Velocity Valley Challenge

Today I have completed another Home learning blogging activity. This activity is around Velocity Valley, Velocity Valley is a tourist attraction in Rotorua. It has loads of activities like Bungee Jumping and the Freefall Xtreme. This presentation includes the cost of the combo rides so people know how much it is, the rides I have chosen to showcase, which were the Freefall Xtreme and Bungee Jumping, lastly I have the infographic on the 2 rides I chose, it also includes which ride I would go on. I recommend this place to you as they offer many fun rides you could do with your family.

Kawarau bridge Challenges

Today I have completed this Home learning challenge along with Victoria and Taheesha. This presentation is all about the Kawarau Bridge. The Kawarau bridge is where you get to do a cool activity such as Bungee Jumping. This presentation includes a brochure on where Kawarau is, the prices to go to Kawarau bridge and some facts about Bungee Jumping, next we have the prices, these are the prices for the Children and Adults, Lastly we have the drawing of what it looks like of someone Bungee Jumping

Snow Planet Challenges

Today I have worked with Victoria to complete another home learning challenge. This home learning challenge is about Snow Planet, this presentation includes the cost of tickets for both Adults and Children, All you need to know about keeping yourself warm in cold weather, and lastly the equipment that Snow planet uses. We recommend you to go to this place as you can do fun activities like skiing.

Taitua Arboretum Challenges

This week name, and I enjoyed completing another home blogging challenge. The place for this challenge of “Getting to know Auckland” was Taitua Arboretum, which is a garden/park dedicated to trees, and etc. In this presentation we put together, we have included 3 interesting facts about Taitua Arboretum, the time it would take to travel by car/bike, and a few of the trees we might see if we went to Taitua Arboretum. It was quite difficult to find particular information like the specific trees, but we were able to find out that they are well taken care of by the Park Rangers. This has been known as a great place to take your family or pets, and go on some of the walks!

Skyline Luge Challenge

Today I have completed another home learning challenge. This challenge is all about the Skyline in Rotorua or Queenstown. This presentation includes why helmets are worn, how they protect you  and the thing that you could have faced if you didn't wear a helmet, next I included what activity i would choose if I went there, next I wrote how much it would be for my family to go on all the activities, lastly I added the distance to get to Rotorua from New Zealand and how long it would take.

MOTAT Challenges

This week for a home learning activity challenge Victoria, Sakina, Haylee, Taheesha and I created a collaborative DLO about MOTAT. The first activity consisted of where MOTAT is on a map with the address. The second activity was to add 5 - 10 facts about MOTAT. For the bonus activity we made a biography of the founder of MOTAT. It was really exciting learning about MOTAT because it may be a place some consider going!

Leaf Art Challenge

Today's Home Learning challenge was to create an animal out of leaves collected from your backyard. I got creative and created a Cat, I got a little more creative by putting more leaves around it making it look like it was surrounded by nature. Down below will be 3 facts on cats.

1. Cats conserve energy by sleeping for an average of 13 to 14 hours a day
2. A group of cats are called a clowder.
3. A male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly or a queen, while young cats are called kittens.

Whoa! Studios Challenge

This week for a home learning activity challenge Victoria, Sakina, Haylee, Taheesha and I created a collaborative DLO about Whoa! Studios. The first activity consisted of where Whoa! Studios is on a map with the address and how much it would cost to see the super villain show. The second activity was a 10 word description of what it would be like at the park and a suggested part of the park we would recommend to a friend. For the bonus activity we made a biography of Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam. It was really exciting learning about Whoa! Studios because it may be a place some consider going!

Name Exercise

Today I have done a Challenge, which is the Name Exercise. This is where you have your name and there is a sign with all the letters in the alphabet and beside the letters are different kinds of exercises. My exercises were -

F - 10 BURPEES
L - 2 MIN WALL SIT
O - 25 BURPEES
R - 15 PUSH UPS
E - 1 MIN WALL SIT
N - 40 JUMPING JACKS
C - 30 SQUATS
E - 1 MIN WALL SIT

This photo of me was when I was doing a Push up, Although these were harder than it looked, I still tried my hardest.

Kelly Tarlton Challenges

Today I have completed my 4th activity for the home learning blogging challenge. I created a presentation including the Costs for me to go, my parent(s) to go and my family, the animal I chose which was a stingray, the attributed photo, all the prices and the opening hours.

Sky Tower Challenge

This week for another home learning challenge, Victoria, Haylee, Sakina, Taheesha and I decided to do the Sky Tower activities. For the first activity, we wrote a list of 5 facts about the Sky Tower, using our smart searching skills. For our second activity, we created a new mascot for the Sky Tower and gave an explanation about why we chose them. For our last activity, we chose an activity we could do at the Sky Tower and wrote down why we chose it, what it is and how much it would cost to do that activity.

