Facebook Challenge - Learning In Lockdown

Hi guys!

I heard there was a Facebook Chinese Language Week Challenge...

Here is my entry!

Since I am a Tiger zodiac, I made this drawing. I only used marker pen and watercolour. Hope you like it!

Bye bloggers!

Dumplings! - Learning In Lockdown

 Today my mum and I made dumplings, also known as jiǎo zi (饺子)!

My pet rabbit UwU

We cooked them and this is how the process went:

Getting these ready:

- Some kind of green vegetable (we used this kind of vegetable that we used to plant in out backyard, it looks like chive)

- Some meat (best if its like broken up already, or use mince)

- Dumpling pastry(if you don't have any, then follow these instructions on how to make homemade! Link,

who knows, maybe you can learn some Chinese in there as well!)

Here is an image of the things you need(optional - some other things you like to eat, I put in some dried prawn shells)

Put the vegetable and the meat together, add some sauces you like. My mum put some soy sauce, oil, sugar and salt and she even added an egg to make it juicier!

Add the optional things if you like as well.

Get the pastry ready on a clean table and follow these videos. I can't upload the ones that my mum made onto my computer so follow these for now :)

 

Normal Dumpling

Flower Dumpling

Results!

Hope you like it! You can fry or steam and add a little sauce as well! Bye bloggers!

Chinese Zodiac Signs - learning In Lockdown

 Hey guys, today I will be figuring out what Chinese zodiac sign you are! Lets start with:

- What year were you born?

Here is an image of the cycle of Chinese zodiac signs:

There are 12 Chinese zodiacs:

- Rat

- Ox

- Tiger

- Rabbit

- Dragon

- Snake

- Horse

- Goat

- Monkey

- Rooster

- Dog

- Pig

I am counted as a Tiger because I was born in the year 2010. Each zodiac represents years. The first Chinese zodiac sign is the Rat, followed by Ox, Tiger, etc. Every 12 years after you were born represents the zodiac year. This year it represents the Ox, and in 2022, it will be the Tiger, it goes on and on.

Here is some information about the Chinese zodiac signs:

Link

If you know your Chinese zodiac, let me know in the comments!

Bye bloggers!

Chinese Language Week - Learning In Lockdown

Hey guys. Today our class did some practising on how to pronounce the numbers 1 - 10 in Chinese! Since I already know how to, here is how to pronounce it. I found this list of information from l-lingo.com.

零

 líng

    zero

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一

yī

one

---

二

èr

two

---

三

sān

three

---

四

sì

four

---

五

wǔ

five

---

六

liù

six

---

七

qī

seven

---

八

bā

eight

---

九

jiǔ

nine

---

十

shí

ten

The first one is in Mandarin - 零 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 

The second one is in Cantonese - The same sequence =  零 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 

I found some websites that will help you with Chinese and Cantonese:

Mandarin

Cantonese

Here is my pronunciation:

Link

Hope you like it!

Bye bloggers!

Disconnected Friday... - Learning In Lockdown

 Hi guys, it's Disconnected Friday and I am sure hoping we move to Level 2!

Our class made some ideas on what to do on bored days.

We called our idea jamboard 'unbored jambored'.

Hey, if you're still reading...

Prank someone with this website: geekprank.com or pranx.com

Don't worry, it's not real, it's just a prank ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Troll Face

Bye bloggers... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Level 3, Finally! - Free Choice

 Hi guys.

We are FINALLY in Level 3! Who's excited for takeaways?

I hope everyone stays safe in their own bubbles!

I'm excited for KFC, McD's (McDonalds), Pizza Hut, Dominos, Totally Chicken and all the other shops I know of.

Comment down which takeaway shop/s are you willing to buy from?

Bye bloggers!

Te Wiki o te Reo Maori - Learning In Lockdown

 Hi guys today I will be showing you what our class did today.

