For our latest Cybersmart lesson , we made a DLO (Digital Learning Object) all about prompting with Gemini. In our DLO, we explained what prompts are, how to write good ones, and gave some examples of effective prompts to use with Gemini. Creating this DLO helped us understand how clear and specific prompts can make AI responses much better.
We’ve been busy…
Te Rōpū Whakaute and Te Rōpū Wawata had a very busy afternoon being super creative!
Can you guess what we were making?
zombie zombie zombie teto is 31
For a majority of the science periods this term, we’ve been learning about genes. As a result our teacher has come up with a rather fun activity: make genes and traits for theoretical zombies, randomly pick the alleles and draw the zombie.
Method: We got multiple sheets; one for designing the traits, one for randomly picking out the alleles and one for drawing it and plotting down the alleles you got.
As you probably know but I still have to define because of instructions, a genotype is the genetic constitution of an individual multicellular orgasm, a phenotype is from when a genotype causes the organism anything within it’s environment that could be observed, it could be a different colored eye or an 18 inch longer penis. A gene is basically a organism’s instructions for how to build, as in it tells your cells to create things like limbs. An Allele is one of the two or more alternate forms of a gene that are generated via mutation, they are found in the same place as a chromosome and can lead to differing characteristics than “normal”.
In conclusion we definitely finished and drew and showed the teacher our zombie, if I were to do anything different next time the only difference would be i’d chose the characteristics of the zombie much more creatively.
I didn’t proofread this at all zeezezzeezezeezezezzeezezzeezeezezezzezeezez
Tāku Mahi Tuhituhi Tūre o Te Moana
Tāku mahi tuhituhi tūre o te moana by Milena Brown-Taute
Kia ora ngā kaipānui ko te kaituhi tēnei.He mihi nui kia koutou e pānui ana.I ako ahau ki te tamau ki tāku rāngi taki hoki.
All about me cybersmart
Today in cybersmart we were learning about Pip and privacy. so mr Huse told us to make a all about me folder to put on my blog and this is what I posted.
All About Me By Aaliyah
Fakaalofa lahi atu. Today in cyborsmarst we did a all about me post in the afternoon it was fun I put all of the stuff that maters to me thank you for lisning.
The Kawa of Care in Room 27
Room 27 have created a storybook to share all their Kawa of Care Learning.
Watch the video below or read the story here
What Was Like In The Annex.
The Annex
The heavy oak bookcase swung shut with a muted thud,
sealing the world of daylight and sirens behind a wall of dusty
novels. Inside the annex, the air smelled of old paper, boiled
cabbage, and the sharp, metallic tang of fear. The floorboards
were the enemy; they groaned under the slightest pressure,
so the inhabitants moved like ghosts, their feet wrapped in
thick wool rags to dampen the sound of their existence.
Every window was a trap, covered by heavy blackouts that
turned midday into a perpetual, dim twilight. Time didn’t move
in minutes, but in the rhythmic cycles of the warehouse below.
When the workers arrived at eight, the annex fell into a stony,
breathless hush. No water could be flushed, no chair moved,
and no cough released. The inhabitants sat in chairs like
statues, clutching books they were too distracted to read, their
ears tuned to the street outside where the heavy boots of
patrols occasionally clicked against the cobblestones.
When evening finally fell and the warehouse grew still, the
tension would crack just enough to allow for a whispered
conversation. They gathered around a small table, the steam
from a thin potato soup rising into the shadows. The light of a
single, low-wattage bulb cast long, flickering shadows against
the peeling wallpaper. In those moments, they weren’t just
fugitives; they were a family clinging to the remnants of a lost
life, finding a strange, defiant comfort in the shared warmth of
their secret, wooden world.
LI: To write a description of life with the Frank Family in the annex in 1942.
This is the description of how i feel living in the annex with the Frank Family during the time when German’s took over the world with Hitler being their leader in 1942. And knowing that there are soldiers out there looking and being forced to live in the annex this is how i describe what living in the annex is like.
AI prompts with Gemini
This week for cybersmart, we were learning how to refine our prompts with Gemini. It helps Gemini and other AI have a clearing idea of your level, and what you specifically want. So I have created this DLO about refining prompts with Gemini to help others to refine their prompts too.
What does a magic e do?
We were learning that when you have o-e like ope in rope, the magic e on the end makes the letter say its name or the strong vowel sound. We read a book about voting for the pet that was most liked. Vote is a 0-e word!
Look at our videos where we have used a word with the magic e. Can you tell us what word we used in our video?
Ari’s Video
Kyfah’s Video
Wolf-Lee’s Video
cats and dogs.
we have been learning AFOREST to help us with our persuasive wiriting. It was chalinging to learn AFOREST.
did you learn AFOREST when you wher in school.
Dogs and cats are the same.
Do you think cats or dogs are better?
I think that cats and dogs are the same because cats can be play full some can be attached some can not be play full some can be bad some cats are very fluffy some dogs are fluffy or some dogs are loud and some dogs quiet.
How many people like dogs better than cats 60/74 60 present like cats and 74 like dogs.
Tyrion robux AFOREST
I lernt what AFOREST today and what it menes.
i think that what was challneging was the writing and also blog posting.
the only think i wan to say is that i think that school should start 10am. dothink that school should start at
10am.
Thursday 5th February 2026
Do you think that school should start at 10am? If you say yes i will give you 500 robux cards? I think that school should start at 10am? Because it gives me more time to get ready for school. And also so I can play.? And if it was 7.00am and school started at 10am that means you get 3 hours to do whatever you want and not having to do anything at all? So if you didn’t choose this topic you don’t get 500 Robux cards you get a tin of emty baked bean cans?
school should start at 10:00 AM
We have been learning about A Forest and school should start at 10:00 AM in the morning
School should start at 10:00 AM in the morning
Have you ever walked your dog in the morning and then you look at the time and then realise that the time has gone past 9:00 AM?I have and it freaks me out.
This is why I think school should start at 10:00 AM. Many people need more time to get ready for school.
Many people need to walk their dog and feed their dog but school starts at 9:00 AM so then the kid walking their dog would be late to get to school in the morning.
Research suggests that shifting school starts to 10:00 AM or
Later can significantly improve adolescent sleep, mental health, and academic performance.
AFOREST writing, cats or dogs
We have learnt about A FOREST.We do this to help with our persuasive writing.What was hard doing this is finding out what all the word meant and then I found out what they meant on the slides, Alliteration, Facts, Opinion, Rhetorical, Emotive language, Statistics, Triplets.Have you even done this before.
Wednesday 4th March
(Why are dogs better than cats)
I believe dogs aren’t better than cats.Dogs bring un-wanted high energy, and once it gets over energetic it start`s annoying you.And, do you actually want to be picking up dog crap off the lawn 247?In YOUR time!Yeah, I’m OUT.That’s what I thought. Dogs are like a friend type, cuddly, and loyal. But cats…CATS, they are cool, competitive, and friendly.
2026 a new year.
- what have we been learning? We have been learning A forest to help us with our persuasive writing.
- what was challenging for me was thinking about what to right.
- what do you think is better cats or dogs.
Tuesday 3rd March 2026
Do you think dogs better than cats
Do you think dogs are better than cats ???
Honestly, in my opinion I like cats more than dogs. The reason why I like cats more than dogs is because they can be more gentle, they are really cute and their patterns can be so cute. Like, some cats can be really really fluffy some cats are conferring and can also help you get through things like stressful moments having this type cus lots of us people
But on the other side cats are still a poison
Katarina M
why school should start at 10:00am
I have bean learning how to do persuasive writing
I have learnt to use AFOREST in my writing
What I found challenging was trying to explain my point
Do you think school should start at 10:00?
In my opinion it would be better for school to start at 10:00. It would be better for everybody to get a little more sleep as well as the stress it can put on parents. With more time to get ready the worry of being late drastically decreases everybody would be in a better mood for school if that were to happen.
Especially knowing it would give everybody a bigger chance to get back on track. Also that would be a lot better for those who live further away from the school than others.
The side effects of this would cause everyone to be slightly more encouraged to come to school if anyone was feeling down. And if this were true I know I’d come to school a lot happier. I’m sure that this is a good idea for the multiple things I just explained. But alas this is just in my opinion because everyone thinks differently and that is why i think school should start at 10:00 AM.
Capillary action
Background
Capillary action is just letting natures way climb upwards even though gravity ,makes it pull down. Its the same thing like when you spill water on like a tissue paper the water expands.
Experiment
Our teacher Mr Heath made 3 jars of water but not normal water it was food coloured water. He then assigned us to pour water into tubes. After we put all the water into the tubes we put types of materials into the water like fabric, paper and tissue paper. When we put all the materials in we saw how much water it coloured the materials. The reason why we did this was to see and look at capillary action
Hypothesis
The fabric and paper is the fastest because the tissue is thin and the fabric is easy to expand because its good at absorbing the water but paper on the other hand isn’t built for absorbing water it was made for strength and smoothness.
Experimental Background Method
Group up in a three then fill a beaker exactly at 100mls. Now cut three types of materials fabric, paper, tissue paper and don’t forget to make them identical. All three people including one of your group members get fabric and the other gets paper and you will get tissue paper. After you have done all that start a timer for 10 minutes and after the 10 minutes you take the materials out of the test tubes and measure how much the liquid climbed up.
Discussion
The reason why I think the paper did not climb up higher is because paper is built and not good at absorbing water but the tissue is thin so its easy for the water to expand and fabric is wool and very smooth. The thickness of the tissue was thin and its easy for the water to expand that’s why its the winning material. No because honey is sticky and good but water is a liquid which could expand on materials like fabric or tissue but honey can stick to the tubes. The material can be soaked easily because its in the water not just like a quarter in but is full in which can change the differences but if you just put a tip in the water cant expand that much because its just the tip so it’s unfair because one is lower and one is higher
are dog better then cats
What have we been learning ? I have been learning to persuasive write
We have been learning A FOREST to help us with persuasive writing
What was challenging figuring out what to write
Questions do you think that dogs are better then cats
I believe that dogs are better then cats.Wanna know why.Because dogs are more believe .And not that scratchy and more cuddly and you can take the dog on walks anywhere you want and they can be any kind of dog it can be big or small .What do you think.
learning AFOREST
We have been learning about AFOREST to help us with are persuasive writing
And the hardest thing for me was doing AFOREST because it felt impossible to find a placement but I got it.
Have you ever done AFOREST? do you know what each letter means?.
I think dogs are better than cats because they are cool.
Have you ever had a cute fluffy puppy that sleeps with you? Does it feel nice will he or she keep you warm in the cold? And dogs are highly intelligent species and dogs have a really good sense of smell there sense of smelling is 10 thousand times better than ours thats a bit bitter mean and dogs were evolved from a know extinct wolf cool right and there are dancing dogs dopey dogs ok what im trying to say is that