Wrighting to entertain

This is my second day on writing topic and Im already ahead of a lot of people :) This time I decided to do an anecdote ( short funny,amusing real life story) 

-Hope you enjoy

Writing

This term for writing we got given a slide to complete and the first activity I chose was the poem slide there are many more to do but this is my first activity.

-I hope you enjoy my rhyming poem:)

Maths | Maths buddy

Today for maths buddy I completed a task called Observed and Expected Frequencies. It is all about statistics/chance. You have to have over 80% to be able to go onto the next task. These questions are very easy I bet an 8 year old can figure it out as well. I hope you come across this task so you can figure it out as well. 

-Taylor

Figure it out

This week for maths rotation Riley and I did figure it out. We have to do activities Riley and I pick the "Rock, paper, scissors possibility."

How to play

1. play rock, paper, scissors
2. while you play with your partner record on a piece of paper how many times they put down rock, paper or scissors.
3.Write down on your piece of paper what was the possibility of your friend putting down a rock, paper or scissors.

This is a great possibility game that you can play with your friends or family. I hope you play this because it is educational and full of fun.


Here are our results

Riley- 6/paper 1/scissors 3/rock add it all up you get 10 points

Taylor- 2/paper 6/scissors 2/rock add it all up you get 10 points add 10+10=20 points. 

Flow chart

This is Briea and I's flow chart, We learnt about this topic because we are learning about algorithms. Next week we will use this system to create a game.

FIO (Figure it out)

Figure it out

This week for figure it out I did a worksheet called "Find a pattern". What you have to do you may ask, you have to find the pattern in the number and write it in, here is an example:

Madison has started collecting football cards. On Tuesday she collected 2 cards and on Wednesday she received 4 cards, while on Thursday she collected 8 cards. If she continues at this rate, how long will it be before she has over 100 cards? 

Day	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Cards	2	4	8	16	32	64	128

After 7 days she will have over 128 football cards

I really enjoy figure it out because it is always a mystery and you don't know what activity you will set yourself next time. 

Halloween activities | 4

  Halloween

This week for Halloween we had 4 activities to do. My 4th activity was the card game. How to play, you get a set of cards and they all have pictures that match up with any other cards, Pick cards and  put them in the story while someone did the cards I had to  write the story on a doc and this is what we came up with.

It once was a silent misty day a knight rode along his horse to go to the haunted house to find the treasure. The knight approached the gate he dropped his cross necklace the gates opened he slowly walked up the misty path and found the treasure chest but it was surrounded by sharp black thorns. And along came the haunted houses protector the dragon. The knight was frightened he rode away with his horse and hid away in a cave…

To be continued…..

Global Warming Letter

Global Warming

WALT:Write a persuasive/creative/informative text in response to the article about Global Warming in Kiribati.

Global warming

12 Joyce Crescent

Grey Main School
Taylor
9/10/2019


Dear Sir/Madam

Kia Ora e hoa, I’m no stranger here it’s just me a year 7 school girl Taylor I am not here to complain I am here to persuade you to do more about global warming.

Global warming has caused a lot of trouble throughout the world like Kiribati. Their island is going under water because many many years ago in 2002 Global Warming began for them and even today their island is going under water. The people there love their island dearly but they have to leave or they will drown on their island. The Islander’s are travelling to Fiji because, you know why, it’s drowning. They have really made Kiribati their home and I want to keep it that way, can we please help them get their island back.


Global warming was caused because of greenhouse gases (usually carbon dioxide) in the atmosphere which warms the ice caps (the reason they are called that is because they are at the bottom and top of the world and they are Greenland and Antarctica). The snow melts and turns into water, which means that the water level rises. The water has surrounded their island and if someone walks around the island it only takes 5 minutes.


Do you think we should do something about Kiribati’s island? Well I do. I feel bad for the innocent people that did nothing to deserve this terrible event.


Please consider my idea and contact me.
Yours sincerely
Taylor

P.S. Check out this link to find out more about “global warming”

Maths| Figure it out

This week for maths rotation my group and I did figure it out. We have to do activities Rowan and I pick the "Rock, paper, scissors possibility."

How to play

1. play rock, paper, scissors
2. while you play with your partner record on a piece of paper how many times they put down rock, paper or scissors.
3.Write down on your piece of paper what was he possibility of your friend putting down a rock, paper or scissors.

This is a great possibility game that you can play with your friends or family. I hope you play this because it is educational and full of fun.


Here are our results

Rowan- 6/paper 10/scissors 4/rock add it all up you get 20 points.

Taylor- 8/paper 7/scissors 6/rock add it all up you get 20 points.

Mathematical DLO | enlargements

This is my DLO about enlargements read and learn.

