Nathaniel

=My Wiki Page=

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 * Rainforests Preview **

//** Here is an audio of my prior knowledge about rainforests. **//

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This is my literacy task for story writing.

The ship that caused havoc....

// Even with her mighty engines in reverse, the ocean liner was pulled further in to the canal. // // ‘HONK HONK!!!!’ Yelled the ocean liner which was now steaming down the canal. The ship continued heading down the canal until it was inches away from the tallest building. // // The tallest building was now shadowed by the ship. Then suddenly, the building was hit by the widest part of the ship. // // CRASH!!!!! The tallest building which was now not the tallest building, was crushed by the ship. It was now partly blocking the way down the canal. This in turn was slowing down the ship. The captain and the crew were frantically trying to do every possible thing to get the boat out of the canal. Anything and everything they tried was hopeless and failed. //

// The engines were still running, but the boat wasn’t going anywhere. Then the boats engines were too hot to keep going. // // BOOOOMM!!!!!!!!!!! // // The engines exploded into tiny pieces. Now the villagers sped into action. //

// People got out of there houses and started calling in tug boats to push the big boat back into the ocean. // // One of the villagers yelled “That was incredible, just like magic, how did the boat even keep going forwards into the canal?”, someone else yelled out “maybe it is magic! Something was obviously pulling it in, something very, very strong. I guess we will never know. //

// People suggested that there could have been an underwater rope pulling the boat along, which means that somebody was behind all of this. Investigators were searching for clues, but had no idea what or who caused the incident. // // I guess it will remain a mystery after all...... // **// (20 years later...) //**

// The canal was now a place where mining was happening. // // Someone found an underground tunnel with thick ropes all the way down the tunnel. The man turned right and found an ancient, rusty machine that was connected to the rope. // // The old man shouted back up to the surface, ‘Holy Cow!!!! I’ve just found out the mystery to the ship that caused havoc!!!’ // // Someone shouted back, ‘what was it?’ He replied ‘It was a rope after all. All we have to do now is to find out who did it.’ Well that’s the hard part. The person who caused this left no witnesses. Scientists studied the old powerful machine that somehow managed to heave the massive boat into the canal. They found out that it was built in the 1900’s and was usually use to pull boats or jet-skis in from the water on to trailers, not to pull humongous boats into canals. They were very surprised to see such a small, strong thing pull a (‘who knows how many tonnes’) boat into a canal. This was a very interesting mystery..... //


 * // (2 months later) //**

// A man named Bob discovered who the person was that pulled the ship into the canal. He actually found out that it wasn’t a crime, it were actually some people making a movie without someone’s permission. // // The movie was called ‘The Ship That Caused Havoc’. // // There were heaps of people asking questions like “why didn’t you tell us that there was going to be a great big massive ship that was going to destroy our homes?” and “Why do you have to set the movie in a poor canal, and smash the tallest building which is now not the tallest building smack down in the middle of the canal? Now we can’t ride our boats up and down it!” // // The people making the movie happily paid for the damage they made and everything was back to normal. //

// The End.....for now....... //

This is my novel study task 5. It is about Dan being trapped underground by some of is family. Check it out.....



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This is my novel study task 4. It is a diary from Dan about is time at Bondi beach in Australia.

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This is my novel study task 3. It is about a person telling someone else about the blurb about the book.

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This is my sketchcast

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This is my novel study plot locations They are the locations the characters take place in.

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Digital Novel Study Task 1 These are my novel study talking avatars. One is Dan, the other is Amy.

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Today during our class computer time we had a go at creating our own abstract art. Here is my creation called, "Scribbly".



This is the video we used for our SPCA slideshow.

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**__Blabber Self Assessment__**

** Here is my self assessment on our poetry writing unit. Click the play button and you will hear me talk! **

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Our task was to create a digital book online using the website ' www.tikatok.com '. We created a book about some poems. We had 4 choices....

A+ pass A pass B pass C pass

I chose the B pass which had 8 poems in it. This is my digital book.....

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**__Explanation Podcast__**

Firstly we had to create an avatar (weemee) that looked liked ourselves. I then had to record my explanation of how the water cycle works. I practised my presentation before I recorded it in garageband. I then used the imovie to create my podacst that included my avatar and my audio presentation. I learnt how to embed and resize a podcast into our wikispace. Check out my podcast ...

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=Letter Writing Postcards=

Our task was to create a postcard. We had to choose a country and a city that had three popular tourist attractions. We used the street view layer on google earth to tour our locations. We had to take note of what the weather was like at each location, and then we used wikipedia to find out some interesting facts about our locations. We drafted an informal letter (postcard) to a friend back in New Zealand telling them of our visit to our chosen city. We created our postcards using pages. We imported a relevant picture and also a stamp from our chosen country. Have a look at my postcard below.




 * __Slice of Life Recounts__**

For the task of the recount writing based on a personal experience, I chose to write one on my trip to Wet and Wild at the Gold Coast in 2007. Our writing focus were:

Using descriptive language.

We had to include a range of adjectives, onomatapoeia, similes, metaphor and personification.

We were given 4 options on publishing our recounts. Those options were: creating a whiteboard photo, keynote, podcast or publishing straight onto our own wikispace. I chose to publish it straight onto my wiki page.

Check out my awesome work !! =Fun at the water park - (recount writing) =

We grabbed our rings. The light shone green. We were of. "WOOSH!!!" We raced through the tunnels and around the bends.
==I was sliding so fast that cold water splashed on my face. Eventually, we arrived at our destination. The slide went straight for a couple of metres then we started to slow down. "Let's do it again" yelled my brother. That was the most incredible ride ever.==

-(not me)


 * __Technology (ALJ Keynote)__**

Our task was to create a keynote presentation that was based around one piece of technology that had/has evolved over time. We had to work with a partner on this task. My partner's name was Shahel. We followed the Action Learning Process in brainstorming our topic, creating 6 key questions and researching our information. We had to rewrite our information into our own words, collect some relevant images and also a video for our presentation. Check out my presentation.

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My Voicethread
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My Glog
This is my glog. I chose to research about the polar zones. I wrote 5 facts about the polar zones and also my extreme weather (snow storms). We had to include a video of our chosen extreme weather condition.

Here is my glog.....

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