Plant a wall of fruit - Response questions

 

Plant a wall of fruit

When you looked at the first picture in the text, what did you think it was?

I thought they were green grapes.

When you read the title what did you think the text was going to be about?

I thought about the website helping how to garden.

What does this sentence mean? Explain in your own words

No room for trees? Make the most of the vertical space and create a fruiting wall!  With flowers, colourful

foliage and attractive branch patterns too, fruit trees are as ornamental as they are productive. A fruiting

wall will also double as a privacy screen. 

It talks about fill those vertical space with fruits. Grow fruit trees so that the room is attractive and smell great.

A fruit wall can also be a privacy screen. 

If passion fruit is planted in summer how many months will it take to grow?

Probably 15 months.

What is a fruiting hedge?

A fruiting hedge is like a fence but instead its plants, the fruit wall can be tall and can be short, can be thick

and can be thin. 

What are the 3 main fruit growing basics? (do not copy and paste from text, explain in your own words)

1. Pick different types of fruits to match the seasons or weather.

2. Make sure to water young plants well.

3. Make sure that when you prepare the soil well, so the plants can grow rich and tall.

What is an espalier tree? 

An espalier tree is a plant that grows flat on the wall or fence. Many fruits trees are suitable to be

an espalier trees. 

What is a wooden trellis?

A wooden trellis can be use as a fence. Some people plant climb beans or they plant berries to climb

them on the trellis.

How does the wooden trellis provide support?

Without the trellis these plants won’t be able to grow tall.

What does the last image show you in the text?

The last image shows a lemon tree attached to the trellis.

What is this text about? Explain in your own word

The text is about plants and how they can be great decorations for your house or your vertical space.

The text is also about how to plant them and which plants would be great for your house.

 

SPRING IN THE GARDEN - OCTOBER

On the site, what images are appealing to you and why?

The vegetable, fruit and flowers images.

What do you know about the company who own this website?

They advertise their products and sell. The website has a garden calendar

and their website also has recipes.

Have you been to their shops?

No.

Find on Google maps, the closest Tui Garden shop to our school. 

How many kilometres is the shop from our school?

214.6 kilometers

What vegetables should be grown now?

Pumpkin, radish, asparagus, beans, bok choy, beetroot, basil, carrot,

capsicum, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, chilli, cucumber, eggplant, leek,

lettuce, parsley, tomatoes, potatoes, mesclun, sweetcorn, spring onions,

spinach, rocket, silverbeet, rhubarb and courgette.

What public holiday is a traditional weekend for planting tomatoes?

Labour day.

What is better? Growing your own tomatoes or buying them from the

supermarket. Explain your answer.

Well I personally think growing tomatoes is better than buying them

because tomatoes taste better when you grow them by yourself if you

grow them well and properly. Some tomatoes are grown with chemicals

which will affect your body, so growing tomatoes organically is healthier

and better.

Find out how much tomatoes cost at your local supermarket. 

My local supermarket is Pak n Save and their tomato cost $5.99.

Which is a better buy and why?

It’s better to grow because the tomatoes you buy from the supermarket

was grown with chemical.

What are some maintenance tips from the site?

• Mound up the soil around potato plants as the leaves appear through

• the soil. This will encourage a bigger harvest and protect the crop from the sun.

• Garlics and Shallots - keep the area around plant weed free.

• Herbs - cut back sage, thyme and mint to encourage fresh new growth for the summer harvest.

• Look out for aphids and white cabbage butterfly caterpillar as they will also be actively looking for food. Squash these insects, hose off or wash with warm soapy water.

Why should plants be maintained? 

So they can grow well and tasty.

 

If the images were in black and white, would they help you with understanding

the website? Why?

If the images were black and white it would still help me a bit. Well with colors

it would be more helpful. E.g if you are looking through a website with garden tips,

it would be more helpful because you can see what the finish product will need too look like.

Pick one of the vegetables to plant in our garden. Make a list of how to

plant and maintain this vegetable.

Sweetcorn

Sweetcorn are easy to grow.

