Back To School Activities!

Today, Auckland is back into Level 2 and that means that Glen Taylor students are back at school! This diagram shows the difference and similarities of having real life lessons and lock down lessons.
I also have other difference like, when I am at school I get outside more often and run around but when we were in lockd own all I did was sit on my bed or the couch doing work or eating!

STEM Cards - Plane Creation & Cup Pyramid

For this weeks STEM Cards Challenges, I chose to do a Plane Creation which is made from a plastic bottle and two cardboard wings, and the other challenge I chose to do was a Cup Pyramid Challenge, where I used 10 cups and tried to make a Pyramid in under 30 seconds.

Both my Challenges were hard and successful, I made my Pyramid with only 1 second left and my Plane flew very well.

Daily 5 - Work On Writing

For Daily 5 today, I did Work On Writing, Word Work and Independent Reading. 

This is my Work On Writing work which is from Once Upon A Picture. 

I chose this picture to do because when I saw this picture, I already had a story in mind and I loved the setting in this picture.

Interview With Marc Lepage Reflection!

A good friend of Mr Niks came into our Morning Class Call and talked to us about his condition and his job! Marc Lepage is a Game Developer and his specialty is with the Sound in games. He has a terrible condition called Cystic Fibrosis which affects the lungs. 

Marc Lepage has helped with a whole lot of games and he is a very very successful person in my eyes!

TED Talk - Social Media

This TED Talk was all about Social Media and how some random videos that people posted not expecting anything, went viral just by 1 famous person tweeting about it. 

Allocca works with YouTube and he looks after the trending side of YouTube, his job is too watch a whole lot of YouTube videos and figure out what it trending everyday.

STEM Cards - Small Umbrella & Egg Drop

This week we have started doing STEM Cards. STEM stands for - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. There are over 54 activities to choose from! 

I chose to do the Small Umbrella and Egg Drop activities. I learnt that art and crafts can be very very hard especially when you have to use your imagination and no instructions or video to learn from.

I chose these activities because I had the materials to do them and they looked very interesting!

My Personal Profile #2

Instead of knowing more about my hobbies and what I like to do in my spare time,

here is what I find most important to me if I had to leave home suddenly and what I would miss most!

While doing this task I learnt that thinking about what you are and what aren't going to take on a sudden adventure is very hard to think about especially if you want to take many things.

My Personal Profile

 

For LCS we all made our own Personal Profiles. It tells you more about ourselves and what we like to do outside of school.

Back To Online Classes!

 

Auckland is now back into Level 3 Lockdown and that means that schools are closed but there will be online classes! Today was the first day of online classes for me and I will be sharing a lot more learning on my blog!

Week In Review

Narartive - The class was split up in 4 groups and got a piece of paper of different Literacy Devices. One group got Similes, another got Alliteration, one got Hyperbole and the last group got Personification. After we got learnt what our Literacy Device means, we got to the other groups and teach them.

LCS - My stop motion animation is coming together slowly, I have used one of my personal teddy bears as my host and showed all the different things that introduce me.

Technology - We are still working on how to make our MBot move, make sound and sense objects.

This week is also Cook Island Language Week and to celebrate, Pasifika Pearls performed a danced today.