Letter To Emma - If I Won $50 In The Summer Learning Journey!

Dear, Emma:

My name is Faith. I am a Samoan and I go to Hornby High School (HHS). I love doing blogging and currently 8Ts and 8Bh are starting to do the Summer Learning Journey 2018. I have heard that this could improve other students in their own learning and how it will give them top marks in school. I have also heard that the top 3 best bloggers through the Uru Manuka cluster would get a prize of $50 in the Summer Learning Journey 2018. If I won, I would use that money to help out with my teeth treatment. I am getting braces next year and the cost of it is very expensive. So, I would like to help myself and my parents by spending the money through my treatment. I hope the Summer Learning Journey goes well for all students!

Yours Sincerely, Faith.

The 3 little fairies - Problem.

Today I have been working on my problem of my fairy tale. If you are not sure what this post is about, I suggest you check out the orientation of my fairy tale. Long short story, I had to recreate a fairy tale for my narrative writing. I chose the 3 little pigs. Instead I changed it into the 3 little fairies. So, I did not get to finish off my problem, but I hope you like what I have done so far.

Peace, Clair and Violet hid in their own domes. After an hour, the ground started to shake like an earthquake. They felt a cold breeze entering through their windows of their domes. “3 domes, 1 jackpot”, said Elliot with a very deep voice. To crush each dome, all he had to do was whistle a very dark tune. “Oh little fairy, oh little fairy let me in”, said Elliot “Not by my pixies of my little wing wings”, said Violet. “Then I’ll whistle and I’ll whistle and I’ll crush your dome down!” Elliot whistled a dark tune and the flowers were crushed to the ground. Violet flew and hid into Claire's dome, but it didn’t mean Elliot was finished.

A Moment In Time!

Hello there!

If you have been checking my blog lately, I am doing a year 8 EOTC week bingo challenge. Today I am showing you my 3rd challenge that I have done. In this challenge, I had to write a moment in time where I was challenged to do something. So, I created a DLO by using google drawing to do this challenge. My challenge is about making new friends. To be honest, this challenge is still challenging for me. I hope you like what I have done:

Lesson 1 of Learning Prep: Task 1!

Today in cybersmart, 8Bh and 8Ts has registered themselves in the summer learning journey. We also had to do the first lesson of learning prep. In the first lesson, we were given a task to do. We had to choose a country and decide where in the country we would visit. We went with the capital city of that country. Then we had to answer some question about the city/country by getting it off of google. We also had to link where we got the information from. And finally, we had to put down 2 fun facts about the city and why we would visit the city. Here is my results:

Country: Canada.

Questions:

Q - The name of the capital city is _ ?

A - The name of the capital city of Canada is Ottawa.

Q - The population of the capital city is _ ?

A - Ottawa's 2018 population is now estimated at 1,363,159.

Q - In January, the weather in the capital city is usually _ ?

A - It is mostly raining for 10 days in January.

Q - The capital city is located in the _ part of the country.

A -  Ottawa is located in the western part of Canada.

Q - The languages mostly commonly spoken in this city is _ ?

A - In Ottawa, the languages mostly commonly spoken is French and English.

2 Fun Facts About Ottawa:

1 - Ottawa is the fourth largest city in Canada.

2 - In 1857 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to be the capital city of Canada.

Does blogging help improve my learning?

Lately this week, my class has been working on persuasive writing for a test that will be coming up soon. This week, the class has been practising on persuasive writing before the test. The topic today is, 'Blogging helps improve my learning'. This is what I have written this week:

I have been blogging ever since I was a year 5. I learned so much things in school that I can finally share my learning to the world. Does blogging help me improve my learning? I agree.

I know that blogging helps improve my learning because, I can always get helpful feedback from my class or the teachers. Giving back feedback is helpful because, you can tell other people what you think if you are in a distance away. I can always fix up my work so that other people that is reading my work, can understand what I am working on and what they are learning through the post.

When you are blogging and sharing your work to the world, it is almost like you are a teacher and the world is your class. How cool is that! Blogging is a way to show how much I would of improved at the start of the year till now. I can always look back on my blog and see how much I have improved.

Blogging may not be something you would like to do, but it is definitely something that will take your education to a different and higher level in the future. Blogging definitely helps me improve my learning!

Cybersmart - Narrowing Search Results!

Today, 8Ts and 8Bh has been doing cybersmart in the learning commons. We were working on narrowing search results. We are working on this so we can be safe on the internet and not face the consequences on the internet in the future. I learned about using usage right images off the internet so, in case I don't use someone's personal images without them knowing or asking. This can help with my blogging because, I know what are the right images I can use and put on my blogs without any copy right issues. 

Water Safety!

So this is my next activity that I have chosen from my EOTC year 8 bingo challenge. For this activity, I had to read a story about sailing and the water. Then I had to create a poster by using Piktochart, talking about water safety and what to look out for in the water. I had a lot of fun doing this activity and trying out Piktochart again for my learning. I hope you like this poster!