Summary

 LI: To explain in fewer words what the text was about.

In this summary I summarized what its like for Rangi-Haira Jaxon Greening to create custom sneakers using this article to help me gather infoermation about how he creates his custom sneakers and what its like for him the create them. He first started shoe custamization as a hobby about ten years ago and has now been doing it profesonaly for three years for his brand 'Gyst For Kickz' . He first saw shoe customizing through a documentary Just for Kicks and he was amzed that he was able to combine art and sneakers together.

I enjoyed this task becuase it was interesting to find out about how he got into customizing shoes and why he loves doing it and how he can relate it back to his culture.

Custom Shoe Design

 LI: To create our own custom shoe design

We learnt about Rangi-Haira Jaxon Greening and how he creates is custom shoes and why he does them for others. we were tasked to define the word custom then create a summary about Rangi-Haira Jaxon Greening and his custom shoes and to lastly create our own custom shoe design. The word custom can be described as to change the apeareance of something.  In this DLO it showcases be shoe design and by reason for designing the way it is. When I first started I thought that I would add frogs somewhere on the shoe but then decided to add lily pads instead becuase some frogs sit on top of lily pads.

I really enjoyed this task becuase I found it fun to create our own shoe design based off of anything we liked.

Dawn Raids | Stories

 LI: To use our own knowledge to write what we know about the Polynesian Panthers

The activity was named Dawn raids and this is my first activity for the Stories category. Our two response choices were to create something about what we know about this part in Aoteroas history our second choice was to create an apology to the Polynesian Panthers from the perspective of the goverment/prime minister. I choes the first option and chose to write about the dawn raids becuase I think that it is important to adress what had happened during the dawn raids and how many lives of Polynesian familes and comunites were affected during these devastating times. 

I enjoyed this task becuase I this is a topic that I know about and also becuase it is important to speak up about what happened during this part in Aotaroas history.

Good as Gold | Places

 LI: To leave a review on the short film "Good as Gold"

The name of this activiy is named Good as Gold the two responses that we were given were to create an ad for it, a DLO, and or review for the video the second response that was there was to create a story board for a short film you would like to film one day. I chose do work on the first response by writing a review for the video good as gold. In the DLO it has my review and rating adn the video is aslo there if you would be interested in watching the short film. while creating these responses we were allowed to work colaborativly with other stuedents who would also give as some feed back if we needed it.

I really enjoyed this activity becuase I enjoyed watching the short film and it was interesting to see what would happen during the video.

Child of the Ocean | Places

 LI: To undertsand what it means to be a "Child of the Ocean" In this document it shares my opinion on what the phrae child of the ocean means to me the task I decided to work on was named Our ocean. the two responses that we were able to chose from where create a DLO advertising  the Pacific. and out second choice was to write what it means to us to be a child of the ocean. while responding to these responses we were also challenged to expirment creating our DLOs by making them multimodal meaning it can be accsed by people who struggle with certain disabilites. This is my second response for the responses in the places category once we would complete three responses than we would be emailed a digital badge. 

I really enjoyed this activity becuase it made me think alot about what the phrase means to me and how I am a child of the ocean.

Slam Poetry & Spoken Word | Places

LI: To create our own Slame poetry, Spoken word performace I see me is a website that is being developed and  is targeted for young pacifica youth do find there roots ti have a strong understanding of their own culture and other pasifc cultures. There are four different categories Places, Objects, Stories, and Futures. within these different categories we have many different responses that we are able to chose from 1 - 2 different responses we would also be given different recourse to help us gather information such as videos, websites, stories, and more. All of the responses are linked to Polynesian cultures which help us connect to our Pacifc cultures. the response I chose to respond to was a respone from the places category the name of the response was Slame poetry & Spoken word.

The response tasked us to create our own slam poetry, spoke word performance. Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that combines the elements of performance, writing, competition, and audience participation for my slam poetry I decided to use the word peace becuase I thought that  it would be a  good topic to write slame poetry about.

I enjoyed this activity becuase I found it interesting tolearn about slam poetry and understand how it works.

Swimming week 1 and 2

LI: to learn safety in water. 

Last week and this week the Y8 group went to the YMCA pools in Panmure to learn safety skills in the water. We were split into 2 groups depending on how confident we are in water. To get into the pool safely we put both hands on one side and entered. 

The skills we learnt were

• Floating (facing up) - make a star fish facing up.
• Floating (facing down) - make a star fish facing up. 
• Dolphin Diving - dive down, touch the floor of the pool with both hands and jump up. 
• Streamline - put our arms behind our ears and kick (with and without swimming board).