Home Learing Blog (For This Week)

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In today's post, it will be another one of my home learning posts.

Unlike every other term, this term, I and a few of my peers made up some of these ideas with the help of our classmates. This means, that it was made by students for students. This means, that although they will be a bit harder to do, they may also be a little bit more fun and a little less..... boring.

For our 'Home Learning' We need to do these things:

- Read for 20 minutes each evening at home

-  4 progressions or 40 minutes on Math-Whizz

- One home learning blog post each week

- Any extra things we need to do

If you would like to check out our 'Home Learning' through our site, here is the link.

Today's activity is "Make Yourself an Author"

Home Learning//Make Yourself an Author

When I was in year 3, we were learning about Castles. Motes, Arrowslits etc....

We got to the point where we knew quite a few facts, It was actually pretty impressive. So, our teacher said that we were each going to make a book about it.

First, we had to choose what 4 things we wanted to write facts about & draw. After that, we made our front cover, on with we had to write (Author, Illustrations) By "name". We wrote our introduction & conclusions. Finally, we got to that juicy part, we got to start making our 4 facts. Each fact had 1 page and a picture to go along with them.

After they were finished, we were all quite impressed with ourselves. Our teacher was so impressed that she made something very cool happen...

She tried to get it so that we could get them in the school library, barcodes & everything. It happened and it was amazing and I am and was very happy about that.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the book, so if I find it I will update this blog :)

This experience to have as a young kid was pretty cool, it was all very exciting.

I hope you enjoyed and I will see you next time!

Nga Mihi,

- Julia

Maths........Maths................More Maths!

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In today's post I will be sharing my learning about Maths. I will be sharing what I have learnt by teaching you.

The maths I will be teaching you is Standard Form & Ordering/Comparing Fractions (Changing Decimals, Percentages & Fraction into one another). If you didn't already know, each term we have multiple math workbooks we must complete. This is where I have got my information from.

I found both of these things pretty easy to get to grips with once I got it. I think that they are quite easy once you understand. I would say I struggled a bit, but I still understand it so, without further ado here is my presentation:

I really enjoyed making this and I put a huge amount of effort. I really like maths when I understand it, how about you?

I hope you have learnt something. If you did please tell me :)

If there is anything that I missed out or that I could've changed to be better, please tell me and I will make an effort to improve it!

I hope you enjoyed this and that you learnt something!

Thank you for reading and I'll see you next time!

Nga Mihi,

- Julia

Home Learning Blog (For last week).

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This is last weeks Home Learning Blog Post.

Last week, whenever I came home, my Chromebook started acting up and it has finally let me do a blog post on it, so here is my home learning blog post.

Unlike every other term, this term, I and a few of my peers made up some of these ideas with the help of our classmates. This means, that it was made by students for students. This means, that although they will be a bit harder to do, they may also be a little bit more fun and a little less..... boring.

For our 'Home Learning' We need to do these things:

- Read for 20 minutes each evening at home

-  4 progressions or 40 minutes on Math-Whizz

- One home learning blog post each week

- Any extra things we need to do

If you would like to check out our 'Home Learning' through our site, here is the link.

Here is the activity that I am doing:

Home Learning//Design your Future House

So for this, I couldn't actually make a floorplan because I don't know how to but... I can explain and use imaged from offline.

I would want my house to be 2 storied, I would want it to be on a couple of acres as well, just to have space to do things and have animals etc..In my house, we have 3 Bathrooms, 5 Bedrooms, 1 Kitchen, 1 living room and a lounge area near the kitchen. We also have a garage. (forgot to mention it ahah).

I would probably want something similar in my house, maybe just bigger rooms and more living rooms etc...

Here is what I would want my Bathrooms to be like:

Here is what I would want my Kitchen to be like:

Here is what I would want my Bedrooms to be like:

Here is what I would want my Living Rooms to be like:

These images are not exactly what I would want. I would probably want it to be more wooden and all around just a little bit different. I don't know what I would want the outside of the house to look like. That is why I haven't added an image for that.

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed last week's Home learning Post!

I will see you next time!

Nga Mihi,

Julia

Symphony Orchestra......... FANTASTIC!!!

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Guess what today's post is? You guessed it! Today, I will be telling you about myself and my schools experience with hearing a Symphony Orchestra!

