E.M My Brother's War- Novel Study.

 Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello, everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a Perfect day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy we were are doing Novel Studies! So each reading group was assigned a Novel. In my reading group, The Kiwis, we supposed to read this book called My Brother's War. The book is about two brothers, William the older braver one that agrees with war, and Edmund the younger funny humorous, one that disagrees with war and They will both stand for what they believe in, even if it drives them apart. I would defiantly rate this book a ten out of ten, I would also give it a five-star novel! The book had death, happiness, Family, Friends, Connection, War, Intensity, and many more things, that you would want to find in a good book. I love this book and think it was very interesting! The slideshow down below has all the activities that I did for the book, and other things too! This whole book and the slideshow took me about 8-9 days to finish entirely. I also found this Hard because it took a long time and sometimes I was confused about what to do. I also found this fun and exciting! Fun Fact: Humans have jumped further than horses in the Olympics. Wow! That's crazy! Please go down below and check out the work I worked hard on and a lot of time out of my day on, I would really appreciate it if you would! (If you have read up to here, good on you!) If I could make my work any better and make it more BTB (Better Than Before.) Make sure to write it down below! P.S If you want to click on the Blue links down in my slideshow, just look underneath this blog post to see them. Thanks, bye

Eden. 

E.M My Brother's War- Word Study.

 Hi everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we are doing Novel Studies! The book that I am reading is called My Brother's War. The book is about two brothers, William the older braver one that agrees with war, and Edmund the younger funny humorous, one that disagrees with war and They will stand for what they believe in, even if it drives them apart. I was so happy that I finally finished it! I almost finished the whole activity for the book! The book is very good and I rate it 10\10. So this blog post is about one of the tasks I have to do. It is called a word study. For the world Study, we were supposed to read through the entire book and find words that we don't know or are unfamiliar with. We were supposed to Find the page that the word was on, The context in which you find it, Your best guess on what the word means, The meaning, and the word in other forms, and your own sentence of the word. We were supposed to pick a minimum of 25 or more. I did 35 words. This took me about 8-9n days to finish, I also found this hard because it took me forever! I also found this frustrating and a bit boring. Fun Fact: Movie trailers originally played after the movie itself. Wow, I cannot imagine that happening! If I could make this blog post BTB (Better Than Before.) Make sure to write it down in the comments! Please make sure to check out my work down below! (If you made the caption up to here, your the best!) Thanks, bye, 

Eden.

E.M Word of the Week- Innovation.

 Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a beautiful day today! So for Spelling, we were supposed to do the Word of Week, Like every week! So the word of the week this week was ... Innovation! Innovation means when someone or something has a great idea, and the idea is very good and is brilliant! This took me about 5 minutes to make and finish, I also found this easy because we do this every week! I also found this kinda boring, but fun at the same time! Fun Fact: The world's oldest toy is a stick! Wow! Please go down below and check out my work! If I could do anything to make this better make sure to write it down in the comments! Thanks, bye,

Eden.

E.M Author Profile- David Hill.

 Hi everyone! How are you? I hope you are all having a delightful day today! So for Term 2, we are reading Novels and we are doing Novel Studies. Each Group gets a different book. My group, The Kiwi, is reading My Brother's War by David Hill. For each chapter we were supposed to do some tasks, One of my Tasks was to make an Author Profile. An Author Profile is when you have to write down everything about them and what they do for a living. So I had to make an Author Profile for David HIll. I write Fun Facts about him and write what books he writes and other things. This took me about 20 minutes to make, I also found this quite boring but kinda fun at the same time. I also found this hard because I had to research a lot to find more things about him. Fun Fact: We're the First Country to see the sunrise. Wow, how cool! If I did anything wrong or have to make it BTB (Better Than Before.) Make sure to write it down below in the comments so I know what to do next time. Please go and take some time to read my work down below, Thanks, bye, Eden.

