Life in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

We were learning to create an animal that would make people believe it once existed. The animal that I created is called a Catasour and I created it on slides, to create the animal I used polyline, curve and shapes. Once we had created our own animal we then had to write a detailed description on what the animal is like what it eats and it's habitat.

I found it easy to create my animals body because I really like to use polyline and curve and I think my skills are pretty good but the face was kind of tricky. I also found it easy to choose the name of my animal because It had some features of a cat and some features of a dinosaur, and I just put the name Cat and saur together.

I found it hard to create the face of my Catasour because I found it tricky to put the black circle on top of the white circle for the eye, because the black circle kept on going behind the white circle. I also found it hard to think of a description for the Catasour.

I really enjoyed creating my animals face because I did a cats face and I love to draw them because to me it's nice and easy. I also really enjoyed doing this activity because as soon as Mrs Hall mentioned this activity to us I already knew how I was going to create my animal.

Next time I could of spent less time on creating my animal and added more detail into my description by using better vocabulary. Next time I need to just stick with one colour rather then keep on changing my mind.

Change poem

 

We were learning about what change is to us. We then had to write our ideas down onto different pieces of paper then we could start our writing on slides. Once we got upto to slides we had to write nine different ideas of what change is to us. When we were writing we had to make sure it made sense and use good vocabulary and make it level three writing. 

I found it easy to get ideas because when we had to write our ideas down on different pieces of paper Mrs Hall spread them out on the ground so we could get ideas. I also found it easy to do this poem because for inquiry our focus is change and when I was writing down my ideas I just remembered what I wrote down for my other activities.

I found it hard to make my writing more bigger because whenever I upgraded the size it would hang off  the slide, but then I realized I could of just spread out the writing by making the text box bigger. I also found it hard to pick a font because if I picked a fancy font it would make the writing go small and If I chose a bold font it would make the writing go more bigger, but then I finally found the right one.

I really enjoyed doing the background because I used all three of my favourite colours pink, purple and blue and I also decided to make them an ombre effect. I also really enjoyed doing the poem because I haven't done a poem for so long and it was super fun.

Next time I could of looked at my poem and checked my words before I showed the teacher and fixed them up myself. Next time I also need to finish my poem more faster and stop changing the colour of my words.

Where I learn best

 

We were learning about knowing ourselves as learners and sharing where we do our best learning, and we had to do that piece of learning on slides. On that slide we had to upload an image  of where we do our best learning. We also had to write a detailed description of why we learn best in that spot and made sure it made sense, and had to write our name at the bottom.

I found it easy to write about why I learn best in that spot, because I knew exactly what I was going to write. I was thinking about what I was going to write while I was finishing off another activity. I also found it easy to finish the activity because It was nearly the end of the day and I wanted to go home so I pushed through it.

I found it hard to take the picture because people kept on walking in and out of the doorway, so I had to keep retaking the picture but at the end I just quickly took a picture. 

I really enjoyed doing this activity because I really like doing small activities on slides because it was fun and easy and I liked changing the fonts up a bit. 

Next time I think In the photo I could of had less people in the photo because you couldn't really see the table you could more see people.

Summer Composition

Composition coloured by Mohammed Melehi

Composition coloured by Jayda Jean-Louis

I used more brighter colours for the background because I didn´t like how dark the original colours were.

 

The lifecycle of a butterfly!

 

We were learning to do explanation writing. Explanation writing is explaining your topic to your reader my topic is the lifecycle of a butterfly. You need to have a topic that you can explain and that is easy for you to explain. In the writing you need to include an introduction, main body and a conclusion each of these also need to be in a paragraph.

I learnt that when the butterfly is ready to come out of the chrysalis the chrysalis goes transparent and that the very first thing the caterpillar eats is it´s very own eggshell. I also learnt that when a butterfly egg is laid they are almost white but before hatching it changes to yellow.

I found it easy to collect the facts of the lifecycle of a butterfly because i found this really cool website and it had all of the facts for you right there. I also found it easy to create my diagrahm pictures because I just found a picture from google then I traced around it.

I found it hard to figure out how I should put my DlO in place because I tried lots of different ways but none of them worked but then I searched up on google ways to make a DLO and then I finally found the right one. I also found it hard to like write down the facts because my slide was all glitchy and stuff kept on moving. 

I really enjoyed creating my diagrahm pictures because it was super fun drawing the pictures and using lots of different colours. I also really enjoyed going on that website that had all of the facts on the lifecycle of a butterfly because I learnt something new such as the very first thing a caterpillar eats is it´s very own eggshell.

Next time I think I could add more facts on that part of the lifecycle because I didn´t  really add that much in and the reader might not have got a good description on that thing. Next time I could also maybe add some more detail to the diagrahm pictures.

I was being a researcher by organising my data and and gathering information.

My Spring Writing!

We were learning to make a slide about spring.The things we had to include in 

 it were our best features about spring. When we wrote about it we had to write a full paragraph, we also had to think about our words we used and we had to use good vocab.

I found it easy to think of the sentences I was going to use because when my teacher was explaining it to me I had some sentences in mind that I was going to use. I also found it easy to think of  different words then the ones I used before because I just got a dictionary and I chose a new one.

I found it hard to describe some words because I just did not know the best word to describe, because I wanted to make it perfect but when I went on to google I found really good words to describe the words I was stuck on.

Next time I will try to add more describing words and have less pink so I don´t need to keep on fixing up all of it. I will also try to add more level three words and have all different sentence starters and have more yellow highlighted

How long does a sunflower grow for?

 

I was learning about how long does a sunflower grow for.

I enjoyed finding sunflower finding the photos of the sunflowers because they were all so different and pretty.

I found it challenging to find facts because I could not really find any I only found two.

Next time I will add some more facts and not just look for sunflower pictures.