{Chapter Chat - Listening Device}

 This week for Chapter Chat there were a lot of options and it was hard to choose just one. But the one that popped out for me to do was the listening device. Instead of using a heap of cardboard I deiced to make a "Pocket Radio." So it wouldn't use as much cardboard and the paint wouldn't take as long to dry, so its a win win.

When I looked up listening devices in 1940 it came up with some really weird pictures, the best way I could describe it is Headphones but One-hundred times bigger. So I just stuck with my original design a "POCKET RADIO."

When it came to Hot Gluing, it all fell apart because there was a huge line to use the hot glue gun, so I rushed it, and it didn't go to plan. But I guess it still worked, just don't look at the back. 

The straw represents the station to hear the other person. The button represents the dial to change channels.

Here's my finished "POCKET RADIO."

{Chapter Chat - Totter The Tortoise}

 This week we are doing Chapter Chat again "YAYA" *Confetti Blows everywhere.* Our new book is  "Code name Bananas." A short recap about the book, there is  a boy named Eric that is a orphan because his Parents died in the war. So his Caregiver is his Grandma that has an Ear Horn that helps her to hear. Unfortunately she is now dead because of the World War Two that is still happening in London. 

Now he is at his Uncle Sids house, but Sid has a secret... He has a million Animals in his house that were going to get put down at the Zoo, and one of them is Totter the Tortoise. This is where the Task falls into place.  

I have only done One Pop out card the whole year so I deiced to do it again but in a better way.  I added in a clothes splatter everywhere. Why did I do Brown Clothes you ask, I did brown clothes because in 1904 they didn't have bright materials to make bright Clothes  because they would use most fabric for war and wounds. The most Hardest Part to draw was the whole Tortoise because drawing a Washing Basket as a shell is pretty difficult. 

{ Here's my Completed Task for this Week! }

{CASE CLOSED BLOG POST}

 Today we finally solved the crime! Mrs Taffee came into to our Class and we told her the main facts about   why we think its her, In total we had five facts. 

Mrs Taffee had finger prints on the door and in many more places, Her shoe size matched up to the culprits, She had a cut on her right wrist during school holidays.   

She turned quite, when she came in  the room she was all jazzed up but she turned dead silent... 

"You got me, I cant keep it in for any longer, I stole your HDMI-CORD and chocolates" Mrs Taffee confessed to us that she did it. She told us the back story of why she did. 

She was at school on Saturday 10th of October which is when it happened.  When she came in she saw a  HDMI - CORD so she took it because of her casting issues. But when she was just about to leave with the cord and chocolates she thought she heard somebody coming so she left in a dash, when she opened the door she forgot that she had a cut in her right wrist so that left a mark.

She ended up sneaking 18 mini Chocolates, and Stole the HDMI-CORD but is going to give it back. Also going to buy a new chocolate bag for Whetu Team. 

Here are some Photos :D

SECRET CSI CODING ADD ON

 This week I found the FIRST Code Breaker to do "YAY." Last week I started with Two and Three, thinking it was One and Two. 

Instead of un-coding letters it was numbers, the Teachers deiced to swap it up. 

When I was making up my own code it was still as difficult as last time because if you mess up one letter then it messes up your whole code. This time I made my code really long, so it takes whoever wants to un- code it,  it'll take longer. 

This weeks code was pretty difficult but still, really fun and challenging. 

Here's my CSI Code Sheet :D

Grammar Cop

 This week AKA Last week I did Grammar Cop, your most likely thinking "What the heck is that?" Well my way of putting it is, that your a Cop that's looking out to fix the Grammar. 

Anyways Last week the Teachers decided to put Grammar Cop online because most people don't do it on paper which is weird because they will do it online. 

Since I was doing it online for a change it was "OK" but I prefer it on paper, because being on a screen majority of the day gets the SAME if that makes sense. 

One thing that I struggle with is spotting and placing Commas, because they can be put anywhere. But I think I did my best that I could and hopefully its correct.

I enjoyed the Jack and Jill task, because what I had to do was chose what word made the most sense, Him or He. 

Here's my One of my Online slides, and a Copy and on Paper. 

Guy Fawkes Blog Challenge

 This week for our "Blog Challenge" was to learn a bit more about Guy Fawkes day. It seemed boring but since I got to decorate it a bit, it was so much fun. 

As usual I have to say whats the hardest, it was re-wording the information because I don't want to use someone else's work. But No Joke re-wording words is super HARD. 

