😲😲The Goldilocks Zone...?!🙀🙀

This is the Goldilocks zone. It is meant that we, planet earth, is in the right position in the entire universe to help and produce living things (Like humans, animals, plants etc). It's name comes from the story of 'Goldilocks and three bears' where Goldilocks tries three bowls of porridge. The first one was too hot, the second was too cold, but the last one was just right. It is exactly like the universe. Mercury is too close to the sun, which makes it too hot for any human being to live in. Neptune is too far away from the sun, making the planet icy cold and, like Mercury, still not good for anything to live in, but Earth is just right. Having lots of water, trees, land, animals and sun light to help us continue our journey through life.

What the colors mean:
RED = Too hot
GREEN = Just right
BLUE = Too cold

As you can see in the screenshot I took, my reading group and I had to list and describe the cultural traditions the Maori children had to learn back in the day.

St Patrick's Day Play Dough!

Recipe for making play dough:

• 2 cups of flour
• ½ cup of salt
• 2 tbsp of oil
• 2 tbsp of cream of tartar
• 2 cups of boiling water
• 1 tsp of food colouring

Method:

1. Mix all dry ingredients.
2. Add oil and boiling water with food colouring and mix well.
3. Store in airtight container.

On the 18th of March, Room 8 made green, not-so-sparkly play dough. It was to celebrate St Patrick’s day. This took part in the afternoon at St Patrick’s school.

In class, we were separated into five groups and each person had an important role to do. One of us put all the ingredients into a bowl, the other read out the instructions for making the play dough. Another person had a rubber glove to knead the play dough and the other cleaned the table after we were done. The teacher also added some glitter for the final touches.

The Play dough was very sticky at first and was in need of lots of flour for it to shaped properly. Adding more flour also helped it to not stick to the table.

After all that, we were told to roll it into a thin and long snake and twirl it into a spiral. When we were done, we had to blow through a straw and guide a polystyrene ball to the middle of the spiral. Then we could form it into any shape we wanted. I made a soccer field and bent the end of two straws and stuck it to the side of the square to make it look like goal posts. Me and my friend used two other straws to blow the polystyrene ball into each other's goals.

We had heaps of fun making play dough, even though it was very messy.

Mata i pusi or Mata o se pusi means eyes of a cat in Samoan, which was green. In this story, a girl named Maya gets teased in her school because she had mata i pusi. Because she had green eyes. Her mum was Samoan and her dad was palangi (which means a english or white in Samoan)

WALT: look at a variety of Narrative Devices to understand how visual meaning can be conveyed.