summer learning journey

Today I did a task for the  summer learning journey and for that task  i couloured in picures of  the iss (inter national space station) and the space shuttle 

October Reflection.

 Today  made a reflection on all the things I did in october i am very exited for november. I found it chalenging to explain how a naritive works  next time i will explain a naritive better.

Come Down Golden Chapter 1 Task

Today for this task I made a google drawing apout the occurances in chapter 1 of Come Down Golden. We are learning to infer. When you infer you sort of read betwean the lines and you think more in depth into the story. 

I have infered that it has been very hard for Louis because he is in a wheelchair.  

I enjoyed making the character and making the drawing in general. I didn't really find anything tricky. Next I would make the charicter talk more.

Come Down Golden pre reading

 Today I was learning to hypothissise when you hypothissise you use the data you all ready hanve and you predict whats going to hapen judging by the data you all ready have. I found it chalenging to hypothisise just by data from the back of the book. My digital learning object shows my hypothisis from what I have read from the Book so far. Next time I would add more to my hypothisis.

Here is my hypothisis. 

I hypothesise that because he can’t have a dog Louis tries to tame the golden monkey, but his parents find out and tell him to give him back to the zoo then Golden runs up the tree and doesn’t come down so he struggles to teach him.

Zombie Apocolypse

This monday  a zombie apocolypse hapend and we needed to  find food water and shelter and a way to escape this zombie infested land. made a set of slides to show what hapened throughout the days  I enjoyed learning about what hapened  to  Jimmy and if we will be rescued by the Austrailian Mlatary.

September reflection

 Today I made a reflection about all of the exciting things I did in september. I enjoyed thinking of all the fun things I did in september this year. My favroute thing I did was my cat calender art. I am very excited of what we will do in october.

Speech, why there shoud be no homework.

 This week I was creating a speech to share to the class a speech is a piece of whriting that you say to encourage someone to do something, thing diferantly and getting people on your side.
I found it challenging to say the introduction without getting my toung twisted because it is a lot like a toung twister. My digital learning object shows a screencast of me saying my speech. Next time I would add more facts and change the topic because the speech is not a very eargent topic and people if probably not take me seriously.

Te wiki o te reo Maori

 This week I was learning the diferant names of 2D shapes in Maori  

I found it challenging to find a pentigon because the only pentegon in the class was in a scince book.

My digital learning object shows a set of slides showing 2D shapes and ther names in maori and in english.

Next time I would change the diamond and the triangle because they where all croped from the star.

Reading. no girls alowed

This week I was learning to identify the charicters and/or authors point of view when you do this you read a book and think of the characters point of view in that book of story. 

I found it chalenging to catch up with mu group because I was away on Monday.

My digital learning object shows a beatituds slideshow, a doc where our group thought of the prospecties of the charicter from the book no girls alowed. and some slides for social justice week. 

Next time I will change the pictues on the beatitudes poster because they were not very good 

5 facts about the paralympics.

This week I was learning about the paralympics. 

I found it challenging to find facts that I understand.

My digital learning object shows 5 facts about the paralympics.

Next time I would change the background.

 

auther report: Dav pilkley

This week I was learning to make links betwean our paragraphs when you do this you can use the same word at the start of the paragraphs  that we used at the end of the last paragraph this is a word link.  you can also use the same idea at the start of a sentince at the end of the sentence before that this in an idea link.

I found it challenging to find a wow fact because there was now many good wow facts about Dav pilkley.

My digital learning object shows a piece of writing about Dav pilkley.

Next time I would add more word links and idea links.

Full Name: David Murray Pilkey Jr.      

Date of Birth: 4th march 1966.

Place of Birth:cleveland ohio U.S.A. 

Famous for: writing the Dog man, Captain underpants, Super diaper Baby and the adventures of ook and gluk the kung foo cavemen from the future.  

Childhood:

When Dav was little he was diagnosed with a.d.h.d (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and dyslexia. so he was very disruptive in class. so disruptive in fact that all of his teachers made him sit out of class but… when he was sitting out in class he would make the very first Dog man and The adventures of captain underpants comic books. When the teacher came to pick dave up to come back in class she/he would say “you can't spend the rest making these silly books' ' fortunately dav wasend a very good listener. his favorite book as a kid was ‘where the wild things are’

Adulthood:

His favorite book now is the first bad guys book of the series. Dav lives with his wife Sayuri Pilkey. His writing is inspired by the art style of kids around the world mixed with his way of drawing. He is always making new books for all of the huge fans around the world.

