Zoo Debate

 W.A.L.T. Critically Analyse text and form opinions.

I have made a reading slide  about a zoo debate, I will do this over the week. Here is the first part. 

Currency

 W.A.L.T. Work from home.

Today I have created maths content. It is about currency, here it is!

Converting Fractions To Percentages

 W.A.L.T. Convert fractions into percentages.

In my math group we were converting fractions into percentages and here's my questions and answers.

All Children Should Learn A Second Language In School

 W.A.L.T. Critical thinking.

I have an argument for why children should learn a second language in scool and here's why:

I think Children should learn a second language in school because it slows dementia, helps with multitasking and gives you sharper focus.

Being bilingual isn’t as bad as you think. Sure, it’s hard to learn another language but if you do you can have a lot of good things in life that other people won’t have and you can be a really good translator.

My first reason is that it slows dementia. We still need a little bit more research, but it’s shown that being bilingual slows dementia by 5 years. Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life. 

Credit to google for the definition.

My second reason is that it helps with multitasking. Most people find multitasking really hard because they aren’t used to doing 2 things at nearly the same time. Don’t worry though! If you’re bilingual it becomes much easier to switch from one thing to another quickly and with more ease than if you only speak one language.

My final reason is that it can give you sharper focus. If you are bilingual you have both languages activated at the same time, monitoring which language is appropriate for which situation. That can give you better attention and sharper focus.

There you have it, that's why it’s important to learn a second language. It slows dementia, helps with multitasking and can give you sharper focus. Thank you for reading and listening to my argument.

Thanks to Psych 2 go for the information

Narritive

 W.A.L.T. Create a detailed and descriptive Narrative.

I made a Narrative about Minecraft because I love Minecraft. :)

The Invasion

Fox and his friends were investigating the ruins on top of the hill. “We goin’ in?” Fox asked. Zeb, Alex

and Kalem all nodded. As they were checking it out Zeb found a Portal. “Hey guys, I found

this bedrock portal!” Zeb Called. As the rest of the group came to the portal, they heard a

humming noise. “Let's go in.” Alex said. Then they got sucked into the portal. They woke

up in the most blocky dimension in the world. “Um, are we in Minecraft?” Kalem asked.

Then they heard a rumbling noise, the loudest noise in Minecraft. They saw about 10,000

things charging at them on the horizon. 

“ We need to go now, punch a tree, make some basic tools and a boat, we need

to go now!” Fox Exclaimed. They made the boats and tools, so they started running.

They found an ocean and they placed the boats and started rowing away from the

things that were chasing them. As they rowed, Alex thought about what would happen to

them. “I see land!” Alex shouted to his friends. As they rowed towards the land, they saw

a cave and decided to mine for some stone and iron. After they made iron chest plates

and stone tools for everybody, when they exited the cave they realised it was nighttime.

They saw a skeleton aiming an arrow at them and Kalem blocked the arrow. Then Zeb and

Fox slaughtered the skeleton and found a bow. “I’ll take the bow.” Fox said. “Okay.” Alex

sighed. They killed some more mobs and Alex got a bow. They then found a punch 2 and

infinity 1 bow. Fox took that bow and gave the old bow to Zeb. They found a village and

there were 2 blacksmiths. The group found some diamonds and iron tools in the chests.

Fox found this red button and fell down a hole and into this room with maxed out things

of everything. He took the stuff and distributed it to the whole group evenly. They were

OP and ready for battle. They made a base and built a castle where they were ready for

the last stand against the things that have chased them for so long.

They got on the castle wall and saw the things. They realised it was this glitch which

was as dark as midnight. They each had 100 health and did 10 damage per hit. They

killed one in 10 seconds. “We need an army for this, we’re going to fail.” Alex sighed in

defeat. Then a voice behind them said “Well you're lucky you’ve got an army of your

own.” They whipped around and saw these people behind them. “What the heck is

going on?” Kalem asked. “You need help right?” one asked. “Yes, yes, yes and yes.”

