Job profiles

 For literacy, we had to read 3 articles and write job profiles for them. I enjoyed getting to read the text. I found it challenging to work out what to write for the last job. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could add more detail.

To be a comic book artist you need to . . .

Be creative

Be resilient

Be determined

Be good at writing

Have a degree in art

To work at NASA you need to . . .

Have a degree in science

Have a degree in technology

Have a degree in engineering

Go through two years of training

Communicate well with others

Work well in a team

To be a temporary structure builder you need to . . .

Be able to problem solve

Buzz quiz video

 

For T-shaped literacy, we had to do the Buzz quiz and then create a video talking about the result we got. I got polar bear, but I looked through the answers and thought I should be a tawny owl or cat. The Buzz Quiz was quite easy to do, and it was easy to understand. You get given an animal as a result and told what your animal does. Take the Buzz quiz here: Buzz quiz! I enjoyed getting to take the quiz, as it was easy to do. I found it challenging to decide what to write because I didn't know what to say. I think this turned out good though. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could work on the timing of things in the video. View the video below!

Five jobs that New Zealanders should apply for

 As year 7 and 8's our class has to look at careers. Today we read an article containing 20 jobs an NZ person should study and apply for. Afterwards, we had to create fact files for 5 of the jobs, and write what has changed in the job since lockdown as the article was written in 2019.

I enjoyed getting to write about veterinarians because I already knew quite a bit about vets. I found it challenging to chose the fifth job. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could add some photos or describe what the job is.

1. Veterinarian

• You get to work with animals a lot

• There’s good salary

• There’s multiple fields you can work in (Equine, canine, feline)

• You may get bitten, scratched, or kicked

• You’ll see a lot of blood, and sometimes may not be able to help the animal

• What’s changed? This job hasn’t changed much as vets continued working during lockdown. Pet

• owners still brought their pets in so there was no loss of work.

2. Medical doctor

• You’re helping save lives

• Great salary

• You can work overseas

• Night shifts, working on holidays

• You may get emotionally attached to a patient

• What’s changed? Doctors had to work during lockdown treating people with COVID-19. Because

• of this, they were exposed to people with symptoms of COVID-19 so they had a higher chance of

• catching it. 

3. Chef

• You get to experiment with making food

• You can be creative with what you make

• There’s plenty of overseas options

• You have to do a lot of lifting, walking, and moving around

• What’s changed? Chefs didn’t have to work during lockdown as no one was going out to

• restaurants. Other than that, not much has changed.

4. Teacher

• You get to work with children

• Children can sometimes be insufferable

• Parents may complain

• You have to do a lot of work in your own time

• You do a lot of problem-solving

• What’s changed? During lockdown, teachers had to work out how to teach digitally, but they were

• still teaching. Nothing has really changed except they have to keep hand sanitiser in their

• classroom.

5. Radiographer

• You’ll get to help treat people

• There’s a good salary

• You may be exposed to radiation

• You may have to work on holidays

What’s changed? Not much really as people still came in during lockdown.

Jackdaw - I Am David

After we finished reading out books for novel study we had to create a 'jackdaw'. A jackdaw is something our teacher made, and it's a poster showing the characters, theme, plot, setting, and moral (If there's one) in your book. 

I enjoyed getting to read the book and create the jackdaw. I found it challenging to pick a layout.

Energy Inquiries - Black holes

 For our energy inquiries, Miro G and I decided to study the energy around black holes. As well as answering five questions we had to create a model to show it. For our model, we made a 'black hole' and drew something before attaching them to strings. There's a hole in the side of our model which you can stick your hand in to 'suck' the objects in the 'black hole'.

I enjoyed getting to make the model because I got to do the drawings and I love drawing. I found it challenging to pick five questions because we couldn't work out the fifth one. To be BTB (Better Than Before) we could have repainted the model so it looks nicer.

Scott Base - Weekly quiz, week 5

 After doing the weekly quiz this week I chose to research Scott Base. When we did the quiz I was very surprised because quite a few people didn't know where Scott Base was! I found so many facts that I could include them all. In the end, I chose four facts- Where and what is Scott Base, why is Scott Base green, when can you visit Scott Base, and how can you get to Scott Base. Mrs. Gibson, our teacher decided that we could get 200 house points if our blog post and caption were mistake-free. This meant that there were no spelling mistakes, no incorrect punctuation, and it all made sense!

I enjoyed getting to read so many different websites because they were all very interesting! I found it challenging to chose which facts to do, and how to lay out my post. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could add a few more facts by changing the layout and size of the text. 

Sea snake in northland - Weekly quiz

 After doing this week's weekly quiz, I decided to research the yellow-bellied sea snake found in Northland. It was the SECOND one found in the past ten days. I enjoyed getting to research the native sea snake, as this story was surprising. I found it challenging to find facts about it. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could add more facts.

A few days ago the second yellow-bellied sea snake was found, less than 10 days since the one found before that. This is extremely strange because the snake found before these two was found in 2018

An 11 year old boy was with is family when they found the snake. They put it in a bag and drove to the local dairy to ask what it was. After they found it it was a highly venomous snake they put it in a buket of sea water and started the drive to their family home. After the hour the snake was dead so they cut off it’s head

Clinton Duffy, technical advisor for marine species at the depatment of consevation said “Yellow-bellied sea snakes should not be handled because they are highly venomous and a bite from one is likely to be fatal without access to snake anti-venom. However, bites from them are extremely rare because their fangs are small and located at the back of their mouths."