Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple... ADJECTIVES

 Hi!

This week one of our FLOW Fundamentals were adjectives in grammar.

(Check out my last blog to find out about FLOW Fundamentals.)

So I decided to make a blog post to share about what adjectives are and some examples of them. In fact you probably use them all the time in your writing but don't even know it! I hope that this biteable helps you learn what an adjective is or that you learn something new.

So what is an adjective? Watch this biteable to find out...

Adjectives on Biteable.

So did you already know what an adjective is, or did you just find out? 

I think that after this week remembering adjectives will be really easy. Well did you know that colours are adjectives? I didn't so I am glad that I checked what an adjective is again otherwise I would completely forget.

This was really fun to make since I never really post about grammer or adjectives. 

Have you learnt about adjectives? Did the video teach you something?

Until next time... Bye!

What can you do with prime numbers?

 Hi!

It's been the first week back at school and we are doing lots. One of the things we are doing this term is to make a poster displaying all the things on this list:

Times table of the week, Prime number of the week, Grammar focus, Word of the week, Skill of the week, Value of the week, HERO Focus, Here's what's cool now Focus, Country of the week, Song of the week, Blog of the week.

Miss Rennell chose all of those and made a simple poster for week 1. It looks like this:

Then the classes task is to do this using this information, but make it look unique.

Everyone did this by hand, and I found this really fun to do.

The one thing we couldn't do was copy exactly what it says on the original.

Here is the one I did...

It's hard to read but it just says what the original says.

Overall I found this really fun to do and I'm excited to do it every week.

Since once I see other peoples finished ones I will have more ideas on what I can for next week.

Do you enjoy doing things by hand or would you rather make it digital?

Did you know 7x3= 21? This is the timetable that the whole of Rimu will know forever.

Would you enjoy doing this?

Until next time...

Bye!

How do you... read a recipe?

 Hi!

This week is the first week of term 4.

This term we have home learning. So we have a list of things we can choose to blog about, then do it. Except the list is different this term, we are blogging about old... new skills.

This week I decided to choose: How to read a recipe. If you don't know how then this DLO is for you. But if you do know how you could suggest other important things you need to know to read a recipe.

Well, here is the DLO on how you read a recipe...

That was it, I hope it taught you something new.

I definitely learnt some new things while making it.

It is also a very good skill to be able to read a recipe, properly.

Comment if you have any other questions or if you have another tip.

Don't forget...

The slides that say important, are very important!

Did you learn something new?

What's your favourite thing to cook?

Did you know about the comma thing?

I didn't but I found out from this: LINK.

Until next time...

Bye!

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!