Literacy Tumble (Week 1)

Hi blogging world. This week we did this activity called the Literacy Tumble which is this activity where you have to do reading and writing activities that you have to do for the following weeks of the term. There are 3 categories that you have to do, one of the categories is called the must do's and you have to finish all the activities in the must do's by the end of the week. Another one of the categories are called the should do's, which is extra work if you finish the must do's and one of the activities in the should do's is making a blog post which I am doing right now. The last one of those categories are called the could do's and if you finish all the activities in the must do's and the should do's you have to do the activities in the could do's. Once you finish a activity in any of the categories you record your work in slideshow which the teachers made. I have finished all of my activities in the must do's all in one day and now I am in the first activity in the should do's.

                                                               Here is the slideshow

                                                                                               

Technology rotation

Hello blogging world. Three weeks ago each class in the Te Waka Ako had to do a technology rotation every Friday. My first class rotation was in the blue space and we had to do a Geo board which is like board where you can make shapes out of it. First we had to go to groups of four and we had to take turns using a saw to cut the wood which is the base of the board. Then we had to use a permanent marker to draw a dot to where we are going to hammer the nails. After that we had to hammer the nails into the board, once we finished hammering the nails we had to use it to make the shapes using rubber bands. Our second rotation that my class had to go to was the green space and we had to do a technology challenge. We had to go into groups of 3 to 5 and our whole group had to sit somewhere in the room as our teacher handed use the materials we had to use. The point of the challenge is that we had to sit on a table and we had to use our materials to make like a bridge in the end of our table and we had to make the bridge strong enough to hold a marble. My classes last rotation was in the yellow space and we had gather around in a circle and our teacher gave a use a battery and this small light that isn't lighting up. But our class found out that if you connect the lines of the small light onto the battery the light lights up. Then our teacher asked us to make a electric circuit using materials like paper clips and tinfoil and we also had to do make a switch to turn the light on and off. When I finished my circuit I managed to make the light go on and make a switch but I didn't make my object long enough but I think I did a good job.

                                                               Here are some photos




       

                                                             

Stop motion

Hello bloggers. Today our whole syndicate had to make a stop motion animation. The stop motion animator app is in our Chromebook. We had to make our stop motion using play dough, Lego and other stuffs. I made my stop motion video using Lego because I thought it was easier to use Lego than play dough. How the stop motion animator app works is that you can take lots of pictures by pressing capture or space bar and when you are done taking pictures all the pictures you took can be put in a video and you can just play the video by pressing the play button. Next time I think I need to make the video longer because the video I made was only 2 seconds. I think I also have to make the video slower because the one I made was too fast.

                                                                     Here is the video


     

Improving blog comments

Hello blogging world. This week for our cybersmart lesson we had to pair up with another student and we had to comment in each others blogs. Once we published our comment we had to copy and paste our comment to a DLO (Digital Learning Object). Then we had to improve our comment that we wrote and we had to add a question at the end and we also had to include PTH which means positive, thoughtful and helpful. We also had to check the comment for the spelling, punctuation and grammar. We had to make sure does the comment make sense and does it convey meaning, we also had to keep the question that we wrote brief and polite. And the changes that I made were being more specific with all the sentences that I wrote and I also add a question at the end.

                                                                    Here is the DLO