My Happy How To Cook A Hangi l Term 4

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This week is a very big week, we have sailing kapa haka and athletics, but as some tasks instead of our normal work we have been given the task to explain how hangi have changed over the years, as apart of our inquiry. What do you think? Have you ever cooked a hangi? Thats it for this week bloggers see you next blog post :)  

My Lucky Leaders Course l Term 4

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This week was very busy but lots of fun, for the first two days of the term I had the opportunity of going to an amazing leader course, over the two days we faced lots of trust challenges communications challenges, but we also spent time inside learning about the 6 habits of being a great leader, which are proactive, not reactive, put first things first and so much more. At the end of the course we had to make a speech on our experience and challenges, I think everyone did an amazing job if you want to see my speech please comment, also comment if you have done anything like this I would love to know. Anyway, that's it for this week bloggers see you next time. 

My super sign langue video l Term 3

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As you know we have tec on Wednesdays, so while we have spare time we focus on something different every week, as you should know this week is signed lanugue week, here is some history about sign laungue, NZSL became an official language in New Zealand in April 2006. New Zealand Sign Language is based on British Sign Language (BSL), and some consider it a dialect or a combination of British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language. There are 62.5% similarities found in British Sign Language and NZSL, compared with 33% of NZSL signs found in American Sign Language. NZSL uses the same 2 handed manual alphabet as British and Auslan.NZSL was created by Deaf people for Deaf people. The language was created with no connection to the spoken or written word.NZSL became an official New Zealand language in April 2006. The parliamentary bill to approve was passed on April 6, 2006. The bill was formalised, on 10 April 2006. Here is a video of me signing my name.

I have technical difficulties so I will try and upload the video later

My brilliant business l term 3

 

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as you know every Wednesday we have tec so while we're at school we get given an activity to complete, this week we had to pitch our own website, and explain how we think it would go and what it is about. Check out my slide to see what my business is about. What do think? What would your business be?? Anyway that's it for this week bloggers see you next blog post. 

My Perfect PSA l Term 3

 

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This Wednesday we have been learning about coding, so our task this Wednesday was to create a PSA on a coding program called https://www.codesters.com go check it out to learn more about coding, anyway, we had to come up with an issue around the world or in NZ, my issue was Pollution and plastic in the ocean, it is about a fish telling you to click on the litter, and then the litter moves into the bin. What do you think is there anything I can improve on?? anyway that's it for this week bloggers, see you next blog post.

My super Samoan Classroom l Term 3

 

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For the last few Wednesdays when we have been at tec, we were given the opportunity to learn about the Samoan language, each Wednesday we would learn something new and then create! This is an interactive classroom if you click on and the item it will take you to one of my Samoan activities. What do you think? what was your favourite and why? anyway, that's it for this week bloggers, so you next blog post.

My Super Samoan Greetings l Term 3

 

 

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I hope everyone's school holidays were fun and existing, what did you get up too? anyway on Wednesdays while some of us go to tec in the morning and then in the afternoon, we have the chance to learn about Samoan, this Wednesday we were learning about Samoan greetings.

My Magnificent Matariki/Southern lights l Term 2

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It has been an extremely long term, some of us count this term as a 23-week term since term one we have been non-stop, we did get a break but we were obviously stuck inside most of the time. For the last day of the term, we were given the task of creating and learning about the southern stars also known as the Aroua. An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, usually of greenish colour but sometimes red, pink, purple & blue. This natural phenomenon usually occurs in areas known as the 'auroral zone' near the poles of the Arctic in the north and Antarctic in the south. In Southern hemisphere latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora australis. Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere. Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which get pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields. As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights. So here my Southern lights art work.