• Needs warm and sunny spot in well drained soil. Spring and Summer is the best time to plant sweetcorn.

• Prepare soil with organic matter.

• Add a layer of vegetable mix to plant into.

• Feed corn and keep soil moist throughout the growing seasons.

• Stake taller plants and those grown in wind-prone areas.

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Building a Super Seesaw!

Today I built a Seesaw!! It was a bit hard to make but it was fun to play with.

Materials:

Toilet paper roll or paper towel roll

String

Blue tack

Wooden spoon 

The super seesaw fun to make, it was also fun to make! It was hard to shoot the 

ball in the goal but it was SUPER amusing to play with. I had lots of fun making 

the seesaw which turned out to be a catapult.   

Building a Xylophone

Activity 1 - Build a Xylophone

Today I have built a Xylophone, it was very easy and fun to make.

What is a Xylophone?

A Xylophone is a type of instruments with various pitch. You can make many

beautiful melody with a Xylophone. 

Here are the materials you need

• Glasses 
• Water
• Pencil
• Paper
• Tape
• Scissors

Here is a video of me making the Xylophone

When I tested out the Xylophone, it made many pitch, low pitch, high pitch and medium pitch.

The paper Xylophone sounded good as well and also it made good pitches.

Making a Xylophone with papers and glasses were fun to make. While I was making the glass xylophone, I learnt that the more the glass aren't filled with water, the more the pitch is higher and when the glass is filled with more water, it creates a low pitch

Should Glenbrae School student wear what they want to wear to school?

Should Glenbrae School student wear what they want

to wear to school?

Kamusta my name is Dwyane Lucero and I am a year 8 student at Glenbrae School. 

Some students might not agree but I think it is important to wear school uniform. 

Well I think students can wear anything to school ON special occasions like:

language weeks, school festivals, sports day and mufti day. 

Wearing school uniforms means we are neat and tidy students and we belong to a

pleasant and hard-working school. 

If students wear anything they want to school, they might wear bandanas or other accessories which some schools won’t tolerate. Going to school trips wearing other

clothes means you aren’t representing your school. Don’t you want people to think

that you go to the best school in town? Don’t you want the citizens to think you’re a educated person? 

Villi and the GUt

This is my DLO about Villi and the gut.

Maths - Capacity, Volume and Area plans

Happy fathers day!

 

Badge Of Honor - Character

This week I am reading about a story called Badge of Honor. This is one of my create work

Each character in a story has an important role to play. They bring in different aspects of the story.

Fill out this comparison table to identify the role of the characters in the story

we are reading this week.

Character name	What they look like	Dialogue from this character which helps us understand what they are like	Their role	What other characters think of this character
Isaac	He has a dark brown hair	“Are you going to tell anyone”	School captain and Tomasi’s friend	Tomasi and Fai
Tomasi	Brown hair and has wrist band	“Back me up, you need to say I was at your place after school yesterday. Miss Latu will have to believe us, we’re school captains, right?”	Isaac’s friend and a school captain, he likes fight	Mrs Latu and Isaac
Mrs Latu	Curly short hair, has glasses.	“Being a school captain is an honour”.	School principle	Fai
Fai	Brown braided hair and has many badge.	“I know things about him ... like he fights ... on the weekend and sometimes after school, down at the park. His friends all go to watch. They film it on their phones.”	School captain	Isaac and Mrs Latu
Richmond	Brown hair	????	Tomasi’s opponent	Tomasi and Mrs Latu

Maths Milliornaire Middle 2020 Friday certificate

This is my certificate from the Friday maths quiz. Today's maths questions were okay. Some of the questions were hard but my class and I solved it together!

 

Math Week challenge!

 

This is my certificate from the Maths Millionaire Middle. 

This is my Monday's certificate. 

This is my Tuesday certificate 

And this is my Wednesday certificate

It was kind of hard but it's fun! 

Lockdown Flowchart Term 3

Hi! This is my screencastify of my Lockdown Flowchart Term 3 I hope you guys enjoyed the video!

