Scratch.

This year we have been doing Code club. Code Club is where Legends and a few of Team Koru (Years 4, 5 and 6) can create different projects. In these projects you have a little sheet to tell you how to do it, however once you have finished all of your projects then you make your own. Here I have got 3 different Scratch projects.  don't you check them out?

Here is my first one I ever did which is called  Rock Band! This one you press keys and listen. These are some of the keys you can press, space key, left arrow, right arrow, down arrow, up arrow, A key and last but not least, if you click the singer or the microphone they will either say hi or sing.

This is my second one. This one is called Lost in Space. It's pretty cool watching it the first couple of times but then after awhile it gets pretty boring. Oh and before I forget if you would like to see the rocket again then click the green flag and if you want the rock, monkey and star to stop then press the red button.


Ok moving to the next one this one is called Ghost Busters This one is my favourite because it's so fun to play. In this all you do is click the green flag then the space bar and after that little monster things will pop up and hide again. So you need to click as many as you can in 30 seconds. My high score is 15 so try and beat that. Good luck! 
If you would like to try out scratch then here is the website https://scratch.mit.edu/ 
I hope you liked it, see you next time. 

Laura. :)

Camp Writing

Straight after the April holidays, from Wednesday 2nd of May to Friday 4th of May, I went on camp to Spencer Park with the Year 5s from my class and Room 20. Some of the things we did were learning about Sand Dunes, Orienteering, had delicious desserts and bounced on the bouncy pillow. My highlight from camp was probably the Adrenalin Forest. Here are my two pieces of writing about my time at camp. I hope you enjoy them.

REMEMBER WHEN

Remember when….we banged into the pillow at Adrenalin Forest so that we could get off Level One and move onto Level Two.
Remember when….we had seconds of the yummy dessert since we were still hungry.
That was my 2018 camp to Spencer Park .

Remember when...all the boys had to sit in time out because they were pushing other boys off the bouncy pillow.
Remember when...we slipped in the mud while we were looking for the marker.
That was my 2018 camp to Spencer Park.

Remember when….we made the sand dunes although we did break them.
Do you Remember when...we got into our hut at Forest Survivor when we had to show everybody our hut.
That was my 2018 camp to Spencer park.

CAMP CHALLENGE

I heard
The noisy fantail chirping as it flew past us.

I heard
Everyone in the group talking about where to go next and we got there in the end.

I saw
The bright red mushrooms as I searched for a distinctive tree near a marker. 

I felt
My soggy shoes make sort of high pitch sound every time i took a step.

I felt
The rough pine needles poking my ankles as I wandered through the trees.

I wondered
How long it would take until we had finished.

I wondered
If it would rain soon.

Problem solving: Multiplication

This term our class has been doing more Problem Solving. We were learning how to solve multiplication problems by using different strategies. 

On Thursday we used an app on the iPad called Explain Everything. This app is an interactive whiteboard that allows us to collaborate, write, record and share our maths thinking.

My maths mate and I decided to share how we solved the following multiplication problem. We used the strategies of place value and repeated addition.

We hope you enjoy our maths tutorial.

Please comment below if you learnt something new from our video.

Storybird.

This term Jackson’s Studio has been writing lots of different poems. Over the last week we have been publishing our poems on a website called Storybird. On Storybird we turned our poems into a book called Poetry Anthology, because an anthology is a collection of poems

Here is my book which my haiku, diamante, cinquain, acrostic, my James K Baxter inspired poem and two sense poems. Can you guess which poem is which?

Chapter Chat Activities

This term we have been part of Chapter Chat, a twitter based book chat. We have read a book called ‘There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom’ which is about a boy named Jeff and he goes into the girls' bathroom and also makes friends with the meanest kid in the school and his name is Bradley. Then a councillor named Carla comes in and helps Bradley, then Bradley thinks Carla is in love with him.

Every Friday we went on Twitter with other schools in New Zealand that are also part of Chapter Chat. When we are on Twitter we answered questions in small groups about what we had read in the last week. Each week we also had to complete at least one quality Chapter Chat activity to share on Twitter.

This is one of my activities where I used a website called Poster my wall and then I just edited it and added my own stuff. 

This is my second activity where I made my own tray and lunch for Bradley. I have a burger, apple and carton of milk.

This is my third activity where I made a Google Drawing and then made my own stars and star-chart for Bradley's class.

This is my fourth activity where I made another Google Drawing of Colleen's birthday party dresses.

This is my firth activity where I made a Google Document with Oshie about elephant facts.

What one was your favourite?
My favourite was Colleen's birthday invitation. 

Haiku poem.

In Jackson's Studio, as part of our poetry unit for writing we have been learning how to write a haiku poem. A haiku poem is a popular Japanese poem that traditionally has three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. 

We took our notebooks into the playground and brainstormed words associated with an object. I chose the wooden plank bridge because I thought there was a lot of things I could say about it.

Next we came inside and composed our haiku poem using a website.

Here is mine, I hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to 2018 Blog.

Welcome to my 2018 Blog.

This year I am in Jackson’s Studio - Room 18 and my teacher’s name is Mrs Drewett.

I am very excited to share my learning journey with you this year.

I will be posting at least every fortnight so please check my blog regularly.

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Please feel free to leave a comment on my posts to help me with my learning.

Thanks

Laura.