Summer Learning Journey Day 2 - Fishy False Teeth

 Today is day two of Summer Learning Journey (SLJ). This is a comic strip about two men on a boat and one coughs and his false teeth fall into the water. Then the other man caught a fish and took out his false teeth to give it to the other man. Read down below to know more about the story! 

Your comments count - Summer Learning Journey

 Today I forgot to blog my activities for Summer Learning Journey so here is my day 1 activity. Check down below to find out what it was about.

My comment is a quality comment.

How: I learnt this from the Commenting Criteria. It shows you how to do a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment.

I found a blog to comment on so I went on to the Commenting Criteria. I wasn’t that sure how this made me feel but I commented anyway.

Thank you for reading my blog stay tuned for more blogs and activities.

Ordering decimals up to 3 digits

Today in Maths we were doing decimal places. I had to make a table with a ones column, decimal point, tenths, hundredths and thousandths. I just counted to ten for the easy questions. if its 0.2 and 0.5, 0.2 is the smallest because 0.5 is bigger than 0.2. Check out my blog down below!

What is Machine Learning?

Today in Digital Technologies we are doing a Christmas thing. Everyday of Christmas we go onto our site and look at what activities we do. We have 24 activities to do each day. Check down below to see what activity I have done!

Photos of the Liturgical Year

 This week in Religious Education (RE) we are learning about Advent. Before you read below one fact that I learned was the most important feast in the Liturgical Year is Easter, the day of Jesus Christ's Resurrection. Now read down below if you want to learn more about Advent.

Our trip to the Emirates Team NZ HQ

Last week Wednesday my school from year 5-8 students went to the Emirates Team NZ Headquarters. We went there to explore and learn about technology that they have. Read down below to see how our trip went!

On the 25th of November, our school from year 5-8 students went to the Emirates Team NZ Headquarters. First we had to wake up early because the bus had to leave at 8 ‘clock. That morning I woke up at 6 ’clock. I went to school and some people were there. While we were waiting we were put into two groups of 28. There was a Group A and Group B. I was put into Group B. Most of the seniors were put into Group B. 

After minutes of waiting we went onto the bus. While we were on the bus we were singing songs. We arrived to the city around 9:30 because we had to walk across the bridge. I was so tired of walking. Finally after walking we made it. There were about four to five of the people walking there. 

The was the main lady and her name was Jenny. Jenny told us the directions we were going to go in and, we had to be in a walking bus. At the end of the walking bus was a crew member and her name was Sara. Sara made sure that none of the people at the back were paying attention. We finally made it to the place. When we went up to the place we had to go up the stairs. My legs were completely dead after that.

After walking up a lot of stairs we were there. It was a cool place. It smelt brand new. There was a lady that told us what she was holding. She was holding a sphero bolt. A sphero bolt is shaped like a ball that you can control. There was an iPad that controlled the sphero bolt and we could change its color. We had to be in pairs. My partner was Monique. Monique and I each had a turn and it was so cool. I learnt how to 

Then after practising we could have a race, but we had to switch partners. My new partner was Arvay. Arvay was a cool partner at times, but sometimes she’d just keep the ball to herself. Then after learning the map, we could race others. We raced Taniela and Aniseko, and Mele and Audrey. I learnt how to aim and drive.

First Taniela and Aniseko raced Mele and Audrey. There was four cones but there was five courses. Mele and Audrey was in the lead, but then Taniela and Aniseko caught up with them. The winners were Taniela and Aniseko. After that it was our turn. We had to verse Taniela and Aniseko. Arvay was going to verse Taniela. Then we counted down from three to one, they were off. Taniela was off on a good start, but then Arvay caught up with Taniela. The winner was Taniela. After racing everyone we had to pack up and go back. I learnt how to control the speed of the sphero bolt.l

While we were walking there was the back of the fish place. There was a lot of guys there and one of the guys said “When you finished, come back here and take some fish”. Then Mele and I said “ Yeah we’ll come back”. We all laughed. We walked back and Group B were having there lunch. While they were eating, we saw that the bridge was breaking apart for the boat to go through. 

After that we went to the 5g spark. We were put into four groups of five. In my group there was Monique, Melie, Mele, Ana and myself. One of the member of the 5g Spark took us around the place. Her name was Sim. Sim told us that we had to make up a name for our group. We huddled together and made a group name. Our group name was called The Five Islanders. When we went inside we sanitized our hands. We had to wait for a few minutes because the other group was in there. 

Our first activity was going through a wind tunnel. Where ever our hands went on the screen it would follow. Sim told us that the wind tunnel, is the wind when the people are racing.

After that we went to the next room of where there would race. There were five courses that they could race at. The first course is Course A, the next one is Course B, then Course C, after that Course D and Course E.

We would know where and when they will race. After that we went to a game, where you could control the boat but by technology. We all had a turn, but Sim said that I had the best speed and control of the boat. Then we went to the photo booth and took some photos. There was some photos that are photo shopped. One photo that I liked was with our reliever. 

After taking photos we went and watched a movie about the boats. One fact that I learned about the boats was that with the boats every time, they race they always have two people that go across each side every 20 seconds to see if the sides of the boat is ok.

After the movie we went to another place, where there was a room full of tablets. Sim said that at home we have a lot of devices that use the wifi. Sim showed that the 5g Spark is fast and they can have as many devices, and their wifi won’t slow down. We took some photos and it would show up on one of the devices on the screen.

Then we went to the boat design. The Boat Design is where you have a iPad in front of you and you can design your own boat. I had the highest in my group. My score out of 100 was 96.

After that we looked at the fin of the boat from the boat of Team New Zealand. It felt really thin and it looked amazing. Sim said that that was the fin from when they raced in 2002 and won the America’s Cup. 

After that we went outside because we were finished. We saw the other group so we went to them. They were showing some really cool mind tricks. Then we looked at some of the boats. After that we all came together and said bye to everyone. There were still some people in the place, so we couldn’t go. Finally we hopped on the bus and went back to school.

Current Events World Wide

Today in class we were looking at what is going on in the world.

Here is my answers to some of the questions.

America’s president is often described as the most powerful person

because number one they have one of the most biggest armies, navy and air force.

The two main political parties in America are (red) The Republicans and (blue) Democrats. The Electoral College votes are based on the biggest states that are voting. All together there are 538 electoral votes. To win, a party needs 270 to win. They usually take the big states etc California, Texas, Florida and many more. 

We might not know because Mr Trump’s team made a legal challenge in three or four states. The state that has the most Electoral votes is Texas. Mr Trump complained about how the Democrats are cheated by using ballots. Mr Trump is a controversial figure because some people dislike his actions and the way he treats his country.

Joe Biden’s team picked smaller gatherings due to covid-19. Mr Trump’s decorator’s claim that he is an embarrassment. This happened 20 years ago, but because of the disputed vote counts in three or four states. 

The Electoral College votes needs 270 votes to win the election. The news papers and new channels said that they knew Mr Trump was going to lose. The winner of the election needs to be confirmed before the 20th of January. Mr Trump “picked a fight” with China. Mr Trump thinks that the way China trades with America is unfair. Alaska’s Electoral Votes are only three.