For this weeks Distance Learning we had to take different parts of two environmentally friendly minecraft houses to create a new one! For our STEAM we had to come up with a new/modernized vehicle, I really enjoyed doing this and named it Charge. Then we had to come up with a jingle/slogan as well as a billboard to advertise our new vehicle.
For this weeks learning we learned about elephant toothpaste and even had to come up with our own design for a elephant toothbrush! I really enjoyed our STEAM project, drawing my environment friendly wrap for food.
For this weeks learning we learned about graffiti or vandalism? We shared our opinion on what we thought and even got to make a mural design to go somewhere in Papakura! I really enjoyed making my mural design.
So, there I was… Just having a dance party outside on these blow up beds. It's my birthday if you didn't already know, soooo, continuing on… Yep! Just as simple as that, having a dance party. “WOOOO” Me and my friends all shouted. My party is going great! There's no drama, no ones sad, it's just… fun. “Hey guys! Wanna play TRUTH OR DARE…?” Lyla said, “OMG, YESS!!” Kayla said. Kayla and Lyla are twins, by the way. I said, “Ooo, of course!!” Oh and I’m Noelle by the way. There was only ONE person who hadn't answered yet.. “Do you want to play Aria?” Me, Kayla and Lyla said (at the exact same time of course.) “Uhhh, I’m not sure if it's a very good idea…” Aria can be a bit of a scardy cat, sometimes. “Okay then, we’ll go play without you.” I said looking back while walking away, “Oh fine!” YES!! Aria agreed! We all sat down in a circle. Kayla was giving the first dare or truth question to someone, and she chose Aria. “Hey Aria, Truth OR Dare?” Kayla said curiously to Aria, “Ummm, dare..?” Aria replied, she looked nervous. Kayla does really good dares. “Okay… I dare you to go down to the creepy house and put a letter saying ‘we found you out’ in their mailbox.” Uh oh, I felt bad for Aria, in fact everyone did so that's why we all went with Aria and did the dare together. We wrote the note, grabbed some torches and put on our jackets and off we went! Down the street to the creepy house, once we got in front of it… we all wished we didn't do this dare… Even Kayla did, I could tell by her face. We slowly walked up together so close I could feel everyone's heart racing, we chucked in the note and ran back to the house as fast as we could! We really wanted to get back home. If mum wasn't on her weekend holiday, we would be in HUGE trouble right now. We all decided to watch a movie, we watched Coraline because we haven't watched it in AGES and when I say ages I mean AGES. Then when we were in the tent watching the movie we heard something… or someone… Then we noticed there was a HUGE rip in the tent, we all got so scared and ran inside. We locked all the doors and windows as well as closed the curtains and blinds. We then sat down and started watching the movie again, TRYING to forget about the rip. Then the couch pillows started floating and hitting us like they wanted to have a pillow fight! We all screamed, “AHHHHHH” and ran away into my room. WHAT IS HAPPENING!!?? Everyone's hearts were racing in fright. “What if this is happening because of the note…?” I said, they all agreed, they think it is the note too. The pillows came into my room and started hitting us AGAIN!! Then they finally stopped… We thought it was over… but it definitely wasn't. We went back outside into the tent, patched up the hole and went to sleep. *A FEW HOURS LATER* “AHHHHHHH '' We all shouted, WE WERE GETTING ABDUCTED UP TO THIS SPACESHIP!!! “AHHHHH” We continued to scream! When we were in the space ship we all huddled together. We saw these people, they didn't look very nice… “How did you find us out?!” One of the ladies said, she looked like she was the boss of the other ones. We said, “What do you mean?” The lady looked mad, “We live in the creepy house, we saw your note. So. HOW DID YOU FIND US OUT!?” She said, smacking her hand on a desk behind her. “It was a dare! We don't know anything!” Aria said, wow! Maybe she's braver than us, I could never talk to this lady. “GOOD. Don't make that joke EVER AGAIN.” she shouted. We gave her a thumbs up because we were way too afraid to talk. She brang us back down to the ground, we ran inside and went straight to sleep. The next day, mum came home, “How's your night girls?” She said, “Umm, Great!” I didn't want to get her in trouble orrrr me. And then we actually haven't seen them in a while… and were NEVER going back to the house. We pinky swore.
For this weeks distance learning we had to draw some 3D shapes and read 6 texts. For our STEAM this week we had to design a playground to build somewhere along the inlet, I really enjoyed drawing my playground and coming up with the design. We also learned about forts! We had the option to include a few forts in our playground design and I put a few in!
23 Ray Small Drive,
Pahurehure,
Papakura,
NZ
29th October 2021
260 Taranaki Road,
Wellington,
NZ
Dear Jacinda Adern,
Did you know that kids can get bored when walking around the inlet? Did you know that kids don't like it sometimes and just want to play? This is why having a playground somewhere along the inlet would make a kids day! There are so many exciting and good things to list about having a new playground by the inlet, but I’ll only list a few.
Firstly, I think and quite a few others think building a playground somewhere along the inlet would be great! I think many other children would enjoy taking a quick stop when walking down the inlet to have a play around on the playground, as well as in the little forts. If you're wondering about parents and would they complain if their kid(s) wanted to go to the playground A LOT. Well they could, play with their kid(s) or look at the view, we could include benches to sit on, or maybe they just sit down and relax. Children would enjoy this playground so much, especially since we have been stuck at home for a while.
Secondly, it will get kids out of the house and off devices for a while! Children can play for AGES on devices but they can play for EVEN longer outside, on a playground or on the grass. But during lockdown kids can’t really go out to play especially if they have no backyard. This is why having a playground close to a lot of streets and houses could be great! Kids can let out all they’re energy by playing on the playground, parents will get to go outside and play with their kids, see the pretty view if the tides are in, or just have some peace while the kids play. Getting kids off devices for an hour or so will be great for them.
Lastly, during the place we are in now not many people can go to work and earn money! So… For people that haven’t gotten a car, car isn’t working ETC. This playground is really good because people can just walk there (If you live quite close.) It also will get a tiny tiny bit of less petrol out in the air because people will be walking there, so it just helps that tiny bit to stop pollution.
To conclude, building a playground along the inlet somewhere will be AWESOME! I hope you consider building this playground and don't forget the mini forts.
Sincerely,
Neave.
For this weeks ready we were learning about "Our Human Body" We had to make a poster about medical terms and what they meant! We learnt about Sarahs life as a diabetic. I really enjoyed learning about our human body and what it does!
For this weeks online learning we are learning about Health and what stuff that we can do Physically to keep us healthy. We had a daily fitness board game to do everyday for 5 minutes. We also had to make a DLO about a healthy life style! I really enjoyed making my pop up card with my cousin!
The Day I Woke Up With Super Powers
“OAAHHHH” I yawned when I woke up, I rubbed my eyes. Waking up is always SO hard, I sat up and WOAH what was happening.. I started to levitate.. UHHHH… I fell back down onto my bed when I put my hands up. Well maybe I’m dreaming, I decided to pinch myself to test, “OWWW” I shouted, “nope definitely NOT dreaming” I said. I hopped out of bed and opened my curtains, BOOM, “Umm” I think I pulled too hard because my curtains broke and fell off onto the floor! Mum came rushing in, “WHAT DID YOU DO PIPER!!???” She shouted standing by the door. “Uhh I didn't mean too?” I replied nervously, “It's fine.. Well just get new ones today..” I could tell she was still very mad, I was mad.. WHO WAS DOING THIS TO MEE!?? I just decided to carry on with my day, hopefully nothing else happens. I got dressed and did my hair, ate breakfast and did all that morning stuff, so far nothing had happened. I grabbed my computer and set it up, “Nearly time for my google meet!” I said to myself. I logged on.. *A FEW MOMENTS LATER* I closed my computer, finished my work, “Andddd done! Oh I didn't put on my watch this morning because I was so distracted!” I went over to my bedside table and put it on, I tapped the screen twice with 2 fingers and.. UHH UMMM… I started transforming into.. I checked my watch.. It said “Pantherna ACTIVATED” “I’m guessing my name is Pantherna as whoever this girl is” I said. Wow! This day is CRAZY. I went from a normal 15 year old girl to a SUPERHERO!!! Okay, but I gotta admit, this is lowkey really cool! I got a message from “BOSS” saying, “Hello Piper, I am guessing you think this is really weird and odd. I hope you can handle this job as we have been watching you. We think you will be an awesome superhero and defeat the villains coming your way! -BOSS” Okay, I have a million questions, WHY ME?? WHY HAVE THEY BEEN WATCHING ME??? AND WHAT VILLAINS???? I was VERY confused, but I did love how I looked.. I’ll do this job! I decided to reply to “BOSS” Here is what I said, “Hello! I have no idea why me? Why have you been watching me and I also have a million more questions. I have decided to take the job ONLY because I really love how I look in this suit! -PANTHERNA” Yeah, I guess maybe I was a little harsh but it is the truth! BOOM I reply.. Well kind of a reply, it just said, “Wow! Great, you have decided so fast because there is a villain in your town right now! If you scroll on the watch you will see all the abilities you have! Just double tap with 2 fingers! To de-transform you will need to say “Spots off'' and to transform say, “Leo spots on!” You just transformed by your watch because it is your first time! You will also have a Nami that is a leopard but in tiny creature form, he transforms you and is your little friend! But you need to keep this job a secret. NOW GO SAVE THE WORLD!!” Wow that was a lot to take in! I flew out of my window and WOW!! I love flying! I spotted the villain, It was like I had done this before. I flew down from behind, Then I realised, this is CRUELLA!! FROM THE MOVIE!! This was so cool because she was my favourite villain EVER!! But sadly today, the one time I see her, I need to defeat her… I was on top of the roof looking down at her. Then I saw these to OTHER superheroes fly in, one on the left and