SLJ Week 1 Activity 4

LI: To create a piece of insect art.

This week for our activity 4, from a summer learning journey. We were inspired by art creations by Raku Inoue . We went outside and collected leaves, twigs, and other plant debris to create our own insect images that we thought could make an insect out of native wood or other fresh , uneven , dead plants . Something i found interesting about doing this activity was exploring through the native in our school and being able to be creative and find plants or sticks twigs that i thought could make a creative insect.I found it quite hard to find my items to create my insect because i was thinking about to much insects so i went for a simple one and chose to do a stick insect . I enjoyed this activity because I got to explore with my friends to find my insects items and I got to hear what they were doing and it gave me ideas . Here are three interesting things about stick insects : Stick insects have eyes but there vision is a bit poor but they don't ears but they can sense important sounds , It takes about 8 months for  stick insects to hatch  from there eggs , Stick insects can live upto 5 years but female stick insects can live as twice as male stick insects live .

SLJ Week 1 Activity 1

LI: To collect materials needed to successfully complete our weekly superpower building missions with Nano Girl.

This morning LS2 worked in groups with our Year 4 students to help them create their first Summer Learning Journey blog posts. PBS are still at school this week so finding some of the materials we needed for our treasure hunt was easy. Our challenge is going to be able to find all the materials we need at home now. I found this activity very easy because I am looking forward to make something cool.

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Christmas Present Challenge

 LI: Create a DLO about buying a present for my household with $100 dollars . 

This DLO is about what presents i would buy for my household with exact $100 dollars budget . I shopped at the  warehouse and gave a clear explanation why i bought and how much money i had left  . Something i found interesting about doing the maths challenges were about exploring through the warehouse online shopping to find a present i thought my family would like and how much the item is . 

Digital Board Game.

 LI: To create a digital board game for the juniors.

This week we designed digital board games with a Christmas theme to play with the junior students. To play the game successfully they will need to read and follow the instructions, then use their counting skills to move around the board. Today we showed our Year 4 students how to make their own games. This was a fun way to share our learning and help the younger students.

Operation Christmas Drop

 LI: To write a summary of the story behind the Operation Christmas Drop in your own words.

This week for research  we learn about the operation christmas drop. For the last 68 years the men and women of the US air force who are based at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam have been using a pilot training drill to drop much needed supplies to the people who live on the 60 remote islands that surround Guam. Operation Christmas Drop allows the people living in these remote islands to sustain a better life and the communities to flourish.I think this is a great way to help others and make a difference in peoples lives. These people are really grateful and happy to receive the Christmas Drop.

Art Colouring Book.

LI: To experiment with colours

 

`This morning we tried one of this year’s Kick Start 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.This painting is called Woman combing her hair by Goyo Hashiguchi.

Te Whanau Raukura Performance

 

Today a kapa haka group was performaning in our school and they performaned from Te Whanau Raukura and how they used Taiaha, Poi and Te rakau to explain the meaning behind elements of the Maori culture. I really like how they dance and how they sing the maori song and my favourite part is how they do the haka and how they shout the words and we were very glad to see them and we were very nice to see them performance in our school.

Exploring our national current events

 LI: To identify author’s purpose.

Authors write for a purpose (reason). These reasons are to persuade, inform or entertain (PIE). Each day, newspaper editors around the world must make desicions about which stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in New Zealand, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google map.

Provocation: Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?

 LI: To identify and consider the two perspectives of this provocation to help me form an opinion?

A provocation is an action or speech that triggers strong feelings about a topic. Today we considered both sides of the provocation, ‘Should masks be compulsory on NZ public transport?’ We then used that infomration to help us form an opinion that we could justify with evidence. The thing I found interesting is that Michal Baker is on Tv every morning

Weighty Challenge

  L.I: Is to find the most efficient strategy to find the answer

This term for week 5 we were getting into more challenging questions in maths. We had a variety of questions that tested our skills on how to work with other people we dont normally work with. We were in separate groups that had a maximum of 7 people. Our groups had to work collaboratively together to find the answer to a problem or give feedback to our group. The thing that I really liked about this weeks maths is how i got to work with new people that I know i work really well with now. It also gave me an opportunity to work with new people other then my friends.

Main Idea/Embarrassment

  L.I To find out the main idea 

This DLO is about the Main Ideas in the book this book is called the Embarrassment poem. I worked with Akuhata. We needed to read the book twice to find out the main details that will help others and yourself understand the main Idea. As you can see in this DLO that we think that the MAIN IDEA is knowing how to handle Embarrassment. Working with my friends was really fun and enjoying because we shared our ideas and we were collaborating,working as a team. The thing that i liked about this poem is how it tell us the secret to not be embarrassment like for an example you can jest laugh

it all out till the people that is laughing at you has left.

