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 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 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 How Tokelau makes their energy.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a cool day. So my class and I for T- Shaped literacy were supposed to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object.) about how Tokelau makes their energy. For those who don't know where and what Tokelau is it's a country in the middle of the pacific ocean and it is very small. They make their own electricity by using coconut oil since they have lots of coconut trees. They are the first country to do this! They also use Solar panels too! They stopped using diesel for 4 main reasons go down below and see those 4 things! This took me about 1 hour to make. I found this hard cause I didn't really know what to write then I got the hang of it. I found this fun and kinda cool. Please go and check out my school work down below! Thanks, Bye. From Eden.

E.M Brainstorm answering the questions about the Sun and Wind.

 Bonjour everyone! ça va? (How are you?) I hope you're all having a parfait ( Perfect.) day today! So this week my class and I were supposed to answer these questions: How do the Wind and Sun affect you in your daily life, and What activities do you do that engage the Wind and Sun? This piece of work took me about 2 days to finish and make. I found this fun and cool cause I absolutely LOVE doing school work. I also found this easy cause I knew exactly what to write and also I like the Wind and Sun. Please go and check out my school work down below! Thanks, Au Revoir (Goodbye.) Eden.

E.M Ways to Save power.

 Hello everyone how are you!  I hope you are having a cool day today! So for T- Shaped Literacy, We were supposed to make a DLO ( Digital Learning Object.) about ways to save energy. You should definitely save energy because it's better for us and the planet. This took me about 15 minutes to make. I found this easy cause I knew exactly how to save energy and I hope that this incourages you to save more energy. I found this fun cause I love doing school work. Especially DLOs ( Digital Learning Object.) Please go and check out my school work down below! Thanks, Bye, from Eden.

E.M Energy questions- video.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a cool day today! So for T- Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to make a copy of the Energy questions and answer them. So the questions were about Kinetic energy and Potential energy. So Kinetic energy is Mass and Speed and Potential is Height and Gravity. We were also supposed to answer how a spring works and what energy's it is. This took me about 30 minutes to make. I found this cool and kinda fun. I also found this hard cause I didn't really know what to do.  Please go and check out my school work down below! Thanks, Bye, From Eden. 

E.M Positive feedback loops.

 Hello fellow humans! I hope you are having a great awesome day! So my reading Kiwi had to read a book about Climate change and about the feedback loops and how they work.  Were supposed to make a google drawing and research Positive feedback loops and Negative feedback loops. (This blog post is Positive feedback loops.) If you didn't know what positive and negative feedback loops are I'll tell you! So negative feedback loops are when climate change slows down. ( I'm pretty sure that's the good one.) Positive feedback loops are when it speeds up climate change. (I'm pretty sure that's the bad one. ) This took me about a week to make and finish. I found this hard at first because I didn't know what either of the words meant, but at the end of it, I found it quite easy. I also found this fun cause I really enjoy doing school work. Please go and check out my school work down below! Thanks! Bye, from Eden.

E.M Energy Compare and Contrast.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a beautiful day today. So my class and I were supposed to compare the two texts about energy. My favorite text was probably text 2. It just had more descriptive writing and it had more detail. Text 2 talked about all the ways that you can do to use less energy, and Text 1 is about questions on how to save energy and you have to answer them in your head. This took me about a few days to make. I found this hard cause I had no idea what to write. Please go and check out my work down below! Bye thanks, from Eden.

E.M EK News Enviroment.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a wonderful day today! So this isn't my personal video but it's Katelyn's video for her T-Shaped literacy. So this took us about a day to make and it's really cool! It is a news report about the environment dying and how we need to take care of the environment more. Please go and check it out down below! The video is also apart of EK news! Like the other video, we made about the Lake Ohau fires. I really enjoyed making it because  I love doing EK news videos with Katelyn. I found this hard because we had to get the perfect shot. Thank you for reading this bye from Eden!  Here is Katelyn's blog: http://paroagreykatelynm.blogspot.com/