Hello readers. For this term, we have a project called Good Sorts to volunteer and give back to the community. This is a presentation our group—Ringa Awhina—made. I hoped you found this helpful and it would be awesome if you can be there!
Hello readers. This week for DMIC we had a pattern problem. This is my presentation of it. I hoped you like it and if you have anything to say, write it in the comments.
Hello readers. This is my DMIC maths problem for the week and it’s about a 21st birthday bash problem for the twins Claire and Rob. I hoped you liked it and share with me any different ways that you could do this problem.
Hello readers. This is my piece of writing from Writer’s Toolbox that I found most interesting. I hoped you liked it and any thoughts, leave a comment on this post. So this is what we had to do:
Unphased by shadows under her board, Lily Kenny had one thing on her mind—winning.
The thing is, we want TEN bits of detail today. That’s names, numbers, or places in your writing.
Happy days.
My writing:
Unphased by shadows under her board, Lily Kenny had one thing on her mind; winning. She was the last one to enter TGW (The Great Wakeboard) race and was also the last one to do it. All of the famous wakeboarders—that is, William Gerald, Paul Thymes, Hannah East and many more great ones—had entered this competition for its humongous prize of 200 million dollars. Expensive drones hover above your head, recording movements and everything that is going on. The races are very intense.
The California sun was setting, and it was time for Lily to go. Carefully, Lily put on her wakeboarding gear and got all ready in the water. It’s all on her and her dad, who is going to drive the boat. The race started. The packed crowd turned towards Lily and her wakeboard. She skimmed across the water and it looked like if she let go, she would fly into the sky—or the sea. In less than 1 minute and 30 seconds, Lily Kenny covered the race distance of 2 kilometers. Huffing and puffing, Lily got on land and lied down on the cool, soft sand. Her ears wide awake, she listened for the announcer’s voice: “William Gerald is the winner with a time of 1 minute and 9 seconds, followed by Ben Shatters with a close-but-not-quite time of 1 minute and 11 seconds. Last but not least, Bethany Brown with a time of 1 minute and 20 seconds. Other competitors, you can see your finishing time on the board below.” Lily’s heart was broken.
After dinner, Lily’s dad told her that he also timed her and it was totally different. They spoke to the manager and looked at the drones that was recording in the timing room. Turns out, the person who recorded the time forgot to click stop! Then they looked at the drone that was following Lily and the actual time was 1 minute and 4 seconds. The next day, the announcer announced again that the real winner was Lily, second was William Gerald and third was Ben Shatters. Now’s the time to celebrate ‘winner winner chicken dinner’ with 200 million dollars.
Hello readers. This is a task for our Good Sorts Volunteering project. For this task, we have to write a profile about an Otaki Volunteer place or someone local that you know volunteers. You also write 10 questions that you want to ask them and send the questions to them on Gmail. Then you also write about why this place is a benefit for the community. I did mine about Otaki Museum. I hope you enjoyed looking at this presentation and, perhaps, visit Otaki Museum someday!
This term, the year 7 and 8s are focusing on volunteering and what it do for the community, which is also called Good Sorts. These are my tasks that I have to do. One is called the 3-2-1 bridge set volunteering and the other is Volunteer service. The 3-2-1 bridge set is about the questions and how much you know about volunteering. The Volunteer Service is about one particular volunteer organisation and the requirements as well as information about it. I hope you liked this, and any thoughts about it just leave a comment on this post.
3-2-1 bridge volunteering
Volunteer service
Hello readers. This is my Writer’s Toolbox piece of writing that I found most interesting this week. I hope you liked it and scroll down to see the picture and tell me if you think I’ve described it right to you. So this is what we had to do.
Describe this image to someone who CANNOT see it.
To make things tricky, the words ‘cat’, ‘couch’, and ‘grass’ are all banned today.
Oh, and include ONE Em-Dash Sentence to give your writing colour. Ready? Go.
My writing:
You’re looking into a room, and you wouldn’t call this a bedroom. It’s relatively small and rectangular, with a big glass sliding door on the left, grey curtains pulled aside. There is no carpet; there is only turf. Looking out from the glass door, there is a room similar to the one you’re currently inside, but you can only see a small corner of it and it somehow looks brighter. The walls and the ceiling are white, with black squares lined up around the ceiling and a grey line close to you on the wall. Near that grey line there is a nine-hole plug for something, and sitting right where the grey line sits a little kitten. It’s not a tabby—maybe a lighter coloured Tabby—but you’re just assuming for now it is one. It could also be a Ragdoll, too, but I think Tabby will do it.
In the middle of the room is an old sofa, the sides all tattered and rusty and dusty. The sofa faces towards the glass door and has 5 pillows on it, the pillows with casual patterns on it. A bit towards you is a glass coffee table with some old books on it, the glass so clean it makes the table seem invisible. There is a skinny stand lamp pointing towards the couch; it stands from the curtains at the end of the glass door, away from you. Where the lamp is, there is a grey concrete wall with a thin line in the middle. It doesn’t cover the whole end, but leaves a space that a person or two can go through. You can see a wooden wall further on, with a single light brightening up. There’s also a plug to the lamp, and you took a guess that the label on both lamps (the one near the curtain and this one) said ‘Made in China’.
But what bothers you most (back to the little tabby), from the corner of your eye, there is a reflection of this room too, but darker. You can only see a little bit of it though. This brings you to the end, and I think you’re probably wondering “Dark, main, bright?”. Tricky eh?
Hello readers. This is my weekly piece of writing from Writer’s Toolbox that I found most interesting. I hope you liked it and leave a comment on what you think about it. So this is what we had to do:
Today, NO word can begin with the letter ‘G’.
Plus, use THREE words that rhyme with ‘ride’.
You’ll glide through!
I don’t think I had any words starting with G:)
NASA has built a long highway on the moon. It is currently 67 km right now, but they still want to expand it more so that it stretches all over the moon. The sides of the highway are still rocky, and you can only go with 2 spaceships at once. Building a highway on the moon, it’s no easy stuff. You can’t keep things in place as they float everywhere, can’t have water breaks because of the air, and have trouble with toilet breaks on the moon. Finally, after years of trying, the big opening of NASA Moon highway arrived, with astronaut Jill Float celebrating as well.
There was one problem that no one knew about; space rabbits. Jill flew her spaceship around the NASA Moon highway, unaware of the starving space rabbits chasing after her spaceship. Stopping the spaceship, she went out and took a photoshoot of the moon and the earth and the NASA Moon highway. After the photo was taken, the rabbits crept after her. Jill saw them. She ran like an Olympic champion—so did the space rabbits. Jill ran out of the highway and ran behind a rock to hide. She tried to hold her breath, but her nose twitched and she sneezed, which didn’t help at all. Maybe, she could come up with a plan in split seconds and be the discoverer of these hostile space rabbits. Just maybe.
Hello readers. This is DMIC Friday and this is the math problem my group had to work on. It’s about chances and dice. We did it on Google Slides. I hope you liked it and any thoughts, just leave a comment on this post.
Hello readers. This is my weekly alphabet work and this week is about the letter Z. I hope you enjoyed watching this presentation as well as learnt something new from it. Any thoughts, just leave a comment on this post.