About his books: Dav includes a really cool way of adding action into his books by using two images on two different pages and if you flip them between the two pages it will make an animation in the book they call it “flip-o-rama”. Also at the start of the book it will give you a brief history of the main superhero that the books are about. and at the end of the book Dav shows you how to draw the characters in the story in 30 at most easy steps.  

WOW Facts:

The first adventures of captain underpants was actually a copy of the captain underpants that he made as a kid.

 

Anton cooper report

 This week I was learning to make links betwean paragraphs. The way you do this is by using 2 diferant things 1. an idea link which is where you put an idea at the start of one paragraph and one at the start of the next so it links it with the first one. 2. A word link this is where you refer to the last paragraph useing a word from the end of the first one.  
I found it challenging to add new paragraphs because I was confused about what the next paragraph needs to be about.
My digatal learning object shows a piece of report writing about Anton Cooper, a New Zealand mountan biker. 
Next time I will think about how I can add things in the success criteria  

Anton Cooper.

Name: Anton cooper    Place of birth: Christchurch NZ

Born: August 11 1994  sport: mountan biking 

Life and Career

Anton Cooper was born on August 11 1994 in Christchurch NZ. He went to school at Christchurch Boys High School. His parents are Paul and Laila Cooper and he has sevaral sisters. When he was 16 he came 1st place in the mountan biking World cup in the Czech Republic by over a minute! He also won  the UCI junior World title in 2012 

When Anton was 11  he got into a mountan biking compatition by putting in a false birth age. He was racing year 7s and 8s and he was year 6. He was expecting to lose but in the end he ended up wining.

The healing powers of Rimu

This week I was learning to sumemaise. When you summarise you get some of the key information from a website and make it shorter so its easier to read.

I found it challenging to notice the full stops and capital letters so I had to go back in forth a lot.

My digital learning object shows my poster that will soon be on a sign in the healing garden to show people what the plant is and what you can do with it. 

On my poster I chose the rimu tree and how you can beat the leaves in to a pulp to make sores go away faster.

Next time I woud make the pencil darker because it is hard to see the text in the image.

Slides about Japan.

This week I was learning to skim and scan wich is where you quikly skim through a artacle or a book and scan for all of the juicey facts and stuff so you can get all of your data without spending 30 minutes looking through a book. I Found it chalenging to put all of the facts about food in Japan in one slide. My digital learning object shows a set of 4 slides with 3 diferant thing about Japan. Next time I will change the font that the text is in.

I didnt finish this because I was to buisy changeing the fonts and background

Olympic facts.

This week I was learning how to skim and scan. When you skim and scan you read something like an article. The you read it again and you skim around and scan for only the good and juicy facts so you don't need to spend 30 minutes and only getting a little bit of the good facts. I found it challenging to get enough stuff about the 4th medal because eavry article prety much says the same thing. My digital learning object shows that I can skim and scan so I don't waste time learning about stuff. Next time I would change the amount of facts in the anchent Olympics slide. I didnt finish this because I forgot lots of important imfomation.

Olympic mascot

 This week I was learning about the Olympic mascots and what they represent. I have bean making a Olympic mascot  if the Olympics came to New Zealand. 

 I found it chalenging to get the outline right because useing a tracker pad to draw is very very hard. My digital learning object shows that I can use crome canvas to draw. Next time I woud make my head not as long because it looks like someone droped a anvil on the mascots head. I named it kiwi-wha because he is a kiwi and a taniwha wich both are stuff that repersent New Zealand  he has a very encoraging personality.

Gamefroot development part 2.

Today I have continued to work on my Gamefroot game. I have fixed the door problem and changed it to a boulder. I fixed this by replacing the door with a boulder as it seems more fitting to have a boulder rather than a door in my game setting.

To destroy the boulder and get into the cave just simply click on the boulder and it will disaper. The tree thing where you can pound them into the ground is not fixed yet because I did not get enough time there will be lots more Coming SOON!! You can play my updated game here.

Gamefroot

For the past three weeks I have been learning how to code a game using Gamefroot. 

I found it challenging to delete a fish I accidentally placed and I didn't know how to get rid of it. I also found it challenging to get the walking code because I had to do a lot of coding and it was a huge mess.

