SLJ Week 2 Activity 16

 LI: To create a presentation showcasing a phrase 

For this task we had to create a phrase by choosing to create one on the perspective of a character in the story "Maui and the Sun" We were able to use the phrase in a song, poem, ect. The presentation shown above showcases haiku that tell the story of how Maui slowed the sun. I decided to create a series of Haikus that tell the story of Maui and the sun I have written it in both English and Maori. I decided to create a series of haikus to to tell the story becuase it was one of the tasks for the week 1 challenges for the Summer Learning Journey.

This was really fun to do becuase I really enjoyed writing theese poems becuase this was a different kind of theme I liked it also becuase it told a story. One thing I found tricky was trying to use the haiku strucer to tell the story as I could not include some other important details that were told in the original story.

SLJ Week 2 Activity 15

 LI: To create a song about kiwi jingle bell song

For this activity we had to create our own jingle bell song but kiwi style meaning creating a song that showcases objects, people, places, and events that are unique to New Zealand. We had to come up with our own lyrics for our kiwi jingle bell song that could be accompanied with picture or illustrations that can relate to our song. The first thing did was research more about New Zealand Christmas traditions so that it could help me when I make my song after that I then watched a video called "Kiwi Christmas Story" to get help and to get some more ideas of what I could write about it I then used what I had learnt from the video and website.

This activity was really fun becuase it was really fun to write a song and writing it about a kiwi Christmas made it more easier becuase it was something that I know about very well. I found this activity a little bit tricky becuase it was hard to think of what to write and make it fit within the topic and to try and make it ryme but other than that I found it really fun to do.

SLJ Activity 14 Week 2 | Kick start and Step it up

Kick Start

 LI: To learn about pigpen cipher

For this activity I watched a video about what to do and also learnt about different codes and ciphers the one I watched about was about the pigpen code after that I had to use what I learnt from the video that i watched and based off of the information that I learnt to write a sentence using the pigpen code to write clues about our favorite beach I wrote my clue about my favorite beach in pigpen on a draw.

One interesting thing that I learnt while completing the activity was how the pig pen code works it uses a total of 4 different grids and in each grid has the letters of the alphabet and uses the line that are surrounded by the letter.  I really enjoyed doing the kick start activity becuase I also learnt about different codes and ciphers and how to Encrypt and Decrypt using them. One thing that I found a little bit tricky was decrypting becuase I got some of the letters mistaken for other characters.

Step It Up

LI:  To create a screencastify video explaining how to Encrypt and Decrypt ciphers.

For the Step It Up challenge the task was to create a screencastify video explaining how to Encrypt and Decrypt using one of the cipher of our choice I chose to make a video about the Caesar Cipher here I have also created a DLO about how the Caesar Cipher works and also how to encrypt and decrypt and I have also created my own messages in the Caesar Cipher for others to try and figure out and to comment there answers.

I really enjoyed completing the Step It Up activity becuase I enjoyed trying out something new and really enjoyed learning about codes and ciphers. During this activity I learnt about how to Encrypt and Decrypt and found It fun to do so.

SLJ Activity 13 Week 2

 LI: To create our own Christmas themed outfit.

 

Today's task was to create an outfit on a draw that can relate to your cultures I did this be reading a book called Hana koko this book was about a father who created his own personalized Santa costume for  New Zealand. Had to create an out fit that fits into the theme of Christmas and resembles some parts of your culture. I crates the traditional clothes and I used some of the festive colors of Christmas . I created the Traditional Ie Faitaga is what the men where like wrap around skirt. and can be worn with jandals and a shirt of choice but I chose a Polo shirt.

This task was very fun to do becuase I liked combing the two things into one Christmas and culture becuase it was cool to see the end product of what I made I found it really fun to do. 

SLJ Activity 12 Week 2

 LI: To create an Xylophone made from paper.

Today's challenge was to create an xylophone using glasses of water and rolled up paper. The first thing I did was watch the instructional video that nano girl created of her showing us about how to make the xylophones. I first made the paper xylophone by rolling up some pieces of colored paper and I think started hitting them. The longer tubes created a more deeper sound and the shorter tubes created a higher pitch than the longer ones. 

After that I moved on to using glasses of water to create the same effect by creating high and low pitches like the paper xylophone. For this I had to pour water into the glasses but they must be all different amounts of water used four cups and poured in the water and then tapped on the glasses I heard the lower and high pitches the glasses with less water gave a higher pitch and the glasses with more water had a lower pitch this is because the cups with more water had less space for the vibrations to travel cause the vibration stopped at wherever the water is at.

