Saint Vincent De Paul

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This week for RE we have been given tasks about St Vincent De Paul. Did you know that Vincent was captured by Pirates? 

He was on a boat back home because he had recently been on his way to sell some property that he had recieved. He was captured by 2 pirates while travelling, they took him to Tunis in Northen Africa. He was a slave for 2 years because he was sold into slavery. During those 2 years he would pray to God saying that if he was freed he would spend the rest of his life devoting his life to to the service of the poor. 

This is a picture of the house that St Vincent was born in:

Article About Tupac's Death

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I hope that everyone is enojoying lockdown and relaxing. :)

For our home learning writing task our class had to write an article about a person, place or event. This was a free choice and we could choose. I chose to write about Tupac's death. I decided to choose this because while I was searching for who I wanted to write about or what I wanted to write about, I thought that it would be interesting to write about his death. 

I really like the idea of getting to choose what we got to write about. This work for was the first week of lockdown. There was a slideshow about how we could write our articles and what an article is. The slideshow was really helpful and helped me to understand what I had to do.

This is my article:

Orana Park

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Yesterday another class and mine went on a trip to orana park. When we had arrived there we all waited for the others to get to orana park. There was a lady who was going to be helping us for the day that came to talk and explain to us about what we were going to be doing. The classes were split into 2 groups and we went our own ways. 

The first animal that we had went and saw was the lions. There were 4 of them, 2 boys and 2 girls. The boys were a lot bigger than than the girls. They didn't have manes so you couldn't tell that they were boys. The 4 lions are all cousins. These lions know the sound of different vechiles so when they heard the food truck they would get all excited and happy. Did you know that lions are a social animal?

Social animals are animals that live in groups and that are able to survive with a group of animals of their kind. Lions are social animals. The female lions go and do the hunting for food, while the male lions job is to protect the pack. There are also solitary animals, animals that survive on their own without a pack. They are independent. Tigers are solitary animals. At orana park they have 2 tigers that stay together, they are still both young so that is why they are staying together for now. The workers will seperate them when they are starting to mature. The signs of them maturing is them fighting and starting to get serious. Did you know tigers have striped skin?

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Parts of a Plant

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This term we have been learning about biodiversity - Parts of a plant. We have been doing a lot od tasks based on this topic. I am going to be talking about the Parts of a plant. 

Our first task, we were put into groups of 3 and given a pack of cards. The cards had bugs and insects on them. Out of those insects and bugs we had to put them into 2 piles, one pile for the friends and the other for the foes - pests. When all the groups had finished doing that task we all shared 1 each of those two piles. This task was very interesting to do because it was hard to figure out what bug was a friend or foe. 

There is a google drawing that me and my buddy had made to sum everything that we have been learning up. This google drawing is basically showing and telling what the different parts of a plant do and how they help. 

Here is the google drawing:

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Insect Symmetry

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Today we have been drawing some art. This art is based on insect symmetry, which basically you draw an insect that is excatly the same if you cut that insect in half. We also had this task because it is related to the topic that we are learning this term.

There were a lot of different insects that we could do, sadly we couldn't do spiders because they are not insects. I chose to draw a scorpion. We had to draw half of the picture first and then trace over it, so the papers were folded in half most of the time. 

We added in our own patterns to make them more detailed. This task was not that hard to do and it was a really fun task. We all had the choice to have a side printed so that it would be easier to trace over but I had chosen to draw my own. 

Here is a picture of my drawing!

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The History of Chocolate!

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Yesterday was the World Chocolate Day - 7th of July. In class the first thing we went and learned about was the history of chocolate. It was a fun day yesterday for everyone in my class. We watched Charlie and the chocolate factory while drinking hot chocolate. It was all about chocolate. While we were working through some questions about the history of chocolate our teachers gave us some chocolate. After the movie we had to create our own lolly that would make people feel funny. We got to share our creations with the class. After lunchtime we had team building.

Here are some facts about the history of chocolate:

The first people that grew the cacao plant were the Olmecs of Mexico. They passed on their knowledge to the Ancient Maya of Mexico and Centeral America, who made a spicy drink out of chocolate.

Christopher Columbus was the first Euroepeon explorer to ever come in touch with cacao beans, this happened in 1502. 

The first chocolate house was opened in London in 1657. 

The first chocolate that was produced to eat happened in 1830.

For the team building we had to build the tallest and strongest tower with pasta and marshmellows. The tower had to be able to hold 3 crunchie bars off of the ground. This activity was really fun, my team had tried a lot of ways and in the end we made it happen. There were 30 pasta sticks and 6 marshmellows that each group had with a long piece of tape. Whoever won got to have the cruncie bars. My team came first with the tallest and strongest and it was just fun.

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Student Summit 2021

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Today is the Student Summit! The stundent summit is when a bunch of schools from your cluster all gather together with something to share from each school. I was one of the presenters and I was presenting about book creator. Celine was one of the other presenters that helped me present. Each school presented a toolkit that would be helpful for us and our learning. 