But I DID IT, when I finished it, I decorated it with some fireworks to make it pop, and I think they made it look AWESOME! 

Here's my Poster :D

:D Letter of the Week for Week 5 :D

 This week for Letter of the Week our letter was "C". C seems easy well that's what I thought because of things like, Chocolate, Cake well basically FOOD. 

But it ended up being harder than I intended.

The Hardest Part about doing Letter of the Week is coming up with a C sentence, because it is more than hard its like near impossible. Most people think its easy but its pretty hard to think about stuff on the spot, because your brain turns invisible for a bit. 

But Letter of the Week is hard, but it means I learn a little bit  each day which is GREAT. 

Just to change the subject a little bit I do like how it changes each week, and not the same old stuff. 

! SECRET CSI CODING !

 This week we got given a Secret Coding sheet with two codes to solve. 

Most people don't like coding but I enjoy doing a good old puzzle every now and then. In the first couple of words I solved I had no clue what it was going to form, but eventually it spelt out "Look carefully to uncover the clues." 

The hardest part of it all, was trying to make up your own code, and to try not get the wrong letter in with your word or else it wouldn't make sense. 

When I finished both of my Codes, Melissa wanted to try and solve one of them and I'm like "Sure why not!" 

So she did, she finished it and I think she liked it. 

(Sorry couldn't add photo because of internet)

! MUGSHOT HALF DRAWING !

 This week for a new Rotation was to draw your other half of your Mugshot... Which was more than difficult for me because drawing is not my thing. 

We got given half of our face from the start of the year and everyone was like, "I have changed "A LOT and I'm like "SAME HERE."

When we were told we were doing this I'm like "NO WAY" but I had no choice. I started by doing my glasses, I kept drawing rubbing out drawing rubbing out, but you can't tell that I did I think. But I kept doing messing up in each and every part of my drawing. 

The hardest part was trying to get your face to look like how it is, and not an Alien, trying to get your eye in the right postilion. 

But even though I can't draw as well as others, I think that my final mugshot sketch is actually really good and realistic, its better then what I intended. 

I'M WANTED WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE...

Athletics Day (AKA) My Training

As you probably know I wasn't at Athletics Day because I went to Pickle-ball instead, but ill just be telling you about my Training because that's as good as its gonna get. 

This Year since I'm a Year Six meant that I would have to practice for High Jump, and I am more than terrified of high jump I'm frightened to death about it! Maybe that's a bit too much but I'm still like a Deer in head - lights when it comes to high jump. 

When we practised for High Jump we started with rope then too the Bar and everyone started to panic but then we practised more often and got better at it. 

DISCUS AW MAN that's the same as High Jump but a little bit less worse. I did Discus last year and hated it, but then we I first threw it I was so much better than last year. I was like "WHAAAAT How did I improve in a year?" I guess its just luck! The worse part about Discus is that the Discus feels like its going to fall out but if you put enough momentum in your throw it wont.

Running EH its pretty OK, I mean I can do it but its another thing I don't like. When we were in line to run I didn't really care if I came last in practice because its just practice and you don't get a Medal for first in practice.

Shot-put well I wasn't their on the Practice Day because I was away, because I got a bee sting on my toe. But hopefully the other girls had good practice. 

Pickle Ball!

Your probably thinking "PICKLE BALL?!" and I was like that when I first heard about it too. "What is it like a Pickle shaped like a ball" No nothing like that at all, Pickle ball is a Sport. The way I explain it is  that its basically like indoor life size Table - Tennis, it has a Net, Court, Bats and Balls what else do you need. No joke all it is, is Table Tennis but bigger, all you do is hit a ball over a net, everyone can play it even if you don't like running or sport. I really like Pickle ball that's why I wasn't at school on Tuesday because I went to play Pickle ball with my Mum and others. I like Pickle ball so much I would skip School just to play (sorry school). There you go you just learned about something else than Science or Maths. You'll thank me later when you play. 

Letter of the Week!

 This Week for our Whoogle I deiced too do Letter of the Week to tick off the list. If you don't know what Letter of the Week is here is my explanation, each Week is a new letter, you do Ten questions on basic grammar like Nouns Adjectives so on so on. Put as much pop into it as you can or as I say Supernova effort, which I think I did. I put my time into it and made it into a Supernova, I like the colours I added because its simple but sometimes simple is the way to go. 

Here's my end product

CSI Lifting Fingerprints

 This is me trying to lift up my thumb print for this One of Weeks tasks.  Lifting a Fingerprint isn't as easy as it looks easy mistakes can be putting too much powder on your brush or getting to many fingerprints on your tape. 

