Activity 14 Week 2 | Kiwi Jingle

 LI: to create original lyrics for a parody of the Jingle Bells song.

For my fourteenth activity for the summer learning journey program, I was challenged at creating song lyrics for a parody of a song called "Jingle Bells". I made a copy of a slide show and created the lyrics off there, the slide show above will show my lyrics. I created two unique lyric slides and I seperated the two by using two chorus's. I found this challenge really interesting, because I don't do a lot of musical topics. 

Activity 13 Week 2 | Cyphers

 LI: to learn the different ciphers and how they decode certain texts.

 

For my thirteenth acivity for the summer learning journey I learnt about different ciphers and how they decode messages. I learnt about the Caesar cipher, Atbash cipher, Playfair cipher, and the Pigpen cipher. My favorite cipher was the Atbush cipher as it was the most simplistic but it was still challenging. The format of this cipher is that the alphabet is reversed ( A = Z B = Y, etc). I found this activity really fun because I enjoy doing ciphers and decoding secret messages in a text.  

Activity 12 Week 2 | Santa's new Outfit

 LI: to create a new outfit for Santa in the summer holidays.

Today for the twelfth activity for the summer learning journey program I was challenged at creating a new outfit for Santa. Before this I read a story called Hana Koko. This story was based around Santa's clothing. After I read the story I got onto creating santa's new outfit for the summer time. I then explained whats the name of this outfit, what was the inspiration of this outfit, and why I included the key components of the outfit.

Activity 11 Week 2 | Sound

 LI: to learn how different amounts of space in a object can change the sound.

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 and paper tubes.  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 a me experimenting both of these things. 

Activity 10 Week 1 | Summer Haiku

 LI: to create a summer Haiku.

This week for my tenth activity for the summer learning journey program I created a summer haiku. I based my summer Haiku off of eggs because during the summer I would always eat eggs for breakfast. So in the spirit of food and poems I created a Haiku about eggs and how good they are. A haiku is a Japanese styled poem using 5 syllables for the first and last lines, and 7 syllables for the 2nd line.

Activity 9 Week 1 | Doesn't Belong

LI: to give reasons why something isn't like everything else.

  

This week for my ninth summer learning journey activity I was challenged at finding reasons for why something doesn't belong with the others. I filled out the google slide show you see above with my answers of what doesn't belong of four items. I was tasked at finding a reason for all four items for being odd. I did that nine times, I also created my own "Doesn't belong" challenge on the last slide. Challenge yourself, and try my game on slide 11.

Activity 8 Week 1 | Song Chorus

LI: to create a song chorus. 

For my eighth activity of the week, I was challenged to create a song chorus about a random topic I have chosen. The topic I chose were eggs because they are one of my favorite foods are eggs. In this chorus I used the ABC's tune (alphabet song) as the tune for the chorus. I found this challenging and at the same time interesting.

Actvity 7 Week 1 - Illusions

 LI: to create an effective illusion.

For my seventh task for the first week of the summer learning journey I was challenged at drawing an illusion. I saw this in a video and I thought it would be perfect to use as an illusion to draw. In this illusion it tricks your brain into seeing two triangles. There is an outline of the triangle and there is an invisible triangle.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 6

 LI: To learn the arrangements of the words in maori sentence's

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For our sixth activity of the summer learning journey program, we were tasked at re-arranging the Maori words into Maori sentences. There was no slide 7 on the DLO so sadly I couldn't finish the activity completely, so I just completed the work that was available. So for this task we also were challenged at finding the activity they were doing by using a photo.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 5

 LI: to create our own kowhaiwhai.

Today for our fifth summer learning journey activities we were tasked at creating a kowhaiwhai pattern on paper or digital. In my kowhaiwhai I tried to create a face. The task at hand was really fun and I enjoyed it a lot, it was also really fun to see my partners designs. My design was supposed to be a face, and I found  it really challenging.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 4

 LI: to make insect art using plant life.

For our fourth summer learning journey activity for the first week we were tasked at making insect art by using the plant life (twigs, leaves, flowers, etc) in school grounds. We picked an insect in mind and gathered the required things to create the insect. I chose a dragon fly so I gathered some twigs, leaves, flowers and some long fuzzy things. I then pieced my parts together to create my dragon fly. I think I could've moved the wings up to show the quadruple wings properly. I named my dragon fly Tastu as it means "dragon" in Japanese. I split 2 leaves into halves to create the wings, I then used the twigs as the body and some flowers as the head and antennae.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 3

 LI: to get a greater understanding of the text.

For our third Summer Learning Journey activity LS2 worked with room 5 to create a comic strip of a video of what might they have been saying. There was a video and we had to create a comic of what they might of said in the video. We worked in our pairs and created this DLO. We then watched the video to compare our guess to the actual video.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 2

 LI: to write a quality blog comment on someone elses blog that starts a rich learning.

Leaving a quality blog comment on another student’s blog helps us make connections to new learning by asking open ended questions that encourage a reply and motivate the blogger to ask their own question in return. This is how a comment thread starts and when that happens we make connections with a wider audience who we can learn with and from. I commented on both Jessie from Glenn Iness school and Villiami from Glen Brae school.

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 fun an enjoyable because I'm looking forward for doing the Summer learning journey over the holidays. Will you do the Summer learning journey this year?

Reindeer Race | 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. It was really fun because I got to use my creativity to create a game, I also got to change the rules and how the game plays out.

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Operation Christmas Drop

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

The Operation Christmas drop makes a big impact to lots of communities around the globe, especially the remote islands off of Guam. This was a massive impact for them as they got the time to enjoy themselves, it also makes them happy how America had the time to do this while being busy with a lot of things. For the last 68 years the men and women of the US airforce who are based at Andersen Airforce 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. We think that Operation Christmas drop is an amazing organisation of companies that give struggling communities a Christmas experience that they don't get to experience yearly. We think this way because they have done great things to help children and adults in remote islands that don't have the basic needs for a striving community.

Decorating the Tree

 LI: to decorate the office Christmas tree.

For our final task for inquiry this term we went in groups and put our decoration designs onto the PBS Christmas tree. Each decoration was labeled with the name of the creator so we could see who made the design. The purpose of our Design Technology challenge was to create a set of Christmas/Holiday decorations that respresented our school and the people in it. We were given a design brief from Mr Johnston and a delivery date. To celebrate the end of this challenge LS2 delivered their completed decorations to Mr Johnston, then hung them on the tree in our school office.

Design Technology Challenge

LI: To design and make a holiday decoration that fits the client brief

This week for inquiry we created an evaluation about the design process we did through sewing. On the DLO we answered questions about what we would do differently, what are the positives, did it suit to our criteria, etc. Doing this allowed us to give us the understanding on what we could improve on next time and what we're good at. In my evaluation my designs suited my criteria and looked good, but I could improve my stitching and the designs I chose. This challenge was fun as it gave me an understanding of what my experience was with sewing.

Flower Crown | Probability

 LI: to understand how the probability tree works.

For our math's lesson this week we solved some probability problems and showed our understanding of the problem by writing it on a piece of paper. Before that we watched a video to give us a refresh on how to use the probability tree. The probability tree is a strategy to use when solving questions that involves probability. It divides the combinations into branches and then multiplies each branch that were connected with each other to get the answer we need. One of our problems was the "Flower Crown" equation, we worked in groups/pairs and figured it out in our books.