How to make a sandwich. According to a robot programmer. [me*]

we are learning how to make a scientific method. Miss A ,our teacher, gave us a task on telling her how to make a sandwich as if she was a robot. this is what you need to say and what not to say

this is how not to tell a robot to make a sandwich

1. wash hands
2. grab bread from the bag
3. spread butter on the bread
4. add marmite on top
5. close the sandwich
6. cut it half
7. eat

This is what to say instead

1. go to the sink
2. turn on the cold tap
3. get your hands wet in the water
4. Squirt one pump of soup on your palms
5. rub your hands together
6. rinse the soap off your hands with water
7. turn the tap off
8. grab a towel 
9. dry your hands on the towel
10. open the bread bag
11. take two slices of bread from the bag
12. place the bread side by side on the plate 
13. pick up the handle of the knife
14. open the butter
15. stab the butter near the edge with the blade  
16. put the butter on the knife blade
17. spread the butter evenly on one of the biggest sides of the bread
18. put down the knife
19. replace the lid on the butter
20. pick up the knife by the handle 
21. open up the marmite 
22. get a little bit of marmite on the knife 
23. spread it evenly on the buttered piece of bread
24. put the knife down
25. replace the lid on the marmite 
26. grab the unbuttered piece of bread and plase the biggest side down on top of the buttered piece.
27. pick up the knife by the handle
28. cut the sandwich in half
29. enjoy

Why is it good to have detailed method

it is good so that we can understand the instructions and so we don't muck up.

*i'm not actually a robot programmer 

Culture

in social studies we have been learning about our culture  and now we have some questions to answer.

what i already knew about culture.
that it is all about you

what I found interesting
Nothing much

what else would I like to know?
nothing. im filled to the brim with knowledge

what does culture mean to me?
It means.... that I..... am kiwi
I DON'T KNOW OK DON'T JUDGE ME ='(

here is my poster on a family tradition

Language fitness set 1

we have been given a bunch of langage fitness questions to answer. here they are

What is the collective nouns
a flock or group of doves
a fleet of ships

The children knew they had to have their homework on their teachers table first thing in the moring but there were always those who were late.

a semicircle is half of a circle 

write a word with the suffix ful
Colorful 

write a synonym for these words
voyage Trip
decide Choose

write a antonym for these words 
Tame wild 
eventful quite

write two meanings for the word "shoulder"

a) the upper joint of each of a person's arms and the part of the body between this and the neck.

b) a part of something resembling a shoulder in shape, position, or function.

What do these mean

Mon Monday

Dec December 

Rewrite these words in their shorter form

I will l'll

He is he's

write the plural to these words

Lady ladies

class class'

paper papers 

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SUNDIALS!

In math we have been making a sundial. we first made a slideshow on sundials here's mine




we then went to the workshop and made it . this took 2-3 lessons.

this is mine

go to link for sound

I had a triangle gnomon (thing in the middle) but it did not work out so I changed it to have a pole 

cool facts about sundials

1. did you know that the gnomon [pronoused no-mon] comes from a greek word meaning indicator? (learn more at www.sciencing.com)

2.  did you know that the sundial works because of the rotation and movement of the sun? (learn more at www.easyscienceforkids.com

3. did you know the sundials are the oldest known way to tell the time? (learn more at www.kids.britannica.com)

we also made a slideshow on time here's mine

Abomination - Novel study

we are now starting a novel study of a book called Abomination. we have some questions to answer about the cover.

• What do you think the story will be about?

a boy who is deformed or unliked/unloved because it looks like there is a boy in a cage.

• How do you think this story will be written?

i think it will be written as a third person. just because it just seems like that's what it would be.

• Why do you think the story is entitled as it is?

I don't know it just is.

• Where do you think the story will take place?

• What time period do you think the story is set

in the 2000s because it seems like something that would happen in the 2000

What is Critical Literacy- Reflection Time

we are finishing up critical literacy soon so we now have to answer some questions.

What do you think Critical Literacy is?

it is basically how to cut up media and how to read between the lines

What did you learn during Critical Literacy?

how to ask questions and to never just go off something by one side of the story.

What did you find challenging during Critical Literacy?

answering said questions

How will you use Critical Literacy skills in real life?

by looking deeper with ads and not to just trust it

What are you looking forward to in English this year?

Creative writing

Science

WHAT IS A SCIENTIST???

I think a scientist is a person who studies science. they work in a lab and they studie things about science. they find cures for diseases, they find out about space, they find out about new species and research about dinosaurs.

Google says "a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences." a scientist is someone who conducts  research to gain knowledge in an area. 

Research on Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.

She was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and supplemented her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. She began a fifteen-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in 1936 and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against breast cancer. Her witness for the beauty and integrity of life continues to inspire new generations to protect the living world and all its creatures.

Critical Questioning matrix

We were given a task where we watch some ads and answer some questions on it

Sensodyne ProNamel Strong & Bright Enamel Commercial

What genre does this text belong to?

Infomercial.

Who is allowed to speak?

The sale woman

Who is missing from the text?

The people who tried it

What does the author want us to know?

That this works and it will make your dentist happy

#FingerComb with Julia Barretto and Palmolive Healthy & Smooth

What has been left out of the text?
That there will still be tangles. that you can't just finger comb your hair and leave it looking like that.