My digital learning object shows a game I made using Gamefroot.  

Next ime I will change it because I can't get into the the cave house. If you push the door open it will just hit the wall in front and won't leave a gap big enouigh to get through.

Play my game here

What did you like about my game?
What suggestions do you have for me to improve it other than redoing the cave house?

June Reflection.

 Today I made a reflection to show all of my goals and achievements for June. The reason we make these reflection newsletters is to reflect and sho all of the things that I have been learning through June in one blog post.  I like reflecting because it makes me think of everything I have done over the month and it makes me feel proud. Do you like to reflect on your work?

Financial Literacy

This week I was learning about Financal Literacy and how to make money and what you shoud spend it on. For the last 2 days Callum from the ASB Get Wise program came into our class to teach us how we can get money and what we shoud spend our money on. To make it easy he used this really cool trick called c.a.s.h.

Clear your mind from all the stuff that you want but will be a waste of money - also clear plan and money goal.

Action what are you going to do to make the amount of money you need for that prouduct.

Save the money that you have so you can get the thing that you want faster. 

How long? think of how long you need to save for if you save too long it might not be a realistic goal.

and there is also away to make monye caled S.S.S this will make your C.A.S.H easier.

S.S.S stands for 

Srtengths, think of what your good at, you shout try to make money by doing something that your good at this will make things much easier.

Solve any problems that might slow your business down.

Start your business!

I found it challenging to think of somthing I want but I dont need.

My digital learning object shows my C.A.S.H and S.S.S chart 

 

matariki

This week I was learning to compare and contrast when you compare and contrast you font difrences and similarities.

I found it challenging to find similarities between matariki in maori and sabaru in japan.

My digital learning object shows the similarities and difrinses between matariki in maori, sabaru in japan, pleiades in greek and kiowa.

Next time I would change the similarities  between because the similarite was pretty obvious.

 

invitation

This week for writing I was learning to make an invitation to my parents for  my Student-Led Conference. A Student-Led Confrence is where my parents come into my classroom and I show them all my work and progress I have done this year. 

In my invitation I had to make sure I had written who it's to, what its for, the dates for the Student-Led Confrence, how to book a time and who its from. 

I enjoyed making my avatar because I found it challenging to make the avatar look like me.

My digital learning object shows my invitation I have made for my Mum and Dad.

Next time I would change how my avatar looks because it doesnt really look like me.

Here is the inside of the invition and the front which has my Tom Fedro art work on it.

 

Measurement

This week I was learning how to measure acurately. I found it challenging to find out where a metre is on my body. My digital learning object shows six different things I measured.

Here are those 6 things I mesured. 

This week I was learning to use complex sentences I found it challenging to add complex sentences My digital learning object shows a piece of whriting that shows how planes Next time I would add more complex sentences 

How does a plane fly?

A plane is a powered flying vehicle with wings and they fly because the shape of the planes  wings it's shaped like that to optimise the speed on the runway and especially in the air 

Firstly  because the shape is  aerodynamic, the air flows under the wing easily and  a very small amount  just flies on by on the top . when the plane has enough air under the wing  the plane  gets very light 

Secondly the pilots will put the flaps down to hold more air under the wings so it's very light so light in fact that the whole plane lifts off the runway.

Lastly the plane will stay in the air because the air is denser and also there is a lot more air in the sky than there is on the ground.

so that's how planes fly. I hope you learned something from this.

 

The Labyrinth.

This week I was learning to infer. When you infer you get a question from in a story but there is no real answer in the text so you use the text to get closer until you get the answer. It's like you are looking for clues.

I found it challenging to think of why I disagre that Theseus is not a hero because he betrayed the princess.  My digital learning object shows a Labyrinth that Jacob A, James  and I built on slides together. I have also blogged our evaluate task where we put why we agree and disagree that theseius is a hero or not because he betrayed the princess. 

Next time I would change the walls of the Labyrinth because they where just black and that was boring.

Here is the Labyrinth and evauate task.

Sketcking!

The past few week  I have been learning  how to sketch.

I found it challenging to make the fur because it is very hard  to make it look fluffy.

My learning object shows the cat I sketched.  

Next time I would change the fur because it was to dark and close together so it looks like a thick black line going around the cat. 

