E.M Should children be allowed to chew chewing gun at school? - Blog Contract 2021.

 Hello fellow humans! How are you? I hope you are having a delightful day today! So since it's the school holidays I was getting quite bored just staying home and doing absolutely nothing, so I decided to choose something off the blog contract and do what it said. So I chose to do: Should children be allowed to chew chewing gum at school and why or why not? So I chose to say why we should be allowed because chewing gum tasted so good and it has many other good side effects as well.  I know that most kids put chewing gum underneath tables like those high schools, but maybe if you put chewing gum underneath the table, you could get in trouble? This took me about 10 minutes to make, and I found this very fun and exciting because I finally wasn't bored and I love chewing gum, and I also found this easy because I already knew that chewing gum could help you in school. Fun Fact: Some African tribes have been known to take chewing gum as a payment for a wife, instead of oxen or a sheep... WHAT?? Please go and check out my work down below and see why kids should be allowed to chew chewing gum, thanks, bye, Eden!

E.M Remembering- In Memory.

Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a cool day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, We were supposed to read three books that are about Anzac that Miss Farr gave us to read, then we were supposed to do three activities for each book. (Nine activities in Total.) I am currently on my third and final book, and I am also on my last task for T-Shaped Literacy! This is exciting because that means I'm finished with all my school work and don't need to do any of it in the school holidays, and Yay! It's the last week of school for Term 1. Only three more terms to go. The category that I chose was: Remembering and the activity I chose was: Do you already know anything about this book or had any experiences related to the text. If so write about them. So In-Memory is a book about Remembering all the soldiers that died for us and served our country. It is also about when each town comes together and remembers the soldiers, which I did and experienced when I lived in Wellington, I used to go with my mum's Mum, Mum, and older sister. This took me about 20 minutes to make, I also found this easy, and a little bit fun and relieved that I'm finally finished all my work for the term! Fun Fact: There were active volcanos on the moon when dinosaurs were alive. If I could make my work better, or BTB (Better Than Before.) make sure to put it in the comments down below. Please go down below and read my work, thanks, bye, Eden.

One of the experiences that I experienced that is related to the book was when my family and I went to go to the memorial thing in Wellington mostly every Anzac. We would stay at my Mum's mother's house the night before Anzac, then in the morning we would go to the Anzac Memorial and stand there and sing songs. I remember many people there and some people were crying. ( I felt kinda bad for them.) This relates to my book because my book talks about some Anzac Memorials and it talks about what kind of memorial statue's there are. I don't really remember what memorial statue there was in Wellington. Overall I had a great time and I was always excited to go there every Anzac. 

E.M Applying- In Memory.

 Hi everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great awesome day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to read three books and do three activities for each book. So I'm on my third book and I'm also on my second activity. The activity I chose was from the category Applying. The activity I actually chose was: Write words for a Jingle about the book to encourage people to read it. This took me about 5 minutes to make and finish, I found this fun and enjoyable, I also found this hard because I had to think a long time about what wors would be in the Radio Jingle. So I hope that this Radio Jingle would encourage you to read the book. Also, the Jingle is underneath this caption. I hope that you like my work! Fun Fact: Cows don't have Upper Teeth. Please go and check out my work down below! Thanks, bye, Eden.

(Tune.) New Zealand, New Zealand, you should read In Memory by Jack Phillips now!. (Singing ends.) It's all about Anzac and the War, very Educational. New Zealand, New Zealand you should read In Memory by Jack Phillips now! (Ends.) 

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 Reflecting on what we've done this week for Maths.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a delightful day today. So for maths on the Must do's, we had to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object.) reflecting on what we have done for Maths this week. I chose to make a slideshow because I don't really make many blog posts with slideshows.  The thing that we did this week was adding and subtracting large numbers in the thousands, and the hundreds. This took me about 20 minutes to make and finish, I also found this fun and great, and I also found this easy because all we had to do was make a DLO (Digital Learning Object.) and write what we have learnt this week. Fun Fact: Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time. Wow, that's a lot! Please go and read my work down below this caption, bye, from, Eden. 

E.M Understanding- In Memory.

 Tēnā Koe! How are you? I hope you are having a cool day today! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, we were supposed to read three books about the war and do three activities for each book and pick those activities from the activity chart. This is my third book and this is my first activity for the book. The activity I chose was from the category Understanding. The activity was: Draw a picture about how the text makes you feel, and explain in a diary entry how the text makes you feel. The diary entry and the picture are right underneath this caption. This took me about 20 minutes to make, I found this hard because I had to think hard about what to write and I had to think about the feeling I was feeling while reading the book, I also found this fine and ok. Yay, it's the last week of school for Term 1! Fun Fact: Armadillo shells are bulletproof. Wow, that means if you're trying to hunt one down with a gun and you shoot it on its shell, it won't work. (Also please don't hunt Exoctic animals.) Please go and check out my work down below! Thanks, bye, Eden.

Dear Diary,

It's Eden here! I have recently learned about Anzac and the memorials that were built for the men and women that passed away in world war 1. I mean don't we learn about it every year, but this year was different. I had just started to realize how sad the story was. The book I learned more about Anzac was called In-Memory. That's where I started to feel sad. They went to serve our country and lots of them did not survive. So I definitely agree that they should be remembered. I am very sorry for those who lost their loved ones. I am quite glad that they put over 500 memorials around New Zealand! The feeling I got reading the book was: Sad. I am very grateful for the people that went to serve our country and gave up their lives for us.

Sincerely,

Eden.

E.M Analysing- First World War Mascots.

 Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a beautiful day today! So for T-Shaped Literacy, my class was supposed to read a book about the World Wars and pick three activities to do off the chart of activities. This is my third task, and my second book, so I only have 1 more book to do! The task that I chose to do was from the category Analysing and the activity I chose was: Design a new front cover for the book you have read. Make it visually appealing si it will attract readers. Refer to other book covers to see what to include.  This took me about 15 minutes to make and finish, I also found this fun and not boring at all, I also found this easy because I knew what to do and I also had a great time decorating the book cover. To see what it looks like make sure to look at it down below! Fun Fact: Scotland has 421 words for "Snow". Wow, that's a lot of words for snow! It may look a bit wonky because it didn't work. Hooray! It's the last week of Term 1. Please go and check out my work down below. Thanks, bye, Eden.