The Grocery Store Dilemma

 

Kia ora Bloggers!

I am incredibly sorry for not posting for ages!!! For maths, we have been learning about adding and subtracting coins. Mr Shaw gave us a very fun task to represent our findings. Create an awesome shop in Minecraft education. I went with a supermarket/Grocery store. We then had to create a problem to go with it and share it with a person so they could figure the problem out. After they had a go at adding and subtracting our problem, we needed to share it with our community, our blogs. I made a screencastify to show you my problem. I really enjoyed these tasks and hope I see more of these in the future. I really do hope you enjoyed my simple question too.

Do you know the answer?

Do you have a maths problem for me to solve?

If so, comment down below!

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Decimal Places!

 

Kia ora Koutou!

Ko Lucinda toku ingoa, and welcome to my blog.

Guess what? Lockdowns over!!

And to start off this week, we were assigned a maths task to create an animation about decimal equations and placing. Though it took me a little while to understand and I needed a little bit of encouragement, I managed to understand and put it into a problem. I worked with two girls called Holly and Ella to make this animation and I thought we did a really good job. 

I hope you enjoy my animation and manage to learn something new today.

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Its Karate time!

 

Ni hao Bloggers!

Another video has snuck around the corner, and this one must be exciting.

For Literacy, we had to recreate a scene out of a sports movie. I have chosen, "The Karate Kid'

The scene is the part where Johnny and Daniel verse each other in the all valley Karate tournament.

This has to be the funnest task EVER!

It was a challenge getting everybody into character and to know what they had to say but overall, I had a great time and I had some great laughs too.

I hope you will enjoy this video and the people who are acting.

I used a cool editing app called Kinemaster. It's really easy to use and great for editing videos.

What's your favourite sports movie scene?

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Come to think of it, What does Water do for us?

Kia ora Koutou!

I hope you're all having a nice Lockdown and I am hoping that we might be going back to school next week. Here is another task from the Ocean Matrix. Firstly, we had to read some awesome facts about the Ocean. Then we had to make a visual of Canva with the info we had got from the site. I hope you guys learn some new cool facts about our Moana.

I thought that this was a fun and easy task to do, so if you're bored in lockdown try making your own decorative poster.

What cool facts do you know about our Moana?

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Over fishing? No thank you!

 

Ni hao Team!

So far for Inquiry, we have been learning about ocean sustainability and how we can save our oceans. Our initial task was to create a wearable arts outfit out of plastics and base it on something that relates to the sea. But unfortunately, lockdown snuck along and now we are doing tasks of a Matrix. The task I had to do was create a video/animation and base it around fishing or fishing sustainability. I decided to go for... STOP MOTION!!

Just bear in mind that this is my first, and I mean FIRST! stop motion video. I sincerely apologise for the bad lighting if you can not see it. But most of all enjoy and I hope you get the message I am trying to send to you through this video.

What do you think of my stop motion? Do you know any interesting facts about Pollution or fishing sustainability?

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Making Cinnamon Scrolls in Lockdown

Ni Hao Bloggers! Are you feeling empty, bored, hungry perhaps?  Well, I think I have a solution! Here is an amazing (But long) recipe for making Cinnamon scrolls. Why go to the supermarket and buy them when you can make them yourself. The recipe may take long but lockdown is longer, so go ahead and make some mouthwatering Cinnamon scrolls. 

To be honest, I did get a little frustrated with the recipe as it gets quite messy but I actually find I thoroughly enjoyed it. But it's especially worth it when you get to the end! Give it a try and see how it goes.

What are you baking in lockdown? Have you made Cinnamon Scrolls?

Its Lockdown.... AGAIN!

 

My Poster to promote my Story

Kia ora Team! I can not believe it, It's Lockdown! But hopefully, we will all be back to school next week. Anyways, to make sure we are keeping up with work, my Homebase had a google meet and chatted about what we were doing and what tasks to do. For my literacy task, we had to create a horror story because for literacy we are focusing on, not only our TED Talks but Genre studies. We had chosen 'Horror' and here is my horror story. To give you a brief overview, it is about a girl who has a man that watches her in her room. Find out more by reading the story above. This was a really fun topic and I enjoyed writing this story.

What are you doing in Lockdown? Have ever written a Horror story before?

If so, please comment down below!

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Aladdin PRODUCTION!

