SLJ Week 2 Activity 11

Today I have completed this SLJ activity. This activity was about recreating the normal Santa Outfit and making our own that consists of our own culture. I started off with reading the story that was provided on the SLJ blog. This story told us how someone changed up the Santa costume according to his culture by printing out a shirt with pohutakawa flowers, a kakahu kura and a piupiu.  In Samoa it is occainsonially hot so I have added a Samoan hat to have covereage on your head and face. I also added jandals because in Samoa we rarely use coverage shoes, and lastly I added this dress. In Samoa we call this dress Puletasi, and that is what I have named my outfit. Puletasi Samoa. I created my outfit using my mums Ipad, and I really enjoyed creating all of these pieces of clothing. 

SLJ Week 2 Activity 10

On Monday we started the second week of the Summer Learning journey. Today's task was about Xylophones. The Xylophone is a musical instrument that consist of wooden bars that are different sizes and aare hit with metal mallets. The different sizes allow the xylophone to have different tones. In our case our task was to create our own xylophone using glass cups and paper. The glass cups task was to fill up each cup with the differnet amount of water. Using a pencil to hit each cup, the cups would make a different sound. Weither the cup had more water it had a low pitch and if it had less water the pitch was much higher. I created this task and recorded myself hitting each cup. For the paper task you had to have 5 A4 papers and roll them up and cut them to different lengths. By hitting each one it would also make different pitches due to capacity and space. I really enjoyed creating this Blog post as I was able to find out something new about music.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 9

 

 Today I have completed another SLJ activity. This activity was to create your own haiku poem. Haiku poems consists of 3 sentences. First sentence containing 5 syllables, second sentence containing 7, and the last sentence containing 5 syllables. I explored some other haiku poems from online and got inspiration. I made my haiku poem about palm trees. I found the photo in the background too small for the google draw, so I copied and pasted it, and it covered the whole thing. For the step it up activity, I created a google presentation that has templates of where to write the sentences etc. I created another 3 haiku poems to share. I really enjoyed this activity as i was able to use my imagination to create a cool poem.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 8

Today I have completed another activity. This activity is to spot the odd one out, I created a copy of the slide that the SLJ team had created for us, and we had to find out what were different about every option. I listed a bunch of things that were different in the text box beside to show you what I found that were different. On the last slide I found some pictures from online so that the readers at home could try and do. I really enjoyed doing this task as I was able to look more deeper into the images to find the odd things out.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 7

Today I have completed another SLJ activity. This activity was about creating your own chorus. I watched a video that was created by Mangere College. The video was a song that they created, it was called "We will rise". We got the challenge to write our own chorus and choose whether its a song or a poem. I chose to make my chorus a poem. I will also upload the video of me say it when I can. 

SLJ Week 1 Activity 6

                        

Today I have completed another SLJ activity. This activity was about re-arranging Maori words to create a sentence. We created a copy of a google slide and we had to fill it out. Some slides you only had 2 options and on others you had more than 3 options to choose from. The last slide is about you making the sentence up and making it so that is replies to "What are you doing today?". We also got the choice to create a screencastify for bonus points, and getting someone from our family to help us. I will upload the screencastify when someone form my family isn't busy.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 5

 Today I have completed another SLJ activity. Optical art consist of geometric shapes and patterns, and is often in colored black and white, but I wanted to switch it up and create mine in a different color (Pink). This activity was about creating an optical illusion rather drawing it on google drawings, or drawing it by hand on paper. I chose to draw mine on google drawings. How I drew it: I drew my optical illusions by first tracing the main shape of the whole thing, then putting in the lines in the middle, which made the illusion look the way it does. I also had to draw a triangle in the middle and it was all pink with lines and it looked weird. Choose that decision changed the whole drawing. On the side I tried to add what the optical illusion is suppose to do. I enjoyed creating this activity as I got to create something I had never created before.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 4

 

Today I have completed another summer learning journey activity. This activity started off with finding out what the word "Tanerore" meant. (Meaning from Maori Dictionary) Tanerore  means "heat haze - shimmering in the air near the ground of a hot day".  We then started with the next part of this activity - creating our own Kowhaiwhai pattern. For my design we had a template that we could use to help with our designs. We were allowed to choose how the design was rotated, shaped etc. So I used the koru's and rotated them so that they would be in a shape of a heart, I got the inspiration from one of my previous kowhaiwhai patterns. I also went with the theme of summer. The koru's represent growth, strength and peace, and the hearts represent affection. I'm proud of my design and I really enjoyed creating it.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 3

Today I completed this activity about creating your own insect out of leaves and plants from outside. The insect that I created was a butterfly. My butterfly had a pink body, green wings and sticks for antenna's. I also decided to add a ground that the butterfly flies over, and the tan colored leaves is the ground. I really enjoyed creating this insect as I was able to use my imagination.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 2

 

This week for the summer learning journey we have completed our second activity. This activity was about reading a text and filling in a template. In the template you had to write who the characters were, what part they played in the story and what the outcome was for them. The second activity was to complete a comic,where you had to watch a video that had no words in it, and we had to write a comic and write what we think the actors are saying. I worked with Matheus to get this completed.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 1

Today is the first day of the Summer Learning Journey. LS2 worked with Room 5 to help them with their first activity. This activity was about scavenging for items in our class for materials that we'll need for the upcoming Summer Learning Journey activities. We really enjoyed this as we were able to find all the materials. I worked with Matheus in Room 5 to get this activity completed.

Are you participating in the summer learning journey?

Christmas Decorations

A few weeks ago Mr. Johnston asked us to create new christmas decorations for the office foyer. He wanted design that were around 10cm and wanted them to be christmas related. He was our client that we needed to help. We all created designs that were rather based around christmas or any events coming us for other cultured people. We created 2+ designs for the christmas tree in the office and they looked amazing. We all hung our own design on the tree for everyone to see, we also took photos of ourselves next to the tree to post on her (blog).

Pourquoi Animation

L.I To create pourquoi story using our creativity.

This week for writing we have been creating pourquoi stories. A pourquoi story is a narrative explaining why something is the way it is. We chose our own topic to write about and used the writing framework, when we finished writing in our framework we got started on our animation. For our animation we had to tell the story using drawings. Our story was about why flamingos rest standing on one leg, it was about how flamingo's used their popularity as a way to show off. I worked with Victoria to get this pourquoi story completed. We enjoyed making thi sas it was fun to use our imagination.