Summer Learning Journey l Poetry Slam - 2

This Week I completed week 2 task 1 of the Summer Learning Journey. I decided to do both of the task for today. I did the Kick Start and the Step It Up Challenge of the Poetry Slam task for today.

This poetry slam was a bit different from the previous one because we were making a poet using kennings. Kennigns describe what a person,idea, or object is or does. Each line has a simple phrase either a nount + a noun or a noun + a verb. They work like riddles you have to try and figure out what the poet is talking about or what it is descibing.

The Kick Start challenges asked the partipants to write a poet using kennigns to describe a animal that reminds you of summer. I chose my cat Tigress because he loves to sit in the sun and just relaxe and loves to sleep in the summer just like me and my cousins.

The Step It Up challenge was to make a another poem but we had to write it about summer. We first looked at a poem but written about winter but we were writing ours about summer. I had fun doing this task because I reminded me how fun summer is.

Summer Learning Journey l Vector Art

Today i have completed week 1 task 5 for the summer learning journey. This task was about creating vector art. I decided to do the step it up challege so I can challeneg myself more. This task required me to draw my hero ( someone who inspries me ) and to use one of their quotes to create a DLO.

The person I chose was Nelson Madela. Nelson Madela was presented the noble peace award in 1993 for peacefully destorying the araptheid against others and he was fight for equality for all those different colors.

To create a really good piece of vector art start with the basic and easy shapes of what you are trying to recreate and then try to draw as much detail as you can to make it look realistic as possible.

I enjoyed this task because I got to show others who inspire me and why they inspire me.

Summer Learning Journey|E hia ngā mea?

Today I have completed week 1 task 5 of the summer learning journey. This task was about the Te Reo lanaguage. Since their are two parts of the task each day I did the step it up activity. Part of this task was to help people remember the phrase "E hia ngā mea?". 

This task included the participant to find 10 picture of things you will see during summer, for example : seagulls,watermelon,ice cream ect. 

After finding all ten pictures I needed to find out the translation for each picture in maori. After gathering all the information I put it on a slide deck to make my DLO (digital learning object).

I had fun going this task because i got to learn knew words for the Te Reo launage.

Summer Learning Journey | Spread The Word

Today I have completed week 1 task 4 of the Summer Learning Journey. I wanted to give myself a challenge so I decided to do the step it up challenge. This task was about commenting on five people blog.Using the template provided we were given questions to help us comment on others blog. 

The questions were, a blogpost that is from your friends, a blogpost that is from another school, a blogpost that made you laugh, a blog that you found intersting, and a blogpost that has amazing art.

I found this task very intesting because it shows me what others in our cluster does during school time.

Summer Learning Journey | Art Colouring Book

LI: To use Google Art Coloruing Book to explore and use creative thinking.

Today was the first day of the Summer Learning Journey. We completeed our first task of the Summer learning journey. Our task was to colour the pictures using the Google Art Colouring Book site that was given to us. This task was simalar to last years task so it was very easy to connect back to the activity making the task easier for those who partipated in the previous Summer Learning. This Google Art Colouring Book was based on NASA.

I enjoyed this task because most of the pictures shows people who did this task what NASA does and what most people who were in NASA did.

Six Sentence Story

 LI: Use 6 sentence storyto set the structure of a narrative.

To help us put our learning this week together we were asked to write a 6 sentence story. This story will be used as the text in our manga comic DLO. Our storys were about an anime charater of our choice. I chose Amira, she is the charater I have made up and drawn for my other activities. This story is about her walking in an alley way and then fights someone in the same alleyway as her. I found this task very fun because I had used my imagination to tell people the story of Amira and what happened in the alley.

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 an anime character. Our challenge was to use descriptive language features to paint a clear picture with our words I enjoyed this task  because writing a lisgt poem about the anime charater I created tell them what she or he is like and also tell them if she is shy,brave,scared ect. 

Cinquain Poem

LI: To write a cinquain poem to describe an anime character

   

 This week we have been exploring the world of anime and manga. Our challenge today was to write a cinquain poem to help us strengthen our connections to description that describes our favourite anime/manga character. A cinquain poem has 5 lines. Each line has a different purpose. Line 1 is a noun which is a name. Line 2 has 2 adjectives taht describe the noun. Line 3 has 3 verbs that end in ‘ing’ and describe the actions. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun. Line 5 is a synonym which is a word with a similar meaning to the noun.

Own Design Character Profile

LI: To create a character profile

   

 Our challenge was to design our own anime/manga character. Our next challenge was to draw the character on our chromebooks or on paper. I chose to draw my character on my devicebecause it was a look easier and because I was able to use different imgaes to help me draw my own charater. Our final challenge was to write a paragraph that describes our character. I enjoyed this because now I have my own anime charater that I can use in my work without having to atribute.

Anime/Manga Character Profile

LI: To create a character profile

     

Our challenge was to choose our favourite anime/manga character. Our next challenge was to write a paragraph that describes our character and explains why this character is your favourite. The charater I chose was Nami from one piece, I chose her because in my opinion I think she is a very good charater that plays a very special role in this series.I enjoyed this because I get to tell other that in my opinion that I think that Nami is my favorite charater.

History Of Anime

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 is that in North America manga use to be seen as a kid thing.

Virtual Cooking Class

 

LI: To learn how to cook hot cakes in a online meeting .

Today we had our second online meeting for tech. Today we have been learning how to make hot cakes from our own houses. First we needed time to prepare our selfs before class, After preparing ourselves we hopped onto our online meeting and we waited for our food tech teacher. We started by combining all the wet ingredinet with the dry ingrdidents after combining we started to cook our hot cakes. With all the batter being cooked we were able to cook abotu 8 to six hot cakes. After we have used up all our batter we had to make a presentation and take a photo of our hot cakes. I enjoyed this time in tech because I got to learn a new recipe that i can make for my family during lockdown.

Customzing Shoes

LI: To customize your own digital pair of shoes.

 

Today we learnt about this kiwi artist who specalizes in customzing shoes. His name is Rangi-Haira Jaxon Greening. He was inspired by a documary called " Just For Kicks ". He made this type of art a hobby he would do, his designs are also based on his maori culture. He get online customres from japan,U.K. and other contries. He moved from australia back to N.Z. Our task was to create a customize our own digital pair of shoes.I chose to do cookie monster because my cousins and I use to watch cookie monster when we were little kids and still watch it now with the younger kids in the family.I found this task very intersting becasue his art is very realistic and because he is a very good artist when it comes to doing art on shoes for his customers.

Summarising

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

The challenge we were set for today was to skim and scam an article about Rangi-Haira Jaxon and his passion for customizing shoes. Rangi-Haira Jaxon designs shoes and sneakers, and was inspired by Maori culture and a documentary called 'Just For Kicks'.

Something I found interesting was that his sneakers are sold world-wide, including countries like Japan, the United States, Sweden and Australia. I enjoyed this task because I had the opportunity to expand my knowledge of Rangi-Haira Jaxon and his passion for customizing shoes.

Recreating Famous Artwork

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

This week we have been learning about famous artworks and colour mixing. The artwork I chose was the girl with pearl earrings by Jonannes Vermeer.This artwork was painted in 17th centuries It was painted because the girl in the painting was a house maid for Jonannes Vermeer. Today it can be found in Mauritshuis museum in The Hague today.

I enjoyed this challenge because…

Math

 LI: To find, explain and fix the error.

Our challenge today was to find, explain and fix the error in the examples given. I have chosen to share this example because the activity helped me think about the strategies I have learnt about. I worked with Te Raumati for this activity.

Geese

LI: To expand my knowledge about geese

Today for reading our learning was about learning more facts about geese. The text we were given show us that a man uses geese as a alarm if anyone tries to get into his home. The text aslo said the ancient city of Rome had been in danger from invaders. The city’s geese had made such a noise when they heard the enemy coming, that the sleeping people had woken and fought them off.I foundthis task very intersting because I didn't know that their was 30 different types of geese in the world.

My Culture Is ...

LI: To understand different types of poems.

This week for writing our focus was about learning different types of poems. The type of poemwe learnt about today was a list poem. List poems are a simple way to get into poetry writing that can be based on ideas that are familiar to you. They can also be based items,people,places, or ideas.List poems don't require rythm and uses repetition. My list poemis about my culture.

Origami

 

This week we had another challenge to do while in lockdown.This task was to try and make a type of origami. The one I did was the pull tab origami envelope. This activity was fun becuase now I know how to make an envelope intersting for the person who opens it.

I See Me Challenge Badge # 3

This is the reward for those in Mrs Selena's group. Mrs Selena's group is a group of year 7 and 8 students partipating in her research. During the school holidays and school weeks, if we completed three task in one of the five catorgories you would get an digital badge as reward. This is my third badge for stories.