My Wonderful Working out Problems l Term 2

 My Wonderful Working out Problems 

Working out problems backwards is really quite simple once you get the hang of it, it is simply reversing the question, for example, say Start with the end of a problem, and work Step By Step toward the beginning to get a Solution, Write down each step as you get closer to figuring out the Problem, And Finally, The last Step will Verify that the Method Works and then you should get the Answer. Also If we were to Subtract a Number we would add, If I Multiplied a Number we would Divide If I Divided we would Subtract so this is Reversed. 

For our task we had to create a word problem for you, and you need to work it out, in the backwards method, here is mine, I would love to see your answer as well. Did you find this challenging?

My Marvellous Matariki book l Term 2

https://read.bookcreator.com/NerpOEENPOPvxhtuxzfL3oMcUh72/2besOLTrTsGOcVbxVAAvGg

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This term for Maori, we have been working on many things, but since Matariki is coming up, we have been given the task to create a book or some other task. Obviously, I choose the book, but I was also given help from India-Grace. Make sure to read my book by clicking on the link, What do you think? Did you like how we changed up the story? and what was your Favorite part? Other than that, that is it for this week bloggers, see you next blog post.

Thanks Jessica :)

Interesting Horror Introduction l Term 2

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Starting in term 3 we will be making video essays for our literacy, but first, we needed to learn about all genre, such as Horror, Adventure, Sci-Fi and much more. This week we have been focusing on horror and after learning and watching a movie about it we were given the task of creating a creepy horror introduction to a horror story. Here is mine.

Driving home from my fathers funeral, the rain was pouring down and it was late, but all I could seem to think about is what would happen now, I am now 18 and I will be moving away soon, and unfortunately I think my mum is becoming an alcoholic, she has quit her job and no just sits on the couch and drinks, I am terribly worried and am second-guessing about going to university. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”, BOOM CRASH BANG, all I could feel is my head pounding, as my eyes open and close with blurry sight, I look over to see my mum in the driver seat, with blood pouring out of her head, then I looked out the window to see that we were slowly sinking into a river, but not just any river, strangely it was the river my father tragically died and drowned in, this fact just made it ever so creepy. A tear rolled down my face as I realised I could be dying the same exact place that my father died, and right after his funeral, I soon start to become sleepy and pass out.  

While passed out I saw many things but the most interesting was that I could see my father drowning in the river, but the thing was he did not die in the river he seemed to calmly walk out as he had just been panicking and waving his arms around for help, he just walked out but then I realised he started making his way to me, and then opened up the car door and carried me to safety, but he did not save my mother, because after he carried me to safety, a strange red figure in the sky picked him up as if he was a puppet. I woke up from my sleep and realised my dream may have not been a dream, because as I looked around, I was not in the car anymore, and was on the riverbank far from the car.

What do you think? Have you ever created a video essay or maybe just even an essay, I would love to know. Anyway that's it for this week see you next blog post.

Brilliant Binary & ASCII l Term 2

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This week on Wednesday we have been learning about Binary, Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers.  You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself!  Try watching this video to give it a go yourself! ASCII is a set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard).  I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code!  Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my image below! Here is my progress.

What do you think?  Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII?  Could you have a try for yourself?  Can you work out how to write my initials in ASCII from the pattern above?

What do you think?  Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII?  Could you have a try for yourself?  Can you work out how to write my initials in ASCII from the pattern above?

My wonderful Website/Essay l Term 2

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This term for literacy we have been focusing on the novel or the film from the wonderful wizard of Oz, after we had finished learning and taking lots of notes about it, our task was to create a website/essay about the film, we talked about the themes, characters and symbols, and once we were finished we made a site to put or essay on. Here is mine ...
https://sites.google.com/marshland.school.nz/wizard-of-oz-l-jessica-kinsman/home

I would love to know what you think, because this took a lot of time and effort, also what is your favourite part, theme, character, or symbol that u liked the most. That's it for this week :)

My Great Global issues art l term 2

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This term we are focusing on global issues, and on Tuesday we had a look at some art/photos, about global issues, our task was to pick one that spoke to us and then write an explanation on it, and how it related to us, here is mine, hope you like it.

