What am I

 Kia Ora Everybody,

Today Zach and I made a slideshow. This slide encouraged us to share fact and describe the topic without givivng it away. It took us 20 minutes to make and share. I hope you like it.

Kind Regards Leandri

Google Drawing Tracing

 Kia Ora Everybody,

Today we had a chance to learn how to digitally trace a picture, I am lucky enough to have done tracing before. I think that choosing a sillhouette or a simple picture makes it easier. I chose a zebra because it is simple colours and the lines are thick enought to trace around. You can use the polyline tool and the curve tool. I used polyline because I normally use curve and want to go out of my comfort zone. I hope you like my art. Please leave a positve, thoughtful and helpful comment. Kind Regards Leandri.

Orcas

 Kia Ora Everybody,

Yesterday was our first day back at school. That means that we had a relaxing day simply easing back into our school work. For our first activity of the day we all drew a orca. After we drew the orca we wrote down all the facts that came in the video as well. I think that this is a good oppurtunity to learn something new about our sea animals. Did you know that back in South Africa orcas are called Killer Whales. Let me know what you think. Kind Regards Leandri

Learn about Orcas Here

Facts About Killer Whales,

1. They like eating stingray  

2. They have a really tall and distinctive fin

3. Orcas are the biggest of the dolphin family

4. They are distinguishable because of their black and white colour

5. Their fins are like paddles  

6. They have very small ears

7. Their pupils look like a "C" 

8. Males have big dorsal fins

9. The blow hole is like a nostril  

10. Orcas have boulbus heads

11. Their tails are called flukes   

12. Their tails are black on top and white on the bottom

13. They have big sharp teeth  

14. The lower jaw and stomach is white

15. The white on their tummy is shaped like a wave

16. The spot behhind their dorsal fin is called the saddle 

17. The saddle is a light gray

18. The saddle is like a finger print. People track and identify orcas with their saddle

19. They have a white eye patch  

20. Orcas are supper fast  

21. Oracs are considered mammals

22. The scientific name for an orca is "Orcinus Orca"

Prototec

 Kia Ora Everybody,

For today I did my daily prototec. I got an 85% again. If you didn't already know I wanted to do a prototec everyday of the lockdown to see if there is any improvement. But all improvement takes time. 

Stay Safe - Kind Regards Leandri

How to draw

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Thank you for everybody who has been commenting on my blog. Today is friday! so we had  a slightly different day. Today we were given a list of activities that we would normally do on a Friday. This activity is an art activity. We were given a video to watch and then after that we could draw a picture and show it on your blog. Here is the video and my end result. Stay safe.

Kind regards Leandri

 

Daily Prototec

 Kia Ora Everybody,

As you know I have made myself a goal to do a prototec everyday for the rest of lockdown. I have made some improvement yesterday but today I found myself a little distracted. The reason I post it on my blog is because it is another way to track progress. I got 7% less this time but that is ok. If I stay focused I will eventually improve. 

Stay safe and stay kind.

Kind Regards Leandri

Daily Prototec

 Kia Ora Everybody,

Thank you for commenting on my blog for those of you who have. I have really enjoyed replying to them. As you know I have decided to do a prototec everyday and post it on my blog. I think it is a good way to track improvement. I got 90 percent today and I am very proud of myself because last time I got 85%. Let me know what your average score on prototec is. Stay safe and stay kind. 

Kind Regards Leandri

Kindness (RAK)

 Kia Ora Everybody,

I hope you are having a good day today. Today is a special day because it is Random Act of Kindness day. (RAK). So to celebrate I decided to do some random acts of kindness. I helped my mum by tidying the living room and kitchen. And to help my sister I did her chores to. I really enjoy doing things for other people because it makes you feel like you did something important. I encourage you today to do something kind for someone else.  So stay safe and stay kind.

Kind Regards Leandri

Prototec

 Kia Ora Everybody,                                                                                                                                   From today onward I will be posting my prototec results to see if there is any improvement. For my prototec I go on stage 7 timed and I make sure that there is nothing to distract me from it. Let me know what you average score for a prototec is. Stay safe - Kind Regards Leandri.

