Tuesday 28 July 2015

A Cloudy Lesson

Description: I watched a Video called 'A Cloudy Lesson', which is a video learning that 'Good Things Come from Happy Accidents'.


I think this video means that you can make better inventions from mistakes. I think this video helped make bubbles from the boy falling.

Key Words

Description: In reading, we have been learning about 'Key Words', which are the main points of a piece of text.

In this story, the key words are Prison, Government, Taking Over.

Key words are just the main points about the story or text, like a title. If I was to choose some key words from the description, I would choose 'Key Words, Reading, Main Points and Text'.

Click Here to See the Article about the first Key Words.

Somebody Wanted But So Then

Description: In reading I have done an activity called 'Somebody Wanted But So Then', which is an activity where you read a story, and answer these questions.
Somebody: Hay and Drum Minions.
Wanted: To make cool Minions.
But: Maybe people stopping by all the time.
So: They get to be on Social Media Nationwide!
Then: They announced that they will move the minions back to their house.

Click Here to See the Article.

Roll and Retell: Obama Visits Kenya

Description: We had to do an activity called 'Roll and Retell', which is an activity where we roll a dice, and see what question we have to answer about our story. Mine is 'Obama Visits Kenya while President'.

Dice Number 3: Where does the story take place? Kenya
Dice Number 6: What questions do you have about the story? Why did Kenya spend so much money on one president, like do they do that to their president?
Dice Number 4: When does the story take place? Late July - Early August
Dice Number 1: What is the story mostly about? Obama visiting Kenya while President
Dice Number 2: Who are the main characters? Kenyan People and Barack Obama
Dice Number 5: What happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story? Entirely about Obama's Visit to Kenya.

Click Here to see the story.

Monday 27 July 2015

Image Prompts

Description: As a task, we had to write down some responses to an image to get us thinking about it.

My Response: Everyone and Everything living is good at something, just different things. For Example, I am good at IT, Reading, Writing and Mathematics, but I am just HORRIBLE at sports like running. From the image, A fish can swim, but can't climb. An owl can fly up, but can't swim.

Surfer Survives Shark Attack!

Description: As an activity, we had to write or record a summary about the attack of Australian Surfer Mick Fanning.

Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWuA-PDoqFM&feature=player_embedded

Wednesday 22 July 2015

Bitesize Tic-Tac-Toe BBC

Description: As an activity, we did something called 'Bitesize', which is a game on BBC which helps us with our summarising by reading a paragraph, and to summarise it, we answered questions.

Here are some photos as well as a link here to go to the game:


Tuesday 21 July 2015

Rags to Riches

Description: In reading for summarising we have been doing in activity to help us summarise called 'Rags to Riches', which is a game that comes up of a paragraph, and you have to shorten it correctly to win fake money, with a high of $1,000,000!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a couple of photos, and Click Here to play:


New Zealand 4th Most Peaceful country in the World

Description: This year, NZ has been ranked the 4th peaceful country in the world. Today I have some information about why NZ has been ranked 4th.

So the first thing you need to know is that NZ is very isolated. When I say Isolated, I mean we are 3,000km from the nearest country, Australia. Now you may think that NZ has a small army, so China could attack. One bit is true, NZ has a small army, but we have lots of people with us, like US, AU and UK. A reason a country like Syria isn't the safest, more like the most dangerous, is because 1, they are having a civil war and 2, they have a terrorist group called 'Islamic State'. I think NZ should be the safest country in the world because we have a small population of 4,500,000 and that means that we have a small crime population, but big enough to have a good army.

In image: Wellington, NZ's Capital