Ukraine The Toxic Wasteland

 Hey Readers, today we made a google earth tour on a chosen country and I chose UKRAINE! Ukraine is a country that has had some hate over the Chernobyl disaster, but Ukraine is actually a really good country and is a great holiday destination. After we had done that we had to make a version of that tour in a chosen DLO or a digital learning object. I chose to do a google site and heres the link if you want to check it out

https://sites.google.com/marshland.school.nz/Ukraine-The-Toxic-Wasteland

Heavenly Holidays!

 Hey bloggers, we have just come back from the holidays and have now entered term 4. In the holidays I had tennis a lot and I had a training camp that I had to go to every day for 3 days! It was fun though and I learned a lot more than I ever have before. My dad also bought a table tennis table for Christmas but me and my sisters found out and we get to make it soon. have you ever found out about a Christmas present before it's time to open it.

Radical Rockets!

 Hey bloggers, I made a I movie on our rocket with my group. My group contains Tayla, Blake, Ajay, Zoe, Brock, Billy, Henry and of course me. our rocket is made of 2 1.5 liter bottles fins and weight. 

Have you ever made a bottle rocket?

Super Sign Language

 Hey Readers, Today I learnt to say my name in sign language. It was hard at first until I found out that your fingers are the vowels. So your thumb is A and your index finger is E and so on. 

Do you know how to say your name in Sign Language?

Clever Crystals

 Kia Ora bloggers,

in literacy, we have been doing an experiment on crystal it was the funniest one yet and I really enjoyed it. we decided to make a site on crystals here is the link for it

https://sites.google.com/d/1qasvigB-Fe0estf8bfj78ly9dw5YV4ss/p/1fxQUNfguEmkKLC2sEx3LwNymwGILwjAw/edit

Mathematical Movies

 Hey Readers, We have been learning about 24 hour time and how to convert am/pm to 24 hour time.

How you convert it is by instead of going to 1 pm After 12 pm it justs keeps going so after 12 pm it goes to 13, 14, and so on. Have you ever learned how to convert am/pm time to 24 hour time?

Marvellous Minecraft

Hey bloggers, today I made a Minecraft world and built to different types of clocks. If you didn't know the two types of clocks are called analog clocks and digital clocks. analog clocks are the ones with hands that go round the clock. and digital clocks gust show the number. What is your favorite type of clock?

The Big Bad Wolf?

Wolves are cute lovable creatures and are majestic and fluffy. Wolves are not bad and actually help things like vegetation by eating and pushing away the animals that eat too much of it. This is called a trophic cascade.

Wolves have a bad side at times though. In the 1930 wolves were eradicated in France because they were killing shepherds sheep and other livestock.

Overall I think that wolves are a good thing for the earth and that if they weren’t alive that the earth would look a lot different to today.

Do you think that wolves deserve the title of the big bad wolf?

Fabulous Frequencies

Hey Readers, today I made a screencastify on how to do a maths question that I made. My maths question is about the frequencies or the chance of the coin landing on heads. So I flipped a coin fifty times and recorded the results. The coin landed on heads 21 times and on tails 29 times. Have you ever made a chance math question before

Yellow stone park

Hey bloggers, today I made a Minecraft world on the trophic cascaded Yellowstone park.
In Yellowstone National Park, in America, wolves were eradicated from the environment. This had a detrimental effect on the land as the elk was taking over, eating the shrubs, and damaging the environment. The National Park was becoming barren and exposed. 

In 1995, wolves were reintroduced into the park where they began a trophic cascade. This is where other species benefit from their presence and the environment flourishes and regenerates.
Because of the wolves in the park, the elk weren’t grazing by the rivers as they could be easily hunted. Some of them were killed for food by the wolves and the elk population slowed. With less elk, the trees could regenerate, and in some places their growth quintupled. More trees meant more migratory birds arrived,, as well as songbirds, and more trees meant more beavers and otters. Bears returned to the area as there were berries and carrion to eat. The carrion that the wolves left behind was attracting rodents and hawks. 

The reintroduction of wolves also affected the course of the rivers as the banks became more stable and so they meandered less. Having wolves back in the park had a positive            impact on Yellowstone National Park

Oil is...

Hey Bloggers, today I made a screencastify about oil and how it affects the ocean in an oil spill. Oil is found in lots of different ways such as from plants such as sunflowers and vegetables. It also comes from under the ground or deep in the seabed. Have you ever made a oil experiment?

Super Science

Hey Readers, today we made a dlo or a digital learning object about our experiment on which liquid will melt ice the fastest. I did a renderforest and thought that V energy would melt the fastest as energy drinks eat away at your teeth. turns out that water melted the ice quickest as all the cold water from the ice cube travels to the bottom of the beaker and pushes the room temperature water up to the tp and melts the ice. have you ever done a school science experiment?

Super Screencastify

Hey Readers, today I made a screencastify on how to work out this question. The was how to find the rule of the terms that are displayed. The rule was to add two to the previous term or number. Have you ever made a screencastify about maths?

