New Zealand Mascot

 For the past few days, my class and I were designing Olympic mascots. We had to somehow incorporate  a element of NewZeland in our mascots. We used a app called 'Chrome Canvas'. This app was already pre-installed on our chromebooks.

Thinking of a idea was probably the hardest. There are lots of areas to cover before you can design your mascot, plus we had to somehow incorporate NewZeland into our mascots. I decided that my mascot would represent the Paralympics part of the Olympics.

I enjoyed designing the mascot and giving it's personality. Coloring the mascot was also enjoyable. 

My mascot's name is 'Rā'. 'Rā' in Maōri means 'Sun'. I gave Rā no arms, because he is a mascot representing the Paralympic games. Rā always has a bright outlook on life, despite he is differently abled. Here is a picture of Rā, my Paralympic mascot!

Kiwi Kids News Read Off!

 This week for reading, we had free reading on Kiwi Kids News! We had a deck of slides to work on, and had to make 3 copies of the slide deck. We had to make 3 copies because we had to read 3 articles from Kiwi kids news. This was the order: a. An article from national news, b. A article from world news, and finally c. A article from odd stuff.


We had this read off so that we could earn points for our group. When a group reaches 100 points, we get something called invisibility time. Invisibility time means that you become invisible and you can go on a learning site (epic, prodigy crazy games, etc.) for 15 minutes. 

My digital learning object shows that I can emebed a Google slide deck into this blog post.
This is the blog post about National news.

Gamefroot Progress

 Today for cybersmart in my class, we were finishing coding our gamefroot games. We have made lots of progress in developing our game through hard work.

I enjoyed coding my game. I liked coding my character to move forward, backward and jump the most. I also enjoyed decorating my game with little animals and plants. This made the game look more pleasing to the eye.

I found placing the decorations tricky. I found out that if you did not put a immovable code on the decoration, the decoration could move freely and you could push the decoration. I have not finished adding the immovable code to all the decorations.

You can play my game here.

Please give me some feedback, and constructive criticism if possible in the comments!

Matariki and Puanga Diagram

For the past few weeks, my class was learning about Matariki. We read 2 articles and 1 video about Matariki.We learnt that Matariki is when a cluster of 7 stars (7 sisters) come to our sky to show us the begining of the Maori New Year. Matariki is a important time for the Maori iwi (tribes) to come together and celebrate. It is also important  because it's a time where there is an abundant harvest.

For our reading task, we were learning to compare and contrast. This week, for comparing and contrasting, we listed the differences and similarities on a Venn Diagram on google slides, or on a piece of paper. We could also work with the people in our reading groups, and peers.

I found creating the space tricky. The slide was quite small, and the writing kept overflowing. Also remembering all the facts was also quite challenging.

I enjoyed creating the Venn Diagram, even though it was tricky to sort out the spacing and size of the circles and words. I enjoyed choosing a starry background for this period of Matariki the most. One background had more stars, the other background had less. I also enjoyed changing the font so it looked minimalistic.

What do you do with your Whanau to celebrate Matariki? Do you all come together and have a hangi, or do you do something else? Tell me in the comments!