Seeds Of The Word

WALT..Explain the meaning of the term Seeds Of The Word. Yesterday our class discussed about the Seeds Of The Word. We made a Google Drawing for writing the definition of the Seeds Of The Word and draw a symbol that represents our culture. What I found a bit hard was understanding the meaning of the Seeds Of The Word. I could improve my work next time by adding more information and making my symbol more artistic.
 

Infinite Cycle of a Fungi

WALT..Identify the Life Cycle of a Fungi/Fungus/Mould. This week we've been learning a lot about Fungi so our teacher told my class to make an animation/DLO about the Life Cycle of a Fungi. I made a google drawing because I find it easier. I enjoyed doing this because after all the learning about Fungi I can now explain it in my own words. Next time I could try to do an animation and be more creative. Here is my drawing:

How To Reply?

WALT..create a DLO of how to reply/react to different types of comments on your blog post. With a group of three we made a short slideshow with information of how to reply to a blog comment. We also added the types of comments that you should ignore. I enjoyed doing this because I get to work with a group who knows a lot about blog commenting. Check out my buddies blogs : Rheanna & Amber

Let's Talk About Fungi/Fungus

WALT..Use the correct structure to create an explanation text and use language features appropriate to an explanation text. This term we've been learning about Mould/Fungi/Fungus. What I found hard was understanding the meanings of each part of the cycle of a Mould/Fungi/Fungus. I could improve in the near future by adding more information and facts on my work. Here is my Planning.

How does a Fungi grow?

Have you ever wondered why a mushroom suddenly pops in your garden? Do you know that wherever you go you’re with Fungi? Well because our surroundings are dirty, Fungi starts.

First of all a Fungi starts with tiny spores that came from the air, more like part of the dirty/polluted air. A spore is an airborne cell-like that lands on any object like food or plants (Organic or Inorganic). If that spore lands on a food, for example a lemon, it will start to grow and will become a Hypha/Hyphae. A Hyphae looks like a hair-like root but it’s colour white.

After the Hyphae grows a Mycelium will start to grow also. A mycelium is a white mat that goes on top of the Hyphae. A Mycelium looks like a cobweb. If you’ve already seen a mould with the white part on it (mould on the bread) that is the Mycelium.

The Fungi will grow more because the Hyphae will absorb more nutrients (dirt). If the Hyphae absorbs all the dirt it will become a Fungi. After the Fungi grow it will release spores once again. The life cycle of Fungi is infinite.

Do you know that when you wake up Fungi is with you? If you wear bright clothes that are washed with Fabric Conditioner Fungi is with you. Why? Because Fabric Conditioner was from a Fungi!

If you see a Fungi on your garden don’t touch it! You never know when the Fungi is poisonous, but there is an edible Fungi, if you want to have one buy a mushroom!

What's Endangered?

WALT..Create a DLO about what does it mean if an animal is endangered. Include information about the endangered animal you chose to research. I enjoyed doing this DLO because I learnt some new vocabularies that I didn't knew. Next time I could add more information or summarise more. Here is my Slideshow:

About the Holy Spirit

WALT..Recognise the ways Te Wairua Tapu (The Holy Spirit) prepares people to carry on the mission of the church. Yesterday we did a simple activity about how the Holy Spirit prepares the mission for the people. I added some images that relates to some of the sentences for design. Next time I could improve more by adding more images/being more creative. Here is my work:

The Venerable Suzanne Aubert

WALT..Create a DLO to introduce Suzanne Aubert. Describe who she is and what she is famous for. This week our class read some information linked by our teacher about Suzanne Aubert. I made a simple slideshow with enough information about Suzanne Aubert. I enjoyed doing this because I learnt a lot about how Suzanne Aubert was popular back then. Next time I could improve my slideshow if I make it more colourful. Here is my slideshow:

Plants and Animals

WALT..Differentiate between plant-like and animal-like characteristics of mould. Today we did a simple exercise about animals and plants with a buddy. Here is my Buddy's blog : Maddison

Knowledge about Fungi

WALT..Create a DLO to explain what Fungi is how it forms and what enhances its growth. Last week we learnt about Fungi. I made a short slideshow of what I know about Fungi. I found it hard because I don't know much about Fungi. I could improve by adding more explanation about Fungi.

Make Your Own Story

This week my class wrote a story having one picture, a title and a sentence for the information about the story that we're writing. I used the Title but I used a different sentence starter. I enjoyed doing this because I get to write my own story. I could improve more by having a better imagination in my story.

