Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week

Day 5 - Activity 3 - Nelson Mandela

For this activity, choose one person and read all about them.

On your blog, provide us with:

1. The name of the person - Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
2. A description of the work they do/have done - Nelson was jailed for 27 years and then became the first black president ever in the election that black people were allowed to vote. 
3. An explanation of how they/their work has had an impact on the lives of others - He led the way for a lot of black people in Africa by ending apartheid. He brought equality for black people closer and his work with Frederick Willem De Klerk earned them a joint Nobel Prize. 

Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week

Day 4 - Activity 1 - Leading The Charge

For this activity, let’s imagine that, like Helen, you are hired to lead an organisation. In this case, you are hired to be the principal of your school for one week. What changes would you introduce? 

List five changes that you would make to your school if you were hired to be the principal for one week.

Changes - Longer Play Time, Daily Trips To The Pool, Maths And Literacy Free Time, Shorter School Time, More Sporting Opportunities. 

Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week

Day 2 - Activity 3 - The Greatest Of All Time

For this activity, please imagine that you are Garry Kasparov and that you were the best chess player in the world.

List three advantages and three disadvantages of being the GOAT of the chess world.

Advantages - You are the best, You are the world champion, People are scared of you

Disadvantages - If you lose you get a lot of grief, Not many people want to play you, If you lose then you lose the world title

Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week

Day 2 - Activity 1 - Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

For this activity, please create four new similes. You can use the starters below or you can make up your own.

She can run as fast as a cheetah

He is as tall as a giraffe

He is as slow as a turtle

She is beautiful like an angel

My Inquiry piskel

My Piskel

Our Inquiry focus this term is the power of taking action and a choice of art. We have to choose a style of art. Our choices were Pointillism, Papier-mâché, Doodle Art and Collage. I chose to do Pointillism, which is a type of art that you make with dots. The bad thing in the world that I am doing my art on is Deforestation. My Piskel is a rough idea of what my art will look like. We are going to be selling our artwork in week 8 of the school term 4. If you like my Piskel please comment.

My Super Speech

In Writing, we have been working on our speeches. We got to choose our topic and I chose strange laws because I think that it is an original speech idea. I had to research my speech a lot because I didn't know many weird rules from around the world. From the laws in this speech Germany has the most with 2 that I included. Please comment if you like it or give me feedback.

Find your hero rating

Our work in maths for week 2 was finding your hero rating by measuring your head to height ratio. if you want to find your hero rating then look through this slide above. My hero rating was 50%. is your higher?

Wonderful Writing Starters

In Writing, we have been doing starters in every session based on a photo. The first starter was a ship on its side and the second one was a shark coming out of the water with people walking past. We have 10 minutes to do each starter with a sentence on each taste, sight, and hearing. Are you wondering what happens next in my starters?

Dreadful Deforestation

In Inquiry this term we are doing the power of taking action. We had to do a SOL on what problem in the world we are going to do for Inquiry. I am doing Deforestation for Inquiry and I did my SOL on that as well. We had to do two open-ended questions in our slide. What problem would you take action for?

Term 4 Goals

At the start of term 4, we made a post of what goals we want to achieve this term. The one on the left is what we want to achieve in work and the one on the right is about the 5 R's. The 5 R's are Respect, Reciprocity, Resourcefulness, Reflectiveness, and Resilience. The one I chose to do my goal on is Reflectiveness. Do you have any goals this term?

Terrific Tennis Player Problem

This is my DLO(Digital Learning Object) about a tennis player problem I got in maths. We got a prompt and there were questions about that prompt. We had to answer this on a separate slide and then make our own slide about the questions in the slide. Can you answer the questions and make a comment?

Super School Of Rock

In Cybersmart with Mr. Bell, we did a SIT on what we did in the holidays. I chose to do mine on the school of rock, which I watched in Auckland with my parents. A SIT is something surprising, something interesting and something troubling. What did you do in the holidays?

Perfect Persuasive Writing 4

In Writing, we have been doing persuasive writing this term and we were given a task if we wanted New Zealand children to be able to vote and I said no. You will find out soon if you read my persuasive writing.

NZ children shouldn’t be able to vote

Hi, I’m Dylan, do you think children should be able to vote in elections? Because I don’t and I am going to tell you why.

Firstly, most kids would just vote for the current Prime Minister or if they are really young they could just vote for the party with their favourite colour or point out a random politician they like the look of.

Secondly, a lot more parties would be made so they could be in parliament with hooks like giving out sweets to every child in New Zealand. This could be a waste of our taxpayer’s money and time.  We already have enough political parties to choose between.

Thirdly, more paper would be used because some people don’t have devices and a lot of trees will have to be used to send voting papers out to most people in New Zealand.

Next, kids don’t know much about politics, so they could just vote for the same people as their parents. Or if there is someone they know in the elections they could vote for them. This is not a well-educated decision.

Now, some kids could just scribble a person’s name out and write their own in that space. Or if they get the paper version then they could just tick them all.

If kids could vote there should be an age limit of at least 10 or 11. At that age, you should be expected to be sensible.

After this do you think children should be able to vote? Because I don’t.

Why we should get more than one hour of screen time a day

In writing, we have been doing persuasive writing. this is a build-up for when we do our speeches. This is my second persuasive writing and we could choose out of some options that you can be for or against. I chose to be against the one that I chose. I think that I have done well on this topic because it is quite a hard topic. If I have done anything wrong or you think that I can do anything better please comment.