Awesome Art

Hey Readers, today we made some art on the southern and northern lights or as what the greeks call them aurora borealis and australis. The southern and northern lights are lights of different colours in the sky both at the north and south poles. It occurs by parts of the sun travelling to the earth and collide with the nitrogen and oxygen atoms and create the beautiful colours of what we call auroras

We created this art by ripping paper into a mountain range shape then used masking tape and stuck it onto black paper. Next, we used white acrylic and a brush and flicked it onto the black paper to make the milky way. next, we used pastel to make the colours and moved it up with our fingers and let it dry.
Have you ever made art based on the northern and Southern lights?

Ridiculous Reading

When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and
wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been
learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced
questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open-ended questions that would help
me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines
coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adults intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs
to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next, we got to choose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3
advanced questions about it.  Ours create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I
chose to do it with Renderforest and it was about a book called ‘In His Blood'

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realise how important it is to do this when reading to
understand the text better.

Do you ever do further research when you are reading a book to deepen your understanding?

Matariki Animation

Hey Bloggers,
Today we made an animation about the Matariki stars. First, we had to watch some videos about the stars and then choose what we wanted to use to make the dlo or a digital learning object. I chose to do it with blake on a slide. Have you ever learnt about the Matariki stars?

Magical Math

Hey Bloggers, today we made an animation on how to work out our math question. First we the question for a friend to answer and once they got it we moved on to either making an animation or an adobe spark. as you can see I chose to make an animation with my friend really. have you ever made a maths question for a friend to answer?

Awesome Koru Art

Hey Bloggers, today we made some koru art. koru art and bone carving is a Maori tradition that has run through 100's of generations in the past. The koru plant is one of the most incredible plants as when the plant dies the smaller ones that hang on is grow and replace the big one. Have you ever made a piece of koru art?

Ironic Comic

Hey Readers, today we made a comic about irony. There are 3 different types of irony. The first one I situational irony, situational irony is when you think something is going to happen but what happened is completely the opposite. The next type of irony is verbal irony, verbal irony is like sarcasm. Verbal irony is when someone says something in a tone that relates to the exact opposite of what they said. The final type of irony is dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when you see something that the other person can't see. It's like when people can see a shark coming up behind someone and people are screaming shark but the person can't hear them. have you ever made an irony comic strip?

The Crippled Man

Hey Bloggers, today we had to use adobe spark to create a voiceover of the story we wrote earlier in the week. The story we wrote was about a man on the edge of his bed hunched over and thoughtfully thinking about something. have you ever used adobe spark before?

Imaginative Isometrics

Hey Readers, today I made different isometric shapes. An Isometric shape is a 3d shape that has 3 different views, birds eye, front and side view. We were given 5 connectible blocks to make any shape and we had to shade a side. After we had done 3 different formations we were given another 5 blocks to make more shapes. The dots on the page helped us to draw them and it was quite hard as we needed to draw it in 3d. Have you ever made drawn 3d isometric shapes?

The Traumatic Twits

Kia ora Bloggers,

This week we have been looking carefully at making inferences when we read or watch something.  

An inference is when we take clues from a text or image, and 
add them to our thoughts or prior knowledge and make an inference.  
For example,  when I look at this photo, I might make the inference that 
this photo was taken in a food factory as everyone is wearing hair 
nets and this is required in all food factories.



The text that we read a snippet out of ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.
Once we had read the first few chapters where they described the main characters, Mr and Mrs Twit, we then had to make some inferences based on the clues that Roald Dahl had given in the text.

I used Google Draw to create a display of my inferences I have made about Mr and Mrs Twit.  

Have you read The Twits before?  Do you agree with my inferences? What inferences would you make about the characters?

See you next time!

Dancing Dinosaurs

Hey Readers, today I made a dinosaur enclosure in Minecraft. The task was to create an enclosure for an animal any way you like being either digitally, draw it, or make the enclosure with cardboard. I chose to do it digitally on Minecraft. It is a triceratops enclosure with a viewing area and also up top is were the mangers of the enclosure control the triceratops and feed them from. Have you ever made an animal enclosure in Minecraft?

Playful Plane Crash

Hey Readers, today I made an animation on how Roald Dahl got into a plane crash in Libya. He was very unlucky that the 8o squadron had got the wrong coordinates and he had to land by himself. he looked for a space to land and he thought that one was fine but turned out there were rocks underneath the sand and he nose-dived into them. Have you ever read one of Roald Dahl's books before?

Creative Cakes

Hey Readers, today I designed a cake. the cake is a how to train your dragon-themed cake with a fondant toothless and light fury on top of it. There are 5 layers on the cake with fondant faces of different dragons from the movie. on the top and bottom layers are fire and rocks. I hope you like what I made and comment on your favorite dragon from the movie?

Birdhouse Bananza

Hey Readers, today I made a birdhouse as part of our tech activities that we need to do. I chose to do a birdhouse because a lot of our little birds that come onto our grass get attacked by hungry magpies that try to get them. Do you have a birdhouse in your backyard?

