Xylophone | SLJ

For the first task of the second week I learnt about how different amounts of space inside an object can change the output of the sound it will create. For this activity I created a xylophone using cups of water.  I learnt if you put lots of water in a cup it will create a high pitch, but if you put less water in a cup the opposite happens and it creates a low pitch. The pitch differs for how much water you use. The same with the paper tubes, if its longer it creates a lower pitch because the sound has to travel longer, but if it is a short tube the sound travels lesser creating a high pitch. I recorded a video of me experimenting with the cup xylophone. 

Summer Haiku

 For this activty I had to make my own summer related haiku.

A haiku is a type of poet that has 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables again.

My haiku is about eggs and how they can be cooked and how they are the best food in summer.

This activity was good and relaxing to write a summer haiku.

You are king | SLJ

The song is called You are King.

The lyrics goes "When the oceans rise and thunders roar. I will soar with you above the storm. You are king over anything". 

The meaning of this song is at the end of the day us humans will see what the almighty can do and when we see it with our bare eyes, we repent by saying: You are king over anything.

This song came up to me when I was 6 or 7 years old, I wrote the lyrics and I never knew I wrote it so here I am singing my own song.

Here is me singing the song:

  

Presentation | Inquiry

Our Inquiry task was to create a presentation of our shelte design to persuade the client (Panmure Bridge School represented by (Mr Wong and Mr Ogilvie) into building our structure.

We had 3 minutes to present it but on the lack of time my group did not finish presenting it. We got feedback at the end. 

When the time was up for our presentation we got a little bit of feedback about our shelter that protects against earthquakes and our presentation. The feedback they gave was: To get prepared for the creitera.

I enjoyed this because I got to see what having a job is like and how a cotract works.

Optical Illusion | SLJ

For this activity I made my very own optical illusion.

Before making the illusion, I learnt about illusions and how to make them. My illusion is called the literal illusion. It is a two images in one. 

When starting the illusion, it soon gets frustrating by picking another one.

Some illusions don't get confusing but some do. For me I can see both pictures because of thins the illusion isn't tricking me.

This is my illusion:

What are you doing Today | SLJ

The Summer Learning Journey crew came up with an activity that expands people's Maori knowledge.

I completed this activity by listening to different audio recordings. Then, based on what I heard from the audio recordings, I then arranged different Maori words to fit into the sentences properly. I answered the question 'What are you doing today?' by saying 'I am going to ___' I filled in the blanks with Maori words.

I learnt how to say 'What are you doing today?' in Maori. To say 'What are you doing today?', it would be easier to start by slowly building an understanding of the words and then working on the pronounciation. 'What are you doing today?' in Maori is 'Kei te aha koe i tenei ra?'.

I found answering the question 'What are you doing today?' fun because I was able to expand my Maori vocabulary. I alse found listening to the audio and rearranging the words fun because I was able to build an understanding of where different Maori words go and why.

Something I found hard was listening to the audio because it wasn't very clear or loud. I was still able to complete this activity and I had a lot of fun with it.

Kowhaiwhai Pattern | SLJ

 For this activity I made my own kowhaiwhai pattern.

First we learnt about Tanerore. Tanerore is the son of Tama-nui-te-ra or the sun and is the personification of shimmering air as he performs a haka for his mother Hine-raumati.

We watched a video if we saw the wiriwiri. Then we watched a video about kowhaiwhai patterns. There were two choices to make. The first is to make the kowhaiwhai on a scrap piece of paper and the second was making the kowhaiwhai pattern digitally.

After watching the two video, we started making our kowhaiwhai pattern. In our kowhaiwhai pattern we had put colours that were related to summer or Tanerore.

I picked summer.  My kowhaiwhai pattern represents how the day starts or other words dawn.

Here is mine:

Insect Art | SlJ

Hi, my name is Davey and I am a dragonfly made by David. The materials that David use to create me was dead leafs, sticks, grass, and small pieces of grass. 

The way David create me was unbelievible, he put the stick and the leafs together. Then he put another two leafs below and put the long piece of grass below the four leafs.Then he put the smaller piece of grass for the antenna.

David had two choices to make, the first one is making a summer scene and the second one is creating a insect. David picked making a insect so David made me.

Fishy False Teeth | SLJ

For the third activity of the Summer learning Journey we completed a slide that was filled with Literacy activites.

Before going with activites, we read this article called Fishy False Tales. When we understand the text we completed a template that had questions about the text. These question were like what part were they in, what was the outcome and who are they.

Then, we watched a video about how a man lost his teeth by his friend. After watching the video, we created our own comic using the video and our own words.

I enjoyed this activity and I am looking forward for the future activities.

Quality Commenting | SLJ

For the second activity of the first week of the Summer Learning Journey, we learnt about how to make a quality blog comment and how it can help us win by giving us bonus points. Commenting can help us make learning conversations and new learning. Comments also start a comment thread which helps us improve and encourage each other in a digital learning conversation. In a quality smart comment there has to be a greeting first. Then we usually have compliments about the post and just positivity towards it. We then have feedback to say but always in a positive way then followed up by a connection between you and the post. Lastly is a question related to the topic, and then a farewell. 

Nanogirl Treasure hunt | Summer Learning Journey

On a Monday afternoon LS1 started the Summer Learning Journey. The school is still open so LS1 was finding materials and tools needed for the experiment. It was really fun, we had NanoGirl teaching us what to do and what to find. I am really looking forward to doing the experiment. I am looking forward to doing the experiments and future activities

Comprehension Application | Reading

Comprehension strategies are reading stretegies that help people read and understand the text.

They are prior knowledge, skimming and scanning, questioning, visualising, making connections, predicting, inferring, summarising, synthesising, and self monitoring.

Predicting and Visualizing can be used before reading so people can guess the next part of the story.

Prior knowledge, self monitoring, and inferring can be used during reading so people can learn words, and to recheck again.

Summarising, questioning, and making connections can be used after reading so people can see if they have understood the whole story, ask questions, and make links to themselves, the world and to another text. 

Knowing how to use comprehension strategies is important because it can help people use it before, during and after reading.

Moon Masque by Lois Mailou Jones | Summer Learning Journey

This morning we tried one of this year’s Summer Learning Journey activities. The purpose of this task was to experiment with colours by mixing colours from the original palette with pop colours. This allowed us to recolour famous painting or images of landmarks around the world. I really enjoyed this task because we were able to experiment with these different colours, and we could do it digitally. The art I remade was created by Louis Mailou Jones, and the art is called Moon Masque. It is currently held in Smithsonian Art American Museum. 

Original

Mine

North Island | Maori

For Maori we learnt about the towns in the North Island.

Before starting with the activity we answered the questions: He aha te rā āpōpō?, He aha te huarere? and Ko wai ō hoa?. Apōpō means tommorrow so this question He aha te rā āpōpō? means what is the date tommorrow. This question Ko wai ō hoa? means who are your friends.

We used google to translate words that were towns in the North Island. Then I checked my work with Whaea Odie  to see if I was right or wrong.

I enjoyed this task and found this task easy to fill in. I have improve my knowledge on Te Reo Maori.

LI: To learn Maori place names