World's Best Milky Way Photo | Wānanga

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I decided to write about article about the Milky Way Photo of the Year. 

Text Title: Kiwi's Milky Way photo named one of the world's best

Text Type: News Article 

Text Creator: Allan Granville - Stuff 

Text Purpose: To Inform and show.

What does the author of the text want us to know?

The author wants us to know about the amazing feats that someone in our country had achieved on a global scale. The author describes the many entrees that had went and took on the challenge of capturing the best photo of the milky way. They also informed us of the many obstacles the photographers went through to get this amazing photo of our home galaxy.

'Mt. Taranaki Milky Way' — Larry Rae

Rare Blood Super-moon | Wānanga

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. This week I decided to do a critical literacy post on the rare blood supermoon that appeared on Wednesday. 

Text Title: Full coverage: After 40 years, rare blood supermoon lights up night sky

Text Type: News Article 

Text Creator: Stuff 

Text Purpose: To inform and show. 

What views of the world is this text presenting? 

This text is showing us a rare phenomenon where the moon appears to be a dark red rusty colour. This has caused excitement for many astronomy lovers and scientists around the world. The text is also informing us about something that hasn't happened in many years. Both a supermoon and blood moon happening at the same time. 

Credit: New York Times 

Credit: Business Insider 

Summer Learning Journey 2019-2020 • Week 3 • Day 2 - Activity 3

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another post, I hope you are having a great day so far. Today I will be doing another activity for the Summer Learning Journey. Enjoy!

Activity 3: HIDDEN FIGURES

Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, is considered to be the 'first computer programmer', even though computers had not yet been invented. She was called a computer programmer because she worked our a series of algorithms (instructions) that a machine could use to compute (calculate) difficult math questions.

Katherine Johnson was another brilliant mathematician who worked with NASA - the North American Space Association. NASA was responsible for sending rockets and people into space. It was Katherine's job to check all of the calculations that the engineers and astronauts used when designing the spacecraft and flying them into space. In 2016, a movie was made about Katherine Johnson and the other women who worked at NASA during this time. It is called 'Hidden Figures.' In the movie, the women had to learn how to do basic coding when NASA started using computers.

Have you ever tried coding?

For this activity we had to try an activity on a coding site. With that we had to also put a screenshot of our completed shape and our thoughts on the website.

Code

I chose this shape because, I really liked the way it turned out. Code.org is a very helpful site if you want to learn how to code. They have really fun activities and there is very many courses to learn coding from. I have actually used the website for school when we were practicing how to code.

Exploring the World

For half of term 2 we have been working on our kete called "Our World, Our Life", but our topic for our kete is Science.  So in the first few weeks of our kete we went to different classes to try out the first class we tried out was obviously our own class, in our class we did the marble run and we had to see which one goes around the track the longest.

In the next class which was 7Al we learned about experiments with citric acid and many more which I probably don't remember although it was a really cool and I learned a lot.  Next was 7Tz, we learnt about parachutes and how they work and also how to make one that stays up in the air for longer.  Lastly was 7Ds although I was not there since I was in ESOL, I heard that the lesson was about flight and how an airplane flies through the air.

After all the experimenting we had time to get into groups and figure out what we were gonna for our presentation for our kete.  I was with Chloe and Mikayla, we did astronomy and we had to figure out a question to our genre.  We had  to experiment to find out things, when we finished we ended up making a google slide and a rocket ship.

Our Question was: What are the conditions on Earth that make it suitable for humans to live on and where else could we live?

Here is our presentation :