Christmas Candle.

In Inquiry, the year 7's are needed to do a "Sculpture". But what is a sculpture? It's making or representing art by carving, casting, or other shaping techniques.

In my situation, I carved designs and more on a candle. It's called the "Christmas Candle", I made it because in my country the Philippines Christmas is like a big thing. I think it's because most Filipinos are religious and they believe in Jesus Christ. That's why I carved 'Merry Christmas' on it, I also carved a Christmas tree on and other designs. The meaning behind it is I want to share the 'Light of Christmas' since it's a candle and I want the fire of the candle to represent the Light and the carvings to represent Christmas. I'm giving it to my family since all of us are very close and we also celebrate Christmas and I wanted them to remeber the true meaning of Christmas, I'm not saying like of us needs to because I know we have different beliefs. I hope you enjoy it and I hope you have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year!

BEDMAS Challenge.

WALT:  to use the correct order of operations to solve algebraic equations



Task Description: In Maths, we are learning about BEDMAS and today our teacher gave us this slide called the BEDMAS Challenge. It was really a good practice for us because it goes from easy to hard which is really awesome! Underneath my answers I wrote how I solved it.

Wash your hands.

One way to keep yourself healthy is to keep yourself clean. But how? By washing your hands! Yes, your hands. A lot of people tend to forgot to wash their hands all the time because our hands has the most germs, why? It’s because we touch almost every single thing we see and because we do physical contact to our friends, family and to other people. By washing your hands you can prevent yourself from getting sick and spreading germs to another person. That’s you need to wash your hands atleast 6 times a day or just make it your daily routine or habit to wash your hands before and after eating, after going to the toilet or after touching something gross.

This is called the Bacteria Pathogen Infection.

BEDMAS.

WALT: use the correct order of operations when solving algebraic equations.



Task Description: In maths, we are learning to use the correct order of operations when solving algebraic equations. We are also learning about BEDMAS or Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction. At first I was kind of confused on how to do it but if you listen and focus I'm sure you'll get it! 

Finding China.

WALT: make sense of information by connecting it to ourselves, texts we know and our world.



Task Description: Last week, we learned about China. There are some facts I know about China and watched some videos about their theme parks, cars and more. They are so cool! I really enjoyed learning about China because first of all, we get to learn about a new country which means we get to know their culture, people, schools and a lot more!

Manaiakalani Film Festival.

What is Manaiakalani Film Festival? In Manaikalani Film Festival, you get to watch other class’s movies that they created. You get to watch them at Sylvia Park with your class and some other schools. Before watching the movie the presentors will introduce their movie before it is played. That’s why in this writing, your going to learn more about the Manaiakalani Film Festival. Presentors, what are they? First, we are going to talk about Presentors. What is their job? Their job is to introduce their class’s movie, for example “ Kia Ora...your name...what school school/class you come from….what your movie is about”. Some of them act something out that is related to their movie, for example. The Movie is about throwing rubbish in the bin, *someone throws rubbish on the stage* “Hey! Why are you throwing rubbish….you should watch room….movie”. Some presentors spend their whole day at Sylvia Park, it depends on how many times are they presenting their movie. Your homerom teacher or your substitute teacher will choose the presentors of your class, if your picked to be a presentor your really lucky because your teachers trusts you and they knwo you can represent your class properly. Movies, what is it about? Most Manaiakalani movies has their own themes, it’s either their fun experience or somehting funny or something about recycling. This year, most of the movies are about recycling and helping the environment which is good. It is really exciting to watch each other’s movies especially when they are from your school, it is really good too watching movies form other schools because some of them are really interesting too. You get to watch it with your classmates and your school. In the Manaiakalani Film Festival, you get to watch movies, but not only by yourself but also with your best friends! You know when you watch a movie by yourself and it’s all dark and no one to talk to, it gets a little bit boring until you fell asleep. But in the Film Festival, for sure your not going to fell asleep because you can sit with your friends ( but sometimes you get to sit with little ones which you can also talk to about the movie, QUIETLY). So this is all the information about the Manaiakalani Film Festival, but don’t forget to be a good audience. And don’t forget to clap even you kind didn’t actually like it but still fake it til you make it, plus by clapping and smiling your showing them that you appreciate their hardwork. 

T4W3 - Word Problems.

WALT: Monitor ourselves to complete our work


Task Description: In Maths, we are learning to monitor ourselves to complete our work. This WALT helped me to focus more on finishing my work before doing something else. In the slides, your going to see some problem solving questions. While doing this, I got a little bit distracted that's why I didn't finish that early but I remembered our WALT.