✦ *.+~ {Normal School} ~ Day ?? ~ Term 4 has officially started! Well- Doesn't feel like it has... ~+.* ✦

✦ Hola Niños!  ✦

✦ Welcome back to the final term of 2020! It's actually a sad term in a way because it's my last year/term at Marshland School. It's been such a journey of 8 Years being here {Well 7 and a 1/2} and I'll never forget it. ✦

✦ But that aside, I've had a busy Holiday! From having a single person over for a week to have three friends over in the course of five days! Oh and the family visits. ✦

✦ For the first person who stayed for a week, we went to the Hot Pools in New Brighton {Reccomended they're awesome}, the Dairy nearby where I live, to the Mall for lunch and to splurge on some things and some awesome disco nights! ✦

✦ For the second wave of friends we had some... interesting... roleplays... on Roblox, a great trip to a closer mall to get lunch and some items, and a disco! ✦ 

✦ Then the last person we had some more roleplays on Roblox that weren't as- eventful as the other roleplays... and we sung our hearts out because my sister was at my mother's for the weekend! It sure was fun :) ✦

✦ For school, we've been getting back to the normal schedule. For Literacy, we've been starting our films! My group is doing a murder mystery sort of movie! I'll show you our character descriptions for now because I don't want to spoil anything! No spoilers... ✦

✦ For Numeracy, we've been covering some basic multiplication of decimals. There's not much to show because it's all in my book, but I'll take pictures for the next blog post {If I remember} ✦

✦ Apart from that, I do hope you've had a safe Holiday! And I hope you all are doing well! Well, see y'all next week! <3 ✦

✦ {P.S ~ If you are feeling low, or in need to talk to someone. Just so you know it's ok to ask for help and talk about your emotions. Stay safe and love y'all <3} ✦

✦*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day ?? ~ Building Adventures and More! It's sure fun! +.*✦

Hello, Beautiful Tim~Tamz!

Welcome to another blog post! This week I kept on doing my map {I'm not sure if I told you guys about it} which is called Tamazon!

Basically, it's a chaotic country with bean island close near. From Atom Bomb storages to a heritage park with a massive lake that may or may not hide something deep under... It's certainly a chaotic place but it has some area that is very peaceful and others not so much... Bean Island is more peaceful with the iconic landmark Stonebench. {Yes you read that right, Stonebench not Stonehedge}

I once again have been working on my video essay but I still haven't finished or had anything to show just yet, also because I don't wanna spoil it!~ But I can tell you the genre, it's fantasy! Have you written a video essay before? I'd like to know! If not, did you know it existed?

In my spare time, I played a game with my friend on Roblox called SCP-3008. It's a cool game where you have to gather things in an Ikea and build a shelter to survive the night and avoid the workers there. Here are some pictures of our base! We had an observation area, medkit storage and even a worker held captive. It was a lot of work but it was so fun! I recommend it to play with friends but do be warned if you get scared easily it may not be suitable for you.

I hope you have had an amazing week! But that's all for now!~ See you next week! Toodles!~

{P.S ~ If you are feeling down or sad then just so you know it's ok to ask for help! It gets better, I know everyone says that but it really does. Stay safe! <3}

+*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day 20?? ~ This week on Keeping up with Karen {Tamzin}... +.*+

 Bonjour Beautiful Tim-Tamz!~

Another Week just went past! Week 8 is on the horizon and I am amazed by how fast this term has gone past. Let alone year! 

But apart from that, I've learnt something valuable! It's about how one person's opinion doesn't matter. If the whole world {7.? Billion People} thought what that one person does, then maybe think about what they're saying. But considering it can be one to a small group of people who think that about you, just don't care about their opinion! It's their opinion out of this whole world, why let that change you? Just be you, life's too short to attempt to fit in anyways.

But For literacy, I've been busy working on my Video Essay which is due on the last week of school. I haven't finished it though so when it's completed I'll for sure show it to you guys!~ The book is still being illustrated though so I cannot show you anything yet! But I'm excited to show you guys when it's finished :)

For Numeracy, we've been learning the Probability of the Lotto. It's certainly an interesting and different thing to learn about but it's interesting to guess the actual odds and learn more about how the lotto works. Unfortunately, I don't fully know the actual probability just yet but when I have a rough estimate I'll for sure tell you guys! 

But we've been using tree diagrams to find the probability of some things, take rolling a dice, or flipping a coin. You'd use tree diagrams to show the working out of the probability of it! Really interesting :)

For Inquiry, we've decorated the RAMEN Rocket and we're setting up for the last flight! Wish us luck <3 {I have a fun thing to do if you're bored associated with rockets! Get 1-2 Empty and Clean soda bottles and create a rocket that you could fly! It's really fun to do and you can customize it to be your own! IF you have siblings maybe try to create the best rocket!} I'll show you our logo for now as I don't wanna spoil to much of the RAMEN Rocket. the logo :)

I've also been working on a PSA about recycling correctly, but it's taking a little longer so I'll include a smaller, separate blog post for it so I'm able to give a better explanation.

I hope you guys are having a great week! I sure have :) Also Happy Birthday to my Father! <3

Have a lovely rest of your week + next week! Toodles <3

{P.S ~ If you are feeling down, or in need to talk to someone. Just so you know, It's ok to talk through your problems. Contact a Helpline or even me. I'm here to talk things through <3 Stay safe during these times <3}

+*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day ??? ~ It's been a while! Whoops- +.*+

 Bonjour Beautiful Tim~Tamz!

It's definitely been a minute since I've posted... {Maybe a few weeks but that's besides the point} But I have some things to cover! Firstly for Literacy, I have made a script of a children's book! However I wasn't at school when we got to Illustrate them so I'm going to illustrate the book myself over the weekend! So hopefully it'll be ready by next week's blog post!~ But I'll show you the script!

