Wonderful Water Cycle

 Hey Bloggers! How is lockdown treating you? For a Friday task, I had to make a diagram of the water cycle and where the water ends up. 

This task relates to my class's inquiry on water; we have been researching and finding out about the water cycle and what impact water has on the environment. We even watched two shows about water! our inquiry is leading to making wearable art based on water. I did this diagram on Google Drawings, have you used Google Drawings before? If you have, do you enjoy using it or do you use something else instead of Google Drawings?

Have you ever seen a diagram of the water cycle before? If you have, did it look the same as mine? I found it difficult to fit in all the words and not make it seem crowded. Do you enjoy learning about this? I find it interesting the sun is so hot it turns water into steam. Did you know that water can be a liquid, a steam, and a solid? If there is anything I can improve on please comment below.

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Excellent Egg Drop

 Hey Bloggers on Wednesday we learned about STEAM.  STEAM is all about science and teamwork. In the video below you can learn all about it.

  

We had to drop an egg from a height without it breaking. The teachers gave us some materials and we had to protect the egg with those. After we did this we had to fill out some slides about the outcome of our egg and how well we did as a team. 

Have you ever learned about STEAM before? If you have, did you like learning about it? Have you ever done an egg drop challenge? If you have, what materials have you used? If there is anything I can improve on please comment below and tell me.

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Perfect Pixel Art

 Hey Bloggers, this term my school is learning the production, Aladdin Junior. While we aren't practising we have some activities we need to complete. One activity was to make pixel art of our favourite character. I didn't know what character was my favourite so I chose Princess Jasmine. I haven't done pixel art before; this is my first time so it took me a while.

Who is your favourite Aladdin character? Have you ever done pixel art? If you have do you enjoy it? I think it's quite fun. Do you think I used the right colours for Princess Jasmine? It was a bit hard to choose the right colours. If there is anything I can improve on please comment below (I found it a bit hard to come up with a title so please let me know if you have any ideas).

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Te Tiriti o Waitangi: A History

 Hey Bloggers, this week we are just finishing off our study of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Today we had to make a timeline of important key events that happened concerning the treaty, what lead up to it and what followed. Sorry if you don't understand what is happening, I was trying to fit it all in. In case you don't understand what is happening throughout the time line here is some quick bullet points that sum up what I was trying to say.

• Māori were living in Aotearoa to themselves 

• All of land and natural resources belonged to Māori

• 1769 Captain Cook arrived in NZ

• 1790 pāheka came to hunt seals and whales, cut trees and flax to sell elsewhere. Pakeha Missionaries spread Christianity across NZ

• By 183o several hundred Pakeha came to live in what they called NZ

• 1831 - chiefs wrote to King of England and asking for protection from the French

• 28 October 1835 james Busby presented document to chiefs at Waitangi - the Declaration of Independence 

• By 1840 52 chiefs had signed declaration of independence

• Late January, 1840 William Hobson arrived in Bay of Islands

• 6 Feb 1840 some chiefs ready to Sign Treaty

• Over the next 7 months, in 1840, over 700 chiefs ‘signed’ the Treaty of Waitangi

• Māori and British fought the NZ land wars 1845-1872

• 1865 Māori lost land through the Native Court System

• 1906 James Carroll native Minister said time to help Māori who have lost land due to British people’s actions

• 1975 Waitangi Tribunal set up to sort out disputes

• 1985 rules changes so that historic claims could be fought (land that was taken way back in the past!)

Do you know much about this time line? If there is anything that I can improve about the time line please tell me! Do you think that the government did the right thing opening the tribunal? I think it was a pretty good idea, it is good that they want to fox the wrongs that happened. Please comment below if there is anything that I can improve on.

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

A Side to Every Story

 Hey Bloggers, in class we have been studying the Treaty of Waitangi. Lately we have been focusing more on what the Maori and the white people would have been feeling and experiencing during the treaty signing and the wars. After we researched this we had to make a Voki about how someone would feeling during these times. 

I found it a bit difficult to choose a good voice and person. There wasn't really any proper Maori outfits to use.In the end I used an Indian voice, it doesn't really sound Maori but it works. The skin colour was a bit difficult to get right, I don't know if it's correct but I tried my best. In the end I filmed it on my phone because that was the easiest way to download it.

 I tried really hard to get the video on blogger but it just wouldn't work. To watch the video click here for the link.

