My Homemade Starch

 Do you guys know what starch is? I do, it is a powder that you can sometimes use for cooking. In this picture below I have made some homemade starch I am going to tell you how to make this homemade starch step by step. Here are the instructions down below.

 You will need a bandanna, 3 large potatoes, vegetable peeler, chopping board, grater, water and a small mixing bowl. Here are the instructions.

1. Ask an adult to help you peel and grate 3 large potatoes over a chopping board.

2. Half fill the bowl with water.

3. Put the grated potato into the bandanna. Tie up the bandanna.

4. Dip the bandanna into the water. Squeeze it very hard into the bowl.

5. Keep dipping the bandanna into the water.

6. When the water looks cloudy leave the water to set somewhere warm for 1 hour

7. Do you see that white substance in the bowl that is starch.

8. Pour out as much water as you can and try to leave as much starch as you can in the bowl.

9. Leave the starch to dry for about 1 hour. When you come back it should be ready.

Let me know how this turned out for you.

My Haiku Poem

 Refreshing, cool, breeze

Rapidly, Rushing, moving

Alive, Fresh, Flowing 

Have you ever done a haiku poem before.

The Journey

 Today I had to remake a story called a Summery Saturday Morning on minecraft. It was really fun and the most challenging part about it was the building. It was a big success and I hope I can do more of these minecraft tasks in the future.

Have you ever remade a story and put the story into minecraft?

Bee Creative

 Today I did a challenge on minecraft. The challenge was to make a pollinating garden for the bees.

I really enjoyed creating the pollinating garden for the bees. The most challenging part about it was that the hoed grass kept growing back. Have you ever done a challenge in minecraft education before.

My Second Minecraft Achievement

 Yay I just got my second reward! I got another certificate. I got this certificate for doing coding again. It was fun doing the coding task. This is my second certificate for coding.

My Minecraft Achievement

 Today I achieved a reward on Minecraft Education Edition for the first time. I got a certificate.

The certificate was a reward for completing a coding activity. I enjoyed this coding activity and hope I can

do more of them in the future. 

Have you ever achieved a Minecraft certificate for coding?

What I Have Been Doing

 As you know school has ended for the year and I have been doing some activities since school ended.

I wanted to tell you what I have been doing. The first thing I did when school ended was spend time with my family and go for a drive on the beach with my dad's Rav - 4. We went for a swim when suddenly a massive wave came crashing towards us and it threw us onto the shore. we tumbled over the rock pool and on to the beach. That's when we decided to leave. I had a long scratch on my back and the left side of my right leg. To cut this long story short we went to Auckland and went to see my nanna and my uncles, my aunties and cousins. We spent two nights in Auckland before we came back home to Kaitaia.  That's some activities that I've been doing. I loved telling you about them. Thank you for listening. 

Synthesising Task

 Last week on Thursday we were doing a synthesising task about two stories. The two stories were called The Cardboard Cathedral and Building For The Future. Here is a picture of my task down bellow. 

My TIP Chart

On the 31st of October we did a TIP chart about a book called Driving Us Into The Future. The book was about electric cars compared to fuel powered cars. The tip chart was a bit hard because we also had to write about different parts of the car. The most challenging part to write about was the crankshaft. Have you ever had to write a tip chart about cars and parts of cars

My Goals

W.A.L.T list my learning

 Today I'm writing about my goals I want to achieve in this term. So my first goal I want to achieve in literacy is getting better at my punctuation. I probably will practice this my parents and my teacher.  My second goal is gonna be about maths so my goal is to get better at my 8x 7x and 6x time tables. I will maybe practice this with my parents and teacher. 

My Letter To My Best Friend

 Yesterday on the 18 of October 2021 I had to write a letter to one of my friends Seth who had been in a accident on the 27th of September 2021 I will show you how my card turned out soon. I was really upset when I heard the news about the accident but I was so happy when I heard he was now conscious and showing improvements. So these are two

pictures of the card I made for him.