First of all, before I tell you the experience let me lay down the facts.

- This had been weeks in the making

- When we were on the bus, we were excited

- This was a good way of missing most of a school day.

When we first arrived we took our seats. My friend, Jedi & I took some photos beforehand & here they are:

Shortly after this, it started and boy was it amazing.

We heard the song that is in the McCains add and A star wars song, we also heard the Harry Potter theme song. We travelled to different countries throughout the songs. Unfortunately, I forgot all of them. There were other schools as well.

We also heard  a new piece of music never presented before and it was great! We also heard a special instruments, kind of like a piano but metal and very special.

Overall everything was amazing! Would definitely recommend it!

Here are some More photos:

After that, we went to the Margaret Mahy Park. Afterwards we came back to school and now I am writing a blog post about it!

Here are photos from the park:

Overall, today was amazing and I wouldn't change a thing!

I'm sure anyone there would say it was great as well.

Hope you enjoyed and thank you for reading.

I will see you next post!

Nga Mihi,

- Julia

Home Learning - School Uniform

Kia Ora Bloggers!

In today's post, it will be another one of my home learning posts.

Unlike every other term, this term, I and a few of my peers made up some of these ideas with the help of our classmates. This means, that it was made by students for students. This means, that although they will be a bit harder to do, they may also be a little bit more fun and a little less..... boring.

For our 'Home Learning' We need to do these things:

- Read for 20 minutes each evening at home

-  4 progressions or 40 minutes on Math-Whizz

- One home learning blog post each week

- Any extra things we need to do

If you would like to check out our 'Home Learning' through our site, here is the link.

This week the activity that I am doing is 'Create a new Uniform'

Create a new uniform// Home Learning

So, I didn't really know what to change. Maybe the colours of some things (like our T-shirts, which are white).

I think that there are things that I would add.

I think maybe, for the year 8's this year (me), we should do/ have done leavers 19 jerseys. 

I think it would be really cool to have that done.

Here is a little diagram:

Sorry that it is bad, I didn't have enough time to do it.

Yeah, so pretty much just a jersey like I explained earlier, I don't know what colour though, so I did green.

And there would be maybe a white 'Leavers 19' on it.

This was honestly quite easy, but I think next time I will do this a bit better, as it was rushed.

I hope you enjoyed and I will see you next time!

Nga Mihi

- Julia

Athletics Day 2019!

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In today's post, I will be sharing with you, this years 2019 Athletics day.

To start off with, it was actually quite a drama just to get it done! The weeks coming up to Athletics Day, we had been practicing everything... only one problem. Year 7/8's hadn't done Long jump yet! So the day before athletics Day was supposed to be we did it. It was actually kind of nerve racking because we had no idea if we would be able to practice it or not. Then on the Friday it was supposed to be on, it was too wet so we did it on the following Wednesday.

The morning of Athletics Day, we did some reading and then after an early morning tea, we started...

Here is a slide where I go through everything we did and some photos:

I hope you enjoyed this just as much as I enjoyed Athletics Day!

Thank you for reading and I will see you next time.

Nga Mihi

- Julia

Home Learning - New Website..

Kia Ora Bloggers!

In today's post, it will be another one of my home learning posts.

Unlike every other term, this term, I and a few of my peers made up some of these ideas with the help of our classmates. This means, that it was made by students for students. This means, that although they will be a bit harder to do, they may also be a little bit more fun and a little less..... boring.

For our 'Home Learning' We need to do these things:

- Read for 20 minutes each evening at home

-  4 progressions or 40 minutes on Math-Whizz

- One home learning blog post each week

- Any extra things we need to do

If you would like to check out our 'Home Learning' through our site, here is the link.

This week the activity that I am doing is 'Find a new website

New Website//Home Learning

So, I found this website called "WeVideo". It is where you can edit videos online. When you get to the page, there are multiple choices or "Plans" you can choose. Of course, I chose the free option.

So far it looks pretty cool and I will be using this next week when I do a "Weather Report" post on this blog.

I know there are some other people in my class who have used this before and they say that this is amazing.

Here is what it looks like in some photos.

So far this looks really cool, I am looking forward to using it more!

I am looking forward to using this and I will be updating this blog soon!

I hope you enjoyed it & I will see you next time.

Thank you for reading.

Nga Mihi 

- Julia