Huge snowstorm hits nz

I remember this snowstorm hitting our school and I was only six or seven. we got to go home early because otherwise the buses couldn't make it on the road. it hit our school on a Wednesday and I was on our little monorail when it hit. I am very surprised I can remember all this.

Computer games in the classroom? Kiwi kids news featured article

Computer games in the classroom?

kiwi kids news featured article.

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Q1: Think about a computer game you enjoy playing. What skills do you need in order to complete it or be successful at it? I like playing halo death mach with my friends. You need to be good at strafing, dodging, you need to be accurate and you need to be good at sneaking and hiding. I need to improve my accuracy but I think I am good with everything else.

Q2: How do computer game designers make games fun to play? Why do you keep playing them? They make action packed fighting games, they do this because for some reason humans like lots of fighting, and of course no one wants to be bored. After playing and action packed and really fun game you return to reality, you then start to feel bored because the game was way more interesting than real life so you turn it back on and keep playing it to stop being bored. This is why we want to keep on playing 

Q3: Imagine there was no technology at all in your classroom. What would it look like? What learning would take place? What learning wouldn’t take place? We would probably be less engaged because we would not get to muck around but we would also be more switched on because of that and the teacher would be able to see what we are doing a lot easier. I would hate it because we wouldn't be able to to computer programming and writing would be a lot slower. It would also be a lot harder to collaborate.

Q4: Is there a distinction between games and learning? Yes, games contain more mucking around and unnecessary things but it kind of depends on the definition of learning, games could just be a way of formatting learning and making it fun. In my opinion games don't actually teach you anything(unless they are learning games) but they are very good at getting you to practice things.

Persied

This was a quick write done in five minutes, the word of the day was persied.

“Leave me alone, i’m about watch the lights in the sky” Pauline bellowed. “You need to get out of here, it’s a perseid” replied Tarsluf. “But what is that?” Pauline asks, “It’s a shower of meteors, and it is heading straight for us” says Tarsluf. Pauline was convinced of his mistake and they started to sprint. LA was growing ever further behind them but not by enough. When they reached 200 meters from the last building the first meteor hit. First came the red blur across the sky and the explosion as it impacted the ground, then came the sound. It was an ear splitting sound, the loudest thing any of them ever heard. The shrapnel followed close behind, “get on the ground” shrieked Tarsluf...

weekly reflection

10th of august, 2018

For me this week has been a productive week for me and I feel pleased with my time management. I am on task and I really like the way how now we get to choose when we do things, this let's me do things when I want too, I think this is helping me get things done faster and to a higher standard. I think I am using my time wisely, doing things when I please makes me more motivated to do them because I feel like doing them. I could probably do things faster but for me cruising along with things is far less stressful and I feel a lot happier, this I one of the things I really like about this new classroom. It also gives me a greater seance of accomplishment, this is because no only have I completed the task at hand but I have put the correct amount of time towards the task and I have managed my time well. I know I am managing my time well because I am getting things done quite fast and efficiently and I have time for other things like my personal inquiry. I still feel the same about trello, I think that it is a waste of time, we spend lot's of time on trello that we could be spending on getting our other stuff done. If you want to know why I think this check out the link on my reflection from last week. Overall I have enjoyed this week very much. 

Quick write setting decription.

This was a 5 minute peice of work done about a setting.

Finally midnight has struck Jabberjack mountain. The steam rises from the chimneys of  the mobile blimps as they prepare to move to the next peak. The town is called Mashinly, it has to keep moving to avoid the bombers. They come at morning screaming while holding a bomb in each hand. There are always so many of them rushing over the hills. It strikes fear in the hearts of even the bravest men. That’s why we move. We move to a new peak every midnight so that in the morning they can’t find us. The blimp homes start to pull up there anchors preparing to rise but they are to late. The bombers have learnt their lesson. They are coming...

Hurricane belle hits america.

This was a twenty minute activity. today's learning objective was to find a figurative meaning in the article, here it is 'the hurricane ran'

Kiwi kids news featured article

Kiwi kids news featured article 'fortnite all night?'
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Q1 If this line of argument is right, what are the implications for teenagers playing? What are the implications for adults playing? In my opinion fornite is bad and stupid and the only good thing about it is that it provides entertainment (somehow). Teenagers spend to much time on fortnite and it can effect them in the long run, they might like fighting and become a criminal when they grow up or could become more prone to needing glasses. Adults might spend to much time on it they might stop raising their kids properly, They could suffer from the same effects on teenagers.

Q2 What would be a solution for this problem? (Other than banning Fortnite altogether!) I think it could be made either so expensive that very few people buy it or it should be made laggy to stop people from playing it all the time. Or parents need to come up with system to limit the time their kids can spend on there devices(I think this is the best solution)

Q3 Who is responsible for the Fortnite Addiction in the first place and who is responsible for solving it? I think that human nature is the real problem. For some reason we are into fighting and fighting games catch our interest. The creators are just trying to earn money and fighting games seem to be the best at that.

Johnson's description

This was a quick write done in 5 minutes. this is a description of Johnson the paperback writer. note this is not apart of the series.

Johnson is a tall and thin man, despite being only 19 he has a beard and thick spectacles (this was the fashion for paperback writers). He has a bald head and his only hair is on his chin. We now know that he was most likely bald because of the immense heat his brain produced. He lived his life from 100 aa(after alien visit) to 246. There are no copies of his magical paitaur and the original was lost, we only know it exists because we can see its effect in people's DNA.

Mine explosion.

This was a 20 minute activity, enjoy.

Satellite launched into orbit to take first photos of the earth.

Johnson the paperback writer continued.

Part1

“I have wrote many a novel” pleads Johnson, “where are they” demands constable bob? “They were burnt

in the fire that destroyed my home” replies Johnson with tears in his eyes. “The law states that in order

for a person to be declared a paperback writer for year they have to have created at least ten legible

books” says bob. “You however have not have a single one” finishes bob as he shuts the jail cell door.

When Johnson was young he was fascinated by paperback books. Not only where the stories fascinating

but because the had paperbacks they were very flexible. When Johnson was five he made a rope out of

paperback books. He loved them so much that when he turned 18 he got himself officially declared a

paperback writer.

He wrote about 56 paperback books but unfortunately they were destroyed in a fire caused by too putting

much wood on the fire. This is how he ended up in jail.

Part2

Johnson got out his piataur and started to play it. One part of Johnson's history that I did no mention is

that he likes writing books about music. During one book he wrote about a piece of music that no regular

instrument could play, so he invented a new one. He felt so strongly about his new instrument that he

decided to make it. He loved his new instrument and he even invented new songs for it. But no one ever

heard him. He had always played where no one could hear him.

In his book the music had hypnotised the listeners but Johnson new that real life was different. The

instrument was vespine it had a guitar body but instead of changing chords by pressing strings you

played one of two pianos witch looked like wings. Johnson was getting hungry and luckily it was dinner

time. A guard came by with a plate of what looked like it had just come out of a cow's stomach. Johnson

was horrified but then something strange happened.

The guards face swirled into nothing and then it swirled back. Ahh screamed Johnson, dropping his

piatuar. Instantly the wasp head of the guard returned back to normal. Finally Johnson realised what and

why just happened. His instrument did exactly what it should do in his book...

Plane crashes in jungle