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. 

Teaching you how to make your sprite move!

 Today I created a video of me recording ( using screencastify ) how to make a sprite move on scratch.

I found it easy to... well make it move because im pretty good at scratch already!

It was hard to try not to get toung tied, because thats a thing that happens to me alot!

Next time I will creat the video outside and when theres better internet.

My scratch game

 Today I played around with scratch, I made my own game, my scratch game is about quality commenting. Im still currently working o n it but im sure it will be much better when its comlete.  if you want to play scratch go here -https://scratch.mit.edu/ if you want to see my scratch game go here -  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/418681164/

It easy to come up with a game layout idea, I already had a layout type in mind. Ealier this year Ive made a gem collecting game witch I quite liked so I decided to try make another one like it.

Coding is the tricky part, its a bit hard to find the right block and or if they even HAVE the block your looking for.

Its not quite finished yet, though it will update as I finish it!

My Favorite Time Of Day

 We were learning about our favorite time of day, sunrise, mid-day, evening, dusk and midnight, we had to introduce our favorite time of day, then we had to describe what you do at this time, what it looks like and we had to have used a variety of sentence starters.

I found it easy to figure out what my Favorite time of day was, it was easy because I already knew.

I found it harder to publish, because it was hard to find the right photos to insert because there's not a lot of selection. Oh and inserting my published version into this blog post was a bit tricky because it was hard to find the right size.