Origami Fish- Kickstart

Today is teachers day for us in Saint Patrick’s School so I decided to look for the Summer learning journey activities. I chose the origami fish activity because it’s easy and it doesn’t take a lot of time.

Now if you are wondering how to get a square as the person started with a square, don’t worry! Just lightly pinch the top right hand corner of A4 paper like this:

  (Ignore my finger)

 

After that step, cut the paper to look like this/a triangle:

(sorry if it’s the other way around)

Then, just open it up to get a square!

Making the whole fish, especially the eyes is pretty easy as you just have to pause the video. The part I loved about making the origami fish is the tail. It can be harder than the other parts of the fish, but once you understand what you did wrong, it can be easy. Because it won’t load, click this link to see the fish.

 

Kickstart+Step it up: ‘Wanted’ Feared Fish

Today after finishing my work, I registered myself and did a kickstart. The kickstart is to make a wanted poster for the stonefish. Before showing my poster, here are three facts about stonefish; Fact 1- Stonefish is one of the most venomous fish in the world as its spines can cause intense pain and kill you.

Fact 2- Stonefish aren’t predators that can’t be eaten- sharks and rays can eat them. Fact 3 – Stonefish can be edible if properly prepared- it can be eaten as sashimi if you remove the spines that have venom.

 

To not run the risk of errors,  click this link to see the picture.

Now to do the step it up challenge, I went on the Explore link to search for dangerous sea creatures in the world. I chose the red lionfish as they are usually in aquariums. Here are three facts about the red lionfish; Fact 1- Red lionfish are the most venomous type of lionfish as their venom is in their spines like the stonefish.

Fact 2- Red lionfish aren’t always aggresive but they can be aggresive and attack you if they feel threatened. Fact 3- You can eat any type of lionfish- the spines are only venomous so remove the spines of the lionfish and the rest is edible.

Again, to not run the risk of errors, here is the link for the picture.

My Blog For An Escape Room-Cybersmart Challenge

Last and this week I did a Cybersmart Challenge that teaches you how to use google forms. You can use google forms for tests and even escape rooms, which are WAY harder.

I wanted to make an escape room as my teacher, Mr Bell shared us escape rooms to try and break to code. For the Cybersmart Challenge slides, there are videos that give you instructions on how to use google forms. Here is the link for my escape room.

Learning how to make escape rooms is hard so start small first!

Learning The Science Of The Water Cycle

This term, we started learning science. We first started learning about the water cycle, including the steps. Here is a simple diagram of the water cycle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To explain it in words, big bodies of water like the rivers, ponds and oceans get heated up from the sun, which makes the water evaporate and turn into water vapour, which is lighter than air, so it ascends to the clouds. The atmosphere gets colder and the water vapour condenses into the clouds. The water droplets get colder and they get heavier until they drop. They then run off mountains into the soil or again, back into big bodies of water.

The reason why the water cycle is very important is because it has the same functions as recycling water, but the earth does the job instead of us. After learning more about the water cycle, we did a science experiment to mimic the water cycle in a bag.

All you need to do the water cycle in a bag is any kind of a sandwhich bag and a black marker, including water.

To do the experiment, get your sandwich bag and lightly use a black marker to draw some mountains, the sun, the clouds, and the sea. Fill the sandwich bag with water until it reaches the water. Put the bag near a window for the sun to shine on it. You can check the experiment at different times to see what part of the water cycle its on.

Here is the photo of the experiment.

Jaeden’s creative writing

Yesterday we did creative writing about a picture that Mr bell put on the screen. We could make our writing like a recount or a story. Here are the pictures we used yesterday and the day before:

                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are 2 paragraphs of the picture on the left;

The trimmed, somewhat perfect grass, with a modern house, dull red and pearl white, just like any house you’ve seen. The giant trees towering the house, like a castle, barren and scarred like a dying tree, without the lush leaves, colours of a flame not like your formal autumn.

The tenebrous  water, with an ambiguous castle. Magic scintillated the diminutive, murky, latitudes, just enough to reason the castle and the sky. The moon, illuminating  the beauty of the mystifying castle, yet on the outside, looks serene and tranquil.

We will continue to write more creative writing about pictures.

What My Group And I Are Doing For Mission Day

Today I wanted to blog this post because Mission Day is tomorrow maybe you wanted to know what Room 7 and I were doing for Mission Day. Our groups were Crochet Keyrings, Polymer Clay, loom bands, origami and other keychains. We did Polymer Clay for Mission Day.

 

Here is the link for you to access.

