See You In The Cosmos

Well, this terms book has to be my favourite. This term our class boo that our teacher (Mrs Lee) read to us was See You In The Cosmos. I think that this book was very inspiring to keep trying and never give up. We read the boom for this whole term, and I liked every chapter.

So Mrs Lee made this task for the Book that we do in Reading. We made a slideshow. And she gave us activities to do for each week. I tried to make my slideshow colourful to match the colours of a Cosmos. We had a slideshow for every week. But if there was more than 1 activity a week then I'd do a activity for each slideshow. When I finished the last week of all the activities I was happy because there were so many activities to do.

Overall I think my favourite part of the story was when the Boy in the book called Alex lost his dog Carl Sagan and a lady that he knew, found Carl Sagan and rung Alex to tell him. When the book ended. I was kinda annoyed that the ending wasn't as good as I thought it'd be.



If you wanna check out all the activities I did, here they are!

What is a Sandstorm? - Reading Infographic

What is a Sandstorm?

In my reading group (Sophie) our text this week was called 
"What is a Sandstorm" 

One of our tasks was to make a Infographic. There are different types of infographics, but I choose to do a list this week.

I went on Canva, and got a page to do my list on. First I listed all my facts and put numbers next to them. And then I screenshot it so I can post it to my blog.

Here is my Infographic List:

The 5k Run

In Room 5 Mrs Lee (My teacher) had put up a picture for us to write about. She put words up there, See, Smell, Hear, Taste and Touch. She said that we have to write about the 5 sences but make it a story at the same time. I was confused how to do the 5 senses but then I actually made a story with the 5 senses.

She gave us a few minutes to think about what we're gonna write about.

Then we went to our desks and started putting all our ideas into a piece of writing. I tried to think of the creativeness and descriptive words to put in. So I started my writing.

I finished writing my story pretty quickly. So Mrs Lee got me to pair up with someone and check our writing together. Then once I finished editing with the person I was with, Mrs Lee read out my buddy first paragraph. Which was very creative.

If you wanna read my writing, here it is.

The 5k Run

Five more steps!! And I made it. The top of the mountain.

I’m at the top of the mountain. I can smell this wonderful cold mint breeze from the trees. I’ve never smelt this fresh mint air before. I better stretch, my legs are killing me. But this cold mint smell is too good of a smell! 

I better sit down and take a breath. Wow what a beautiful view. I can see everything from here! The clouds, the city, the waves in the ocean and everything else am that you could imagine. I better take a photo of this view. This photo is a saver.

I can taste that cold mint smell! It’s too good to resist. It tastes like mint, but really I have no mints! I went up to a tree, and the cold mint smell breezed into my mouth. But now I'm just starting to taste the smell of a nice cold mint smell and a dirt smell, which smells quite odd.

I am sitting down. I can feel the rocky mountain. I can feel the wind breeze on my skin, it’s like the clouds are touching floating along my skin. I can feel the leaves on the trees brushing against my skin. When I look at the view, I can feel the victory of the 5k walk.

I can hear the nice breeze that’s swishing against my ears. I can hear birds chirping away way up in the trees. I can hear the leaves brushing against the branches of the trees. I can hear waves far away from the ocean. I can hear people at the bottom of the mountain cheering for other people that are almost at the top like us.

Well this 5k run was definitely worth this view.

My Infographic - Do Thunder and Lightning Always Go Together?

One of our tasks for reading this week was to create a Infographic. There's all sorts of Infographics but I choose to do a List. A list is just like a list basically, when you have lots of facts and put number next to them. My reading groups text this week was, "Do Thunder and Lighting Always Go Together?" I listed as many facts did I could fit on the page. I used Canva to make my List. 

Here's my Infographic List:

Te Wiki o te Reo Maori

For one of my tasks in reading, I had too look at Te Wiki o te Reo Maori.

I could choose 3-4 tasks from a doc we could choose from. I choose to do, A burger with the things inside in Maori, A mihi and a word in Maori that represents me.

I enjoyed making the Burger on one of the Tasks! I found it dificult to find information of the words. I think next time I could work on adding more information about the culture and all sorts.

Here are my 3 tasks I did!!

My Burger with the fillings in Maori:



My Mihi:



And my Maori word that describes me:

The CERR Values Of St. Bernadette's

In class we have been trying out Animaker and Powtoon. We had to create a Animaker or Powtoon on the CERR Values of St. Bernadette's. I choose a Powtoon because it was easy and we only just started playing around with them both. When we finished we had to download the video but that didn't work. So we screencastified it! So I gave it a try. I had music on my Powtoon, so I had to go somewhere quiet and record so you could hear the music. I also added how Jesus showed the CERR Values on Earth. After I Screencastified my Powtoon I downloaded it to my drive. Then I added it to my blog post. I found it hard to make sure nothing was in the way of my actual work. I found it easy to to get the music on the video.

If you wanna check out my video, here it is!

The Homesick Weightlifter - Story Book - Collaborative writing

The Homesick Weightlifter - Story Book - Collaborative writing

In class we've been doing Collaborative writing. I was in a group with two other people. We had a topic of, The Homesick Weightlifter. We had to get all our ideas and writing together.

My group first got all our ideas and wrote them down by planning on a shared slideshow. Then we put all our ideas together to make our writing into a digital picture book. There were templates we could use or we could make our own. My group made our own basically because we started with one of the templates but ended up changing everything.

We found it hard to work all as a group because we all had different ideas that were all cool. I think my group found it easy to get ideas but not choose ideas.

Here is my groups collaborative writing:

Elephant Whisperer. Mindmup

In reading we have a new reading task instead of the shared slideshow, but it's similar to the shared slideshow. For this weeks task we had to make a Mindmup. Once we made our mindmup, we had to post it to our blog. Then comment on our people in our groups mindmup. Sophie's(My group) reading passage today was "Elephant Whisperer." It's about a girl called Charlotte who loved elephants, they were her favourite animal. Our passage was fictional.

Here is my mindmup:

T3W7 shared slideshow - Why is the Sea Salty?

T3W7 shared slideshow. For this weeks shared slideshow our passage was "Why is the Sea Salty?" We had to create a infographic. I added information/facts. Another thing I did was a glossary for the passage. The passage had some words that I didn't understand. There was a glossary on our passage so I added a glossary onto my slide. It tells you what some of the trigger words in the passage mean.


Here is my groups shared slideshow: