Monthly Minecraft Challenge

 Our class has been doing monthly Minecraft challenges to convince all the other teachers in our school to understand that Minecraft is a reliable source to use for writing. So basically we do one of the monthly challenges on Minecraft Education and then have to write a certain amount of words about why we chose to make that thing and explaining what we made to be finished. So it's practically writing. Here are a couple of my photos.

This challenge was what we would build on a desert island. I built a one person bach and they have to swim in the water instead of taking a shower at whatever time they want. I don't really take much interest in Minecraft but a monthly challenge doesn't bother me.  I had a lot of fun and am so excited for the next Minecraft challenge. Do you think that Minecraft is a reliable source for writing?

Our self management sheet

My class has something called our Self Management sheet. This is where we have all of the work we have to finish for the week. As a senior class at our school we are learning to manage the work we are given to get us ready for high school. Here is our work for this week.

The kiwi kids is worldwide news for kids. There is a bunch of cool stories on there like a man hit by poo, we are supposed to read the story then answer the Recall and Thinking questions by just remembering what we have learn't from the story. We have kind of been slipping off on our blogs lately so we have to do a blog about anything we want. We need to do a multimodal site for reading. We are supposed to get four stories off the internet then under that do a question or a task for each of them. Then we are supposed to put an activity that we have tried before and know it is a good topic for our site. Then we find a YT video based on the topic of our site to make it more interesting. The podcast story is us recording us reading our story. Then the google tour is when a family of four travel around NZ for two weeks and have a budget of ten thousand dollars. We have to link where we got our information from and try not to spend too much food everyday of the trip. Do have a Time Management sheet?

My new famous string art

 In lock down I taught myself how to do string art with out a tutorial. I will teach you how to do it.

I would say the learning was a success because they turned out pretty good. You will need a big thick needle, cotton string, a canvas, paint, scissors and masking tape. First cut masking tape to length of canvas. Then put tape on whatever place you want (I did sideways ). Paint the half then wait to dry before switching where the tape was put and paint the other side. When completely dry draw a design on the back and poke holes through the canvas from the design on the back. Then cut a long piece of string and divide into four pieces. Then put the little piece of string through the needle and tie a simple knot. Weave through the holes making sure that after you go through the hole from the back you go through the hole to make that stitch appear. Make sure to always end at the back of the canvas so you can cut of excess there and keep on going just like you started with a new piece of string. Have you ever made string art before?

My super fun birthday

 Yesterday was my birthday. Mum and I made a feast for dinner. My favourite dinner is Chinese so Mum and I made Sweet N Sour Pork & Lemon Chicken on Fried Rice. It takes a lot of preparation and time to make. We also baked a cake but Mum wanted to surprise me with the special icing. Mum and Dad couldn't get presents so Dad got as many lollies as possible from the supermarket. Mum and my sister Anika stayed up late Wednesday night to put up balloons and decorate the box of lollies. 

My B-day pics

 Have you every made Chinese food at home before? Did you enjoy it?

My Cool Lock Down Rap

 In lock down it's very fun to do stuff like baking and bike rides. But my teacher Mr A wanted the class to do a lock down rap. 

I have been writing this rap about how I feel about lock down. My favourite part was the titanic part. I think that when in lock down if you don't go out of the house then you should bake and play outside and have some fun instead of laying in your bed all day. Have you ever done a lock down rap? If not ask your teacher and use Pobble because you get inspiration from the pictures on that website.

My amazing slide about Ian Ferguson!

 This is my slide of facts about Ian Ferguson. Ian Ferguson is  amazing at racing in a Canoe. He has a heap of cool memorable medals. He has four Gold medals and one Silver. We have been learning how to research about people and this time it was an Olympian.

There aren't many names as big and Ian Ferguson when it comes to Canoeing. Many kiwis want to be like him when they grow up. I really enjoyed researching about Ian Ferguson he has a really cool ability and strength. Ian Ferguson always have a bunch of momentum and won 4 out of 5 Olympics. Who is your favourite Olympian?

Our amazing Harakeke baskets

 Yesterday I really enjoyed making our Harakeke basket to hold our sausages in this Friday.  WALT make Harakeke baskets to put our sausages in on Friday. We need to get our baskets finished in order to get a free sausage.

We did it by getting two bits of flax and taking out the little strong bit in the middle. Then pull each half into three pieces. After we put seven of the pieces on way and weaved one over under to the end and then one under over to the end and so on. Then after we ran out of sticks we would go onto the side that only had five pieces and folded the one on the outside of the middle one over and then fold the left end one over to the right and then put the right one to the left side. Then I would tie them together and do the same on the other side of 5 pieces. I would get the middle one of the three and put it through the tie at the end of the other three. The you get all of the other long pieces and criss cross them around over the bit of flax you just put through the tie and fold some through the part where the sausage goes and it should look a bit like this or even better. I really enjoyed learning how to make these Harakeke mats. Mine does not quite look like a basket it mostly looks like a flat thing instead of a basket. Is this something you want to make?