Krystal - Planet Earth #2

Today for Inquiry, I have done another activity about the Planet Earth. This one is naming what is in the picture. I had to read some paragraphs to understand what goes where. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Planet Earth 2021

Today I did an activity about the planet. I had to name the layers of the Earth. There are four layers of the Earth. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Match the sentences

Today for Religious Education (RE), we found out a lot of information/facts about life in the early church. I had to match the sentences with another. I watched a video to find out some information about the life in the early church. I found out was that the first Christians sold their possessions, and shared the proceeds with the community. I also learned that the early Christians were persecuted by Jews, who wanted to get rid of Jesus’ followers. Besides teaching the early Christians often, healed people and performed miracles. Here is a link for the video I watched!

Krystal - Current Events Shrinking Elephants Term 2 2021

Today I have done another Current Event activity. This one is called 'Shrinking Elephants'. Have you ever heard of a shrinking elephant? Small animals trapped on an island gradually get bigger. Larger ones become smaller. As usual I did two activities. In the first activity I retold what was in the news article. On the second activity, I did an activity where I had to answer it true or false. Here are my activities!

Friday 9th July 2021 Shrinking Elephants

Friday 9th July 2021 Shrinking Elephants

In this news article, the main people are scientists and researchers comparing the dwarf elephants to the normal sized ones. The key event from this news article was, that elephants could shrink. It was also about how elephants could travel around the world. This event took place in the Atlantic Ocean. This event took place on the 1st of July 2021. 

Glossary:

Subsided - Something that becomes less violent and angry. 

Gradually - In a slow way.

Life-size replica of a straight-tusked elephant (Axel Hindemith)

Krystal - Current Events Best Cities Term 2 2021

WALT: Analyse media with an open but critical eye to inform our opinions. 

Today I did a Current Events activity. This news article is called 'Best Cities'. It is basically about the best cities in countries. As usual I did two activities. The first one was writing about was the news article was. Have you ever been to a city in Austria? Here are my activities!

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Thursday 8th July 2021 Best Cities

In this news article, the main group of people were the citizens of the best cities in the world. The key event was about the best cities in the world, and why it was the best cities in the world. This event took place in Auckland, New Zealand. This event took place on the 17th of June 2021. 

Glossary:

Prestigious - Inspiring respect and admiring. 

Compiled - A process by making information collected from other sources. 

Pedestal - Based on a support on which statue, pillar or post that ascends. 

Independence - A fact or condition of being independent. 

Ambassador - A permit agent or messenger. 

Infrastructure - The basic physical and organisational structures and facilities.

 

Krystal - Current Events Green Ghana Term 2 2021

WALT: Analyse media with an open but critical eye to inform our own opinions.

Today I did a current event activity. This news article was called 'Green Ghana'. As usual I did two activities. The first was one was, writing about the news article. The second one was trying to figure out words, that are from the clues. Here are my activities!

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Wednesday 7th July 2021 ‘Green Ghana’

In this news article, the main person is Akufo-Addo. The key event from this news article is, when Akufo-Addo promised to make the small-scale gold mining and timber industry regular. This event took place in Ghana, Africa. This event took place on the 17th of June 2021. 

Thinking Questions:

Akufo-Addo promised to make the small-scale gold mining, and timber industry regular.  When one area of the land is tired, then the miners will move. A few plants grow on the mined, or disturbed land. Ghana has grasslands and rain forests.

This event took place in Ghana. Ghana means ‘warrior king’. Ghana is a really hot place in Africa. The most it could go up to is around 30°C (86°F), during the day it can go up to 24°C (75°F).

Glossary:

Jubilee - A special anniversary of an event.

Haphazard - Lacking any obvious principal of organisation.

Nana Akufo-Addo (C), Ghana’s president, plants a tree on Green Ghana Day

(President of the Republic of Ghana)

Krystal - How are Fireworks made? Wonderopolis

Today I did another Wonderopolis activity. This one was about how fireworks were made. I learnt a lot of things, but I learnt that there are no explosions. If you want to learn more about the fireworks, here is my activity below!

 

Krystal - Smart Footprint Review

In this Cybersmart Challenge, I had to do review of all the challenges I did in the past. If I completed them, I would put a complete word on the top of the challenge. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Current Events See-through wings Term 2 2021

WALT: Analyse media with an open but critical eye to inform our own opinions

Today my class and I did a Current Events activity. Have you heard of See-through wings before? Well if you haven't, I read an article about it. It is basically about how see-through wings are mostly on butterflies and on some moths. It mostly speaks about butterflies and moths. One paragraph talks about how people do not know the difference between a moth and a butterfly. Can you tell the difference between a moth and a butterfly? Also I did another activity like last time. I had to do a word find, and find a secret message phrase. Here are my activities!

Tuesday 6th July 2021 See-through wings

In this news article, the main people are the researchers from an American University. The key event from this news article is talking about how butterflies and moths have many differences. This event took place in South America and Colombia. This event took place on the 1st of July 2021. In this news article, it tells us about butterflies and moths. It is also about how some butterflies have see through wings. The researchers also found that tiny waxy bumps, cover the see through wings. In a paragraph it says if you touch a moth or a butterfly wing, you will see tiny dust on your fingers. South America is a continent. South America has 54 countries inside of it. The four I can name are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile. Colombia is also inside of South America. Colombia is also where this news article took place. Colombia has a lot of interesting and amazing places inside of the country. 

