What Is Media?

 Today for our cybersmart lesson, we were learning what media is. We watched a video about media and the video explained that media can come in simple forms that you can find in your house such as; Television, newspaper, books, mobile devices, computers, etc. 

Our task was to take a selfie of ourselves, then go to remove background and edit the background so we didn't look like we were at school. Our cybersmart teacher told us to count how much clicks it took us to change our photo's background. It took me about 4-5 clicks to lie, and I chose a background of autumn trees, and I blurred the background slightly, so it seemed legit. So you shouldn't believe everything you see on the internet.

Terrific Twits!

 Today I was learning how to visualise. We visualised Mr or Mrs twit. We visualised based on what we read. I drew Mrs Twit and visualised her. In the story, the narrator explained she had a glass eye, and was very ugly. So I drew that. Our principle even put up a picture of Mr and Mrs Twit on the TV screen for reference.

First I drew her head as an circle. Then I drew her glass eye and her normal eye. After I drew her nose, mouth and last but not least, her hair. 

I didn't find anything hard. Just that it took lots of time.  

Kapa Haka Diamante Poem

 Today I was writing a 'Diamante poem'. A Diamante poem is writing a poem shaped like a diamond as you would've probably guessed from the name 'Diamante. My Diamante poem is about the kapa haka festival on Tuesday. We had to use three key things, verbs, nouns and adjectives.

We first had to do a draft on paper, then we could publish it on google slides. Our teacher suggested that we change the fonts of every sentence, but I went a little overboard and changed the font of each word. (Oops-) 

I enjoyed writing the Diamante poem and it's been quite sometime since i've wrote a poem, so it feels good to write a poem from time to time. 

I didn't find anything hard, apart from finding the right words to use and changing the fonts, because we didn't have much time to publish our poems and publish it on our blogs.

Amazing Art

 Today I was learning about 'Summer Learning Journey' in CyberSmart. Our task was to do some art. We had to choose a piece of art from the 'Art coloring book' I chose 'Roses' from Vincent van Gogh. I colored in his piece and changed some of the colors, such as for the background. 

I really enjoyed coloring in the picture and trying something new. It was a really great experience to try out new things.

I found coloring in the nooks and crannies hard. It also took me a lot of time  to color in. Other than that nothing was really hard at all.

My art: 

Vincent van Gogh's art: 

Sour Sherbert Science!

 Today we were making a science experiment based off of physical change and chemical change. Physical change is something that can be changed and undone. Take ice as an example. You freeze water, which is a liquid it turns into a solid. This can be undone because of temperature. A chemical change is when something cannot be undone. For example, when you make a cake and cook it, there is no going back. 

For our experiment, we made sherbert. First, we each needed a teaspoon and a paper bag. We added 1/2 a teaspoon of  citrus acid  then 1 teaspoon of icing sugar, after that we put in 1/2 a teaspoon of flavouring (raro) to the mix. The final step was to add 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda and we gave it a good shake and stir. And Tada! You have sherbert! (I think it's possible to make at home if you have all the ingredients.)

I found only the measuring hard. That's all I really found hard. Luckily, my friend (who is really good with maths and cooking) helped me measure the ingredients.   

The fun part was that we actually tasted the sherbert and we could take it home!

So the experiment was that we put a little bit of sherbert in our mouths and see what the chemical reaction is. I put about a 1/4 of a teaspoon of sherbert in my mouth and the sherbert started fizzing! I tried again with 1/2 a teaspoon of sherbert and got the same results, but more! That was our experiment.

Here are some slides that (hopefully) will help you understand physical change and chemical change.