Rata and the Totara Tree.

Task Description: For this weeks reading task we have learnt about the Totara Tree, we had to summarise and describe about an article.  This is a myth also called Rata and the Totara Tree, also making a review video or audio of what we liked, found interesting, and what we learnt about the article.

Here is the Video:

Myths&Legends Passport.

Task Description: A few weeks ago we learnt about 6 different myths&legends and we had a passport with us as we travelled to different countries (classes). With our passports as we learnt about the myth or legend we had to write interesting facts about what the myth or legend was about. Also we had to write in here what our favourite one yet was and I have picked the Cambodian Mythology myth and it's on my blog too.

Time for decimals.

WALT: Working co-operative with others in small groups.

Task Description: Another maths task for the week and I worked independantly as it is lock down here in Auckland, so yes, we are staying in our homes for a bit. For this task we have  done decimals, including subtract and addition, we had to fill in the missing spots too and answer all questions.

Decimals and Fracions.

WALT: Working co-operative with others in small groups.

Task Description: Here is a maths task all about decimals and fractions, we worked in peers and worked together to get the answers for each question. We also had some help from our teacher and my partner and I finished it well together.

Venn Diagram: Similarities of 2 Myths.

WALT: identify the difference between a myth and a legend.

Task Description: This week for reading we have watched different myth creation story's from around the world and I have done them from Hawaii and New Zealand. Then we had to work with a partner to create a venn diagram and compare what they have the same.

Cambodian Myth: Lighting, Thunder and Rain.

Task Description: This is our sixth and last rotation for our Myth and Legend Stories and this is all about Cambodia and we had to do a Mix and Match on a poster. Then we had a Create Task and me and my partner Terapi did a tour guide of some places in Cambodia.  

Create Task:

Greek Mythology.

Task Description: Today was our fifth rotation and we learned about a myth of Greek Mythology. There was a boy that was born and his name was Hermes he created fire and lyre. We had to make a poster about a Greek God and write down facts about that god,also Greece is in Southern Europe.

The reason why I have chosen this god is because she is a worthy female and she knows what she's doing all the time. But also she is associated with wisdom and warfare and that's what makes me feel like I want to do a kind of god like her.

Paul Bunyan: An American Legend.

Task Description: Today was our third rotation moving into a different class, and today it was all about a legend of Paul Bunyan. This is a American Legend and it is about a man that was 63 handles tall and he who travelled around the world being a wood cutter and helper.

The Watcher of the South.

Task Description: This is our second myth and legend rotation moving to a different class, the myth for today was called 'The Watcher of the South'. In this presentation we had to listen to story's, name characters, and even rewrite the myth into our own version of it.

Dragon's Eye Lake Myth.

Team 5 is rotating to different classes and learning about myths and legends. Our first class was with our home class and then we rotate clockwise each day.

Task Description: Room 3 learned about the Dragon's Eye Lake, down below is a description of the myth and 4 interesting facts that I've learnt from it. Also we had to draw a dragon's eye and put a photo of the Croatia flag because that's where the lake is.

Welcome to Term 3! 'A World Of Difference'.

'A World Of Difference'

Welcome back to Term 3!

Every term we start off with an immersion assembly and we get to  know  what we are going to be learning for the term and this term it's all about 'A World Of Difference'. Learning new things all around the world and everything being a difference from what other people do, but also learning what people do and what things are like around the world too. Each team had to explain what they are going to be learning compared to 'A World Of Difference'.

Team 1 is learning about how and what, children eat for their lunch for school and how do they travel to school too. Relating to what different things do they do and eat for when they are at school compared to what we do here in our own school.

Team 2 is exploring different  places and getting to know all about the different landmarks around the world and seeing what they can explore for their journeys. 

Team 3 is focusing on something compared to The Amazing Race and visiting different places also like Team 2, and also learning things about what kind of places are there compared to where we live.

Team 4 is learning about the food we eat and where they originally come from around the world. But also which country were they're from and what kinds of food that are the same but different to what we eat.

Team 5 is all about myths and legends, learning what story's that are different in culture and knowing new things based on a true story.  Like Sina and the Eel, how this is a true story and that it still read by people and how important it is till this day.

My thoughts about having immersion assembly's is that I think it is exciting and important because knowing what we are going to be learning is going to really hook us in to learning and also knowing how fun it's going to be for a new fresh term. These assembly's are exciting to me because I can know more about the different things that happen around the world but also immersion assembly's can be funny and just making people happy around the school.

