Commonwealth Games

During the holidays the Commonwealth Games are supposed to be happening in India. 

You need to research the Commonwealth Games and present your information in any way you like. Think of the different things we have used this year. It needs to be embedded on your blog - which also means you need to make sure your presentation, spelling, grammar etc are all correct. Get a teacher to read it, get a buddy to read it, use word and a dictionary. 

Here is a list of ideas to include in your presentation - but remember - you can add a lot more also (make sure it is not copy and pasted!)

• What is the Commonwealth?
• Why do we have the Commonwealth Games?
• Is there a symbol?
• Where are they held? How often? How do countries get to hold them?
• Who attends?
• What sports?
• Who are New Zealand's best medal prospects? What sport? Quick bio about them?
• There have been many issues regarding these games - what are they? Find out info on these.
• Are the Commonwealth Games going to go ahead? What do you think? Would you want to?
• Security issues - discuss these - terrorism

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Quiz

Consumer Guarantees Act

 

Fair Trading Act

Awesome Work

Just wanting to let the Digimax Class know they have done an amazing job in class this week! The effort they put into their stories has been amazing and they have proved that they can work hard and get fantastic results. Hopefully they continue to put this effort in for the remainder of the year and turn out some more fantastic work. 

 

Please have a read through their stories, and if you don't want to read them listen to them. They would love to get comments from everybody. 

Humans v.s Monsters

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The Missing Lion

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The Tiny Ant (with voice)

This is a test to see if we can add audio to our books. Hopefully it works!

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The Tiny Ant

Darshni and Dami have written this story about a tiny little ant using
story jumper.

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Descriptive Writing

Add your writing to this wall wisher. 

Make sure you check for punctuation, spelling and grammar. Also, think to yourself, is this the best I can do? Did I listen to the suggestions my teacher made yesterday?

Reading - Inferencing

Go to this site and try your hand at the inferencing games. Remember to think about what we have been going over during reading to ensure you are correct.

Homework

Over the next two weeks you need to map out your career. Go to this website and find something that interests you. You will need to present this to the class - and the world via your blog - on the 23rd September. This is the last Thursday of the term. We have used many tools to present so use one of these (I think prezi would be really good!). You have nearly two weeks to do this, think about it and don't rush it. You may actually find some really useful info. Things to include:

• Job
• Pictures
• Video?
• Pay
• School subjects
• University?
• Wintech?
• Further study?
• Basically any information to do with your career that will inform you and guide you to get there.

Remember, make sure you have a bag on bananas next to you to feed that monkey!

Reading - Into the Book

via reading.ecb.org

Use this amazing website over the next few weeks to learn about and use the different strategies you are learning in class and have learnt through out the year. You need to remember the name you log in with and use the key for the next time you use this site.

Mufti

On Friday, 10th September - we will be holding a mufti day to raise funds
for the people of Christchurch and to also support a family at school who
has recently lost a member. Please bring in a gold coin donation and a
food item of some sort. All the money raised will go to Christchurch and
all the food items raised will be forwarded onto the family.
Thank-you for your support.

Christchurch Earthquake

You need to use Prezi to create a presentation on the Christchurch Earthquake. 

Thanks to Miss Hart for this.

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Reflection

Do you need to buy something to be a consumer? Don't just put yes or no,
give reasons or examples.

A story when you or your parents got 'ripped off'.

E-Learning Parent Meeting

Next Tuesday (7 September) at 7pm we are holding an e-learning meeting. Here we will be discussing:

• ICT as a tool for learning
• where SAMS is at as a school
• where we want to go to - future thinking

We will be asking for feedback from parents on two key issues:

1. digital classrooms paid or unpaid dilemma
2. Funding ideas as we need roughly $25k per annum to keep going in the same direction

Make an e-Book

Go to one of the following sites and make an e-book. Remember to plan and make sure you know your orientation, complication and resolution. Have a look at other stories first, get a sense for what others have done. We don't want a whole page of writing on each page, these are story books. You need pictures, colour and something easy to read.

Story Jumper

Story Bird

Zoo Burst

Don't sign up to all three, pick one and see if it works. If you use your school email and you don't get a reply that means it has been stopped in the school spam folder. You can't access this. Just use your personal address.

Story Jumper

Go to this site and make an online book. Play around, give it a go. EXPLORE!!!!

Remember to plan your story first including an orientation, complication and resolution.

 

 

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