Super Scratch Samoan Numbers

Hello Readers,

My last blog post was a video showing the numbers from one to ten but this week it is an interactive scratch program. First press the green flag then just type in your number and the magical toad will translate it into Samoan for you, then wait a few seconds and try a different number. If you type a number higher then 10 he will just ignore you. Here it is.

As you can see it is really fun and easy to use, it was pretty easy to make as well, the photo underneath it a screenshot of how to make it so you can recreate it for another language if you want. It is very easy to learn Samoan numbers because they are so similar to Te Reo numbers. Have you ever used Scratch?

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Super Samoan Numbers

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Today my friend India (go check out her blog) and I made a video showing how to count to ten in Samoan. If you saw my last Samoan blog post we made a stop motion animation but this time we made a Biteable video.
Here it is.




If you have learnt how to count to ten in Te Reo then it will be very simple to learn in Samoan as the numbers are very similar. As you can see the images in the background aren't very related to the numbers but we thought they were fun so we added them in. Have you ever used Biteable?

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Brilliant Binary Coding

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Welcome back to my blog, this week on Wednesday we are learning computer language or binary code. Binary code is the language that computers use and it only has 1 and 0. We made a drawing and had to code it using these numbers. Here it is.

0000000000

1110000111

0000000000

0100000010

0100000010

0000110000

0000110000

0000110000

0100000010

0010000100

0001111000

0000000000

0000000000

0000000000

As you can see this is only the code and not the picture. Your job is to turn this into a picture by making a 10 by 16 grid and filling in the 1 spaces with black. Have you ever heard of binary?

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My Superb Sestina

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Today in Literacy we have been writing poems for NZ writing. These poems will be sent to our partner school in Hamilton. Here is my poem.

I saw the ground beneath me 

I remember the airless, floating feeling

My brother beside me was terrified

I’m leaping out onto the clouds

We are flying to our paradise  

Jellyfish die in the blue sky

The poems had to be six-line poems that have to have six words in each line. The first line was something you saw, the second was something you remember, the third was a person you were with, the fifth was something you imagined and the sixth could be anything. 

What would you write about?

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Wonderful Womens Refuge

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Welcome back to my blog, this post is similar to my last blog post, except it's a different organization this time. This time it's about Women's Refuge. 
Women's Refuge is all about helping women who are going through family violence. They provide shelter and safe space for women to getaway. Here is my poster.

As you can see I made the colors really focus around the logo which helps it stand out. I wanted to make it really straight the point and simple to get my message across. What poster do think I should do next?

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Awesome Organisations

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In Inquiry, we have been learning about and researching local places to get help. It is important to know places that you can go to if you need it.

Today we were told to focus on a certain organization, Me and my friend Mia (check out her blog), chose to look at SPCA because we have both animals from there. If you didn't know the SPCA is an organization that rescues animals and then people can come and adopt them. We made a poster that advertises the SPCA, here it is.

The SPCA rescues all types of animals including farm animals. So if you want a new pet or you think someone is mistreating an animal please give the SPCA a call and they will be happy to help. Have you ever been to the SPCA before?

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My Interesting Identity

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On Fridays after Kapa Haka, we have been learning about our cultures and researching about the places that we are from. Here is a my drawing.

We also made a family tree which had to showcase where our family was from. 
I was born in Cornwall which is a little place in the UK, I lived here until I was 6 then I moved to NZ. My Dad's side of the family is from NZ and my Mum's side is from the UK. My Mum has three brothers and they all moved to different countries in the world, which is why my cousins are all from different places. Is your family from a country other than NZ?

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