Do You Want To Be A Zookeeper?

This week my reading group was reading "Zookeeper For A Day". After reading this we had to make an Information Web kind of summarizing the story, so we can see how the author of this set it out. 

I found it difficult at the beginning because I was confused but when they teachers explained it with more depth I found it much more easier than before and finished my work quickly. 

Here is my Information Web

Three Significant People In The Early Church

This week we had to choose between 6 people from the early church and we had to write about their role in the church, how did they help the church and why were they significant in the church. We had to read about them and what they were like.

When we had finished reading and picked 3 people that we wanted to do it on we had to make it on Animaker and after we finished we had to Screen Castify it. I chose Stephen, Paul and Peter.

I found it difficult to work on Animaker because it was my first time going on it and I didn't really know how to work things, so some people had to help me but in the end I think I did a good job.

Here is my Animaker!

What Is The Water Cycle

Do you know what a Water Cycle is?

This week our reading groups passage was on a Water Cycle and since it was a non fiction piece of writing we had to do an info graphic on it. 

When I was making this I found it not that hard to write about because we have learnt about Water Cycles before. I still have the same feedback on adding more pictures and i think this weeks info graphic has improved with that since there was more space for me to put in pictures as well!

Here's my info graphic! What did you learn from it?

How Do Waterspouts Form?

This week is a little different. Our teacher decided that now we won't have anymore shared slideshows. We will just post our things to our blog and the people in our group will just comment on there for feedback.

 This week we read a non - fiction piece of writing about how waterspouts form. Again we had to make an info graphic. 

Here I found it difficult to finish it on time because I was sick but I got it finished! I tried to add in more pictures because that is usually something that I need include more in my info graphics most of the time. 

Here is my info graphic! Do you think you have learnt anything? If you have, comment what you have learnt.

The Clumsy Space Trooper (Collaborative Writing)

The Clumsy Space Trooper (Collaborative Writing)

In our class we have been doing collaborative writing and we have already posted one of the pieces of writing we did in our group and that was our first time.

This time with the same group we had to go onto this website that could kind of make up  what the story would be about and it was about a clumsy Space Trooper.

There were two people in my group which were Manuk and Jorja then Denise came back from the Philippines and joined our group. First we had to make up the story in a slideshow then we had to put it into another slideshow and make it into a picture book. Here we could draw pictures and put t on here or just get pictures from the internet. we traced most of our pictures but some of them we just got from the internet. 

Something our group found hard was the writing because we kept on making it that Space Trooper was kind of the narrator so we and to change the story a little bit but in the end it was really fun working as a group and making it. Here is our picture book!

Maori Language Week

This week is if you didn't know Maori Language Week!

So for this week our teacher set up a doc with 7 tasks that were linked with learning Maori or having something else to do with Maori language that we had to do. 

We only had to complete 3 -4 tasks and if we had time could do more.

I chose to do Tasks 1, 4 and 6. 

Here is my slide!

The Machine ( Story Map )

Here you can see that there is no shared slideshow anymore.

Our teacher told us that we will not have shared slideshows anymore and that we have to just post our things on our blog by itself then people in our reading group will have to comment on it. 

Here my feedback from last time I did a Story Map was to be more specific and split my examples and here you can see that I did try to do those things as well.  

The story we were reading this week was called The Machine. What did you think it was about when you saw the title?