to pick out of six options which way we would like to share our learning. I chose to make an animation with a voiceover. It had to be something that a little kid could understand.

I chose to do mine with Zara. We chose our main character to be an alien as it is based up in the sky. This animation will show you how to find Matariki and what constellations you will have to pass on the way.  S tSudies we have

Did you learn something?  Have you learnt about Matariki before?

See ya later!

Soph :D

Special Sequence

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For maths we had to pick a maths sequence off a website that had many different sequences on it. I did mine with Sophia and we chose the Figurate sequence. This is what we learnt about it:

Do you know much about number sequences? Have you learnt something from my post?

See ya later!

Yours sincerely,

Soph :D

Amazing ASCII !

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Today we have learnt 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 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? Can you work out how to write my initials in ASCII from the pattern above? How about trying to write your intials in ASCII!?

See ya later,

Yours sincerely,


Sophie :D

Worried World

Kia ora, hello peoples, 

This week in inquiry we have been looking at meanigful art. By meaningful I mean art that has a meaning, or art that shows what is happening in the world. For our task we first had to get into a group of 3 and go around 12 pictures and write down a sentence of what they mean to us. 

Next we had to pick one of those pictures and write about what it means to us. The picture I chose had countries running down a drain. Here is what I thought of it:

Do you think you could help the world? 

Have you ever had a look at meaningful art?

See ya later,

Yours sincerely

Sophie

Sarcastic Schoolwork

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For inquiry we are learning about irony. Our task was to partner up with someone, pick one irony and make a comic on google drawings. We had to give it 4 scenes and write text with an image for each one.

I did mine with Zara, we chose to do verbal irony. Verbal irony is not always but sometimes sarcasm, our example is sarcasm. We have chosen to give it a school theme about homework. Here is our comic:

Have you ever made a comic? Have you learnt something from my post?

See ya later!

Yours sincerely,

Sophie :D

Cool Counters

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This is my maths blog post this week, Mr Gillstrom has taught us a new game involving counters. We had to start with 21 counters and be the last person to take a counter away to win. We could take either 1,2, or 3 counters away at a time. The main aim of this maths session was to try and work out how we could always win.

Here is my explanation on how you can always win:

How about trying it out!?

See ya later!

Yours sincerely,

Sophie   :D

Awesome Adobe

Kia ora, hello peoples,

Here is my second blog post for this week! Today I will be showing you my Koru Art video that I made on Adobe Spark. 

Here is my video:

Have you ever made an Adobe Spark before?  How about koru art? Have you learnt something from my video?

See ya later!

Yours sincerely,

Sophie   :D