2020 yearbooks

Hello fellow bloggers.

For the last few weeks, we have been working on yearbooks that rhyme, and explain what has happened this year with COVID-19 and how this has affected our school year, compared to other years.

Below is the work I have done on my yearbook:

Hangi

 

 Amazing Maori Culture

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

My name is Henry from marshland school, and today I will be showing you my work on Hangi past and present work.

The way a Hangi was prepared is that a hole was dug and food could be put in it, but now it is common to use a machine to cook a hangi.

Here is my work on Hangi past and future:

Thanks for reading this, if you have any feedback on different aspects of the Hangi please comment.

 Amazing Maori Culture

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

My name is Henry from marshland school, and today I will be showing you my work on Maori culture past and present.

Did you know that the haka used to be used to scare other tribes before the battle, and now it is used as a tradition in games like rugby, or sometimes it is different within different parts of New Zealand.

Here is my work on Maori culture:

Thanks for reading this, if you have any feedback on different aspects of the Maori culture please comment.

 Golf Club Angle Science Experiment

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

Today I was working with Cooper on a science experiment to see if the angle of the golf club affects the distance the ball flys.

I and Cooper wrote our hypothesis, question, and then Cooper did our experiment using our procedure at the golf course.

Here's our experiment:

 Sign Language

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

This Wednesday we were working on sign language and how to sign our names, but before I show you my name in sign language, I will tell you how I learned.

I learned using this website called sign ninja and you can find it by searching up sign ninja.

Here is me doing my name in sign language:

 ISS-International Space Station

Hello Fellow Bloggers

This week for literacy we have been working on a Minecraft world of the international space station or ISS, you can download it below.

The ISS was originally created by America, but more countries joined on like Canada, Russia, and Japan, main construction started in 1998, and finished in 2009, the final module was added in 2016 and was called the beam it was added by America.

Although this was the end of the main construction more is to be done on the space station in the future.

We all added our own modules onto the station and the one I added was for extra storage it was added near the back of the station and may be needed in the future if more astronauts join.

Heres the link to download the world: ISS World

Here is my research from the ISS about the order of which it all was created:

Coding Today

Coding  Today

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

Today we were working on coding, I created a stage about trees and how we are destroying them for our own benefit, and are not letting them live and thrive.

Trees are also being destroyed and in the prosses destroying habitats for animals that live there, and I think that this is very wrong and that humans shouldn't destroy these forests.

Here is my work (in Screenshots):

Rocket Launch Results

 Rocket Launch Results

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

Lately, we have been making rockets for our class using aerodynamics to help us create them.

Bellow is our work that I have been working on with a group of four others that are called Fletcher, Blake, Ajay and Billy together we went back and reviewed our results to help create it better next time.

Here is our work:

Samoan classroom

Samoan Classroom

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

Since the start of the year, we have been learning Samoan.  This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from.  If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

• Samoa as a country

• Link to a traditional dance video

• Basic greetings

• The alphabet

• How to count 1-10 

• Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples

• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most.

Samoan Words

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

This is my work on Samoan words, this Wednesday we were asked by our teachers to complete an animation that has two animated characters having a conversation on it ( in Samoan ).

Below is the work I have completed for my animation, and it also includes-on the last and second slides some explanations on what these words mean in English.

Please comment if there is anything you think I should work on on the future, thanks :) 

Acids and Bases-Science Report

Acids and Bases-Science Report

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

This week I was working on a science report for my literacy group, this science report was on Acids and Bases.

Next time I will try to elaborate further on this subject, so I can form better and more in-depth questions about this subject.

Here is my report:

Acids and Bases

Questions:

Some of my earlier questions were: Why are acids useful? When were acids found? 

When are acids useful? Where would I look if I were looking for acids? Who discovered acids? What are acids? What is the most powerful acid ever? How are acids useful?

Research Summary:

I have Found out from my research that acids produce hydrogen ions, and bases produce hydroxide ions, this is how we can tell which are which, depending on the reaction.

pH levels are a way of measuring the amount of either acid, or bases in a solution, we can tell because the pH levels only go up to fourteen being that if the pH level is under seven it is high in Acid, and if it is higher than seven it is high in Bases.

Hypothesis

Chemical/ Product	Sprite	Ammonia	White Vinegar	Lemon Juice	Alcohol (64%)	Baking Soda
Hypothesized pH	8	4	10	6	7	9

Materials:

Cabbage Juice, Chemicals/Product, beakers, pipettes, beaker stands, and rubber gloves.

Procedure:

We put the chemicals in the cabbage juice, depending on what the pH levels are, the color it changes into.

Observations/Results:

Observed pH	4	12	6	4	6	8
Actual pH	3.29	11.6	2.5	2	7.3	8
Observed Colour	Pink	Green	Purple	Pink	Purple	Blue
Chemical/Product	Sprite	Ammonia	White Vinegar	Lemon Juice	Alcohol(64%)	Baking Soda

Discussion:

The results that I got were nowhere near the hypothesis I set at the start, from my research I answered some of my questions and I am glad to have a further understanding of acids and bases.

