Week 9 blog provocation

Wow wee, I can't believe it is Week 9 already! Here is this weeks questions - Could you have sport if everyone was on the same side? I look forward to hearing your thoughtful answers. Don't forget you can't be wrong you just need to back up your idea.

Paid for school?

Hi everyone, this weeks blog provocation is...

Should you be paid to go to school?

Don't forget there is no right answer but what is important is to give a reason for your answer.

 Welcome back to Week 5. I can't believe it is almost halfway through Term 4! Today's provocation is definitely one to get your brain thinking.

If you could make one new law what would it be?

Firework - weekly blog provocation

From today until the 5th of November, Fireworks go on sale. Last night on the news some people have been asking to ban fireworks sales to the public and only allow public displays of fireworks. What do you think? Do you think we should only have public fireworks display and not be allowed to let them off ourselves?

Voting age - weekly blog provocation

Hi there and welcome back to Week 2. Saturday was the final day for voting in this years General Election and Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Governement will continue to be in power for the next three years. Did you know that New Zealand was the first country in the world which allowed woman to vote? Before this only men 21 years of age and older were able to vote. Allowing woman to have a vote from 1893 was all thanks to a lady named Kate Sheppard. In 1969 the voting age was lowered to 20 and in 1974 it was lowered again to 18 years of age.

This weeks question to ponder is, do you think the voting age should be lowered? Some young people believe it should be lowered to 16. I look forward to hearing what you think.

Rich or happy?

 Welcome back to Term 4, the last term of 2020! This term we are going to continue with our weekly blog provocation. I have really enjoyed reading your thoughts and I am impressed with the ways you are responding to other people's opinions.

This week's questions to get you thinking is, would you rather be rich or happy?

I look forward to seeing what you think and this term I am going to encourage you to take an opportunity to disagree with other's ideas. Don't forget you would only be disagreeing with a person ideas, not the person themselves. You may also find that sometimes you may only disagree with part of the person's point of view or can see apart from another point of view. Here are some sentence starters to help you out with your response.

Presents on children's day

Each year we celebrate Mother's and Father's day and perhaps in your household you make or give your mum or dad something special to say thank you to them. Maybe you let them sleep in or make them breakfast?

Do you think we should celebrate children's day with gifts, cards or special treats? Why or why not? 

Mask wearing

 Do you think it should be compulsory to wear a mask when you go to the supermarket?

From today, anyone over the age of 12 has to wear a mask on public transport regardless of what part of the country you live in. At the moment people are encouraged to wear a mask in public places like supermarkets. Do you think we should have to wear a mask in supermarkets or do you think it is safe enough without one?

Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...

Week 4 writing provocation 

Is it ever okay to tell a lie? Why or why not? 

This week Side A of our talk buddies will be writing their thoughts first, then Side B you will have your turn on Tuesday to reply.

Cook Island Language week in New Zealand?

Do you think we should be celebrating Cook Island Language week in New Zealand? Think caerfully about your answer and see if you can come up with a reason for your answer.

Would you rather...?

Provocation Week 2

Would you rather be able to breathe underwater or fly? 

Share your opinion in the comments. Don't forget to use the sentence starters from last week to help you construct your sentence.

Cats or dogs?

Week 1 provocation

Which animal do you think is best, a cat or a dog?

I am looking forward to reading what you think. You could use the sentence starters below to how you express your opinion. Don't forget to give a reason for your answer.

Comparing and contrasting bees and wasps

This week the Seal's group have been reading about wasps. One of the activities the group has been working on is comparing and contrasting bees and wasps. These were completed using a venn diagram. Check out these children's posts to learn more. To find out more about this lesson check out this link to the Seal's site page.

Jaliah's post
Hello today I am going to be showing you my bees and wasps work that I have done for readying in my class room and we watched something to find some facts or dangerous things about them.here is the link where  I got the facts from click on this link  and here is a video about bees and wasps here is the video watch it
I feel really good about my bees and wasps and well I was working on it, it was fun. and it looks finishes. I hope you have comments for me.


Rableen's post
Greeting readers today i will share my goggle drawing of bees and wasps and the similarities of bees and wasps lets hop right in to it here is the picture i hope you like it and here it the link of where i got the information from  this is a link to my information and this is a video i watched to here is the video
i feel really good about this cause i am sharing my work with you readers and if you have any feed back write it in the comments bye😁

Drew's teaching us all a thing or two about sharks!

Here is another fabulous example of the A-Z challenge from Drew. Drew has been doing a lot of reading in his free time about sharks so what better topic for his A-Z challenge. Drew has managed to find a shark-related word for every letter of the alphabet. I am so proud of how hard Drew has worked on this piece of learning. He has completed this distance learning task to such a high standard and I can tell how much effort he has put in. Go Drew!

Laura's amazing waffle making video

Check out this very cool video Laura has made with a little bit of help from her Dad. You can tell Laura has put in lots of thought and planning into her video before she even started filming. Laura has very clear instructions and has gone through all the steps for how to make waffles. I also love the little breaks she has used in between the steps. Mmmm, mmmm Yum!

