Architect or blogger?

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In class we have been doing geometry. 

Tinker-cad is a good website to use when using shapes and measuring , which is what we had been doing.  

We decided to design a playground because that is something that the juniors are running short of. 

Here is my screen-castify about my design: 

What is tinker-cad?

This is a website where you can design

3D buildings and places (like playgrounds). 

I would recommend it for your geometry!

I found this work quite challenging, because we had to place everything in a very specific place and do lots of calculating so our playgrounds look real. I still really liked the challenge though.

Feel free to comment!

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How to speak animal

Hi blogging world!
Recently I have been looking at how animals communicate. I read a story about this topic and decided to make a response on the story. I enjoyed reading the story because it had lots of interesting facts about animals. Trying to think about things that I didn't like from  the story was quite challenging because The info that I found out was very cool. Here is my response:

Personal Response

Directions

During or after reading record your personal thoughts and questions under each heading.

Headings		Personal Response
	QUESTION	How do dogs learn what humans are saying? Can cats understand humans? What is the animal that can understand most of human language
	WAS SURPRISED ABOUT	That spiked iguanas could understand a paradise flycatchers warning call for danger in the jurrasic times   Bees communicate by ‘dancing’ to tell others where the nectar is  Different species can understand eachother
	LIKED	That animals can learn tricks via communication like jumping or playing dead     How animals mark their territory by leaving their smell in the area That deers communicate and tell other deers when their is danger to protect eachother
	DIDN’T LIKE	Birds might attack if you get to close to their nest   A bee will communicate by stinging when angry or hurt  That humans can’t understand what animals are saying
	WHAT DO WE NEED TO   CHANGE.	We need to spend more time in nature so that we can understand animals better   We need to listen to our animals more because they might be giving us an important message  We should spend more time with our pets becasue that tels them that we love them
	MADE ME THINK ABOUT	What animals might be saying   The sounds animals make  Why do some animals not make a sound like a rabbit
	DIDN’T UNDERSTAND

I hope you like my work and feel free to comment!

Ako Hiko Tool-kits

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I have just been to the Ako Hiko Tool-kits!

I had so, so much fun! I went to 1 session called incredibox, and presented a slideshow about Making a quiz on a website called Kahoot, for another session.

What are student led tool-kits?
This is a big meeting, hosted by one of the schools in the Ako Hiko cluster.
6-24 students are chosen from each school to come and watch other children present about a tool on their Chromebooks. Some kids are chosen to present their own presentations. 
There are also some challenge's that you do on the day. This year there was a coding challenge and a problem solving challenge.  

What do you do in the challenges?
2-4 students are chosen per school to do each challenge. I was picked from our school to participate in a problem solving challenge!
We had to build a structure that was more than 10 cm tall and it had to hold a cup with 100 grams in it. 
Our structure came second place, and was 20 cm Tall, and we got the award for the most creative.

At The tool-kit sessions I had to present a slideshow. 

Like I said it was about Kahoot. I did it in front of a classroom of kids. If you would like to see it, 

Here it is:

I had loads of ultra cool experiences at the tool-kits! The thing that I found most fun was when I got to do a Kahoot quiz with the classroom of kids that I was teaching. The thing that I found most challenging was getting everybody signed into the website (kahoot) because we had lots of troubles, but we managed to get through everything! I learnt, that there is that you can get bonus's on incredibox. I learnt this when I went to my first session. Before I presented I was feeling kind of nervous, but now I feel proud of myself!
Here are some photos as well:

At the problem solving challenge

Doing some work on my chrome book

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Jonty and Choc

Welcome back bloggers,
Last term in class, I was reading a book called Jonty and Choc, by Vince Ford. The book is about 2 boys who are best friends, and then they start Intermediate. At Intermediate Choc finds a mysterious lump that interferes with their friendship. Find out more in my book review: 

I found this work fun because I got to work on a range of different activities over a week. The trickiest activity was  doing a 'Y' chart about a minor character in the story. I found this challenging because I did not know that much about the minor character. I had to assume things about the character and get clues from little details in the story. The easiest activity was the plot because all I had to do was retell the start, middle and end of the story!
I hope you like my work, and feel free to comment!
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How to screen-print

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Over the last term we have been trying to find ways that we can help our world, and recycle. We came up with the idea to create tote bags instead of using loads of plastic bags. The first thing we did (after some research) was have a go at screen printing onto a fabric called calico. Then, as some of our literacy we wrote procedural writing about how to screen print. Here is my work:


For this writing we had to write from our own experience at screen-printing, and I found it quite fun. The most challenging bit was remembering all the things we needed to use, to put in the materials list. The easiest bit about this work was writing the steps because I knew how to screen-print and all I had to do was write down my experience in step by step instructions.
I hope you like my work, and feel free to comment!
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Halving and doubling

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A couple of days ago in class we were thinking about what would make multiplication questions easier when we were working them out. We came up with the strategy of halving and doubling, this is my presentation to show my work:

I found some of the questions kind of tricky but I managed to complete them! My favourite part of this work was when we got to write our own word problem, maybe you could try and solve it (without looking at the answer on the bottom of the page!)
I hope you like my work, feel free to comment!

My new blog profile

Welcome back bloggers,

This week in class we were wondering what people thought about us when they visited our blog. 
We decided to make a thing-link, to tell people a bit about ourselfs when they came onto our blogs.
This is my work:


I found this work easy because I got to write lots of stuff about myself, (what I like, what I dislike etc). I found this work challenging because I had trouble putting some of my Documents  in. I think this activity was fun and creative and I hope you guys like it!

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