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! 

Bar and Histogram : Graph 2 (( Fruits

 

Task Description.
This  was our second graph we were told to, but this time it was about the most popular fruit among the pupils at their camp. First we created a tally chart so we know how many times that fruit got chosen. Then we used that data we found, and created a Column Graph. 

Do you like the graph I created? Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Bar and Histogram : Graph 1 (( Cars

 

This was the first graph room 1 and room 4 have done. This graph was about 'The most common car colours, we were told to record the data Jim counted and use the data he got to create a column graph. What do you think? Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Bar and Histogram Graphs

Task Description.
Today for maths, we were learning about Bar and Histogram graphs. This task was really fun for me as we learnt how to create proper graphs online, using a function made by google! What do you think about my graphs? Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Two way probability tables

This week, we've room 1 and room 4 have been learning about probability tables. On the following sides, we were told to assign the things into the correct column. E.g - We have 3 red triangles, so we put them in the columns of red, and triangles. Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Applying Pythagorean Theorem

This week, we were learning more about the Pythagorean Theorems. This task was really challenging and I still need some extra support in my learning journey for this. Although, it was really tough. It was also really enjoyable and was able to push all of our minds! Please leave a positive comment on our blog.

Controversial Topics - Different Perspectives

 

Today for Extension we were learning about Controversial topics once again. This time we're focusing on why you chose which country to compete for as an athlete. We were trying think of 6 different reasons on why we they chose to compete for that country. What do you think of my 6 reasons? Do you disagree or do you agree? Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Language Features

Today for literacy, we were looking at language features. This time, we were focusing on the 2 main ones, which were metaphors and similes. At first, my understanding of these two language features wasn't great, but thankfully today I've learnt some really important things about them which increased my knowledge!

What do you think? Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Crime Scene ( Multiplication and Division )

Today  for maths, we were becoming detectives once again for the week! How did we find out who the criminal is? Well our assistant for today was multiplication and division! We used multiplication and division to sum up all our answers. Do you wonder who the criminal was? Well check out my presentation and you'll find out! Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Missing Lengths of Right Angles!

Today for maths, we were learning about solving missing lengths triangles. At the start I found this task really challenging, but towards the end of it, I got a better understanding on how to solve it which I'm really proud off! Check out my journey on learning how to solve these equations. Did I do them correctly? Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

Intro to Pythagorean Thereon

This week for maths, we are learning something called the Pythagorean Thereon! Honestly this task was super challenging and got a few wrong. But in the end, it's all for fun and it was actually super enjoyable as I'm a huge fan of new things! Do you think I did well? Please  leave a positive comment on my blog.

Classifying Rational Numbers

For maths, we were once learning about classifying rational numbers. To be totally honest, I still currently don't have a huge understanding of rational numbers, integers, etc. But I still tried my best to finish of this slide! What do you think, did I do well? 

Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

CSI Files

Today, room 4 were secret detectives today. Our wonderful teacher, Ms. Hall used her time to create this really fun and creative task for us to do! We had to figure out who was the secret criminal using math equations to catch them! 

Check out my presentation to see how room 4 managed to find out the criminal!

Translations

Task description.

Today for maths, we were once again learning about coordinates! This time, it was actually really challenging. Going into this was really confusing, but got even more confusing! But I still quiet enjoyed doing this as it's great to learn different things that'll push you to your limit!

In the future I hope we'll be learning more about coordinates so I'll become a master at doing them! P