 Kia ora Team! I know all of you must be a little upset I haven't posted for AGES! But I have been super busy with.. PRODUCTION. You must be aching to see how everything turned out. All I got to say is... AMAZING! With heaps of practice help and encouragement, we made the best Production ever. Once the stage was put in, the excitement really came in. On Monday, my cast Tahi performed in front of the cutest Kindergraden and from then on, I loved performing on the new stage. The performances went very smoothly with very little mistakes. The costumes, the lights, everything I just loved so much. Unfortuenly, Production has come to an end after our 4 performances. I shall never forget how amazing it was to just go out an perform. Never. I know, here are some great photos of my Production performing. I hope you enjoy seeing how talented the main characters are. Overall, I have really liked doing this production and am looking forward to doing another one.

Have you ever done a Production before? If so, what did you do?

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Lets make a Table!

Kia ora Team! Ko Lucinda Toku ingoa and I am from Marshland school. Today our Teachers talked about the distribution of weight, structure, and planning of a table. Surprise, surprise! We are making a table out of newspaper and tape in groups of five. I actually worked with some super cool new people I have never worked with before. It turned out to be a very fun experience, learning about them and working together. Our time limit was 25 minutes, with five minutes thinking and 10 minutes planning. My Team had it all worked out with 5 very strong legs and a thick tabletop. I think we did a good job spreading out what tasks people had to do but unfortunately, we didn't get it done in time. To be honest, there were some really awesome structures and that really got me down thinking ours was not going to work. But, ours actually was the best. Most of the tables could only hold 1 to 3, but we held 10 books and 1 laptop. Still, I knew everybody did a really good job, no matter what. One of our challenges was not being able to manage our time properly. Check out the slide above to hear a full review of the task and see what our product looked like. 

What do you think we could have done better? Have you ever done anything like this?

Thanks for reading. Blog ya later!

Cooking experiment!

 Cooking presentation

Kia ora Koutou! Sorry I have not been posting for a while. I have a fun experiment that you guys might want to try at home or even at School. For Math, we have been learning about measurement, and to showcase our learning we needed to do a type of baking. We got into groups and sorted out who was bringing what and what we were baking. My group chooses the famous Chocolate chip Cookies! I thought we were really organized and ready to bake. You're going to need to see my presentation to find out what happens to the cookies. One word. Disastrous. We did find it a challenge to work together but eventually, we got the hang of it. 

What do you think of our cookies? Do you think we could of done better?

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Lets go Matariki!

 Kia ora Koutou! Ko Lucinda Toku ingoa. Matariki is creeping upon us, but Toroa is already organized. To celebrate the Maori new year (2 July 2021) we decided to go for a beautiful piece of extraordinary art to showcase one of the most popular star constellations. Matariki, the mother, and her six daughters, Tupu-ā-Nuku, Tupu-ā-rangi, Waipunarangi, Waitī and Waitā, and Ururangi.

My Art pieces! This type of art is called 'Printmaking' You usually do it on foam.

Which one do you like best? 

Interested in this type of art? Want to celebrate Matariki in a unique way?

Heres all the steps to make this beautiful art;

1. Find some information about Matariki. What time do they come out? Are there any other names for Matariki?

2.  It time for a draft! Get out a piece of scrap paper and fold it a quarter of the way. Sketch your mountain, Mt. Cook, Mt. Arthur, etc. making sure that your Mountains don't take up the whole page. Here comes the Matariki part.

3. Look up a map of Matariki to see exactly where the stars go. Copy that onto your scrap paper but draw it backward. When you print it onto your paper, it will be reversed so as to make sure it's the right way, when you onto your foam draw it backwards.

4. Time to GENTLY draw it onto your foam. Making sure to draw it backwards again too. Remember, DO NOT down hard on the foam otherwise, when you put the ink on it, it won't look very good.

5. Next, get an assortment of ink colours and using a roller (It sounded like a cat rolling its tongue!) to roll on the ink. Make sure to put heaps on so, it doesn't look drained. 

6. Leave it to dry for a while. Decide whether or not you would like to put a border on it but I would recommend doing so.

7. BOOM, you've got your amazing Matariki art.

I love Matariki because it really showcases our Maori culture. I hope you like my art.

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The Cave of Wonders!

 

Hello Bloggers! You may have been wondering about my part as The Cave of Wonders. Well, now your queries may be answered. Another task from our Production slide was to create a scene you are in on Storyboard That. I created a scene that is based specifically on me. It was to showcase the fact that I know all the lines needed in my scene. It actually didn't take too long to make this but it was a fun little task to do. I hope you enjoy learning that little bit more about my school's Production. Click on the pictures for a closer look.

What's your favourite scene in Aladdin? Why?

