Prototypes

 This week for reading we have been creating inventions that haven't been created yet and would help the human race in may ways. 

I created a bracelet that you slip over your lower arm and it shoots out a hologram above it and it's like an arm ipad. The hologram has all the apps on it and you have to swipe on the hologram to change page. It also has a holo-robot that get shot out of the bracelet and you can tell it what to do. 

It was really cool to be able to create a gadget that wasn't real, because we got to make whatever we wanted. I found it tricky to explain what it did, because I couldn't find the words. Next time I would colour it differently, because it comes in different colours. 

What would you do with a holo-bracelet if you had one? Do you have any ideas about what gadgets you would make? Tell me in the comments! Here is a photo of what I created: 

Past - Present

 Privet! Yesterday we had our cybersmart teacher in. We were told to go onto this slideshow and insert photos of what the item in the photo looked like today. We learnt about copyright and past. Mrs Torrie gave us a series of slides where we had to put in the photos. 

I wasn't there so I had to do it today. My friend Camille helped me and explained what I needed to do, and then I knew what to do. We would look at a photo of the item from the olden days, and then we would have to put in another photo next to it of what it looks like now. 

It was pretty hard to come up with the ones for the last few, but I just asked Camille what she had done, and she gave me some ideas. I enjoyed finding out what togs and TV's and all of the other things looked like in the past because I didn't know. Next time I would choose different things to put on the slides. 

Have you ever seen what olden day swimsuits looked like? Did you know what their cars had looked like before this? Tell me in the comments! Here is the link to my friend Camille's blog: https://saintmarysgiscamilles.blogspot.com/ . Here's the slideshow!

Museum of Technology

 We went to the Museum of Technology on Monday. When we arrived we had to get into teams chosen by the teacher. Each team had one of the kid's parents as the adult who looked after them. I was in a team with Arabella, Maddison, James, Isabella. Arabella's mother was our adult, and she brought her baby with her, so we all got to say hi to Beau (It's said Bo). 

James got a little booklet of paper with all the tasks we had to do, because we had a scavenger hunt. We went around the place and found lots of items and had to write down where and what they were. 

Just before lunch we went to a room that had all these medical equipment pieces from the olden days, and there were three wheelchairs. We got to try out the wheelchairs, and they were so fun! We took lots of photos, and there were lots of tanks and busses and trucks that we were allowed to go inside of.

It was quite hard to find each item for the scavenger hunt, because there were lots of equipment pieces jammed together. I loved going inside of the jail, and going on the tanks. Have you ever been to the technology museum? If so, what was your favourite thing? Tell me in the comments!     

ANZAC Day

This week we have been learning to summarise. We read about the ANZACs. My group had to read four stories and watch two videos, and then we had to make a diary entry that we thought an ANZAC soldier would write, and we had to make a postcard, pretending we were fighting in the war, and that we were writing home. We had to make the postcard sound slightly more optimistic, because we wouldn't be telling our family that it was the worst thing in the world. We had to make the diary entry sound like the truth. Some people used google tools (google doc, google drawing, etc) and some did it on paper. I made mine on paper, because I thought that it would look more realistic, and the people in the first World War wouldn't have a had computers with them. 

I found it pretty tricky to fill out the whole page because I didn't know what to write, and I had used a large piece of paper. I found it enjoyable to make the postcard, because I got to design it by myself. It was easy to make up the street and address, because I just popped it off the top of my head. Next time I would make the postcard have one of those images on the back. 

My digital object shows that I can embed photos into my blog. 

Have you ever sent a postcard to someone out of the country? What cool fact about ANZAC day do you know? Tell me in the comments! Here are the images of my post card and diary entry!