Category: Hanga | Create

Tech

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.

Building Hope

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.

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas.

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.

Tree Octopus

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.

AI Prompts

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.

Lowest Common Multiples

Group 2 of LS2 have been learning and some revising on “Lowest Common Multiples” (LCM).

LCM consists of multiplication where you find the number in common between 2 numbers multiplication order. For an example you could use 4 and 7 up to 5 to find the LCM. You times both up to 5 and if there is the same number diagonal from eachother. (4, 8, 12, 16, 20.) and (7, 14, 21, 28, 35) in this case, there is no common multiple up to five. But if you know your four times tables if you add 2 on you can make it to 28, which the 7 times table has making it the answer.

Mood-O-Meter

Today LS2 have finished the story of “The boy in the striped pajamas”, There are about 20 chapters in this story and it took a really long time to finish this story. After we finished this story We made a Mood-O-Meter. A Mood-O-Meter is used too check and analyze the mood of a certain characters. We made a Mood-o-meter about the last chapter and the ending was pretty sad, after we finished this task we shared it to our teacher and then blogged it.

Contrasting

Today LS2 Were Listening to chapter 16-17 of The boy in the striped pajamas and for this task we went on nano banana (AI) and generated a image of Bruno and Shmuel and the difference between them. Another thing we learnt was what contrasting means. Contrasting means the opposite of anything, we generated a image of Bruno inside his house in Berlin and Shmuel on the other side of the fence.

Tech DLO

Today this was our last class in the Te reo Maori for tech, For this last day we had to finish off our patterns that we made on the wood. Some of us also got to make posters about what they think about the Maori culture, I wasn’t at tech last Friday so I didn’t get to do the poster. I also unfortunately finish the pattern so I took it to school with some colored paper and finished it at school. Now next time we got to tech we will be doing cooking. Im so excited to learn how to cook since I’m not a professional at it.