Guy fawkes

LI: To use the words you highlighted to help you summerise the story behind fire works night.

This week we have been leaning with the year 4, We were leaning about the real story about fireworks.What we had to do is lessen to hear the important words to write on out piece on paper.After that we had to write a summery about guy Fawkes. We had to write 20 words, 6 most words, and also make  a sentence using the  the 6 most words.

The 3 Laws of Inertia

 LI: To learn about Inertia

This week we learnt about Inertia, Inertia is a force of physics. There are 3 laws of Inertia. The three are Inertia of Rest, Inertia of Motion and Inertia of Direction. Inertia is the tendency to resist a change of motion. You experience Inertia all the time, for example when in a car and the car suddenly stops you jerk forward because of the change of velocity or speed. For this activity Chris ,Lukah , Sakina & Haylee and I worked collaboratively to create this DLO. Something we found interesting was that Inertia was an everyday thing we experienced but we never really noticed.

Elections

 LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice. 

To decide which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision. If I was 18 I would vote for National because they would provide authorities special powers to deal with young offenders. This means if National Won the election in my electorate Kanawaljit Singh Bakshi would be our member of parliament and Judith Collins would become the Prime Minister.

Wise choices explanation

 LI: To write an explanation.

Why it is important to make wise

choices.

How many times have you dropped plastic on the ground?

Because people are being careless, sea animals are getting sick or dying from eating plastic. When people don’t put their plastic in the bin it will go down our drains and end up in the ocean.

Sea animals eat the plastic because they think it is food. This can be very harmful to them. An example of this is if a turtle swallows a plastic bag it could stop them from breathing or being able to eat, then they may end up dying.

We can all help to stop this problem getting worse by making sure we put our plastic rubbish in the bin.

This week we wrote an explanation about Why it is important to make wise choices.

My explanation is about the problems caused by plastic pollution. I think we all need to make sure that we do the right thing and put our plastic rubbish in the bin to keep our oceans clean and our sea creatures safe.

Food Technology

 LI: To follow a recipe to make corn fritters.

This week for tech we were cooking corn fritters and first thing is to get all the things that we are going to use and after that we were using a recipe to know what are we gonna cook, and we then followed the instruction that was given by Mrs Heka. My favourite part was to eat it and it was fun cooking with Giovanni. Giovanni and I were working together to cook the corn fritters, and it was so yummy and it taste so good.

Reading with RJ

Today RJ helped me to read and he asked me some questions from the where, who, what, when, where dice. I'm very proud of myself as I tried hard to say the words that were new to me.  I had the confidence to read the book and could talk about it when RJ asked me questions. This was a fun activity.

Dance class 1

LI: To use our body to move around or dance.

Today for PE we were dancing and creative shapes. first thing wehaveto warmup and after that we aso play the music and you haveto move your body and do your action and if you don't heard the song that you haveto freeze and stop right ther and aso take our shose off and miss Rebecca said to us to make a circle and play the music and do the snakes and stars. 

Time

LI: To work out the elapsed time.

Today our group used the maths clocks to help us work out the answers to the elapsed time questions. Elapsed means the time that has gone by. It was fun doing maths and I like working together with my friends because it means we can talk about the strategies we are using.

It's Cool To Be Me!

LI: To identify my own qualities

This DLO shows you why it's cool to be me! I have written about my friends and myself, my favourite things to do and what my goals are. I think it's great to be me because I have an awesome family.

Sunflower Painting

LI: To paint a still life of sunflowers in the style of Vincent Van Gogh.

In this DLO above, I have learnt to draw what I see and make use of all the space available. To get the different shades I mixed colours to make light and dark tones of the same colour. I learnt to use layers of paint to build the colours and I had to remember not to overload the brush with paint. I dabbed the brush and thought carefully about brush stroke direction to create sharp edges and lines. I really liked painting my sunflowers because I had fun and my picture looks like the flowers I could see.

Food Technology

LI: To make chicken fried rice

Today was our first time at Food Tech and I loved it! Mrs Heka helped us follow a recipe to make chickenfried rice. My favourite part was eating the fired rice that Giovanni and I made, but I also really liked slicing the chicken because I help mum by doing that at home. I'm looking forward to finding out what we are going to make next week.

