NEWS!

Sharp is a group activity that we attend once a week to learn to think accurately while reading that is run by the teacher. During sharp we unpack sentences and read stories with a group of students at our level. By doing this weekly we improve our level of reading because we begin to deeply understand the texts.

After sharp, my classmates and I were set two tasks to do around the story we read. This task was to create a news interview; interviewing 2 people who attend the school in the story we read. To achieve this task I used wevideo. First I recorded the clips; then I edited them together.

Who would you like to be in this story?

Can You Get These Right?

 Today in class during manaiakalani, we were challenged to share our maths in a way we wanted. Choosing to code a game, I came across a challenge. It was nobody could complete my game because the questions were to hard. To fix this I just came up with easy questions. 

I created it using scratch. When you search ''scratch'' on google click the first link, then follow the instructions and you can make your own game. The hard thing was remembering which codes to place so then the story would work. Though I found it easy to make up questions to use.

I hope you win!

My Pepha

 In class during manaiakalani today, we learnt our pepha. A pepha is a piece that show who you are. Showing your ancestry, where you came from and how you get to where you are now, and your surroundings. Personally, I have known mine of by heart because I had to learn mine in primary school. Do you know yours?

I created this screencastify on Tour Builder to present it in a interesting way. I also made a hard copy on Poster My Wall. Though I struggled to spell all of the maori words; I found it easy to present it in interesting and different ways then the original idea. I hope you can learn more about me through this post. 

Underwater Challenge!

Kia ora, this is my game. Our class has been going to Tonui Colab for 4 weeks. There we learnt new concepts, game development, and learnt about makecode arcade all in a collaborative environment. There we were split into 2 groups; rotating between 2 rooms. With the time split in half we spent 1 hour each week doing challenges and the other hour coding our games. 

On scratch we made our games. Designing the background and the player, I struggled to find a player relative to the game. Finally, after that and many other steps including coding on scratch, we ended with a completed game. I learnt a lot of new things doing this exercise. Unfortunately, we only had four sessions to build our games, they could have been better.

The concept of my game is set under water. On the top of my game there is bubbles; at the bottom is seaweed. With black ”rocks”  you have to jump on you have on to complete the game, collecting the little fish on the way.

What would you do if you made your game? What colour would your background be?

I hope you enjoy my game, click the link below to play -

Click here-https://makecode.com/_A67MTKAVaLf5

Can You Win?

In class, we were learning about making a game to teach younger kids about maori. Enjoying doing this activity, I thought it was a cool opportunity to teach other students something. This post and game was aimed at younger kids. Unfortunately, you might not learn as much because it is at an easier level.

Sarah and I created the game on scratch, using lots of different blocks to code. Finding it easy to find music to put in the background when you get it right or wrong. With pixel I created the bird and Sarah created the butterfly. In a process, we upload pictures then put colour on top of the original colour to make it look better. After that we made the images png. Finally, after a few more steps we had completed our game. I hope you enjoy it, Good Luck!

Do you agree?

Today in class we had to write an essay. Using the app WTE, I created this piece. WTE is an online tool that teaches to write.  ON this app there is 12 different sentence styles; these improve your writing and make it more interesting. This app is good because it marks your work; giving you feedback. Luckily, WTE has modules and tasks as well teaching many skills.

Personally, I found it harder to write the essay then to show it in a eye catching and interesting way. How would you present your essay? What app would you use? Have you written an essay before? What was it about. 

Copyright!

In class during minakalani, we were learning the rules and regulations around copyright. There are a lot of rules around this topic, but these are in place to protect people's work. Mr Fourie taught us majority of these rules such as taking someone else's work you need to say were you got it from or the persons name.
We made this task to practice to remember putting people's names on their work. Using a template we had to fill the squares. In the squares there were requirements like how old we are or what's our favorite food.





Though I found it easy to decide what I was putting in the squares. Though I found it hard to say where the pictures came from.I really enjoyed finding the pictures.
I hope you enjoy my post -