Measuring Angles With Protractors

Task Description: For maths, were are learning about how to measure angles with protractors! When you measure an angle, you have to put one ray at 0°. You also have to put the intersection of the rays inside the small circle on the protractor. In the image above the question is “Is this angle acute, right or obtuse?”. An Acute angle is a angle less than 90° while and Obtuse angle is a angle more than 90°. A Right angle is exactly 90°. The angle in the image is a 90 angle because 60 – 150 is 90. 👍

Dogs are not the Best Choice for Pets

Dogs are not the Best Choice for Pets

In my opinion, dogs are not the best choice for pets, they’re big, they drool and you have to clean them like every single day. Unlike cats, they have to be groomed and bathed. They’re definitely not the best choice especially for new owners, and they are definitely not low maintenance. Even if they’re a small dog, the small dogs have a high reputation of being scrappy, barking a lot, and being less obedient. 

Some might argue that they’re more energetic and loyal. But what makes you think that other animals cannot be too? Cats are able to be very energetic and loyal, the idea that they’re mean, scratch you and not energetic or loyal is completely a stereotype. Like orange cats! If you’ve seen videos, they’re very energetic, play around and love attention. Judging using stereotypes is not the best thing to do right? Also about walking dogs and getting fit, you’re able to go on walks with cats. There’s even harnesses and leashes for cats!

For new owners, dogs aren’t the best choice. I strongly believe this because most of the dog breeds are pretty big and high maintenance. First, They need to get groomed and other stuff. If you get a very fluffy dog whose fur grows fast, you have to pay to go groom them and get their fur trimmed, brushed and washed. If you can’t do that and unless you’re able to groom the dog yourself, the fur will get matted and dirty.  Which is basically animal cruelty to leave it like that. Also, 1 in 7 dogs have fleas. Making you get special shampoo or combs for it. 

Secondly, there’s a lot of risks while owning dogs that a new owner might not be able to handle.While on walks, they try to eat a lot of stuff they find on the ground. Chocolate, foods that can make them constipated and other things can end up in their mouth while on walks. I’m pretty sure that you wouldn’t want your new dog to take a trip to the vet right after your first walk with it.

The huge bags of kibble for dogs may be big and save you money which is why new owners probably would buy them, but they’re low quality and highly processed. Dogs who are also fed kibble require regular teeth cleanings. 

So, in conclusion, they’re not the only pet animals that can be energetic and loyal. Cats are able to be energetic and loyal, the idea that they’re mean and scratch you are stereotypes. They’re high maintenance and not good for new owners. They also bark and are loud. While on walks they poop and then you need to buy bags for that, causing you to lose money and go back to the store after the bags run out. They make you use tons of money, not just for toys but also for basic needs. These are all the reasons why I believe that dogs are not the best choice for pets.

Task Description: We had a reliever, and she basically told us to do persuasive writing. We could choose whatever topic we wanted so I chose, “Dogs are not the best choice for pets”. Also I’m not a dog hater, I love Clumber spaniels.

Matariki Festival Reflection

For the Matariki Festival on Thursday, I was in a group with Phyu Sin and CC and we did star balls.

What I found disappointing was that no people really did a full star ball. But it’s really hard and time consuming so I understand why. I also understand that you would want to explore everything at a festival and not stick to one station. There was also pretty limited time to walk around and explore before home time since the performances were more than 1 hour. Not that many people came to our station and the advertising posters couldn’t be put up because of a false advertisement error. We had no prizes like candy, so people probably weren’t that interested.

But there were also really fun stuff about it, I did stuff at other stations and got candy and other things. I think focusing on the fun things that happened are better than focusing on the disappointing stuff. I mean, at least there was way more than 1 person in total visiting our station. It might’ve not worked as planned but I think we had fun and people still visited our station. There was stuff we could’ve done better though, like maybe plan what prizes would be before the day before the festival.

Vocab Pyramids

Task Description:

Yesterday for reading, we did vocabulary pyramids! The words that we have to do word pyramids of are from the text that we have to read. Which is why each reading group has different words that they do!  The word pyramids are basically: Word, definition of the word, the word in a sentence, and synonyms for the word. A new word I learnt from this is Tuakana-Teina! It means the relationship between an older and younger sibling or close relative.

IXL Measurements

Task Description:

For maths, we learnt about measurement! We’re learning how to be confident when measuring things. We did this on IXL, you had to drag the ruler and measure objects. When you want to measure something, you must have one end on the 0 cm mark, then you can properly measure it. After you measured it, our teacher also told us to convert it to millimetres. The swordfish in the image is 19 centimetres, but when you convert it to millimetres its 190 millimetres.

Simile Activities

Task Description:

For writing, we had to make a copy of another doc but instead of hyperbole’s and metaphors it had simile tasks on it. The first activity to write 6 similes that describe yourself! It could be your personality, appearance and more. I couldn’t think of 6 so I only came up with 4. The second activity was to write what we thought each of the similes meant in the box next to it.

This was supposed to be done before hyperbole activities, but I was doing it at the same time and activity 1 of simile activities was pretty hard so I ended up finishing hyperbole activities first.

Hyperbole Activties

Task Description:

For writing, we had to make a copy of another doc but it had Hyperbole tasks on it.

The first activity was to read the following hyperbolic statements, and then write down in the box next to it what we think it means. The second activity was to write 5 of your own hyperbole’s and see if a classmate can guess what it means. I was at home so I just wrote it down myself.

 

Metaphor Activities

Task Descripton:

For writing, we had to make a copy of a doc with tasks about metaphors on it and then name it Metaphor Activites.

The first activity was to write a metaphor for each of the following describing words. The words were strong, angry, brave and cheerful. Activity 2 were Metaphor riddles, you had to guess the answer for the riddles (shown in the image above). It was pretty challenging!

 

 

Finding Perimeter of a Shape

Task Description:

For maths, our task was to go into groups of 3 and choose one from the measurement equipment pile.  I was in a group with Phyu sin and Stephanie.Then, we could have fun with the equipment for 5 min! After that, you had to make a shape and find it’s perimeter. Because the sides of our shape were curved, we had to use a flax and curve it over the shape and then measure how many centimetres the flax was. After we found the perimeter we had to convert it to millimetres, centimetres, and meters.

The perimeter of our shape was 84 cm. So, 84 cm, 840 mm and 0.84 m.