Shapes and Animals!

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Today my principal Ms Campell was our teacher for our middle block because our normal teacher had a meeting. While we had Ms Campell, she gave us a fun activity to do. We had to cut out some paper that were in different shapes and use the shapes to make different types of shapes and animals! The animals we did were a Dog, Rabbit, Cat, Horse, Swan and Fish. My favourite animals I did were the Swan, Dog, Rabbit and Fish!

 

Here are some photos of my animals!

Can you tell which animal is which?

Shining Matariki Stars Animation

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As most of us know it’s Matariki on Friday the 28th! My class was learning how to make Matariki Animations for Cyber Smart! My favourite part was trying to choose my background which didn’t take very long. The hardest part was having to keep moving the stars little by little. I hope to try and make another animation again!

Have you made an animation before?

Here are the results! Click the slides as fast as you can to see the action happening!

My Exciting Kawa Of Care Pick-A-Path

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Me and my class made exciting pick-a-paths. The hardest part of the making of the pick-a-path, was having to think of different questions. The easiest part of making the pick-a-path, was linking all the pictures to the other slides. My favourite part of my pick-a-path was picking the fonts and the background colour of my slides. My least favourite part of my pick-a-path was having to make so much right and wrong slides. This is also my first Pick-A-Path of 2024! I had lots of fun and hope I will make another one again soon!

 

Have you ever made a Pick-A-Path before?

Smart Image

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Today for our Cybersmart task, there were 4 boxes and each of the boxes had a task for us to do. For the first box, we had to take pictures of ourselves, or an object. I took a photo of a yellow marker because I like yellow and I didn’t think about much. In the second box we had to draw something on paper and then take a photo of what we drew. I drew Samoan patterns because I love to draw them in my own time, I really enjoy it. For my third box, we had to draw something on Google draw using the line tools. I drew a flower using the curved line tool. For the last box we had to find an image on the Google web to put into the last box.

 

Here is my project:

 

Life Cycle of a Butterfly ( First post of the year)

Talofa Lava! This is my first post of 2024!

Last week, me and my class have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. So we did some writing about it. Eggs, Larva, Pupa and Butterfly are the different types of stages of a butterfly.

 

Writing:

Eggs: 

When female butterflies lay their eggs, they lay them on a leaf. When the female butterfly lays the eggs, the Larva/Caterpillar slowly starts to grow in the egg. Once the Caterpillar grows, it eats the egg to set free. They can also just hatch the egg. 

Larva: 

Once the Larva eats/hatch themselves out, it goes and eats leaves. They eat a lot! Most of us call it Caterpillars. Larva’s/Caterpillars have lots of legs. More than four legs! Once the Caterpillar continues to eat, they will get bigger and bigger until their skin sheds. When they shed, their skin slips right off. When they’re finished,  they turn into Pupa! 

Pupa: 

Fun fact, Pupa’s are also called Chrysalis and Cocoons. Once they transform, they hang upside down on a branch just like a bat. When they hang, they stay still so their predators like birds don’t come and eat them. After that, their wings break free into a Butterfly! 

Butterfly: 

Once the butterfly is free, it goes and flies all around sunny days. Butterflies love to eat the nectar from flowers. Lots of butterflies come in different types of colours. Butterflies then lay eggs and the life cycle starts all over again.  

AI activities

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On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we had a reliever teacher who we call Whaea Terri. She brought some activities and her dogs to school. We did lots of activities around AI.(artificial intelligents) We were coding/teaching the dogs, coding with Turing Tumble, Moral Machine and AI with superheros.

Turing Tumble

Turing Tumble is like a game where you have to do a lot of coding. It really helps excersize your brain. I was in a group with Vienna, Me and Hamdha. Then after lunch time I changed groups which was Sariyah, Me and Vienna. There was a book that came in the box with all the instructions and there was also a little comic inside you could read. So the next thing we had to do was we had to read the instructions that were on the book. First we had to take out two parts of the stand and put them together to make the stand. The next thing we had to do was we had to count how many red balls and blue balls we needed. Then we had to put them on the top of the board. The next thing we had to do was we had to get the pieces and follow the instructions to see where we had to put it. After you put the pieces on the board, we had to make the balls go down. It was very fun but difficult for me and my group. We got up to challenge three which we really struggled with but other classmates found it very easy.

