Banana Clicker

We have been making scratch games. I made a scratch game with Jack R. It is called Banana Clicker. It is a game where you have to click a banana. Each time you click a banana you get 1 more score. With your scores, you can get better bananas and auto bananas. We are still working on the game so it is not finished. I like scratch. We do scratch because it teaches us how to become problem solvers. Also, it teaches us how to code and things like Problem Solving or Debugging.  Sometimes if feels frustrating to have problems you can solve but eventually we work them out.

Have you ever used scratch?

 

Emily Carr

 We have been learning to paint like Emily Carr with Mrs Swinburn. Emily liked to paint trees. She was born on 13 December 1871 and died on 2 March 1945. She had a technique where she did swirls. For our latest art, we had a piece of paper and sponged it with two colours. I chose yellow and orange. Then we sketched on a goose paper how we were going to do our trees. Mrs. Swinburn put the piece of sponged paper on a white piece of paper. Next, we got the piece of paper that we sponged and drew the sketch with black paint. After that she put the paper on a black piece of paper, then we signed out names initials. Then we were done.

Did you know about Emily Carr?

Fake News

Last week we were learning about how to identify fake websites. Like the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. This is fake, obviously. We learned how to know if these are fake or not. One of the techniques is to see if it’s a joke. It might be too outlandish, which means it’s obvious. Also, you can check the sources, do they match the story? I really liked learning about how to identify fake websites. Now I know how to identify fake websites. Do you know any fake websites?

Cool Cross Country

 Yesterday we were doing cross country. The track was that we started at the bike track, then we had to run across the field. Then we would go into the fort back out, then we would run through some water, run up a steep hill, go down a hill, back up, out of the fort. And around the bike track. I had to do it four times because I was a year six. I was tired after running it. I was fitter afterward. Do you think that you could have run it?

Terrific Timeline

 At school last week we made a timeline of historical events that have happened during our life. We used VisMe to make the timeline. There were templates of timelines that we could use to make them. We learned this so we knew more of stuff that happened in the past. I learned lots of stuff that happened in my lifetime. Do you like my timeline?

The Amazing Anzac’s

  We made a poster of remembering the Anzacs, and a made up letter of you in the battle, to someone in your family Anzac stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corps. The Anzacs were put at the wrong beach. It was tall and steep, but the one they were going to land on was a gentle hill. They fought for eight months, and they managed to make a system that will make the guns shoot so then the Turks would think that they are still there. On the hospital ship, there were 9 doctors, 19 nurses, and 900 injured soldiers. It took three months for letters to get from NZ to Gallipoli. That means that most of the news that they got was a few months old. I really liked learning about Anzac day and I learned lots more. 

Do you have someone in your family that went to Gallipoli? 

My story.

Cleaning Up The Beach

On Thursday after athletics, we went to clean up the beach. At the beach, we had to put on some gloves. We walked across the beach searching for rubbish. Lots of people found rubbish at the beach but I didn’t. Once we finished cleaning up some of the bottoms of the beach we went up to a higher place because the teaches thought that there might be more rubbish, and there was. Liam and Jack R found two corona beer bottles there in the sand. I learned that our beach is really clean I really liked it when Liam and Jack R found the beer bottles.

How much rubbish can you find in a day at the beach?