Category: Hanga | Create

Letter to Grandma – Boy in the stripped pajamas

LI: To vary our sentence lengths to create pace and impact.

Me and my partner was challenged by our teacher to create a letter to the grandmother of a boy which goes by the name of “Bruno,” these characters originated from the book, movie or story called “Boy in the striped pajamas.” This story is a fictional POV of a kid during 1942-1944. The challenge was to use different sentences for the structure of the letter then we created the letter, for this we used – Simple sentences – Compound sentences – Complex sentences and FANBOYS.

Gemini AI Reverse Challenge

In LS2 we used our past ai refining skills to generate images resembling the first slide image of a leopard posed laying on a branch looking out. Me & My partner used different effects and styles to generate a image of the leopard. We had to describe the (SDS) subject, description and style. For example, this is one of my prompts to get a better understanding of our task.

Example : A leopard is resting peacefully on a tree branch in the jungle. The picture has a style that makes it look like it was painted with watercolors, giving it a soft, flowing, and artistic look similar to water based art. The overall scene combines the calmness of the animal with a watercolor painting effect that makes the image feel gentle and artistic.

Significant Figures – Measurement

This week, Group 1 got to make a DLO to explain how to work with significant figures in numbers on the DLO. Significant figures are the important digits in a number that show its precision. The resource helps you understand how to keep track of these digits when solving math problems.

The idea is that sometimes you need to show all the significant figures in a number, whether it has one, two, three, four, or five. Doing this makes it easier to work with the number correctly. For example, if you have the number 886,652, and you want to round it to different significant figures:

To have only 1 significant figure, you look at the first digit and round the number to the nearest hundred thousand, so it becomes 900,000. To have 2 significant figures, you keep the first two digits, which are 88, and then round, making it 890,000. To have 3 significant figures, keep 888, and the number becomes 887,000.

One interesting fact I learnt was that if I shows these steps clearly, it is making it easier for students to understand how to identify and work with significant figures. Whilst also understanding how to do this is useful because it helps make measurements and calculations more accurate and consistent, especially in math.

Highest Common Multiple – Factors

This week in math, Group 1 is learning about something called the highest common factor. Basically, the highest common factor is the biggest number that can divide into two or more numbers exactly, without leaving anything left over.

To understand this better, think about what factors are. Factors are numbers that you can multiply together to make a bigger number. For example, if you multiply 6 by 8, you get 48. So, 6 and 8 are factors of 48.

When we talk about the highest common factor of two numbers, we are looking for the biggest number that can fit evenly into both of those numbers. For example, if you look at 12 and 18: the factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12; and the factors of 18 are 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18. The biggest number that appears in both lists is 6. So, the highest common factor of 12 and 18 is 6. This means 6 is the largest number that divides evenly into both 12 and 18.

One interesting fact I learnt was if I taught students and learnt st getting good at finding the highest common factor it helps them to understand how numbers relate to each other and can be useful in many math problems, like simplifying fractions or dividing things into equal parts.

What were they Thinking?

Today for this activity we were challenged to make a DLO about what were the Maori’s and British saying and thinking during the Treaty of Waitangi in the 1840’s. We had to use thought bubbles and speech bubbles and put texts in them to see what me and my partner thought on what the Maori and British were saying in their own language. When I did my DLO I decided to make it cartooned by using Cartoonify AI which means it can make any of your photos animated with many different animated styles to choose from. What we also got to do is design our thought and speech bubbles with light colours and drop shadow behind the thought and speech bubbles so we can see everything.

Our Kura Pounamu

We learnt the story about the lady who said “kia ora” instead of the traditional “hello” which was used, she changed the path for all of maori as she refused to stop and showed pride and mana for the maori culture, her job was being a telephone operator which means she had to be very social so this made it more popular in NZ, so the gover stood by her side and supported her throughout her journey which she is now recognized across Aotearoa.

Class Culture

To the start of PBS 2026 we made paper cutouts and drawings if different leaders who inspire us for a collaborative task to introduce new and shy people into LS2 and a fun way of us getting to know eachother.

Johnny Pohes Great escape

Our task was to create a DLO that shows both perspectives of this event. Our group considered whether or not the risks that Johnny Pohe took were he could gain freedom, true happiness an be free from the binds of the Nazi, but he risked his like inorder for the freedom knowing he would die if caught by the Nazi.

Effect of Social influence

In LS2 our teacher taught us what Social Influence is and how it effects the internet, social influence can be good or bad. It can help people make choices or it can make them do things that are not good for them. It really depends on the people they’re around and what is happening. Social influence is the way people’s thoughts and feelings are affected by others, around them. Social influence can make people do things or bad things.