My Minecraft World

In the Kaupeka hub all the students had to come up with a main artefact for our PBL mine was a Minecraft world on how can we help the endangered animals, so I build an artificial world with habitats for these animals here's the video tour if you would like to see it.

Minecraft

PBL Planning

In the Kaupeka hub we had paired up with a buddy and come up with a PBL question, and make creations on how we can make this come to a reality, but before that we need a planning doc, so that's what I am going to share today, here are some of the ideas we come up with and planning on how we are going to display this.

Ideas - 

~ Collect lots of information

~ Ideas on how we think the Future will look

~ Collect more information about robots taking our jobs      

~ Ask Questions

Ways to Present -

~ Slide Show

~ Animation

~ Slide Show Animation

~ Recording 

~ Podcast 

~ Minecraft

Topic idea -

~ Saving the endangered animals

~ Building new habitats

RE Advertisement

In the Kaupeka hub we had to get into groups and chose a sacrament and make a video or create a poster as advertisement on why you should do this sacrament, we chose the sacrament of first holy communion, we designed a poster and created a video here is what our poster looks like.

Narrative Writing

In the kaupeka hub we had to write a long narrative story and publish it on a blog, which is what I am doing now, My story is about Quill lake, Quill lake is a very mysterious and deep lake, anyway, here it is if you are wanting to read it.

Quill Lake

The Missing Pieces

Many Years ago . . . 

A robot missing it’s pieces was studied, and confirmed that once all the pieces were put together it would create a very powerful source, but no one knows what power it holds, some say it hides in the depths of Quill Lake. No one knows if that is true or not, after the explosion in the lab, they searched everywhere 

for the scraps of the robot but no luck . . .

17 / 6 / 2019 . . . Sasha’s Diary

Two scuba divers have recently been chosen to explore the mysterious depths of QuillLake, to find the missing Robot pieces. no one has been down there since the “incident” that happened 3 years ago. since then, no one has been brave enough to search for the missing pieces . . .

3 Years ago Quill Lake . . . 

It was a sunny day, the beach was covered with umbrellas, colourful towels, and sandcastles, Children were playing in the water, there was a huge splash everyone looked over, there were screams, the kids were pulled under the water quickly, one by one, no one knows what had pulled them under, it still remains a mystery to this day . . .

~ |:| Chapter 1 |:| ~

A Scary Start

The Divers splashed into the lake, They let themselves sink down into the water, they went down and down and down, until they hit the squishy sand at the bottom, it was so blue and so calming, there was so much to explore and it still went deeper, they swam around until, “What’s that?” said Justin, “Hm? Not sure . . . let’s check it out” Jacob suggested, Justin swam ahead of Jacob, “Looks like some sorta Robot scrap” Said Justin “Robot scrap . . . Hm . . . Wait, Robot Scrap!? Grab it! It must be a part of the missing pieces!” Jacob explained “Pft you believe that myth?” Said Justin “It’s true!” Jacob bolted over to the mysterious piece of metal, “J-Jacob- Slowly . . . Swim toward me . . .” Justin said “Why? I’m just gonna get this piece, it’s very important-” Jacob said as he turned around to face Justin, “Justin- Look behind you . . .” Jacob Said as he noticed mysterious creatures around Justin, “Jacob, look behind you!” Justin said, They both turned around to see angry ghost pirates surrounding them, “What do ye think ya doing around our cove? Not stealing me treasure, are ya?” 

~ |:| Chapter 2 |:| ~

Ice Box

“Nope! We were just leaving . . .” Said Justin “Right Jacob” ''But the Robot-” Was all Jacob could spit out before Justin grabbed his arm and bolted away as fast as he could, “Where are we going!?” Said Jacob, “We’re lost!” “We can just swim up we’re fine” Said Justin, They swam up and up and up until they could see the surface, “Few . . .wait Justin, is that ice?! How could there be ice!? We’re gonna drown here, what do we do,” Jacob said “Calm down . . . W-we’ll find a way . . .”  