Something that I have noticed when creating the paper xylophones is that when I used a mix of thinner and thicker paper the thinner paper did not produce a clear sound the sound was not as strong while the thicker paper gave off a more stronger sound and I could hear it more clearly. I really enjoyed doing this activity becuase it is something new that I have note tried before and becuase I learnt alot of new things during the activity.

SLJ Week 1 Acticity 10

 LI: To write our own summer themed haiku

Today's challenge was to write our own haiku our theme was summer since it is the them for the Summer Learning Journey. A haiku is a type of poetry that has three lines in it that make it a haiku  the structure of the Haiku is 5-7-5 because the first line must have only 5 syllables and second line should only have 7 syllables and the ending line must only have 5 syllables.

The first thing I did was watch a video of how a haiku is structured and then used what I learnt from the video to try and write my own I also looked for examples of summer themed haiku's to get some ideas of what I could write. I had to use this template to create my poem and find an image to match the theme of the poem.

SLJ Week 1 Acticity 9 | Kick Start & Step It up

 LI: To find which one does not belong

Today's challenge I had to find which on did not belong. The activity was to look at four images that were named A,B,C and D. I had to try to figure out which one does not belong based on what I saw from the images for example its B becuase its the only dog with brown fur. So we had to do this through out and record our answers on the presentation. I have included the Kick start and the Step it up challenges the kick start task was to find out which one does not belong and record our findings. The step its up task was to try and create our own which one doesn't belong by find our own photos to challenge others.

SLJ Week 1 Acticity 8 | Kick Start and Step it up

 LI: To create our own chorus of our choice

Today's challenge was to create our own chorus I watched a video explaining what to do fro this activity and I also watched Mangere college "We Will Rise" song  and listened to there chorus to get some ideas to create or own. Mangere college's chorus for there song goes like this: And we will rise (strong minds, strong hearts) And we will rise (we all play a part) And we will rise, we’ll never stop, Climb that mountain ‘til we  reach the top Seek the heights, seek the heights Seek the heights, seek the heights.

My chorus verse is about our school Panmure Bridge School. And about how we can achieve our goals/dreams by working as a team and having a strong goal to try and achieve it. I found this activity fun to do becuase writing a chorus was something new that I had not tried before and was fun through out the challenge.

The step it up challenge was to create a screencastify video of us reading/singing our chorus that we made. The video above is a recording of me reading out the chorus that I made.

SLJ Week 1 Acticity 7

 LI: To expand our  Maori vocabulary

Today for this activity we were given the chance to expand our Te reo Maori Vocabulary and learn how to say sentences and phrases by listening to the audio recordings and then used what we could remember from the recordings we had to rearrange the words to create a question in Maori. I then answered the question "What are you doing today?" by filling in the blanks to "I am going to ____ " and then filled in the blanks

During the activity I learnt how to say "What are you doing today" from the rearrange task. "What are you doing today" tranlated into Maori is Kei te aha koe i tenei ra? I found this activity fun to do becuase It helped me improve on my Maori a little bit more and listening to the recordings  and doing the rearranging activity made it a bit easier to understand.

SLJ Week 1 Activty 6

 LI: To create a optical illusion

Today this activity was to create our own optical illusion and optical illusion is a picture that is something that tricks our brain and something that cannot be seen by the naked eye. This challenge wanted us to create or own optical illusion with paper and pencil or creating digital illusion. I created my illusion digitally on a google draw. my illusion has columns of black and white squares that go horizontal and are not alinged corectly. 

SLJ Week 1 Activty 5

LI: To create a kowhaiwhai pattern to represent summer

Today I learnt that when it is very hot and the air is shimmering Tānerore performs the haka for his mother, Hine-Raumati. This happens in summer as the land heats up. Our challenge was to think about this while we designed our own kowhaiwhai pattern to represent summer. My pattern shows a flower in the middle that is shaped with a series of korus. I also used the korus to surround the left and right sides I also made the both sided symmetrical. I found this activity fun becuase I really liked making the kowhaiwhai pattern

SLJ Week 1 Activty 4

 LI: To create a piece of insect art

Inspired by art creations by Raku Inoue we went outside and collected leaves, twigs, and other plant debris to create our own insect images.  The first thing we did was watch a video of an artist who has a lot of experience doing this type of art the bug that I chose to create a cicadas I used twigs and leaves that I found around the school and for the legs I used a theese black beans that grew around the playground.  I found this a little bit hard becuase I had to find things that would go for the design that I was trying to vision. but other than that it was really fun to try a different type of art.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 3

 LI: To create your own comic strip of an imaginary conversation.

