Thank you letter to Mrs. Anderson | CARE Awards

For my first activity of respect for CARE awards, I have written a thank you letter to a teacher or staff member. CARE stands for Confidence, Attitude, Respect, Excellence and Innovation. I decided to write my letter to Mrs. Anderson because she was my first teacher that has welcomed me to the school. Something I wrote in my thank you letter is how she has welcomed me to the school as I was a new student and how she has made me feel welcomed. 

Tech at Tamaki College

This week was the last week of graphics with Miss Ferguson. For our last lesson of graphics with Miss Ferguson, we painted our games or got them cut out on the laser cutter. For the whole session working on our game and creating a scary character on tinkercad. We went on tinkercad and created a scary character based on Halloween. I really enjoyed making 3D objects since it was a first for me and I enjoyed making a game not having any knowledge of how to create a 3D object or game. I was really fascinated at how I could make things on tinkercad and enjoyed using the website. I'm looking forward to my next rotation and I'd like to thank Miss Ferguson for making my first rotation wonderful and interesting.

Group Point of View : Plastic Straws

In Writing Joel, Taheesha and I have been learning about plastic straws and why they shouldn't or should be ban from fast food restaurants and stores. In this task we created a collaborative DLO persuading our opinions and provocation( an action or motion to make someone angry or emotive about specific issue ). Our first task was to look at 5 websites that talk about why we as New Zealanders should prevent plastic straws from causing destruction to our marine life + our wildlife. Our first perspective is that plastic straws should be banned from all areas because they are just as harmful as other plastic objects that are provided in supermarkets and in fast food takeaways. In our next opinion we give our point of view about why we shouldn't ban them because whats the point of buying straws if no one is going to use them anymore and it means its just a waste of time. 

Reading Week | Joy Cowley

For this activity the class chose a author that is from New Zealand and write about them. In my DLO I wrote about Joy Cowley who is a well known author who writes picture books for children and some adult novels. My favourite books that Joy Cowley has written is Greedy Cat and the Goldfish, Mrs Muddle Mud-Puddle, Mr. Whisper and Mrs. Wishy-washy as they were my favourite picture books as a child. She has had three marriages and is now happily married to Terry Coles and also has four children. I chose to do Joy Cowley because she made the best picture books and I found her very interesting.

Reading Week | Describing

This week for reading week Joel and I created a DLO. Our task was to choose one of the pictures that were displayed on the slide e.g- either a castle or a fun house. Our main priority was to describe the picture and write adjectives to make our DLO more interesting. We had to think about what we were going to write and what setting we were going to use since there were two options. In our DLO our goal was to make our information sound more interesting and informal.

Reading Week | Reading Pathway

For this task we made a DLO about our reading pathway as it is reading week. In my DLO I have showed what books I liked when I was younger and to now. My favourite book when I was 5 was Clifford the big red dog because I just liked how the friendship was between Emily and Clifford. My favourite book when I was 7 was Marmaduke Duck because I found the book hilarious as the animals just wanted the ducks marmalade. I started reading chapter books when I was 8 and the first book I read was Diary of a wimpy kid. I found the book fascinating as it was funny and serious which is the type of books I like. My favourite book now is Wonder because it talks about a boy named Auggie who has a deformity and is insecure about himself, but I just like the book because its so interesting.

Tech at Tamaki College

This week for tech we started making our games using the 3D printer. For this we had gotten an explanation from Miss Ferguson of what we have to do. Miss Ferguson 3D printed some game boards and in 2 different shapes such as squares and circles. For my game I couldn't use these game boards as I have a puzzle which needs different ways of making. The boards that Miss Ferguson printed were sanded. After that we dusted the dust off the boards with a duster and then glued the two boards together.