Cybersmart 2020 recap.

This year in Cybersmart we have been learning about so many tools and skills and even some mindset work when we are learning! Today we created a screencastify about our slide shows that we'd earlier made. They were about what we've learnt this year in Manaiakalani. Some of my favourite things that I've learned to do are make DLO's, i think that they are realy fun to make because you get to be creative. Some of the things that have been the most challenging are look throughs, when we have to go through a lot of stuff and sort it, i don't like it and it's really hard. Some things I wish we had learned about that we didn't, or learned more about are more toolsets so that I could use even more. When we made our review, I was thinking about our manaiakalani teacher Mrs. Williams because I tried to think about how she explained stuff to us and how much she taught us about this year.

Summer Learning Journey Teaser

Today we went on Art Colouring book and chose a famouse painting to recolour.

I enjoyed recolouring this paining because the original was quite grey and plain, boring..

   I learnt a little bit about paintings and textures during the process, a quick process.

It wasn't hard at all! Our task was super easy and fun, I want to do this again!

   The easy part was colouring definitely, all that you had to do for the colour was choose 

a colour and place your mouse and click where you want the colour!

What Christmas Means To Me

 The Gisborne Herald have invited us to write a letter to them about what Christmas means to us.

   I thought about all of the things that to me, mean Christmas. I decided to write it in a little bit of a poemy style, I found it hard end my poemy story because I always found something more to add on.

   We also had to make a animation, scratch or google drawing to go with it, I have made a google drawing for the front page and have made the rest with slides. It is not finished yet, but it will be soon.

   You can find my Christmas writing on the second slide.

Phishing

   Today we learnt about phishing, it is when people say they did something when they didn't, or when someone photoshops a photo so it looks like they went somewhere or did something.

    I created a fake postcard, it had to look real. So I took a photo of myself, removed the background and stuck myself on top of 'My new mansion in America'. It was hard removing the background, the computer did  not take out everything in the background, so I had to erase some stuff to make it look realer.

  I had Zach help me take my photo because there was no timer on the camera so Zach took the photo of me. 

   Here is the end result of my post-card!

What makes a good recount

     Earlier today Joelle and I discussed 10 important things that you must have in a writing recount for it to be more proper and interesting.

   First, before we started discussing things we watched a video. The video was about recounts! We got some of our things from the video we watched. We had to write our writing goal at the end of our blog post to see if we accomplish it! It took us one and a half writing sessions to finish our brain storming but it was worth it so,

    Here is what we think are important to incorporate in a recount;

• In your introduction it is important to answer the five W's, who, what, where, when, and why.
• Include your senses; see, smell, hear, feel, and touch.
• Seperate your brainstorming into different sections (paragraphs) based on the topic of each idea.
• Make sure your recount is in the right order. 
• Maybe add a 1. 2. 3. planning so you remember what order your recount goes.
• Use correct nouns and pronouns.
• Add rich language.
• End your recount with what you ended up feeling at the end, e.g I was glad I went to the doctors.
• Try use time connectives.
• Make sure to use correct punctuation.

  My writing goal for the remainder of this year is to become a level 4 writer and to become a faster one.

Rangi and Papa E-Book

 In the last few weeks Team Toro have been learning about Rangi and Papa, a maori myth/legend. 

  We have been reading the book in our Te Reo times on most fridays, and we figured that we had enough knowledge to create a interactive E-book about Rangi and Papa. Everyone in our co-operative groups made their slide about one part of the book Rangi and Papa.

   The part that I made was in the beginning when the decide that they don't want to live in the darkness anymore and that they decide they will push their parents apart.

I found it very easy to make my side because I think that im pretty skilled ha! Though to the others ( Zack, Ceejay and Te Aroha ) it looked they were struggling.

Here it is!

My Book Review

      We were learning about bacteria, viruses and antibiotic resistance. We learnt that antibiotic resistance is 
  when you take antibiotics and they don't work. We also learnt about a man named Alexadera Fleming, he  was a specialist in bacteria. He discovered penicillium, he was growing it in a petri-dish that was left in his
      bag on his way home from a holiday. Penicillium moved on to be our first antibiotic! 

     I found it easy to to find what book I wanted to make my book review on,because, we and already been reading and learning all about a book called Resistance. 

     For me it was hard to write the 'I think' and 'In my opinion' because, they are pretty much the same thing and its hard to re-write something that  you  have already written.