PANDA FOUND IN DESERT

 

 

Breaking news!!

Today we have discovered that pandas not only live in forests but also in the deserts with camels.

this is a rare encounter seeing as nobody has EVER seen a panda in the desert before. THIS IS TOTALLY 100% real. 

Write that essay challenge

Hi there, 

Today in class we were challenged to teach some of you guys ( who don't know these sentences ) how to write them properly. We had to explain how to use it and where to put the punctuation. Today Poppy and I taught you how to write a W-start and a adverb start using screencastify. ( If you don't know what these are watch the videos above. Go check on Poppy's blog for the other video. https://gisintpoppym.blogspot.com/ Screencastify is an app you can download on your chromebook so you have access to record your screen, face or both at the same time. Its a great app to use when you want to explain something for your blog. We also used a website called write that essay, the focus of this website is to help you understand/learn new sentence styles. It has fun quizzes about each style and your teacher can assign tasks for you to do on there.

My cool snazzy game! Ant vs mushrooms

• https://makecode.com/_deYJTYD3fP4q

For the past few weeks Hub Mako (LH3) have been going to mindlab and coding/making ourselves a game to play. Coding is when you have multiple blocks, each one having a different use and meaning, you connect the blocks to create an animation of some sort. I missed the first lesson but got the hang of it and ended up making this banger of a game. The objective of this game is the ant tries to eat all the cakes without getting spotted/hurt by the mushrooms. If you lose more than three hearts you die but there is ONE heart you can collect for you to gain a heart back to win! Too jump you use your space bar on the computer and to move forward and backwards you use the ford and back arrows on your keyboard. Enjoy my game and have a great day.

Scratch game. Still in progress :)

 

Lately, in hub mako we have been coding/designing some games to help improve you're basic maori. Today in class I've used this online program called "Tipu In Schools". Tipu is a great website which will teach you new maori words daily, it also tells you the English version of the word. I  enjoyed choosing which character to design even though im very indecisive. It was quite difficult to understand scratch the website at first until we got a full tour on the app and how to use to properly. Next time I could work on harder words for expert learners or adding talking/background music. 

Persuasive Essay - Nina

The Covid-19 Lockdown is working in New Zealand. 

 Social distancing is working.
 New Zealand has a low death toll.
 Shutting down our Airports and borders so nobody can enter.

On the 23rd of March 2020 the prime minister of New Zealand decided to put the whole country in lockdown. “ Stay at home” was the message given to us New Zealanders . I believe that lockdown is working in New Zealand to reduce the number of cases we have and will get in the future. This is the first time our country has been in lockdown before. While this current pandemic is frightening, at least we know our government is staying calm, cool and collective. Social distancing is a great way to stop covid-19.

Every country on this planet is or has experienced social distancing in one way or another, New Zealand is one of the fastest acting countries to shut down all businesses and families. Jacinda Ardern has set these rules to keep us safe and healthy. Singapore has around the same population as New Zealand but they entered lockdown after us and they ended up with over 20,000 cases. Also Ireland has a close population to us but had a tough time social distancing. Jacinda said and I quote “ going hard and going early” that seemed to work so far. Only 21 cases of covid-19 have resorted as death in New Zealand.

New Zealand is in the lower death toll area but we still have quite a few. All of these deaths have been linked to elders with medical issues and small retirement villages. Covid-19 has hit about 188 countries with 4.76Million cases and 323 Thousand deaths and New Zealand has managed to keep the numbers low unlike other countries around us. Which means we are elitmating covid-19 slowly but surely, compared to the US where their numbers are still going up rapidly.

March 19th 2020 Jacinda Ardern made a live meeting about how we have shut down all airports and borders. “ While there remains no evidence of community outbreaks in New zealand to date” The government has made the decision to protect New Zealand by shutting down all borders. At 11:59pm March 19th Jacinda Ardern closed all borders until lockdown was lifted. Children and partners of New Zealand citizens and permanent residents will be allowed to enter. To this day New Zealand has still managed to get people home, stay safe and healthy.

 Lockdown is working in New Zealand to reduce the number of cases we have. Down to the social distancing, closing borders, airports and having a lower death toll than other countries around us has resorted in reducing the numbers of cases. By “ going hard and going early” ( Jacinda Ardern ) we are on the way to eliminating covid-19. It is important that we stick to the rules so we don't undo all of our hard work and continue to follow gathering restrictions and social distancing.

Copyright Challenge

Copyright Challenge. Today we have learnt about copyrighting and fair use, I enjoyed trying to find non copyright pictures/words for this project. I found it hard at first because I couldn't find a way to get non copyrighted but I had my friends to help me out. Next time I could try and little bit harder and put more detail into my work. Nina xx

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