Baking Afghan Biscuits

 Kia Ora Everybody,

Thank for commenting on my blog the last few days. Today I decided that I am going to bake something chocolatey. I struggled to make these because the recipe was too dray and was not forming a dough. I improvised and added some more butter. I would recommend this recipe for anybody who wanted a little bit more of a challenge than chocolate chip cookies. I find that baking is a Good outlet to relieve stress or any other emotions you can't expel. I hope you enjoy this recipe and try it at home.                                    (I think that it's tricky recipe) Kind Regards Leandri.

 

Baking Cookies

 Kia Ora Everybody,

Today I baked some chocolate chip cookies. They were originally dairy free. but I decided to use normal milk and normal chocolate chip cookies. I changed the recipe by only add 1/2 a cup of chocolate chips because it was to much for the dough to hold. I enjoy changing things when I'm baking so it is customized to the way I like it. Hope you enjoy the recipe. Kind Regards Leandri

1/2 cup oil

1 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup milk (can be almond)

1 TBSP vanilla extract

2 cups plain flour

1 TSP baking soda

1 TSP baking powder

1/2 TSP salt

1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Paralympics Activity (Boggle)

 Kia Ora Everybody,

This will be my first post from at home so far. This post is a boggle, for all the people who don't know what it is it is a game where you have to make words out of the given letters. For this activity we got the word Paralympian. 2 or 3 letter give you 1 point. 4 letters give you 2 points and 5 or more letters give you five points. You have to try get as many points as you can. I got a score of 69. Can you do better? I enjoyed this activity because I like games like crosswords and word searches so this activity was right up my alley. Give it a go and let me now your score. 

Kind Regards Leandri

Baking a Weet-Bix Slice

 Kia Ora Everybody,

Today we made a Weet-bix slice. We made 10 of this recipe to feed 24. 4 baches serves 18. This recipe is easy and it yields lots. I think that it is good for birthdays or road trip snack as it is easy to put in a container We had 4 groups make a double batch and Miss McCombie made a double batch as well. I really hope you enjoy this recipe and that you learned something new. 
Kind Regards Leandri

For more details Go to (Link)

Recipe:

150g Butter

4 Weet-Bix

1/2 cup White sugar

1 Cup Flour

1 TBSP Cocoa Powder

1 TSP Baking Powder

1 Drop Vanilla Essence

Mix Together and bake for 10 minutes. Let cool and the Ice. 

Icing:

1 1/2 Cups Icing sugar

1 TBSP Cocoa Powder

1/4 Cup Hot Water

 

Why you Should Visit Ukraine

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This week for reading I had to make a video to encourage people to travel somewhere. This place is also somewhere that I don't know alot about so I can't do South Africa. I really ejoyed making it and I hope you learn something new. Kind Regards Leandri

Video

Olympics Activity

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This week for writing we had to write about a sport in the Olympics. We had to choose a sport and do research on it and write it in your own words. The sport I chose is shooting. I chose this sport because I am passionate about it and I have done it before. I thought that is would an interesting thing to write about because not many people know about it.

WLJ Activity 18

 Kia Ora everybody,

Today I decided to do this activity.

The reason I chose to do South Africa's flag is because I am from SA so it has a sentimental value to me. I made this by using the tracing app on google draw. It was helpful that it has very straight lines so it was easier to sketch. It took me about half an hour so I enjoyed it and I didn't get bored with is. I hope you like my flag. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Maths Stratagies and problems.

 Kia Ora everybody,

This week in maths was a very busy week. Thsi activity took me 2 weeks to make. The purpose of this video is to teach people about the 6 different stratagies to solve problems. there is alot more stratagies that you can use but theses are the main 6. I raelly enjoyed making it. The question I like the besi is the work backwards question. Let me know what you think.