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Sensenstion and Perception

                                                   My One                                  My Buddies one

Kia ora Koutou! My name is Lucy and I am a Student at Marsland school. Today we did, SCIENCE! We learned some super interesting stuff and after watching some very informal videos, questions clouded our heads, unanswered. How do we know if our Brain is lying to us? How can our body sense touch?

Luckily all that was answered when our Teacher set us with a cool task to get into a pair and receive a case of weird appliances. A set of Calipers, a blindfold, and a ruler. We were also given a sheet to record stuff on. One side was English the other Te reo Maori. We had to take turns with one person with the blindfold on and one pressing the Caliper on a body part. The person with the blindfold would have to say if they felt two points or one. I enjoyed the experience but was scared of the sharp points on the Cailper. We didn't get to completely finish our sheet but we did have a good time. If you're still stuck, look at the slide at the bottom.

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Hooray for Perimeter, Area, Volume!

 Perimeter, Area, Volume Presentation

Ni hao Bloggers! For the past couple of weeks, Shaw's maths has been learning about Perimeter, Area, and Volume. With help from Quizzes and lots of worksheets, we had Perimeter, Area, and Volume in the bag. Our task was to create a presentation showing our understanding of Perimeter, Area, and Volume. I decided to do mine on Canva because it's such a great app for decorating and displaying your work. If you click on the link-up at the top, you will be taken to my video. Make sure to unmute it to listen to the cute music to go along with it. At first, I found it hard to understand Perimeter, Area, and Volume but soon it became easy as pie. If you're confused about Perimeter, Area, and Volume, click on this video which will surely help you.

What can I improve on?

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Who's Hungry?

Kia ora Bloggers! Lucy's back and with a challenge for you. Recently, I have just finished another one of those tasks from the production slide which was to create a recipe book about two or more traditional middle eastern dishes. I decided to go with Shish Tawook and Baklava as those both sounded inviting and delicious. I found it a bit hard to find the right recipes for the foods but eventually I found some. I think it would be cool if you could give these recipes a try as I'm sure they will turn out delicious. Unfortunately, the book would't load onto my blog so I had to put it on a slide. I hope you like my decoration and the recipes I choose. Blog ya Later!

Have you ever cooked a Traditional Dish from the Middle east? If so, which one?

Amazing Steam experiment!

 

Konichiwa Bloggers! My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. Today, our task before we went to Tech was to get in a group of 5 and collect the necessary things needed to complete the activate. It was based around Steam, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. We had to make a product that protected our egg when we would drop it from the top of the stairs in the makerspace. My group had 5 minutes to plan and design our experiment and 25 minutes to actually make it. After a lot of discussing, working, and wrapping we finally finished and our product turned out not what we imagined but it was average. I actually had little faith in our group but when it didn't crack when our teacher threw it, I was so proud of my team.

Have you done an experiment like this before?

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Arabian Palace!

 

Ni hao Bloggers! It's Lucy here and with some more Production tasks for you. I choose another cool task from that slide which was to recreate an Arabian palace on Minecraft. I thought I did an okay job with choosing the colours and designs but I thought I could do better on the architecture and the banners. After finally finishing the Castle #LONG TIME!, I decided to show you guys my creation in a Screencastify. I hope you guys enjoy watching me show you my palace and enjoy the rest of your week.

Have you created something like this? What was it?

Feel free to comment!

Production Time!

 

Kia ora Bloggers! Welcome to Term 2 and the time for preparation. Marshland school is starting work on their Production 'Aladdin' and auditions have already flown by. Luckily, yours truly got in to be... The Cave of Wonders Voice! We have started having cast meetings in the hall and practicing our lines and voices. Sometimes, when we are not needed for a pacific scene, we go onto a slide that our teachers so kindly prepared for us and choose an activity to do. I decided to go with the pixel art one. We had to do it on our favorite 'Aladdin' character. I choose Jasmine because it looked the easiest. Next time I would like to challenge myself to do something harder. 

What's your favorite Aladdin Character? Why do you like them?

Feel free to comment!

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Seating Catastrophe

 

Kia ora team, my name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. For a few days now, Shaw maths has been working on a task to create an animation or a world on Minecraft to display our problem-solving skills. I decided to go with Minecraft world as it sounded creative and fun. As you know, we have been looking into problem-solving, seeing if we can turn it into an easier equation and find the correct answer. We did several problems over the past week, and part of our task was to choose a problem out of the ones we had recently done and use that in our animation/Minecraft world. I decided to go with the pizza problem, which you will find out about later. I found it hard to remember how to solve the problem but with some much-needed help, I finished. I hope you enjoy my explanation about problem-solving and understand what I am trying to demonstrate.