Wearable arts 2019

Wearable Art 2019


This year is Wearable art and the theme is "The future but with a touch of the west coast" The picture that you see up the top is the design that inspires my group. And my group this year is Hannah F, Briea C and I, Taylor W, and together we are the futuristic forests. I hope we do really good and work together really well. I hope you enjoyed see you next time.

PrEP 2019

PrEP 2019
 This year for PrEP we are making dream catchers and bookmarks. In my group we have CEO Hannah, secretary Rhys, quality control Rowan, treasurer(s) Briea and Junior then we have me CO CEO and together we are the "PrEP peeps!! To make the dream catchers you need string, beads, glue and lace. To make the bookmarks you need paper/card, glue and googly eyes. I hope we make the most money and work together, get along and work really well. I hope you enjoyed this.  See you next time.

Co-ordinates DLO

How the earth was made | The earth series | 2

10/8/2019

IALT (I am learning to): Learn more about the solar system and planet earth. And how to stop terrible things from happening.

How the earth was made

have you ever wondered how the earth was made? well, I have and a few days ago I found out how the earth was made, I thought about who to share my learning with and my third or fourth idea was on my blog! so here is how the earth was made.

Did you know 4.6 billion years ago an enormous cloud of gas and dust called a solar nebular swirls in the milky way galaxy a new solar system was born our solar system to be exact. In a process known as the conservation of angular momentum. 

Gravity collapses the cloud turning in into a flattened spinning disk. 

The powerful gravity pulls most of the gas into the centre of the disk and this gas gradually condenses coalesces and ultimately forms our sun. Leftover gas and dust swirls around and slowly starts clumping together. 

Now the strong solar winds blast outward from the sun blowing lighter materials like hydrogen and helium far out heavier materials like dust and rocks resist the solar wind and remain close to the centre and it's this heavy material that begins clumping together eventually forming the prototypes of the inner rocky planets including planet earth. It's the earths dense rocky core that forms first, heavy materials like iron and nickle gravitate to the centre where as lighter materials drift to the outside eventually forming the earth's crust. 

Over millions of years the new earth begins trapping stray gas and it's powerful gravity and this gas eventually becomes our sacred life-saving atmosphere. But suddenly around 1 billion years after the earth is formed Theia a large mars-sized body floating freely in the new solar system crashes into earth causing near catastrophic damage, millions of pieces of the infant planet blast outward into space, some pieces were trapped in the earth's gravity ultimately becoming our moon. 

Today comets are rare in the inner solar system only appearing a few times every several decades but during the early primordial times comets were very abundant throughout the entire solar system it's believed these icy comets colliding with a young earth for the initial cause of water on our planets surface.

Of course since then earth has become the pleasant life bearing planet we know as home. We enjoy an abundance of vegetation, water, tools and technologies. 

We live a safe and protected life under our atmosphere, that is until the sun turns into a red giant and incinerates the entire planet and wipes out all evidence that earth was an existing planet, But not to worry we've got 5 billion years to figure that out and we can discuss this in another lesson.

Kia ora fellow teachers and students I see you've come back for another lesson about the earth. Just a quick question do you enjoy my interesting facts about the earth? let me know in the comments below. 

I  hope you enjoyed today's lesson I also hope you learnt something new today and every other day. Also in the comments write what you would like to learn or hear more from me in the future or tomorrow:)

Your sincerely

-Taylor

3 interesting facts about the earth | The earth series | 1

9/8/2019

IALT (I am learning to): Learn more about the solar system and planet earth. And how to stop terrible things from happening.

3 Interest Facts About Our Planet Earth

Planet Earth. That shiny blue marble that has fascinated humanity since they first began to walk across its surface. And why shouldn’t it fascinate us? In addition to being our home and the place where life as we know it originated, it remains the only planet we know of where life thrives. And over the course of the past few centuries, we have learned much about Earth, which has only deepened our fascination with it.

But how much does the average person really know about the planet Earth? You’ve lived on Planet Earth all of your life, but how much do you really know about the ground underneath your feet? You probably have lots of interesting facts rattling around in your brain, but here are 10 more interesting facts about Earth that you may, or may not know.'

1. Plate tectonics keep the earth comfortable:

Earth is the only planet in the solar system with "plate tectonics" So basically the outer crust is broken into regions called tectonic plates. Tectonic plates float above the magma interior of the earth and can move against one another. Tectonic resurfacing and geological activity such as earthquakes,volcanic eruptions and mountain-buildings are ignited when two of the many tectonic plates collide one plate will subduct (go underneath another) and when they pull apart fresh outer crust will be allowed to form. over long period of times the remnants of this life, rich in carbon are carried back into the interior of the earth and recycled. This pulls carbon out of the atmosphere, which makes sure we don't  suffer a runaway greenhouse affect   which is what happened to Venus.Without the action of the tectonic plates there would be no way to recycle carbon and the earth will become an overheated hellish place something the "Global warming" but I won't get into much of that because we can save that for another lesson on earth.

