Geometree - Summer Learning Journey

 LI: to draw a tree that is constructed out of triangles.

Todays Summer Learning Journey task is called the Geometree, for this task we needed to create a tree that was constructed by triangles. First we watched a video about the different types triangles, the first triangle was called Scalene, Isoceles and Equalateral, to find out about these types of triangles. (Click Here)

I first startes by drawing random lines and connecting them and made triangles. The triangles made the tree look geometric. Then I chose to colour in my tree with light colours.

My favourite part of this activity is getting to find a new way of drawing trees.

Art Colouring Book

 LI:to recolour an image of our choice.

To start off our Summer Learning Journey for the holidays we did an art colouring book based on NASA. We got to pick an image of our own. This image I chose to colour was a spacecraft looking down on Earth.

Recreating Famous Art Works

 LI: To use your knowledge of colour and colour mixing to replicate the colours used in the artworks.

Customized shoe

 LI: To explain in fewer words what the text is about.

Character Profile

 LI:to create a character profile.

Our challenge was to choose our favourite anime/manga character. Our next challenge was to draw the character on our chromebooks or on paper. I chose to draw my character on… because...

Our final challenge was to write a paragraph that describes our character and explains why this character is your favourite

Manga Artist

 LI: To read for meaning and understanding

Our challenge today was to use our smart searching skills to create a DLO in our own words that tells us about the life of our favourite manga artist or a well known manga artist.

Katsudo Shashin Animation

 LI: to create an animation.

One of the oldest surviving pieces of Japanese animation may be a nameless, dateless, approximately 3-second film known as “Katsudo Shashin“ (literally “Action Photo“). It simply features a boy writing the words 活動写真 katsudo shashin and then doffing his cap. Our challenge today was to use our animation skills to create our own 3 second ‘action photo’ using our own manga character.

The History Of Manga

 LI: to read for meaning and understanding.

Our challenge today was to complete a reading comprehension about the history of Manga to show that we are reading for meaning and understanding. Our final challenge in this activity was to create a DLO to share the information we found out.

A fact I found interesting was how long Manga and Anime was going on for.

List Poem

 LI: To write a list poem that describes a topic by painting a picture with your words.

Story Setting

 LI: To write a cinquain poem that describes a character from your favourite online game

Luffy    

Kind, clumsy

Punching, kicking, fighting

King of the Pirates

Conqueror

To continue our Distance Learning our new topic was Manga and Anime. For our Writing we had created a Cinquain poem based on an Anime or Manga Character. Our character was Monkey D Luffy from the manga series One Piece. It was a fun and interesting task to do as we were able to write about our favorite characters as well as being able to collaborate with friends. 

6 Sentence Story

L.I. Use 6 sentences to set up the structure of a narrative

List Poem

LI: To write a list poem that describes a topic by painting a picture with your words.

Today we wrote list poems about a topic we connected with. Our challenge was to use desacriptive language features to paint a clear picture with our words.

Haoura

 LI: to show our understanding of Haoura in context

The olympic athletes are able to do this because their four walls are standing and they are able to control their emotions and the way they react to something negative. Athletes at the top of their field train mentally and physically because it is both the body and the mind that need to be strong to have balance as an athlete. It is important to enjoy and celebrate the success you earn but it is equally as important to embrace the less successful times. It is the learning you take from losing that makes you stronger and wiser. Having made an error you learn to remain calm in stressful situations. It is having a belief in yourself and the support of your whanau that keep you motivated.

We created a canva poster about the four walls of Haoura. The four walls are Taha Tinana,Taha Wairua, Taha Hinengaro and Taha Whanau.

Olympic Challenge #3

 LI: to use the most efficient strategy to find the answers.

Today, we were looking at how we could solve another Olympic word problem. First, we gather the needed information. There are 250 squares in a badminton racket. With this piece of information we move to the next step and find out how many right angles in one square. Looking at a square, we see that there are 4 right angles per square. This means that the number problem is 250 x 4. When we multiply 250 four times, it gives us an answer of 1000. Therefore the answer to the question "How many right angles are on an entire badminton racket?"  is 1000.

Mindfulness Reflection #1

LI: To understand the meaning behind the pause breathe smile program.

This week we had our first session of the Pause Breathe Smile program. Our learning was based on having a calm mindset. We were introduced to this program by first defining what the word mindfulness is. Then we defined it and shared our different definitions with others.

After talking about mindfulness we were introduced to the red zone and the green zone. They are two different zones. The red zone is when you feel stressed,anxious,distracted and others. The green zone is when you feel calm, relaxed, peaceful, curious, clear, balanced, content and engaged.

We were balancing our mind set by forgiving bad things that happened in the past and calming our mind down and focusing on the present. To do this we sat in a circle and listened to the bell while breathing in and out, this helped us relax and focus on positive things.

I enjoyed this session because we learnt about having a positive mindset and about being mindful of others. During this session I learnt how to Pause, Breathe and Smile and calm my mind. 

Poros of Malia Venn Diagram

L.I: To compare the past and present rules.  

For this reading activity we were tasked to compare the olympics rules from the past and the present using a venn Diagram.

There was a big difference between the past olympic rules and the present. The rules that stayed the same was no shoving, no holding, no cutting of other racers.

This task was interesting because the task was about something that was going on now.

Poros of Malia

 LI: to understand the main ideas behind the text.

This week for reading we read a text called Poros of Malia. This text was about a man named Poros who competed in the sprints in the ancient olympics. Poros had won this event in the olympics prior so he had to win or they would have been made fun of. After we finished the text we answered a list of questions, by answering these question we got a better understanding of the story because it helped us remember the details and the main idea of the text.

Flow Charts and Radio Chat

LI:to understand how flowcharts relate to coding blocks.

Here is my flowchart prctice doccument.

Link

Olympic Math Challenges #2

 LI: To fidn the most efficient strategy 

 This week for maths, our learning was based on the Olympics. Our first challenge was about Michael Phelps. This task was about Nastia Liukin. The question sayed The Olympic sport of gymnastics is judged with a point system. Nastia Liukin, an uneven bar champion scored a disappointing 16.725 in Bejing putting her in second place. Her opponent beat her by 0.001 of a point. The Bronze medal winner's score was a 14.975.What was the Gold medal winners score? By how much did Nastia score over the Bronze medalist? We had to find out how much of a point nastia opponent score was, and we also had to find out how much did Nastia score over the bronze medalist. I found this task intersting becase we learn new way of trying to solve different math equations.

Super Finger competition

 LI: To recall our time tables quickly

Today for maths we have recalled our multiplication knowledge by playing a game called Super Fingers. This is a game to see how well and how fast you can answer questions, by using dice.

The instructions of this game is that we need to write a phrase on a white board or piece of paper. Then you will need to roll 2 dice which we will multiply by, and the first person to call out the answer will take one of the letters out. The first person to have all of the letters rubbed out will win the game

The process we did it in was similar to a netball game, draw, quarter finals, semi finals, and lastly finals. To run this competition smoothly we created a bracket which showed who will versus who. Our bracket was now even so later in the game we did a wild card who were Vayan and Micah.

In pairs we challenged each other to see who was faster at answering the questions. The winner would go against the winner from another person. Whoever wins goes up against another winner, and it will keep going until there are two people left, which would be the finals.

The two people facing each other in the finals were Afatia and Chris. I enjoyed this game very much becasue I got to learn my time tables faster.