E.M The 28th Māori Battalion.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today, and yay it's the last week of school! For T-Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to research the 28th Māori Battalion. The 18th Māori Battalion was an Infantry Battalion of the New Zealand Army that served during the War. The 28th Māori Battalion was the most famous Battalion of New Zealand. They even have a video! To go and see the video of them doing Kapa Haka make sure to go onto my work and click the fag to go and check it out! This took me about 1 day to make, edit, put links, and finish, I also found this fun and exciting, I also found this hard because we had to make it as interesting and good as possible. Fun Fact: The man with the world's deepest voice can make sounds humans can't hear. That's... just... WOW! I'll show a picture down below of my work, but sorry you sadly can't click on the links, sorry. Please go and check out my work down below, and if there is anything that I could do to make this BTB (Better Than Before.) make sure to tell me down below in the comments! Thanks, bye, Eden.

E.M Maths- Add and Subtracting Large numbers.

 Hello everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today! So for maths my group, the Circles were supposed to add and subtract big numbers. We were supposed to figure out the answers by ourselves. There were six questions but some of the questions we answered with Miss Farr. This took me about 15 minutes to finish and make, I also found this fun and great, I also found this hard and easy because at first I accidentally added the numbers that I was supposed to subtract, then I had to start all over again. We could post this on our blogs if we wanted to, but if we didn't we didn't have to. Fun Fact: The first oranges weren't orange. That's right! I can't believe it, I always just thought oranges were orange but turn out they weren't always. Please go and check out my workings don below!  Also do you like maths? Make sure to write them in the comments. If I could make anything BTB (Better Thank Before.) make sure to put it down below in the comments. Thanks, bye, Eden.

E.M Evaluating- First World War Mascots.

 Hello, everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a delightful day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to read the three stories and pick three activities for that book on the activity chart. This is my second book and this is my second activity on the book. My book is called First World War Mascots by Philipa Werry. The book is explaining what mascots are and remembering what they did and how they helped us. The activity I chose was from the category Evaluating, and the activity was: Explain your feeling to a particular part of the book why do you feel this way? So the part of the book I chose was on page 2 of the book. That part explains what a mascot is and why did the soldiers have mascots. Read how I felt reading this down below this caption. This took me about 10 minutes to make and finish, I also found this easy but hard because I had to decide what part of the book to explain how I felt, I also found this great. if there is anything that I can do better next time, make sure to write it down below in the comments. Fun Fact: The population of New Zealand in 1914 was approximately 1.1 million. Wow! Please go and check out my work down below! Thanks, Eden.

When I was reading what a mascot is and why the soldiers had mascots, at first I felt confused because I didn't know what a mascot was and why the soldiers had mascots. Then after I found out what mascots were and why the soldiers had mascots I was completely happy, not angry one bit, because the animals looked so cute and it hit the spot when they said that they had the mascots not only for help but for company. (That's like having a pet.) I was very happy but sad because later on in the book some animals passed away, but when reading page 2 I felt happy and not confused anymore. 

E.M Understanding- First World War Mascots.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope that you are having a beautiful day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we are learning about Anzac and the Mascots. The book I decided to read was First World War Mascots. It's about all the animals that stayed by the soldier's sides while they were at war and how they helped them defeat the other enemies. One of my favorite famous animals that were mentioned in the story was Pelorus Jack. He was a dog that helped a lot, but not in the war, on the HMS New Zealand. So I was supposed to choose something off the chart and I chose: Design a bookmark featuring the title, author, and a summary of your book. Decorate the bookmark with pictures of the book. To show you know about the book make a picture book. Illustrate the main idea of the book. Which I think is remembering the animals that helped in the first world war. I also think it's about the mascots and the book teaches the reader what mascots are and how they help, it also teaches them about animals and some of the animals that served in the first world war were exotic. This is my first task for my second book, just have one more book to go and two more tasks. This took me about 2 hours to make, I also found this exciting because I like doing crafts, I also found this great but kinda boring. Fun Fact: A snail can sleep for three years. All my work is down below. Please check out my work down below and if you have made it this far in the caption good job! You're a good reader. Thanks, Eden.

