This is my Letter of the Week for this week. The letter was R! I tried to come up with a new idea for presenting my work this week but my mind went blank. Suddenly I thought about how the US election is happening so I did something along the lines of America. I am not very happy with my LOTW for this week. I kinda feel like I failed and I rushed it because I had to do all sorts of other things. I hope next week I can come up with something that can make up for this week!
This is my Letter of the Week for last week. This LOTW came a bit late because the presentation took a while because I had to trace everything and make it my own. The Letter was N for last week and I am so happy with how my LOTW turned out!!! The theme I went with was Halloween fruits because Halloween was coming up so I just went with it. I think my work is a SUPERNOVA because I really tried hard to make everything my own and make sure my idea for my presentation was out of the box! I rate my work a 10/10 and I can't wait until I finish the next letter and what I come up with!
Lately, for our Whetu Case, we have been focusing our work on fingerprints! We have had someone working for the police ( Sally) come in and teach us more about fingerprints and blood samples etc. She taught us a lot and we learned so much from her! Later on, in the week, we got a chance in our C.S.I rotations to transfer our fingerprints onto a piece of paper and identify what pattern they were. Did you know that there are three main fingerprint patterns! There is the loop ( Most common) The whorl ( Second most common) and the arch ( The rarest). But there is also another pattern called the double loop which is very rare and apparently, if you get it then it means you can see both sides of an issue and you would be a great lawyer. I found out I have 4 loops and 6 whorls! I think transferring my fingerprints to paper was fun but it was harder than I had thought it would be. I can't wait to carry on with our investigation and it will be fun to see what we do in future!
Yesterday was the first day back to school and the first day that we were trying something new! We started doing a criminal investigation in the class because someone had broken in and had stolen all the chocolates! Whetu started off the investigation by observing the scene and seeing what was left behind that might help us to find out who had stolen the chocolates. As well as doing that we got a booklet to fill in and draw a sketch of the scene and what it looked like. Quite a few things were left by the thief that we might be able to do a swab of and check if it has any D.N.A left on it. The second day of school we continued on with the investigation and had a talk about theories and collecting evidence to help us. The teachers also got us to fill in a case file on google slides to remember all the things we had learned within the days we had been investigating. So far that is all we have done and I feel like we are covering a lot of ground. I can't wait to continue on with the investigation and find out who the culprit is!
Today I have finished my Letter of the Week! The letter was M. I found this letter really easy I guess just because I know a lot of answers related with M. I had lots of fun presenting my learning and I am pretty happy with it. The only hard part was that I don't have many ideas left seeing we have done so many and I have used most of my ideas. I rate my learning a SUPERNOVA because I got it done really quickly and I made sure I thought it was up to my standards!