Screen time for children shouldn’t be limited to one hour a day.

Hello, I’m Dylan and I am going to talk to you why we should get more than one hour of screen time a day. I think that we should get more than one hour and I have got reasons to back myself up.

Firstly, I think that we should get about two hours of learning on devices and one hour for playing games on a device. A Canadian study shows that a child between eight and 11 should have 60 minutes of physical activity, two hours of screen time and nine to 11 hours of sleep. I think that this is quite close to what I think is right. 

Secondly, It can give kids time to relax if they have had a hard day and if they are really tired, they can have some time to chill out. And if they are really sad they can have some time out on their favourite game. There are also educational websites like Epic reading and Mathletics and you can write stories on google docs. You can also do research on Google and Safari. 

Thirdly, You can learn a lot of things and you can ‘meet’ other people on their blogs and become pen pals and they might be able to visit you from other countries. You could also do video chats and speak to each other after school if you are in a time zone where you are awake at the same time. 

After this, do you think that children should get more than 1 hour of screen time a day? Because if you do, then, in my opinion, you are right.

Thankfulness collage with Canva

In Cybersmart on Wednesday 28th of August, we made a thankfulness collage on Canva. We made this because our focus this term is Thankfulness. We had to search up what we were most thankful for. I put Soccer in because it is my favourite sport and I put in burgers because it is one of my favourite meals. I put a house in because I live in a house and I put water in because we couldn't survive without it. If you think I could improve this please comment. What would you put on your poster?

Origin of food 2

In Homebase haoura, we have been doing the origin of food. Because I finished the first one I got to do a second. My first one was on pizza and it was really easy but this one on ice cream was quite hard. I found out a lot about ice cream in this one. Can you please comment to say how good I have done and if I could do anything better.

Give me five Harry Potter Series.

Give me five Harry Potter series on Biteable.

In Reading, we have been doing a book club on Mondays and we do activities. This give me five biteable is a can-do and I have been doing this for a couple of weeks. I have worked hard on this and I have added extra people from my first one. If you like it please comment and if you don't please comment on what I could do better.

Winter Tournament Reflection

Winter Tournament Reflection

On Wednesday the 7th of August the year 5/6 Marshland Soccer A team went to the winter tournament at Rawhiti Domain. In our grade, we had 8 teams on a futsal size pitch. We won 2 games, drew 2 games and lost 3. I think that our team did really well in the tournament and we got a 0-0 draw against the team that came second. I felt that I did well, scoring 2 goals in the tournament. I learned that to play on pitches that size you have to be prepared for anything because the pitches were smaller than the ones that we play on Fridays. I think that I need to work around the middle of the pitch. If I could go back and change something then I would make more of an effort to help get back and defend because when I was midfield I would just hover around the edge of the box. Of the 5 R's, the one that I think I used was Resilience because when we lost it was hard to take the loss.

Can you please comment if I need to improve anything or you were in the winter tournament because we might have versed you.

Terrific term 3 reading assignments

For reading, we do 2 reading assignments a week. The first week I did 2 give me fives and I will keep adding to this slide. This week I have done things about other readers. We have a list of about 20 activities to do and I will do different ones next week. I think that I have done well in these activities because I did them in 2 days. Do you like Harry Potter?

Perfect Persuasive writing

This is my persuasive writing from the start of term 3. I chose this subject because of our inquiry this term which is on the power of innovation. This persuasive writing is going to help us because we are doing speeches later in the term. I think I have done really well for writing a lot of words about this subject.

Why we should fill up the Red Zones

Hello, I'm Dylan and I am going to tell you why we need to fill up the red zones. In this persuasive writing piece, I am going to tell you what we should build in the multiple red zones. Some of my ideas are a mountain bike trail, a running trail, a dog park, a bike pump track and more.

 For my first point, we need to build some things but they need to be careful how tall they are and the weight. But a reason we need to get creative to fill up spaces is that we have too many places that are empty. And if we build some things it might bring people from around the world and some of those people might make friendships.

 Onto my second point, which is why we need more attractions. If we get more attractions to come into the red zone it will get more money for the council so even more things can be built and so they can afford to make even more things. And because a lot of people moved away after the earthquakes it might bring people back to Christchurch. And if there are moving events held in the red zone parking outside of the red zone will be full people will have to walk miles.

That comes to my next point, why we need to make the roads again. If we do then it will be easier to get around to things on the other side instead of taking the long way around the outside. We could just open the roads for short times only or just make a barrier so you have to pay to get in and it will bring more money to hold multiple events.

 As for the old buildings people could do street art in a really bright picture to bring joy and happiness because of the bright colours. They could also add special effects like the 3D wall in town. If people see that it could make them really happy. They could also hold a reunion for the people who used to live in the red zones. They could also add in some small sporting grounds for rugby and soccer and other things. If they did all of this then I would be very glad.

But what we need to do to attract worldwide sporting events is a world-class sporting centre. And that would bring lots of people from around the world to come and eat in our restaurants and sleep in our hotels. All of those people would be spending what we need. Money.

Most of these things would all have to be made without heavy machinery because we can’t risk more liquefaction rising up. Do you reckon all this will work if we had the choice to do this? Do you reckon this is possible? Because I do. Would you agree with me?