Jack and the Beanstalk & Covid-19 Media

Hello, today in our google meet session Phil joined and we were shown a poster about Covid-19 testing and we were told to explain where you could find this type of media. We came up with a few different ideas like TV adverts, Billboards, Youtube adverts, Radio/Podcasts, Posters, etc. We all disccused about the purpose of the this form of propaganda and who we think designed and made this media for the general public. I stated that it maybe the Health Department who designed the Covid-19 testing media to spread the message to as many people across the country as possible so they would recieve the message. This form of media not only pursuades the public to get tested if they show symptoms of Coronavirus but also to educate them. 

Jack and the Beanstalk

After we had a brainstorm and had our discussion based on Covid-19 Media we moved onto the Book Jack and the Beanstalk. We read the book (if you don't know about the story here Jack and the Beanstalk ) moving on we were given a group of questions like, why did the author portray the Giant as angry and grumpy. Was there a reason the Giant had a bad relationship with humans? well that's for you to find out yourself!

Alternative ending ( 100 WORDS CHALLENGE!! )

The Poor substandard Jack conqured his way up the Magical Beanstalk collecting gold coins to provide comfort and stable shelter for his frail old mother. Jack  procceded to grab what he needed, Jack was a kind and thoughtful little boy. He took what he needed and left the rest as his faith in humanity. He used to gold coins to help out his mother and those before him. Once he grew older he lived a peaceful and happy old life with his wife and 3 kids on their mothers farm. Jack grew up a hero giving back to the community.

Media Consumption Per Week

 Hello today we filled out a form regarding Media Consumption, we use media everywhere we go and sometimes we don't realise we are consuming quite a lot. We filled out a form that was given to us which had questions like "How much time do you spend watching netflix weekly" it had answers like less than an hour, 2-5 hours, more than 5 hours etc. We then had a look at the form results and were suprised by some of them and it makes you realise how much time people actually consume media. 

Have a look at the results from some of the questions and comment what you think about it and if you can relate to the majority of some of the results.

It appears people perfer digital and online media for reasons like easier to access. But when you really look at some of them you start to think about how much time you are spending and feeding on all the media. (The last graph "signs" is referring to adverts and billboards)

I hope you found the data interesting to see and I will post more soon! stay safe and hope you have a good first week of school.

Ka mau te wehi mahi

Congratulations John. Thank you for attending google meets when you can we all understand the different pressures we face during lockdown.

 

PMI Chart | Positive/Minus/Interestings |

Hello today in our google meet we were working on a PMI chart on the book about Anaru. We red through the book seeing what happended and wbat we think went well int he story and what didn't, we walso were told to find something interesting you thought of in the book.

Blog you later.

Probability Lockdown Work

Today in our google meet we were talking about Probability and chance. So we had a tally chart and we flicked a heads or tail coin to see who won the coin toss. I was heads and my friend David was tails. We were tossing the coin until we had done it 20 times. I got 12 and david got 8, we recorded this data to see the difference and see why did heads appear more often. 

Thank you and blog you later.

Tennis Report

 How have the rules of tennis changed?

Tennis is a huge sport these days and the rules of Tennis have changed over time. The new rules of Tennis have dramatically changed and made Tennis gameplay better. The rules are Implied for the safety of the players. 

Some rules are good and other I think otherwise. We head back to 1873, Walter Wingfield created the sport Lawn Tennis. The rules were simple and not as complex as the current rules. One rule I strongly agree with would be keeping the ball in bounds of the certain court. To make gameplay a lot more fun of trying to keep it in the white lines. Another thing in Tennis that made a huge impact is the raquet. The raquetis an oval shaped bat that you use to whack the ball to the opposing plyer. Before hand players would use the palm of their hand to pass the ball to the other person. The advantage of the raquet would be length of the handle gives you more range to hit the ball and more control as you can hit the ball with both sides of the raquet. I like the current rule of bouncing the ball before serving because you can time your hit and get more power when you hit it. I found that the previous rule is you could throw it and serve it.

In conclusion of my question, I believe that the rules of tennis have changed for the safety of the Players and to make the gameplay of Tennis more entertaining. 

I hope this report was interesting and you learnt some new things!

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Chapter Book Reading Book name | Gold! |

Hello this week I have been reading the book Gold! by David Riley, it covers a short brief biography and some facts of famous New Zealand athletes that have won a gold medal at the olympics. I have answered the questions given to me in the slide show, the book was very interesting and I think I did well. It was a bit hard trying to make the cover of the book but I managed to find a way in the end. 

Here is the slideshow presentation I hope you like it.

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