Poppy's In Memory's

Hey Readers, today we made poppies in memory of the lives lost in world war one. The people we are praying for are the Anzac fighters. The Anzac fighters were a group of New Zealanders who fought in world war one in Gallipoli. Have you ever paid respect to the Anzac fighters?

Schooling Schedules

Hey Reader, Today we did a google meet with all the class and talked about our holidays and the teachers gave us our tasks for today. We had to make a schedule for the weeks that we have school while were in lockdown. Have you made a schedule to track what you need to do for that week?

Code.org

Hey Readers, today I did Code.org. I chose to do the Minecraft hour of code because I like to play Minecraft on my tablet. Have you ever been to Code.org and learnt to code?

Virtual Field Trip

Hey Readers, today I chose to do a virtual field trip. I went to the San Diego zoo and had a look at the Polar Bears. The polar bear was lying down on the ground and was having a snooze. Have you ever done a Virtual Field Trip before?

Tandy's Tantrums

Hey Readers, today I listened to David Walliams Elevenses were he reads a book every day for the next month. today he read Tandy's Tantrums. This story is about a girl who has tantrums to get her way. Her tantrums are so loud they crack windows and make people deaf. Have you listened to one of David Walliams Elevenses?

Brilliant Biography's

Hey Readers, today I made a biography on my roll model Antoine Griezmann. My Biography has an introduction about him, his background, How he rose to glory, all of his debuts and his records and achievements. Have you ever made a biography on someone or something?

Crazy Kahoots

Hey Readers, today I made a Kahoot quiz on what football club is this. I had to hide the names on the logos so then it wouldn't be so easy to tell the difference. Have you ever made a Kahoot or quiz to play with your friends and family?

Glamorous Gardening

Hey Readers, today I took it upon myself and chose to do some gardening well not chose mostly forced into doing gardening by my mum. We have started to grow some spinach as well as lettuce and eggplant. Have you ever planted some veggies or fruit in your garden?

Dope Dinner

Hey Readers, today I made dinner for my family. It was Chicken Curry with Rice and Naan bread Yummy! Have you ever made dinner for your family?

Perfect Puzzles

Hey Readers, today I did some puzzles. I chose to do one on the king of Football (Messi) as well as my favourite footballer (Antoine Griezmann). Have you ever completed a puzzle on something that you like?

Sensational Sign Language

Hey Readers, today I went and had a try at doing sign language. It was hard at the start but after a little while, I got the hang of it. I learnt how to say, Hi I love my Mum and my Dad. have you ever tried to speak or sign another language.

Super Duper Drawings

 Hey Readers, at home I have been drawing some cool pictures. I drew Sobble from pokemon Sword and Shield. Sobble is a water type starter from the Galar region. What is your favorite pokemon?

What have I been up to at home

Hey Readers, I have been keeping myself busy at home. I made brownies for my family and me to have as a yummy treat! have you ever made something for your family before?

Samoan 1-10 on scratch

Hey Readers, for Samoan we made a scratch project were you input a number and the dinosaur will translate it into Samoan. Have you ever tried to make a translater on scratch?

The Boy in Striped Pyjamas

Hey Readers, for literacy we are reading a book called The Boy In Striped Pyjamas. It is about a boy whose dad works for the Nazis and he had to move from his house so his dad can work at the concentration camp at Auschwitz. He finds a boy who lives in the concentration camp and they become friends.  Here is a Venn diagram of the differences between the two boys. Have you ever had a friend who comes from a whole different background?

Catastrophic Coded Images

Hey Readers, I have made a coded image and your challenge is to decode it. if you decode it send it into me and if it correct you win

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0001111000

0010000100

0100000010

1000000001

1000110001

11111111111

1000110001

1000000001

1000000001

0100000010

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How to count to 10 in Samoan

Hey Readers, have you ever wanted to learn Samoan before well here's a start. Samoan numbers are nearly the same as Maori numbers except for some small changes. Hope you had a great time learning Samoan



Samoan 1-10 on Biteable.

I am very naughty :/

Hey Readers!

We are involved in the Get NZ writing and we are writing poems based on William Carlos William's poem This is just to say.

Have you ever done something naughty? Be honest.

My Family tree

Hey Readers! this time the teachers have asked us to find out about our ancestors. My ancestors are from Ireland and Scotland and I found out that I am related to the infamous Ned Kelly.

SPC Canva

Hey Readers! for this week we had to make a canvas on a place that you can call in a situation of need. I chose SPCA and I put their phone number so the reader could call them if they ever see an animal in distress.

Roberto Britto Portrait

Hey readers Fletcher here, and this is my first blog post of 2020.
Do you want summer to end I don't think so but let's get on with the blog post.
I think I did pretty well even though I'm not very good at drawing.

I drew a book because I like to read and a pencil cause I like to draw. I drew a cricket set because I like to play cricket and a video game controller cause I like to play video games and some footballers cause I like to play Football.