Summer Learning Journey Week 1 day 5

Day 5: Against the Odds

Activity 1: National Treasure
The three important things to me:

1. My Family is important to me because they will support me and look after me also they will help me if I'm stuck in in something
2. My Friends are important to me because without friends you will be lonely and won't have anyone to play with.
3. Swimming is important to me because it is fun and I learn a lot from it also swimming is good for rescuing people that's why I think it is important to me.

Activity 2: Swimming to safety

Yusra Mardini

Once there was a girl called Yusra Mardini she loved to swim  she was born in Damascus, Syria, a country long gripped by war. When her home was destroyed by a bomb she knew she had to leave her country, so she and her family had got away on a boat filled with too many refugees. When the motor broke down, Yusra and her sisters became heroes, swimming and pulling the boat to safety. In Germany, Yusra found glory as one of the first refugee teams ever complete in the Olympics.

Activity 3: Own Choice

Sachin Tendulkar

His name is Sachin Tendulkar. He is a famous retired cricket player for India. He was a very good cricket player and adults and children all wanted to be like him. He was also the captain of the Indian national team. He is the highest run scorer of all time in International cricket. 

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 4

Day 4: Individual Pursuits

Activity 1: Making a Racket

.Serena Williams

Serena Williams

1. Serena Williams was born on September 26th 1981 in Saginaw,michigan U.S.
2. In 1995, Serena Williams became a professional Tennis player.
3. Serena Williams won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympic games with her sister Venus. Serena would win her 1st grand slam at the U.S. open in 1999.

I would want to know what Serena's Favorite part about tennis is

Venus Williams

1. Born on 17th June, 1980
2. At the age of ten she was so good at tennis that when she served a ball to the other player the ball went 100 miles per hour



Venus Williams

3. She won wimbledon in: 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 & 2008

I would want to know why Venus started Tennis

Activity 2: What's in a Name?

I would change my name to Scarlett because It sounds like a lovely name.

Activity 3: Worth her Weight in gold

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 3

Day 3 Team Players

Activity 1: Rugby Superstars
If I had super powers it would be telekinesis, Flying and super fast speed.
I would have telekinesis because you can lift people off the ground and move things in outer space. What I would use telekinesis to move all the bad guys and give them to the police.
I would have the Flying power because you would be be able to go fast and go up high into the sky. I would use the Flying power to be able to get away from things and I would fly really fast around bad people so they get dizzy.
I would have super fast speed because I would be able to read fast and run fast. I would use the super fast speed power so that I can go really fast I would also be able to run on water because of how fast I'm going.

Activity 2: Defying The Odds
I would interview Steven Adams.

1. When did you start to play basketball?
2. Why do you play basketball?
3. How long have you played basketball?

Activity 3: Achieving Our Dreams

Summer Learning Journey Week1 Day 2

Day 2: Up in the air

Activity 1: Flying Solo

Activity 2: One Small Step for Man

Nerve wrecking
Excitedly I jumped out of the spaceship
It's one small step for women, one giant leap for womankind
Learning about the moon that nobody knew
Amazing Journey
Rough ground
Magnificent time
Statisfying
Tired from all the travel
Rough journey
Oh my goodness
Nervous Activity 3: Miracle on the Hudson The time I was brave was when a chair landed on my big toe and made the toe nail nearly come out, I cried. My mum said that I was brave because we had to drive 42 km to get to the hospital then wait 2 hours to see the Doctor and I did not cry even though I was in so much pain. When they fixed my toe by putting the toe nail back in I was brave and did not cry or anything.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1/ Day 1

Day 1: EXPLORING THE WORLD

List of 10 Foods to take with me on a Big Canoe.

1. Apples
2. Bread
3. Bars 
4. Carrots
5. Cashews
6. Chips
7. Cookies
8. Meat 
9. Sandwiches
10. Nuts

Activity 2: Discovering Aotearoa 

Dad's side of the family comes from The Netherlands. Mum’s side comes
from South Africa and NZ. We speak English but my great Grandma and Great
Oma can speak Dutch.

Activity 3: Scaling New Heights

I am interested in SPCA for charity. SPCA helps protect over 40,000 animals in
New Zealand every year. Animals who are sick, injured, abused or simply
abandoned.

Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week/ Day 1

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

Facts about Lorde:

Her real name is Ella.

Her stage name is Lorde.

Her first record deal was offered to her when she was 13.

She's a high school dropout.

She went through a rough break-up like anyone else.

She has a neurological condition.

Lorde is 23 years old (7 November 1996)

Lordes School and College is Belmont Intermediate.

Lorde was born in Auckland.

Lorde has two sisters and a brother.

Lorde made at least 14 songs.

Lorde is a New zealand singer.

Her most famous song is Royals.

Lorde has won many awards for her songs.

She started singing when she was a teenager.

Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

Ko Mt Turiwhate tōku maunga

Ko Taramakau River tōku awa

Nō Taramakau Settlement ahau

Ko Kumara School tōku kura

Ko Groot tōku whōnau

Ko Damian tōku matua

Ko Emma tōku whāea

Ko Johanna tōku ingoa

Activity 3: Big Friendly Giants

Ishagish, Lineatick, Sagereal, Strockbash and Grygetter.

I made these up all by myself with no help.

My Animation part 1

Createing a collage for New Zealand

How I made my kiwi.

