Camp...

 Hi!

From the 2nd of September to the 4th we went to Arthurs Pass camp.

It was super fun and we did a lot of cool things.Although I didn't put the pictures of the search and rescue, the orienteering and sensory trail.

The Sensory trail was way too dark for photos but we had lots of fun. For it we were in the dark with no torches and had to hold and follow a rope through the forest. Then on the way back we were blindfolded and a buddy lead us through. The orienteering was fun and my group got most of the places we needed to go to. Then the search and rescue was fun to save Brian the dummy. But we were in two groups to rescue him on a stretcher then my group took Lucas (our classmate) back for fun.

Here is a slide filled with most of our memories from camp...

That was a couple of the photos from our camp.

Overall camp was a really fun experience and we learnt a lot of new things.

My favourite part would have been the sensory trail.

The most challenging part for me was the big hike up Bealey Spur.

Have you crossed a river before like that?

Have you been to or know anyone that has been to Arthurs Pass?

Would you try this camp?

I think if you have a chance it is great to go there and try everything.

Even if you are unsure at first give it a go and you might enjoy it.

Everyone in our class tried the river crossing so it was a good experience for everyone.

Until next time...

Bye!

How to use Easel.ly easily... - Student Summit

 Hi!

Today it was... STUDENT SUMMIT!!!

Student Summit is a place that we used to go to so we could share how to use different sites. This year we couldn't go there so it was online.

For each of the sessions there was a google meet for each site.

It was very fun but a bit tricky at first on the meets.

After some time it got a bit easier to work on the meets and follow the instructions without having the other students actually in person to help you.

For student summit we had a form to fill out yesterday to choose what workshops we wanted to go to, overall we got four.

Session 1: Suped-up slides with Pear Deck - This was really confusing for me. Firstly it was because everyone was still finding out how it is working and to mute themselves. Secondly no one really understood what was going on and we didn't know if we had to follow along. But it was really fun to watch their presentation. But I don't have anything to share since we didn't have enough time to make anything. Also I learnt that Pear Deck is a google slide add-on that is for your learning.

Session 2: YMS How to use Easel.ly easily - This was by Grace and I. One of the challenges we faced were probably not having enough time or having too many people on the meet so it made it really slow.

Everyone was listening though so that was good, except it is very hard to teach people without seeing their screens to know what is happening.

Grace was explaining everything and I was answering questions.

There weren't too many questions asked but lots of people had problems with getting on or not hearing the instructions.

Here is our slide that we shared on how to use Easel.ly...

 

Session 3: GS Marvelous Miro - This was really fun to learn about since I haven't heard of it before. Since we ran out of time this is all I made...

I think that with more time I could get proper information and make it look a lot cooler.

But now that I know what it is and how to use it I might give it a go later on when I have more time.

The presentation was easy enough to follow apart from signing in but other then that it was really easy and worth the results.

Session 4: SHS Biteable - I do use biteable a lot so I decided that learning more about it would be fun. Although there were technical difficulties with the presenters so it took a long time to get everyone on and started. Because of that we didn't get any time to get to some new stuff that I don't know about. But I still like what I made. It is about penguins... again, but I thought it would just be easier to have the same information but presented in a different way. Here it is:

Penguins - Student Summit on Biteable.

This is the link to all the amazing presentations: LINK.

I hope you enjoyed this very very longgggg blog post and learnt some maybe true facts about penguins or some new websites/add-ons.

Student Summit this year was super fun to do even if there were some challenges.

Also this year our whole class could attend but only three groups decided to present, they were: Grace and I, Mia & Nikita & Hana then Mykiala and Lucy.

Sadly I didn't get any YMS presentations apart from my own.

Did you know any of these sites or do you know of some other ones?

Did you attend the student summit or have you ever been to one?

Do you like penguins?

Until next time...

Bye!

I have a dream...

Hi!

We are having a Yaldhurst speech competition later in the term so we need to get our speeches ready to present.

When Miss Rennell told us we were going to begin our learning on speeches this year I felt nervous for the presenting part and I remembered some of my past speeches.

Before we start learning and creating our speeches we had a task to train our brain.