~ |:| Chapter 3 |:| ~

Icy Escape

The Divers swam around for a bit looking for a way to get out of this mess, “We need some sort of pickaxe, but who would drop a pickaxe in a lake-” “Found one!” yelled Jacob, He picked up the frosted covered pickaxe. “Here,” Justin took the pickaxe out of Jacob’s hand, only just realizing how heavy it is, he almost drops it down into the dark blue depths, “That was close, we could have drowned here if you dropped that” Jacob explained, “Haha yeah” Justin replied as he gripped onto the pickaxe just incase, “So, why are we down here again?” Justin said as he swung the pickaxe into the ice, “We’re here to find the missing pieces, and I did find one, but we could have gotten it faster if you weren't distracting me, now those pirates have it so we’re doomed.” Jacob explained, “Are you sure? Aren’t there lots of little pieces scattered around this lake” Justin said, “Yes but we need all of them, hopefully we get more experience from being down here to be able to get that piece from those pirates” Jacob said, Justin took another swing at the ice, he pulled back the pickaxe to take another swing, when suddenly it slips out of his hands into the dark depths. “NO!” Shouted Jacob, they stared at each other for a moment, “What do we do . . . ?”

~ |:| Chapter 4 |:| ~

A Toxic Power cell

Justin ignored Jacob and peered off in the distance, “Wha- What?” Justin murmured, He swam over towards a giant rusty ship, “The water is much greener around here . . .” Said Justin, They swam around the ship, examining it, one side of the ship was missing, shipping containers piled out of the ship, Justin swam inside the opened side of the ship, “There’s a door” He said, Justin swam towards the door, he looked around before he went in, “Seems fine” Jacob said, Justin went in, there were huge broken motors and rusty things, Justin swam around the rusty items and spotted something, “Huh, A rusty robot head and an old powercel” Justin said, “That’s gotta be something to do with the missing pieces” Jacob said, Justin picked it up and put it in his sack, They swam out of the rusty ship.

~ |:| Chapter 5 |:| ~

A Volcanic Leg

Justin and Jacob swam around for a bit, the ocean went silent. “It’s so quiet” Justin pointed out, Waves started to form on the surface and the squishy sand at the bottom of the lake started to rumble, “Uh . . .” Jacob mumbled, a school of fish bolted past them, “Uh oh?” Justin said, a metal arm was flung at Jacob’s head from the darkness, “Oh- OW” He said, a voice from the darkness yelled “Take your stinking robot arm thing back, it’s useless!” “Well, that was easy, 1 arm 2 legs to go” Jacob said, Justin swam straight down, “What are you doing?” Jacob questioned, Justin kept going down until he hit the bottom, he searched around for any useful items, “Hm, some sorta geolocactor” He said to himself, he swam back up to Jacob, “Here” Justin said passing it to Jacob, “Hm, I could use this to find an underwater volcano, I bet there’s a missing piece there somewhere” Jacob said, “Good idea.” Justin said, Jacob fiddled around with it for a bit until, “Found one,” he said, “Nice” They swam around it for a bit looking for an opening, “There’s one” they swam inside and looked around “over here” Justin said, “There’s a button” Jacob said, Justin leaned over him and pressed it, “Something opened, I heard it” Justin said, “Well this was easy” said Jacob, “There’s where it opened!” Justin said, he swam towards it and leaned out for the leg,  Justin picked it up in his hands and tossed it around leaving red marks on his hands “Ow, Hot!” he said as he quickly stuffed it into the sack, “Let’s head outta here” Jacob suggested, they swam out.

    ~ |:| Chapter 6 |:| ~

   Coral reef

Justin and Jacob went a different direction this time, there were bright colors forming in front of them, “What’s that?” Jacob question, They got closer, “It’s a coral reef, maybe a piece is in here??” Justin said, “Maybe” Jacob replied, they swam around observing the reef, “Look, a cave. There’s a treasure chest inside” Justin said, they swam inside the cave lifting open the chest, “Theres a piece here, yes!” Said Jacob, “Look at the bottom of the chest . . . there’s a handle, pull it.” Justin said, Jacob pulled the handle, a secret compartment in the chest opened, “No way, there’s another piece! The lab already has the torso so we just need to swim back up and get outta here!” 

