Reading Webquest

For week six the task for Mrs Gomms reading group was to do a webquest about the olympics and the paralympics. A few of the tasks I did in the slide below include: The olympic and paralympic logos, the history of the flame the torch and the relay and the history of the olympic rings.

I found it rather difficult to get an even balance of facts and images. But in the end I remembered that the words are the most important part of any presentation, so I narrowed the amount of images down to two on slide two and one on slide four. The other hard thing was finding a Athlete from Canada that competed in diving.

The easy part of this webquest was following the instructions even though it was a bit confusing because Mrs Gomm called it a Paralympic webquest but the actual activity had nothing to do with the paralympics except the side about the paralympic and olympic logos.

If I ever do something like this again I reckon a good way to improve would be if I found something difficult and it was making me frustrated or confused I should either give it a break and come back later. Or another way would be to take a step back and look at it from a different angle.

Reading Survival Kit Poster

We were learning about Tsunamis in our reading this week, using our multi-model reading slides me and my reading group, Waikanae have over three online books and one National Geographic video. This week our main text was called the Hungry Wave.    

 

I found it easy to choose what would go in my survival kit, such as water, canned food, a radio and a first aid kit. Basically all the essentials, The other thing I found easy was to polyline all the things in my poster because all the things were pretty basic, or I just had to duplicate it until there was enough.

I found it challenging to use just the right amount of words so it was not a whole descriptive story, but not so little that it was only a few words and didn't tell you anything at all. I ended up with quite a few thought bubbles but in each one there was around about the right amount of words.

Next time I will try to add more detail to my bag so it looks like it could hold more and is even more impressive compared to how it is now. Another thing I could work on is having more pockets showing on the bag so all of the necessities that I polylined aren't all sticking out the top.   

Follow Up Activities

 I was learning about solar energy, the sun and how it is kinder to the environment and to your electricity bill if you use solar panels as a source of energy. The other thing we learnt about was the world solar challenge, it takes place every three years in Australia. 

I found it hard to answer all of the follow up questions to a standard that I approve of and am willing to post to my blog. I kept on changing the answers to something that I thought was better. Then changing it back to what it was originally only to change it yet again. 

I found it easy to read all of the books in just one reading session! It was helpful to have read them all so I could answer all of the questions with ease. All the same I read them five times each. But the video I only watched once or twice.

I really enjoyed learning all about solar energy and the sun. The other thing I really enjoyed was experimenting with the solar car, seeing how far it went, finding out which surface it worked best on and just having fun fiddling with the car in general.   

Next time I will make sure that we have our whole group before we started experimenting. Mrs Bava (my reading teacher) is going to buy some chalk so we could chart how far the car goes exactly. I love reading, it is my favorite subject. 

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