For this task we learnt how to speak like a caveman, To do this you dont need to use sentences, for example, Me need eat, Me go play, and me need toilet. The best time to use notes are when you are watching a video or when the teacher is talking about something important.

Today LS2 learnt about abstract nouns, and how to put them into use.  Abstract nouns are something you can feel mentally but not physically. Abstract nouns are words that help you feel a maultitude of feeling whether it is empathy, sadness, anger, or joy.

Talofa lava, Last week was somaon language week, and our class made a Google video to explain how to make Samoan speaking students feel more comfortable and easier to understand by giving examples on common phrases that are said in Samoan.

This week we had finished the audio book of “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas”, This book had 20 chapters and it took around 2 weeks to finish it. This story was very interesting and very deep, After we finished this story we learnt was an antogonist, protagonist, round character, and a flat character. An antogonist is like the main villain, they go against the main character. a protagonist is a main character or hero that go against the villain. A round character is someone that we get to know personality and have more emotion like happieness. And a fat Charater is like a background character that has no emotion and we don’t know much about.

Today in tech we learnt how to bake cheese scons, this task we really fun and it didn’t take very long either. We did this in partners so it would be quicker and easier to bake it. Every single week we have to choose different partners for baking. after we finished baking we got to put some spreads onto the scons like jam, butter, and whipped cream. everyone got to eat 2-3 scons, I had two because I still have lunch for morning tea.

After reading Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy In The Striped Pajamas we talked about what people must have felt like having their whole world turned upside down  Imaginene what I would’ve felt like during this war. Yesterday we discussed how we could put their cloth of dreams back together again. this activity was inspired by the back Teaspoon of light.

We drew what we thought would be good to put on this “Cloth of dreams”. What we put on this cloth were symbols of hope like a cross, a dove, and a rainbow. This task was based of  collaboration, creative expressions,  Freedom, Whanau, Hope and dreams.

We listened to the audio book of The “Boy In The Striped Pajams” by John Boyne. After each chapter we explored the mood and atmosphere. The mood is very traumatizing  and the atmosphere is very dark and intense. We worked callaboratively to summarize each chapter in 10 sentences, This helped us practise s/c/c sentences. Some days we used Gemini to prompt us an some days we Just thought of some ideas by ourselfs. Something I found was about this time was how the author can show people how strong  friendships can be.

Today we got assigned to create a (DLO) about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus, but then we found out the real task was to learn about a different kind called the North West East South Tree Octopus. There was a special rule with this assignment: I was only allowed to use one website that had all the facts about Tree Octopuses. This made me realize that trusting just one source of information can be tricky because sometimes what you read might be confusing, make little sense, or even be wrong. Also, some words and how they explain things might be hard to understand, so it’s a good idea to look at more than one website to get a clearer picture of what you want to learn.

In the process of doing this task, I discovered something pretty surprising: the story about the Tree Octopus isn’t real, it’s made up. It’s a hoax or fake story that people created on the internet. Even though the story isn’t true, I did find a website that had some real information about actual octopuses, just not about this fake tree version. This experience taught me an important lesson — whenever I’m learning new things online, I need to check multiple sources to make sure I’m getting correct information. Relying on just one website can lead to misunderstandings or believing false stories. It also showed me that not everything I read on the internet is true, so I should be careful and think critically about what I find to avoid being misled by fake stories or misinformation. Overall, it was a useful exercise in being more cautious and responsible when searching for knowledge online.

For this task LS2 used gemini to simplify definitions of words that we don’t understand, for example Jackasseries is a word that means foolish behaviour. If we put this word into gemini and tell it to simplify it to and easier definition, like ridiculous.