My partner and I Created a DLO on how we thought people who attended the signing of the Treaty on February 6 1840 were thinking on the day. Looking at our DLO this is our opion of what the people had participated were thinking about. Were they curious ?, Angry ?, mor even scared ?. In my opion I think that it was very fair between the Maori and the Pakeha only because the Maori signed the founding government promising Maori Authority over they land.
Granting them rights as Maori subjects.
For Reading my partner and I created a story inspired by Fly By Night.
This story really made me think more about how AI can help support our ideas, but also how the story was mostly our own thinking.This activity helped me improve my storytelling and teamwork skills. I’m getting more confident at sharing my ideas and trying new things, just like the owl in our story.
We read the text Bok Choy for Reading. This text showed us the prejudices that existed towards the Chinese immigrants in early NZ. It also showed us that it is important to show empathy for those who are seen to be different from us. Our challenge after reading this was to write a letter to Ah Sum to thank him properly, as you didn’t have the right words when you were shivering in his hut.
Something I found interesting about the events in this text was that when he found out about Ah Sum saving Williams life then turning kind.
At the end of last week, PBS celebrated the Summer Learning Journey with a special assembly. Mrs Grant joined us to give out certificates and prizes, and I was proud to receive one for taking part. I liked doing the SLJ because it made the holidays more interesting and gave me chances to keep learning new things. One activity I really enjoyed was creating a pick-a-path quiz about the wildlife of Aotearoa. I researched native animals and invasive predators and learned how they survive and interact with each other. Looking at images and videos helped me understand what makes each animal unique. Which gave me lots of fun and interesting activities to complete. It was a great way to stay engaged and keep learning instead of getting bored. I liked how the tasks were creative and allowed me to explore different topics in my own way.
Group 2 of LS2 have been learning and some revising on “Lowest Common Multiples” (LCM).
LCM consists of multiplication where you find the number in common between 2 numbers multiplication order. For an example you could use 4 and 7 up to 5 to find the LCM. You times both up to 5 and if there is the same number diagonal from eachother. (4, 8, 12, 16, 20.) and (7, 14, 21, 28, 35) in this case, there is no common multiple up to five. But if you know your four times tables if you add 2 on you can make it to 28, which the 7 times table has making it the answer.
Group 2 in LS2 have been revising on round numbers up to the billions.
Rounding is a useful skill to estimate. In this blog, we will be teaching you how to round. You need to know place values were you can find our example in our earlier blogs. To round you need a base number, I’ll pick a random one. (482.119) if rounding and you see a question asking to round to the nearest tenth you need to realise that the “th” means that it is in the decimal, not the whole number. in this number rounding to the nearest tenth would be the 1 after the 9 in the decimal place. due to the number being higher than 4, we round up. which is rounding.
For maths group two’s task was to learn how to solve place value problems and how we use place value in different area’s. Place value is the place of a digit in a number that tells us how much it is worth. For example if there was an equation that said what is 100 more than 4,628,297 the
answer would be 4,628,397.
This week in class, we learned how to use AI with Gemini. I learned that you need to give clear instructions to get a good image. We used something called SDS, which stands for Subject, Description, and Style. The subject is what is in the image. The description is what is happening and where it is. The style is how the image looks, like cartoon or realistic. Using this helped me make better images.
We also did a challenge where we looked at a picture and tried to write a prompt to match it. It took me 3 tries to get my image close to the example, which showed me I needed to improve my prompt each time. This helped me notice small details like colours and the setting. This is the prompt I used: A spotted leopard relaxing on the right with its head facing towards the viewer on a thick tree branch in a tropical forest with palm trees and green foliage around it, created on a white background with a mix of soft sunset yellow and green watercolor art style. Learning this has helped me understand how AI works and how to be more clear with my ideas. I’m getting better at writing prompts and creating images. I really enjoyed working with my partner and completeing this task using teamwork.
We explored the ways we still honour the Treaty of Waitangi today. The Treaty of Waitangi is important because in 1840 it create a agreement and partnership between Maori and British. The British signed the Treaty of Waitangi with Māori chiefs. The British promised to protect Māori rights to their lands and treasures, while in return gaining the right to buy land. Till today it is still important because it is the treaty of New Zealand representing the releation ship between the Maori’s and British.
Something I found interesting was that the Henry Williams and his son Edward translated was able to write the English draft of the treaty into Māori overnight on 4 February.
For Arts we were talking about building our class and each group that had organised were taken on the challenge to recreate a specific leader such as, Malala Yousafai, Jonah Lomu, Kate Shepard and many others. The group that I was in had Malala Yousafai. Malala Yousafai is a great leader and can qoute ‘ One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. What I liked the most about this Art project is the collaboration that took place while completing this task. Because of our colaboration we have created an amazing replica of the leader Malala Yousafai.