Who do you think you would write about, the Maori or the white people? What do you think these people would be feeling? If you were in there position what would you be feeling? Have you used Voki before? if you have did you enjoy using it? Do you use Voki much, if you use it at all.

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Tricky Trip

 Hey Bloggers, in class we are learning about the voyage by boat that the pioneers took to get to Aotearoa, what happened when they got to Aotearoa and what history making moments accrued because of the pioneers finding a new home in Aotearoa. 

We had to make a poster about this with a map what way the boat went to get to Aotearoa. It was a bit difficult to make the map on google draw because the mouse is a bit funny with the tool that you use. It was partly difficult to make but it would out in the end.

Have ever learned about this? If you have did you find it interesting? I find it intriguing what happened and how it is still effecting us today. Have you ever heard a story similar to the boat ride to Aotearoa? I have. If there is anything I can improve on please comment below!

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Marvellous Maori Culture

 Hey Bloggers, something else we have been learning about is some things in the maori culture. Some things we researched were Tā Moko, a maori tatttoing, Korowai, a maori cloak and Haka, a maori tribal dance. For each of these things we had to compare past and present. I found it a it hard to research the korowai, there wasn't that much information on them.

Have you ever worn a Korowai? I haven't, if you have what does it feel like to wear one? If there is anything i can do to improve the blog post please comment below.

Bye Bloggers Soph :)

Full of fun Ki o Rahi

 Hey Bloggers another thing we researched was the game Ki o Rahi. We had to research the legend behind it and the basic game rules. We also got to play it, it was really fun! I found it a bit hard to fit all the writing on to the poster, sorry if you can't read it that well! It is a bit confusing that the legend dosen't have anything to do with the game. The version on this poster is shortened, if you want to read the whole story click here. 

Have you ever played Ki o Rahi? If I haven't explained the rules well enough please tell me! If there is anything I can improve on please comment below and tell me!

Bye Bloggers, Soph (:

Past and Present

 Hey Bloggers in class we have been researching things about NZ. This Blog post is about  the difference and changes in the Hāngī. I found it a bit difficult explaining the modern kind of Hāngī. I think it is quite interesting that people came up with somethings like this in the olden days. It was a lot more hard work to cook their Hāngī then cooking our food in the oven. 

Have you ever had a Hāngī? I did but I can't really remember it. If there is anything I can do better please comment below.

Bye Bloggers, Soph.

Sky High

 Hey Bloggers, in inquiry we have been launching plastic bottle rockets. My team is called BUSH we came 2nd in my class. It went round about 60m but went way farther on the practices. Then we had to make a video about making our rocket. This is my groups video

Have you made a plastic rocket before?

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Amazing Auroras!

Hey Bloggers for the last day of school we did an art piece on the Southern lights. The Southern lights are a natural phenomenon that lights up the night sky in different forms of reds, blues and greens. It is caused by solar winds that come from off the sun and nitrogen and oxygen atoms colliding, releasing amazing colours called Auroras. Here is my art piece

If you want to find out how I did this here are the instructions

For the art we had to rip a piece of paper so that it looked like a mountain range and stuck it on the bottom of a black piece of paper, then we put a bit of white paint on the end of a paint brush and and flicked the paint brush slightly, making stars in the night sky. Then we used chalk pastel and drew little lines of chalk in a pattern and brushed the chalk remains on to the black paper. We sprayed it with hair spray so that it stayed.

Do you like this kind of art? Have you ever seen a real life Aurora? Would you want to?

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Awesome Art

Hey Bloggers in Inquiry we have been researching global issues and I decided to dive deeper in to gender inequality. Something that I found really unfair was that there are hardly any CEO girls in the world. So I decided to do my art piece about it. 

  I decided to do a collage because I love doing collages and also I thought I would look awesome. What's your favourite part of it?

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Comedic Comic

Hey Bloggers, we are learning about irony! Did you know there are three kinds of irony verbal irony, situational irony and dramatic irony. Verbal irony is when someone says "We're having great weather!" when in reality it's pouring. Situational irony is when for example, someone go's to a football game decked out in red and shouts blue, blue. Dramatic irony is when a actor doesn't know what's happening but the audience does. We had to do a comic about irony. 

 

What kind of ironic comic would you make?

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)

Awesome ASCII

Hey Blpggers! Today we are learning about Binary and ASCII. 

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 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! 

This is the process I went through to figure it out:

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?

Bye Bloggers, Soph :)