Glossary:

Repel - Drive or force.

Membrane - A thin sheet of tissue or layer of cells.

Bristle - A short, stiff hair on an animal's skin or a man's face.

Thinking Questions:

This article was about a group of researchers from an american university, wanting find out more of

butterflies and moths, but they chose a glasswinged butterfly. Butterflies start out as a larva, or caterpillar and hatches from it. The researchers used a microscopes to examine the glasswing butterfly’s wings.Then it goes on about talking of how some people can’t tell the difference between a moth and a butterfly.

The glasswing butterfly lives in Colombia, in South America, and the Central American countries of

Mexico and Panama.

This event took place in Mexico. Mexico is bordered to the north by the United States. Mexico is the

third largest country in Latin America.

Krystal - Current Events Eusocial Plants Term 2 2021

WALT: analyse media with an open but critical eye to inform our own opinions

Today we did read a story about, researchers from New Zealand going to Lord Howe Island and exploring it. I had to answer some questions and many other stuff. I also had to do an activity about the story. The second activity was to see if you read the story properly. For the first activity I had to do a glossary. A glossary is like a list of words that you don't know, then you find the meaning to it. Here are my activities!

Monday 5th July 2021 Eusocial Plants 

In this news article, the main people are the researchers from New Zealand University. The key event from this news article, was about plants and animals. It was also about the researchers from New Zealand University, finding a lot of other interest things. This event took place in Lord Howe Island, which is in Australia. This event took place on the 17th of June 2021.

A ‘colony’ of Staghorn ferns growing on a cedar tree (Ian Hutton)

Krystal - Template Poster

Today I did Cybersmart Challenge number 16. This challenge was about a poster and what you like and other things. This is basically like who your favourite youtuber is, what you name is and many more. Here is my activity!

 

Krystal - Vlogging Template

 Today I did a Cybersmart Challenge. This is the 15th Cybersmart Challenge. This challenge was introducing myself. I know I introduced myself already, but this is an edited version. I had to screencastify myself and introduce myself. Here is my screencastify!

Krystal - Maths Prototec

Today for our Maths starter, we did Prototec. As usual I did stage 6 and had a 85% score. I needed to work on a bit of my addition to 20. My goal is to learn my addition to 20. Here is my activity!

Krystal - The Holy Spirit

Today I finally finished my Holy Spirit activity. In this activity, I had to talk about Baptism, the Holy Spirit and many more. This will tell you about Baptism and what happens. Have you been baptised?

 

Krystal - What Colour is Camouflage? Wonderopolis

Today I did another Wonderopolis activity. I chose to do 'What colour is Camouflage'. I chose this activity because, I wanted to learn about it. I learned that camouflage clothes has become popular in public and other places. I have done my Wonderopolis activity on a template.

 

Krystal - Wonderopolis Template Activity

Today I haven't done Wonderopolis in a while, so I thought I might as well do it. Wonderopolis is a site that is likearticles but answering questions and many more. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Worlds Ocean Day

Worlds Ocean Day

WALT: Analyse media with an open but critical eye, to tell our own opinions. 

Today for Inquiry, we TWP 4 (Te Wairua Pakiki 4) read an article about Worlds Ocean Day. Worlds Ocean Day is about the sea and how people should treat it. My class and I did a little activity on Worlds Ocean Day. We did a google drawing with key words and key pictures. We also did an activity about questions for you to answer and for words that we don't know. Here is my activity!

Monday 28 June World Oceans Day 

Pg 28 Questions: 

What is the Gulf Stream well-known as? 

What are the shallowest areas of the oceans are known as?

When was the World Oceans Day created on?

Glossary:

Gulfs - Gulf is a portion that penetrates the land.

Continent - Continent is a land that is on one of the tectonic plates.

Essential - Something that is important.

Pg 29 Questions:

Where are the several mountain ranges?

What do the scientists divide the ocean into?

What is the uppermost layer, or one closest to the surface, called?

Glossary:

Climates - Climates are the weather conditions.

Replenished - Replenished is to fill something up again.

Sustainably - In a way that can be maintained at a certain rate or level.

Krystal - Maths Prototec

 Today for our Maths starter, we did Prototec that was timed. My score was 80%. I had a lot wrong, and I need to improve on that. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Prototec Timed

 This morning TWP (Te Wairua Pakiki) did Prototec for Maths. We all had to make it timed so that the questions would be fast, and to see how well we can do. I forgot to take a screenshot of the test. Here is my activity!

Krystal - Tōku Whakapapa

Today for Maori, we had to introduce our family members. Basically it is like a family tree, but saying it in Maori. Here is my screencastify!

Māmā/Whaea - Mother
Pāpā/Matua - Father
Koro/Koroua - Grandfather
Kūia - Grandmother
Tuākana - Older sibling (of the same gender)
Teina - Younger sibling (of the same gender)
Tungāne - Brother (opposite gender)
Tuahine - Sister (opposite gender)