What do you think, can you relate to any global issues? comment

My Cool Comic Strip l Term 2

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This term for inquiry we have been focusing on our global issues, but before we got deeper into global issues we have been looking at the irony, and what kind of irony there is. The irony comes in many forms, but there are three categories that they mainly come under, Situational Irony, Dramatic Inorny and Sarcastic irony. Situational irony is the opposite of what you think will happen, for example, say someone was carrying a very large cake and trips and falls into the cake, but it turns out that he is a professional cake carrier, so you would expect him not to fall over, that is  Situational irony. Dramatic Irony is where you can see what is going to happen but the actor or person does not see it, for example, say you are watching a scary movie and you can see the villain about to jump out but the actor does not see, that is Dramatic irony. verbal irony is where you say something that is a joke, so you are being sarcastic, let's say that you are telling someone that the weather is great today, but it is actually pouring down with rain. Our Irony comic strip is based on dramatic irony, you can obviously see where boots is, but the actor does not see him. What do you think, Did you learn anything new about irony? Here are some links to the videos Dramatic Irony, Verbal Irony, Situational Irony

Literacy & Numeracy l Term 2

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This week for maths we have been focusing on our bricks and algebra, such as our algebra patterns, and we took a math test to see what bricks we needed to work on. Anyway, this is my algebra patterns slide, have you learnt anything about algebra?

And for literacy, we have been writing and creating our Websites/Essays, but mine is not finished so I do not have a link or photo.

My Colourful Koru Art

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This week for our Maori art we have been focusing on korus, so we have been given the task of creating a picture of a pastel koru and then die the background, here is mine. hope you like it, have you been learning about any Maori this week?
 

My Awesome angles of a triangle

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This week in maths we have been looking at angles and polygons. We have been determining the interior angles of shape as well as drawing some shapes using a compass- not a North/South compass, but a pair of compasses that you draw circles with. Here is a small quiz that we did to show our working.

And here are some examples of the work we have done on angles. 

Anyway, that's it for this week bloggers. Have you ever drawn anything other than a circle with a compass? Here is the link to a tutorial showing you how to do it. Have a go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkjqf1Jzq-A&feature=emb_title

My lucky Literacy and Numeracy task

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Yay, this week we are back at school, and get to hang out with our friends, and not with our family, as you know this week most of new Zealanders have gone back to work or back to school. As I usually do I have my literacy and numeracy work, but for this week I have written it all on my slide, so have a look at that for my explaining and questions of my tasks. anyway that's it for this week, see you next blog post :)

Friyay Fun Day tasks l COVID-19 Task

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As you all know we are finally moving into level two, and that means we go back to school, and see all of our friends, even though things will be different it is still very exciting. For today's Friday task, we had to complete 2 activity, the first one is a tec task and I decided to do the wearable arts one, for my second task a choose to do a task where you had to think and create if you lived on an animal, what do you think of my creation, is there any fun arts and crafts you have done over the Covid-19 break, comment if you have, anyway that's it for this week bloggers, see you next time :)

Our Fun Friday Tasks l COVID - 19 Task

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Sorry, it took me a little longer to post but that's because I was finishing something special off which you all saw in the slide, even though it is still no finished I thought you could all see my progress, but another activity I did was design my dream cake, what do you think? What's your dream cake? other than that I hoped you all had great mothers day and I will see you next weeks blog post :)

Friday Fun Day l COVID - 19 Task

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Yay its the end of the week, as you know by my tittle it is Friday today, and yes we
are still doing online school, but today we got to do something else other than
maths and literacy, today we were given the task, to create an ANZAC artwork
and guess what the emoji means. Did you get any of the emoji sayings right, if so
what ones did you get right? other than that, that's it for today's blog post see next Monday

My Excellent Emerald city painting l COVID - 19 task

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As you all know we are doing online school currently, yesterday I did forget to do yesterday's blog post, so I am using yesterdays slide as today's blog post. As you can see in our literacy class we are reading about the wizard of Oz and for our Friday class we were given the task of making an artwork about the wizard of oz, I choose the path to the emerald city. As you can see I used paper and paint for the flowers, gems for the castle and paint for the rest. What do you think? Have you ever read the Wonderful Wizard of Oz movie or book? other than that, that's it for today's blog post.