It was interesting to find out that ammonia was high in basic content, and that vinegar was also basic, so maybe I will explore deeper into why they are like this, so I can gain further knowledge on the subject of acids and bases.

I have formed more questions on bases and acids and what the different pH levels are, so I would love to explore deeper into this subject so that I can find out more.

Conclusion:

The result of my experiment shows the pH levels (which represent the levels of acid or bases in a substance, which usually is a liquid) I got were not the correct, but very similar to the proper results. I have answered some of my questions with the results I got, I now have new questions about acids and bases that I want to elaborate on for future work.

Thank you for reading and please remember to comment so I can do better next time.

Have you done a science report before?

How did you do this?

Space Tic Tac Toe

Space Tic Tac Toe

Hello Fellow Bloggers

For about a week now we have been working on space work and rockets, I am working with Luke.

We have been working on completing a Tic Tac Toe that displays lots of facts about space, I have completed a task that asks about everyday life in space, like how astronauts eat, sleep, and drink.

My friend Luke has completed a poster that covers all the main points about the moon landing.

Here is our work:

Here is my work on how astronauts live in space:

Did you like my work?
If you didn't please tell me because it will help me in the future.
Did you do something similar? if so please comment below.

Southern Lights

Southern Lights

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

For a few weeks, we have been working on making a piece of art that relates to the Southern Lights, or the Aroura.

The Southern Lights are created when a solar wind is released from the sun, into the earth's magnetic field, which some particles get through, and merge together to create the colors we see in the sky.

Many cultures have beliefs about the Southern Lights like the Chinese believe that the lights are dragons fighting in the sky.

My piece of art is made by using a piece of paper that you rip until it is shaped like hills, then you tape it to a piece of black paper and splatter it with white paint to look like the stars. Then you paint streaks of paint on the edge of the white paper to make the lights. then you let it dry.

Here are my Southern Lights:

School Website

School Website

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

This week I have completed my website that we have been making for school.

I am happy that I have finally completed this because this took me a long time to complete For my website I have completed nineteen pages my website is about the book the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

This website has multiple pages that include one on themes, which I have made three for, which are impossibility, improbability, and absurdity, another theme is power, my last theme is language and communication.

Some of my other pages are symbols that have five different symbols on it.  another is genre which consists of two pages which are named SIFI and another is called Adventure, and another is characters, which consist of three subpages which are named after the main characters in the book, which are Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur Dent, and Trilian Mcmillian.

My website is easy to navigate and will be easy to understand for someone new to google sites.

Here is the link to my website: LINK

Thank you for reading.

Have you made a website recently?

School Website

School Website

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

For a few weeks I have been working on my website and this is my third post that updates what I have done so far.

For my website I have completed seveenteen pages my website is about the book the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

This website has multiple pages that include one on themes, which I have made three for, which are impossibility, improbability, and absurdity, another theme is power, my last theme is language and communication.

Some of my other pages are symbols which has five diffrent symbols on it.  another is genre which we are to get to in the future and I will update my blog once I have done it, and another is characters, which consist of three subpages which are named after the main characters in the book, which are Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur Dent, and Trilian Mcmillian.

My website is easy to navigate and will be easy to understand for someone new to google sites.

Here is the link to my website: Press Here to view

In conclusion, I think that my work on my website is good but it could be better so I will try to improve next time.

Thank you for reading this!

Have you done something like this?

Do you have a website?

Matariki

Matariki

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

This week and for a few previous weeks, I have been working on an ebook with a website called book creator. 

This ebook represents some stories that people think that Matariki is.

One of these stories is how Matariki is a mother surrounded by her six daughters.

Here is my ebook:

Thank you for reading my e book I hope you enjoyed this.

Have you done somthing similiar?

Binary Code

Binary code

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

Today I will be showing you my name in binary code. 

If computers operate in binary, then how are we able to store letters and words? To do this, we assign numbers to characters. This is known as character encoding.

To understand how character encoding works, let's create a simple example. First, assign the numbers 1-26 to the English alphabet:

Eg.  A = 1        B = 2           C = 3

So, with just these three letters we can encode the word CAB as 312.

BUT to encode the entire English language, we need all of the symbols on your keyboard (and more, if you think about some of the shortcuts on your computer, such as Ctr + C to Copy).  This is WAY more than 26 letters.  The answer: Binary!

The great Engineers of the past realized they needed a system to contain all of the numbers, letters, punctuation, and other important symbols of the English language, and so they invented ASCII.  An encoding system that gives a Binary number to each symbol.

Here is my name in ASCII is: 1001000, 1000101, 1001110, 1010010, 1011001

Here are the steps to complete it:

School Website

School Website

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

For a few weeks recently we have been asked to create a website on google sites, which is about the book the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

This website has multiple pages that include one on themes, which I have made three for, which are impossibility, improbability, and absurdity, another theme is power, my last theme is language and communication.

Some of my other pages are symbols, and genre which we are to get to in the future and I will update my blog once I have done them, and another is characters, which consist of three subpages which are named after the main characters in the book, which are Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur Dent, and Trilian Mcmillian.