Here is my sketched cat.

    

Creating sprites with piskel!

This week I was learning how to make a sprite in piskel.

I found it challenging to animate the walking an animation because nothing I thought of worked. 

My digital learning object shows my penut butter guy sprite I made with piskel.

Next time I would change the walking animation, because it looks like the penut butter guy is jumping. 

How to make a piskel sprite.

1. Go to the piskel website and sign in.

2. Once you game signed in click 'create sprite' 

3. press resise and  make the  resolution 128 

4. Use the pen, mirror, and fill tool to make your sprite. 

5.If you want animate it then download it and put it in a game or post it on your blog just like I did.

 

May reflection!

Today I made a reflection for march so i can reflect on all of my learning over may, here it is.  

The Museum of Technology

This week I was learning about the past Technologies and how people worked in the past, so we went to the Museum of Technology there' there is tons of stuff from the past like old prison cells, farming equipment and more.

here is a photo collage of  stuff we did there.

 

Sign langusage!

This week I was learning how to analyse and synthesise which means to gather imfomation and then use it  to make/ do stuff. Just like I learned how to say my name in sign language then I made a screencast of me saying that. The thing that I really enjoyed was learning about sign language. I found it challenging to find a quiet spot to do my screencasts. My digital learning object shows me saying my name is Baxter in sign language. Next time I would change the speed of which I was talking because I was talking too fast and it is hard to understand.. 

                  Here is my first atempt at the screen catsify. It wasn't final because I did the E wrong. 

And here is my final atempt.

 

anzac day

This week I was learning to analyse and synthesise and about the Anzacs who fought in  WW1.                  The thing that really touched my heart was that even some 13 year olds went to help  in the war.                 I found it challenging to make the front of the post card look real.                                                                    My digital learning object shows a post card that stan woud send.                                                                Next time I would changethe front of the diary.

 

 Here is the post card.

Here is the diary entry

Holy Week

This week I was learning to sumurise in reading and in whriting to retell the story of Easter. with Charlie Sam and Miss Mikayla.

I enjoyed making puppets because we got to cut out and cutting out things is my favroute thing to do!

I found it challenging to fint the perfict height to make the show look good 

My digital learning object showsthat I can make a puppt show and retell the story of Easter 

Next time I would change how fast I was shaking my hand in the start because it was too fast  

My favroute sport!

This week I was learning how to use mote to add audio in google slides.

I enjoyed useing mote to add audio so people can listen to stuff without reading. 

My digital learning object shows i can use mote to add audio to slides.

Next time I would change the size of the auido button. 

Who dunit?

 This week I was finding out who dunit, who stole the computer. Me Braden Camille and Sophia  had to find out who stole the computer. We had 4 suspects Carrie Cecil Carrie and Conner. Chloe was just droping of some bread, Cecil is a fish tank cleaner,Chloe is a clothing  cleaner and Conner is a chef   suspects useing detective skills like useing finger prints,whriting and a suspicious pouder wh notised chloe and the suspects finger print was the same and the pouder was clothing cleaning pouder aswhell as there hand whriting was the same so that means that the rober must be Chloe.

I enjoyed finding out who stole the computer and how.

I found it challenging to see if the fingerprints are the same.

My digital learning object shows I can use detective skills to find out who did stuff.   

February reflection!

This week i was makeing a reflection my learning for febuary.   

I enjoyed thinking back over this month and all the stuff we did through this month.

I found it challenging to think of a special subject that i liked the most because i liked all of them.

My digital learning object shows that i can reflect on my learning 

Sea Week!

 This week I was learning to make conections between what we read.

I enjoyed learning about how mutch plastic is in the ocean. It was sad that I had to see all of the dead sea creatures and fish.

I found it challenging to find sone really good WOW fact about plastic in the ocean. 

My digital learning object shows I can make a gif with tall tweets. 

Next time I would change the backround of the slides because they were too eye catching and the facts didn't look as important.

charts!

 hi to day I learnt how to make a chart for statistics and I leant that 53% of pepeole have shorthair cats and 17% have flufy long hair cats  the other 28% have no cats. here is my chart!

This week I was learning how to gather sot and desplay muti varient  data 

I enjoyed colecting data from my classmates 

I found it challenging to think or an idea for the data i am colecting  

My digital learning object shows i know  how to make  a chart 

Next time I would change the topic