2017 DESCRIBE ROBOT - Leo

My Fav YouTuber

Here is my fav YouTuber.

Can you guess?

Fitness-A-Thon

This week we are doing a Fitness-a-thon at school. Today we did running around the field and courts.

Here comes Ben, Omar and Essa!

How to look after fish

Always have two of the same fishto keep each others company by Leo ROBINS Here is a Canva.com peace of art. Hope you enjoy!

Mindcraft the Musical recap

Here is a google slide about our kauri team production. Enjoy!

My Speech 2017

WALT: Write a speech

Remember:

Introduction

• Do NOT start with “Hi I’m Jeff and I’m going to talk to you about ...”
• State your key focus/point of view
• Have a great hook!  Get your audience’s attention!
• Interesting fact - Did you know..?
• 3 powerful adjectives
• Statement - turn our into question into a statement sentence.
• Rhetorical question

Several Paragraphs

• One big idea per paragraph with evidence/information to support that big idea
• Use interesting connectives - see our modelling book for ideas

Concluding Statement

• Re-state key focus/point of view and leave your audience with something to think about

Title

Is Minecraft Education?

If you're wondering why my speech is about minecraft as an education tool, if you are one of the many other people who may be thinking there is no point to using minecraft in school to help learning, stay tuned. This speech is for you. Hi my name is Leo and I am here to talk to you about minecraft being an effective, interesting education tool.

Big Idea 1

Have you ever had trouble working out the perimeter or area of something? Well, minecraft could actually help you at that point. Here is how. You need to build structures and to do this you need to add blocks together.  As you add these block together you need to know or work out the perimeter and area. It makes this learning fun.

Big Idea 2

Microsoft and Mojang created an edition to minecraft called Minecraft Education Edition. Minecraft edu (for short) is a game completely controlled by the teacher. The teacher can create any kind of server they like, for example a tutorial world. This makes sure that all activities are about learning and all students are on task.

You may be wondering if there are limits to things you can do. There are some boundaries put in place that stop players going off course. You can also change in the settings menu so that the game is creative mode so players can not kill other players and focus on what they are meant to be doing.

Big Idea 3

I have been thinking about what minecraft actually does to children's brains. Minecraft gets kids brains running. It is creative and challenging. I play minecraft myself and I realised it’s not just about gaming and killing other people, it’s about learning about the game and having your brain active and growing.

Did you know, that every time you make a mistake, your brain grows and every time you learn something new, your brain grows? This is called a growth mindset. Minecraft is excellent for growing your brain.

Big Idea 4

Minecraft can be is an obsession for gamers, it leaves people in their rooms wasting their lives away playing this video game. According to recent research over one million people play minecraft everyday. How about that for an obsession?

I think if we use it in schools and teach people how to manage themselves when using this game this game would turn from being an obsession and into a learning game. By bring minecraft into the classroom we are actually helping millions of students.

Concluding Statement

So what do you think about minecraft being used in schools now? As I have shared with you already,  It helps students become creative and have a growth mindset. It is a great way to motivate students to learn about maths in a fun and practical way. I think minecraft should be taught in every school so go and tell your teacher or principal all about it.

3D Shapes And Nets

Here is a googl slide about 3D shapes and nets. I hope you like it!

Matariki

This is a google slide about Matariki. Enjoy!

The Mighty Gorilla

Here is some Writing I thought you might want to see, I hope you enjoy it!

WALT; write a non chronological report

Remember to use:

• an opening paragraph explain what your report is about.
• headings and subheadings for the main body.
• an closing paragraph, recapping on what you have written.
• Pictures, maps etc with captions to explain what they are.

Remember to use faction not opinions.

The Mighty Gorilla

Gorillas are animals that mainly live in regions of dense forests in tropical Africa, such as Rwanda. Few animals have sparked the imagination of man as much as the gorilla, the biggest of the living primates and the last member of the ape family.

What do Gorillas look like?

The gorilla is huge, with muscular chest and shoulders. The arms are longer than the little legs. A fully grown male mountain gorilla is twice as large as the female.

What do they eat?

Most gorillas are herbivores which means they eat vegetables and herbs for their breakfast, lunch and dinner. Male gorillas can eat up to 20kg of food each day, that's more half a child’s own body weight.

Where do they live?

www.berggorilla.org

Habitat. Mountain gorillas live in Rwanda, Ugandaand the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on green, volcanic mountains. Lowland gorillas live in the forests of central and western Africa in Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Concluding Paragraph

I think gorillas are one of the most amazing animals in the world first of all because they are endangered and very special and humans have a great responsibility to look after them.