Te Wiki o te Reo Maori is a week where everyone gets to celebrate the language, Te Reo Maori. It is mainly used in NZ and has been celebrated by most of the people in NZ. The use of Te Wiki o te Reo Maori is to get people to know more about this language and the ancestry and history behind it.

Since it's Te Wiki o te Reo Maori, we practiced these sentences in Maori. Here are some of the sentences we did:

- Kei te ahau toku kai = I am eating

-Kei te koe toku kanikani = You are dancing

-Kei te toku panui = He is reading

-Kei te ahau toku moe = I am sleeping

-Kei te hikoi ana ia = He was walking

-Kei te oma koe = You are running

-Ko te Paulette kei te waiata = Paulette is singing

-Ko te ruru kei te whakaeke = The owl is hooting

I tried my best to see what the verbs are and hopefully they are correct!

Can you come up with any sentences in Maori? Let me know in the comments!

Bye bloggers!

Origami, Making A Finger Trap - Learning In Lockdown

 Hi guys today I will be showing you my origami finger trap!

I know I post a lot of origami things because it's kinda fun and I like doing arts and crafts.

Here is how to make a finger trap!   

Bye bloggers!  :)

Origami At Home Part 2 - Learning In Lockdown

 Hi guys.

I did promise you guys that I would make a tutorial so I did!

Enjoy making the box!

The compartment bit is a bit hard but I think you guys can do it!

Here is the link to where I learnt it from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNn9CwsEP20

Mine might be a bit different but that's okay!

Bye bloggers!

Origami At Home - Learning In Lockdown

 Hi guys today I will be showing you what I made on Disconnected Friday!

I made this box using origami paper and it contains:

- An extra box

- 2 compartment boxes that you can take out

- A lid

- A big box

Here are some photos:

I used it to store some paper I cut out as I used it for my shape bingo.

It takes time because I messed up a bit but I got it second try. It wasn't that hard at all!

Next blog: Tutorial on how to make the box.

Bye bloggers!

Pepeha - Learning In Lockdown

 Hi guys today i will be showing you my digital pepeha! Enjoy!

Ms Corbett said if we did level 1 pepeha, we would get 20 tokens, if we did level 2 pepeha, we get 40 tokens, if we did level 3 pepeha, we get 60. I had a go at level 2 and hopefully I get 40 tokens!

In the level 2 pepeha, we had to do:

- One whakatauki

- Maunga

- Awa

- Iwi, hapu or marae (if you have any)

- Grandparents

- Parents

- Siblings (if you have any)

- Me

I had to ask my mum and dad about my grandparents too.

Bye bloggers!

Flipgrid Videos and the Longest Word in NZ! - Learning In Lockdown

 Hi guys!

Today my class and I did something with Flipgrid. We recorded ourselves with Flipgrip saying NZ's longest word:

'taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu'

It is a name of a 305 metre hill, which is quite high, almost 300 times of my height!

Here is my video of me saying it.

https://flipgrid.com/s/Qqd3DagaHZpn

I kept getting confused about the 'horonuku' as 'honoruku'.

This was quite a challenge for us!

Bye bloggers!

How to Make a Mini DIY Pop-it! - Free Choice

 Hi guys today I will be showing you how to make a DIY Pop-it! Enjoy!

Minecraft Part 3 - Free Choice

Hi guys I finally thought about an idea... an apartment!

I made 7 floors with a rooftop and it looks HUGE! Here are some photos:

The whole apartment

Reception!

1st floor - Normal bedrooms

One of the bedrooms on 1st floor

2nd floor - Hallway

One of the bedrooms on 2nd floor

The balcony on 2nd floor

3rd floor - Shared VIP room

4th floor - The Aquarium Room

5th floor - Snowing Wonderland Room

6th floor - Nature's Way Room

7th floor - Golden Bee's Room

Rooftop Bar

I hope you like my idea!

The hardest part was building the textures and decorations as I didn't know how to design it.

Bye bloggers!

