The Amazing Wacky Wednesday!

Kia ora, at Paihia School we are always doing amazing things and today most of the school dressed up for Wacky Wednesday. For Wacky Wednesday my friends Angela, Jaelyn and I all dressed up as fairies. When we found out it was going to be Wacky Wednesday my friend Angela came to my house so that we would be able to get ready together. We wore purple wigs, I have purple wings and Angela has pink wings, we did our makeup to try make us look like we are blushing and we also added jewels on our eyes to make our eyes stand out more. Another thing that I like about Wacky Wednesday is that all of the teachers have dressed up, and they look amazing. I am really enjoying Wacky Wednesday so far because all we have done so far has but a smile on peoples faces and made people happy. Next time if we do this again I will definitely want to make my outfit more Wacky and try make it stand out more. Did you dress up for Wacky Wednesday? Bye! Please check out my slideshow full of photos.

Attributing Images

Kia ora. The past few weeks we have been learning how to attribute images. The reason we have been learning this was so that we don’t steal people’s images and that they get credit for their images. Something that I have learnt was how to make sure the that I can use the images that I need. To do this you need to go to google and type what image you want, then go to tools and click Usage Rights. Once you’ve done that then click creative commons licenses and then you can go look for an image and know that your allowed to use it. I will definitely use this in the future because if I ever need to use an image, I know how to find one that I am allowed to use, without stealing someone’s work. Before you read this blog post did you know how to attribute images? Please see my DLO

Phishing or Scams

Kia ora, this week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about phishing & scams. When someone is phishing you they could want to press a link that could say something like there is a virus and they want you to download a software. As soon as you go into the website you could lose your personal things like all your photos and videos. Sometimes they ask you if you want your photos back you have to pay thousands of dollars but you shouldn’t really do that because they could be phishing you again. When someone is scamming you they could add something on facebook for example: your first car when you were born your neighborhood and act like its a cool game to fill out but really they are just scamming your personal information. They can also do this in many other ways by saying to win a PS5 fill out this form with your personal information and you could win one. Also another example: if you go on a site there is always a lock in the top left corner where the url goes, sometimes there is a red line crossing over it. If you ever go on a website and you see that then the owner of the website can steal your personal information because it means that the website is not secure. Something that I have learnt from this activity is that whenever I go onto a website to always look at the top left corner to see if there is a lock with a red line across it and if there is then its trying to steal personal information. If you would like to learn more then you can check out my DLO down below. I hope my DLO helps, bye bye!

Lockdown

Kia ora, on Sunday the 5th of September it was fathers day. For fathers day I woke up and started making my dad a special breakfast for his special day. I made him a plate of bacon and eggs with french toast and a hashbrown. I also made him a coffee for his drink. Once my dad finished his breakfast we started watching movies and relaxing for the day. At the end of the day my dad thanked me for the great day that he had. I hope that everyone's dad had a great fathers day. What did you do for your dad on fathers day? Bye!                

Nanogirl Reflection:

Kia ora, at Paihia School we had a very important guess come down to show us some amazing stuff about science. This important guests name was Nanogirl. She came down to talk to us about what she does and what she would like to show us. She was teaching us about gravity, fire and air flow. My favourite part about Nano Girls show was when she lit her hand on fire. I learnt that you can light yourself on fire and not burn yourself I also learnt that u can stick a stick right throw a billow without popping it. I really enjoyed this because it was really inspiring to see Nanogirl because she is such an amazing person and I love everything she does. If I got to see her again I would love to talk to her more about what she does and what inspires her to be a scientists. Have you ever meant Nanogirl before?

Science Fair

Kia ora, In Te Ngahere these past few weeks we have been doing science experiments for the science fair coming up. First we all came up with something we wanted to do our experiment about, then we started writing our method, aim, variables and hypothesis off the research that we did. After that we then started out experiment and took a lot of photos for evidence, when we had finished our experiment we finished writing out conclusion, results and evaluation. After we wrote the scientific method out we then put them on slides and printed them so that we could glue them on a board to present it. From doing this I learnt what a controlled variable is, what a independent variable is and a dependent variable. The thing that I found hard was that I was sick most of the time so my friend Angela had to do most of it but she hadn’t been there so she had no idea what to do and I had to try tell her over the chromebook. ( she was very hard to teach over the chromebook ). If we got to do this again one thing that I would do differently would be talking to Angela so that she had more of an understanding of what to do, also when we glued our slides down we weren’t looking at all of the space we could of used but we didn’t so there was a big spot on our board full of space that we didn’t use, so next time I will look and see how much space we have left. When doing this I had to use my hoe of Tu maia and Kaha because it was really hard teaching Angela over the chromebook but not just that also because when Angela wasn’t here I had to try think what she would do because Angela was doing it when I wasn’t here then I had to do it when she wasn’t here. I really enjoyed this and I would really like to do this again. Have you ever done a science fair before and if you have how did it go?

Dot Plot

Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing maths. For maths we have been learning about dot plots. We got a sheet of data, the data was about how far room 1 can throw a tennis ball. This data was already in a dot plot but there was more data that wasn’t in a dot plot that was room 2s data. For room 1s data I found out that the lowest throw was 3 and the farthest throw was 19. For room 2’s data the lowest number was 6 and the highest number was 20. I really enjoyed this because I learnt what the word range means. When we first started this I thought range meant how far the ball went but it actually meant, how much is in between the lowest and highest number, for example the range of room 1s data was 16 because the longest throw for room 1 was 19 and the lowest throw was 3 so you just take away 3 from 19 and you get 16. The part that I think I could of done better was to look at the teachers DLO so that my DLO would be more understandable for the people who have no clue what a dot plot is and what I was talking about. When our teacher did it she made it so clear by showing step by step what to do and pointed to what she was talking about. Have you ever made a dot plot before?