Health - Friendship D.L.O

  Hey readers! Today in Health, we learnt about how important friendship is 😁. I really enjoyed this lesson and I found it very important since I think it's very good to have good friends since they can support you a lot mentally 😄. For our activity in Health today, we had to make a D.L.O about our definition for "Friendship" 😊. Personally, I think a friend is a person that can cheer you up and the two of you have a trustworthy bond between each other where you can tell them your secrets 😃. Here is my D.L.O 😇:

Te Reo Maori - Homai Screencastify (Asking for Objects in Maori)

  Hey Readers! Last week, in Te Reo Maori with Miss McLeod, we learnt how to ask for objects in Maori (Homai) 😁. We had to pick a buddy (my buddy was Izeiah) and then we got to write a script for what we were going to say, since we did it on a Screencastify 😌. I found it very fun and I enjoyed learning how to ask for objects and really enjoyed learning another Language 😄. The thing I enjoyed most in this lesson was when me and Izeiah got to choose what objects to ask for in the video recording 😎. Here is my screencastify about Asking for Objects in Maori 😊:

Writing - Fabulous Flies (To Persuade)

 Hey Readers! In Writing with Miss McLeod this week, our group had to make a persuading piece of writing persuading the reader that flies are fabulous 😌. Most of us weren't very fond of flies so had to do some research about them to see what they could do, and we found out that flies actually play a big part in the environment and food chain 😁. I really enjoyed making this piece of writing because it has taught me many different and amazing traits about flies 😄. Here is my Fabulous Flies to persuade writing 😊:

Fabulous Flies

Have you ever wondered why us flies are useful to our world? Well, in my opinion as a fly, we are very useful. Examples of why we are useful are that we eat aphids and that we pollinate. And we are pretty important in the day to day ecosystem which is the reason why I think that flies are fabulous.
Us flies aren’t the most well-known pollinators, but we are actually better pollinators than bees themselves. Instead of pollinating the flowers and plants that bees pollinate, we pollinate certain plants that the bees don’t. Some plants that we pollinate are: skunk cabbage, voodoo lilies and corpse flowers which give out the smell of rotting which attracts us flies. Since we flies have hairy legs, as we land on the flowers, the pollen sticks to our hairs, and when we fly around, we drop the pollen around as well.
Did you know that flies eat aphids? Aphids are small, pesky bugs that nibble away at your plants, and can kill them. But we flies think that aphids are a delightful treat. In my opinion, eating aphids is very helpful to your garden since we’re saving your flowers & plants, which is a reason why I think we are important in the day to day ecosystem. By eating aphids, we are also saving half of the world’s oxygen source, plants.
Do you know what will happen if you remove us flies from the world? Us flies play a very important role in earth’s food chain and environment, which means if you remove us, the food chain will be disrupted greatly. Firstly, we remove the rotting smells from dead animals and rotting food, which is probably why you see us around bins. Secondly, each species of flies play an important role in the ecosystem and if you remove us, it will cause the extinction of higher species. Thirdly, if there are no flies in the world, you won’t even have oxygen to breathe, because flies eat aphids and aphids eat plants which means you won’t have half of your oxygen source.
For these reasons, I think us flies really do have a purpose and we therefore feel like we are mistreated. We support the whole food-chain, are helpful in the pollinating area, and are helpful in the garden. We think, without a doubt, you should reconsider and keep us around.

Inquiry - Folk Dance Compare and Contrast

 Hey Readers! Today, South Hornby School pupils got to come back to school since it is Level 2 now and we are allowed to go back to school 😁. So, for Inquiry today, we did a Folk Dance Compare and Contrast google drawing since we've been learning about folk dance 😄. We watched 7 different country's folk dance and we chose 2 to compare and contrast 😇. I really enjoyed doing this activity 😌. Here is my Folk Dance Compare and Contrast Google Drawing 😊:

Lockdown Maths - Algebra 5 (Last Lesson Before Going Back to School!)

  Hi Readers! Today in Miss McLeod's Lockdown Maths, we learnt how to balance equations so they equal the same in our Algebra 5 slides 😁. For example: ☐ + 5 = 14 - ☐ 😇. I found the lesson very fun and not challenging at all since I've done questions like these before 😄. I enjoyed making my own equations on slide four in the Algebra 5 slide 😋. If you notice something I've done wrong, please tell me 😉. Here is my Algebra 5 slides 😊: 

Lockdown Writing - 8th FABO Story Competition (I got 3rd Place!)

  Hello Readers! Last week, in Writing, Miss McLeod's Writing class got to do a FABO Story Competition with Witches & Wizards 😲. If you have ever participated in a FABO Story Competition, you would be able to find a story starter on their FABO Story Blog Spot, these competitions are normally judged by some really cool authors, in the 8th FABO Story Competition (the one I participated in), we were allowed 550 words max 😅. I found the story a bit hard to write since we had a word limit that I wasn't used to, but it's good to do things out of your comfort zone, Right? 😶. I submitted my story on Friday last week, and earlier today, I found out I got 3RD PLACE 😄! If you want to read my writing, here it is (I will also show the story starter) 😇:

Story Starter:

Mark and Maeve skipped along the dark corridors of McMinty Towers, and into the dining hall.

