PBL Culture

Failte air ais to Blog-Mania! Scottish! Once more, the Weirdo herself! Emily! Thanks blog dude. Today I will be talking about my PBL. This term we are learning about culture, where I come from and the values of my culture as a New Zealand European. First my Grandad (my Dad’s Dad) was born in West Bromwich, England. Meaning the whole of my Dad’s family have European heritage. Which also means the whole of my family are part English. As for my Dad’s mother, her Grandad was born in Ireland meaning as well as being English on my Dad’s side, we are also a tad Irish. Now that’s just my Dad’s side. My Mum’s side is a bit different. Like before from Dad’s side, we came from Europe, but this time, we are a tad Scottish, as well as Irish. My Great-Great-Grandad was born and raised in Scotland and my Great-Grandma was born and raised in Ireland! But my Grandparents from my Mum’s side were born around the South Island of New Zealand. As for our traditions, we are pretty much your typical Kiwi family. On St Patrick’s day, we don’t go crazy with green and we don’t walk around wearing kilts! However, we do enjoy supporting festivities of our British heritage, for example following English Premier League football, particularly Arsenal and Tottenham. But go Aresnal!!

This is one of our family heirlooms. It is a shield my Dad’s Dad (my Grandad) received fighting in the Korean war as a Petty Officer. It has been passed down to my family but my Grandad’s metals belong to my Uncle.

Part of our Irish values, make us Catholic. Part English our values makes us go crazy for football and enjoy the Royal Family. Part of our Scottish values makes us enjoy the unique sounds of bagpipes. But most of all, our Kiwi values makes us “sweet as bro”.

Thanks for reading about my culture! Byeeeee!

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Book Review

Witamy spowrotem to Blog-Maina! Polish and comment down below if you know "Welcome Back" in a different language! Back again, Emily with a book review on Catching Fire!

Thanks Blog-Mania guy! This is my book review on Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins! Enjoy!

My PBL

Welcome back to Blog-Mania (English)! Once more.....Emily!!

Thanks Blog-Mania pep! This term at school we have been doing PBL. If your new to the Blog, PBL is something at school were we are given a question and then we study it and try to figure it out. Our question this term was "How can we use our hands, heart and head to create a healthier me?". From that we branched of learning about Nutrition, Physical Activity, Mindfulness and Brain Science. Then from that we chose a personal question relating to one of those 4 sections and studied it. This is my Finale Product. Enjoy!

 

What is the purpose of my Blog?

Hola (Spanish), this is something Emily has been working on, it is what she has been doing in her Cybersmart lessons. Enjoy!




What are you going to do differently now to improve your blog posts?

Probably improving the way I set out my blog and the way it is presented.

Winter Sport 2018

Maliu mai to Blog-Mania! Samoan by the way! Emily is back to tell some more about her exciting happenings at her school! Take it away Em!

Thanks Blog-Mania person! This term something very exciting is about to happen! The Winter Sport Tournament is coming up again (it happens annually)! Everyone from a certain age group and up selects and sport that they would really like to play and also a sport that they would kind-of like to play. This is your 1st and 2nd choice. I put netball first then hockey. I love netball because you can be aggressive but it also requires a lot of hand-eye coordination and skill. I put hockey because I've never played before, and I want to give it a try!

There are trials for each sport and from there A, B and etc teams are selected. After that a group of people from the all the teams go through to a Tournament. Last year I went to that and it was awesome! We played 6 games of netball and we only lost 1! Once the Tournament is over, Thursday Sport starts. Everyone who trialed for anything plays on Thursdays against other schools. Last year I was put in the A Team and played other schools A Teams. It was very fun and at the end of Winter Sport we have a prize giving and 2 people form every single team get voted to win. 1 is called Player's Player. That is the award that is voted to someone by the team. There is also Most Valuable Player which is selected by the coach.

Well that's what I've been up to lately! Hoped you enjoyed this episode of Blog-Mania! See you next time! Byeeee



Update: The Winters Sport Team's were sent out, and I trailed for netball and I got into the A Team! The Tarantulas! Thanks and byeeee!

Welcome Back to 2018!

Welcome back to Blog-Mania! It has been so long and your host has so much to catch you up on! Happy New Year by the way! Can you believe it's 2018 already! It has been a very eventful term so far! A now.... your host for this season,just like last....Emily the Weirdo!

Thank you so much Blog-Mania guy! It. Has. Been. So. Looong! Now to catch you up... where do I start? Well there was meeting our new class, (I love mine by the way), making new friends and starting a new school year! We got into our workshops almost after week 3! It was so fun coming back as a Year 6! We have been learning so much like what verbs and nouns and things like that are, learning how to blog by the way.


I have also recently joined back to Code Club, Lit-Club, and just joined Librarian, Netball, Cricket and Band! Don't forget Altar Serving! This Easter we have a coding challenge. To create something related to Easter or the Easter story and make ona coding platform, not necessarily Scratch. Be on look out for that soon. Well that's what happened lately, there's loads and loads more but I don't want to make this a 3 page long post! Hope you all had AWESOME holidays! Byeeeee!


P.S I have recently done some art! This is what it looks like:

If you like it leave a comment if you don't.... still leave a comment. Byeeee!

Scratch Part 3!

Receperint retro to Blog-Mania! Latin! Per usual Emily!

Thanks Blog-Mania dude! Scratch! You know the drill! Scroll down, read and come back up! This time I have something called "Paint Box"! To start press the flag. To stop, press the stop sign. Then, all you have to do is drag around the pencil and it will draw whatever you want! To change the colour, click on the colour you want! To erase something, click on the eraser and rub out what you want to get rid of! To change the width, slide the width level to whatever you want it to be! To clear the whole thing, press the x! Good Luck!

Was it fun? Was it easy? Tell me in comment what you drew! Byeeeee!