What can I improve on with my explaining skills?

Feel free to comment!

Hundertwasser Art

 

Kia ora Bloggers!

My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland School. Today, we had to finish off our Hundertwasser artwork and I happily managed to finish mine on time. We had to plan out what shapes and colors we wanted before we started our art. We had to include some key elements such as a hidden face, no straight lines, and Onion houses. I found choosing the colours, drawing them and finding where to sketch the elements quite a challenge. I really enjoyed finally coloring in the art piece as I think it turned out really well. 

What do you think about my Art? What can I improve on?

Here is the link to an Explanation about Hundertwasser. Hundertwasser

                                         

The amazing Mean, Median, Mode and Range!

 Kia ora Bloggers! Today for maths, we were assigned a task to create a digital presentation to explain and show our understanding of Mean, Median, Mode, and Range. I decided to do a Canva presentation. I now thoroughly understand MMM & R and if I say so myself, did a pretty good job. I enjoyed decorating my slide and making it look pretty. I found it a little hard to explain what they meant, but I soon got the swing of it. Here is the presentation link MMM&R if you would like to learn what they all mean. I hope you enjoy the music and information.

Is there anything else I can add or fix to my presentation? How can I explain it better?

Feel free to comment!

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Whats the Weather today?

 

Kia ora Bloggers!

My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. For the past few Fridays, we have been working on a Maori Weather animation from scratch. I have never used scratch before and found it hard to get used to but soon I got the hang of it. I enjoyed choosing the characters and backdrops but found the coding a challenge. 

If you are having trouble understanding the Maori words then here's what they mean:

Kia ora - Hello

Kei te Pehea te Atua O te Rangi - What's the Weather Today?

 Kei te Wera - It is Hot

Kei te Hukapapa - It is snowy

I hope you enjoy my Maori Animation and will understand the meanings now.

What do you think I can improve on? 

Feel free to Comment!

What is Japanese fashion?

 Japan presentation

Konichiwa Bloggers! As you can see there is a mysterious link at the top of the post. You might be wondering what it could be. Well, for inquiry all the home bases in Toroa have started going around in a rotation. We started first with our Home base teachers. Mr Shaw's class was all about the really cool things you can use instead of google slides. He gave us all the topic "Japan", My buddy and I decided to base our work on Japanese fashion. We had to choose a app (Not google slides) to present our work on. We had to choose out of I-movie, Canva, google sites (Which we actually weren't aloud to do) and adobe spark. I choose the one I was more familiar with. CANVA! I did most of the detail and Colour on it and Angelica looked up Amazing and astonishing Info. I found it a really cool topic and enjoyed putting all the detail on it. I think the challenge was finding what fit with what. I hope you enjoy my japan presentation. If you want to move to the next slide just press the arrow and make sure to un-mute it.

What topic would you like to learn about japan? Its fashion, food, history?

Whats the weather Like today?

 

Konichiwa Bloggers! Today, we are learning more Maori pronunciation! So, the teachers asked us to create a poster on Canva on how to say " Hows the weather today?" and to reply with " It is Fine" or you could say it was raining or hot and so on. But in Maori words. I found it quite exciting to find out all the different Maori words and learn how to say them. I enjoyed decorating my poster and playing with all the different designs. I hope you might just learn a few Maori words from my poster. 

What do you think I can improve on? 

Feel free to comment!

A Night at the Disco....

 Ni hao bloggers! Today, we talked about when we are responsible for others safety. Then we looked at a few graphic Comics and noticed there was a blank box. Turns out the teachers said we were going to fill that box in with what might happen. I wasn't concentrating hard enough to do the second one bu here is my one that I actually finished. Its called a night at a disco. Its about these two girls and the blond haired one is talking to the dark haired one in box 2. In box 3, 2 girls but in and exclude the dark haired girl from the conversation. In box 4, it shows her with her disability, a Lazy eye. In box 5, the 2 girls are trying to pull the blonde haired girl away from the dark haired one. But in the last box which I drew (with help from my friend) and coloured in, she reaches out to say to come with her too. I hope you enjoy the panel. I am so sorry about the quality of the photo. 

What would you do if some people were excluding your friend? Have you ever been in a situation like that?

Feel free to comment!