Zeb said. “Okay, everybody let’s do this!” the other one yelled. “Let the battle begin.” Fox said

The quartet charged into battle and quickly found their target which was the boss guy. It had

1000 health and it did 30 damage per hit. “Come and get me losers!” The boss guy taunted.

“Come and get us!” Alex yelled back. The guy charged across the battlefield, knocking his own

soldiers out of the way to get to the group of 4. He swung his battleaxe toward them when he

got there. They all swiftly dogged out of the way and counter attacked the boss guy. It was

now at 975 health. It swung the battle axe at Zeb while he was recovering. Fox barely managed

to block the attack on Zeb and Zeb hit it with everyone else. It was at 950 health now. As the

battle raged around them, they found themselves surrounded by the enemy. The boss said,

“Ready… Aim… Fire!” Then there was this thing that came down from the sky. They realised

it was a laser cannon. Alex shot the cannon and got the boss on 200 health along with killing

some of the glitches. But then the cannon broke. The battle continued hastily. Soon the boss

was on 50 health and Fox, Kalem, Alex and Zeb were on half a heart. They all attacked and it

was on 5 health. The thing did it’s final attack which was spinning the axe around and throwing it.

Fox dodged the attack and delivered the final blow. It was over. They finally defeated

the glitch and began to celebrate their victory. The friends healed up and decided it was

time to go back to their world. They filled the path of destruction caused by the glitches.

They made it back to the portal and managed to get back through the portal. The four

friends got back to their houses and decided to make a new world. The group never

went through the portal again… Or did they?

How to find a Bible Verse

 W.A.L.T. Be reliable.

I made an instructional video on how to find a bible verse. Here it is!

Listening Eyes, Speaking Hands

 W.A.L.T. Make inferences about beliefs of people at different times.

In the Group B work we had to do a doc about the deaf education with a text that let us learn about deaf education. Here's is the link to the doc: Listening eyes, speaking hands.

Olympics Gold Medallist visits our school!

W.A.L.T. Reflect on exciting experiences.

At NBC on the 17th of August in 2021 The Gold Medallist Emma Twigg visited our school. When she got there the Haka group did their Haka that they were practising. After the Haka we sung the national anthem and we got to ask some questions. One of the questions was what does her daily routine look like and Emma Twigg said it was her eating breakfast, rowing, lift weights, and more rowing. I got to touch the gold medal and see both sides.

Visual Mihi

W.A.L.T. Make a mihi

In Room 2 we were split into 2 groups, I was in the second group and we had to make a visual mihi. Here is the visual mihi.

Maori dictionary

 W.A.L.T. Increase our Maori vocabulary.

In room 2 for reading some of us were making a Maori dictionary with 16 definitions. I did it with Zeb and this is the dictionary!

Red Hat Feelings About Sports

 W.A.L.T. Make connections to texts.

In Room 2 we are learning about the Olympics and I have a Red hat saying how I feel about sports. I'm not the best at sports, but that doesn't mean I don't like them. Here's the Red hat!

The Boy With Wings Reflection

W.A.L.T. Reflect on our experiences.

 In NBC we were lucky enough to have people come and put on a show. The Show was called The Boy With Wings, or as I like to call it, Da Boi Wath Wongs. Sorry if you're reading this, people who made the show. The show was about a guy who needed to save his apple trees from dying and he went on a quest to find the treasure which would save his apple trees. What he didn't know was that the water that he was looking for was under a rock in his apple tree orchard. He eventually found out and saved his trees from dying. There was also in between parts of the story a professor who was talking a type of bird called Godwits. I loved the show and thought it was awesome. Have you ever read the book The Boy With Wings?

Here are some pictures from it.

Olympic facts

WALT: Make connections to texts.

In Room 2 we were focusing On the Olympics and I did a few facts about the Olympics.

Here they are!