Thursday

Today we  read about the first Chinease migraters who went from country to another for gold rushes. We had a parner. Mine was Liana. We took notes while the other read. Then together we rewrote the 8 paragraph only using key main points. It was hard and challenging. I enjoyed recrafting the writing, and would love to do it again. 

Animal Action Animation

Today for cybersmart we created animations. We used slides. But this time we added audio. This is a new feature of slides. My story for my animation was a cat and a horse were walking towards each other. Then the sat jumped on the horse and the horse didn't like it. I enjoy doing animations.  I will update my blog with the animaion soon. The next step is to add it to my blog with the audio. We just had some technical diffuculties.  

Bubble Moments

My best Bubble Moments
I have created a cool google drawing about my best bubble moments during lockdown. The little circle are the bubbles. I tried to add borders and lots of colours. It is a nice way of presenting a reflection.

Genious Hour Novel

I have recently started a new genious hour on a novel. I am writing a novel. Its called the Forever Pony. Its based on how I got my pony Gingernut and how I felt. Here is the starting 2 chapters.


The news I Had Been Waiting For

I snuggled into bed wondering what will he look like, how will he act, what's his name? I had just been told that I could get my very own pony. We were going to pick him up in 1 week. Every day I counted down the days and hours until I could meet him and take him down to be my very own. I had been waiting for this moment for ages. It felt like forever. I wish I knew more about him. I was very curious because I had never had a pet that was mine. All I knew was that he was a boy and he was around my height. I wanted to know more. But I was going to have to wait till tomorrow. Which was like waiting till next year.

The Day
I woke up to the sun beaming through my window. Usually when I wake up Im feeling tired. But I had been waiting for this day for as long as I could remember. I was pumped. LOoking out the window in the car, wishing I was the one driving. But then again if I was driving, we would all be dead. We turned up the old windy road, deciding what house it was. Finally we turned into what we thought was the house. The house that I was going to collect my future best friend. We pulled up and parked. I leaped out of the car and ran to the paddock. I climbed the gate and ran to the pony. He tickled me with his warm breath and long whiskers. He licked my fingers and nuzzled me. He was perfect.

First Ride
His previous life was as acarting pony so I had a bit of work to do with him. He had only been ridden a few times with a saddle. Nerves grew, but so did excitement, as it was my first ever ride on him.

A Lazy Bees Life In Lockdown

One of my activities today was to create an animation. It not great but it was a bit of work. It is created on google slides. You just move the shapes and characters with your keys and duplicate the slide for every new move. Its easy but it does come with challenges. I found it hard to find png of cartoon bees.  It is a fun thing to do if you have any spare time to kill.

Do It Yourself Cat Hammock

It was rainy yesterday, very hard. So after a long hard search through Pinterest I saw a cat hammock. My chair in my room didn't have 2 stretchers so it was a little difficult. But I patched it up with string.

What you need
An old shirt
Scissors
A chair ideally with 2 stretchers
A cat

Starting at the bottom of the shirt, cut up 10 - 15 cm on each side. Cut the shoulders in half for tying. Tie on the chair legs on all 4 corners. Done, place your cat in the hammock. My cats love this. Since my instructions are not very clear. Here is a video to support them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsvPc_srtf4

Decade Box

Our study this term is decade and how things have changed over the years. I have done interviews with my parents or grandparents and now I have made a decade box. A decade box is something that you add things to over time so that others in around 100 years can observe and learn things about you. Corona virus is a perfect example of things you could I got an old show box and put paper around it. Then painted tea and coffee over it to make it older. I have been adding one or so things to it most days. Here is is what I've added so far. A stick with a small pine cone, a hydrangea, a list of things I've been up to, some words out of the paper ( covid, home school. ). 

80 s Interveiw

I interviewed my Mum as part of our decade study at school. I asked questions about her life in the 80s when she was my age and growing up. I asked things such as sport, music, dance, pets, meals, technology. I think that technology and style have changed the most because now you can do literally anything on a device. But other than that I think that my life is nearly simarlar to hers growing up. Here they are.