Figurative Language.

Number 28.

It was 12:00 o’clock at night and I was tired, I picked up my phone and suddenly I got a text. The text was from my friend Nevayah, it said Paigey hurry you better run and tell your parents there's a huge robot outside, sorry gotta go Byeeee. When I finished reading the text I just put it down and started running to my parents room telling them the text I got. But they wouldn't believe me so I told them to look outside and the big their was a big robot tearing down the city, so they looked at each other and got me and we all ran to the car not even thinking to look back at the window.

We went to Nevayah house first because we wanted them to be safe too and their car broke down so we speed there. When we got their me and Nevayah looked at the robot and it had a number 28 on it so decided to call ‘The 28’, but we didn't even know what we were doing naming the robot. So then suddenly we looked at the direction it was going and it heading to the sky tower.

Wondering why it was going there so we told my mum and dad to stop the car this instinct and we both ran out of the car not even telling our parents what was going on. Our parents was chasing after us but we already knew what the robot what trying to do, as we ran together as fast as we could lose our parents at the back of us. As we  both look at each other while running we both said at the same time what are we doing with a panicked voice. We were so close to the robot it looked like he was taller than the sky tower, then suddenly we zoomed in between his legs and headed straight to the sky city door. But then we heard a loud bang and then . . . . To be continued.

Technology is not always Life.

Technology is not always Life. 

What is so good about technology all the time?

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Technology is not a thing where you go on it everyday and each second, but taking some time off it and resting your mind from the bright screen.  

Technology is not good for your eyesight because it could damage your vision of what you see.

Every time you are on a device all the screen does is cause eye strain and other vision problems.

For example, making sure that your taking some time off so your parents wouldn't have to take you to a doctor and check your eyesight.

Technology can distract you from anything important because you might forget what you have to do.

When your parents are talking to and you're not listening that means if you have to do something important, it might have been very serious.

For example, finishing off essays and doing your homework for the next day to be prepared for your test.

It can take you away from the people you love most and that you care about.

Being mindful of the people that you care about and making sure you spend more time with them than on your device.

For example, technology can take you away from your best friends that love you and that they want to hang out. But being on your device and choosing it over the people you love the most.

Now  technology can be very bright because of the screen, but having some time’s off it than being on it each and every day. Also getting the children to motivate and work together as a team with a teacher more than on a device. So technology is actually a thing that you can contact people or anything
else, so things like this is basically a tool for people.

Task Description: This is week Room 1 literacy has been doing explanation writing and we had to add the SEE information with it. Which was a statement, a explanation, and example. When we have finished writing it we had to highlight the statement in blue, the explanation in green, and the example in pink. Also in the very beginning of our writing we had to write a hook sentence and question, so we can hook our readers. But in the end we also have to add a conclusion to end our explanation writing. Hope you enjoy reading my explanation writing and may you have a great day.

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The Science Behind De-Extinction