 

My Recount For Cycling

During Thursday, we had cycling today because it’s in the school curriculum. Our coaches were both girls whose names are Stephanie and Lucy. Most of us were usually excited and couldn’t wait because we were lucky to have another lesson for cycling this year. She first showed us these tickets with the words; ‘reckless driving’, which made me sink into my mind about speeding tickets. Stephanie said that they’re temporary and can help you to get better. Stephanie is on the left and Lucy is on the right.

 

After the reckless driving tickets, Stephanie showed us a red ticket, again, made me think into the past where I watched football matches with people getting a red ticket. She said that it’s similar to what happens when a player gets a red card but when it’s put into driving. She said that hopefully we wouldn’t get any of the red tags and even the reckless driving cards. Luckily, we didn’t get any cards but some of us still crashed which was pretty funny.

 

After showing those cards, Lucy showed us a helmet and said to check the 4 s’s on the helmet; Shell, Styrofoam, Straps and stickers. To check the shell, check if there are any large dents or cracks. The scratches are fine. For the styrofoam now, squeeze the helmet with the shell facing you, and if it moves, you have to change it. If it also has large dents or cracks you have to also change it. Next, straps. There shouldn’t be any rips in the straps but you should change it. The last and final one, stickers. Check the sticker if it has a bicycle picture on it or if it has the word, bicycle on it. There are different helmets for different terrains and uses.

 

We all checked our helmets and got more instructions to wear it; first wear your helmet and feel the screw that should be behind your head. Turn the screw to the loud side or the right side. Use your pointer/index finger and your middle finger, then, put those 2 fingers on your forehead. If the helmet is past the 2 fingers, turn the screw to the left side. If it’s too close to your hair, turn the screw more to the right side. Next, clip your straps together and make them more tighter with the 2 straps on the side. Use your 2 fingers again under your neck and make the straps touch your fingers.

After doing those steps, shake your head facing your feet and get your 2 arms to catch the helmet. The helmet should stay on your head a little tight. 

 

Stephanie got 2 people to say vegetables which were carrots and broccoli. I was in carrots. One went with Lucy and the other went with Stephanie. Next, Lucy showed us how to check our bikes, which is ABCDDQ. The first one, A, is air. Check the wheels if it’s firm like a hard potato not a soft potato. Second, B, is brakes. Use your 2 fingers like last time on your brakes and press them. Push the front and back wheel, They should have had the back and front wheel go up.

 

 Third, chains. The chain in the back wheel should look like the colours grey and black. There can be speckles of rust but not big clumps of rust or you have to change it. The 1st D, direction. Use your legs and press them together with the front wheel in the middle of your legs. The control bar for the bike shouldn’t really move. 

 

The 2nd D, Drop. Drop the bike only a little close to the ground and listen close for any funky and weird noises. The last one Q, quick release.There should be 3 quick releases on the front, back and seat. To check it, press down the quick release and pull it gently.  You can also customise the seat by opening the quick release and putting it back on the seat height you want.

 

My group and I got our bikes and went to the bottom court and followed her instructions once again to check our bikes, then we played green light red light in a circle. Then, Lucy showed us how to use gears. Gear 1, the biggest gear, is the easiest gear. Gear 8, the smallest gea, is the hardest gear. You can use gear 1 for mountains and Gear 8 for sand and concrete.

 

We also did more practicing skids, going through small spaces, and stopping in the box. This made us confident with bikes and speed. Next, we did our signs which were the left, right, and stop signs with our arms. 

To end it, we put our bike gears to 2 and put on the grass with our helmets on the concrete and thanked them for teaching us cycling.

My Recount Of Rippa Rugby

On the 28th of August, I woke up, prepared, and got ready to arrive at school. I was filled with excitement, but also scared since I hadn’t played with schools for a while. When I arrived at school, I went inside my class, Room 7, asking to get my tags but I was just in trouble so in a fright, I went to cloak bay, wore my sport shoes, and brought my sports and school bag to the canopy.

I dropped my bag on the wooden stairs, where some of my friends would sit there, talk about things and maybe play with the other students playing under the canopy. While playing, I used my excitement to warm myself up by playing football with my friends for about 15 minutes, until Annamaria’s Mother, Mrs Tuugasala, called out our names since she’s our team director, so we jogged there using little to no energy and waiting for her to give us instructions.

Instead of giving instructions, she gave us pretty important information which were the matches my team and I were going to play against. She told us that we were going against Panama Road, at Field 3, 10:40 am. I was a little nervous and anxious at first, but I got courage when I warmed up. 