 

Cephalopods & Octopuses Made by Dwyane and Eden

The Big Bang Theory

Multiplication week 2 - maths

Multiplication - Week 2

Response Questions - Big Bang Theory

Today I answered these questions by researching and reading and not asking google.

How to make Pancakes

Pancake

Prep: 5 mins | Cook: 10 mins | Total: 15 mins | Servings: 4  

Materials/ingredients

• 1 cup of all purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons of white sugar
• 2 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg, beaten
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 
• Bowls
• Whisk
• Spatula
• Pan
• 1 cup of milk

Method

Step 1.

In a large bowl mix flour, sugar, baking soda and

salt together. Next pour the milk and the beaten

egg into the mixture. Mix until smooth.

Step 2.

Heat a oiled pan over medium high heat . Scoop a

little amount of pancake batter on the pan. ¼ cup for

each pancake. If the top of the pancake is filled with

holes, carefully flip the pancake to the other side. It

should look golden brown. 

Step 3. 

Grab a plate, put the golden pancakes on the plate

and you can top it with fruits and golden syrup.   

The pancake doesn’t need to be golden brown it

can at least be brown. If you want more servings

just double the ingredients. Enjoy your pancakes

How life started in Scientist perspective

Today Mrs Tofa told us to create a timeline of How life started.
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Venn diagram - difference between Homo Sapiens and Celebes Crested Macaque

Identity

Identity

Educate yourself enough so you may understand

the ways of other people

But not too much

that you may lose

your understanding

of your own

Try things palagi

Not so you may become palagi

but so may see the value

of things Sāmoan

Learn to speak Sāmoan

not so you may sound Sāmoan

but so you may

feel the essence

of being Sāmoan

Above all

be aware and proud

of what you are

so you may spare yourself

the agony of those who are asking

“What am I ?”

Lemalu Samau Tate Simi (1995)

How does the title of the poem relate to the poem? The poem is about identity 

In poetry, words are powerful. What are some powerful words you

have identified in this poem? Educate yourself enough 

Who are the target audience of this poem? People

Even if you are not Samoan, can you relate to this poem? How?

Yes, because the poem is talking about what you can learn and your identity 

Where could you expect to read this poem? In which settings?

School? Home? Where else? Library, park

Authors have a purpose for their writings. Research some information

about the author Lemalu Samau Tate Simi and create a DLO to

teach others about this man.  

Lemalu Samua Tate Simi

Who do you think can appreciate reading this poem? Share this

poem with them through email. Record what their response to the poem is.

Everybody 

Lemalu Samua Tate Simi

Responding to Refugees

Refugees by Brian Bilston

They have no need of our help

So do not tell me

These haggard faces could belong to you or me

Should life have dealt a different hand

We need to see them for who they really are

Chancers and scroungers

Layabouts and loungers

With bombs up their sleeves

Cut-throats and thieves

They are not

Welcome here

We should make them

Go back to where they came from

They cannot

Share our food

Share our homes

Share our countries

Instead let us

Build a wall to keep them out

It is not okay to say

These are people just like us

A place should only belong to those who are born there

Do not be so stupid to think that

The world can be looked at another way

This poem is a very powerful poem. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

I certainly agree because it has a reason why it is written

Brian Bilston received a lot of recognition for this poem. Find out what

you can about Brian Bilston and create a DLO to teach others about

who Brian Bilston is. Brian Bilston DLO

Some people will disagree with this poem. Why do you think?

They don’t think this poem will change the world

Why do you think Brian Bilston wrote this poem? So people know t

hat we can share countries, not like one country takes over another. 

Who is the target audience for this poem? Everybody

If you could choose the most powerful line in this poem, what would it

be and why?The world can be looked at another way. Because the

world CAN be looked in a another way

What do you think of when you hear the word refugee? People moving

to another country

What are refugees? When other people invade another country and they

have to move to another country

Find out some stories about refugees around the world. Create a DLO to

teach others about your findings. Examples - Syrian refugees,

Afghanistan, Somalia, Kosovo...