 

Coding Real Dogs

When Whaea Terri came, she also brought her cute dogs! Their names were Bonnie and Clyde. She told us that they were named after robbers in the 90s. Me and 2 of my friends Sariyah and Vienna were coding Whaea Terri’s dogs! It was really fun and they were so cute! Whaea Terri gave us a couple of treats and we did some cool tricks with them! We made them sit, shake, high-five, lay down, stay and wait. What I mean bye stay and wait is we had the treat in our hand and we walked away and told them to stay. Then we tell them to come get it. What I mean by wait is we leave the treat on the floor and tell them to wait and tell them to get it afterwards. Me, Sariyah and Vienna mostly coded Clyde because Bonnie was too scared and she was still trying to get to know us.

 

Moral Machines

Whaea Terri asked us to get a pencil and paper and write Moral Machine on it. Then we had to go to our tables and search it up on google and click on the site. What we had to do on the site was we had some questions. Me personally I love animals so I picked the animals over humans for some of the questions. But if the humans were old or pregnant I would choose humans.

EXAMPLE: The car curves and hits a homeless man, an old man, a pregnant woman and her son. Or the car drives straight and kills two cats and two women.

 

AI Superhero

 

My Creative Story- Nowhere to be found..

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Me and my class have written some Creative writing last week. We had to make a google doc and make our plan. We also had to choose a genre to write about. I chose horror because I had an idea in my head which was related to horror. My writing is kind of long so it might take you a while to read it.

 

Here is my plan and story:

Plan 

Settings: Forest, Haunted house and School

 

Characters: Layla, Crystal, Sariyah, Loiloi and Pita

 

BME: They all asked their parents if they could go to the forest then end up getting lost then Sariyah and her dad tried to look for them and ended up not being found. 

 

Writing: 

 

Title: Nowhere to be found.. 

Once Upon A Time there was this friend group where they all lived in a neighborhood with a forest beside their houses. BUT what they didn’t know was that the forest was HAUNTED. One day during maths, they were planning to go to the forest next week on the weekends. “Sure! I’ll ask my mum” says Layla. 

“I’ll ask my mum as well,” said Pita. “Sorry I can’t come,” said Sariyah,” maybe next time.” Crystal giggled. “Me and Loiloi already asked our parents yesterday before we planned it!” They all laughed. Layla is the girl who is always happy, Crystal is the girl who likes hanging out with her friends a lot, Sariyah is the one who likes vibing a lot, Loiloi is the quiet one most times and Pita is the funny one sometimes. 

The next day they said all of their parents agreed. One week later on Friday, the friend group started packing their bags with snacks, torches and a knife just in case something goes wrong. The next day, which was Saturday, the whole friend group including Sariyah, stood outside their houses waiting for each other. “See you guys later and have fun!” Says Sariyah. 