My comic strip shows the conversation I imagine these two people had after one of the men had sneezed his teeth into the sea during a fishing trip. That task was to watch a video and turn it into a comic strip and try to imagine what they are saying by using the comic strip template. I found this activity fun becuase I got to be creative becuase I imagined what they were saying by just watching the video that had no words in it.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 2

 LI: To write a quality blog comment on someone else’s blog that starts a rich learning conversation.

Leaving a quality blog comment on another  student’s blog helps us make connections to new learning by asking open ended questions that encourage a reply and motivate the blogger to ask their own question in return. This is how a comment thread starts and when that happens we make connections with a wider audience who we can learn with and from. I commented on Jessie's blog who goes to Glenn Innes Primary school about the treasure hunt activity she made two videos and explained about all the materials she gathered.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 1

 LI: To collect materials needed to successfully complete our weekly superpower building missions with Nano Girl.

This morning LS2 worked in groups with our Year 4 students to help them create their first Summer Learning Journey blog posts. PBS are still at school this week so finding some of the materials we needed for our treasure hunt was easy. Our challenge is going to be able to find all the materials we need at home now. All of the materials that we needed to find we got from the video from Nano girl and the slide presentation above showcases a video of me and my partner explains why we needed to find the materials and photos of the equipment. I found this activity really enjoyable and fun becuase we got to find the equipment and we also had to be smart and try to find better alternatives. I look forward to creating something with the gathered materials. Have you been through any of nano girls activities and what have you made? 

Christmas Board Game

  LI: To create a digital board game for the juniors.

Christmas Board Game

In this DLO shown above, LS2 had the and opportunity, to create a board game using Google Draws. The main purpose was to entertain the juniors. We first saw an exemplar of this, so we could get a clear idea of what we were doing. I chose to create a game of snakes and ladders. The only twist with these board games, was that we had to make them Christmas themed. The main characters for my story was Santa Claus looking for his Reindeer.This can relate to Christmas becuase it show Santa Claus which is a iconic name spread around in the time of Christmas.

Christmas Operation Drop

 L.I to learn and inform others about Operation Christmas Drop.

The Operation Christmas Drop is the longest humanitarian aid, that has been created to help impact others life's from remote islands. The Anderson Force, Japanese and Australian forces, have allied together to create a box full of supplies that the islands will need to survive. These forces has also partnered up with businesses to get these resources. These boxes are mainly dropped to islands near Guam(a U.S Territory island). These are often dropped around Christmas. Fau and I had learnt a lot from this. We found it really interesting that it has been running for 68 years. 

Decorating the tree

LI: To decorate the office Christmas tree 

The purpose of our Design Technology challenge was to create a set of Christmas/Holiday decorations that respresented our school and the people in it. We were given a design brief from Mr Johnston and a delivery date. To celebrate the end of this challenge LS2 delivered their completed decorations to Mr Johnston, then hung them on the tree in our school office. The decoration that we made were to represent us all and to show us altogether using the different celebrations and the cultures that some of the students celebrate and also using colors that are most used or seen on the holiday.

Illustrated Story

 LI: To write a porquoi (tell me why or how) story that paints a picture in the mind of the reader.

Our challenge this week was to create a porquoi story that we would illustrate and share with our junior classes. A porquoi story tells us why something is the way it is. Our story tells why/how… This morning we shared our stories with Room 2 and Room 4, and they loved listening to them. I enjoyed creating the images and writing the porquoi story because I got to be creative with the story and using creative ideas to create the story as a group and creating the pictures was also enjoyable becuase we also got to be creative with the colors and the shapes that we used in our comic book.

Design Technology Challenge

LI: To design and make a holiday decoration that fits the client brief.

For the past few weeks we have been working on creating Christmas decorations for our client with is Mr Johnston that he will put up on the Christmas tree in our school office. We made DLOs that showed what we were creating and the process that we had to go through. We then moved on to choosing a celebrations and then planning all the parts and dressings that we need to sew together. We used 2 different types of sewing which are the running stitch and blanket stitch. We first had to cut out the 2 main pieces of the decorations (10 cm) and then cut out any other details that are going to go on top of the main body of the decoration then stitch it together a running stitch. After that we stitched the 2 main bodies with a blanket stitch but leaving enough room for the stuffing to go through and be filled. We also evaluated our work by listing the positives and improvements.We answered questions that helped us understand more about what we learnt  through the design process.