My Excellent Estimation and Measurement l Covid - 19 task

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Yay, its Friday! As you all now this week we started online school on Wednesday, and so far it has been calling but lots of fun, anyway for today maths blog post, we have got given the task by Mrs Davies to Estimate and then measure it, here is mine. What do you think, and how far can you fly a paper plane?? Anyway, that's this week's blog posts, see you next Monday bloggers.

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ SIMILARITIES l COVID - 19 Task

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As you know from yesterdays blog post we have started online learning, and for today´s literacy blog post, Mr Shaw our literacy teacher gave us the task of finding movies that have similarities to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, here is mine I hope you like it, have you watched any of these movies?

other than that I will see you tomorrows blog post.

Thanks, Jessica 

Terrific TimeTable l COVID - 19 Tasks

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This week we have started online school and today was our first day, I started at 9 in the morning for a call with my literacy teacher on google meets. We have got given the task of completing our own time table and here is mine. What do you think? Is there anything I could correct? (also I have realised I put week 4 instead of week 1 so don´t mind it)
Thanks, Jessica :)

My Brilliant Bingo Board Game l Covid-19 - Day 3 - Activity 3

Kia Ora bloggers and welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all Staying safe :) 
Since we are in lockdown, for the next few weeks we have an online school, and we have to complete 3 activities a day, that varies from maths, literacy, art, exercise, baking or cooking and other amazing activities. Take a look at mine what do you think??

My Super Symmetry l Covid-19 - Day 3 - Activity 2

Kia Ora bloggers and welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all Staying safe :) 
Since we are in lockdown, for the next few weeks we have an online school, and we have to complete 3 activities a day, that varies from maths, literacy, art, exercise, baking or cooking and other amazing activities. Take a look at mine what do you think??

My Perfect Puzzle l Covid-19 - Day 3 - Activity 1

Kia Ora bloggers and welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all Staying safe :) 
Since we are in lockdown, for the next few weeks we have an online school, and we have to complete 3 activities a day, that varies from maths, literacy, art, exercise, baking or cooking and other amazing activities. Take a look at mine what do you think??

My Lucky Lemonade Drawing l Covid-19 - Day 2 - Activity 2

Kia Ora bloggers and welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all Staying safe :) 
Since we are in lockdown, for the next few weeks we have an online school, and we have to complete 3 activities a day, that varies from maths, literacy, art, exercise, baking or cooking and other amazing activities. Take a look at mine what do you think??

Cool Kahoot l Covid-19 - Day 2 - Activity 1

Kia Ora bloggers and welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all Staying safe :) 
Since we are in lockdown, for the next few weeks we have an online school, and we have to complete 3 activities a day, that varies from maths, literacy, art, exercise, baking or cooking and other amazing activities. Take a look at mine what do you think??

Puzzling Puzzle l Covid-19 - Day 1 - Activity 2

Kia Ora bloggers and welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all Staying safe :) Since we are in lockdown, for the next few weeks we have an online school, and we have to complete 3 activities a day, that varies from maths, literacy, art, exercise, baking or cooking and other amazing activities. Take a look at mine what do you think??

Bedazzling Book Cover l Covid-19 - Day 1 - Activity 1

Kia Ora bloggers and welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all Staying safe :) Since we are in lockdown, for the next few weeks we have an online school, and we have to complete 3 activities a day, that varies from maths, literacy, art, exercise, baking or cooking and other amazing activities. Take a look at mine what do you think??

