Limericks

This week we have been learning about limericks. We had to search what a limerick is and make a DLO about it with an example. I'm not very good at writing limericks because I think too much about the story.

Fortnite Disappeared into a blackhole and it should've stayed there for good

Well preparing for our eAsTTle  writing test we wrote a lot of  persuasive arguments. One of them we did was about fortnite. Here is my writing!

Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Last Thursday was Halloween. I went to ShantyTown with my drama group and dressed up as zombies. I didn't get to scare people, instead I helped out with selling candy, popcorn, popsicles, the donation box and the clicker. It was a lot of fun putting the makeup on and dressing up though! Oliver also had a halloween party on saturday. I dressed up the same, but I didn't have proper makeup and latex at home so had to ruin my face with food colouring, pva glue and tissues. I'm glad it didn't stain!

Mr Kumar told us to write a spooky story, so I chose the scariest thing ever to exist. Read it to find out!!

Team Time

Today Totora had team time. This means that we get to either bring our own device, or watch a movie with popcorn (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). It's a reward for the people who do their work and/or don't get on reflection. I'm a pretty average kid, so I got on. I chose own device. I TRIED to play minecraft with Oliver but it wouldn't let me join his world so i just played my own world where I'm making my own village. All the animals are called Greg and Greg's Girlfriend. I also messaged my friend in America.

Algebra

This week for numeracy, Mr Kumar has been teaching us about Algebra. It seems scary when you hear it, but it's actually super easy. We did a few work sheets around it, then we got this slide explaining it further.  I actually like this Algebra, and would like to try something harder.

Wearable Arts

Since term 2, we have been working on wearable arts. Liam, Rata and I are making a Fern Dress. We made our prototype, which ended up losing both arms and the stick helping it stand up... We have a few issues, but are brainstorming ideas to fix them. For example, how are we going to get the dress on and off? We thought we could make an opening in the metal hoop skirt and she could slip in and out of it, or more fabric instead of a hoop skirt, then add a zip.

We will start to make the proper dress tomorrow. Here is a picture of our prototype

Prototype ft. Rata

Instructions

Yesterday we made paper planes using the set of instructions on a google doc. Some of them were really confusing, and I kept mucking up. Later on, we went outside and flew them. Mine did ok, but I was way far from a ralevent place.
In the afternoon, one of the Juniors came to our class and taught us how to make origami butterflies. It was a lot of fun and I made two. He also gave us the instruction sheet so we could try ourselfs. Thank you Jo for teaching us!!

Now that we've done that, we have to  create our own step by step instructions to make anything. I'm not sure what I'm going to do it on yet. I did do a little funny one while I was thinking, though it's not very good... Hopefully I will have an idea by tomorrow!

Why Legend of Zelda: BOTW is a piece of art

After we did the joined argument about cellphones, we split off by ourselfs to write our own. It took me a while to come up with an idea but I decided to write about why Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is a piece of art. Here is the final product!

✃ Shapes and Angles

This week we have been learning about how to measure interior angle sums, interior angles and exterior angles of any shape. This was quite new, though it was ok since we knew what the shapes were.

To measure the interior angle sum, you take the number of sides of a shape minus 2, then times that by 180. Next, we find the interior angle. Take the interior angle sum divided by the number of sides. Finally the exterior angle. The equation to find this is 180 - interior angle.

In simpler words,

{ NUMBER OF SIDES - 2 } x 180 = INTERIOR ANGLE SUM

{ INTERIOR ANGLE SUM } ÷ { NUMBER OF SIDES} = INTERIOR ANGLE

180 - { INTERIOR ANGLE } = EXTERIOR ANGLE

✃ Hopefully you found this helpful!

Cellphones at School

Billie, Kyra and I wrote our argument about weither cellphones should be allowed at school or not.  We did the introduction together, then split of to write our own paragraphs. I did the first paragraph about eye health, Kyra did the second about getting distracted, and Billie did the third about cyber bullying. After we read over it and edited some of the spelling, we wrote the conclusion. Here is what we have now!

Angles

This week, we have been learning about measuring and identifying the different angles. It was a lot of fun using the protractor. Here is my learning DLO!

Term 1 & 2

These two terms have been a lot of fun. We had Hanmer Springs camp which was a lot of fun, and I'm really proud of myself for climbing to the top of both trees. I competeted in the Kidslit competition, and although my team didn't win or get a place, the experience was good enough. 

I'm proud of myself for entering in the Friends of the Art gallery exhibit without procastinating. I also have been improving my basic facts, even just by a 2 or 3 second difference. 

Next term I would like to try and finish my work faster, and not let all the out of class things effect my that much. Maybe even do some at home.

Thank you Miss Hines for teaching us these 2 terms, and we will miss you a lot! Wishing you the best!

Week 9 Workbook

Last week we did more work around basic addition and subtraction word problems. Here is my workbook!

Add Sub Mult Div

Here is my workbook from week 8. It's based around addition, subtraction, multipulcation and division.This was pretty easy to do, but I got a bit confused on a few questions.

Novel Study

For the past few weeks, we have been doing personal novel studies. I did mine on the book 1984. I made my own book cover for it, with a telescreen with the numbers 1984 in the screen part. I also did the character description activity. I also made a word find with words related to the book.

Hanmer Springs Brochure

At the begining of this term, we went to Hanmer Springs for school camp. After we came back, we had to make a brochure of some activities you can do in Hanmer Springs. Here is mine!

Interpreting Timetables

For the past 2 weeks, T2 have been working on reading timetables for buses, airplanes and subways. We got given Workbooks with timetables, and had to answer the questions that followed them. It wasn't that hard for me to do because I have done these types of things when I lived in Taiwan. Here are my workbooks!

Scaffold of an Exposition

Today, we have started to look at constructing a good argument. To begin, we wrote down the scaffold of an exposition to help us make our argument look good. I think this will help a lot for writing about my opinions and arguments.  Here is the Scaffold!

Myths And Legends: FIREFLIES.

For the past few weeks T2 have been writing myths and legends of our own. I was originally writing about Shooting Stars, but over time my plot became the reason that fireflies glow. Here is my finished writing!

Kahoot Quiz

I made a Trivial Kahoot Quiz for Blogging Contract. Heres the link to it!
https://create.kahoot.it/share/general-knowlage/53781cf4-77df-4ebe-b05c-e054f8fd9f62