Under The Rug

I began dreaming about Rats since I came from the dark and gloomy forest near my haunted house. It’s been two weeks and I think I’m going to have a trauma about Rats. Unbelievable, right?

By the way my name is David Frank, David for short. I’m 34 years old and I’m a retired scientist (I just decided to relax, you know?). I came from the planet called Pluto, Kidding! I came from earth and still on earth. My parents vanished so don’t ask me about them. I don’t have a wife nor a girlfriend. Yes, I’m single and retired...

Two weeks ago...David was writing on his Diary (He’s still a human!).

Tuesday

10:01 A.M

As you can see I love the presence of the nature. I also like taking pictures. I am currently in this mysterious place in my subdivision but it’s really gorgeous!  It’s in the forest if you're wondering what that ‘mysterious place’ was.

12:22 P.M

Dear Diary,

Guess what, I’m lost! I’m starving in this cold and creepy forest and a rat just passed by me. Should I eat it?

7:59 P.M

It’s getting dark now….I think I have to sleep here for tonight,  just tonight.

Wednesday

3:33 A.M

Aaaaahhhhh! Rats are surrounding me and yeah I’m writing on my diary! IDC but this smelly looking rat is chewing my socks. (wait, when did rats smell nice?)

End of Flashback.

Continuing, I ran after the rat peed on my shoes. I ran so fast I didn’t knew where I would go. It was so dark and I was so exhausted so I decided to sleep where I was standing.

I tried to open my eyes but the brightness of the sun was attacking me. “Where am I?” I asked myself with a sigh. *grumble grumble* My stomach said he’s hungry. I decided to walk to find some edible things when I saw my house not so far away from me. “Yes!” I screamed with joy. I opened the door of my house and luckily it still looked like how it was before.

I ate and took a short nap after all the disaster that I passed. Suddenly I heard weird noises from the living room. I switched the light on and I saw that there’s something wrong with the carpet. I grabbed a chair getting ready to use it as a weapon. *CRASH* I threw the chair, apparently I was at a far distance from the thing. I know I’m a scaredy-cat but I seriously think that it was a rat. It was gone, I thought it was dead but I saw it ran away. The rat was so quick you will think that it was just a dust that flew away.

I decided to go to the hospital because I thought I was mentally ill. I’m joking. Anyway that’s my experience about rats. Don’t worry because there are no more rats in my haunted house. I forgot to say something! Um….I like ghosts and vampires but I don’t like rats.

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Identifying B.E.D.M.A.S

             
WALT...understand and explain the rules for order of operations including explaining the acronym. This week we've been learning about B.E.D.M.A.S. With my buddy, Rheanna, we made a short presentation about B.E.D.M.A.S. I could improve more by having more knowledge about making B.E.D.M.A.S problems. Here is my buddy's blog.

Emotionally Funny

WALT...Use the correct structure for a recount. This week is our first week of the second term so our class talked about writing about what we did interesting or fun in the holidays. We are learning about writing a proper recount/structure. For better results, I could improve more by having more knowledge about a recount. The title of my story is "Emotionally Funny":

Me and my family went to the mall at Westfield, Riccarton to watch the movies during the first week of holiday. My mum divided us into two groups because my older brother wanted to watch a different movie. The boys: My dad and older brother watched the movie called ’Fate and the Furious. The girls: My mum, younger sister and me watched a comedy movie called ‘The Boss Baby’.

After buying the movie tickets we went to the supermarket to buy chips, chocolates and drinks for the movie. The boys had to go to the cinema first because their movie is starting earlier. My group came in after a few minutes. I was the first person to enter the cinema so I got excited and ran to our assigned seat. The cinema that we’re in was smaller than I expected because I got used to big cinemas.

After watching the movie my mum sister and I got teary-eyed because of the emotionally funny story of the movie. We got out of the cinema first before the boys because their movie was longer. We waited outside the cinema and while waiting, a little girl gave my sister a cupcake (it was for free because the mall was closing) and she shyly thanked her. I was listening to music while waiting and finally the boys went out.

All of us went straight to home because it was already late. We talked about the movie that we watched while my dad was driving. That night was indeed a fun night.

Learning Tongan

Last Term we've been learning about Tongan language with our Tongan teacher. The difficult part was knowing the proper Tongan Pronunciation. I enjoyed doing this slideshow because I knew that I learnt a little about the Tongan language. I could do better by adding more examples and information.

Order of our everyday life

WALT...Recognise that the order of operations matters in practical real life situations. I enjoyed arranging the words because it is fun. Next time I could add more space.