Forces Treasure Hunt

Here is a google slide about forces. Have fun!

Samoan Language Week

This is a thing link about Samoan language week. Enjoy!

Kawa Of Care

Chrome book by Leo ROBINS Here is a Canva drawing of our Kawa of care.

Where You Get Media From.

Here is a word cloud made by Tagul. It is aout where media comes from. Enjoy!

Science In A Van

Today Science in a van came to our  school. They taught us a little bit about the periodic table.

Here are some of my friends using there senses.

These are some students pretending to be atoms.

Museum Trip

On Friday the 7th of April 2017 Kauri team and myself went on a team trip to the AUCKLAND NATIONAL MUSEUM. Here are some photos that we took. Enjoy!

Here we are learning about Maori tribes.

Rocking those moves boys!

Family Names

This is another word cloud made with tagul, but this time filled with some of my family's names.

21 Class Names 2017

Hello everybody, this time I have a word cloud from tagul again, but this time filled with names of people in my class. Enjoy!

Soccer Words

This is a tagul cloud made of words from soccer.

Neymar Skills!

Made with Storyboard That
Here is another storyboard that but this time about Neymar scoring a goal.

Creative Writing

Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away there lived a master Jedi who kind of looked like a alien/evil monster but claimed to be a master Jedi.

He swore that he would be on our side for the big battle against Darth Vader! Anyway, let's get on with the story.

So what's been happening so far, is that master Jedi came to find some allies to go battle with against Darth Vader and his gang. When I say his gang I mean his gang as in his troops battling with him in the fight against the good force so the dudes are KY-LO-REN, TERMINATOR LUKE and himself.

The fight was for the possession of the force. So the two sides met in the sacred battle ship hangar to fight to the death!

Anyway the two leaders came to the front and bowed to each other and of course Darth Vader being the evil one started the fight and tried to chop off master Jedi's head to win the force, but master Jedi was too quick and stopped the death by putting his light sabre in front of Darth Vader's sabre.

They battled for hours with their allies behind them fighting with guns.

Finally the fight came to a gruesome end with Darth Vader jabbing his sabre into master Jedi's chest and at the same time master Jedi did the same thing.

The two sides agreed to share the force amongst them.

  THE END!

Sir Edmond Hillary

Made with Storyboard That This is a new learning tool for me and I want to share it with you, it's called Story-that. This one is about Sir Edmond Hillary and a little bit about Tenzing Norgay.

EXTRA math

This is some of my best work on EXTRA math.

Pretty good actually.

Not my best work!

Getting better...

This is probably my best work.

I think this is the best I could do for a days to come.

Race relations Day!

Hi there,
today is Race relations Day at Owairaka. If you are wondering what Race relations Day is for, it is for making relations with other culture's and trying different foods from all around the world. My favourite part of Race relations Day is when we share food from around the world.

This is my class looking great!

This is me and all the other boys in the class.

Ernest Rutherford

this also a thinglink but of Ernest Rutherford.

Donald Trump

Hi, think link again but this time on Donald.J Trump.

Kate Sheppard

This is a thing-link about Kate Sheppard.

Eden/Albert School Cricket Tournament

Here are some kids from my school including me who went to the Eden/Albert school cricket tournament. I hope you like it.

Sir Edmond Hillary Map

This is a google map about some of Sir Ed's life. I hope you enjoy.

StoryWeb-Prince Bertie and the Dragon

We have been learning to create a StoryWeb.

Title:

Prince Bertie and the Dragon.

Author:

Storynory

Setting:

A castle in wales famous for its dragons.

Characters:

Princess Beatrice, Prince Bertie,Prince Freddie, the King and the dragon.

Beginning:

Prince Bertie was telling a story about how him and Princess Beatrice met and fell in love.

Middle:

Prince Freddie ran away and lied and said that the dragon would be good from then on.

End:

Prince Bertie captures the dragon with some firemen.

Evaluation

I think that the story is a classic fairytale that I do recommend you listen to

Waitangi Poster

Here is some work I have been doing on Google drawings,it is a poster about the Treaty of Waitangi.

All About Me

This is what happens when you leave me alone with stuff like this, anyway here is my page about me.

Welcome

Welcome to my very own blog for learning. I look forward to sharing my learning with teachers, my school, my family and friends anywhere.