What does "Waste" mean to me?

Hello Readers!

first post of 2020! I hope you've all had amazing holidays and I can't wait to get back into the school year!

Today in Gilstom literacy we have been told to write 3 paragraphs about what... Waste means to us..?  and facts about waste..? Enjoy I guess...


Waste. What does waste mean to you? does it mean, rubbish? Waste of time? waste of materials? or all of those things? To me, it means a lot of things, like trash, waste of talent, waste of money, food waste, y'know? those kinds of things.

an example of this is:
"At the mall, we bought absolutely nothing, it was a complete waste of time"
The Cambridge Dictionary explains waste as a 'unessasary use of money, substances, time, energy, abilities, etc.:' and I agree with this, but what are other ways to explain waste?

BEDMAS ANIMATION!

Kia ora everyone!

 You might know this from my last post, but in Davies math, we've been learning about BEDMAS, and we were asked to make an animation to show our understanding of BEDMAS then blog it, so that's what we did.  My animation shows what BEDMAS is and how to use it.

check it out!

LOOK WHAT MATHS I CAN DO!!!

Hi Everyone!

in Davies math, we've been looking at BEDMAS and negative numbers.  Below are the equations we had to solve, they looked pretty hard at first, but then when we worked through it, they were actually really easy!  I learnt, that when there's a bracket right next to a number, like in question #1, it's multiplication. and that when you have a fraction the / in the fraction is just like division, like in question #2, and that made things so much easier to complete!  One thing I had to get in my head were the exponents, (42, 22 normally the small number would be above, but I couldn't do that in blogger)  I kept thinking that for example 44 would be 4x4, but it's actually 4x4x4x4, so that made me get some questions wrong, but I know that now, so its all good!

#1:  6 ÷ 2 (1 + 2) =

#2:  10 × 4 - 2 × (42 + 4) ÷ 2 ÷ 1/2 + 9 =

#3  -10 + (20 ÷ 22 × 5 ÷ 5) × 8 - 2 =

Can you figure these equations out? Let me know what your answers were!

AFRICA!

Tena Koutu!

For Inquiry, We're looking at art and culture, we've learnt about three cultures and their different art styles, The three options are, Africa, Inuit, and Japanese, right now I'm learning about Africa, We made Adobe Spark websites to explain what we learnt, I worked with my very good friend Hannah to create our Adobe Spark, and I will link our website, and her blog post below.

Africa - Our Website
Africa - Inquiry  (Hannah's Post)

Japanese Art

Kia Ora Everyone!

For Inquiry, we are all learning about 3 different cultures, Inuit, African, and Japanese, once we've learnt about all 3, we choose the one we like the most, and do some of their art.  Right now, my group is learning about the Japanese, and we've created a slide to share with you!

 

Asttle Writing practice

Hi There!

In literacy on Monday, we had 1 hour to do a practice asttle writing test, And we've been told to blog it!  So here it is, its almost sorta horror, but not.  You'll see.

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It’s Midnight, I woke up with an odd feeling, that something was wrong.  I step outside to see if there's anything there, but it's just Kassie, our cat.
“Hello?!” My voice echoes through the silence of the night, no one answers.

As I’m walking down the path toward the small field of wheat, I hear a rustle in the surrounding forest, It's quiet out here, I stride into the middle of the field, putting myself in a vulnerable position.

I hear a rustle in the trees, just a quiet one.
It’s probably just a squirrel I think to myself.  I hear it again, louder this time.
“Hello? Is anyone out there?”  silence. Then the rustling gets louder again, but this time, a dark figure emerges from the trees.  I freeze, it's a person, but, floating, it's wearing a dark long cloak, and a large wart is placed at the tip of its long nose.
“Hello, little girl!”  not an inviting tone of voice. A screechy, high pitched voice belonging to an elderly woman.

I race into the trees, and keep running till I hit a dead end, I know the forest well, I know where I am, I turn left and keep running but I find a place I’ve never seen before, a curtain of vines droop from the top of a large cliff, I reach my hand through the vines and walk into the dark abyss of a cave, hoping she won’t find me here. I walk with caution.

Eventually, I see light.
An opening maybe? But no, It's a sword, Its glowing.  It's just lying there,
I could use this to fend off this creepy person.
I pick up the sword and find my way back to the cave entrance and push through the vines, I run back the way I came and find my way to the wheat field, the woman isn’t there, but I can hear her voice.

“Do you know what I am, little girl?” her voice echoes.
“I am a witch, and do you know what I eat, little girl?” she asks “I eat little girls souls!”
I run to the middle of the field. She appears in front of me.
“I can sense your fear little girl!”
“I’m not scared of you! And my name is Hazel!” I shout, regretting telling her my name instantly.
“Hazel? What a lovely name, to bad it has to die with you.”

Running down the path back home I lure her to the small clearing in the forest.
I stop and turn around to face her, sword in hand. My heart is pounding, my stomach fills with butterflies.  I swing the sword with my eyes shut tight. I hear a scream, then nothing. 

My ears start ringing.  Something is still wrong.
“Aah!” the ringing gets louder, and my ears start to ache.
“You thought you could kill me before I kill you?  HA!”
My ears started bleeding and my eyes go fuzzy…
“AAHH!” I scream “STOP! PLEASE!” I beg
“No can do, I’m afraid.”
I pluck up the courage to get up and push past the pain.

I pick up the sword again, I can see her in front of me, but I feel her body behind me.
I spin around and stab the witch in her stomach. She falls to the ground, I stab her again, for good measure, and leave her to fade away on her own.

It's midnight, I clean my wounds and bandage then up,  and go to sleep peacefully, with a sword under my bed, I fall into my dreams as I feel the fuzzy warmth of our cat, Kassie curl into a ball beside me, purring away.

Goodnight everyone, sweet dreams!
    - Hazel

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Bricks Goals

14th October 2019
Hi There Everyone!

Hope you all had a great holiday, I'm Sure well all have an amazing week back to school.

In math, we've been tasked with Working on our bricks more than we did the last term because we didn't do as much as expected last term, we've also been tasked with writing a blog post telling you guys, the readers, what bricks we're working on.

I'm working on brick 22, 23 and 24 for now, when I've finished those three, I'll move on.
Brick 22 requires me to do a task on khan academy, to show I know my factors to 100.
Brick 23 is the same, but I need to know my multiples to 10.

Brick 24 has something to do with fractions and decimals, I'm not so confident about that one but we'll see.


Here's my bricks slide, This shows which bricks I'm working on and which ones I've completed