Lenny Faces ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) - Learning In Lockdown

 This week our teacher, Ms Corbett, learnt something new. It was... Lenny faces!

What are lenny faces?

Lenny faces are kind of like troll faces, except you can make it with your keyboard. Lenny faces are like this:

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

That is a lenny face.

There are several types of lenny faces like eye roll, money, shrug, eyebrows and more! This is Ms Corbett's faourite out of all I chose:

( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

Name: Wait, what?

Type: Eyebrow lenny.

Lenny faces are like memes, except they are used in texts. Some of them even require japanese words and lines and different types of letters!

My favourites:

( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)

[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]

ᕙ(▀̿ĺ̯▀̿ ̿)ᕗ

Hope you learnt what a lenny face is!

Bye bloggers!

Lucky Blocks - Free Choice

 Hi guys today I will be showing you what Lucky Blocks are in Minecraft! This is what a lucky block looks like:

That is one of the colours of the 4 Lucky blocks. Lucky blocks can come in different colours, and different luck. If you break a Lucky Block, it will give you random stuff, maybe good, maybe bad. If you get a well, just throw anything into the water and it might grant you good things, or it might explode you!

Some of the things are good like swords, armour, and loot, but some are very bad like The Wither, explosions, evil things and all that.

In some versions, if you craft a lucky block with emeralds, diamonds, gold or iron, it will gain more luck, and you might get better stuff. If you want to try it out on Minecraft Education Edition, you can go to this link, it will give you the pack, just download it and import it into Minecraft Education Edition.

Minecraft Google Drive

NOTE: It is on hard mode so if you want it to be easy or normal, just switch it in Settings and play.

Bye bloggers!

Jigsaw Puzzle Warm Up - Learning In Lockdown

Hi guys today I want to show you this cool jigsaw puzzle game. We used it as a warm up and now our whole class is kind of addicted to it! There are several puzzles including air-crafts, food, animals, horizons, and decorations! This is the best I've solved so far: 

It contained 252 jigsaw pieces and it took me around an hour and a half to finish it! I think it was worth it as it is really pretty and it is also fun to do!

If you go to the website: www.jigsawplanet.com, it will lead you to a whole lot of solvable jigsaw puzzles and pretty images for you!

Have fun solving bloggers!

Minecraft Part 2 - Free Choice

 Hey guys, today I will be showing you something I added to my world in Minecraft Education Edition. You should remember the thing I build last time, which was Nicole's Eatery:

This is what I started off with.

I added this at the end of the walkway.

A whole picture of my world.

The gift shop!

I made a mini bathroom & shower.

Of course you need a ticket!

I added a roller coaster ride in the boat so it goes underground.

I hope you like what I added! If you have any more ideas, leave them in the comments!

Bye bloggers!

Letters and Sounds - Learning In Lockdown

Today we made words that have a 'ch' sound but don't have the letters 'ch' together. Here are some of the words we came up with - mine was 'ciao' as it kinda sounds like 'chow' but it isn't.

We did the 'sh' sound last week and there were a lot of words! I like doing these, it's really fun!

Bye bloggers!

Minecraft - Free Choice

 Hi guys today I will be showing you guys my Minecraft eatery I made myself! Enjoy!

I put a mini railway as takeaways and delivery roads and I made a 3 storey dine in place. I even added a mini spa and an armour shop! Hope you like my building! I made these because I could let my friends join into my world and we could role-play in this world or we could practice cooking in Minecraft.

Bye bloggers!

Warm Up Tasks - Learning In Lockdown

 Today Ms Corbett gave us a warm up task to do, it was a memory game. I think you all have heard of this game called Tricky Cups. It's a game where you put a coin underneath 1 out of 3 cups. Then the person swaps the cups around a couple times and the guesser has to guess which cup the coin is in. There are levels and each 3 levels, there is one coin added, and there are more cups. Here is the link to the game:  Tricky Cups

Hope you like the game! I got up to level 9 with a score of 11000. Try and beat me!