HOW TO GROW POTATOES!!

 Hello and welcome to or back to my blog!! This week We had to write an explanation text and I chose to write about how to grow potatoes in a bucket. 

Here's my plan: 

  

Here's my writing: 

How to Grow Potatoes In A bucket

Do you know how to grow potatoes in a bucket? If not this is the place for you. I am going to be explaining how growing potatoes in a bucket is very easy and similar to growing them in a garden. First we need to learn what potatoes can be planted and when to plant them.  

When your potatoes are ready to be picked the potato plant above the soil will be wilting so don’t get worried if it starts to, it just means the potatoes are ready. Pull out your plant by the stem and there will be one big moldy potato that was the one you started with, that one is definitely not safe to be eaten. There will probably be some really small potatoes. If they are really small don’t eat them because they aren’t safe. But unless they look moldy, wrinkled or mushy, all the other potatoes are okay. 

Planting potatoes: 

When you are growing potatoes you can’t just throw a potato into some soil. You need to make sure the potato is a seeding potato. If it is a seeding potato it will have small green sprouts coming out of the potato. Once you have your seeding potato, grab a bucket then drill small holes in the bottom of it. These are drainage holes. Fill your bucket 15cm high with planting mix. Then plant your potato and cover it with more soil. Water it every 4-5 days when you have just planted, this will stop it from drowning. After 6 weeks water it every day or two. 

When it starts growing: 

When it starts germinating a small green sprout come out of the dirt that means it's alive. Just keep doing what you're doing. It takes about 3-4 weeks for it to start sprouting if It’s not sprouting you might be over watering it, under watering or it might be too cold. If it is under watered the soil will become dehydrated and it won’t grow. If the soil is too wet then the plant roots will drown and die. The same goes for if it's too cold. If it is growing, it should be done in 12 to 16 days. 

 

Once it’s ready to be picked:

 When your potatoes are ready to be picked the potato plant above the soil will be wilting so don’t get worried if it starts to, it just means the potatoes are ready. Pull out your plant by the stem and there will be one big moldy potato that was the one you started with, that one is definitely not safe to be eaten. There will probably be some really small potatoes. If they are really small don’t eat them because they aren’t safe. But unless they look moldy, wrinkled or mushy, all the other potatoes are okay. 

I hope this helped you learn how to grow potatoes. Potatoes are very easy to grow, probably one of the simplest because they don’t need much care. Just make sure they don’t get too cold, too wet or too dry.

   

Glossary:

Germinating - Starting to grow or shoot roots after a period of time

Dehydrated - Having lost a large amount of water 

Wilting - A plant will become limp because of heat, loss of water or disease 

Seeding potato - A potato that is intended to replant to produce a new plant 

Planting mix - Is a soil with all organic matter

Under Watered - It hasn’t been getting enough water 

Simplest - No difficulty 

I hope you learnt something you new. What are you good at explaining.

Be Poem

 For reading this week we learnt about communities. We could choose to make an event for the comminty or write a be poem. I chose to write a Be Poem. Here it is: 

 

I hope you like it:) 

What's somethings that would be on your Be Poem?

6 C's I showed at camp

For writing this week we had to write a short paragraph about 2  6 C's that we showed at camp. I chose Character and Comunication.

Here It Is: 

 

When have you showed character or communication?

Converting Decimals

 For math this week we had to convert decimals into fractions into percentages. It was kind of hard at first but then I got the hang of it. I chose to make a how to poster on converting them. 

Here it is: 

  

I hope you learnt something new

Can you convert 5/10?

Interesting Instructions!

 Hello and welcome back to my blog. 

For writing and reading we learnt about instructions. So first we had to read some instructions and see what we got. 

 

I ended up with a hut. I had lots of fun building it and my cats enjoyed sleeping in it. 

Then we had to write our own instructions. I wrote mine about making you bed which hopefully you already know how to do. 

  

I hope you liked my blog. 

How often do you make your bed?

Super Shapes

Hello! 

For math this week we got to make 3d shapes out of toothpicks and bluetack. I had lots of fun doing this. 

 

What shapes would you have chosen? 

Covid Cases

Hello and welcome back or to my blog! 

This week for math we had to collect data and make a graph and two statements, then we had to put it all on an infographic. I chose to do mine on covid cases. These are not true becuase there is no cases in Canterbury. 

Here it is: 

  

I hope you learned something new. 

Do you know anything on statistical investigation?

 

Perfect Poetry

 Hello! 

This week for writing we had to write a poem. I chose a rhymed poem about Lockdown and covid - 19. I had lots of fun writing this!! and I hope you enjoy it too. 

 

What do you think of lockdown?

HAPPINESS HOBBIES!!!

Hello and welcome back to my blog, 

For reading this week we learnt about Hobbies. I made a top 10 poster about Hobbies that help your Happiness, Here it is: 

  

I hope that you will give some of those a try. 

Whats your favourite hobby?

FRACTIONS!!

 Hey guys, 

Welcome back to my blog, for this weeks math we learnt about mixed fractions. These are also known as improper fractions. We had to write 3 word problems for others to work out in the workshop. 

Here are mine: 

 

They can be a bit confusing at first. 

What answers did you get?

Growth Mindsets

 Hey Welcome back to my blog. 