This first 2 sessions I was presenting. The other 2 I went to and learnt about other toolkits. Codey Rocky was one of them presented by South Hornby School. The codey rocky was really fun to learn about and exciting to code. The coding on codey rocky is the same as scratch and it is like a little robot that does what the coding blocks say. We used a ipad to code the codey rocky, it was a really cool toolkit.

The last session that I had was Animaker. Animaker was really good, it was presented by Yaldhurst Model School. On animaker was we got to play around with it and insert characters and change their positions. The presenters also showed us how to post an animaker video onto our blogs. 

If you want to check out some of these toolkits here is a link. 

Here are some photos:

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Winter Sports

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Last week our school started winter sports. We started walking a few mintues before 1pm towards Hornby High. The netball group and the soccer group walked together while the other groups walked after us. When we got to Hornby High we went our seperate ways. 

We trained for a bit until our game started. We were playing netball by the way. The game was a really good game it was 7-3. We played against Hornby High. I really enjoyed it. We also had 2 players who didn't know the rules but they learned very fast.

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Anzac

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In class for topic we have been learning about why animals are important in war and about life in the Trenches. These topics are both related to war. For this we went onto the sites that our teacher had out out for us. There were also videos we watched for the task. These videos were about animals in war and life in the Trenches. There was also a book to read about life in the trenches. In this padlet we had to link 2 sites that helped us learn. 

The tasks were to create a newspaper article about why animals are important in war. The other task was to use Thinglink or Prezi to create a presentation about Life in the Trenches. We also learnt about John Simpson. 

This is my Newspaper Article:

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St. Bernadette Diary Entry

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In class we have been learning about St Bernadette. We have been doing research on her about what happened when she saw Mary. We watched videos of what happened and read on different sites about the information about what happened to St. Bernadette. Then we had a sheet that would help us with our digital work. On the sheet there were questions asking when St. Bernadette was born or when she died or her personality and traits and things that would help us with our diary entry or news paper.

For the task we had to create a news paper article or a diary entry. For the newspaper article you had pretend you were interviewing St. Bernadette and write down some facts too. It had to be like you were having a conversation with St. Bernadette about her visions. For the diary entry we had to pretend that we were St. Bernadette and write in a diary entry about what had happened to St. Bernadette. I did the Diary Entry.

This is my Diary Entry:

February 11th, 1858 

Today, I had a vision of a lady, she looked young like teenage years and

she was wearing white clothing with a blue ribbon tied around her waist

with gold roses on both her feet.. When I saw her she didn’t say anything,

I started to pray the rosary as she joined me. My sister and friend were

getting wood and when they were finished I asked them if they saw anything

and they both said no. I told them what I saw and they promised to not tell anyone.

The next day there were newspapers with my name on them saying what I had seen. 

My aunt took me back to the grotto, telling me to make sure the lady I saw in my

visions told me her name. There were more people there that time, they all watched

as I prayed the Rosary. She appeared, I pointed to where she was and nobody

saw anything. “There is no need to write down what I have to say,” she said.

She asked me if I would do her a favour and come back to this place for 14 days.

I told her with my parents permission I will do so. That same night my parents

gave me permission to go back to the grotto. I prayed the Our Father as everyone

did the same. 

“Dear Lady, Would you be so kind to tell me your name” I repeated 2 more times. 

The last day I asked her what her name was, she then answered,

“I am the Immaculate Conception.”

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Easter Triduum

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In class we have been learning about holy week and the easter triduum. I am going to be sharing my art work with you all. For our task we had to write down what we knew about holy week on a padlet. For our task we had to draw something that was related to holy week. This task was very fun and not that easy to do. These pictures are combined so that when you look from one angle you see one picture and when you look from a different angle you see a different picture.

This is my drawing:

The Purpose Of a Blog Post

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For cybersmart we have been learning about the purpose of a blog post. There was a slideshow we worked through and there were activites to do. The task was to create a comic strip about what the purpose of a blog was. We also went on this site called flaticon which when you search for something like a character for example, a girl, it will show all these icons of girls. So we used that to help us with the comic strip.

This is my comic strip:

All About Me!

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Today I am posting a google drawing that is all about me. What we had to do for this task was basically write down some things about yourself, your interests, introduce yourself, your goals and your funniest memory and a picture of yourself, since we didn't have pictures of ourselves we used Avatar maker to create ourselves and what we look like. In cybersmart we are learning how to take care of our chromebooks. We did this task to update our blogs.

This is my google drawing:

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Kawa of Care

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Today in class we have been learning how to take care of your chromebook and how to participate appropriately online. We read the kawa of care and read the rules of how to take care of our chromebooks. We are doing this because it is apart of our cybersmart and we also need learn about how to take care of our chromebooks, especially when it is a school device. 

Our task was to create a google drawing of our own kawa of care. We got some ideas from the original Kawa of Care so that we would know what to write. There is not too much to explain what I did, but here is my Google Drawing: