Speaches

 SO this week was speeches . And we were learning in our writing how to write a persuasive piece and write the right sort of  paragraphs for this sort of writing. Obviously we learnt how to do this because we had to say our speech in front of our class. For this task we read our cameo for this week and wrote down the things we thought were most important for our writing. Like emotive language ect. I found it very challenge to write my speech but I enjoyed  presenting it.Please comment if you like speeches or not. Matewa.

Having a growth mindset is best 

Kia ora, ni hou,Malo Lelei,and hello this is my speech about why Having a growth mindset is best

Do you know what a growth mindset is? Or Do you always know you're gonna Come first and smash everyone or know your gonna come last and don't even try in an activity? Or do you even play differently to everyone else Like having goals to reach with things you find hard and being an awesome team player? Well I firmly believe that everyone should have a Growth mindset.

First of all Having a growth mindset is much better when you are trying to Achieve  your goals. Say if I had a fixed mindset And I was trying to fly to the moon If you had a fixed mindset I would say something like “I could never do this and should just give up or instead, if I do this, I will become rich,famous and  own the world. like that's TOO big of an expectation. But if you had a growth mindset you would break it into baby steps and not worry about how famous and rich you get and only enjoy that you have achieved something that was impossible before now. 

Secondly, having a growth mindset is healthy and good for your body. I know that when you have a fixed mindset about, say Maths you become very  confused and lots of pressure is put on you. Sometimes you can even end up throwing a tantrum not just at home but at school too.And I When you do this you're stressed and it is not good for you body and everyone else around you to listen to.

Lastly, having a growth mindset makes everybody happy. You may be wondering how having a growth mindset makes people happy? Well it is very simple. When you have a growth mindset your happy and you bring a good mood . Which is what everybody wants. SO when your happy it makes other people smile

So I think Everybody should strive for a growth mindset because it helps achieve your goals,Makes your brain healthy and puts you and other people in a good mood. I have one question before I leave: what sort of mindset do you think I have?

Is mr wolf guilty?

 I am sure you have heard of the childhood story about a little red riding hood. Do you think Mr Wolf is guilty or do you think he is innocent. This week we have written a persuasive piece of why we think Mr Wolf is guilty and not guilty. I thought he was guilty. For this task has kind of merged between reading and writing. For our reading we had to write our plan on our chromebook.I found this really fun because the hole class had different opinions. I found it challenging to write my plan because I never really thought if he was guilty or not. We are writing in persuasive because speeches are coming up and are learning how to structure it. Please comment if you think he is guilty or not.

LEGO!

Do you have lego?I have LOTS of it. One of today's tasks was about lego and the history behind it. It was SO interesting I will link the videos at the end. For this task we watched the videos and dove deep into when lego was first created. After we had watched the video we got to do the fun stuff, choose our lego challenge and build it. I chose to make a bridge, And this took ages for me because I wanted to make a Big bridge. On the up side it looked cool but on the down side I was very tired. I wanted my bridge to look unique so for my river underneath instead of drawing or just adding a flat boring rivier I chose to dig out all of the blue blocks I could find in my lego box and added two sharks and a jet boat. Here is the links to the video and my colourful lego bridge History Behind lego bricks  History about lego

 

Saint Joseph

 Today For RE we had to draw our school saint (which was for each house colour). Mine is Saint Joseph. Before we got onto the fun stuff we looked at a slide that had all of the school saints on it which told us what they were the patron saints of. I really liked this task because I like drawing /making things on google drawings. I found it challenging to get everything to look human like and it took me multiple time’s to draw the robe and hat. One of the last things we had to do was to add speech bubbles witch answered the questions that the teacher asked us to answer. Please comment on what I did and what you  think I could change.

Some words you can learn in tongan

 One of today's tasks was about tonga because it tongan language week.For this task we had to watch a video teaching us some easy tongan words. Our create was to make a slideshow teaching you some easy tongan words. I really enjoyed learning some new tongan words. Though I already knew how to say Hello because during the role we say hello in different languages. One new thing I learnt was to add a voice recording of me saying the words but I found that very difficult. Please comment if you already know some of these and some that I could maybe add on. Here are my slides. 

Sea Turtles

Sea turtles are very cool creatures and we have been learning and researching about them. I found some very cool facts like did you know that Sea turtles are omnivores? Well if you don't know that you may not know most of the facts on my poster. One other thing we had to do for this task we had to draw a sea turtle but we watched a video to help us. I really enjoyed making the poster and drawing the turtle though I struggled to find interesting facts. Please comment if you like my poster and drawing.

The Escape Room

 The escape room. This week there was a special task made by one of our students, Kylah. I really enjoyed playing her escape room because it was based on many different subjects: math,reading and some riddles. In her escape room there were creatures hiding everywhere and there were many different species like spiders,birds,snakes etc. I really enjoyed Kylahs escape room and she has really inspired me. Though I found it challenging to move around in the game. Here is some of the animals I found in the escape room 

Cats Vs Dogs

 Today’s task was a fun task about cats and dogs. For this task we had to choose sides. I found this hard because I love both pets and they are both very cute. Before we started we watched a video about our anima and collected information for why we think they are better but there was a twist to it we had to do both sides of the argument and put down why they were better. going to be a main template to help us right now with persuasive peace. The teacher asked us to highlight which animal we were going to be doing in our persuasive piece. I enjoyed this because I love cats and dogs but I also found it hard to choose between them. Please comment witch animal you think is better

More fun science

Today we were tasked with two science experiments.  But I didn't have some of the material for one of them so I just did the pepper and dishwashing soap experiment. For this task we had to watch a video and follow the instructions. Our instructions were to get some pepper,dishwashing liquid, a plate and some water. Here's how you do this experiment

First you get a plate and put some water on it, not more than the rim. secondly you sprinkle pepper over all of the water. Touch it once then put your finger in the dishwashing liquid and place your finger in the water again. What happened the first time? And then what happened last? Here is the link to the video and me trying the experiment.