My apples are stuck! (writing)

 

We were learning to create explanation writing. Explanation writing is where you explain how something works or why something happens. For this explanation writing we had to choose between three issues that we had to resolve using three objects. The three issues where a kite had got stuck on a roof, the sports ball had gone missing and getting the apples from the top of the tree down. I choose getting the apple from the top of the tree down. I got to choose between six objects, the three that I choose where a car, a hammer and a spade. 

I was being a thinker because I had to figure out how to resolve the problem that I choose using only three objects.

I found it easy to write my story down once I had done my planning because when I was doing my planning I was putting down ideas and sentences that I thought I would use in my story. I also found it easy to put in adjectives to describe what was happening in the story and say what things were like.

I found it challenging to choose one of the issues to solve because every issue had six objects to choose from and when you looked at all of them you had no idea how to use any of the objects for this particular issue. I also found it challenging to write down why the apples from the top of the tree are so good and why I want them so desperately.

Next time I need to write a little less and try to fit everything that I writ on the published one without it looking just like black lines. Next time I also need to make the process of, for example banging the hammer on the tree, longer and more about banging the hammer on the tree. 

Cybersmart-Fake or real?

We were learning to create something, in this case a black cat and a black snake, that isn't real or is made up.

At the start of this cybersmart section we had to go through slides and say on them if what the slides were showing were real or made up. After we did all of those slides we had to create one of our own fake or real?

So do you think this is real or fake after reading my piece of writing under the picture.

I found it easy to figure out what to write down underneath the picture as the story to tell what happened to the snake and the cat because before I started writing I thought of all the possibilities of how a cat could be connected to a snake. I also found it easy to create another part to the shadow for the cat ear because I just took a screenshot of the shadow, then inserted it and cropped it into a triangle.

I found it challenging to figure out what animal I was going to do and how I was going to do it because I searched up black snake but it was a shimmery black and then i searched up black cat and it was just black but the two blacks didn't match. I also found it challenging to put the cat in the right position to make it look like its connected.

I really enjoyed this because I have never created something that is actually two things that looks like one. I also really enjoyed this because I made up a piece of writing that I enjoyed creating.

Next time I need to change the colour of the background of my writing so it looks better. Next time I also need to find a more similar black to one another so it looks more real.

 

DLO Explanation writing (What causes lightning?)

 

We were learning to create a DLO (Digital learning object) about explanation writing. Explanation writing is where you explain how to do something or why something happens. We got to choose out of a few questions that involved a life cycle, I chose "what causes lightning". The things we needed to do were, research about what are question was, a plan of our writing, a diagram and our writing.

I was being a researcher because I had to go onto my chromebook and search up the information I was looking for for this DLO about what causes lightning.

I found it easy to find all of my information about what causes lightning because I found one website that had quite a bit of information. I also found it easy to write out my writing because I had already found a lot of information.

I found it hard to create my diagram on google drawings because we had to make it completely from scratch but I found a way how to do it, for example I made the ice crystals from the second part of the diagram from using x's and putting them in different positions. I also found it hard to find a upright background because I needed to find something to do with lightning.

I really enjoyed this because I got to learn one of the questions that I have had and now have the answer too. I also so enjoyed this because I got to play around with what my slide looked like how I used word art in my slide.

Next time I need to make my diagram look better because some of the arrows are out of place and make it look a bit more clear about what the first part of my diagram is about, (which is cold air being the blue part the red part being the warm air and the middle being the storm.)        

China DLO

 

In term 4 week 1 rooms 9 and 10 got a surprise envelope from the office at Mangapapa. We looked at the envelope we noticed that it had stamps from around the world on it and dirt we thought the envelope had traveled a long way. 

 We were learning to create a DLO about a certain country. We had to find a partner and then we got handed a piece of paper from the envelope. Me and my partner studied the paper for about ten seconds and released that we had got handed a letter from a girl in China. We had to read the letter after we read the letter we shared things about what we had learnt from it. We did a few different activities then on the last activity we had to make a DLO about what we have learnt.  

I found it easy to understand all of the words in the letter because there went many Chinese words. I also found it easy to record my voice so that it sounded fine on a website that our teachers told us about.

I found it challenging to fit everything in and make it look good on one google slide because there where quite a few things we needed to  fit in! I also found it hard to find good free to use picture because when you type up free to use it doesn't have as much of a selection.

 

I really enjoyed this because it was easier to work with two people so we had two brains to work with. I also really enjoyed this because I've learnt a lot of things about China like how they have six day of school and I only have 5 days of school.

Next time I need to try and make things smaller and not put to many pictures in my google slide and have more voice record parts in the google slide about what the picture mean and more information about them.