Current events

New Zealand News Articles

Each day, newspaper editors make desisions everyday about which current event stories they will run.  We explored that different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map. We were creating a Map DLO that shows differet types of Articles that happend in New Zealand. The types of articles we were to find were Timeliness, Relevance, Magnitude, Unexpectedness, Impact, Reference to someone iportant or famous, Oddity, Conflict, Reference to something negative, Continuity, Emotions and Progress. The most shocking one I found was the measles outbreak with more that 1,000 people affected. My Group (Matthew, Karlos and I) found 7 news articles that took place in New Zealand. The most unusual one I found was that Russia Accidently replaced New Zealand With Japan on their news channel. Our Task was to find current events that were happening or that happened in New Zealand so that we could grow our knowledge about what has been happening or what has happened in New Zealand.

Market Day Maths Game

Today for maths we played a market day maths game. It was about income, balance, discounts, profits and practicing for our market day. We spent $115 on renting to sell on the market day game. Matthew and I were partners for this activity. I made $121 and Matthew made $77. I had a $6 profit and Matthew had a negitave $38 profit. I would say I gave away 5 discounts, but still made enough money to make a profit. The purpose of this activity is to practice our market skills so we know how everything works when it comes to selling on market days.

Firework Safety

Today Karlos, Matthew and I went to room 3 to present our presentation about firework safety. We had 6 instructions to stay safe during guy fawkes night. We had images of what we were talking about. We were doing this so that the juniours can understand why it is important to be safe near fireworks. It's good to be a role modle for younger chindren.

Guy Fawkes DLO

For term 4 week 4 we started to learn about Guy Fawkes things that he did, like how he tried to kill James the first unfortunately he failed and got executed and died in 1606. We made a presentation which conflicted on what we were learning about. The thing that I liked about this activity was that I could work with a friend that had the same thinking as me.

The Real Coast Of Owning A Dog DLO

This week for maths we created a DLO about the real coast of owning a dog. We first chose a dog (Boarder Collie). Then we were to figure out the price of the setup of the dogs life, how much the food coasts for each year, the registration and all the other things you will need to keep a dog. Our total coast for our dog Tanjiro's life time in NZD is $44.027.79. It's total life time is 17 years and we chose to have a male dog. I had fun doing this activity because it involved money and dogs.

Need / Want DLO

This week for inquiry we made a DLO about need / want. A need is something you require to survive and want is something you can survive without. I created a slide that tells us how a need or want that I have, been met through a product or service. A product is an item that you can pick up or buy. A service is like paying someone to mow the lawns for you and paying them back. An example of a want is a triple burger and an example of a need is water. An example of a product is a bottle of soap. The difference between a product and a service is that you can pick up a product and a service is paying someone for something you can't buy at a supermarket or a shop.

Tech Robotics WK3 T4

This week at Tech for Robotics, we were coding our Mbot's to go in an eight figure, circle and the shape of our entails. Our goal was to complete at least the circle. I completed the eight figure, circle and the enetials. There are 3 videos of my mbot going in the shape of a circle, eight figure and the entails. On Week 8 we are going to code drones to fly from one destination to another. I enjoyed this robotic tech session and can't wait for next weeks one.