Who is the most likely audience of this text & why?

Girls who have long hair because they would be able to 'finger comb' their hair and have it nice and silky.

Why are you reading this text?

Because i have to. (jk) to critique it .

Who is allowed to speak?

The models.

The Official Bunch O' Balloons Commercial

What has been left out of the text?

that they do not pop on impact or that 35 is not nearly enough balloons

How does the text depict age, gender, cultural groups

that the kids will be able to fill them up by themself and start the fight. that the parents/others not in the fight won't be mad that got hit with a balloon.

What genre does this text belong to?

infomercial/shout in my ear ad.

Factual or Satirical

In English we are learning about if a website is factual or satirical. We have been give a list of 8 sites,

• The Onion
• The New York Times
• The Civilian
• The Daily Mail
• The Daily Mash
• The Herald
• The Shovel
• Daily Telegraph

we have some questions to answer for each one

• What does the website look like?
• What photos is it using?
• What headlines are they sharing?
• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical website?

The daily Mash

• What does the website look like? a take on the Daily Mail
• What photos is it using? simple plain photos mainly faces
• What headlines are they sharing?

'Boyfriend who ‘can’t read minds’ also unable to understand verbal instructions'

'Are you enough of a twat to go to university these days?'

'4 classic kids’ films that could offend idiots'

• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical website? Satirical

NZ Herald

• What does the website look like? any other news site
• What photos is it using? detailed realavint photos
• What headlines are they sharing?

• Live: Nelson fires could still be burning in March

A four-run thriller! Black Caps cling on to claim superb series win.

• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical website? Factual

The Shovel

• What does the website look like? any other news site
• What photos is it using? Relevant to the article
• What headlines are they sharing?
• Fears For Group Who Went To Rainbow Serpent Festival Without Drugs

• In A World Of Fake News, You Need Fake News You Can Trust

• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical . satirical

Daily Telegraph

• What does the website look like? Any other website
• What photos is it using? Relavint photos that make you want  to read it
• What headlines are they sharing?

Young dealer hiding drugs in secret compartment

E-sports show kids that hard work does pay off

• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical website? Don’t know. Have to pay to read the articles

these are the ones my buddy paige did 

The Onion

• What does the website look like? Fake.
• What photos is it using? Some real some fake looking.
• What headlines are they sharing? We Predict Who Will Watch The Grammys This Sunday,
  ‘Fly, My Pretties,’ Says Jeff Bezos Releasing Swarm Of
• Amazon Drones To Hunt Down Nude Photos
• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical website? Satirical.

The New York Times

• What does the website look like? Real.
• What photos is it using? Real
• What headlines are they sharing? For Democrats Aiming Taxes at the Super rich, "the moment belongs to the Bold"
• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical website? Factual.

The Civilian

• What does the website look like? Real
• What photos is it using? Real
• What headlines are they sharing? EMBARRASSING: Winning Melbourne

Cup horse just ran around in a big circle like some

kind of idiot

• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical website? Factual

The Daily Mail

• What does the website look like? Real
• What photos is it using? Real
• What headlines are they sharing?...Horror as man in his 30s dies

after his 'throat was slit with a huge knife when he refused to give

man a cigarette' in upmarket suburb on another night of London bloodshed 

• Do you think it is a Factual website, or a Satirical website? Factual

Butterflies

We listened to a story of a girl who wrote a story at school about butterflies and her teacher's opinion. We then had questions to answer.

What language is used in the text? ie what gramer was used?
the Grandparents had broken English and the girl had good English.

What is this text about, how do you know?
The text is about different opinions on things. Because the girl and her Grandparents have a view that you kill white butterflies while the teacher had a opinion that you don't.

What does the author want you to know?
that everyone has a different opinions and that is OK.

How are characters constructed in this text?
They are constructed as the Grandparents are uneducated. I know this because they have broken english and seem very proud that their granddaughter is going to school. They are hard working but take time to look after their granddaughter. The teacher is a educated snob and thinks butterflies are amazing. I know this because she says that butterflies are good and you don't kill them.

What kinds of social realities does the text portray?
That most people don't think that butterflies are bad, or don't think about the downside of growing your own food.

the Treaty of Waitangi

In social studies we have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. We had to make a small presentation on what we had learnt. Here is mine.

Critical Literacy vocab

in english we were learning about Critical Literacy vocab. We then made a visual thing to post on our blogs. Here is mine.

Critical Literacy

Today in English we started learning about critical literacy. We watched two videos and then decontruced them.

The first one was of a 'brain dead' teen whose parents decided to euthanize her. It was posted by The Onion, who takes a story or a situation and turn it into a news article. Search up the onion brain dead teenager on you tube.

picture not video 

The second one was someone ,Andrea Quijada, talking about decoding media. Her parents taught her from a young age how to decode T.V ads. she goes around schools teaching children how to read between the lines of ads on their media feed. 

We were taught about the C.R.A.P test
Current. what is the date of your source? Is it recent or old?
Reliability/Relevance. Is the source fair? Does it give references?
Authority. Is the author informed? where was the piece published? Has the work been peer reviewed?
Purpose/Point of View. Is it Fact or Opinion? Does the author have a agenda?