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Passion Project

My passion project today is chess, my goals are to beat a good player and to win a game against a bot in around 20 moves, I am going to achieve them by paying attention to my opponents moves and try to figure out the best move.

I am hoping to improve my chess skills because of this.

I am using the school values of

Resilience – I did not stop when it got hard.

Integrity – I did it without teacher supervision.

Success – I felt that I did it on my own.

Empathy – I worked with others to achieve the goal.

Matariki Literacy – Task 2

The second task that I have done is fiction writing, we had to write a fictional story about something or someone lost so I wrote one about a person who fell down a “well” and couldn’t get out.

 

One night the mayor of Peanut Town was walking back to his house after a long day of collecting taxes when suddenly, he tripped and fell down a well! The well was so deep that when he yelled for help it wouldn’t even go halfway up, he had to wait until someone lowered the bucket to get some water but the well wasn’t being used anymore so that would take a very long time. The mayor sat in the well for hours trying to think of a way out but it suddenly started to rain, this gave the mayor an idea: if it rained enough, the well would fill up and he could float up to the top and escape. After an entire day of raining the mayor was able to swim to the top but when he got out he realized that he wasn’t in the well, it was the toilet silo and it wasn’t raining water.

 The End

Science Fair Periodic Table Tile

This term we are making a giant periodic table and everybody has to make at least 1 tile. The tiles need to be normal tiles with pictures that relate to the element, the element I was given was gallium, here is my tile:

All of the objects are there because they are some of the things that gallium is used in and the background is the colour of gallium.

Action Stations

This term for action stations, I have been playing chess. I have practised online and played against other students.

I have enjoyed it because I learnt how to protect my pieces against different strategies. I lost the first two games against other students and I moved into tenth in the chess ladder.

Examining The Credibility Of A Source

This week we have been looking at the credibility of an article, here are my notes for the articles I did:

I think that the Google search was more credible because it isn’t from just one person.

Perspective  My Notes My Notes
My article Article 5 – You tube video from Top10! Article 1 – Google search
Who is the author?

 Where does this information come from?

 A youtube channel called Top 10. Lots of websites from across google
Does the author/organization have any biases that may influence what they chose to include? Probably not. There was no bias.
Who is the audience? 

Is the audience likely to think this source is credible? 

 Anyone who watches lots of chemistry videos because it would appear in their recommended videos.

I don’t think that is very credible because we don’t actually know who got the info and where.

 The audience is anyone who searches it.
What makes this source reliable? Why might you trust this information? People might think that it is a reliable source because it sounds official even though its not. Its from lots of different people across the internet.

 

Action Stations

On Fridays, I have been learning card games for my action station. I’ve learnt to play pig, sevens, old maid and crazy eights. I had to read the instructions to learn to play, and add scores to see who when.

The game I enjoyed most was old maid because it was fun to see how the other players would try and make you pick the card they wanted you to pick so they could win.