It was a beautiful, sunny morning up at the ranch. 

The birds were singing, and the trees were swaying.

And all the cows were doing the normal cow things…

Eating the grass and just enjoying the simple things.

But there was a special cow in the bunch,

Who wasn’t doing what everyone else was doing.

That special cow was a strawberry cow,

A small, fragile white and pink cow who stood out from the rest.

She didn’t understand why though, 

She felt as she should’ve been normal.

Some of the younger cows would look at the strawberry cow weirdly,

And she felt insecure about herself.

She started to go further away from the other cows,

And started to miss all of the fun events.

She starting thinking about a way to change her appearance.

So she wouldn’t stand out so much. 

She tried painting herself black and white to become normal,

But when it rained it would wash away.

She tried hiding under something,

But that didn’t work.

She decided that painting herself would have to do…

The other cows started to worry where strawberry cow went!

Her disguise was finally working!...

A bit too well that is.

She carried on for weeks painting her pink spots black.

Not a single cow found out!

Until one week… A cow noticed she was painting herself and stopped her.

“Oh, dear strawberry cow! What are you doing to your special coat?” Said the cow in a fright.

“I’m trying to fit in! I do not want to stand out! I just want to be normal…” The Strawberry cow exclaimed.

“But Strawberry cow! Oh how lovely your coat is!...

From Pink to White, you are sure able to stop any show!...

But why do you feel like you should change? Embrace yourself like a sunset gaze!”

The Strawberry cow looked at the other cow and thought for a second…

“Maybe I shouldn’t try to fit in… Maybe it’s better to stand out”

“Exactly Strawberry cow, exactly! Standing out is better than being normal!”

Soon after that talk, the strawberry cow stopped! She finally learned that being different…

Was perfectly ok! Now she’s able to feel happy about being different!

She started teaching other cows with differences to embrace their differences!

Soon everybody was happy and feeling their best!

The end.

For Numeracy we've been learning a little about the biggest number in the world that has been used and what a factorial is. A factorial is where it's the ! next to a number {Example ~ 5!} and it means basically that the number is 5x4x3x2x1 = ?. Pretty cool right! However I don't know much nor enough information about the largest number in the world that was used. However if you were to think the number using your brain it would kill you. NOT that I recommend doing such thing but it's true. Unfortuantly I don't have anything to show you guys this week! But possibly next week. :)

For Inquiry we've been doing more rocket science and getting ready to make our final rockets! However our rocket will need some tweaking because it isn't flying incredibly well. I went sort of high but it went wonky and didn't go very far, so we're hoping the next test flight will result in a better performance! I'll keep you guys updated on it :)

I don't have anything to show that I've been doing at home this week either but I hope you guys are doing well and staying safe! QOTW {Question of the Week} ~ How do you feel about COVID-19 being in our country again? Are you feeling anxious? I'd love to know! But apart from that I once again hope you are doing well! Toodles for next week~

{P.S ~ I hope you are all feeling safe! However if you need to talk to someone feel free to talk to someone or contact a helpline. It's ok to speak up. :)} <3

*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day 5 ~ Mashup of my {eventful} week! +.*

Guten Tact Beautiful Tim~Tamz! 

It's the end of the first week of Term 3 and it's been fun! However, I wasn't here for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday thanks to a lovely headache. But Thursday and Friday have been incredibly fun! With my friends and me making each other laugh. But anyway here is my weekly recap.

*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day legit holidays ~ The breath-taking Southern and Northen Lights!

Bonjour Beautiful Tim~Tamz,

This week is the last week of school! And I'm really excited because I get to stay up late and sleep in! It feels like it's been 23 weeks since the last holidays because yes I know lockdown I was at home and was able to sleep in but normally I have friends over and I go places, but due to COVID-19 we couldn't so it didn't feel like an official holiday.

This week we've been learning a little about Southern and Northern lights! And let me tell you to know they're so beautiful with how they move and reflect some marvelous colors! And we were able to create a beautiful art piece using chalk pastels {very fragile}, white paint, paintbrush {or tooth brush}, black paper, and a single piece of A4 paper! Here is my finished result!

{Sorry the image is sideways, the person who took it did that :| }

If you don't fully understand what the Northern/ Southern Lights here is a little bit about them :)

Did you know that 'Aurora' is the Latin word for sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn! :3

An Aurora is a natural light shined in the sky in the Arctic and Antarctica that's usual colors are green, blue, and sometimes pink, purple, and red.

An Aurora is created by a collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude and they color the sky with the colors and create the shifting light effect in the "Aurora Areas".

Have you ever seen these? If not, do you want to see them? If you have was it a surreal experience?

That's all I have for this blog post! See you after Term 2 Holidays~ Toodles!

{P.S ~ If you are feeling down or sad, just so you know it's ok to seek help and it always gets better, even when it doesn't seem like it. Because these situations form us to be who we are!}

*.+ {Normal School} ~ Day near the end of term 2 ~ HOLIDAYS IN 1 WEEK!! YAY :) +.*

Hello, Beautiful Tim~Tamz,

It's another week closer to the holidays! We almost have completed Term 2! What do you have planned for the holidays? I'm going to have my mother's wedding in the second week and a friend coming over on the first! I'm really excited :)

Anyway for literacy this week we've been looking at the genre musical! We watched Beauty and The Beast live remake and truly it's stunning! Even though it was made in 2017 it still is a brilliant movie, and it showcases musicals very well and musicals aren't always all bubbly and happy. Here is my slide about the task we did before watching the movie! It was where we get an old movie and a new movie {atleast 20 years apart} also don't mind the decorations I put onto the slide. It just was added to make it special to me :)