Rainbows End Activities

Today I have completed this presentation for the Rainbows End activities. This presentation includes the location of Rainbows End, the family pass cost and how much it is for me and my family to go. This is for one of the home learning activities, This is the 3rd activity I have posted.

Hobbiton Movie Set Activities

Today I have completed a presentation along with Victoria, Taheesha, Haylee and Sakina. This presentation is all about the Hobbiton Movie set that is located in Matamata. The presentation includes our own created Menu. We have included 2 menu's, One of the menu's are for the Dessert Bar, and the other menu is the drink bar. It also includes a brochure of Hobbiton like the Prices, Locations, Bookings and where you can learn more about Hobbiton. Lastly there is the Bonus activity, the Biography on Sir Peter Jackson.

Auckland Zoo Challenge

In LS2, we created different activities to complete at home. These activities were based on places in New Zealand. Victoria, Haylee, Sakina, Taheesha and I worked collaboratively and started off with the Auckland Zoo activities. For the first activity, we wrote about what the benefits a person gets when they buy a friend of a zoo pass, how much a friend of a zoo pass costs and the costs of your family to each have a friend of a zoo annual pass. For our second activity, we chose an animal from the zoo and created an infographic about them. For our bonus activity, we created a DLO about zoo keeping.

Current Events 1

Today I have completed my first Current Events map. For this Current Events map, I have chosen 2 articles from Kiwi Kids News. The first Article I chose was about people predicting that we might not have Notes and Coins, and we will trn to using cards. To sum up, New Zealand may become a Cashless Society, This article is under TImeliness, because it is something that is happening right now.. The second article I chose was about Queen Elizabeth having an early Easter break, She decided that she will have an Easter Break a week before the actual Easter break, This is under emotion because some people can have different emotions reading this.

Gold Respect | Thank you letter

Today I am blogging another activity for my Gold Respect. This activity is under "create a thank you letter to a teacher or a staff member. I chose to do my previous tech teacher Mr. Krishna, he helped us/previous Year 7's about coding, M-bots and much more. He was our last tech teacher for 2019 so I decided to give back to him with a thank you letter.

Respected Leader | Gold Respect

Today I have completed another Care award activity. This activity is under Gold Respect. This activity was about schocasing someone who is a respected leader. I chose Jacinda Ardern because she has helped New Zealand in many situations, such as the Coronavirus. I enjoyed this activity as I was able to talk about our Prime Minister and inform others about who Jacinda Ardern was, and what she has done for the country.

Kiwi Can Reflection

Today at Kiwi can we talked about Role Models. Some new I learnt was that role models can be people that you don't know personally but you know from online. The energiser we did today was called Hammer, this energiser was related to the topic listening. To play you need to have a partner, with your partner you have your hands in fist type. There are 3 commands, When the teacher or instructor says Up, the person whose hand was at the bottom, they need to put it to the top, if they say down, then the person hand that's at the top has to go to the bottom, lastly is the command "Hammer". When the person that's leading the game says Hammer, then the person who has their hand at the top has to gently hit the person whose hand is below it. The person who has their hand below it moves it so that the other person doesn't hit their hand. Once the energiser was over we had the activity, the activity was called Picture it. To play picture it, you need to be in a group, there will be 4 groups. There will be a teacher/instructor that will say something that you need to create with your group. This activity was related to Collaboration.

Team Challenge

This week for maths, my maths group Hexagons created a Presentation on the Team Challenge for maths. We wrote down the information that was needed from the question and wrote down how we solved it, lastly we have the answer to the whole question.

Christopher Columbus

This week the Year 8's did a presentation on rather Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan. I chose to do my presentation on Christopher Columbus. I included the summary on Christopher Columbus, Facts about Christopher, and Achievements. I enjoyed this activity because I found out he discovered America.

Provocation | Cashless Society

This week we have been exploring both sides of a provocation. A provocation is an action or speech that triggers someone's emotions. Our provocation was 'Should NZ become a cashless society?. After considering both perspectives (sides) we think we shouldn't have a cashless society, because not only can cards be scammed, but also people without cards wouldn't be able to buy anything from stores

Venn Diagram Explorers and Adventurers

This week for inquiry we did a DLO that had a venn diagram and had photos of rather Explorers and adventurers or both. We got to choose where we think each person would go, I did some research to find out if they were an explorer,Adventurer or both. I enjoyed doing this task because I found out about a lot of people.