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The idea of de-extinction is that we can bring back species that are now completely gone. The major flashpoint of interest in what has now led to de-extinction technology happened about 10 years ago when Dolly the sheep was created. In many ways, Dolly was the harbinger of the kind of technology that will permit us to do even more sophisticated kinds of creation of species that used to exist, species that still exist and perhaps even species that never existed. We can group relevant methods into three large categories.There's back-breeding which humans have practiced literally for thousands and thousands of years. This is being done right now in Western Europe, trying to recreate what's known as the aurochs. The way cows look today is not the way the cattle family looked 10,000 years ago. So, if your problem is to recreate one of those primitive cows, what do you do? Well you reach back into the genetic code by selecting for animals that have slightly longer horns or a bigger bulk or the kind of hide coloration that you think is appropriate. It is a very viable and low-tech way of de-extinction. And the investigators trying to do this back-breeding to aurochs have had some success. The animals look quite a bit like old representations that go right back to cave paintings. But what is it really? What it is really is a constellation of traits that you've selected for and you know nothing, really, about how close it is physiologically to an aurochs because there's no way of examining a living aurochs at present. You also don't know about behavior. Behavior tends not to fossilize in any realistic manner and the degree to which any modern cow resembles an aurochs in terms of behavior is a complete unknown. A second method for de-extinction that has improved greatly in the last 10 years is cloning, particularly the kind of cloning known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. You take the genetic material -- the nucleus -- of one cell, you put it into another -- an egg -- and that egg is then placed in an animal that will act as surrogate mother and produce an offspring. There's also been massive improvements in what we can call synthesis. Synthesis involves making up our own sequence, just like in a recipe. If you have two species -- one extinct, one living -- you can get the genetic material of the extinct one and compare that to the living one. Passenger pigeons died out, finally, almost exactly a hundred years ago. Passenger pigeons have several very close relatives among pigeons and one is the band-tailed pigeon, which is very close indeed.  In recent years, scientists have been able to isolate the differences between the genomes of extinct passenger pigeons and living band-tailed pigeons. They've been able to inject these novel sequences into the germ line of developing band-tailed pigeons and using surrogates with the sex cells of passenger pigeons.If you cross breed them one to another, you will in the next generation get something that should look exactly like a passenger pigeon. Now comes the basic question here, which is: What are you going to do with passenger pigeons, assuming that you go ahead and create a whole flock of them? It's been estimated that there were probably more passenger pigeons than any other kind of bird ever. I don't know what we would do with a billion passenger pigeons. We don't like pigeons to begin with in this place. A very important thing to consider about extinctions in general in the course of life on the planet is that the waters close very quickly when a species disappears. What tends to happen is that other species move in. This is how evolution in fact works. The mammoth behind me perfectly illustrates some of the issues that we're going to face with de-extinction. There is no place for several more very large herbivores in a place like the U.S. except under very controlled conditions. Who's going to take care of them? How are you going to provision them? Are we thinking that we're going to bring back the Pleistocene by virtue of having a few extinct species? What we're really talking about is undertaking a whole lot of unplanned experiments, the consequences of which are very hard to predict. We don't want a situation in which we drive out species that are perhaps already endangered thanks to us with something else that we drove to extinction thousands of years ago. De-extinction to the degree it will take place should be limited in its scope, limited in its ambition, limited in the kinds of species that we bring back. But if there was one animal I could vote for to bring back, it would be one of these giant ground sloths. If you want people to be interested in not only what the planet still has and how we might conserve it, but what the planet has recently lost and perhaps most particularly what it's lost because of human activities, then to see these again, to see mammoths again in the flesh would be an exciting prospect. It would raise rather than dampen interest in preserving what we have and what we used to have. Video Link: https://youtu.be/Pkc_WodJxsk

Major flashpoint. sophisticated De-Extinction Completely gone Might bring back species aTechnology Dolly the sheep. 10 years ago Harbinger Kind of technology  Kind of creation of species Species that still exist  Species that never existed Three large Categories Back-breeding Western Europe The aurochs Cows Looked Cattle Family 10,000 year ago Primitive cows Genetic code Constellation Physiologically Fossilize Cloning Genetic material. The nucleus  The one cell Synthesis Cequence One exinct Passenger pigeons Developing Surrogates Billion passenger pigeons Mammoth Large herbivores Pleistocene Consequences Pleistocene Giant ground sloths Particularly Exciting prospect Dampen.

Explanation Writing - Technology.

What is so good about technology all the time?

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Technology is not a thing where you go on it everyday and each second, but taking some time off it and resting your mind from the bright screen.  

Technology is not good for your eyesight because it could damage your vision of what you see.

Every time you are on a device all the screen does is cause eye strain and other vision problems.

For example, making sure that your taking some time off so your parents wouldn't have to take you to a doctor and check your eyesight.

Technology can distract you from anything important because you might forget what you have to do.

When your parents are talking to and you're not listening that means if you have to do something important, it might have been very serious.

For example, finishing off essays and doing your homework for the next day to be prepared for your test.

It can take you away from the people you love most and that you care about.

Being mindful of the people that you care about and making sure you spend more time with them than on your device.

For example, technology can take you away from your best friends that love you and that they want to hang out. But being on your device and choosing it over the people you love the most.

Task Description: This is week Room 1 literacy has been doing explanation writing and we had to add the SEE information with it. Which was a statement, a explanation, and example. When we have finished writing it we had to highlight the statement in blue, the explanation in green, and the example in pink. Also in the very beginning of our writing we had to write a hook sentence and question, so we can hook our readers. Hope you enjoy reading my explanation writing and may you have a great day.

Bye bye