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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Video: 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. Continue reading
Video: 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. Continue reading
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 I thought it looked pretty cool.
Below you will see my “Asia and Australia” assignment and some parts were really hard! The bit I really liked was discovering how to use Google Maps. You can create your own personal map with pins on different places. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Video: 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! Continue reading
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
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 doing things that were scary and fun, like building motor bike tracks. This sounds like fun, I’m sure I would do it too if I had the time and room. Continue reading
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” Continue reading