Emperor Penguins!

This week in reading my group has been learning about penguins, but specifically the Emperor Penguin. On Monday, we read a chapter of a school journal called Fantastic Penguins, and we did a KWL on penguins. Yesterday (Wednesday 2nd December) we started doing a DLO on Emperor Penguins, and mine was a google slideshow containing different parts of info on them. Today, we are finishing and blogging our DLO, which is where I am now. After that, we have to complete the learn part of our KWL, and do a Penguin origami. I'm quite looking forward to that.

(If the slide doesn't load I´m sorry lol)

Habitat destruction

 For inquiry this term I did endangered animals, and part of that was habitat destruction. Habitat destruction is when a forest, for example, can no longer go back to the way it once was. We made a DLO about it, and here is mine.

Possums and the Dangers They Pose to the country

 Today in reading my group we studied and read about possums. After we did that, we created our own DLOs and then..yeah. I don't really know if I should say anything, because my DLO will speak for me. 

Lemon Sugar Scrub! EDIBLE!

Lemon Sugar Scrub! :D 

Yesterday in reading my group made Lemon Sugar Scrub, which was also edible. First, we got into groups. My group was me, Lucas, Cole And Lennox. Second, we had to get a cheese grater and zest the lemon, while one person measured the sugar. That step was pretty easy, but once you had zested all the lemon skin you had to stop before you went into the inside part of the lemon. Next, we put all the sugar Lennox and Lucas had measured and all the lemon me and Cole had zested into a bowl. After we did that, we stirred it all together, which took a while. Then we were practically done. We had also bought our own containers, and we put our share in them.

Lucas's POV: https://shslucassu.blogspot.com/2020/11/lemon-sugar-scrub-soap-edible-reading.html

Persuasive Writing

So, I was rolling around in my drafts, and came across one written not too long ago. Less then a month. So, here it is! :D

This week we have been writing Persuasive texts. Mine was about how Weekends Should be 3 days long. To be honest, the whole thing was pretty easy, except for the part that I lost my 1st plan, and had to rewrite the whole thing again. At least I remembered most of it. Not all of it though D:

 TERM 3 TECHNOLOGY

For technology this term we got into groups (Me, Lucas S and Logan) and started to make "Our own muesli bar company". Our company is called Triple J. Why, do you ask? Well, all our middle names start with J. Hey, Lucas even thought of making our own fake website. (😛) And he did! *NOTE - IT ISN'T REAL* We pretended we had a really big company and we made muesli bars. Well, the muesli bar part is real..... 

Term 3 Calendar Art!

 This term in Punui O Toka we have been doing calendar art. I was in the dot art group, and it was very fun. I'll explain how it went down. First, you had a sheet of paper with some circles already on it and you had to color them by putting your cotton bud(s) in some paint and dab it on. 

Once we did that, we moved onto our plan the next week and had to draw our lines indicating where the dots would be. Once we did that, we had a piece of black paper and copied your plan, drawing in pencil where your dots were going to be, yet again. 

When we were done, we had to do basically the same thing we did with our first draft, put the cotton buds in the paint (lightly!) and then dab it on the paper over our lines. It was easy and hard at the same time, you had to be very patient and precise. What I found easy was putting the paint perfectly on the lines. What I found hard was being patient and how the cotton bud you were using always left a faded spot in the middle after a few times. As shown below.

Have a happy holiday!