To set up our mindset for speeches we used the six tools in our past mental toughness toolkit. (Positive thinking, Goal Setting, Attentional Control, Visualisation - The Drawing, Anxiety Control and Self Awareness)

We used google drawings to make a DLO using those things.

Here is my dream for how it will go...

While making this drawing I was thinking about what tips I would need for our speeches.

The hardest part for me during speeches is going to be presenting it since I don't like talking in front of audiences.

The easiest part is going to be writing the speech once I think of a good topic.

I chose these tips for myself because I think that these are important for when I am writing my speech.

Do you have any useful tips for writing speeches?

Have you ever had to write and present a speech?

If yes, what do you think was the hardest or easiest part?

If you are writing a comment on this blog post, here are some helpful sentence starters if you want to use them.

POSITIVE: The interesting part was...

THOUGHTFUL: You brought me back to when...

HELPFUL: To improve, you could...

Don't forget to ask or answer any questions!

Until next time...

Bye!

What is that voice? It's a comment...

Hi!

Last for the past two Tuesday afternoons we have been learning to make voice recorded comments.

We did this for cybersmart, here is a link to the lesson we used: LINK.

I chose to do the confident section.

For this we had to go through a slide and make a voice recorded comment.

How? Well read this slide to find out how to do it...

That was the slide, I think that it was a bit difficult at the start but once I did it it was really fun and easy.

Also I think that the code is very confusing at first glance but then it is easy once it gets explained.

Was this helpful?

Do you think you could do this?

Will you do one for this post? I'm excited to see.

Until next time...

Bye!

VOTE!!!!! For our Writing Competition

Hi!

Do you like reading? 

Do you like voting? 

Do you like mysteries, poems and news reports?

If the answer to these is a yes then continue reading this blog.

A while ago Rimu class did a writing competition.

There were a few rules:

1. It had to be 150 words or under

2. It had to be either a Mystery, Poem or News report

Also there was a list of words that we could use in the writing.

We got the words from our class sign in sheet where everyone wrote down a word about the brain.

Then we had 28 words to use in our writing, we didn't have to use all the words but the more words from the list the better.

Here's the list of words we could include in our writing:

Would you like to see Rimu classes writing?

Click this link to read our writing and vote for your favourite mystery, poem and news report:

When you click the link you will see most people have either initials or fake names for this.

Well have fun reading and voting.

Voting closes on Friday the 21st of August at 3pm.

Once the voting is finished we will find out the winner.

Until next time...

Bye!

Resilience...

What is resilience?

Hi!

This week we learnt what resilience is.

Our lesson on it is very easy to remember since our teacher came up and snapped a pen to get the spring inside of it.

The purpose of it was to show that each time you get stretched, you bounce back.

Once the spring bounces back it's a bit longer, which shows that we learn from everything we do.

Here is a DLO I made to explain a bit more about resilience...

That was it, here is the link to the video if you want to learn more about resilience.

The video is mostly explaining about bouncing back if there is a distraction.

I hope you liked it and learnt something new about resilience.

How would you explain resilience? What are some times you need resilience? 

Do you agree with the quote? I think it is correct for resilience since you always bounce back.

Thank you for reading/looking at my blog.

Until next time...

Bye!

Where is the helpful part?

Hi!

For the last two Tuesdays we have been learning about quality blog comments.

First we went to the Uru Mānuka site and went to the smart learner tab and went to lesson one.

Then we followed the steps to get into groups and decided if we were beginners, stepping up or confident with our commenting and blogging.

I was in a group with Mia and Grace in the confident area.

Here are links to their blogs: Mia, Grace.

We learnt about four different things: Learning, Impact, Editing and Layout.

We read about all of those then began improving comments to make them Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful, have a question and a greeting.

We also went through a checklist to make sure we did everything and watched all the videos.

Here is a picture of one of the comments my group improved.

That was one of the four comments we improved.

I think that we also made the new comment also have a helpful section.

I think that this was a fun activity to do since we could go in groups together and learn lots of new things that will be helpful for my blog posts and comments.

I think that this was a good refresher on some things that I might have learnt before but forgot so this was helpful for me to remember.

How often do your comments check all the boxes?

Do you enjoy writing comments on blogs or would you rather write the blogs?

What do you like about writing comments?

Until next time...

Bye!