The Maoris point of View

 

Kia ora Bloggers! My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. Today, we have learned more about the treaty of Waitangi. There were actually 2 Versions of the treaty. The Maori one promised the Maori that they would have full control over their lands and that the queen would protect them. The English one says that the English get all the Sovereignty and could buy the land. This ended up with War and confusion, English taking away their culture and there freedom. This video is about a Maori's point of view of how they felt about all the changes happening. I don't think this is my best work because the app I was using didn't let me download it and I had to use screencastify to video. We had to write a script for what the Maori would say and put it on the app Voki. I found it fun to write it down but the video was very annoying because of all the mistakes. 

What point of View would you choose? Maori or English?

E noho rā!

The Mystery's of the Tāmoko Revealed!

 

Kia ora Bloggers!

My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. Last week we were assigned  to watch, research and make notes on the traditional gorgeous Tamoko! Today, after we finished our art we had to finish off work we hadn't finish yet. I hadn't done my Poster for Tamoko, so heres what I achieved today. I copied my facts that I had written down in my book onto the poster and made it look stylish and Cool. It wasn't to hard nor to easy to make. I had fun looking at all  the different fonts and Pictures I could use. Thank you once again Canva! Sorry if you can't read the writing. It wouldn't let me download it.

What are some famous Tamoko artists? What are some Tamoko designs?

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The Coming together of Maori & the English

 

Kia ora Koutou! My name is Lucy and I am a Marshland school Student. From the beginning of this week, we have began Inquiry and looked in on the Treaty of Waitangi. We also researched and watched lots of videos about when Captain Cook came to NZ. The task that we had to do was the journey Captain Cook took to NZ and write about all the issues that happened on board and how long the Voyage was. I found it quite Cool to find out how the English got across that never ending ocean. Some of the facts were very surprising!

Whats your favourite fact? 

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Staying safe outside of School & Home

 

Kia ora Team! It's Lucy and Today (Plus last week on Wednesday) the teachers have taught us about keeping ourselves Safe outside of School and Home. Imagine if a random guy comes up and trys to grab you or is suspiciously following you in their car. But one of the most common scenarios is being left home alone and a drunk Man knocks on your door. You would be pretty freaked out, right? So, the teachers told us to make a poster on Canva about what to do in that type of situation. We made up a scenario and added Options of what you could do and their consequences. I hope you like mine. It was really fun to think up a cool story about a unsafe scenario.

What would you do if somebody knocked on your door when your Home alone? Could you add some other Options?

Feel free to comment!

All about little old ME!

 

Hello, Bloggers! My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. The blog post is all about the little details in my life. It will also help you get to know me more. The first photo you can see up there is a Lego portrait of Me. We were assigned that project so the Teachers could see my RAD drawing skills (Just Kidding!) and get to know us more. We were given a template of the body and head of a Lego person and we had to draw a Face, Hair and clothes onto it. I tried very hard to make it look like me. I had fun playing around with all the different types of expressions I could make and cool hairstyles. I settled with a "small smile" face and me with my hair out. I found it fun and a bit of a challenge. The video is a little slideshow about all the fun facts about me. It included my Family, Favourite colour and food. Plus much more. We used Canva templates to start us off and give us a bit of a head-start. I hope you enjoy my post and use Canva More often. 

Whats your favourite colour and Food? Do you have any pets?

Feel free to comment.

Don't you just love the Maori for their way with words?

 

Tēna Koutou Bloggers! My name is Lucy and I am a student at Marshland school. Today, (with help from the Teachers) Toroa learned and created their Beautiful Pepehas. We included our Family, where we came from, our Mountain and our River. After we wrote our Pepehas down, the Teachers told us to make a adobe spark video version. It took a lot of hard work, encouragement and resilience. I found it challenging but fun. I hope my Pepeha will help you get to know me more, as it talks a lot about ME! I think that the Maori are are a very unique and beautiful culture and I hope you think so too. Enjoy my Pepeha!

What do you think of the Maori culture? 

Feel free to comment.

The highest view in Wainui Camp

Kia ora bloggers! Happy new school year! I 'm back now and with a whole new blog post. Last week, Toroa hub went to Wainui camp for 3 nights and 4 days. We did heaps of awesome and cool activities but one of the fun activities I would like to highlight are the high ropes. It was fun but it gave me a good challenge. I was a little bit  scared near the top but with some kind words and some strong encouragement, I made it to the top. It felt wonderful when I was back on the ground, but my legs were shaking like crazy. For a reflecting task, we got to choose which activity we liked the most and choose a creative way to write it down. I decided to do a comic strip. I hope you enjoy the drawings.

What camp have you been too and what was your favourite activity?