Minecraft Build Challenge

 Okay okay, I said that I would be doing weekly blogs but it's almost been a month. But that's not the point of this blog. We have been using Minecraft to make challenges to write about. We had to make stuff on the island that we could survive with on the island. Then we took Screenshots of the things we made and put them on a Google Doc. And then write about the things that were on the island and why we had them. We have been using Minecraft to show the other teachers that Minecraft can be used for learning.

Writing

We had chosen to make many things for this Challenge. We had made a Bunker, 2 Houses, a Well, a Carrot farm, and a blossom tree. 

I made a floating house and just a house with underground tunnels that takes you to an END PORTAL. Ben made the end portal. My floating house has underwater tunnels. Ben made a carrot farm underwater. We had chosen to make a farm because we needed food to survive, and we had a well for water. We made a bunker with all the things we need, we have a book chest, even an ender chest. But the bunker is camouflaged into a house. We had made the blossom tree for it to feel like there were more trees. We have a house out on the water and it leads to a fish tank. But you're underwater and the fish are above you, and it leads to the carrot farm. We have a secret entrance to lead into the end portal, but you have to pull the secret lever to get it to activate. We also put buried treasure on the island. Do you think you would be able to survive on this island, with all of these things? If you think you could, go to Ben and you can try to survive on the island with nothing.

Where I've been

 The reason why I haven't been doing any blog posts for the past two months is that We haven't been able to use Blogger because of the rules saying we had to be old enough.  But today we have started to reuse it. This is my first blogger post in over 2 months. maniakalani had shut down bloggers because you had to be over 13 to use this site. But we had still been using it at under 13, so maniakalani shut down blogger for primary schools. But when everyone had no hope for our school, we had started doing blogs on Google sites. Which turned out to be kinda fun, but we did not get to finish off any of them. I think that it was kind of stupid that they shut down blogger because blogger had so many good features that we learned, then they all just went down the drain. But we got it back in the end, better late than never is what I also say.

This is one of my blogs on Google Sites.

BUILD TO THE SKY

 This week for reading we have been doing it on Amazing Structures, like bridges and sky scrapers. We had to read 2 articles. Next we had to go onto google maps and measure with building. But the best part of this reading is we get to build a bridge or a sky scraper in MINECRAFT, then take a screen shot then put it on your reading VNB. My favourite part of this reading is going to be making my bridge in Minecraft. What's your favourite structure in the world? Let me know.    

I am A MAGICIAN!

This week for reading, we are doing it on magic. With our magic reading we had to read 3 articles and make a E Book on a Magician. Then we had to do 3 magic tricks in front of our family. We also had to come up with a name for ourselves, I called myself The Great and Amazing Boy. My favourite part of this reading was making the E book, because I love making E books. Do you like Magic or have you done any Magic tricks before? Let me know.

Lock down

We have had lock down for the past few days, because of Covid 19. In Lock down we have been having Bubble School. Bubble School is when you do school but at home, and go on google meets to see what you need to do. This is our second day of Bubble School and i'm waiting to get out of Lock down. My favourite part of Lock down so far is staying at home and being able to go outside, and play basketball. The worst part of Lock down for me is having to go on google meets and needing to wait until 2pm to have a meet with the teacher for help. Whats your favourite part of Lock down? Let me know.

I am a Scientist!!!

We are doing a Science fair at school, but it’s a virtual Science fair. We have made a Jamboard with our ideas for what to do for our Science fair. We have done this Science fair so we can learn about Science and get our brains thinking about what we could do with Science. One of my ideas was, What gives for heat a Red light or a Blue light? So far this Science fair has been a lot of fun because we get to think of ideas  and then get to test them and that's the fun part. I have 5 ideas for what I could do for the Science fair and I'm still thinking of more. My favourite part of the Science fair was coming up with the ideas because I got to think of what would be fun as a project. What would your favourite part of the Science fair be?Let me know.

Tokyo 2020 but in 2021?!?!?!?

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics is going on right now, but it's not 2020 it's 2021 we have the 2020 Olympics in 2021. It's because we had corona virus in 2020 and the Olympics got postponed to 2021. With the Olympics going on we have watched about 6 hours watching the Olympics at school. My favourite event at he Olympics is the basketball. We have won 6 Golds 4 Silvers and 5 Bronze. I hope one day that I could get into the Olympics for basketball. What is your favourite sport in the Olympics, and what would you want to go for?