Computer Set Up Design

LI.to design and label your ultimate gaming setup and controller. 

In this activity I created my own set up room using Google draw, to see what my gaming room would look like if I had one. To have the right gaming equipments I looked up different types of things that people have in their set up to complete mine. After that I labelled my items so that people know what each of them are. I enjoyed doing this activity because it helped me build my knowledge on what is needed in a gaming room. 

Season Description

LI.to paint a picture with your words to describe the setting. 

In this activity I have created a season description about gaming. I looked at different websites and wrote why the game introduces new seasons about every 10 weeks. Something I found interesting was that creating new seasons allows others to enjoyed more of the game and keep the game going instead of he players playing the same seasons. 

Cinquain Poem

LI: To write a cinquain poem that describes a character from your favourite online game.

In this activity I have ceated a cinquain poem to describe about my character. Using word hippo I searched up words that would match my characters personality and her actions. I enjoyed doing this activity because I was able to improve my cinquain poem.

25 Words Challenge ~ V-Bucks

LI.to explain what V-bucks are in exactly 25 words. 

In this activity we needed to summarize what V-bucks so that people can understand when they see one or want to buy one. To get an understanding of what these were I went on a few sites and wrote it in my own words. I enjoyed summarizing this because I didn't know what is was, and why gamers bought it for. 

Skins Profile

LI.to describe my favourite online gaming character. 

In this activity I created my own character called Poised. In the writing section I have wrote what she looks like and why shes wearing that, and her reactive skill to describe my character. I really enjoyed doing this activity because I was able to customize my own gaming character. 

Manga Artist

LI: To read for meaning and understanding

Our challenge today was to use our smart searching skills to create a DLO in our own words that tells us about the life of our favourite manga artist or a well known manga artist.

A fact I found interesting was just winning a comic contest in freshman year led to him having his stories being broadcasted. 

Advertising

LI.to use advertising language to persuade others to think like you. 

In this activity my partner (Te Raumati) and I created an advertisment to explain which console or device was best to play online games. To create this DLO we looked at different websites to get more information and to find the best ways to describe the model. I enjoyed doing this activity because I was able to understand more about gaming technology from the websites that I have come across to. 

Summary Customised Shoes

LI.to explain in fewer words what the text is about. 

The challenge for today was to read an article about Rangi-Haira Jaxon for his passion of customizing sneakers. For Rangi-Haira Jaxon to do this he was inspired by Just For Kicks as they were designing shoes, and because he had a desire of art and sneakers. 

Something I found interesting was how Rangi-Haira Jaxon can design them and sell them worldwide as it can allow people to buy from him and be reconized on internet. 

Fred's Decision

LI: To use smart searching skills

Part of our reading challenge today was to use our smart searching skills to find facts about geese. One fact I found interesting was that some geeses do migration each year to get to warmer places. 

How to Survive a Cow Attack

LI.to evaluate.

This week we are using our skills of inferring and reorganising information in a text to make evaluation about facts and events that is not stated. Our follow up challenge was to read an article that told us how to survive a cow attack. We then used the information from both texts to create a DLO that tells others how to survive a cow attack.

I found out that one of the ways that make cows aggressive is when they see a running dog.

I enjoyed learning how to survive a cow attack because I can use this to escape myself from danger if this ever happens to me.

Presentation

Here is the Link to the presentation.

Last week for reading, our class created a speech about the Ancient Olympics. Before doing the presentation we researched about the Ancient Olympics in order to understand this event. In the presentation we talked about what the event was, where it happened, the different events, some interesting facts, the days of the event, who took part, and which states did the athletes came from. After that we wrote a script for each of our group so that it is easier to now our lines. Using prezi we presented it in front of the class. An interesting fact that I found interesting was that the age limit for the men to compete were 12 years old and over. 

Olympic Provocation

LI.to compare there and now with the Olympic places.