They then started to walk over to the forest. Bats flying past, spiders swinging on their webs. Loiloi screams. “Sorry I just saw an army of cockroaches sprint past.” “Wow, that’s the first time I heard you scream” Says Layla. Crystal gags. “Sorry I saw a spider.” “The eyes make me disgusted.” They then continued their journey in the HAUNTED forest. As they got half way through the forest, Pita says “wait what’s that?” as he wipes his eyes thinking it’s his imagination. They saw a dark grey house in their sight walking further and further into the forest. “Should we go explore the house..?” Askes Layla. “Why not?” Says Pita. They all then sprinted to the haunted house. All of them entered the house. The floor and the doors creak. As they entered, they could smell something rotten. They were looking in the kitchen and they saw a dead rat sitting on the sink. “Ewww yuck!” Says Crystal. Layla got a tissue out of her bag, picked up the rat by its tail and threw it outside the window. As Loiloi walks up the stairs the stairs creak. “Yup I’m not going up there unless someone comes with me” Says Loiloi. “I will come” says Pita. Pita and Loiloi walk up the stairs. While Loiloi and Pita were exploring upstairs, Layla and Crystal were having a little snack. “Ok let’s go back to exploring,” Says Crystal. As they were exploring they found a random door behind one of the couches. “Should we open it?” Askes Layla. “No, let’s wait for Loiloi and Pita to come back because it might be dangerous” Says Crystal. “The floor is so dusty” Says Layla. Meanwhile with Loiloi and Pita, they found a room with a very dusty bed. Pita looked out the window and saw a shadow on one of the bushes. “Loiloi RUN” Loiloi and Pita ran down the stairs. “Don’t do that ever again you guys scared me with the loud creaks” Says Layla. “Sorry but I SAW A SHADOW IN THE BUSH” Says Pita. “I never thought that this house would be haunted” Says Crystal. “Anyways me and Crystal found a door behind the couch and we wanted to wait for you guys to come” Says Layla. “Ok, let’s explore it now,” Says Loiloi. They removed the couch and opened the door. “I can see something in their..” Says Pita. “Come guys lets go inside” Says Crystal. “Uhh I don’t think it’s a good idea, ” says Layla. “Stop being scared and face your fear” replied Crystal. “Ok fine” Says Layla. They all entered the door. Loiloi and Pita watched Crystal and Layla get dragged by the arm into the door. “UHH WE HAVE TO RUN” Says Loiloi. “No, we have to go save them,” Says Pita. Pita takes out the knife out of his bag and holds it in his hand while he enters. Pita felt the knife get slapped out of his hand and get dragged in. Loiloi runs to the front door immediately. The door shuts close. Loiloi screams. She then gets dragged on all that dust into the basement, and the basement door shuts. Two hours passed and Sariyah was waiting for the group outside. Sariyah turns around to her dad and says “Dad I don’t think they’re coming back..” “Should we go look for them?” asked Sariyah. “Ok” Answers Sariyah’s dad. As they got halfway through, they saw a man with a black jumper with his hood holding a knife standing in front of the haunted house. “No it’s not safe were just gonna have to call the police” Says Sariyah’s dad. They walked back home and called the police. The police couldn’t do anything because they couldn’t find them so they were never to be seen or heard from since that day..

Cyber Smart New Artical

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In week 4, we got to make a news artical for cyber smart. We have been working around media so we make a newspaper artical as an activity for our media subject. First we had to do an activity where we had to label each part of a newspaper on google slides. We got to make our newspaper artical about anything so I chose cooking with Ms P because I couldn’t think of much.

Here’s what mine looks like:

Hour of Code

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Since we had been working a lot about AI (Artificial Intelligent’s) we have been trying new activities around AI. We tried a game called an hour of code. What we had to do was there were some objects and we had to sort out whether it was a fish or rubbish. Then we had to choose whether we wanted to keep practising or go to the next lesson. Then there was a different activity where we had to sort out sea creatures and rubbish. Same thing with this we had the choice to keep practising or move on to the  next session. There would also be a video in between each activity. After we finished the activities we all got a certificate!

Here’s mine:

Swimming!

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From week 2 to week 6, Hay Park school has been having swimming lessons! We had our swimming sessions at Cameron Pools. We also had it every Tuesday and Thursday. It wasn’t very far from our school so we would walk there. The swimming teachers were Sam, Bella and Lian. My teacher was Bella. My group was Me, Zaynab, Blane, Krisha, Lorenzo, Rouie, Ayyan, Riduan and Steven.

One session we went to the nan’s pool to make currents. First we had to get a board and push it forward to make strong currents. Then me and my group all took turns trying to swim through the current. We also learnt how to fall off a boat. We had to sit on the edge of the boat and put our arm across our life jacket then hold the life jacket and put the other hand on our head. Then we just fall back. We also learnt how to float with a bottle and learnt how to make a bottle float. First we tried making the bottle float filled then we tried to make the bottle float with no water inside. Then we tried swimming on our front with no water inside and the same thing but on our backs. Then we tried swimming with water in the bottle on our front and back. Then we tried this challenge where we had to hug hold our knees under water and let our body float in the water. I enjoyed having a bit of like free time because Riduan didn’t want to come in the water so Bella(swimming teacher) tried to make him come inside the water so sometimes I would just swim around. I found breathing under water challenge difficult because I wanted to win for no reason but I was struggling to breathe under water.