Since it’s a long story, I’ll shorten it enough so it can’t be too long but not too short as well. Basically, Mr Bell told us to sit down in our groups, then he threw belts to all of us and asked if there were any problems with it but there were none. Then, Theo did a prayer so we could be safe and there could be no problems. After the prayer, We all went 2 singular files to the school gate, crossed the 2 pedestrian bridges. 

While walking, my shoulder kept on hurting since my bag was very heavy so Mrs Tuugasala asked if I needed help with carrying my bags so I said; ‘sure!’ Why not? I had to try and keep my energy. After arriving at Dunkirk Park and walking across schools where they were practising, I felt more nervous and Intimidated when they were looking at us.

After arriving at the spot where no one claimed, Mr Bell opened the sports bag, getting a traditional Mat with patterns on. Then, 3 people helped him to lay down the mat. 

Inside the bag was a med-kit, a rugby ball and mouth guards which I looked forward to. After they helped Mr Bell lay down the mat, we all put our bags on the mat and also laid our shoes near our bags since we had to be barefoot. 

Mr Bell asked if anyone wanted mouth guards since you didn’t have to have a mouth guard since it’s non contact. I went to Mr Bell for the mouth guard. As he gave me the plastic box with the mouthguard inside, I felt excited, glad, satisfied, all these happy emotions.

 To fast forward it more, I wore the mouth guard and drank warm water in my metal bottle and kept it in my mouth while doing warm up drills and training with my friends and team director, Mrs Tuugasala. Our first match is Panama Road in Field 3, 10:40, which is near us. While waiting, we watched matches of schools playing against each other. I want to end it pretty quickly so the match my team played against is Panama Road 1, Panmure Bridge 1, Stanhope 1 and Pt England 1 in Field 7, Field 7, Field 2 and Field 2 at 10:40, 11:40, 12:20 am and 1:20pm. We luckily won against Panama Road and Stanhope but we lost against Panmure Bridge and Pt England.

The people in my team is Annamaria, Geo, Kava, Marii, Franceska and Ezekiel. When it was 2 pm, we took a picture and went back to our school to  wait for our parents/caregivers.

 

               

 

Reasons Why We Do Mission Day

The reason why I posted this blog is because Mission Day is coming in 2 weeks or basically in week 8. 

Why do we do Mission Day?

We do Mission Day because our partner, Holy Angels Orphanage and Children’s Home in Kalyanpur, India, needs money and food. So we get food cans and people like our parents give a donation or do an amount of money, say, for 50 cents a question. 

What is Mission Day?

Mission Day is when we do stands in our schools which do games, wool and clay figurines and loom band bracelets, which sell them from prices of 50 cents to two dollars, then, we donate all of the money we got from stands, donations, and the money we got after how much questions we got right in our test, then we donate them to charity and the needy.

When did Mission Day Start?

Mission Day started from our founder, Euphrasie Barbier, who went to New Zealand to spread the word of God. Here is the Link for more Information on the Holy Angels.

Mission Day is starting on September the 13th so look in our blogs for how much money we raised!

My New Story In The World Of Dragonball

Today I wanted to do a blog about a story I created that was on the map of Dragonball which is actually pretty huge if you ask me. The things I found challenging is to start the story, finding the perfect place to set the action, make characters, but to also make a problem and a solution. It all started when my teacher, Mr Bell, read us chapter books where Goku was placed in the mountains, until, a girl called Bulma found Goku which started the adventure.

After he finished all of  the chapter books, he made slides about Dragonball where we would do activities like exploring other characters, doing drama, and more. This is 1 page of my writing;

A mysterious person asked Goku, “Goku, don’t you recognise me?”

“Wait, who are you and how do you know me?”

“I’m Commander Brunette, and I have come to defeat and torture you, for obliterating my father, Staff Officer Black.”

“Staff Officer Black? I remember him in the Red Ribbon Army. Those guys were really evil!”

“Enough of this, it’s time for you to go against my army, including my generals and myself!”

“This isn’t my problem…I’m out! Kinto Un!”

In confusion, Goku calls Kinto’ Un, and flies away. 

“Nuh Uh, Goku. If you want to escape, you need to earn it! Soldiers! Fire the missiles!”

As missiles aim and target Goku, they fly and soar into the air, one after another. Changing trajectories, searching routes with the most accuracy and velocity.

Goku flies into the air with Kinto Un, steering clear of missiles. 

“Come on! Can’t we make amends?”

“ARGHGH!” Commander Brunette Shouted with anger. “We’ll get him next time!”

If you want to read more, this is the link. I will still continue for this story but having this adventure with Dragonball always made me excited for what we were going to do everyday.