The DLO showing above is about the amount of money that was spent to build and help with the olympics. My reading group wrote some no and yes ideas as example yes they should spent this money to make their families proud, also with no because people could use the money with vaccines. We also found a photo of then and now happening every four years.

Ancient Greece posing

LI: To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology.

Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers.

David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this posting activity, we first pick five Gods or Goddesses and pick an image from around the world or the God or Goddess and write a caption for the post.

I found this activity fun because as a group we got to use this task as an instagram post but about goddess.

The post that I found most interesting was Hera because it was It is hard to be the goddess of marriage when normally everyone usually cheats on everyone!

Identifying Comparisons

LI: To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology.

Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers.

David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about the difference between Athens and Sparta.

I found this activity fun because both of them had differences. 

The fact I found most interesting was education for boys because both of them didn't have the same perspectives for boys. 

Did this happen?

LI: consider both perspectives.

Today for inquiry my group and I read information about Kuirau Park, Rotorua, New Zealand. We then looked if the information was true or false, if the event took place or not by looking at this place in New Zealand. Then we wrote our opinion for the text that we read. My opinion is that the event did not took place because taniwha is a character from a Maori story. 

Something I found interesting was that some of the information written was real but at the end it was not true.

Main Ideas

LI: To identify the main ideas in a text

This week for inquiry we retold how Maui slowed down the sun using main ideas.

First, we watched a video of how Maui slowed down the sun. After that, we wrote multiple ideas about the important ideas in the story. Next we wrote 4 very important ideas from the important ideas. Lastly, we wrote 3 vital ideas.

Something I found interesting was that the 3 vital ideas were the facts that needed to be explained in the story.

Venn Diagram

LI:Find as many similarities and differences as you can between the video and the text of “The Beginning”.

For inquiry my group read the beginning of how the Rangi and Papa got seperated. We then made a venn diagram about what the differences or the video version and the written versions. Then we looked if we could find any similarities about the book and the video. Lastly we wrote what we prefered between the video and the written version of the story.

I prefered the written version because it told what happened in the beginning and because I didn’t know what happened in the beginning.

Something I found interesting was how many similarities we could find between the video version and the written version.

Summary

LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about.

Today for inquiry my group has done a summary about retelling the story of how Rangi and Papa got seperated.

Storytelling is a huge part of the culture and history of Aotearoa. This taonga from our ancestors is the heartbeat that will keep our whakapapa alive for those who are still to walk in their footsteps.

In this task we picked out 20 important words from the sand art that we watched some are Maori, parents, free, darkness, etc. Then we picked out 6 most important words to sum up the video that e watch into fewer sentences.

Something I found interesting was how the man could draw a lot of details using sand.

Affixes Challenge

LI.to use prefix and suffix knowledge to increase vocabulary understanding. 

This week for our new Affixes Challenge , We've been doing anti which is our prefix word. 

We worked in a group and searched different words and the meaning of the words that started with the word anti. Some examples are antisocial, antivirus, anticlockwise.

After that we wrote 5 compound sentences using FANBOYS, and also using the 5 words from the word wall that we have created. A compound sentences is formed by adding two main clauses together using conjunctions. One example of a compound sentence is the boy was really excited for his school camp, but when he arrived he forgot about his socks, and shorts. 

Lastly we wrote chose a word to illstrate. This was done by picking a word and needed to explain the definition or the prefix, and the root word, then when the definition is when you combine the two words. 

I enjoyed doing this activity because it helped me  learn new words that can be used in a sentences.

All As One

LI.to make connetions (self, text, world). 

In the past 2 week’s our reading group has been learning about the culture Afghanistan. The text we read was called All as One. This is about how one culture comes together and pray in one room with men and women divided.

After reading this text we wrote some questions that we thought we wanted to know. When writing the questions we needed to use might, could, should, or would to make our questions better.

Some examples we wrote were:

What might have happened if an adult eat during fasting?

What might happen if a muslim said something wrong during praying?

I enjoyed doing this activity because it taught about what muslim culture and what they do when they pray.