Jacob

Hello everyone!  Today 24 students from our school went to New Windsor School in Avondale, for the Ako Hiko Student Toolkits. And what, you are probably asking, is that? Basically, it's where 21 to 24 students from every school in the Ako Hiko Cluster, come to one of the schools in it. The students do demonstrations on things like quiz making, or coding. It happens every year and, this year, I went! I didn't present, but everyone worked on something to present. Here is our one below. Our school had two topics to do: quiz making, which Anuk and I did, and animation using Google Slides. Izzy and Lily did quiz making, and Oscar, Alex, and Bruno did animation. I went to a coding session, then the quiz making one. Mr Riceman took a lot of photos, so here are some of them. These aren't all of them, though. I really enjoyed it, and I learned lots. Specifically, I learnt how to code a ping pong game, and quite a bit about making a quiz. Feel free to comment. Before you go, ple...

Hello everyone! This week, in maths we made tents that we would like to camp in. We made them out of toothpicks and modelling clay. We used modeling clay to stick the toothpicks together. All I had was a box. But still, you could use it as a tent. I am assuming you want to see it so here it is! I put the extra toothpicks beside it, and the extra clay in the middle. We put the tents on a piece of cardboard so we could move it easily without damaging it. You will probably notice that it is slightly bent. It kept falling over so I had to re build it over and over again. But eventually I managed. I wanted a triangular roof, but I didn't have the time. Any opinions or suggestions? If you do, then please comment. Bye!

Hello! Today I finished a procedural text on how to make and eat ... toast. Oh, and crumpets too! I know, it sounds boring, but it isn't. I'll stop boring you with the details and let you have a look. As a matter of fact, here it is! So, on Monday this week, we started procedural writing and I decided to do toast. I heard someone else did cheese sandwiches. I really enjoyed it. I admit, I have toast most mornings. There is nothing wrong with commenting, so please do. See you later. Bye!

Last week, we made a character using Build your wild self  (or, as it calls itself, BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF ) and here it is.  Vóila! We made a Y-Chart and a character description. Here is the Y-Chart: And now, here is the character description:  hmm, change tabs, higlight, ctrl+c Looks James has combed back, blonde hair. His shirt is blue and his pants are greyish-brown. He is wearing pale colored, laced shoes. He is 100% human. Actions When James is not being a secretary to The Leader of The Opposition, whoever that might be, he is enjoying the sights in Wellington and exploring them. Oh, and of course talking and having his nose in a book about politics. His latest read is called “The history of The Opposition of the New Zealand Parliament ” by P. Olitics, published by the Parliamentary Press. Odd name, don’t you think so? He often goes to protests and sells signs for them. He also makes up jokes and plays with little children lots. He, every...

Hello! Yesterday, for cybersmart, we made a thinglink about ourselves. A thinglink is basically an interactive picture. This one has a picture of me, made using BeFunky , from the last cybersmart lesson. And here is mine! Wait, wait! Before you look, I'd better tell you how to use it. Just hover your mouse above the dots and take a look! And now, I am told, I must write a reflection so you know what I learned and what I noticed. So, I learned what information I should share about myself online. I noticed that what you share controls what people think about you. So, be careful too! Feel free to comment on this. Bye!

Hello everyone! On the 22nd last month, we moved into Te Waka Ako (click on it for a hilarious translation and here for a even funnier one, both wrong. It means "The canoe of learning") which is a ILE (innovative learning environment).  Once we had been in there for two days, which was on Wednesday that week, we did a reflection on our two days and here it is! I has really helped our learning as we have more choice, and we will be going with different teachers. The local MP (Michael Wood) making his speech The wonderful preformance of the Kapa Haka group MOE Property Division people looking on The unveiling of the sign A thank you to the wonderful Ms Sands, who put hours into that lovely sign. And the ribbon is cut! Ask him, not me! The whole school fits in here, and quite cosily The sculpture that claims the blue space as Ms Sands. Why can't the other teachers have them too? These people here should be learning in ...

Today in Cybersmart, two interesting things happend. Here they are. We got a new Cybersmart teacher We did what you will see soon enough I always enjoyed Cybersmart, but I am excited about the new teacher! What I did was six groups of people that I think look at my blog and here is that. I made it huge because this is the only size it looks right in. Please comment if you are not in one of those groups (sorry if you aren't) or you have a idea for another group. I can't change it once you see this but suggestions matter! Bye!