Art Smart!

For topic each week we get into groups and complete challenges. We always have the same groups and I am with Krystal, Tui, Grace, Jimi, and Leo. This week, along with two other activities, we had art smart. In art smart, we had to individually take photos that involved water in some way. 

Here are some of the photos that I took. 

Would you like to do an activity like this?

Topic task: Create a sales pitch for house

Sales pitch for house:

Looking for the keys to your dream home? Well this rustic house has an amazing potential

and could be the one for you.  Surrounded by rural bush this house is sitting on lovely farmland.

It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms that comes along with a gorgeous view over the countryside. 

Although it may be old this house is very strong and very earthquake proof and

has an extra space in the attic for more storage.  The cost of this house is…. But can be

negotiated to a further detail with the new owners. Could this be your next house?

Why not come and check it out at ………. 

We hope to see you there.

( This is not an actual sales pitch).

Artefacts v.s Antiques

An artefact is an object made by humans and is important because it is of historical interest. They are likely to be observed by scientific investigation. Examples of artefacts include stone tools, pottery vessels, metal objects such as weapons, and items of personal adornment such as buttons, jewellery and clothing. Although you may think artefacts are mainly in museums there are found in family homes. On the other hand, antiques are old objects that are similar to family heirlooms, for example clocks, wooden chests, Jewellery and many many more. Antiques and artefacts are quite similar, but in my own opinion antiques are more important because they are of more sentimental value.

Week 5 Topic Tasks

Topic Week 4 Tasks

Fictional story about a pet

Goodbye Old Boy 

Everyone wants a pet dog. The minute someone comes home with a little bundle of fluff

the humans are all over it. Then exactly 8 years later you're taken to the shelter. I don’t understand, I thought we were family. Just you and me forever… “Yeah that's a big

fairytale buddy” you might as well say. Things were better when us hounds were just

wolves. Yeah I said it, life was better before I ever met you.

I wish I could just forget all about you. The day you came to pick me up at the shelter you even had a little collar with my new name printed on it - Jasper it was. All those times you said that we were best friends. I remember you saying once that it was you and me against the world. What happened to the old you, the real you. I don’t know but here I am back at that same shelter once again ready to find a new home.

When the time came to say goodbye to me you said exactly this “don’t worry old boy, they are gonna find you the best home in the world”. Well actually no. Nobody wanted  an 8 year old dog. Everyone wants the newborn puppies just like how you wanted me.  

Eventually I did find a home though. A young girl who worked at the shelter took one look at me and suddenly I had found a forever home. Man’s best friend - well girls best friend. I’ll never forget the times we had together though and I hope that you don’t either. If you ever see me though again out here in this big world then I hope you recognise me on spot and it makes you want to cry seeing how happy we are together knowing that you were the one that let me go…

Anzac Day

Mining West Coast History

Work Interviews

Recently we have been having work interviews in class. Today we interviewed Jarred (Zak and Camerons dad) who is now a fire fighter at the local fire station in Moana. We found it interesting how he worked for the Air Force. He also told us he worked for a kids show (Bumble and friends) pressing a button in a little box to make a puppet fishes eyes blink,- we found that funny. We also interviewed Alice who is on the school board of trustees, Rebecca a farmer that also worked with horses and Shirley our school principal who's different work has taken her overseas.

History of Ruru in Lake Brunner Questions

Fair Trade Poem

Recently at school we've been learning about fair trade and how they help kids near our age. We got some fair trade sacks and decided to print our poems on them with Indian ink. I think what we did is better than a decorated poster because it is more relevant to do it on sacks of their own. Bridget and I thought we would do an a acrostic poem, including a small picture below.  Here is what the sack we printed reads and also a picture of us while we're doing our work:

Free to play all day                Treating them fairly                           

An equal life like us              Respecting their hard work

It can help them today          A lot better conditions

Rarely being paid                 Donating helps them more

                                             Every dollar helps

Self Directed Learning Reflection

How To Make a Rope Halter - Research

Mould experiment

Explanation writing: how fermented food helps with gut biome

How fermented food helps with gut biome

About fermented food:

Most people say the best food is kept fresh. That’s where fermented food slots in. Fermented food will help to fight our bad bacteria throughout our bodies.  Our food that we eat now, is quite often going mouldy. It is much better than takeaways because these jars filled with fermented food can help us enormously. That’s not just because it’s a healthy diet.

Off goes the diseases:

Fermented food can help us fight diseases! Fermented yogurt proves it all. It can help us avoid heart disease. Since fermented food can stay perfectly ripe for months, it’s possible that it could be our worlds solution. This might be a nationwide discovery. Next, how does it help our gut biome?

Why it’s good for the gut:

Our fermented food is really proving its greatness towards people’s gut. It can help improve our good bacteria digestion. Researchers also studied that it has an important effect on gut issues! Fermented food keeps it fresher and much healthier so it is better than food that goes off. There are heaps of fermented foods too so you you won’t get bored eating tiny cucumbers all week. Now, should we take a look at this list of fermented food?

How many:

Fermented foods have a giant sized list of many different types of themselves. These fermented foods could probably last a whole season. You really haven’t heard of some of these foods.Here are some fermented foods that you could try: there is kimchi or you could try kombucha also kefir is a fermented milk and natto. There are many foods that you need but don’t know about. You can even make fermented food yourself only needing jars and a bag of food, like pickles maybe.

Overall:

That is how fermented food helps your gut, by destroying diseases, by having different healthy foods so you don’t get sick and helping our good bacteria digestion!

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