Whetu C.S.I 2020: Fingerprints

 

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!

Whetu Case # 2020

 

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!

My Case File slides

My Letter of the Week

 

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!

The Mystery of the Missing Moji

 

Today I have completed the Mystery of the Missing Moji. I had so much fun solving the Mystery and I found it pretty easy to do.  I worked alongside Madeleine to complete the mystery and I found it great to work with her. The missing emoji I got was the emoji with a halo ( Angel emoji)! I hope I got this right because I am 100% sure we did everything correctly. I can't wait to do another Maths Mystery soon because I had so much fun!

My Literacy Mystery

Today I have completed the Literacy Mystery. I had so much fun solving the mystery for this week and I thought it was pretty easy. The teacher had to explain to Fred the Moth what the first clue meant but after a short moment, I got the hang of it. I think the winning astronaut is Hugo Cooper. I'm 100% sure I got it right and I hope the Maths Mystery will be even better! I rate my working out a SUPERNOVA because it took me a very short amount of time and I was able to figure it out by myself.

My Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori slides

This is my Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori slide. Since it is Maori language week the teachers gave us a challenge to do with Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. I had so much fun doing this challenge and I think my slides turned out great. The challenge was to do a bunch of slides with the things the teachers said you had to have in it. But you also had to pick a phrase to base your slides on. The phrase I used was To ataahua Hoki. That means you look beautiful. I rate my work a SUPERNOVA because I really tried hard to make sure I paid attention to all the things the teachers wanted in my slides and I think I did that successfully.

Her is the LINK to my slides.

My Letter of the Week

 

This is my G Letter of the Week. This was my last LOTW for this term. I'm pretty happy with how it came out and I really enjoyed presenting and finding my answers. The theme I went for was shapes. I found some cool pictures and ten cropped them into shapes before putting my answers in them. I think the final result of my LOTW turned out great and I cant wait to see if we do it again next term.