SLJ- Teaser Week| Activity 1- The Social Network

For this activity, I had to think about what I've learned about Cybersmart and write 5 rules when posting a photo or a video on social media. Something I found hard was choosing the 5 rules when posting a photo or a video. Something I found easy was doing the layout. Something I need to work on would be putting more pictures in the poster to make it more eye catching.

SLJ- Teaser Week|Week 1- Day 1

For the activity, we had to find out information about Lorde who is a New Zealand singer. Her first song was called 'Royals' We had to make her a profile page as our infographic poster for the activity.

What I enjoyed: Was being able to be creative for the layout of the poster.
What I need to work on: Get more facts down on the poster.
What I found hard: Getting the poster done in 10 minutes.

Bottom left picture from: Wikipedia
Top right picture from: Wikipedia

SLJ Practice Activity: Special Meals

My favourite meal is something called "Sinigang" it is a Filipino dish. Sinigang is one of the most popular dishes from the Philippines! Sinigang is known for its sour and savoury taste. Sinigang can be made with Pork, Beef or Fish. Sinigang is better if paired with rice. I like it because of its sour and savoury flavour.




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Waterspouts

This week my group has been reading a text called 'How a Waterspout forms' and we had to unpack a sentence from the text together. Some of the things I've learned from the text is; There are five stages to a waterspout, what a waterspout is, a waterspout is, waterspouts are common in the tropics etc.
For our infographic, we had to put what we know about waterspouts to teach others if they don't know what a waterspout is.

What I found hard: Tracing the waterspout.
What I found interesting: How waterspouts work and what they are.
What I need to work on: Finishing my work on time.

Dunking Biscuits

In Room 6 we have been learning about fair testing. We learnt new phrases such as; Hypothesis,  Variables etc. A hypothesis is a prediction for your experiment and a variable is something you could change in your experiment. We had to come up with our own experiment with groups of two or three. My buddy was Lachlan and we chose to do "Dunking Biscuits" We had to plan our experiment in a doc where we included what we would change, what we would keep the same so our experiment would be 'fair' and what we would measure.

For this experiment, we had to dunk different types of biscuits in coffee and see which biscuit is the strongest. The different types of biscuits we had were; Arrowroots, Sugar Biscuits, Choc-chip cookies, Scotch fingers, Anzac biscuits and Raisin Biscuits. Our time set was 1 minute and 30 seconds and if it goes over that, we have to stop it. For the results, we had Arrowroots, Scotch Fingers, Sugar Biscuits and Raisin Biscuits as our best.

Our next step was to make our science boards showing our results, measurements, pictures, graphs, etc. We were free to do what type of lettering we wanted and to be creative with our boards.

What I enjoyed: Doing the lettering for our boards as well as deciding what the layout would look like.
What I found frustrating: How I can't change what I put up if I don't like where its placed because we used a glue stick to put it up.
What I can work on: Going in depth with the writing in our boards.

My Mihi

WALT:

-Find and summarise information by identifying key words and main ideas.
-make connections between different texts.
-use evidence(words, phrases and illustrations) from the text to justify my thinking.
-make a judgement after evaluating information from range of texts.
-Use keywords to work out what the hidden meaning is.

For Maori Language week, we made a game to represent our mihis. We had to put our parents' names, our names, our mountain etc. We had to find out codes to make our game work and find out what our mountains are, our rivers etc.

What I found hard: Was figuring out the codes
What I need to work on: Finding out what my mountain is etc.
What I enjoyed:  Coding my game.

Volcanoes- Infographic

In my reading group(Mars) we read about volcanoes. We learnt what type of volcanoes there are and how they work. One type of volcano is a Submarine volcano which is a volcano that is located underwater. The text came with activities that we had to do. For our digital activity, we all had to do number eight which was an infographic. An infographic is to explain all the learning we have learnt and put them into pictures, diagrams, labels, description to show that we understood the text.

What I need to work on: Being efficient with all my work so I can finish my other work on time.
What I can do better: Putting more information on my picture.
What I enjoyed: Was learning about volcanoes and how they work.