What are my friends most proud of

Interviews with Maia's friends

For the Summer Learning Journey teaser week, today one of the activities was to interview 3 of your friends and ask them what they are most proud of. Here is my interview with some of my friends.

Interview with Brodie

(Maia)"What are you most proud of?"

(Brodie)"Basketball"

(Maia)"What about basketball?"

(Brodie)"I made the team I wanted to get to like I made the Northland team"

(Maia)"Are there any other things you are proud of?"
(Brodie)"ehhh no"
(Maia)"Ok thanks for your time Brodie"

Interview with Skyla

(Maia)"What are you most proud of?"
(Skyla)"Ohhh... nothing I'm not proud of anything?)
(Maia)"Ok thank you, Skyla"

Interview with Tihei 

(Maia)"What are you most proud of?"
(Tihei)"Ummm ah, I actually don't know. Maybe ahh I actually don't know."
(Maia)"Like have you made any achievements like in sports and stuff like that?"
(Tihei)"Ahh not really. Oh I know I have succeeded in video games and being on a diet for a while."
(Maia)'Ok Thanks Tihei"

  

Being cybersmart

Gender Pay Gap; My point of view

The gender pay gap is it fair?

Personally from my perspective, I believe that the gender pay gap is extremely unfair. The fact that men are being paid more than women when they do the exact same amount of work is absolutely disgusting. Sooooo... why should men be getting paid more? The answer to that question is that they should not. Two people who are doing the same amount of work, work the same hours, have the same job, should be earning the same amount of money whether they are a man or a woman it should not matter. Unfortunately in this disgusting world, in areas equality is not excepted. This is just appalling, I strongly believe that men and women should most definitely be paid equally.

By Maia        

Electric Guitar

Lorde Profile page

Today we had to create a profile page about Lorde for the summer learning journey teaser week. 

We have been learning about using precise words and/or phrases to describe different settings.

Taipa Muriwhenua Tribes

Maia's Future Career Options

Galileo Galilei

For reading, we had to create a poster about one of our favourite scientists. I decided to do mine about Galileo Galilei. 

Argumentation board

For reading/science, we made argumentation boards about single-use plastics (just plastic in general).

Here is mine.

Sadie

Sadie

Home alone, rain pointlessly flowing down the kitchen window. I missed Mum, but nowhere near as much
as Dad did. The doorbell rang, expecting to see my father I answered. There was a strange letter, just lying
there. I knew I wasn’t supposed to open any mail but this letter was addressed to me. I opened it, the words
shocked me, ‘I am always watching ~ Sadie’

I was with her, the sky was gloomy. We were sitting on the front porch wondering what we should do.
She suggested we go for a walk, so we did. The dark forest sent shivers down my spine. I couldn’t say the
same about Sadie, she was a very brave, strong, independent young girl. The cries of pain from the old oak
trees always made it feel as if we were in a horror movie. I had always loved this place but now it was as if
my surroundings were telling me I shouldn’t be here.

As the wind kept blowing through the dead leaves of the trees, I would hear their song. It was not pleasant.
The feeling of anxiety became too much for me to bear. Sadie reassured my thinking, she hugged me
tightly. She invited me to come to sit at the top of a tree near the edge of the cliff. Once I was up there she
asked me just one question, ‘How would you feel if I died?’ Even though startled at what she had just said
I answered ‘I’m not sure I guess we’ll see at the time.’ She then went on to tell me things where my mind is
still not in the right place to write about. I started to cry.

She hugged me once again. In her embrace, I felt safe and loved. I just wanted to go home. I wanted
everything to be normal again, but I knew that wasn't possible. As we sat on the very edge of the branch
in silence I once again felt like I shouldn't be here. That's when it happened. She pushed me off the edge of
the cliff. As I went down I faintly heard her say "You should never have..." I wasn't able to hear the rest.
Fortunatly for me the fall down was not that far. In shock as I lay silently on the ground barely alive I could
see her eyes. I then heard my mothers voice, a scream followed by the sound of a gunshot and the snap of
a branch.

I try to tell myself it never happened that she’s still out there somewhere. I threw the letter into the fireplace.
I went and sat back at the kitchen window. I will never forget that day. March 12th 1992 the day Sadie had
not only attempted to kill me, but how she murdered my mother.    

   

By Maia

Maths

Maths

Dental Hygiene

This is a poster for health. We are learning about dental hygiene. I made my poster for 9-10-year-olds.

Research projects

For reading, we have been doing research projects. Here is mine

VENN Diagram

For part of our Reading task, we had to create a VENN Diagram. Mine is about the differences and similarities between Maui and the magic fishhook and Kupe and the discovery of New Zealand.

  

Red Bands

We had to projects about Kiwiana items. Mine is about Red bands here it is.

How New Zealand was created

For reading, we had to do research projects about Maori Mythology. I decided to do mine about how New Zealand was created. Here it is.

Fair chocolate

For reading, we have been learning about fair trade. Here is my work.

  

Megalodons

For writing, we have been doing information reports. I have decided to do mine about a megalodon. Here it is.

Badge of honour

For reading, we have been doing inferences. Mine is about a book called vadge of honour. Here it is.

Ctrl + Shift + QQ

We are learning about keyboard shortcuts. We had to make a poster about our favourite keyboard shortcut here's mine.

Metaphors - Authors choice

For our reading work on authors choice, we had to create a poster about a language feature of our choice. Mine is about metaphors.

Graphs

In Room 3 we have been learning about Graphs. Here is some of the work we did.

Google Docs Ninja challenge

In Room 3 our cyber smart teacher whaea Donna challenged us to a Googles Doc's Ninja Challenge. I was able to complete it and publish it to my blog. P.S you have to click on the box and scroll down.

 

Wonder Poster

In Room 3 for our novel study, we have been reading the book wonder. We had to create a poster about it. I decided to create a Google drawing of August.

20 Sentence Story

In class, we have been learning about sentence structure. To have a better sentence structure you 

should use a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences.

We had to write a 20 sentence story that consisted of simple and compound sentences. The simple sentences are highlighted in green and the compound in yellow. Here is mine.

Once upon a time, there was an annoying little 2-year-old. Her name was Bob. Bob liked to play with barbies but no one like playing with her because she was annoying. That was how Bob’s life went until she was 5 and had to go to school. She thought it was boring. Until she met a nice girl called Jeff. Jeff was annoying just like Bob so they got on perfectly. Now Bob liked going to school. Mostly because she had someone to play with now. Bob had a great time at school for years until she was 8. Bob fell out of a tree. She had to go to the hospital because she had fallen from a 20-foot high tree. They thought she was going to die. Jeff was there in the hospital with Bob. Jeff would stay there for ages. She waited 4 months until Bob woke up from her coma. Jeff was so happy. She could play with her best friend now. Bob slowly got better. After a while, Bob and Jeff could be annoying again.

Netiquette Poster

We have been looking at digital etiquette (Netiquette). For my poster, I decided to do the dos and donts of commenting online.

The Mist

We had to use Pobble365 to choose a writing prompt for any piece of writing we wanted to do. I chose Flash-Fiction. Here is my writing

The Mist

She waded out into the shallows. Waves of water bashed up against her bare legs, sending a chill up her already trembling body. She glanced back at what she had left behind on the shore. No regrets.

As she descended into the dark she could sense the misfortune already coming. Her weak body agitated with fear. 'No going back now' she whispered in her blank mind.

In this moment of time, she had everything on her mind. Especially him. She thought about the friendships
that had been broken even thoughts that any moment now she would breathe her last breath.

Now she was all alone in the midst of her old home. The ship where she had last seen her parents. A
ghastly mist choked the thin air. Now only footsteps away from death.

Flashbacks of the past came to her like the gushing movement of a waterfall. She remembered the time

she promised her Dad, she would never come back to this place. If she wanted answers promises had to be broken. She entered... 

It was a blur. 'What?' she said to herself. 'Ahhh!'...

She couldn't move. Desperate for answers lying on the cold, hard ground. She whispers softly ' My name is
Savannah Rose Parker someone please come find me'.

By Maia

The Legend of CHICKEN NUGGETS

 For the past couple of weeks, we have been working on our animations. We could do it about anything we wanted (even if it was really weird like mine). First, we had to plan on a piece of paper that looked kind of like a comic strip. Then we had to create what we had planned onto a Google slide. It was fun mine is about the legend of how chicken nuggets are made.