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