Past and Present DLO

Here is my DLO About how to make a good friend!

How to survive the first night in Minecraft!

For beginners, Minecraft is a game where you can mine, craft all in survival. It’s a wonderful universe to explore and luckily today I am giving you some tips of how to survive the first night, in Minecraft….

Firstly, gather wood. You can use wood for crafting sticks, tools, crafting table and definitely making a shelter. Start mining wood and get enough to make a wooden axe. Axes are used for chopping down trees quicker and you can upgrade it too! Axes are amazing!

Meanwhile, once you have enough wood, you can start building a glorious shelter! People from around the world use wood to make cabins, skyscrapers and more. Its amazing what you can create! To start off with, maybe building a little box to save time. Finish the basic things and you can construct a plane, hotel, farm etc!

Shelters usually have doors, roofs, a bed (sleep inside and changes to daytime). You can build in multiple places! Trees, mountains, underground, mines and even in mid air! Start with building on the ground, and make sure you have 3 wool and 3 wood planks to create a bed to skip through the zombie infested night. Make sure you have sticks and coal/charcoal to place torches around your house to prevent the infected mobs from spawning.

Most important thing to surviving is food. Have a sword in hand and get resources from pigs, cows, chickens. If you are vegetarian you would probably go with carrots, potatoes, bread, cake, melons and so much more! Harvest cobblestone with a pickaxe to craft a furnace (can cook your food if coal/charcoal/wood inside).

More skilled= more challenges. Now go ahead and skip the night till day!

My Week 4 Reflection!

What:

We are learning to understand the author's purpose. The book I’m reading is War Games. It’s about friendship and even though you're a little different, you can still have some things in common.

So What:

Learning about the author’s purpose helps me with understanding the text. It also helps me evaluate and think of what the book is like. Sometimes it helps me to understand what the author is trying to say and what they mean.

Now What:

I can use this to improve my reading skills and understand better what the author means. I will practice evaluating and understanding the text so I understand what I am reading in many different ways.

Goal Setting Conference!

Here is my presentation of all my goals! It's nearly the goal setting conference so I picked out my goals and chose to present it like this...

Xtramath's Certificate Finished Subtraction!

I am finally on subtraction! Yay! My new goal I set is to make it to Multiplication. I'm sure I will make it there soon!

My First Ever Explain Everything! (Rounding and Compensating)

I think I did well, anyway, it was my first time! It was really fun playing around with Explain Everything on the iPads! I love learning about new tools on the iPods and iPads. The best part about this adventure was trying out the new ways of writing, erasing, colours etc. Technology is so great!



Star: I think I was good at explaining the strategy and it made it easier to understand
Star: I think it was simple and I did not make it difficult to see or understand what I was saying
Wish: I wish for me to get used to this app and learn to make my words more interesting and me sounding like I am more into maths

The Adventures Of 2015 Toma!

Bonjour everyone! Future me here!
We are now in week 2 of Term 1!
I am loving the new classroom already with new friends and technology.
McCahon has set some goals for this Term and I am surely going to share them later on.
The best thing about school is the new ways we do our work and much more difficult activities!
Our class has been named after a famous artist called Colin McCahon. He is surely great at art!

The thing I am looking forward to is riding the adventure train!

Make sure you check back regularly to see how I'm going!