Duffy Books in School

     

Today I got two books named Hot wheels start your engine and Avengers I was really happy to get my two books, Hot wheels start your engines and Avengers. Hot wheels is about racing cars that race to win to get to the finish line.Thankyou to Duffy books in school for giving me my books to read.

Vincent van Gogh Timeline

 LI: To create a timeline to show the life of Vincent Van Gogh.

My group worked collaboratively using Padlet to create a timeline about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh was an artist from the post impressionist movement which meant he liked to paint still life paintings that captured a moment in time. We found it really interesting that while he was alive he didn't sell many paintings but in 1990, 100 years after his death, a painting by him sold for $82.5 million!

L.I to learn how to dig

Today for kiwi sport we Learned a new skill that was digging. we recaped about what we did. Then

we got in groups 4 digging to each other. After that we got into groups. The groups were 1

2 3 4. Once we got in our groups we played king of the court. For example  we had a court each

so group 1 and 2 were on two courts and group 3 and 4 had two courts. After that we played

some games. The group that won the king of the court was group 4 It was challenging and fun.

Life Education

LI: To anderstand why it is important to make wise choices

For our sessions with Nicole in the Life Education caravan we talked  about why it is important to make wise choices if the things around us were not wise choices. We also learnt that stress, anger, feeling sad and peer pressure sometimes mean that we don't make wise choices. We sent an email to Cappy to help him do the right thing.

Making Connections to problem solving

LI: To explore problem solving.  

 

Today LS1 and LS2 collaborated to make tangrams. We used tangrams to help us explore problem solving. We first cut out A4 paper following simple instructions we had been given. After we cut the  paper and we put it together and made a square. I had fun trying to make the puzzles and I learnt a lot  about tangrams. 

Experimenting with Utraviolet light

LI: To find the most effeective UV filler.

 
Ls2 has been trialling the electronic scnsors for the kiwrios project ,we are working with Suranga , Sonia , Evan , Dawn and yvonne from the AHL at Auckland University . I found that was the most effective filler to keep Zally safe.

Tech:Coding

LI: To make the mbot go around a race track.

Today Miss Ferguson challenged us to code the mbot to go around a racetrack. To do this the code needs to allow the mbot to sense the black line. When it can't find the line the mbot moves backwards and forwards until it corrects itself. 

I really liked this activity and my fastest lap time 52.94 seconds. Mr Dunn taught some of us how to use a formula to work out the speed. My speed was 0.17 metres per second which meant I came in 8th.

Optical illusion

LI: To explain what an optical illusion is.


This DLO shows what is a optical Illusion and how an Optical Illusion happens. On this DLO it shows what Optical l Illusion means. We used one Optical l Illusion and found out what wrong with it. I worked with my group to find interesting information about optical l Illusion information. Mr Johnston also came in to help us with this.

Maths

LI: To practise definig maths vocabulary (words)

To help us practise the meaning of maths words. Mrs Anderson taught us a game called maths word challenge. I worked with Diana and Liletina on this game.  To play the game 2 players found a word from the maths word game,  then had to give a clue to the person trying to  figure out the math word who was sitting with their back to the other players.

Matariki

LI: To use your smart searching skills to find information that tells others what Matariki is.


Today we were learning about what Matariki is. Matariki is a family of 7 stars and is the Maori new year. Matariki is a time to remember the past, learn about traditions and start new beginnings.

Te Reo Challenge #7 - Matariki

LI: To draw and label the Matariki cluster of stars 

This week our Te Reo challenge set by Miss Pryde was to draw and label the Matariki cluster of stars. Matariki is the Maori new year, a time for family and new beginnings. 

Careers - Cook

LI: To create a DLO about a job you found interesting by taking a careea quest



This week we were learning about careers. I like careers because I get to see the possbile jobs I could do when I grow up. I want to be a cook when I grow up. This is because I like food, and I enjoy cooking food in my own time. My favorite food is butter chicken. I want to be a restaurant owner, so other people can buy my food. I like cooking, so this will be a good job for me. This subject is interesting, and my favorite part about this topic, was all the choices I had.

Tech

Today at tech me and the eothe year 8’s we were coding the mbots to make a stairway with a maker. Today we had to try and make the mbot draw a star.
Then we got chalk and started drawing stars on the stars outside. Then we started to decorate our star. When we finished our star we pretended to be the mbot and went in a star shape walking on the lines. The reason we did stars is because it was matariki week. 