My website is easy to navigate and will be easy to understand for someone new to google sites.

Here is the link to my website: Press Here

In conclusion, I think that my work on my website is good but it could be better so I will try to improve next time.

Thank you for reading this!

Have you done something like this?

Do you have a website?

Inqury-Pictures

Inquiry

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

Today I will be showing you this picture which represents some people's views on the world and how too many of the governments in countries like America, are spending their budgets on stuff like wars, when some big world problems could crumble a democracy from within its own walls.

This is just one of the many unsettling problems that are destroying our world with lethal speed, and ruthless power.

And these countries have leaders that couldn't even see to understand what is going on if they got some sense knocked into them, this mainly for the reason that their followers are just as clueless.

Interesting Irony

Irony

When you think of irony you probably think of some situation that is not even slightly related to what irony truly is.

The situational irony which is one of the three types of irony is shown when something unexpected happens like this comic strip I made with two friends of mine:

Thanks for reading. did you do something similar?

Adobe spark

Adobe spark
Hello Fellow Bloggers.
Here is my adobe spark which I worked hard on to make, I think that I did a good job in creating this and I can't wait until next time when we get to make korus again.
I make the stuff on this video using airdry clay and playdough, if you want to make a video like this you can use adobe spark.


I hope you liked it, did you make something similar?

School today

School today

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

Today I have been doing koru art which has been very fun.

I have been doing this art with pastels and have just finished it today.

we are also going to do bone carving with air dry clay which I am very excited about because I have already done my playdough model.

Here is the work that I have done today:

I hope you like it

Have you done something similar to this?

School This Week

School This Week

Hello Fellow Bloggers.

Some work we did this week was an article on the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, also a chapter summary, for chapters eleven to fifteen, also for maths, we completed two google slides of angles and coordinates on maps.

For Maori this week we are making a piece of art, with pastels on koru, and other Maori artwork designs like ferns.

I also completed a letter for the future generation which will be opened in two thousand and six two.

This was some of the work that we completed this week.

now that the lockdown is over and we can go to school we have more options, and we can see our teachers in person, so it is easier to do work.

It has been very fun to come back to school and see my friends again.

Here is my writing for the time capsule:

Dear Future Generation...

It happened very suddenly but still very destructively.  Today I am informing you from the year 2020, from the ending of a crisis pandemic that has helped shape the world both a little bit better and a little bit worse. It changed the world in many ways from what it was before the nastily destructive disease of Covid-19 decided to affect the world and take many lives that would have had the chance to live longer perhaps even better.  But this infuriatingly annoying parasite ended them. My name is Henry Robertson, age twelve.  I am currently explaining this to you from Marshland School, Christchurch, New Zealand.

This cataclysmic event has been the annoyance and disturbance of many otherwise peaceful lives.

But still even though it has been calamitous and fatal it has also given animals and plants the chance to regrow and heal from the destruction that we have caused to their lives in the form of climate change and even their habitats which we have laid waste to for our own luxuries that are not in any way vital to our immediate survival.

This plague is currently believed to have begun in Wuhan, China, possibly from the consumption of a bat or a snake,  and then spread rapidly across Europe taking many hundreds and eventually thousands of lives.

It spread further due to flying and other forms of international travel across many parts of the world and has resulted in many life losses peaking mainly in the country's which were last to react like the USA and Italy.

We were some of the first few to react and slowly contain the virus by using levels of quarantine to loosen the virus's control over us.  This was thanks to our amazing government and the speed they put us into lockdown to help slowly eliminate Covid-19.

Some countries did not have medical staff able to fight this disease nor the budget to help their country fight against it, this is why I am grateful to be a New Zealander.

In my personal opinion I felt very fearful when this illness put us into a long and panicked lockdown, but I knew our hardships would eventually let us gain our goal of eradicating this parasite. In fact, I felt very sure we had won the long war, but we had only just won the battle.

This is because we began our death toll which ended up much higher than thought originally, because those most vulnerable such as the elderly, or those suffering from other forms of sickness or disease got sick.

For Christucrch It all began in Rosewood rest home when one visitor passed the virus to an elderly person and then began New Zealand's deaths. I remember it starting slowly but killing off the elderly one by one until we had over twenty deaths which are nothing compared to other countries that had over twenty thousand but are still tragic.

The virus cases eventually reached zero per day and have mostly stayed that way ever since.

I am looking forward to sports beginning again and am still scared of the many horrible things that the world has endured. I hope that you readers are not, or never will have to suffer through as horridly destructive a time as this.

I am very grateful that I have survived this pandemic and I hope that this great country of New Zealand never again has to withstand such powerful casualties due to an enemy that is so small yet still so very destructive.

How is the world for you?

Are you going through something similar?

Are there still cars and boats?

How has the world changed from now(2020) till then?

Who is the prime minister?

Kind Regards Henry Robertson.

Here is the work I did:

Thank you for looking at my work, I think that I did okay but need to improve with my angles next time.

Thank you for reading my work and please leave a comment.

How is School for you?

How was the lockdown for you?