Cybersmart Digital Game

Namaste amazing bloggers,

It has been quite a bit of time since I did my last blog post, I have tons to share with you! I have been learning how to be a cyber smart learner. What does that mean? Well, being cyber smart is when you are being safe and kind online, on the internet. No matter if you are at school, home, work etc. There is a game called the Cyber smart game, it is similar to snakes and ladders. You have to have a buddy, one of you roll a dice and whatever number it lands on that is how many steps you take. Whatever you land on, click on it and it will bring you to a task. First you have to SMRF your task, then begin filling it in.

It was really easy at the start, but then it started to get a little harder. Gradually it was getting me to think more, which is good because I got better ideas.

Here is a screenshot of my first task, the dice landed on a 1.

Reflection about quality blog posts

Hello bloggers,

Here is a screencastify about how to write a quality blog post. A quality blog post is a blog post that has very few mistakes and keeps the reader engaged (engaged means they are interested). It is great to make sure your blog post makes sense, has proper punctuation and talks about your learning. Sometimes it is good to have step by step instructions, that tell the reader how you did your learning. You can see an example of this in my screencastify as well.

Since my screencastify is digital it means that you can go back and watch it again if you missed anything. One thing I found challenging while making this screencastify was making sure it had a variety of ideas and was satisfying to watch.

I hope you learn a lot of new things and now know how to write a quality blog post. Feel free to comment on my blog post if you have questions or some feedback.

Thank you for reading!
Gargee :)

School Cross Country 2016

Hello bloggers,

Today was our school cross country, juniors and seniors. We did it after morning tea, we walked to Keith Hay park, where we practiced cross country, and then we had to sit down in front of our class number cone, (it is a cone that has a number that represents each class). After that Hay Park school was ready, the juniors went first. Rm 5 lined up right behind the line that was already prepared, once they heard the wooden clapper hit, they ran as fast as their legs could go.

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Kia Ora bloggers,

This is just a slideshow about the cat door company. Have a nice time reading about the astonishing company and what they did to this school.



Have you ever heard of SureFlap? They are an innovative company that make cat doors and other products. Please look through the slideshow to see how they have supported our school.

I hope you enjoy!

Enrichment Activity

Kia Ora bloggers, 

If you read my previous blog post about the zoo you will notice that the workers have to make sure they really take care of how much fun an animal is having. Something the workers can do is make an enrichment toy, it helps the animals get the skills they need for the future. 

Here is a document that I have put a lot of work into. I designed the enrichment toy using TinkerCad and used a google drawing to explain how the enrichment toy works. One thing I found challenging was to create a great enrichment toy for the Kea. I had a hard time finding out which idea would be best. The Kea is very smart, they are very smart so they might always find out how to do the task easily. I wanted to make sure the task was challenging and hard to do the Kea won't get bored.

My next learning step would be to make a prototype of my enrichment task and test it to see if it is a good task for Keas.