Great Growth Mindset Animation

 Kia Ora bloggers, how are you?

Two weeks ago in lock down we learnt more about a growth and fixed mindset so for the create task to show my learning I did growth mindset animation in the animation I showed what it is like to have a growth mindset 

Our goal was to  use knowledge from text to combine with new idea (own and others) to come up with new thinking.  

(click the link to see my growth mindset animation)

Do you know the difference between growth and fixed mindset  

Perfect persuasive writing

 Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog,

For the past 3 weeks we have been in lock down and today was our first day back at school I was so excited to be back in school.

When we were in lock down we did some online learning. For this weeks learning I did some persuasive writing we had a whole list of topics to chose from I chose pets should not be allowed in school.

here is my persuasive writing 

Pets should not be allowed in school 

I believe that pets should not be allowed in school for many different reasons. 

For instance what if someone had an allergy or they were scared of the pets. Also where would we put them? We don't have any cages. Pets like dogs and even cats need a lot of attention, and you can't expect a student to do that while managing studies as well. 

Some students may have a hard time focusing on the teacher when there are animals in the classroom. Also what would we feed them for a whole day, they would need to eat something just like we do.

Do you think pets should or should not be allowed in school??

Great Graphs

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This week for maths we had to make graphs of all sorts of graphs, so I chose to do a bar graph and a histogram. 

My goal is to display data using a stem and leaf graph, choose an appropriate data, display using more than one variable, interpret information from graphs plan an investigation.

how we did it: first we started of by asking people in the hub what was there favourite number, mine is the number 50, what is yours? Then we did a stem and leaf graph in our books with all the data we collected. Next we asked everyone if they would rather do a bur pee or a push up, mine was a push up, then finally we did one of birthday months (if you want to see some of my graphs click the link)

What month were you born in???  

My Happiness book

Kia Ora, 

For the past week we have been writing happiness books to teach the kids in Kākano about the four happy brain chemicals Oxytocin, Serotonin, Dopamine and lastly Endorphins 

and our goal was for them to hopefully learn something and understand it all 

(click the link to see my happiness book called The Key to Happiness)

Have you heard of the four happy brain chemicals???  

Persuasive writing

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this week we have been looking out pervasive writing so are create this week was to make a persuasive argument so the topic I chose was save the animals and stop littering

So here is my persuasive argument... 

Save the animals and stop littering 

Stop littering!!!!!

Who loves animals? Well what if I told you there  was a way that you could help the animals from getting killed . All you would need to do is take an extra minute or two to put your rubbish in the bin. 

Instead of just putting rubbish on the floor you should actually stop and think about how this affects the environment.  For example plastic litter,  plastic litter is one of the most common killers of animals, but particularly marine animals. Each year over 100,000 dolphins, fish, whales, turtles, and more drown after becoming tangled in or digesting plastic litter. Even  just picking up someone else's litter can make a big difference in the world . So after looking at what this really does to the animals will you stop littering? 

umbrella writing

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For this terms PBL we are learning about empathy so for our writhing we watched a short film called umbrella to understand empathy a little bit more. Then we had to write a bit of the short film that we watched. 

Here is my writing

-Umbrella- 

Early one dreary wintry morning, the door to Miss Elem’s Home for Children sprung open. The girl with the vibrant sunshine yellow umbrella nervously entered the orphanage before finding a home for her umbrella.

Not wanting to be seen, Boris quickly whipped his head around the door frame so that he was hidden from view. 

Standing off to the side the girl watched as the other children started to ding deep down into the box of toys. 

The girl started to smile as she watched the young boy bolting across the room like a rocket ship.

 Her smile quickly disappeared as she saw her umbrella had vanished, and all that was left was a couple of puddles her beloved umbrella had vanished!!

Can you find the similes in this text?

  

Trip recount.

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On week 3 term 2 our whole hub went to Margret Mahy playground to learn all about our Māori history and culture we went on a waka feed the eels went to Victoria square and we also learnt about all the things engraved in the ground, did you know that the things on the ground actually sing a song and one of them is called my mums a pirate.

So after the trip we all had to write a recount. This is what mine looks likes

On Thursday the 20th of May we all headed to town for our town trip to Margaret Mahy to learn more about NZ Māori culture.

We all spent a day doing 4 rotations. The rotations were waka, feeding the eels and learning about the Maori Mats, Margaret Mahy and Victoria Square.

The first thing I did was look at the Maori Mats and feed the eels. When we were looking at the Maori Mats we saw lots of cool designs and shapes and I also learnt lots of cool facts about them. Like did you know that if there was an earthquake you could actually take the Mat out without getting damaged and the bricks that they were made out of are put in sideways to look more interesting.        

Next we went down to feed the eels. It was finally my turn, we went in groups of six and fed the eels cat food with plastic spoons. I didn't know that eels liked cat food, I found it interesting seeing the eels eat the food off the spoons. When I was holding the cat food I dropped some in the water, I then got some more but unfortunately they were mostly staying under the deck so we didn't get to see them much or feed them but it was still fun.

Next we set off to the waka, but before we went on the waka we had a little snack, then soon after we went on the waka. When we were on the waka we said a Māori chant while we were going along the Avon river. There were lots of ducks and swans around us and it was really fun and we raced the other waka because there were two wakas. 

When we got off the waka we went to Victoria Square, the first thing we did when we were there was learn a little bit of the history about it. After that Sophie and I went to explore a little bit about Victoria Square. Here is one of the things we found out about Victoria: she was born on the 24th of May 1819 and died on the 22nd of January 1901. 

For our last rotation we went back to Margaret Mahy to learn a little bit about the words and designs engraved in the concrete. Did you know that the words engraved in the concrete actually sing a song! We were given pieces of paper so we could go around and trace the designs on the concrete, we then had something to eat and also a little play at the end. My favourite things to play on are the big twirly whirly slide and the zip line. 

  

Overall my favourite part of the trip was going on the Waka because I have never done something like that before and it is something I would love to do again with my friends and family or even my school. I also enjoyed feeding the eels because they are so cool.

Something I learnt was the words engraved in Margaret Mahy park actually sing a song, one of them is called “My mum is a Pirate” and that is why the sand pit is pirate themed. I also found out about Victoria and when she died. Margaret Mahy used to be a marketplace where people went to sell stuff or trade stuff for other stuff like tuna or some of the food they had back then.   

Overall my favourite was the waka, it is so interesting because of the things that they say and all the cool designs on it I never knew people still had waka's    

This trip has helped me with my PBL because it helped me understand my Turangawaiwai more and see the Māori culture and  I really enjoyed coming here on a school trip.

Thanks for reading-bye bye.