                                                                        

E.M Evaluating- Torty the lucky Tortoise.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope that you are having a fantastic day! So for T-shaped literacy, we were supposed to pick something off the chart and I decided to choose Evaluating. So for the Evaluating task, we were supposed to: Give your book a rank or rating. Write why you gave it this rating, compared to other books. So I gave the book Torty the luck Tortoise a 9 out of 10. Find out down below why I gave it this rating. This is my task 2 for the book Torty the luck Tortoise. This took me about10 minutes to make, I found this fun and great, I also found this easy. Fun Fact: Tortoises can live up to 150 years. Please go and check out my work down below! Thanks, bye, Eden.

I give my book, Torty the luck Tortoise,  nine out of ten. I think this because it had pictures so that we could imagine what Torty and Stewart looked like. You can also picture the scenes and what happened. I don't give it a ten because I think that the Author could have added a bit more writing because I think that is is a very short story and I would have liked to read more.

E.M If I could change one thing about our school what would it be?

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope that you are having a great, awesome, amazing day today! So I was chilling at home and had nothing to do, So I decided to choose something off the blog contract and do a DLO (Digital Learning Object.)  I chose to do it on a google drawing. I chose to do if I could change something about our school what would it be. The thing that I would change about our school would be that if a kid got to reflection they would miss out on a treat that the rest of the class would do. This took me about 20 minutes to make. I found this fun and quite cool. I also found this easy and hard because it took me quite a while to decided what to change in our school then after that it was easy. Fun Fact: Mcdonals once made bubblegum flavored broccoli. ... That is just- mind-blowing... Please go and check out my work down below! Thanks, 

-Eden.

E.M Gratitude post.

 Hello everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a fantastic day today! So I decided to do a DLO (Digital Learning Object.) About what I am grateful for. I picked this off the blog contract and I am doing this in the Easter holidays because I want to! ( I'm also bored.) Yay, I can't believe that tomorrow is Easter! I'm very excited. Now you're probably reading this after Easter, so how was your Easter? I thought very hard about what I am grateful for and I finally came up with these five answers. 1. Friends and Family, 2. Food and Water, 3. Shelter, 4. School, 5. Money. If you want to read what I did and what I decided to write in paragraphs make sure to click on the blog post down below! This took me about 1 hour to make and about 1 day to post it. ( Because I didn't have enough time to post it.)  I found this hard cause it took a long time to make this. ( I hope you like it!) I also found this enjoyable because first of all I love doing school work and secondly I love posting new things on my blog! If there is anything that I can change or make BTB (Better Than Before.) Fun Fact: The Easter bunny Legend began in Germany. (I thought it began in America to be honest.) Make sure to put it in the comments because I love getting feedback on what to do better next time. Please go and check out my blog post down below! Thanks, Bye, Eden.

E.M Podcast energy- Solar Panels.

 Hello everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great awesome day today! So my class and I were supposed to make a map of our school. Then we were supposed to place objects such as rocks, leaves, sticks, paper, or cardboard to represent solar energy. We were supposed to place the objects where we think they should have solar energy. I chose leaves  For those who don't know what solar panels are, they are panels that are built on the roofs of buildings and they collect energy from the sun. The sun makes energy and we collect them through solar panels, which is very good for the planet and it is saving energy. (Even though they cost lots of money.) This took me about 2 days to finish and publish. I found this cool and fun. I also found this easy cause I knew exactly where to put the solar panels on the map. I'm going to be switching things up a bit and saying a fun fact in every blog post. Fun Fact: A little bit of the waves is made by wind but most of it is made by the Moon! Yes, I was as shocked as you. (If you knew that good on ya.) They cost $300 each for one panel. That would be a lot of money. We would probably need more than 150 solar panels for our whole school. Please go and check out my school work down below, please give me some feedback. P.s the picture is underneath the video. Bye, from Eden.