Blog entry 2018

kia ora i'm back again to share my blog posts with 

• My name is Oliver.                                                                                 
• My favourite food is nachos.
• My hobby is video games.
• I go to St Patrick's School.
• I am almost 9 years old.
• I enjoy the Beatles' music.
• I like going swimming.
• I have been to very many different countries.
• I live in New Zealand.
• And my favourite subject is reading. 

Wow, the Bomb Kills Everyone Within Five Meters!

• Junkrat has crazy spiked up black and white hair.
• He has a wooden leg.
• He has a very dark tan and strange white makeup.     
• He has a high pitched Australian accent.
• His skin is soft and smooth.
• He smells very strongly of ashes.
• Junkrat is a scientist who is in love with explosives and was driven mad by gas that was released by evil robots.
• Junkrat has a grenade launcher which fires grenades that bounces around until they explode.
• He can put down mines and he has the trigger to set them off. He also has a bear trap that immobilises anyone who steps on it.
• Junkrat’s strongest bomb is in his wheel and when it explodes, it kills anyone who is within five metres of him.

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write ten descriptive sentences to describe  Junkrat from the game 'Overwatch' using Blabberize. 

Russia kicked from the Olympics!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our critical thinking skills.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain how Russia was kicked from the Olympics using screencastify.

What is that?

• The peashooter is a special kind of plant that has legs.
• The torso is a green straight stick.
• It has four very large leaves as legs.
• Peashooters have round heads with a canon for a mouth.
• If you touch one, it feels like soft wet grass and leaves.
• The peashooter has a high pitched voice and speaks in a strange alien language.
• When it moves, it sounds like wet leaves sliding across the ground.
• The peashooter’s job is to help the humans to defeat the zombies by shooting extremely large peas at them through the cannon on his face.

Learning Intention: We are learning to describe a character using the five senses.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write descriptive sentences to describe the feeling, the sound and the sight of a peashooter using screencastify. 

It keeps happening!

Evaporation happens when the sun heats up seawater, making it so hot that it turns into steam. As it rises up into the air, the steam from the hot water becomes cold and turns into gas. After a while, the clouds become so filled with water (from the sea), causing it to rain. Finally there is a collection  of water that falls to the ground. This collection  becomes soil water or ocean water.

Learning Intention: We are learning about natural resources.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record all the stages of a water cycle using screencastify.

Amnesty International helps people by... ?

• Amnesty International's purpose is to give people their own rights and stop execution and torture.
• Amnesty International helps people by preaching to them. They also help to free those that are being tortured and those in jail.
• They give fair trials to all of the political prisoners.
• Amnesty International tries to stop executions and people going missing.
• Amnesty International’s work is worldwide.

Learning Intention: We are learning about organisations that helps the poor and the rejected just like Saint Mary.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record five ways Amnesty International does for the poor and the rejected using screencastify.

Pleading for the bell to ring!

Learning Intentions: We are learning to describe an area using the five senses.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record four descriptive sentences to describe a classroom using smell, sight, sound and feeling.