Amazing ANZAC day Activities

Last week I gave Room 11 a choice of 6 different tasks all related to ANZAC day and learning more about why this day is so important to New Zealanders. I have been really impressed with the quality of their work and I want to share some of the best examples with you all. If you would like a closer look at the activities, check out the slide show below.

The first activity focused around listening to 'The last post' and thinking about how this piece of music made them feel. Here are Angel's thoughts.


"Hello Bloggers welcome back to my blog I am going to be showing you bloggers some work I have done today about Anzac day". We had 6 activities to do, here is my first activity. I am feeling happy that I have finished this work and also amazed. Here's my work.

"When I listen to the Last Post makes me feel sad because this is the remembrance of all the lives lost in the wars". "I think about the huge commitment that these armed forces made to protect our and other countries from invasion". "I think this is an important part of Anzac day because it is part of military tradition and signifies that the soldiers have gone to their final resting places".

Angel also went above and beyond with another ANZAC day activity and even designed her own brand new logo. She wrote "It centres around the poppies that grew around the graves of the fallen soldiers and how we remember them with imitation poppies, wreaths and other logo's"

Another task was to look at the role animals played during World War I and II. Below is what Rableen wrote about dogs during the war.

Rableen also made ANZAC cookies too. Here is her blog post about her baking

Hello everyone yesterday i made Anzac cookies but my mum got the recipe wrong so these are how they look like but they were yummy and hope you like them

A-Z Challenge!

Last week Room 11 had an A-Z challenge as part of their distance learning.

(Mothers note) Massive Endgame spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen it lol

A- Avengers. The avengers are a group of superheros that defend earth,

The first avengers comic was in 1963.

B- Bruce Banner is a smart scientist he did an experiment to become strong like
captain america, the radiation turned him into the Hulk

C- Captain America is a super soldier who got frozen in ice in 1945 and fought in
world war2 he got woken up in 2011

  

D- Deadpool is a vigilante who talks a lot and is really funny, my mum wont let me
watch the movie

E- Enchantress is one of Thor's greatest enemies. Her real name is Amora and s
he's only in cartoons and comics.

F- Fantastic Four they have superpower from cosmic rays during a scientific
mission to outer space

G- Gamora is Thanos’s adopted daughter he kidnapped her from her mother and
then she becomes good and he kills her

H- Hawkeye is a marksman and used to be a special agent of S.H.I.E.L.D his
best friend is Black Widow.

I- Ironman’s real name man is Tony Stark he created the suit because he was
attacked and had metal in his heart. Hes a genius and very rich because he
invents and sells weapons. He died in endgame saving the planet from Thanos.
Me and my mum cried a lot hes our favourite character.

J- Jarvis used to be a super computer made by Tony Stark and with the help of
the mind stone he became Vision. Thanos wanted the mind stone so he killed
him

K- Korg is a rock alien who helps Thor in Ragnarok. He is voiced by a man named
Taika who is a New Zealand Maori and talks in a Maori accent. Hes a really cool
character because he plays fortnite in one of the movies

L- Loki is Thor’s brother and hes a bit naughty. He likes to cause trouble for thor
and his father. He pretends to die a few times but always comes back. He died in
infinity war and we hoped he would come back but he doesnt

M- Morgan Stark is Ironmans daughter. She was only 5 when her dad died and
she says a bad word in the movie. She likes cheeseburgers like her dad.

N- Natasha Romanoff is a spy who worked for S.H.I.E.L.D and Hawkeye is her
best friend. She had a bad childhood because she was forced to be a mercenary.
She has a good heart and sacrifices herself to beat Thanos

O- Odin is the norse god and is Thor and Lokis dad. He had a daughter called
Hela that Thor and Loki didnt know about. Shes evil

P- Peter Parker is Spiderman. My favourite actor for spiderman is Tom Holland.
In the movies Tony Stark is Peter’s mentor and they are like family. When Peter
gets snapped Tony cried a lot and when Ironman died Peter cried a lot. Stan Lee
created spiderman and said he was the character he was most proud of and there
are lots of stories of spiderman.

Q- Quicksilver is Magnetos son and has the power of super speed. In X-men he is
really funny and has a twin sister called Wanda.

R- Rocket Raccoon is part of the guardians of the galaxy. His best friend is Groot
but when Groot gets hurt and becomes a baby again Rocket looks after him like a
son

S- Scarlet Witch is the twin sister of Quicksilver and Magnetos daughter in x-men.
She also becomes a member of the Avengers and helps to destroy Thanos

.

T- Thanos, Thor, t’challa. Thanos was from a dead planet named titan. His wife
and daughter died because their planet ran out of resources so he decided the
universe needed to lose half of all life. He found all 6 infinity stones and
completed his mission but killed his daughter and some of the avengers. But the
avengers went back in time and hulk brought everyone back and iron man used
the infitinty stones to kill thanos.

