Racism inquiry

Kia ora everyone. This week on Friday my class watched a video about a teacher that did an experiment where she said to her class that people with blue eyes were smart and brown eyes were dumb. She made all sorts of rules for the brown eyed people, she said that within 15 minutes they went from kind and nice students to rude, bad discriminators. The next day she said that actually brown eyes were smart and blue eyes were dumb and the same thing happened. The next day she said that there was no superior students and that we should not judge others. After we watched the video we did a personal response to it. Here is the response and link to the video:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/15nPTEIDYgJIP9PKUmADnNaG3K_j6ho6LnJ24thSgBkU/edit     

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGvoXeXCoUY

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Toolkits

Yesterday was GREAT because of the toolkits and I'm going to tell you why. It was the first ever online toolkits because of covid-19, the internet wasn't happy (it caused us a couple problems) but it was amazing. First the teachers did a meet and then we did the first session. I chose the remove background toolkit which showed you how to use a site which could remove the background on a photo of yourself, here is an example. (Link to the site later)

The second toolkit I did was about scratch which is a coding thing, in the toolkit it showed you how to make a simple maze, this how you do it: Make an account and press create and make a new project. Make a sprite and make it really small, then you make a maze. switch to the first sprite and copy this code: 

Now you can post it if you have an account (link to my account and scratch later). The third toolkit I did was about a online drawing tool called piskel.  This drawing tool allows you to make drawings and GIFs out of pixels, here are some examples: (link to piskel later)

  

The toolkits were lots of fun and we put a bit of work on a slide, the toolkits went really well and I hope future Waikowhai students can experience it as well. Here are the links and the slide (sorry the slide was a bit rushed). : link to scratch, link to my scratch account, link to piskel, link to remove backgrounds

 

 

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Black Lives Matter reading

This week for reading we read about the black lives matter marches and racism. It was very educational and made me think a lot more about racism, I hate racism because it's basically treating one type of people with a different colour skin badly. Our school's number one rule is to respect each other, yourself and our environment. The racism also makes me mad because my school also has a lot of different cultures. My favorite activity of the week was the readworks activity about Malala Yousafzai. She protested about women rights for going to school and survived being shot in the head without any brain damage. She was very brave and strong in her voice. I really liked the reading for this week and I can't wait for more. 

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Creative Writing

This week we did creative writing, I did two peices of writing but only one is finshed so I can't show the other one to you. The first one is about a boy who is tiny and trying to stop a grasshopper from taking over the world. The second is about a girl whos trying to find the lendary pancake whale. Here is a sneak peek to the secound one:  This was my favorite story from when I was four, by the way my name is Samantha and my cat is called Mr Meow. Now what I’m about to tell you happened long ago. Long ago before I was born, whales were plentiful and survived on pancakes. Pancakes made the whales strong and fast so they were harder to kill. One day a fairy decided to get a pancake to make it the roof of her house, but on the way back to her house a whale mistook the fairy for a flying pancake and ate her. The fairy then made a deal that if the whale released her out the spout she would give the whale the power to summon pancakes out of thin air whenever he wanted and so the whale agreed. The fairy got released and she stuck to her deal and made the wish come true. The whale decided to share the pancakes with the other Whales, but as everyone knows too much of one thing is bad for you. So the whales became fat, weak and slow. This made lots of whales die, but the pancake whale escaped. The legend says he lives in Australia, which is where I live… 

 Here is the first one:

 

P.S In future I hope to update this so you can see the secound one.

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Week 8 learning activities

This week was outstanding and I really liked it. The week was full of activities like kahoots, pixel art and creative writing. Though my favorite part of the week was when my class ate decilous, cheesy, refresrhing, yum... PIZZA and ICEBLOCKS. I put (most of ) this in a lockdown creations slide, this slide will probaly be the last time I do this for a couple of weeks. Here is the slide: (sorry it's done poorly, it was a bit rushed.) 

Week 7

Today was the last day of week 7 and the week was full of great activities like art, P.E, a lockdown smackdown and reading. My favorite part of the week was the hand and an feet art. This is my 4th Lockdown creations slideshow so far and I am show excited to show you. Here is the slideshow:

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