Mandarin

This week for mandarin we painted pandas using traditional Chinese ink. To start off we used a scrap piece of paper for a practice and then for our good copy we used rice paper that was very thin.  It was challenging to pain because the ink was very runny and it would smudge all over the page. Overall it was fun and I think my good copy was better than my first one

Short Stories - Explaining The Unexplained

This term for writing for writing we had to write a short story to do with our inquiry explaining the unexplained these would then be published and sent to other classes in Sheppard who would then decide which story was the best. For my topic I chose a murder mystery and published it using google slides. Read the slide above for my story.

Passion Project - MH370 Disaster

Over the last four weeks, we have been doing passion projects to do with our inquiry topic explaining the unexplained. Evan and I decided to do the MH370 disaster and make a video about it.
Reflection:
To start off with we knew we had to gather as much information as possible so we visited new and old sites until we had the information we needed to create ou video. once we had all of the information written down we to work on a plan for the video, Here it is.
Video Planning

1. Title
2. A few Things About Mh370
3. Searched areas
4. Conspiracy theories
5. Our thoughts on what happened to the plane
6.  Latest reports
7. conclusion

After that was finished we set out to find a video maker after website after website we couldn't find one that fitted our work so we fixed the problem by using powtoon and that worked perfectly.

Click the link to see our powtoon.      https://www.powtoon.com/html5-studio/#/edit/gdEAQP98rYe

Reading - Adding Detail

For the past five weeks every morning we have been doing this google slide called adding detail. Each morning we had to choose a slide which had a photograph and some detailed words that we had to choose from to use in our writing or come up with our own. Read the slide to see my work.

The Big Think - Financial Literacy

Over the past five weeks we have been doing financial literacy for maths. For one of our tasks on workspace we had to do a budgeting activity called the big think. To start off we had 1 million dollars and we had to spend some of it on things like Sports, motoring and heaps more so be sure to check out my slide above for more detail.

Mandarin Learning T4 W4

Today we learnt about the lessons in class. After we had practiced them we had to create our own timetable for five days of the week. Here's my timetable and new words.

Han yu ke - Chinese

Ying yu ke - English

Shu xue ke - Math

Ke xue ke - Science

Ti yu ke - P.E

Mei shu ke -  Art

Yin yue ke - Music

Shang ke - Class has started

Xia Ke - Class has finished

Xing qi yi - Monday

Xing qi er - Tuesday

Xing qi san - Wednesday

Xing qi si - Thursday

Xing qi wu - Friday

Xing qi liu - Saturday

Xing qi re - Sunday

Zho Mo - Weekend

                                                                      Timetable

	Xing qi yi	Xing qi er	Xing qi san	Xing qi si	XIng qi wu	Xing qi liu	XIng qi re
	Shang Ke	Shang Ke	Shang Ke	Shang Ke	Shang Ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo
yi - 1	Ying Yu ke	Ti yu ke	Ke xue Ke	Mei shu ke	Yin yue ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo
er - 2	Shu xue ke	Yin yue ke	Mei shu ke	Mei shu ke	Yin yue ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo
san - 3	Ti yu ke	Ke xue ke	Ying yu ke	Ke xue ke	Ti yu ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo
si - 4	Yin yue ke	Mei shu ke	Shu xue ke	Yin yue ke	Mei shu ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo
wu - 5	Mei shu ke	Han yu ke	Yin yue ke	Han yu ke	Shu xue ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo
liu - 6	Ke xue ke	Han yu ke	Ti yu ke	Ti yu ke	Ke xue ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo
qi - 7	Han yu ke	Shu xue ke	Ti yu ke	Shu xue ke	Ying yu ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo
	Xia Ke	Xia Ke	Xia Ke	Xia Ke	Xia Ke	Zhou Mo	Zhou Mo

Duane Kale - New Zealand Paralympian

Last assembly NZ paralympian duane kale came into to talk to us about his life and how he went to the paralympics. Duane was wheelchair bound after having a chuma on his spinal cord but having no feeling in his legs from the waist down didn't stop him from swimming and winning four gold a silver and bronze medals in the 1996 paralympics. Kale is know the vise president of the international paralympic committee.

Duane Kale left with and inspiring message, It doesn't matter about the amount of money in your bank account or the the house you owned all that matters is that you made an impact on yours and other people's lives.

Science Badge - Marine Biology

This term some students from room 10 including myself have chosen to do a science badge. I have chosen to do marine biology because marine life is something that interests me and I have thought about it being my job in the future. Here is one of my tasks to explain the difference between the currents and tides.

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The Difference Between Currents and Tides

Tides

There are two major positions for a tide these are high and low tide. This changes when water rises up up the beach and then is pulled back out slowly over a twelve hour period. This is cased gravitational force from the moon

Currents

Current describes the motion of moving water. Currents in close to shore are created by the tides but the currents way out at sea are mainly caused by wind. Currents can often be dangerous because of the water being pulled out to sea or across the beach.

Here is a diagram to show the tides and currents

Bibliography

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Ocean Facts. United States: What's the difference between a tide and a current? 2017.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/tidescurrents.html

By Luca Broome