My Cross Country Day

 On Friday week 9 term 3 my school had a cross country day. Cross country is a day where you have to run around your school. It all depends on the age you were at the start of the year. If you were 9 you had to do 5 laps around the school, if you were 10 at the start of the year you had to do 5 laps also, etc.

The Minuscule World

The other day me and my siblings started to shrink causing to a sticky, white goo that was spreading around my neighbor hood town. We kept shrinking until we were the size of a flee. Now we were like a little club literally. WERE MINUSCULE! my younger brother cyril roared. We were stranded in the middle of a fluffy, thick carpet. We did’nt hesitate to look around. We started to get resources to get out of the carpet. We found the calendar hidden in the thick brissils of the carpet and a knob that fell of the washing machine.

Have you ever done a 100 word challenge before?

Don't Be A Square, - Check Out My Area

Today I learnt about square centimetres, square inches, square meters, square yards and square miles. area is the space inside a shape and the perimeter is the distance around the shape. Here is a link to my work from today. Square inches

Perimeter People Come Have Fun

W.A.L.T measure sides of shapes and find out the perimeters of different shapes. 

My learning today was about perimeter word problems and comparing the two three little pigs stories. It does sound boring but I'm sure it's really fun. My favourite part of learning today was the perimeter word problems. I liked them because they were a challenge for me and I needed some practice on perimeters anyway. I know what your thinking perimeters are hard well you might believe me but there not. You just have to measure how long or how big a room is or you could measure a desk probably so yeah easy peasy.  I also think I improved on showing my working when I was doing the perimeters. I sort of liked the three little pig task for reading but not as much as the maths. So that's all the learning I did today anyway that's all bye. This Is My Room 

   

What I Have Learnt In Lockdown

In lockdown I have learnt a lot of things like perimeters, how to use speech marks and home made science experiments. So it's been pretty fun with all this work. It does sound boring but I assure you its fun. This is one of my science experiments down below. This experiment was called snow fluff. The ingredients to make the snow fluff were shaving cream, blue or any colour food colouring personally I like blue and the last ingredient is corn starch.  

My Learning For Lockdown 2021

Hi my name is Robert, So first of all I love learning about maths, writing, reading and spelling. My learning in lockdown has been pretty fun because I have gotten to experiment with a lot of objects and even got to draw and I've also been doing a huge thousand piece jigsaw puzzle titled get well soon. We have only completed the outside if the jigsaw puzzle so far. I also have been doing a couple science experiments,the first one was called dancing liquid but it turned out not dancing the second was called snow fluff and this turned out perfect. The last one was good and delicious. So yeah that's how it's going so far with my learning. 

  

What I Did In Lockdown

When lockdown started on tuesday 17th of August I was shocked because I thought we werent gonna have another lockdown just like the lockdown we had in 2020 because right now it's 2021. So Now Its Friday 20th of August. While the lockdown is on ive been playing table tennis and doing some reading, math, spelling and sports with my dad and gaming with my friends especially. So after i did that I got pretty bored so I found something else to do I chose to play with bits and peices of lego and little ball magnets. I made these weird creations and amazing imaginary creatures even a logo of a game. So I played around with the lego and magnets more but I got bored again so I thought. "Lets make paper paper planes" At the time I thought it was a good idea until I got the whole living room and my bedroom covered in floppy and some scrunched up paper planes. So I chose to fly the paper planes outside but I stopped when My whole back yard was nearly covered in paper planes. So I stopped throwing paper planes and started throwing little pebbles across the and that was the first day of my lockdown.

Wednesday 28th July Our New Banking System

W.A.L.A income and expenses On manday this week we learnt about an app called BANQER. We tried it out for the first time. When we got on to the app we signed in and we started working.

 W.A.L.T find information about the 5 type of foods that our body needs.

Food is what gives you natural energy to get you through the day. These types of foods are called calcium, fats and oils, carbohydrates,