Today I was setting my goals for next term. My goal for next term was to get better at sports and get a bit more athletic because nowadays, I'm kinda lazy and just spend most of my time drawing.
I enjoyed setting my goal and my highlight for this term was Maara-Kai master chef and dodgeball.
I didn't really find anything tricky to be honest. Other than the fact that my face doesn't fit the circle.
Do you have any new goals? If you do please comment!
Today my class was reading out our speeches. There were so much topics that people talked about. My one was about cats vs dogs. We had to spin the wheel of death/doom to see who would be picked to get up in front of the class and say their speech.
I kinda enjoyed reading out my speech to the class, but I was a little nervous so I got my friend to stand next to me as my support person. Lot of the people in my class had a support person go up with them to support them while the person is reading out their speech. But some people didn't bring up a support person and that's completely okay.
I found it tricky to get myself together to say my speech to the class. As I said in my second paragraph some people had to guts to read their speech without a support person by their side.
Have you done a speech before? Tell me in the comments!
Today my class was making a book on a app called, book creator. We had to take a lot of instructions and it was very time consuming. Here are some of the steps. We had to first choose our layout then, we had to start writing. Most of our class used voice typing to get down our thoughts/ideas down quickly.
I enjoyed making the book and changing all the fonts, colors, backgrounds, and patterns.
I didn't really find anything hard to be honest. Other than the fact that we had to sit on the mat FOREVER.
I think you should try out book creator. It is very interesting, and you can do a lot with it. when I say a lot, I mean it! here is the link to try! Link to book creator Here is also the link to my book! My Book!
Today I was making a Teo Maori dictionary for Maori language week. We used google drawings to make the glossary. We played 2 kahoot's to get some ideas for our glossary. We could also add words from our pepeha.
My favorite part was probably drawing the symbols in the google drawing. Other than that I enjoyed doing every single bit overall.
To be honest I didn't really find anything tricky or hard. My only complaint is that we couldn't insert images, and we had to draw the images we wanted using the tools in google drawings.
Do you know any Teo Maori? If so please comment what you know!
Today I was learning about filter feeding. We did a experiment on how shellfish filter feed. We had to take a piece of filter paper and fold it to make a cone like shape. Then we had to put the cone into a funnel. After that we had to put the funnel into a beacon. Then we poured some blue water with bits of glitter in the funnel. The glitter acted as pollution. When we poured the water through the filter paper, the glitter stayed in the filter paper. We did the same with yellow water, which had much more glitter. The same thing happened, and that's how filter feeding works!
I enjoyed doing the experiment and making the slides. The experiment was probably my favorite thing to do because you get to find out how filter feeding animals, like shellfish eat!
I found working with a buddy a bit tricky. We weren't really cooperating, but we got the hang of it. Eventually.
Today I was reading about cats vs dogs. In my opinion, I think cats are better because, they generally cost less and also for other reasons. (You will see the other reasons in the slides below)
I enjoyed reading the text cats vs dogs. I also enjoyed watching the videos and making the slides.
I found finding reasons for why cats are better tricky. But, the video provided in the slides helped me find reasons on why cats are better than dogs.
What side are you on? Tell me in the comments!
Today my class was exploring blogs from other people and schools. We had one person from our school, Saint Marys, and the other two from Matawai school. We all saw that they had different interests and different culture backgrounds.
I enjoyed collecting information from other people's blog. I also enjoyed getting to know them through looking at their profiles.
I found it tricky to finish my slides in time because, we had cybersmart at the end of the day. And had a time limit.
Have you seen other people's blogs? If you have, please comment!
