Medieval Minecraft - The Blacksmith

 I made our blacksmith in our medieval village, with another classmate we created this building. It didn't take that long, because our building didn't have to be enormous like our manor house.
It took us about less than two weeks. My classmate added the final touches because I'm not a Minecraft person.

Do you like Minecraft? Have you done a big project like this before?

Medieval Times reflection

We are in the middle of doing Medieval Times. For one of are class projects we need to create a medieval village in Minecraft. In groups we had to build our own building in the village. Iwas assigned to make the blacksmith. I have learned many things in this topic. Like how a plague wipe out the majority of a countries population. How merchants would travel to distant lands to seek rare items, and may encounter robbers or pirates. How offenders will be punished depending on their offence. How young knights would have to train all their childhood. And how the churches were powerful enough to start a war. Reading books and watching videos helped me to understand these.

Electives - Term 2 & 3

So back in Term 2 we started electives. Electives is kind of like groups of activities you can sign up on. You get to choose two, one for Term 2 and 3. For Term 2 I chose Technology Challenges. Technology Challenge is when the teacher comes up with this improvising activity, but you need to solve it with nothing more then paper and card board and other things. I think it was okay, sometimes the activities were fun but sometimes it was boring. But if you win, in the end the teacher gives you a prize. My second choice was Creative computers. In this group we get to create a world in Minecraft that has a challenge. And the other thing was that you create this mini film with a Mission Impossible theme.

Tech at Mt. Cook School

Every Monday Yr 7 and 8 students of St Benedict's travel by bus to Mt. Cook school to do Tech. Recently I have been doing wood work and since I'm just a Yr 7 I only get to carve to a spoon. My spoon is already finished and it looks quite good. In wood work there is alot of things you can learn about. What I liked doing most about my lessons in wood work was chiseling the spoon. One of the most important rule of wood work is that you can only use a pencil. But for some weird reason there is a container of felt pens in the classroom. My time in wood work is done because next I'm going to sowing.

Topic - Medieval Times

For our topic we have been learning about the medieval times. There was a rank of power and obviously the King was on top. Then came the Bishop and Baron, they both have the same amount of power. The Knights then come then Merchants. Then at the bottom are peasants. But I would also want to learn about the sports they played back then. For example jousting, gladiators and sword fighting and a lot more. And for fun activities I don't really have any great ideas.

Book Groups

This term we chose a book to read for the term. The first book I chose was The Silver Sword. It was written by Ian Serrailier. My book group was great because everyone discussed perfectly. We even got to bring snacks while we discussed because were getting along well.

The Blushing Flower

Well here is my flower. I know it is not that good. But I had to rush it, today is the due date that we need to give it to the teacher. The most embarrassing thing is that it's going up on the wall. Anyway I guess it's not one of my best paintings, but at least I finished it.