WALT: Work independently on a personal interest project.
Intro: We had to make a omega project of DOOM about a personal subject. Me and my friend Lucas chose soccer and made a video about it.
Click link of DOOM to go to movie of DOOM:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xyygqtpMpnVysAEH2HSsrWg40FGC_yBU
WALT: Connect with our local environment and improve our surfing skills so that we can surf like a professional.
We arrived at 10 am in the morning It was our classes turn to go surfing and the waves were perfect for surfing and I stood up on about 16 of them.Them our turn was up and we played on the playground and played beach cup.
Question: Do you surf?
WALT: Use summarising skills and key vocabulary to write a paragraph relating to the text.
Intro: First We read articles and watch video's and gather information about the subject we choose. next we put it into a paragraph.
Reflection: It was interesting to research about a affect that involves climate change.
Question: Have you done a summary before?
WALT: recount a memory from our holiday and write a short summary for a friend.
Intro: first I used google drawings to recreate the things I did in the holidays. When I was done with that I would write what I did and share it with a friend.
Reflection: I think it's cool to share the fun things I did in the school holidays with friends. I wish there was one more week for the holidays.
Question: what did you do in the school holidays.
This is the LINK to my site it has very thing you need to know about climate change. It has images games and video's that you can watch
WALT: Use the TEXT structure to write a quality paragraph.
First create three paragraphs about Global warming and then make it into a news paper.
Refection: It was cool learning more about Global Warming. I liked the idea of making it into a news paper.
Question: Have you been in the news paper?
WALT: Use Google Sheets to create and interpret time series graphs.
First I Studied the weather of Whangerei and Kataia over a week and made it into a graph.
Reflection: I noticed that Kaitaia and Whangerei had very similar high temperatures.
Question: Have you made a graph on google sheets?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
