Video: An interview with my Dad
This week I did an interview with my dad for a school assignment for my teachers, Mrs Stephanie Affleck and Mrs Justine Holden. I chose to interview my dad because he had a very different childhood to me.
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Video: Rewarding Recycling #2 – The Green Money Initiative started in Randwick, Sydney
Here is my 2nd video on recycling for my Year 4 Enrichment Literacy Class. I hope this video helps to encourage people to use their recycling bins. For this video, I interviewed David Catalovski who is the Managing Director of Green Money. David explains how Green Money works.
Read MoreVideo: Rewarding Recycling #1 – Australians who are helping to keep our environment clean
Here is my 1st video on recycling. I hope it will encourage the people of Australia to keep our environment clean, by recycling and not littering.
Read MoreVideo: I made a video on Google Maps Engine
I made a video on the new Google Maps Engine. This is my short five minute version. It took me a while to make but it was worth it.
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Using Google Maps (My Places and Pins) for my assignment
A few of us in year 4 were selected to do Extension Literacy. Although I knew this meant extra work for my weekends, I was excited because I was finally able to use Edmodo, which is like Facebook but for students and teachers. I had seen my big sister Eve using Edmodo last year and […]
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In the Sydney Royal Easter Show Commercial
4 days before the school holidays ended I went for an audition to star in the 2013 Sydney Royal Easter Show Commercial. I was selected and that meant I had to miss the first day of school.
Read MoreVideo: How to teach your kids algebra with the game DragonBox by Ruby Cogan (8 years old)
Dragon Box is a maths game to help kids learn algebra. My dad discovered the game and told me to try it out. I finished the game in one week and it had 5 chapters and 20 levels on each chapter. That’s 100 rounds all together, all done in about 2 hours!
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Welcome big sister
Welcome to my big sister Eve (Eve Cogan), who now has a blog. Better late than never. Eve is a great writer and I hope she blogs a lot. I showed her how easy WordPress is to setup and use. Good job sis
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An Interview with my Dad
(My Year 3 home work assignment for Miss Xie, is to interview my dad about his memories growing up. Here is what I learnt.) As a child my dad lived on a farm in the Hunter Valley. So he got the chance to have fun with animals. My dad was very adventurous so he liked […]
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Ruby Cogan Showreel 2
This was my second audition. I went for the role of “Ginty” and it will be a popular Hollywood film called “Saving Mr. Banks”
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