Literacy work

For literacy this week we made a website.  We created our website to display our understanding of the book we are reading, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. We created 4 pages called themes, characters, genre, and symbols. This week we started working on the themes page. I started off with the theme of language and communication.

Koru Art

Every Friday from 9-10:45 we worked on our koru art. We started off by drawing some korus, ferns, and rivers on a piece of paper. To colour it in we used pastels so we could blend colours together. With no definite edges of each colour, it looks so much better. After you had finished that we moved onto making a mock-up necklace. We made the mock-up out of play-doh.  We made three designs each before we chose a definite one. Underneath are my three designs.

The first one means power and strength. I carved some designs into as well and they represent the four people in my family, the big one being the oldest.  The other design also means the same but they are in different shapes. Is there anything else the I could have added? Maybe another meaning, or an extremely detailed shape? 

Multi work mashup (week five)

Hello and welcome back to my blog. This week for numeracy and literacy our work has been really fun to do. For numeracy, we started using a program called Kaggle. Kaggle is a free website on your computer where you can code and get it to do math for you.  We had a series of questions that we put into Kaggle for it to solve. The questions were a mix of exponents, multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition. If you finished one set of questions then you would move on to harder questions involving fraction, exponents, multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition.

Now for literacy we are reading a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. It is about a sole survivor from Earth. Earth was blown up to make way for a bypass. Him and his friend alien hitchhike all around the galaxy encountering setbacks and problems. For our literacy task we had to write how objects and sound move in space. Underneath is my writing about objects and sound moving in space and underneath is my maths work and questions.

Do you think that my writing is up to the standard of a year 8? If you think it is please tell me if I got all the information to teach you how objects and sound moves in space? For numeracy do you think you could use Kaggle for your own purposes? Maybe create a game or animation?