Thursday 17 May 2018

Girls tech challenge

Hello Today I'm going to show you a really fun activity that I did with my group. It is called…..
GIRLS TECH CHALLENGE!!! It is a challenge
where they get girls to make an app that helps the community/world.
One of the mentors from a group called Pauline came in and talked to us about technology.
We had to think about what we would like to do in the future.
We also had to draw a picture of ourselves in the future and what technology we would be using.

Kayla drew her as a chef and an author (but that doesn’t show in the picture),
Rebecca drew herself as an airplane hostess,
and I drew myself as a fashion designer,
a vet, and an airplane hostess that works for Air New Zealand
(we were allowed to choose more than one job).
We had to think about what superpowers we would like to have. Kayla chose flight,
but then Pauline told us that it had to be a DIFFERENT superpower like kindness. I
found it really fun and I think it may help us in the future with our coding.

Show not tell

This week I went to a workshop about show not tell.
show not tell is when you are creating a picture in your readers mind.


For example if i said i saw a lake it does not describe what it looks like it just tells you but what if i said this.


Over the freezing wood of my balcony i looked over to what looked like a huge puddle filled with shimmering water.
Huge trunks with leaves rustling in the wind surrounded the huge puddle.
Fish swam around looking for food and ducks quacked as they begin to wake up.
A huge light began to rise behind the huge puddle making the water sparkle like diamonds.
The sky began to light up it was as if the darkness was fighting the light.
but you could tell the had won when the darkness began to fade.

Pictures appeared in you head you imagine what i was describing.
Well that's it for today hope this helped you learn what show not tell is.