For this weeks reading we learnt about Growth Mindsets. We had to read a text and write 4 main ideas and come up with a cool quote. 

Here is my Main Ideas: 

 

And here is my insperational quote: 

 

I hope this inspired you. 

Whats a quote you use to inspire you? 

Online Speeches

 For this weeks speech writing we shared our speech with someone and they gave us some constuctive criticism. Heres the the comment she posted. 

I decided to reserch to see how others started theirs and I came up with this new intro.  

What do you believe? That it isn't or is true?

Reading Emotions

Hello:) For PBL we got told to complete two tasks. This is the second one (the first one was the quote). We got given a template and it had 5 different emojis on one side of that emoji we had to write what made us feel that way on the other side we had to write how we could keep that feeling for longer or make that feeling go away. Here's mine: 

 

What's some things that make you feel these ways?

Grit Quotes

 Hi there for PBL we are working on things that have to do with happiness. 

For grit we had to make a quote or a meme to help us have more perserverence. I did a quote and I hope this quote helps you to perservere too. 

 

I Hope you like my quote. 

Whats your favourite quote?

Math Coodinates.

 Hello and welcome back to math coordinates. We had to make a map and then lead someone around it. Here is mine see if you can do it! 

I hope you liked this blog. 

Can you figure it out?

Reading News Articles W8 T2

For Reading this week we had to choose 3 articles for kiwi kids news and then write what was interesting about them and their genre.  Here are the ones I chose

 TITLE:Chocolate Frog Found in New Guinea  

Genre: Odd Stuff 

This article was about frogs and how they discovered a new species. 

I Think That they did a good job explaining where it was found and what their closest relative is. I understand alot of new stuff about this chocolate frog.  I found this interesting because I have always liked choclate and frogs.

TITLE: Stars Leading Close ANZ Netball Championship

Genre: Sport

This article is about how the stars are winning. 

I think that this is interesting because I play netball and I can take tips off of what they do to win. I Think that this is cool because netball is an interesting.  

TITLE: NZ School Students Protest Climate Change.  

Genre: National 

I think this is interesting because Instead of the teachers having a strike its the students. I think its good they did this because it promotes climate change and how bad it is. It is also telling people they really need to do something about it. 

I hope you learnt something new. 

What was your favourite article?

Math Coordinates

 Coordinates!!!

For math this week we had to screenshot a part of google maps and then put a grid over it. After that we needed to write down some coordinates and find a partner to answer those. My map is in Tauranga. You can have a go if you want. 

 

I hope you learnt something new. 

What were your answers?

Reading - Landmark For Chistchurch

 Hello and today I'm going to show you my idea for a landmark that I made for Christchurch. It was a statue of a tram. I learnt alot about trams when making this I didn't know that they were origanally  Here it is: 

 

I enjoyed learning about trams. 

What do you want as a Christchurch Landmark?

Ngai Tahu Poem - Writing Wk9 T1

Welcome To My Blog! 

For Writing this week we got to write a poem about Ngai Tahu. Ngai Tahu is the iwi of Christchurch and is actually one of the biggest iwi there is! I will show you my poem now. 

Here It Is:   

  

I hope You Liked My Poem 

Did you learn something new? 

Buildings For ChristChurch

 This week for reading we had to read at least 2 books and then design a building for Christchurch. Mine is sort of like a history museum. Here Is The Work: 

   

 

I hope you like my building design! 

What kind of building would you like?

Statistical Investigation - New Zealand Bird population

 Hello, This week for math we had to do a statistical investigation. I chose to do it on Native Birds. Heres a slide show Showing The data I found:   

 

I hope You Learnt something new about birds! 

Whats You favourite native bird?

Newspaper Article Wk8 T1

 For Writing this week we got to make a newspaper article. My newspaper article was about A Mihi/Pepeha  A Mihi Is a Maori Greeting. Heres My Work: 

 

I hope you learnt something new about a mihi! 

Whats Your Mountain?

 

Rescue mission Ōnawe Pa

 Hello Welcome To Wk7 Math  

First I had to create a map and locate all the pa's. The Pa's where Ōnawe Pa, Kaiapoi Pa and central Christchurch. Here they are:

 

The Blue line in between them all is the distance between them. The distance would be measured in Kilometres. The distance between Kaiapoi Pa and Central Christchurch is 60km and the distance between  Ōnawe Pa and Central Christchurch is 150km  

Coordinates are a way to locate a place in the map for example if you were locating lyttelton The coordinates are 77,71. 

This week I learnt how to locate coordinates 

What did you learn?

All About Me 2021

 For Cybersmart this week I had to make a poster that was all about me This poster could have a picture of me or a avatar of me. 

Here is what i created

 

Thank you for reading this blog post 

What is something you like?

Pa Week Wk6 T1

MATHS 

For math this week we had to design a pa which is like a maori village and work out the perimeter of it here is mine. The Perimiter of this Pa is 246M To work this out I mesured all the sides and added them all together.

READING 

For reading we had to create a Pa and then try and write a real estate ad for it i created Pa Estate and unfortunately I cant add a picture as i made a site but here is a link to my site: 

Pa Estates  

WRITING 

For Writing I had to write about what I included in my math Pa 

Here It Is:  

 

Thank you so much for reading my first blog post from the year of 2021 I hope you learnt something new 

Ka Kite!