WOW - Carbon Footprint

 WALT - Research the word carbon footprint and learn it's meaning. Find ways on how we can reduce our carbon footprint.

 

 Reflection - I learnt that I have a pretty good carbon footprint, 

as I did the quiz ( link ) and my score was average.

My Climate Change Site

WALT - texts with your own prior knowledge to develop new ideas and understandings. Research facts about climate change and write synthesis statements about the effects of climate change. 

Click here for the link to my site

 

This site has all my information and creations on Climate Change.

WOW - Climate

WALT - Find the word 'climate' and 'weather' in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Find the causes and effects of climate change.

   

 Reflection - I learnt about the causes and effects of climate change.

WOW - Autobiography

WALT - Find the word 'autobiography' in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Identify famous people who have written autobiographies. 

 

  Reflection - I learnt that lots of people have written autobiographies, like Serena Williams and Miley Cyrus.

WOW - Russell Crowe

WALT - Find information on a famous NZ actor (Russell Crowe).

   

Reflection - I learnt that Russell Crowe is a New Zealander, even though he spent most of his life in Australia.

Calendar Art

WALT - create an appealing piece of art by blending paint and using Google Drawings.

Reflection - I learnt that you have to blend the paint while the paint is still wet.

  

WOW - Sir Peter Jackson

WALT - Find information on a famous director (Sir Peter Jackson).

Reflection - I learnt that Sir Peter Jackson's partner, Frances Walsh, is also knighted for around the same reason. Also their kids are both actors/actress.

WOW - Mnemonic

WALT - find a word in the dictionary and learn it's meaning, create a mnemonic to learn a spelling rule.
 
 Reflection - I learnt how to spell mnemonic by a mnemonic.

WOW - Personification

WALT -find words in the dictionary and the thesaurus and to understand 'personification' as a figure of speech.
 
Reflection - I learnt that personification means giving an object human actions / feelings.

WOW - Arachnophobia

WALT - find different phobias and display them on a poster.
 
I learnt all about the different phobias, specially chicken phobia.

WOW - Gratitude

WALT - find words in the dictionary and the thesaurus and write in complex sentences.

Reflection - I found it hard to fill in my border.

Dark Blue Drawing

WALT - create a Google Drawing of a natural disaster that portrays our feelings at Dark Blue / Tawhirimatea.
 
Reflection - I learnt that Dark Blue in Mana Potential comes after red when you "reset"

WOW - Ashley Bloomfield

WALT - make a poster about Ashley Bloomfield.



Reflection - I learnt that Ashley Bloomfield's nickname is 'The Curve Crusher'.
I also like how I made the background the colour of The Ministry of Health.
I wish I added something in the border.

WOW - Barometer

WALT - skim and scan for information.

Reflection - I like how I coloured my text-boxes.

I like how I made the title and the definition the same font.

I wish I added a border.

WOW - Survival

WALT - get information about survival.


 Reflection - I liked doing my WOW poster online, as I usually do it on paper.
I like how I drew the cave, because we are researching about the Tham Lung Cave disaster in 2018.
I wish my poster wasn't so crammed.

Mount Tarawera Eruption Fact File

WALT - understand how natural disasters affect New Zealand.

Reflection - I like how I made the title box white, so it stands out.

I like how I used two different fonts instead of using the same font for everything.

I wish it wasn't so fuzzy.

My Inner Animal

WALT - show animal characteristics during survival mode using google drawing.

Reflection - I like my shading on my swan drawing. My Inner Animal is a swan. Sometimes, I am very calm, but when someone annoys me, I get grumpy. During the breeding season, the male swan becomes very territorial and aggressive to any intruders. 

Poem About Me

WALT - use descriptive language to explain our characteristic.
 
Reflection - I like playing with the fonts for MIA, as I made them with shapes and fonts.
I found it hard to find adjectives that match both my personality and name.

Birthday Avatar

WALT - make an avatar to share our birthdays.

Reflection - I really liked trying to make my character look like me - there were a lot of things that didn't look like me.

The Great Barrier Reef

WALT - create an slide that links to different problems happening at the Great Barrier Reef.

Click on my drawing to find out their problem!