Leading The Charge

Grinch Hour Of Code!

Today in cybersmart, we played a game called "Grinch hour of code" It had multiple obstacles that needed to be complete and we had to create new steps for the Grinch. It was pretty hard but to be honest I had a blast!

My Friend's Accomplishments

The Water Project

The Columbian Exchange

The Greatest of All Time!

Equal Pay for Equal Work?

Similes!

Hexagon Poem!

Making Fairy Bread With Room 1 (Our buddy clas)

Today in room 10, we had made fairy bread with room 1. Me and Jane were buddies with Liliana! Firstly we all got a diagonally sliced bread each and dipped it into green/yellow icing. The icing was made out of icing sugar, water and food coloring. Then we decorated them with sprinkles and marshmallows. I added heart shaped sprinkles on the sides and put marshmallows in the middle. Soon after, we all took a picture with our fairy bread! It was really delicious but a bit too sweet.

Christmas Ornaments!

In room 10, we decided to make Xmas ornaments since Christmas was coming up. Firstly, we made this dough mixture by using salt, flour and water! Then we putted in the oven for 90 celcius for 3 hours! Soon after, we started to paint them. I made a candy cane and a present. I am really proud of the outcome of my ornaments. I hope you all have an amazing Christmas and get spoiled with love and gifts!

Superhero Chat!

Term 4, Room 10's Assembly!

Today, room 10 had their second assembly of the year. I was so nervous and scared. When people started coming into the hall, my heart started beating fast. For the assembly, I had to talk about Buddha's life, shared a chick animation and showed them my artwork of a chick and Buddha. 

Two things that went well: 

We all showed confidence and our voices were very loud! All of us read very clearly.

Some thing we could work on is... not speaking too fast. Since a lot of us were scared, we were talking very fast and it was hard to understand. I think next year, we should read in a normal speed and very clear. 

Mouse Crimes

In class we had to turn boring, old nursery rhymes into long, interesting narratives. I decided to pick "Hickory, Dickory, Dock"

Discovering Electricity!

• Discovering Electricity!

Did you know that you have a little bit of electricity inside of you? Well today I will
be telling you all about how electricity works, what transformers are and how to stay
safe around electricity!

Firstly, I will be stating some facts about electricity. Have you ever heard of the word
arcing? Basically, arcing means when electricity travels through air. When your in a
situation where something goes wrong with the powerline, you must stay 10 meters
away or else you will get a big, great electricity shock. But the reason why you can’t
go too close to the powerline is because your body is 70% made out of water. In bird’s
case, they don’t get shocked by the wires since birds do not touch the ground and the
wire goes down to the earth. To help clasp the powerlines, there is a rubber, glass and
ceramic holder called insulator.

Now let’s discuss about transformers! If you don’t know what a transformer is,
try remembering a time where you have seen a green box outside with a danger
sign on it. Well those things are very powerful since they have 11,000 volts in them.
The transformer’s job is to help turn those 11,000 volts into 300 volts, so that houses
can use it.

Since we’re on our last topic, I will be telling you how to stay safe around electricity!
The powerlines in your streets, sometimes can get damaged by storms, trees and cars
occuring car crashes. This happens very often, so for your own safety, stay far away
from the wires and warn others. Do you have cords in your house that are broken?
If you do, throw them away since those plugs could possibly blow up at any time if
you’re still using it. Also don’t ever mix electricity with water because when you put
those two conductors together, there is a high chance that you could get hurt. By the
way, never put anything inside your toaster.

From Esthra, I have learnt so many new ways of keeping myself safe from electricity
and knowing why electricity is so important. Now that we have ended our lesson,
I hope you start keeping yourself safe from electricity!

Hello (again) Chanel

Hey Chanel, this term we have been learning about endangered animals... so we decided to make a clay sculpture out of an endangered animal. First, we did some research about the animal we chose. I picked the Sumatran Elephant! I had to learn about their, habitat, food, calf's, predators and I also had to do a poster with 10 facts about it.

Then it was time to create the clay. I rolled, mold, stacked and added all the pieces of the clay together to make it transform into my animal. It was really fun to create it. Then we also made a diorama of the animal's habitat. I painted bushes, mountains, trees and more. We got rocks, sticks from the real world to make it look more natural. Have you ever made a diorama before?

Water Cycle Animation!

Letter To Tamaki College

Wint,

172 West Tamaki Road,

Glen Innes,

1072 Auckland.

Miss Soana Pamaka,

115 Taniwha Street,

Glen Innes,

1072 Auckland.

Wednesday 20 March 2019

Dear, Madam

I wanted to ask if Room 10 could use your clay oven. It would be a pleasure to
borrow your oven since we have been working very hard on our clay sculptures.

We have made amazing clay carvings and it’s a shame, if we don’t have an oven
to burn it up! I hope you decide with an fanatic answer but beside all of that, I
wish you all the best and good luck for the future!

Sincerely,

Wint

Letter To Mr Herlihy

Wint,

172 West Tamaki Road,

Glen Innes,

1072 Auckland.

Mr Chris Herlihy,

172 W Tamaki Road,

Glen Innes,

1072 Auckland.

Tuesday 19 March 2019

Dear Sir,

This letter is to ask if Room 10 could get access to google hangouts, so that they could have the authenticity to video call their buddies. It would be a pleasure if you allowed this offer, since it is a great way to communicate.

We certainly need this because it can empower our confidence by meeting new people, we could get inspired by them and learn new things. I would be so thrilled, if I had the opportunity to call someone that soon will become my new friend.  

I hope you agree with our decision but if not, thank you for listening to our idea!

Sincerely,

Wint.

Sumtran Elephant Facts!