Maori Trade (Social studies)

In Social studies, we started learning about Maori and what it was like before the Europeans came (I wasn't there that week when we did learn it though...)

After we (Or my class) had learned how the Maori lived and how they traded before the Europeans came we were given a choice of 3 tasks that we could complete.

Mine was to make a mind mup of what the Maori traded before the Europeans and after.

Dear Writers block

Chicken stir fry (Food)

Last week in Food we made Chicken stir fry but since I wasn't here that day I never got to try it, so I'm going to be putting down what other people of my team thought.

I asked if it tasted good I got a response from one of my teammates as were set into groups and she said she liked it as it had a different sort of taste.

I then asked how Teamwork was my reply, yes the teamwork was good, meaning that I'm guessing everyone had a go, as in the kitchen we only had limited time to make the food and then eat it.

So hopefully this week I'll be at school so I'll be able to give a better response and with my own thoughts of the food and what I liked about it.

Art project

Left - Mine
Right - Tyra's

In art we had started doing photography and one of them involved small people, we were shown a site called Slinkachu a person who makes amazing pictures of small plastic men interacting with real world object.

Here are mine and Tyra's photo's and what they turned out be to like.
Link to site - https://slinkachu.com/

Learning Matrix progress (English)

I didn't get much done as I only had one session of English because I went home sick on Tuesday period 4 and we had English period 5 that day. so I have a bit to catch up onto.

This week I plan to do the following - 2 green and 1 yellow Creative writing tasks for this week and the workshop I shall attend will be - Workshop 3 (Fantasy and game plot writing)

And out of all of this, I hope I can get more done than last week so then next week I'll be back on track and up to date with my work.

Learner Matrix (English)

(A green box with a yellow outer ring means I can do it but I'm still unsure)

Goals
-Ask for more feedback (I find it hard to sometimes ask for help or watch stuff that I made and has feedback directed towards me as I find it nerve-racking to know about to feedback)

-Do the work I don't really finish after school ( I do, do this but sometimes I'm up till 10 or 11:00 at night finishing work for the next day, but other times I'll just finish them at home, meaning work comes before games. I feel that this would help me bring down the time of how long I'm staying up during school nights if I get my work done somewhere during morning tea, lunch or after school)

-I find it easy to tell people on how I like to work, Most times if its in a big area with lots of people, I find it easier when I have the noise blocked out with some nice calming music, or if the volume isn't loud, and sometimes I find it better just to work alone as I don't get distracted by that person sitting next to me.

Creative writing task (English)

1. The wind was like a blowing storm (Simile)

2, The strong hail storm was never-ending (Metaphors)

3. The light was as bright as the glistening sun (Simile)

1. I heard a big BANG during the middle of the night

2. The door CREAKED as I opened it slowly to go to the kitchen

3. The plastic spoon made a CRACKING sound as I broke it in half

1. The strong wind blew him away 
2. I got a headache yesterday it hurt like a brick hit me on my head
3. this computer runs faster than a cheetah
4. The movie was so funny I felt like I was dying from laughter
5. The hot pan was slowly melting from the insides
6. the baby's crying was so loud that it felt like a never-ending earthquake
7. I carried all these heavy groceries home myself and it felt like my arms were falling off
8. The dog was so scary it felt like it could easily jump 10 meters high to reach me