Do you need to practise your 6x?

The maths game I created helps you to practise the 6 x table. If get the correct answer you will see I have made an animated gif that shows you your answer was correct. If you get the wrong answer you will find there is a link which leads to a DLO that reminds you about the 6x table. Once you have watched that you can try the question again. Creating this maths game challenged me to think about my wrong answers just as much as my correct answers because I didn’t want to make it too easy. I also had to think about the layout of my game, the size of my font and the colours I used. When I completed my game I asked a friend to play it to see if all the links work. The feedback I got meant I needed to change the size of my font because it was too big and made the options too hard to see.

Rhythm Interative's visit to PBS

Today atfer morning tea the whole school came togeher in the hall to do some drumming. The  Junior school classes partnered up with the Senior students, this was so they could help them stay on beat. Our teacher's name was Johnny, he is from Rhythm Interative's (Here's a link http://rhythminteractive.co.nz/) Johnny told us the name of the drum that he was playing was called an African Djembe (it means to bring joy to all) . To help keep the rythym Johhny explained that if you say it, you can play it. I found this was very helpful. I really enjoyed the Drumming and had a lot of fun. I would like to thank Johnny for sharing this experience with our school.

Experience at Tamaki collge/Tech

Today at Tech I finished making my clock after we finish tehc we went to the libarry for lunch then we had some kids from year 9 helping us if we got stuck on our work the first class we went to was math in math we play a game of billy bug and his quest for grub then we went to science then we had some amazing things to do with dry ice.

Laika... A Summary

LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks7giOpL4zg

Today we used our skimming and scanning skills to find the information and detail we needed to write a summary. Skimming like a low flying plane. You look over the information once, (this should take about about 3 - 5 seconds). Scanning is like a helicopter, you find what it is looking for and then hover over until the information has been found. To practise these skills we created a DLO that summarises Laika's journey in Sputnik 2.

Kiwi Can

This term in Kiwi Can our topic is Integrity. Integrity is thinking about what you do when you do something when no one is looking. An example of this is owning up to what you did. What I found about integrity is that you have to be honest to everything you do.