Literacy Planet Recap

 

Literacy planet is a digital browser that teaches students figurative speech, spelling, etc. Room 4 have been using literacy planet for a while, and this is my journey using this website!

Literacy planet is a fun browser that lets you able to have fun while learning. I especially love the spelling assignments, even though one of the tasks are a real hassle to play. Although they don't only have spelling, they have comprehension, figurative language, punctuation and more!

Compared to maths whizz, its actually quiet similar, but their are definitely some differences. One of the main differences is the speed. Maths whizz usually takes quiet a while, with all the detailed animations, while in literacy planet, you're able to skip those scenes. 

Another main difference is the difficulty. As maths whizz lets you do an assessment, its able to track where your maths level is at and is able to find your weaknesses. Literacy planet does not have that feature, so depending on the task it can both be really hard or really easy, which is very inconsistent. 

Here are how many points I've gotten using literacy planet for about a month! 

ATTITUDE

 Today, Robbie and Charlie from ATTITUDE came to talk with us intermediate boys. They made many points, which made us feel less-insecure and become more confident within ourselves. Here is my favourite topic we've talked about.

Shape, meaning our body. We were told that everyone can be insecure about their body, from being too skinny to being too chubby. Although because of that, we're all unique and different. From this, we learnt to be more confident about our body and its okay to be different and to stand out.

Shape also meaning by 'height'. We learnt that its both valuable and both have different strengths. Although they explained it with humour which was a nice surprise! And we were told that if it affects you too much, were always able to talk about it with someone you trust!

In conclusion, boys are all different, from different sizes to our genital areas, height, width, etc.

Thank you ATTITUDE for coming to Point England! 

Online Meeting with Mrs. Stone!

Here is a screenshot of room 4 together!

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Today was a special day! Our old teacher, Mrs. Stone who in on her maternity leave was able to be in an online meet! We finally met and talked to the new member of room 4, Ruby! We asked questions, told her what we've learnt, and what we've been doing these past few months! 

Overall, it was so nice to be able to talk to Mrs. Stone and being able to talk to Ruby aswell! 

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What we've learnt in extension so far?

 In extension, we've been learn many things about the Earth and its oceans. The extension group learnt three main things, the first thing we'll be talking about is about sustainability. 

I realized that I knew what 'sustainability' was but didn't know a deeper meaning of it. The extension group found out that it was a thing that we do individually. What I mean by this is balancing our usage of natural resources to our needs.

https://mammothmemory.net/geography/geography-vocabulary/tropical-rainforests/sustainability.html

 Well we don't have to completely remove these from our lives, but we need to make an attempt to reduce all of the natural resources we can and to balance it out with our needs. It not only is essential to our environments, but the future generations the earth holds.

BIODIVERYSITY

Biodiversity is the other thing the extension group have learnt about. We learnt that BIODIVERSITY describes the variety of life in earth. Biodiversity refers to every living thing on earth, which can include plants, bacteria, animals, etc. 

Why is BIODIVERSITY important to us? Well biodiversity provides us with many things, they supply oxygen, they clean the air and water, and lots more! If you haven't realized it yet, its sort of a gift from the gods. It protects us, keeps us safe, fight diseases, etc. If we didn't have biodiversity, we'd all be dead. That's why biodiversity is very important towards animals, plants, and more!

https://www.eurosite.org/eurosite-news/the-eu-biodiversity-strategy-2030-getting-to-implementation/

Lastly, MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES.

Ms. West has provided us with information that'll definitely help towards the future. Which is making the right choices. Making the right choices means to be aware of the choices and make sure to choose which one is more suitable to your liking.

We can balance our lives by making the right choices. "How does it benefit us?", well it can not only help you, but it can also help the earth. For example, choosing between water and soft drinks. Instead it goes into a deeper meaning. We have to think about the material, where it comes from, how will it benefit us? Another example is shampoo soap bars that are ecofriendly and shampoo bottles. We have to think deeper, think about where it comes from. The shampoo bottles probably comes from a factory, if they create more of these, it'll pollute the air, whilst maybe the soap bars are made in a safe environment, using packaging materials that reduce our usage of plastic.

This is what I mean by making the right choices, too think more about the things were benefiting of it.

Those are the 3 main things we've learnt in extension, but guess what? We've also been learning about a critically endangered species thats around New Zealand! Check out my research explaining how we can help them survive and some facts about them!

This is what we've been doing in extension these past few weeks!

Tree Probability Diagrams

Today for maths, I've done a task relating to tree probability diagrams. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. 

Pie Graphs

Task description.

Today, room 4 and room 1 have been learning about pie graphs. This task was really informative and helpful as I wasn't  the strongest at pie graphs. In this task, I learnt how to construct a pie graph, and how to look at them with more thought as I did. 

Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

He aha to hiahia?

Task description.

Today for Te Reo, my group was learning the phrase 'He aha to hiahia?', which means 'What do you want?'. We learnt how to respond to the phrase, like " He Ropere mau". We also created a poster to show a conversation using the new phrases we learnt!