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori Challenge

This Week was based on Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori because its Maori week. On Monday Marama did a Ka-Pa Haka performance and it was more the Tu Meke it was AWESOME. Anyways our Challenge was too pick a Maori phrase, and answer Five questions about it like for (e.g) Put a video of you saying it) I very much enjoyed Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori Challenge because I learnt more about the Maori culture. 

Click here to see my Mahi :D 

Here's what it looks like if you have no access, the video won't work because I screen shoot-ted it :D

SOUP COOKING GROUP

This Week I have joined in with the Cooking Group.

On the First day we talked about safety in the kitchen to be aware of what could happen. It highly won't but you never know. We also talked about what different kinds of Vegetables there are and what we could bring.


On the Second day we began to prepare our Vegetables and when I mean to prepare them I mean cleaning them and cutting them into small pieces. Eventually we put them into a huge pot and we waited until the next day.


On the Third day we got to EAT IT, most people didn't want to try it at all because they thought it was disgusting and they still thought that. But I thought it was one of the best soups EVER but it was seriously the BOMB!


The part I enjoyed the most was every part, I learnt new things every step along the way, I learned more about kitchen safety and techniques to cut vegetables.

Letter of the Week - W9 - T3

 We have Whoogle back! Fred the Moths (Another Homeroom) decided to share their other learning to the  other homerooms have done, now its on Whoogle and its called letter of the week. 

Every independent week the Teachers will chose a new letter this Week since its Week Nine its "G".  Its pretty difficult at first because your brain Juices just aren't flowing, but after a few questionings your brain starts flowing and feels like it  can't stop. 

Some questions made me get Mr. Google to help, because I was clueless at the time but then I got the explanation and kept going. 

Here's my Final  Product for Letter of the Week I think I put in the time and effort to make it Supernova.

Opt in workshop - RAD RHYTHM

 For our Opt in Workshops this week we have been doing Rad Rhythm. This Workshop was so much different-er than the others, you would learn heaps and challenge yourself each day.

 Since we are on the topic of learning the thing that I learnt the most was the different Notes for drumming. I liked how Miss Mac came up with a way to get us all to remember what they were all called, they call it the note family. There are Daddy Semibreve, Mummy Minim, Big Brother Crotchet and last but not least the Little Quaver Twins. 

My favourite part was choosing a challenge partner, I chose Ihi because she felt like the right person, plus we laughed a lot.

I rate this workshop obviously a 10/10 Tu - Meke Job Miss Mac for coming up with a great Idea!

Here's a picture of me and Ihi practising

Pirate Coordination's - Worksheet of the day

 This week instead of doing Number of the Day they changed it to Worksheet of the Day. Every day for this week and every other week we fill in a Math worksheet also known as Worksheet of the Day. For today I did the Pirate Coordination's Worksheet, its sounds pretty explanatory. It was fun and difficult at the same time but it challenged which is most important.

Here my Pirate Coordination's. 

Workshops - Chapter Chat - Guitar Case Theme

 Earlier this week we got to choose a new workshop to do, however since I was away when everybody chose I ended up being stuck with two options, Science and Chapter Chat. I decided to do Chapter Chat again for one reason, all the task are always challenging and different. 

We still had the same categories but different tasks. 

When I first took a look at the board the one that caught my eye was CREATE. Create was about Ross's Guitar-case that he just got but it was nothing fancy, it had stickers on it and a paint spilt on it and lots of other mess. Lots of people did the Guitar-case and had many different cool unique ideas, but mine was very different. 

Instead of making in 3D Case I made a Pop - up card with the Theme of a room. I made the paint bucket of of paper and made the paint pop up of the ground to give it a cool affect. 

I think I did a Supernova whakapau kaha, (It means... Effort, give it your all)

 Noho iho rā, Kia kahi Goodbye and Stay strong and Have fun.

Here's my End Product 

 

Number of the Day is coming to a end...

 You heard it right, Number of the Day is coming to a end. Number of the Day is Twenty mathematical questions we do each day but not Fridays. 

Its all types of Maths you name it its probably in our Number of the Day. 

But anyways Number of the day is going to be switched over to a "Can do" which isn't a "Must do". But something else is going to take Number of the Days place but nobody knows what it is because the Teachers are keeping it a secret until next week. 

Here's what we had to fill in every day :D   (those aren't the answer's its just to show to the example)