All About Medicine!

All About Medicine!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog, today I'm going to be talking to you about medicine. In Tumu Hub we have been learning about different things of the past we have had 5 different subjects so far World war 1, early settlers, natural disasters, Medicine, parihaka and New Zealand sports. I have made a we video about medicine here it is.

We Video About Medicine

Did You learn anything about medicine if so what?

My Letter, To My Mother!

My Letter, To My Mother!

At School For PBL our driving question is How can NZ's past influence our future. So we have been going around and doing rotations about the olden days. Today I'm Going to be sharing with you my favourite station, which was early settlers. In this rotation we had to write a letter to a loved one acting as if we have gone on a ship somewhere without them.
Here is my example of a letter.

To my dearest mother,

It has been a long and bumpy 5 weeks across the sea, im hungry and tired,
and the rain is bucketing onto the ship like crazy. The captain says 6 ships
have already sunk and I am worried our ship isn't going to make it. And now
every 5 minutes I find myself sticking my head out the window and vomiting.
Now I have to clean up my vomit and everyone else vomit! There aren't
many people my age here so I am feeling a bit alone. But luckily I have met
a kind hearted maid named senna who is helping me get over my home
sickness. I hope you are doing well, I miss you so terribly much and I can't wait to see you.

From your Seasick daughter Megan.

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PBL Showcase!

PBL Showcase!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog, and today im going to be talking to you about my PBL this term. For PBL our driving question this term was how can innovation improve our lives. We had to get into groups in my group was Myself, Eilish, Beth, Jimi and Sophie. We had a few things we wanted to make like car tracker or a device holder. In the end we chose to make a device holder because it would  be that much easier to make and we found it more interesting. I missed 1 week of work as I went to Australia, but I still got to contribute in this PBL. Last night on the 25th of September we had our PBL showcase, where parents could come and see what we had been learning for our PBL throughout the term. about 10 parents came and a few kids and 3 teachers came and looked at our PBL. This terns PBL was so much fun to contribute in.

Super Sport!!!

Super Sport!!!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog, today I'm going to be talking to you about our sport day. On the 5th of September we were lucky enough to have the NZ institution of sport come to us and let us play fun games, our instructors were Millie and Junior. They games we got to play were multi sport, the sports we played were netball, netball with a tennis ball, basketball and touch. My favourite was netball because I play netball. The next thing we did was an obstacle course there was a moon hopper you had to jump on, there was a yoga ball that you had to do plank on, there was a tunnel, a balance board, hurdles, a hola hoop, a bing bag toss,  and lastly a skipping rope. We had to do these activities in order at least 2 times. After that we got to do rugby tackles, we had to run up against Junior and push him back as far as we could. After that we went outside ( even though it was raining ) and ran up against a squishy poll thingy and then catch a rugby ball then bash up against Steve ( a helper ) with the ball then we throw the ball back at Junior, and then we slid in the mud, it was epic. This was such a great experience.



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How Has Technology Changed The Way We Learn?

Explanation writing!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog, today I will be talking to you about my most reason piece of explanation writing. Everyone in my home base had to write about how has technology changed the way we learn. Here is my piece of writing...

How has technology changed the way we learn?

Over the years of schooling, education has rapidly evolved.

The introduction of technology has changed the way students learn and the way teachers teach. The first piece of technology put in schools was way back in the 1980s when some high schoolers used computers to learn. But before that around the 1930s students used to write in books with a feather dipped in ink, then pens and pencils were later introduced. Students didn’t have access to the internet so they studied with lots of books. This would have been hard for them because they had no choice in how they learned, for example, we have the choice to do our math boards on paper or online. Students may have felt bored or tired because of how often they had to read throughout the day. 

Nowadays we use Chromebooks to help us learn because we have access to the internet which makes learning easier for us. Although we use our Chromebooks most of the day, we still use pens and pencils when we work in our books. We also have projectors to cast our learning, and even TV’s ( televisions ). 

Finally I would like to talk to you about the differences inside the classroom. Back in the 1930s classrooms had a chalkboard, although we still have chalkboards, in the classroom we have white boards. Another thing is desks, back in the day students had an assigned seat were they had to sit every day because all there books belonged underneath their desk. Nowadays since we have a portable device, we can sit anywhere we want because we have lots of huge tables. Students back in the day may have felt lonely and may have became very independent, because they had to sit by themselves all the time.

Those are my reasons on how technology has changed the way we learn!

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Why Does Extinction Happening?

Explanation Writing!
Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog and today I'm going to be talking to you about writing. In the Tumu hub we are doing explanation writing, we had to choose a topic ( any topic we wanted ) and explain in our writing how it works , how you do it or why it is happening. I chose to do why does extinction happen, I chose this topic because I really love animals, and I wanted to know why they were going extinct. Here is my story on why does Extinction Happens.

Why Does Extinction Happen?

Extinction is considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, so today I'm going to be telling you why extinction is happening.

My first reason on why extinction is happening is because of pollution. 4.6 tonnes of gas comes out of one gas powered car alone per year, and that's only one car think of all the gas powered cars there are in the world? That’s right! There are about 70 million gas powered cars, thats a lot of gas! You may not think it but it goes into animals air and causes them to die, because of all that gas, animals are now living in a treacherous environment, and we certainly don't want that.

Secondly, let’s just take a minute and ask ourselves another reason why extinction is happening? It is happening because of hunting. I know that a lot of us humans go hunting quite often but if we keep shooting deer, birds and bunnies, they will become extinct. If there is a bullet in a small animals tummy it is very unlikely to survive, in fact here in New Zealand there was a bird called a Moa but that became extinct because of hunting.It is a shame that our generation missed out on seeing this amazing species.

Finally, factories, now I know I would rather see birds in the sky and tall trees, rather than a big grey building with gas steaming out of it. Now because we see gas in the sky it is causing animals to die. The gas that comes out of the massive building moves through the air and slowly into animals habitats, and obviously animals aren't going to know that their inhaling a deadly substance.

Those are my three reasons on why extinction happens, I hope you learnt something and you are going to make a change.

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The court theatre show!

Hello and welcome back to Megan's blog, today i'm going to be telling you about our court theatre performance personally I love drama if you do to you'll love this blog. Today on the 27th of august we were lucky enough to have the court theatre come and perform us a show, sadly I cant remember the name but it was still great. First of they asked us if we believed that a coconut used to be an eel but not many of us believed them so they told us a story. It was about Maui and he wanted to become a God so he had to fight an eel to become a god the eel was the biggest monster in the world he used to be nice, he used to be friends with a lady, but the lady met more friends so the eel got mad and turned into a monster, He met the lady who was best friend with the eel to help him defeat the eel. He defeated it but the eel didn't want to die, if Maui didn't bring back the eel dead he wouldn't be a god, but if he brung the eel to the other gods the lady would lose her best friend, He left the eel there to sleep. They put a seed over him and it made a coconut tree and that's the story they told us, The show was really great and a interesting story.

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