~ |:| Chapter 7 |:| ~

Home

The divers swam up to the surface, “The ice melted . . .” said Justin, they approached the beach and climbed out of the water, “We did it!” 

Winter Sport

From the year 5  to 8 students have to do winter sport, to determine what sport you play you have to fill out a form choosing your favourite to least favourite out of these sports: Netball, Hockey, Soccer, Rugby, I chose Netball as my first option and hockey as my second, I ended up going into hockey, hockey was pretty fun, in my team is, My sister Olivia, her friend Claudia, Ethan, Joe, Leo, Harriet, Lexus, My friend Katrina.

What is your favourite Sport??

Novel Study Slides

This Term in the Kaupeka hub the teachers set up a reading restaurant in our class we were seated at a table with our friends and we got some books to try out, we first read the back of the book and started reading the first few pages, if we really liked it we would rate it 5 stars if you disliked it you would rate it 1 star or 2, or if it was alright give it a 4 or 3, anyway, once you had enough of your book you could go around the tables trading your books and read them, the book I liked the most was called Hacker, it was about a girls dad going to prison of being accused for stealing over 1 million dollars but she knew it wasn't him so they tried to find the real hacker who put all this money into their dad's bank account. 

what's your favourite book?

Diamond mat Template

Heyo, in the kaupeka hub all of the students had to make a diamond mat template for their math workshops, What is a diamond mat template you ask? well it's where we had to make a google drawing and add a question and go through the stages of drawing down what this question would look like if you drew it out, here's a photo 

We also had to write a story for our question and make a video explaining all the four corners.
if you did this what question would you have?

Stanford Course

In the Kaupeka hub we have been taking a Stanford course, it is about math and how math improves the brain and that struggling is good for your brain because it means your brain is growing by thinking.

in the Course we watched videos about a math problem or just talking about math and asking people if they like math or not, then when we were done we had to answer a question to see if we were listening to the video.

What do you think about math?

PBL Business Cards and Poster

This week for our PBL we had to make business cards and posters, there were more like flyers or magnets, but it was optional, we had to design them with our partner this is what mine looked like

Science

In the Kaupeka Hub we did science experiments, in my group we made slime and tested out different things we could add into the slime, many students did different things like there was lava lamps, bouncy eggs, and a lot more creative ideas, here is all the data. 

PBL Invitation

This week we had to design a invitation for our relatives to come over and see our PBL, this terms  PBL driving question is What will the future ask of us? or something similar to that, for example, How can we help current endangered animals? That's what I'm doing, some of the students have come up with ideas like building models on Minecraft, or using clay, for mine I have created a Minecraft world with artificial habitats for the endangered animals, So the Parents or Siblings or grandparents and more, will come to see what all the students have done, Anyway, here's what my in invitation looks like.

The Scientific Method

This Term in our Hub we went around in rotations learning about the different scientific methods, there was Matter, The Water cycle, Structures, and Heart rate, my favourite was Matter, Matter was about global warming and the ice melting, we filled up glasses with water and put one small cube of ice into the water and see how long it took to melt, and it didn't take that long, anyways here's what my scientific method looked like.

Volunteering

All of the students in the kaupeka hub had to fill out a form that was sent to us by our teachers, we had put down what we wanted to volunteer for, there was Curtain bank, 0800 Hungry, and graffiti removal, I was put into Curtain bank, curtain bank is where we measured curtains and folded them nicely and placed them into bags for the people who don't have curtains that can't afford them and have cold houses, there are curtain bins around Christchurch where people put their unwanted curtains in for people who need them more. 

we were put into groups of three but since there were not enough people there were two groups of three and two groups of two, I was in a pair with my friend Katrina, I had a fun time Measuring and folding the curtains. I recommend volunteering.