They expected to see their mother sitting at the head of the table. Instead, they found a letter

pinned to the top of a large,

black chest.

My Dear Twins,

First of all, Happy Birthday!

This chest contains two magical things:

1 x Witch-Starter-Kit   &

1 x Wizard- Starter-Kit

Please choose one kit. Choose carefully as you cannot swap your kit once you have chosen.

However, Mark may choose the Witch-Starter-Kit, while Maeve might choose the

Wizard-Starter-Kit. It doesn’t matter.

Please write down each spell you test, and the results. A few words of warning. When

starting out, I advise all young witches and wizards to use their new powers wisely.

Because spells, when not followed correctly can goterribly wrong. Terribly wrong!

Good luck. Good luck, I repeat. You will need it.

Yours in witchcraft

Mother Witch McMinty

Mark shrugged his shoulders. Maeve opened the chest …

My continued Story:

They gasped. Inside were two beautiful wooden boxes with detailed carvings that Mark and

Maeve couldn’t make out. Silently, they stood, wondering which kit they should take.

Maeve looked at the Witch-Starter-kit closely, it had spiral-like markings and in the middle

of its lid was a sapphire shaped like the McMinty crest. Maeve decided to take the

Witch-starter-kit, leaving Mark with the Wizard-starter-kit which he was happy to take. 

‘Do you want to go to the tower’s lab to test these out?,’ Mark asked.

‘Sure! Let’s go,’ Maeve answered optimistically.

The twins packed their kits back into the black chest along with their mother’s letter

and walked up the winding staircases of McMinty tower. Soon, they reach their

destination, the huge double-doors of the tower’s lab. Maeve held the chest as

Mark opened the lab’s heavy doors. They walked into the room and Maeve put the

black chest on a table and they both took their kits out.

‘So, should we open them?,’ Asked Mark while ferociously staring down the kit.

‘Yeah, I-I guess so,’ Maeve said, hesitantly.

Simultaneously, they opened the kits. Maeve looked inside hers, she could see many potions

and objects, but one intrigued her more than the rest. It was a gold, snake-shaped ring with

detailed, hand-carved scales, two dark emeralds as the snake’s eyes and a weird marking on

its forehead, which Maeve didn’t really worry about. She lifted it from the box carefully,

admiring it. Maeve turned to her brother, he was holding a gold watch with a lion’s head,

shaped like it was opening its mouth in mid-roar, and inside the lion's mouth they could see

the watch's clock-face. Mark squinted at his watch.

‘What’s up?,’ Maeve asked, wondering what had caught her brothers attention.

‘I just noticed this weird marking on my watch,’ Mark said, as he showed his sister the

marking that piqued his curiosity.

Maeve looked at the marking. It was the same marking that was on the snake’s forehead

that she hadn’t worried about, but then, both of the markings lit-up. Maeve and Mark’s

eyes widened as their two pieces of jewelry suddenly put themselves onto their owners.

Two blue laser-like lights shot from the jewelry forming a kind of vacuum portal

sucking the twins into it. Out of instinct, Mark grabbed the two kits, stuffed them into

the black chest on top of their mum’s letter, and carried it as the portal pulled them

closer and closer to it. They tried grabbing onto other things so the portal won’t suck

them away, but it did. Inside it was a dark void that seemed to go on forever. 

‘W-w-what’s happening?,’ Maeve asked, scared.

‘I-I don’t know,’ Mark answered. The portal stopped, and the twins landed onto grounds of a

fancy tower. ‘Wait! Where are we?’ He questioned.

A tall woman with fuzzy, grey hair, a stern look and a tall witch hat, like their mother’s,

teleported to them.

‘Hello children! And welcome to ‘the Royal Magic Academy’,’ the Woman announced

grandly . . .

Lockdown Maths - Algebra 4

  Hey Readers! In Miss McLeod's online class today, we learnt how to find the rules in maths patterns and how to continue maths patterns 😁. I found the lesson very fun and, honestly, not that hard 😅. For the first three activity slides in the Algebra 4 slide we had to continue the patterns and on the last three slides we had to figure out the rules of the pattern 😄. Here is my Algebra 4 slide 😇:

Lockdown Reading - The Christchurch Earthquake D.L.O (Natural Disasters D.L.O)

  Hey Readers! In Miss McLeod's Lockdown Reading today, Michael Morpurgo (my reading group) finished our activities and then we made a natural disasters (the topic we're focusing on) D.L.O, by choosing a NZ natural disaster 😄. I decided to make a D.L.O about the Christchurch Earthquake 😁. I found the D.L.O very fun to make, but I feel really bad for all the people who died in the earthquake 😓. I enjoyed putting my prior knowledge into my D.L.O a lot 😊. Here is my Christchurch Earthquake 😋:

Lockdown Maths - Patterns Activity Slide

 Hey Readers! Today in Miss McLeod's Lockdown Maths, we had to do some finishing work, then we had to complete a Patterns Activity Slide 😄. In the Patterns Activity Slide, we are shown a pattern, then, we had to explain the rule of that pattern and then we had to draw the next shape in the pattern 😶. I didn't find the activity that challenging but making the next shape in the pattern was a bit of work 😅. Well, here is my Patterns Activity Slide 😁: