SLJ Week 1 Activity 5

 L.I To create a kowhaiwhai pattern to represent summer

Today I learnt that when it is very hot and the air is shimmering Tānerore performs the haka for his mother, Hine-Raumati. This happens in summer as the land heats up. Our challenge was to think about this while we designed our own kowhaiwhai pattern to represent summer. My pattern shows the heat of the sun. I found this activity fun because I made my own designs.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 4

L.I To create a piece of insect art

Inspired by art creations by Raku Inoue we went outside and collected leaves, twigs, and other plant debris to create our own insect images. Three facts about bees. Bees have stingers, Bees are black and yellow and bees have six legs.

SLJ Week 1 Activity 3

LI: To create your own comic strip of an imaginary conversation.

My comic strip shows the conversation I imagine these two people had after one of the men had sneezed his teeth into the sea during a fishing trip. I found this activity fun because it was funny.

SLJ week 1 Activity 2

LI: To write a quality blog comment on someone else’s blog that starts a rich learning conversation. 

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. The Person I commented on was Malachi at Ruapotaka hopefully I get a reply.

SLJ week one Activity one

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

This morning we started off by doing the summer learning journey task with the year 7’s and 8’s.They helped us by understanding what to do. My partner from LS2 was Liletina and she helped me understand what to do. I really found it fun and interesting to work with her. 

Christmas 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.

Operation Christmas Drop

L.I To wright a summary of the story behind the Operation Christmas Drop in your own words.

The impact that OCD  has on the remote islands is the off Guam is that the crates that the Airforce drop out of the plane is filled with food and learning supplies.
 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 50 remote islands that surround Guam. My opinion is that when they drop the crates I would like to donate some things like.