Thor is the norse god of thunder. My mum says shes going to marry him one day.
He has a magic hammer called mjolnir. He is hundreds of years old. He hates
thanos very much and kills him but after he kills him he gets very upset and fat.

T’challa is the king of wakanda and is also the black panther. Hes very powerful
and is a good fighter.

U- ultron was created by bruce banner and tony stark using the mind stone. They
made him as a defense for the planet but he turned bad.

V- valkyrie, venom, vision

Valkyrie was a warrior for odin and there used to be lots of them until odins
daughter hela tried to take other the universe. Her and thor are best friends and
he lets her become the queen of asgard.

Venom is an alien that looks like spiderman. He can take over peoples bodies and
can use their powers. He is a bad guy

Vision used to be a super computer called jarvis but the mindstone let him come
to life. He has telepathic powers and can walk through walls, shoot lasers and fly.
He fell in love with wanda also known as scarlet witch. She tried to save him but
he dies in her arms.

W- war machine, wolverine

War machine is part of the avengers and his real name is Rhodie. He is one of
iron mans best friend. He gets shot out of the sky by falcon and loses the ability to
walk so Tony makes him bionic legs.

Wolverine is a member of X-men. He is a mutant that can heal fast and has claws
from his bones that tear out of his muscles. There was a man named striker who
found a very strong metal and infused it to wolverines bones.

 

X- x-men are a group of mutants that all have different powers. Professor X
created a school for them as a safe space for mutant kids and they can learn to
use their powers for good. There are lots of different characters and stories and
comic’s.

Y- young x-men this is the new generation of xmen because there was a virus that
wiped out all of the originals. They were created in a lab using dna from the
original mutants and wolverines daughter is with them.

Z- zodiac. there are twelve members of the human zodiac.it was the name given
to different groups of fictional characters in comics published by marvel comics

Jherean's creative writing

Last week one of our distance learning tasks was to write a story on what life might be like for an animal at a zoo while they are closed for lockdown. This is the story Jherean wrote. As you can see this is not a short story. Jherean has taken his time to carefully think about the problem and solution in his story. He has used a clear beginning, middle and end. Well done Jherean, I hope you enjoy his story as much as I did

Hi guys so today's blog is my another writing which one of my task to do at home that the teacher set us to do.

 So I have to make a story of a day in a life in a zoo. 

Here are some things that we have to include and to add in our story. 

Don’t forget to include…

• A beginning, middle and end
• Detail so that your reader gets a picture in your head.
• Give your characters names and make sure we know what type of animals they are.
• Be creative and have fun with your writing

In the middle of my story, I putted a problem and I also put a solving problem part. Here is my writing that I've done!

Beginning:

The sun was so  bright as the animals woke up and suddenly roared. It's time for their breakfast.
They went and ate food. They were eating quietly, until two panda fought because of food. The Giant
  panda’s were fighting together with other animals. They were so loud, suddenly a cute roared heard
across the zoo. Everyone stopped and got shocked, they turned to look at who roared so loud and
cutely at the same time that nobody heard before. They suddenly saw a cute little newborn lion.
“Awwwww!!!” They all said.

Middle: Problem

The other animals were shocked that the cute lion was born. They seemed to notice that there was no
one with the little lion, they were confused. As soon as they realised that the little lion was sad, they
immediately knew what happened. The big lion roared as big as she could to get the attention of the
zookeeper. The zookeeper went and was a bit confused about why she roared. 

The animals don’t know how to express to the zookeeper that they need something, how? 

The zookeeper doesn’t know what she was talking about so he just went out and continued doing his
work. The big lion went and asked the giraffe for help. The giraffe carried the lion out of the fences as
the lion runned and followed the zookeeper. The zookeeper doesn’t seem to notice it.

Middle: Problem Solving

As the big lion keeps on following him, when he gets there, it leads to a place where there are a bunch of
lions and animals. It says….. FOR SALE???? And the lions were tied up? The big lion was quite
confused why, and suddenly, she finally gets what it means. The zookeeper was about to open the door
to get a lion because someone  was buying it. As he grabs one lion and about to close the door, the big
lion suddenly jumps in and bit the zookeepers. He seemed injured, she looked at the pity eyes of the
lions. She tried to untie them and she successfully did. The faces of the animals lit up as they thought
there was no chance of them getting away from the situation. 

The mother of the little lion runned to where she left the baby. She kept on running until she found her
baby. She was happy, she immediately hugged her and smiled at her cuteness. Everyone gathered
up and showed a smile to the big lion as a thank you for her help, without her the lions could be apart
together with their families. They call the big lion a “Super Lion”. 

Ending: 

As the day continued, it was night, the zookeepers seemed to pity them and kind of regretting what
he had done. But at least, he won’t do that again, he promised himself. It was night, as they all slept
happily.. And they continue living with problems, with love and with care for each other. 

I hope you enjoy my story and please give me a positive, helpful and thoughtful feedback. Bye!