Statistical Investigation: Kowhaiwhai designs

LI: To carry out a statistical investigation across PBS to find the most popular kawhaiwahi design.
















Our group worked collaboratively to carry out a statistical 
investigation to help Miss Pryde choose the winning kowhaiwhai 
design for our PBS Te Reo blog. When we asked the students the designs on the DLO were the most popular. If you click on the link you will see all the kowhaiwhai designs our class created.

 Here is a link to all the kowhaiwhai designs

Periscopes

L.I. To explain how periscopes work

Mr Johnston came and taught us  what periscopes are, how they are used and uses them. We found out that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. That means if the light hits the mirror at 45 degrees it reflects the light back at 45 degrees. It was fun because if light goes into a mirror it can bounce back.

Light Facts

LT: To share 5 facts about light that we find interesting.

We worked collaboratirely to create a DLO that shows facts about light .one facts that
interests me is light will travel in a completely staright line.

Robotics T2W10

Learning Intention: To use infared sensors to follow the line.

Today at tech for robotics, we learnt about using infared sensors, to code our M bot to follow the line. We were making our mbots follow the line shape of the figure 8. We also went over the Binary learning we did last week, this is the way robots, computers and other technology work. I first started by choosing the code blocks I needed, they were the most important ones in the photo above, But before we did our task we made sure our M bots were working like making sure the M bots wheel's were tight enough and not loose.

6 x 3 Math Strategy

LI: To find the most efficient strategy to answer the question.
First we had to find what numbers we need to use, so if there were 6 eagles and there were 3 sections, we know there are 6 groups of 3. Then to find the answer I added up all the groups of 3 to get 18.

Evaluating a Text

LI: To read the information in the text, think about what you have read and form an
opinion  

We read the story ‘The Protest March’ then made connections between what is
happening in the world now. We used the information in the story and our prior
knowledge to help us form an opinion.

How to make hot cake

                           LI: To structure and write a procedural text

For writing we have been learning how to write a procedural text. To do this we used the recipe we followed at Tech. Thisprocedure tells the reader how to make hot cakes. Before we wrote this we worked collaboratively to order the pictures Mrs Anderson took of us making the hotcakes. Once we had done that we matched each photo with a verb. A verb is an action word and tells anyone following the recipe what they need to do. After that we use the verbs as sentence startersand collaboratively wrote a list of instructions.

Elephant dung

Today our non fiction reading was about how elephant dung is used to make paper. I learnt lots of interesting fact. Did you know that an elephant produces 50kg of dung per day? In Thailand and Sri Lanka paper makers collect the dung in sacks and it then gets cleaned in a boiler and goes through a machine to make it thinner.

Robotics at Tamaki College

Today for tech we were learning coding, on M block with Mrs Ferguson at Tamaki College. We were coding an M bot. Our challenge was to code the M bot, to move in a square. We also included a victory dance, and song, for our success, at the end of the program. I also used indicators, to show which direction, I was going in. My favorite part of the robotics, was watching my M bot, process my code (watching my robot move). I also liked programming it, because I learnt new types of moves, to put in my program to make my robot move. This was very fun, because I learnt how to code a robot.

Word Cline sad

LI: To find 5 interesting words that increase in intensity (have a stronger meaning) as you move up the line. 

Today we used the thesaurus to make a word cline for the word ‘sad’. As the words go up the line they become more powerful. Here is an example of a sentence I wrote today using my word cline. I was unhappy because  I didn't finish my homework.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

LI: To retell True Story of the 3 Little Pigs in my own words

Today my group read the True Story of the 3 Little Pigs. After listening to the story we used the retelling pathway to help us retell the main events in pairs. My favourite part was when the wolf ran out of sugar because he looked really annoyed in the picture.I made a Screencastify so you can listen to me retell the story in my own words.

Lockdown Memories

LI: To create a digital time capsule of our lockdown memories.

We used images and words to tell the story of our time in Alert Level 4 and in Alert Level 3. The most important part of this time was keeping ourselves safe, being with our families and keeping our learning going. My favourite memory is cooking with my mum.

Word Cline: big

LI: To find 5 interesting words that increase in intensity (have a stronger meaning) as you move up the line.

Today we built a word cline for the word ‘big’. As the words go up the line they become more powerful. Here is an example of a sentence I wrote today using my word cline. I saw a large dog at the park.

Gourds

This week for Cybersmart we learning about Smart searching. The steps to smart-searching are: Key words or phrase within your question, Skim and Scan, Crt F to find the words and select or reject. The things that we searched about was Gourds.