Learning to make connections

Yesterday I learnt how to make connections with text to text and text to self. We had to read four story's from the ToiToi website, the story's were amazing. There was one about ANZAC day, it was a very cool poem. (it almost made me cry.) 

Today

Remembrance Day

Remembering you by the poppy fields as red as blood

Sacrifice in the mud

The guns, the bombs and cruel barbed wire

The trenches, the food, the scorching fires

Your letter to me, I will keep close to my heart

I will never forget you, we will never part

The flag raised swiftly in the sky

Showing your courage where you might lie

The Last Post plays loud and clear

Now I feel as if you’re near

What have you been through?

I have no clue

But never, ever will I forget you

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Its really nice... It was very, VERY, time consuming to do all this work! 

Did you like the poem? I certainly do  

Minecraft Creative mode the basic game

Minecraft Creative mode the basic game as you saw in the last post this lockdown I will make a series of posts conserning Minecraft                                   

The difference between the to is that in Creative mode you can't die, but you can fly you have infinite of everything but there are no achievements even if you go back to survival so don't cheat for achievements    

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sorry I can't really tell you any tips on the matter because the possibility's are almost endless

 controls  

Double tap space bar to fly 

w is forward

a is left 

s is back

d is right 

e is inventory 

SHIFT is crouch 

space is jump 

I am not qualified to tell this I'm not very good on Minecraft so I'll link a good video on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWhyDeVb3E

       

                                                                                                                                                                  

How To Be Kind 101

 About 15 minutes ago I filled out a form about being kind so I'm practically an expert (not really) I just did some questions about how I can be kind, and if these blogs are a little bit short it is because I'm attempting to finish most of my schoolwork today.

My Week So Far

This past month have been full of stress and unexpected things. Like my great Aunty going to hospital, and the re-opening of shops in Auckland! But in this blog, I'm just going talk about my week.

                        

This week was hectic to sum it up in one word, but first we have to talk about last Sunday. My dad went to the supermarket and we found out about a thing that the supermarket are doing, and basically if you spend thirty dollars you'll get a bit of a supermarket in bricks, (like Lego). And I got tons! We spent a whole lot on food. On Monday nothing happened... But on Tuesday I got more of the brick things. On Wednesday nothing happened. I'm writing this on Thursday morning,  so I can't comment on what happened. today I can't comprehend the future, so that's all I can say on that front so goodbye.         

Tessellating Madness

 Yesterday I made a tessellation and two days ago I also made a tessellation !!!!! So in this blog, I'm talking about both of them...

For the first one I was following a tutorial and was very intricate. It took me 2 hours do put three pieces together, and sadly I didn't take a photo of the first tessellation.   The second one had much better results. In one hour I had made sixteen pieces, to be fair, I may have made a simpler pattern, here it is:

  Sorry that there isn't much saturation it was, bright yellow and blue.

Recounting Onehunga - The Walk

 Yesterday I recounted a walk It took me a long long time (4 hours) here it is: 

have you ever seen a house with a cupola?  

I really like the book exchange. 

here is a picture of a cupola:

 

What would the Once-ler do?

Today I've been tasked with making 5 questions about the lorax. the questions are about kaitiakatanga. (kaitiakatanga is guardianship and protection of the land) the questions were only a bit time-consuming and frustrating, here they are :

Mr Once-ler why didn’t you replant more trees? 

Mr Once-ler did you have any ideas of how many trees you could cut?

Mr Once-ler why didn’t you  just sheared off most of the leaves off the trees? 

Mr Once-ler why did you destroy the landscape?

Mr Once-ler why didn’t you use a more sustainable power source?

A huge time waster

who could of thought that that tessellation could be such a time waster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(a tessellation is a pattern that has no gaps or over-laps) 

I have chosen to use a mix of diamonds and octagons and attempted to make a map of New Zealand here it is:

If I were to do it next time I would use hexagons because there the best-a-gons!!

Minecraft the basic game (survival mode)

Minecraft is a world building game that is almost entirely made of blocks there are two default modes survival and creative mode today I am going to talk about survival mode basics.

Here they are:  

When you first make your Minecraft world you have limited food and health.

You need to gather materials by punching trees, mining, hunting and farming.

In survival mode you also need to avoid monsters/hostile mobs these include Zombies, Skeletons, Creepers and Endermen. 

When you punch a tree you make 1 log, put it in the crafting menu to make planks. Spread them around the crafting menu to make a crafting table. You will use the planks to make 1 stick and make a pic axe. 

Ratios Immersion-Week 6

Yesterday my class were learning ratios.  I explained to my class that ratios are the same as scale.  Ratios (and scales) are very useful in the real world, here are some examples: cooking and building.   There are different forms of Ratios like fractions and scale.                                                                                      

A brief history of the world from the Greeks on. My slide show

My slide show. From the start of 2021 I have been working on a slide show about you guessed it, a brief history of the world from the Greeks onward.  I'm still not done and I also don't think I'll be done for a while!

My Model Tank - Airfix 1/76 M4 Sherman MK.I

About a month ago I bought a tank from a model shop it took me around a week to do it was very immersive. Here's a couple of pictures that I took of the Airfix M4 Sherman MK.I.

                                                                      HERE THEY ARE

My model soldiers battle of Sicily

Today I made a scene with model soldiers of the WWII the battle of Sicily. I chose this battle of because most of the model soldiers that I have could be in it. It was a joint American, British, Commonwealth invasion it was defended by Italian and German troops.  

The battle of Sicily was the start of the allied invasion of Europe and it proved to be relatively bloodless and short taking a little over a month. It was very important in the war effort, though it is mostly overshadowed by the Normandy landings.

for this battle I used a lot of soldiers and here's the list:

1. Airfix 1/72 British commandos WWII

2. Airfix 1/72 British infantry WWII

3. Airfix 1/72 Gurkhas WWII

4. Airfix 1/72 U.S. Marines WWII

5. Airfix 1/72 U.S. Paratroops WWII 

6. Italeri 1/72 Free French infantry WWII 

7. Italeri 1/72 Elite German troops WWII 

Here are some pictures of my scene: 

 

Number Knowledge.

Today my class did a test with number knowledge.  I got 39/40, it was great. 

Scratch coding over a city

 Today my class made a flying ________ over _________with Scratch.  It's a pretty good coding website VERY easy to use, it was very fun.