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Sunday, 30 August 2020

My Decimal Problems

 WALT: Understand decimals to the tenths, hundredths and thousandths. Use decimals within word problems

First we had to make a decimal problem then when we were finished we could do the other classes one.

Reflection: It was fun making a decimal problem. I Wish we could make a second one.



Wednesday, 26 August 2020

My Mosaic Art

My mosaic is a monster. What you do is get a picture of the internet of your choice. Then you use the poli line tool to make your shapes.  

Reflection: It was fun making my mosaic art. I wish we can do it again.

 



My Inferencing Cards

WALT:Make inferences using the clues in the text along with your own experiences to help you figure out what is not directly said.

Reflection: It was very difficult to figure out all the 10 cards. I wish we could use this in stories.

  

My WOW word Idyllic

 WALT: Find the word 'idyllic' in the dictionary and learn it's meaning. Think about how you feel in the ‘yellow’ Mana Potential zone. Think about your ‘go to’ place and design your own idyllic setting.

Intro: First we learn about the word idyllic. Then we make a idyllic background.


 Reflection: It was awesome creating the background. I wish we could make more like this.

My reading response

WALT: We had to read stories then write down what there about.

Intro: First we had to read the story then write when it was? where it was? who? why?




 Reflection: It was fun reading about the different stories. I wish we could make our own.


Monday, 17 August 2020

My Russell Crowe WOW Word

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

First we created a google drawing and we researched about 5 movies he was in. One of them was Robin hood. So we made a animation about robin hood.




Thursday, 13 August 2020

My 2020 Speech

WALT: We learnt to write a full speech about a topic of our choice, and say it in front of a audience. 

We spent  4 or 5 weeks of creating and practising our speech, there was 11 topic's to choose and chose why online learning is better than face to face learning. I was luckily one of the kids that is going to the Speech competition in Kaitaia.

 this is my speech:            This is the link to the video of me saying my SPEECH     

Ka ora everyone My name is Brendon Dowman and I’m a year 6 student at Mangonui School. This is my argument about why online learning is better than face to face learning. Be warned I like to joke around. Ok why did the chicken cross the road? To hear me talk about his short life. 


Most of my speech is based on lockdown, because in lockdown we did a lot of homeschooling on the internet. That means that kids spent a lot of  time on their devices. But then you would have to go on a class site and do all this pointless stuff, but there are still heaps more advantages on a device than a book or a sheet of paper. 


My first example is erasing, so if you want to erase some words on a device you can just click a button and it's gone. But if you were writing in a book you would have to use a rubber, and then after 300 years of rubbing you can still just see it on your page. Another simple example is typing. It’s 10,000 times easier than writing by hand, and if you have terrible handwriting like me, at least you can read it.  Most children don’t like writing, but put them in front of a keyboard, and they’ll create all sorts of documents.  But don’t take months fidgeting with different fronts and sizes, that’s just time wasting.

Another issue with face to face learning is that sometimes there is a personality clash between the teacher and the learner, because it can be boring when the teacher explains for weeks and weeks about fraction strategies . But again if you put them in front of a device it's easier to work with.   


That was some simple examples of why online learning is easier than face to face learning. I think you have related. Technology is an amazing invention, It completely changed the world! Before my speech is finished I have one last joke. What did the children say when the genius hit the idiot with a book? They said “ ha ha he got hit with knowledge”.  

Thank you for listening to my terrible jokes and my opinion on why online learning is better than face to face learning