Donate to our Homeless

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For our inquiry this term we are learning how to connect with our community, we had to come up with some great ideas to help and connect with our community, our group decided to help the homeless by donating winter clothes such as scarfs, hats and blankets, but we need your help read our poster to find out more. What do you do for inquiry? Have you ever helped out the homeless? 

My Motivational Mean Median Mode l Scratch Creation

Kia Ora Bloggers, Welcome back to my blog, this week I did yet another Scratch Creation, except this time it was for maths. In davies maths we are learning about Mean, Median and Mode, and for our creative part, we were told to make a scratch creation to show you how to learn about mean median and mode. What do you think? What are you learning about in maths? Press the green flag to begin. 

My Super Samoan Scratch Creation

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On Wednesdays we have Tec and when we are not at tec we have the opportunity to learn a new langue, This year we are learning Samoan, and today we were given the task to Create a scratch animation showing us and you how to count to ten in Samoan. Click the green flag to have a look at mine, What do you think? Is there anything I can change? Do you learn any Langues? That´s it for this weeks blog post, see you next blog post bloggers.

My Beautiful Bar Graph

Kia Ora Bloggers and welcome back to my blog. How was your week? Mine was a pretty average week Nothing Really exciting happened. This week in Davies maths were learning about, all types of graphs, but this week we focused on Bar Graphs and analysing the data that we had. To start off we had to go into our hall and see how long we could do a wall sit, but we put it into three sections.

My Suspicious Sesting l NZ Writing

Kia ora Bloggers and welcome back to my blog, Did you play any sports in the weekend? I did, I had marching canterbury competition, and I and my team came 2nd out of 6 marching teams. Anyway in literacy this week we had to create a poem about a holiday that we have been on or not been on, it had to be six words, and six lines. Here it is:

I observed the leprechaun, in jail

I remember the leprechaun getting closer 

I looked in my Grandma’s eyes

The leprechaun pulled out a knife

Why did I follow my Grandma

The leprechaun did an Irish dance

My Fantastic Family Tree

Kia ora Bloggers and welcome back to yet another blog post. What have you been doing ur has been a normal week other than a few tests, Have you done any tests this week? Other than tests we have been learning about our family, and our Family Tree, we had to search and find out we where come from. That's it for today see you next time :)

My Super Salvation Army Poster

Kia ora Bloggers and welcome back to my blog, How was your week? Mine was a little bit boring, We had tests argggggg, but I think I did a pretty good job, Did you do any tests? but anyway for inquiry we were given the task to learn about a charity, then we had to create a poster about the Charity and why we would call, if in need. What do you think of my poster if there anything I could improve on? That's it for today bloggers see you next week :)

My Super Statistics

Kia ora Bloggers, and welcome back to my blog. How was your weekend? I had a great weekend, I went jet skiing with my family, It was so much fun, and on Saturday I had marching and me and my team came 1st!! but anyway last week we were given the challenge of creating a bar graph and here is mine:

I know right, it's not my best work is it, so our teacher Mrs Davies gave us a list that we had to check off to make our bar graph even better.

Now, this is so much better, I have spaces between the columns and a detailed Title and all of my writing is very neat. That's it for today, What do you think? Is there anything I can work on. See you next time, for another blog post.

My Perfect Portrait

Kia ora Bloggers, Hope you all had a great holiday, What did you do for the holidays? I did lots of fun stuff, I went to Picton, lake Brunner & Grey mouth, and in Picton I went jet skiing with my family it was so much fun. but now I had to end the fun because school has started and I have to start doing work. This week we made portraits, but not any old portrait we made bold and colourful ones that describe us, and we got our ideas from Romero Brito. Here is my portrait:

I hope you like my portrait, as you can see, I do and like lots of things, such as Netball, Pizza, ice cream and the beach. I also play netball too, and I also do marching which is a very strict sport that me and my team are 2 in canterbury and 4 in the south island, we are also about to do nationals which is in Auckland and very exciting. Thanks for reading and i will see you next week.