2. Earth is mostly Iron,oxygen and silicon:

If you could separate the earth out into piles of different types of materials you'd get 32.1% of iron 30.1% of oxygen 15.1% of silicon and 13.9% of magnesium. Of course most of this iron is actually located at the core of the Earth. If you could actually get down and sample the core, it would be 88% iron. And if you sampled the Earth’s crust, you’d find that 47% of it is oxygen.

3. The earth's molten iron core creates a magnetic field: 

The earth is basically an enormous magnet, with poles at top and bottom near to the actual geographic poles. The magnetic field extends thousands of kilometres out from the surface of the earth forming a region called magnetosphere scientists think that this magnetic field is generated by the molten outer core of the earth, where heat creates convection motions of conducting materials to generate electric currents. be grateful for the magnetosphere, 

without it particles from the sun's solar wind would hit the earth directly. Exposing the surface of the planet to significant amounts of radiation. Instead of the magnetosphere channels the solar wind around the Earth, protecting us from harm. Scientists have also theorized that Mars’ thin atmosphere is due to it having a weak magnetosphere compared to Earth’s, which allowed solar wind to slowly strip it away.

And that ladies and gentlemen was my really long informative 3 interesting facts about the earth if you would like to see more I would love to post more about the earth not only to teach me but to teach you guys as well. I hope you have all learnt something today in my 3 paged essay because I know I have. This has got nothing to do with school it is a post about something that I have learnt or already known and I want to share them publicly. 

I hope you learnt some new thing about our planet!

-Taylor

 

Book review | Secret Seven | Book 1

Secret Seven

Book 1

Author: Enid Blyton
Illustrator: Tony Ross

Genre: Fiction

Blurb: 

7 kids, 1 man and 1 snowman wait what! yes you heard me correctly a snowman well thats not the point the point is this book is the best book to persuade you to be an outdoor explorer. This book can also help you make more friends and could encourage you to be an explorer and make your own secretive group.

My opinion:

I love this book because it has made me feel free and outdoorsy and more active! This book can be great for people that want to start a group called the significant six or something in between those lines.

Ratings:
I would rate this book out of 10, 1000000/10
This book would be rated for 8+

I hope this book review has persuaded you to buy and read the book series "Secret seven" by Enid Blyton!  

Novel study word find | Secret Seven

This week for novel study I made a word find. If you want to see more novel study make sure to keep updated with my blog!!

The Big Jump | Word find

This is my word find for the book "The big jump"

The big jump | Sandra's perspective

I woke up today feeling the way I always do. Today is my first day monitoring the flying fox activity the highest activity throughout the whole entire camp. The first three people come on up and then fly their way down. Then Big Daddy comes up I put him in the safety harness he complained a little about how tight it was and then how lose it was so I explained to him how it had to be tight so when he goes down he doesn’t fall out and hurt himself. Big daddy is so scared he nearly backed out “I never have a student or anyone back out” Mr Jackson has already sent up the next participant Little Timmy and he sees Big daddy struggling to go down the flying fox. Little Timmy asks me “has anyone done a tandem jump today” “No” I say confused “why” I say. I put Little Timmy in the harness with Big Daddy and they went down at the same time. I can’t see much because they are going. I wait for a while and then I realise that all their weight is going to pull them down. They hit the tires at the bottom and I don’t know what happened to them so I just moved on!

Jake Bailey.

Rubbish DLO

Today I made a DLO about me picking up rubbish around the school in the weekend!

I hope this DLO inspires you to do something like this at school or anywhere!

Maths reflection term 2

Term 2 maths reflection

This Term (Term 2) we have done some amazing math
lessons we learnt about Graphs, Statistics, Angles and
loads more.

We learnt about angles

I learnt about the different degrees and how to tell the different
angles! Angles is very useful if you are building a building or
something.

We learnt about Graphs and statistics

Statistics is different types of graphs like side by side,
pie ,stem and leaf, bar graphs and heaps more. Statistics
is a very useful thing if you need to collect data but you
have to make sure it is not biased!! 

And that is my maths rotation from term 2!

Critical report: Slave for day

Slave for a day

Slave for a day this is my edit for slave for a day.

This book is a part of the school journal series.

White hat:

Slave for day was written 2008 of November.

This book is also a short school play.

Black hat:

If I was to write this play I would add lines for Mrs Gibbs and Natalie. I would also make it a little bit longer.

Green hat:

Made the book a little bit longer and change some of
the names to the characters like Jevees how in the world
do you pronounce that?

Yellow hat:

Changing some of the characters names would be
helpful for the little kids and some seniors to pronounce
some of the names like Jevees that is an advanced name to pronounce. 

Blue hat:

????

Red hat:

I feel very happy reading a book like this. It is a
familiar genre to read.