Mindfulness Marble Jar

Here is a photo of my digital marble jar. Inside of it is all the things that make me happy or proud.

Making Toys for the Cats

Last night I started creating toys for the cats at the Cats Protection League. The Cats Protection League is a cat adoption service where they home cats at a centre until they find a home. This is for my William Pike Challenge and I am filling a box of pompom toys.

Mindfulness

Yesterday I went with a group to a Mindfulness session. We do this regularly and we get taught how to change our brains from red brain to green brain, breathing to calm down or relax, and heaps of other stuff. This week we learnt that we can change our brain tracks. This means we can learn to control what happens if our siblings make us angry for example. We also gave a partner a massage which was very relaxing. I also learnt some things I can do to calm down. For instance listening to music, reading a book, getting some exersize or do some breathing.

My 3 Best Poems

Here are my 3 best poems. I picked these 3 because I like how I wrote them. I hope you enjoy my poems. Please give me feedback on what I can work on next time.

Couplet Poem

Here is my couplet poem. A couplet is a two lined rhyming verse, either part of a longer poem or just a very short poem.

I awake to a loud alarm
Waking me at my grandads farm

Playing in the grassy fields
Pieces of wood are my shields

Clogyrnach Poem

Here is my clogyrnach poem. This type of poem has to have 8 syllables in the first 2 lines, 5 syllables in the next 2 lines and 3 syllables in the last 2 lines. I hope you think my poem is cool.

Clogyrnach Poem

At the beach in the summer heat
Ice creams are a wonderful treat.
Sandcastles up high,
The seagulls all fly.
Oh no bites!
The beach sights.

Maths

For maths this week I have been working on converting decimals, fractions and percentages to each other. An example is 2/5 as a percentage and decimal is 40% and 0.4. To do this you have to change the fraction to something over 100 and the just write the number in. It works with the same concept with the other way around except you might have to decrease it rather than multiply it.

Technology

Mechatronics

Today at tech I did Mechatronics first. We had to programe a robot to move to one point to another one. While we were controlling our robots to do that, we also had to avoid the craters and volcanoes which were spots on the ground. I had Lila as my buddy and we completed the challenge.

Sewing

In sewing I am creating a environmental messsge bag. This means it is a bag with a message on it so people can recognize the impact on the environment. My bag has the message, Don't let this happen and some dolphins with plastic caught around them.

Triplet Poem

Here is another triplet. I hope you enjoy it.

It was so random

When my brother had a tantrum

While we were riding on a tandem.

A triplet is a poem with three rhyming lines.

Spanish

Today I started doing my Spanish course on the Duolingo website. I learnt multiple words and phrases which I have put below.

Buenos Dias - Good Morning

Buenos Noches - Good Night or Good Evening

Por Favor - Please

Gracias - Thanks

Si - Yes

No - No

Mucho Gusto - Nice to meet you

Yo soy - I am

Espanol - Spanish

Ingles - English

Adios - Goodbye or Bye

Perdon? - Excuse me, sorry or pardon

I hope you learn something from this Spanish post.

William Pike Challenge

For the William Pike Challenge I am learning Spanish for my passion projects and I am planning on working with Sophie to teach the preschool kids a dance or showing them a dance for some of our community service. We hope to regularly go over there and keep dancing with them.

We are currently sending the email for the preschool.

Just a Dog Summary Response Journal

In this next part of the story Mister Mosely experienced a thunderstorm. He hid under Corey’s bed and Corey came with him. The writer also talked about Tiger the cat and how Tiger is sometimes scared of Mister Mosely and Mister Mosely is sometimes scared of Tiger.

Haiku Poem

Here is my poem for today. It is called a haiku. A haiku is a poem with three lines, the first line has 5 syllables, the second with 7, and the third with five. I hope you like my haiku.

hiding in flowers

the chipmunk eating his nuts

his cheeks are puffed out.

Just a Dog Response Journal

Here is last weeks summary response journal on Just a dog so far.
29.5.2020
Summary:
In the story so far the author has talked about how Mister Mosley the dog arrived in Ingram's home. Uncle Gavin had a litter of bitser puppies which are the puppies with bits of different types of dogs in them. Mister Mosley is a dalmatian but he does not have a heap of spots like pure dalmations.

My Bio Poem

Today I was learning about bio poems. This bio poem is about my friend Isla. I hope you enjoy it.


Isla
Kind, Crazy, Flexible,
Daughter of Craig and Toni
Who loves horses, dancing and chocolate
Who feels joy, proudness, laughter
Who fears worms, spiders and drowning
Who won 1st place at a dance competition
Who hopes to travel the world someday
Who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand
Hawkyard

Diamante Poem

Here is my diamante poem. It is a poem in the shape of a diamond with opposite words at each end. I hope you like it.

Good

nice, supportive

helpful, honest, excellent

virtue, integrity, morality, respectable,

Mean, naughty, unacceptable,

rude, terrible, 

Bad

Concrete Poem

This week in literacy we are working on poetry. One type of poem is called a concrete poem. It is a poem inside a shape and they both are part of the poem. Here is my concrete poem.