Promising problems!

Hey Bloggers! In math today we took a look at solving algebra problems backwards. It is really simple to do and make solving the problems easy to do. Firstly you need to gather what information the problem has given you, you then change everything to the opposite equation e.g. + to -visa versa. Here's a video to show you the basics of it! MATH! I got challenged to create a word problem using this technique here it is! 

The baker sold 15 cakes in the morning and 26 at lunch. He also sold 5 cupcakes to younger children. In the afternoon he sold 13. How many cakes did the baker make? Did get it? Tell me the answer in the comments! Have a great day! 

-Zoe-  

Marvellous Matariki

Hey Bloggers! For the past two weeks, we have been reviewing the Matariki constellation. After this, we got given a list of tasks that we could complete, we only had to do one so me and a group of my friends chose to make a sock puppet show depicting a Matariki story. Making the sock puppets were really fun but filming was sorta challenging. Here it is!

Do you like it? The overall everything isn't great but we still had fun! I hope you enjoyed it.

-Zoe-

Horrific horror

Hey Bloggers! How are you? For the last week, we have been looking at the conventions of horror and we got challenged to make an intro to a horror story. I'm not a huge fan of horror so this wasn't very fun but I tried... Here it goes!

   

I stared down the dark suffocating hallway, my friends edging me on, back in the comforting light of my own bedroom. Was this really a good idea? Taking that stupid dare, I exhale sharply and start down the pitch-black hallway one foot in front of the other, my body betraying my mind. I open the bathroom door with a loud creaking and step slowly inside, the hard tile cold on my bare feet. I look down at the small mirror sitting on the basin and pick it up, I stare into the mirror, looking back at me is, of course, my own reflection, lilac pyjamas and all. I let out a long sigh of relief and chuckle to myself, of course, there's nothing there, I look back down at the mirror and grin, the reflection doesn't. I quickly drop it and back toward the door, I'm only a few feet away when it slams shut so hard that one of the windows shatters onto the floor. I look back at the small mirror but it's gone, I suddenly feel something cold in my hand, I look down and find that the brass mirror is sitting in my palm. My reflection smirks and reaches out toward me. The last thing I hear is my own scream before everything is gone.              

Yeah... as I said this isn't my strong suit but I still tried to have fun with it. I feel I probably could have done a better job on this but I hope you enjoy!

-Zoe-

Awesome ASCII

Hey bloggers! Today we are learning about Binary and ASCII.  

Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers.  You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself!  Try watching this video to give it a go yourself!

ASCII is a set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard).  I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code!  Using colours to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my images below! 

Do you know how to write in code? Have a fantabulous day! 

-Zoe- 

 

Wacky websites

Kia ora bloggers, What are you up to today? A couple of days ago my literacy group finished our Wonderful Wizard of Oz websites. We had to choose 3 themes, symbols and characters. We used google sites to make these creating a page for each topic, there were workshops for characters or themes if we needed a refresh on them. This is my finished site:

WOZ site 

This was quite an interesting experience, we had to use an essay format on a webpage I didn't have any major issues though so overall it was quite fun. Have you read the wizard of oz? If so then who's your favourite character? Have a fabulous day!

-Zoe- 

Giant global issues

Kia ora bloggers! How are you on this fabulous day? A couple of days ago we had to choose a piece of art that reflected a global issue, I chose one that reflects the media. We then had to write a couple of paragraphs describing what the image shows. This is my one.

I read it now and realise that it sounds sort of like some wacky conspiracy against the media but... Anyways I had a lot of thoughts whilst writing this and I think the image strongly represents our media today. What's an issue you feel passionate about? Thank you for reading! See ya next time.

-Zoe-

Creative Korus

Kia ora bloggers! What are you doing at the moment? Today in class we got to finish off our segment on korus then we got to use a website called adobe spark to create a presentation on the process of the koru making. Heres mine.



What do you think? I apologise for my voice, I'm just gonna blame it on my braces... Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video. Have a fantastic day, do you own a bone carving? See you next time.
-Zoe- 

Interesting Irony

Kia ora bloggers! How are you? Yesterday in class we dove a bit deeper into irony, we learnt that there are three different types of it, dramatic irony, situational irony and verbal irony. We learnt that showing irony means showing the opposite of what you expect.We then watched a couple of videos and after that, we were challenged to create a comic displaying irony so me and my friend made this comic here.

This was really fun, as you can see we made good usage of the space around us. If we had more time I would probably make sure the image quality was a bit better, other than that I really like this! Can you list the three kinds of irony? This is my friend's blog, Pandoras blog. Have a fantastic day!
-Zoe-