Task Description: Today I did a task on google slides that answered us questions about community and which community I am in. I talked about the roles I do in each community, how I it and why it makes me who i am today.
Remember the time when we had Mrs Jennifer Paykel come visit us the last time about the Experiment in how washing machines work and if they work with either low mechanical action and high chemical action or high mechanical and low chemical action. And guess what, you might already know which one was better and you guessed it low mechanical action and high chemical action!. But today was something new, today we learnt about different fabrics, why they shrink and how to stop them from shrinking.
We did many mini little experiments like the one with the plastic zippers, had a play with the cotton balls to learn how they grew and what grew them, using string and measurements to see how it evolved under the water and learnt how to work a loom.
We had a fun blast having a go at all of these fun activities and a one I forgot to mention now was using different fabrics and how they feel on clothing. In which was able to guess the differences as one was fuzzy and the other smooth and soft. We had a fun time with Mrs Jennifer and we hope she can visit Point England School again. Thank you Mrs Jennifer for teaching us both washing machines and clothing!
Kia Ora and massive shout to Mrs Jennifer from Fisher & Paykel
Today at Year 7&8 Extension we have been learning all about coding Microbits. In case you don’t know anything about Microbits, they are like tiny computers with AI connected to them. At Extension we used Makecode Microbit AI to code our movement try to see if the Microbit can guess if we are either Shaking or Swinging. The site does this by recording our movement of running then as it recognises the same line graph as the one it first recorded. The parts of our Microbits we used to code was the processor, radios and LED lights.
Some things that didn’t work out however was when we tried to make AI guess we were Spinning but instead of guess Spinning it got confused with Swinging. Because when it recorded both Swinging and Spinning the radio waves were quite the same so AI though we were Swinging instead of Spinning so we had to change Spinning to Shaking.
I didn’t just do it by by myself I had a wonderful group of people to help me. Thanks to our teamwork we were able to record movement with AI.
I have learnt something new today which was how to code a tiny computer to guess or sense movement.If you have a Microbit I suggest you try this site out! In that case you’ll be able to code your Microbit to guesss movement! Hope you learnt something new as well. Please leave a positive comment on my blog.
Task Description: No mai haere mai ki te Point England Podcasting, this is coming to your love at Auckland City, New Zealand and today’s brief case is MATHS! And I have made a podcast all about Word Problems this task will teach how to find strategies in word problems and how to work them out.
This podcast like my other podcasts is a great opportunity to watch, learn and listen for ways to solve word problems. Today’s word problem was a question asking us to work out 4 x 5 and how we found out to use multiplication. Make sure to leave a positive comment and check out the rest of Point Englands Blogs, Kia Ora!
Task Description: Kia Ora guys, today for this weeks literacy topic is all about the Article site we all call Kiwi Kids News! In this task it gives us questions from the article/story and the article/story I chose was about an Elephant visiting a grocery store in Thailand. This task gave me question like who is the main character?, what was the story’s main event?, why did this event occur and giving and listing definitions. Hope you guys enjoyed this task Kia Ora! Make sure to check out more of Point England’s awesome blogs!
Task Description: No mai haere mai ki te Point England Podcast! Today’s brief topic for maths is Prime Maths Book Five all about dividing two digit whole numbers by two digit whole numbers. This podcast will help any of you who are stuck in any similar questions. It will help you get better and better each day in your division and make sure to keep practising on your divisions.
This Podcast would be a great opportunity to teach anybody who is stuck in division. Make sure to check out more of my other maths podcasts including more of Point England’s blogs. Coming to you live in Auckland, New Zealand, Kia Ora!
Prime Maths Book 5 Season 1’s Dividing Two Digit Numbers By Two Digit Whole Numbers 2.4 Episode Three
Task Description: Today’s task for literacy was Narrative Writing explaining a introduction, setting the scene, introducing the characters and giving a clue. I made a story about Jack the Frog ( which is not a story already made ) but anyways I wrote about Jack the Frogs intriguing adventure beyond the midst of the Amazon Jungle. Hope you enjoy reading all about Jack the Frog’s adventure, hope you enjoyed reading this story. Make sure to leave a positive comment and check out the rest of Point England’s amazing blogs. Kia Ora.
Task Description: Today’s brief task needed us to read an article off Kiwi Kids News. Once we chose our article we had to read it and find answers to the questions in the task. The article I have chosen was one called `Aurora Light’s Up In New Zealand’ which was about an Aurora lighting up in areas South Island. Please leave a positive comment onto my blog and make sure to check our other school blogs. Kia Ora.
Link to Aurora Article: https://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/aurora-lights-up-new-zealand/
Task Description: Today we read a story called `The Matriarch’s Tale’ by Meshack Asare and it was about a Matriarch known as a wise female leader of the group. But when she births not only a girl but a boy as well, she will needed to protect it and keep it a secret from all the others or something will happen to the young male.In this task, it answers us questions about the story, definitions and our prior knowledge of what we learnt from the story. Please leave a positive comment on my reading task, thank you!
Task Description: Read this amazing Information Report About Fiamē Naomi. She is the first ever in Samoan History to serve as Samoa’s first female Prime Minister and she was responsible for the many programs and policies aimed at imhelping the women of Samoa.
This task talks about the start of a legend who helped women be independent and was an honourable figure to the Pacific Community. Hope you will enjoy this Information Report and please leave a positive comment on my blog, Kia Ora.