The Link > https://www.powtoon.com/s/gtdi7wMKzPp/1/m

Vocab Activity

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This week my activty was to make a vocabulary activty so that you understand these words snd they have a matching picture. It took me about 1 reading session to make and I picked these words off of our referance site. What word do you like best? I really like the word conserve. Let me know what you think.

Link

Refugee Peom

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On the 24th It is World Refugee Day. So today we had some activities to do. This activity wasthat we had make an acrostic peom about refugees. I took me about 1 day to make. What do you think? What is your favourite letter? Kind Regards Leandri

10 Words and Meanings from Fact File

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This week we had to make a word and definition table to  learn about different words so that we could share it on our blog. I picked these 10 words because I thought they were the most interesting. It took 1 day to make. Please comment what you think.

9 Tui Facts

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This week I have looked at a sight and learnt about tui I learnt lots of things so I hope you do to.   

Remember to let me know what you think!.

Nala and Me

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This week we have had an opportunity to deepen our learning intention by learning how to get our reader to feel emotion. And we have also been working on our descriptive language and short but effective sentences. But the main emotion I want you to feel is Empathy and Sadness. Please let me know what you think, what emotions do you feel. Is there anything I could add?

Kind Regards Leandri

Never ending tears run down my face while my soul shrinks and turns to dust, leaving me hollow inside. Carrying my dear child to her death.Thinking about every time I threw her outside for being a bad dog, will never be able to measure up to the pain chipping away at my heart that is going to leave an eternal hole that no being would be able to fill. I slowly stumble into the ever growing corridor to the vets office. I Imagine how horrible I was to my baby girl. And making me feel that all the pain she is going through is my fault. As the nurse sticks a needle in my sweet baby I imagine the first time I met her and  suddenly wish I didn’t love her as much as I did to make this moment easier. But we are soulmates.

NZSL Visual

 Kia Ora Everybody,

As you all should know this week is NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language Week). So for our activity we had to make a visual after reading from the NZSL site. We had to extract information and put it in a visual. I would like it if you tell me if you learnt something new.

Kind regards Leandri

Learning to Sign My Full Name

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Today I learned how to sign my fulll name. I knew how to sign my first name so that made it a little bit easier. I used the NZSL site to watch a video to learn how to sign my last name. I will link in the site so that you would can try learn you full name. Do you know your full name in NZSL?

Kind Regards Leandri

Learning to Sign the Alphabet

Kia Ora everybody,

This week is NZ Sign Language Week. But I will be calling it NZSL. For the first activity this week we  had to learn and film ourselfs Signing the alphabet. At the start I knew everything before "S". But luckily there is a site that has a video so that you can learn the New Zealand sign lanuage alphabet. I also just want to remind you that I will be saying sign lanuage but I am talking about the New Zealand version. I really hope that I taught you something. I will link the video so you can see if I made any mistakes. And also sorry because some of them are backwards because of the camera flipping it.

Kind Regards Leandri

How to sign Video

My Writing Activity

Kia Ora every body, 

Today for writing we had to write about a parachute story. Please let me know what could happen next.

I take a big stride onto the big metal tincan of a plane while thinking of billions of other things to try and keep my mind off of plunging from the sky. As they strap on my parachute my brain feels like an ant with the thoughts of an elephant inside. The plane doors swish open like a tornado ripping out a tree. The instructor straps me to his chest and leaps into the sky. I can feel us jumping into a raincloud because it feels like millions of marbles being poured on my head. The peoples heads slowly turned from grains of sand to ping pong balls. The tree tops tun into green soccer balls and then the instructor said its time to use the parachute but my biggest fear came true, the parachute was stuck...  * 2 Days Later * I just woke up from an induced coma and woke up with a fractured skull and both my legs broken. But the doctors think i might be parlized from the waist down.

This Weeks Maths Activity

 Kia Ora everybody,

This week we had to learn what equivalent fractions are.

It is quite a simple concept once you under stand.

The rule that I did not know was that you could only change them by multiplication or division.

Tell me what you think.

Last weeks maths activity

 Kia Ora Everybody,

This week we are catching up on some work that I have missed.