one on the right! They were both laughing and when they got together did a little hand shake. Then flew over to me one on each side, “Hi, I’m Luminater and he’s Huminater! I’m purple, he’s blue! Nice to meet you Pantherna! By the way, we are your sidekicks!” said Luminater holding out his hand, “uhh okay.. We need to make a plan” I didn't shake his hand because I don't shake strangers hands. I made up a plan in my head and used hand signals to tell me side kicks what to do, they just had blank and confused faces. I groaned and just told them, “So you guys go attack from behind I’ll distract, and you need to take the dalmation on her back off, it's a toy. BLAH BLAH BLAH… So go do that” They both nodded and flew onto the other roof behind cruella. I flew down and started to distract her, “HEY CRUELLA!! YOU DON'T SEEM LIKE A SMART VILLAIN HAHAHA” Obviously I was joking when I said that, “DALMATIANS ATTACK!!!” She shouted, soon hundreds of vicious dalmations came running after me, I quickly transformed into a Leopard and started running away from them. I know it would make more sense if it was a cheetah but I didn't choose okay? Anyway all the dogs started chasing me, then Luminater and Huminater started dashing down and grabbed the toy dog off her back and she fell to the ground as well as the dogs. Then the superhero police came and took her to.. Well I don't actually know where. Then I flew back home, “Spots off Leo!” Then I saw Leo for the first time and I loved him! I had dinner, got ready for bed and went to sleep. Today was an incredible day!
For one of this weeks reading tasks we had to make a DLO explaining what we think a healthy lifestyle is! I really enjoyed making my DLO about a healthy lifestyle and I also learnt some new things. In my DLO I included a slide about Healthy eating, Physical activity, and Sleep schedule.
For this weeks reading our topic was about balanced diet and how to keep healthy. We learned about what we should be eating and what we shouldn't have much of! For my create activity I chose to make a homemade ice block! They tasted delicious!
For one of the create tasks in our reading slides that I chose I needed to create my own healthy plate of food. I really enjoyed making a healthy lunch plate and maybe one day ill even actually make this plate of food!
For this weeks reading our topic was about Superheroes and Villains. We had to answer questions and try and figure out if a small text was written in 1st person or 3rd person. My favourite part was making up my own superhero (Pantherna) and making a wanted poster for her, as well as writing a story about her and her small crew!
Borders closed or open? How does this affect families? It has been a long discussion about whether NZ should keep its borders closed or if we should open them. I truly think that the government definitely made the right decision to shut the borders as quickly as they could.
Firstly, I know that SO many families are suffering because some of their family members are out of the country and they are separated until further notice. Which is why getting the vaccine could definitely help these families, at the moment even people that have got the COVID vaccine aren't allowed to leave the country right now, this is because we have Delta going around and we can't risk making it worse. When we have gone down a bit with levels and COVID cases, people are allowed to leave the country, but we have no idea how long that could take. I do think that when we are in level 3 and the person from a family that has family out of the country has had a covid vaccine, had the covid test, and isolated for two weeks and shown no symptoms, they should be allowed to leave the country to go see their family members.
Secondly, I don’t understand why everyone wants to leave the country when there isn't even a place to go to because pretty much all countries are infected by COVID. Yes, you may have been planning a holiday for a while now and maybe you were just about to go, but then COVID-19 hit, I’m gonna say this now, just because you’ve been planning a holiday for ages or whatever, it doesn't mean you get special treatment to leave the country. You leaving the country and coming back makes the COVID cases in the country you left to and the country you came back to go up even higher and make even more people ending up with COVID. So that is why just be patient and wait for the borders to open.
Thirdly, keeping the borders shut definitely helps prevent COVID from getting worse in our country. It definitely does not help with everything and just makes COVID leave straight away, it just helps with getting less COVID cases. Travelling in and out of the country carries sickness or COVID. You may say “but I have something important to go to” but really your “important” thing most likely got cancelled because of COVID. There is no way you can make up an excuse especially like that and get away with it, if you say you have family and you really want to see them, that is more important but as I said before travelling there and back to see family will most likely make covid worse in the country you went to and the country you came back too.
Overall, I think NZ is making the right decisions to move slowly, and wait until COVID makes its way out and off of earth slowly but as soon as it can. Hopefully soon we will go back to our COVID free lives.
For this weeks distance learning our big question was "Should we keep our borders shut?" We had to figure out if different sentences were facts or opinions! We learned about Venn Diagrams and had to pretend we were on the News and film us interviewing different characters.