The reason we missed it is because Screencastify was updating.

Do you think I explained how to do this activity well.

Please comment if if you understand it or not.

The Link

Starving Description

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So today we had to write up a description about how you would feel if you were starving in the middle of the ocean. So I wrote this it is fairly short but we only had five minutes. Let me know what you think.

The storm washed away the food and water but it also washed away the uncertainty of starving because I am now certain that we will starve. My stomachs growling like a marching band is marching in my stomach. I feel like a woodpecker is hollowing me out until there is nothing left. It burns like somebody is pouring diesel on an open flame. I feel like a caged bird that has not been fed in a decade. No amount of food will save us now we will starve.

Tell me what you think. 

Writing Activity

 Kia Ora Eveybody,

Yesterday in our writing session we had to go and draw our buddies character.

But the catch is that you can only draw what is on the character description page.

On Zara´s list there is

Long eyelashes, Muscle on the arms and calves, Parted hair to the right, hairy caterpillers eyebrows, Mokopanu on face, tattoos on cheeks and forehead, Eyes as blue as the sea, Black short hair, Scar near right eye, 6 foot tall, healthy weight, tan skin, dimple on left cheek, Purple bruise on left shin and righ knee, red lips, weared down dirty finger nails, scratch up right arm, piercing in left ear, wonky nose, long legs and a short torso.

On my list I had

Spiky hair, Blue eyes, muscly legs, Big ears, Dark brown hair, nice tan, really tall, rounded nose, koru tattoos on his back, chuny eyebrows. My list is alot shorter that zara´s list so she had alot more freedom than I had for the drawing. Warning he is naked beause there was no clothes in the description.

  

America´s Cup Challengers And Defenders

 Kia Ora everybody,

Today I finished my second reading activity.

It took about 2 days and lots of research.

This ¨Google Sheets¨ is all about the challengers and defenders of the America´s cup.

A pattern I have relised is that over the years mainly America had won the cup.

But now that new zealand joined the party there will be only be one clear winner.

Fun Fact: The America´s cup was made in England but England has never won it.

15th March 2021 America's Cup

 Kia Ora everybody,

Today I finished an activity for reading.

What we had to do was go to a site and research the  history of the America's Cup.

Then we were asked to extract information out of the text and find 10 questions to ask the teacher.

You must be able to be find the answer in the text otherwise the question does not qualify.

Here is a picture of what we had to do (the link does not work).

Here is a pictureof my activity and the link works this time.

Split face art

 

Kia Ora everybody,

2 weeks ago I sketched hlf of my face for the spilt face art.

The left half is my face the right half is a food themed face.

On my face I have a suasage, fried egg, slice of pizza, watermelon and cotton candy.

My hair is candy ropes and in my hair is gummybears, chocolate, a lollipop and a chocolate bar. 

It took me 2 or 3 days to draw.

I like the left side the most because more effort went into that side.

Tell me what you think in the comments.

Baking Brownies

 Kia Ora everybody,

Today we made some brownies. But these are not just any brownies these are brownies with a twist, a green twist, a green vegtable twist.

We added Zucchini into our brownie!

This brownie is a great chance to show you that sweet treats can still be healthy and it's a great way to sneak in a few veggies in your diet.

The recipe is dry grainy and a little bit like sand but it all comes together when you add the Zucchini. Make sure not to get the juice out of the grated Zucchini because the moistere is what pulls it all together.

This recipe is from Two Peas & Their Pod the site is well laid out with some details about the brownie and the site. The brownies were a little bit fluffy for a brownie it was more like a flat cake. But overall the recipe was simple and healthy.

Cooking during level 2

We stayed safe while cooking by washing our hands and keeping our tools clean.

Ingrediants

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1/2 cups canola or vegtable oil

2 cups plain flour

1/4 cup cocoa powder

2 cups grated Zucchini (Don't sqeeze out the moisture)

2 Teaspoons vanilla extract

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 1/4 cups choc chips