What I did first was I typed up brown texture then I choose a texture to use for my kiwi. Then I clicked an arrow that is next to the crop button. Then I turned the picture into two circle's. Then I put the two circle's together. Then I typed up yellow texture for the beak and legs. Then I pressed the arrow that is next to the crop button. Then I shaped the yellow into rectangles and triangles.  then I atached them to the body of the kiwi. Then when I did that I typed up black texture and turned it into a cricle for an eye then put it on. Then I put a line on the kiwis body for a wing. Then I made it so that the kiwi was one whole thing. Then I duplicated the kiwis. Once I'd done  that I typed up forest background texture then I put the background on then I'm finished.

How I did my Passion Project

If you're wondering how I did my Passion Project, well I can tell you. I picked a topic then I started to write about my topic. I also drew pictures of the topic. Once you have done lots of you're amazing facts and pictures you then screenshot them incase you want to use wevideo. Then find some music from Youtube or Wevideo. Wevideo has music. I used Wevideo to make my passion project. If you type up wevideo and login you will now be ablel to use Wevideo. Wevideo can help you with your passion project. When you are in it you press create new. There is a star in the left corner. Next to it is a little folder with a star on it  When you press that you will then see a green button with a small arrow. If you press it you will find a blue button that says Browse to select. Now press it, it will come up with all of your pictures. Take all of your screenshots of your passion project. Once you've done that, drag them into the thing at the bottom make sure that the're in order. Once you're done that press the music symbel on the left side. It will come up with some music to put in with you're passion project. Once you have picked some music press it and then there will be a button that is blue and it says use this track press it then drag it to were you put your things. Once you've done that you will see the front of it on the right side. Press play then you will hear the music and see your slides. Once it is perfect press finish then something will pop up and you will see the drive symbol then press it then press EXPORT. Then wait for it to load then you're done.

Also if you want to put it on your blog go into your drive and find in your Wevideo folder then press it. Now click into it again. Press the three dots and press open in new window it will then appear as another copy in another tab. Then press the three dots and press Embed item then copy the thing then go to your blog and copy and paste it into HTML Then when you go to Compose it will apear and then your DONE!

My Passion Project About Bunnies

My Passion Project about cats

Learning to do screencastify

On Sunday 4th of August. This is my second time seeing snow at my house. 

Transformation using grids

Today we found an accredited image on Explore and selected it to use on our page. We then put a 5x5 grid on it so we could copy the image and make it original. Mrs Minehan selected the first two images so we could understand the process, then we got to choose our own image.
I found the first one very challenging.
The second one was so hard that I haveint even started it yet.
I chose the image of korus because I want to do something that is hard and easy to do.
Have you ever tried to transform an image using a grid? How did you find the process?

Animation

TITLE : Animation
LABELS: Cybersmart

Think about what you have been learning over the last week and write a post about it.
I have been learning about animation in the past week. 
We were learning it so that we know all the tools on the slide on what to do and what not to do.
What I enjoyed most on doing Animation is duplicating the slide over and over again.
What I found challenging was when I have to find characters and backgrounds.
Have you ever made an Animation slide before?

My Maps

We learnt how to use Google MyMaps and then we got to look closely at our own environment and locate landmarks. For each landmark we found we had to name it, write something about it and find an image of it so that the pin on our map had information on it. This is my finished map of Kumara. Have you ever used MyMaps to locate places in your community?

Using Google sheets

This was my first time using Google sheets. We had to collect the data and put it on a spreadsheet. Then we clicked the bar graph button and it made a bar graph from our data. I found it a little bit hard to do but it looked cool. Have you ever used Google sheets for graphing before?

Homework should not be banned

Johanna

20/2/19

I don’t want homework to be banned because you learn  more
and some people love to do homework. Please don't ban
homework its cool and fun see I like it and some people don’t
you just have to do it. It doesn't matter  

Sometimes people copy other people and they get in trouble
and then their mum or dad tells the teacher and then they get
in big trouble and then they go to the principal. You don't want
that to happen.

Homework is cool but sometimes it can be frustrating but you
just do it. Your mum or dad would be angry if you didn't do it .
It's good to do homework at home because your learning stuff
without the teacher. If you don’t have a homework book ask a
teacher for one because you need to learn in the holidays or
the weekend.

When it’s coming to the end of the year you still do your
homework also there is a thing called the summer learning
challenge. The summer learning challenge is something to do
in the holidays. You learn a lot’s it’s fun and good to do.
Here’s a photo of it.  

I done the summer learning challenge twice it was really fun as
it is a bit like homework but it isn't. So I'm going to do the 2019
to 2020 I hope it's not really hard and I hope it's going to be on

You have to do lots of work to learn you will figure out the stuff
a bit easier but when you go to highschool it changes it gets a
bit harder.  Because your older and your already know some
things so you have to have it harder you will still learn.

You then go to university and you do some work there lots
of work. But there hard so it's going to be tafe and really hard.

So you already know some stuff but there is still more to
learn when your a adout. There will be lots like in farming,
computer work and all that stuff you will get tort how to do it it
could be hard or easy.

Scooter, skateboards, ripsticks and bikes should not be banned on School grounds

I don't want the Scooters skateboards…. to be banned on school grounds. It's fun for kids because you can ride on them and do some awesome tricks. You won’t be able to go around the playground with your Scooters skateboards….. But don’t go over other games. Remember to put your safety gear on like helmets and be careful when you do tricks because you can hurt yourself. Some schools can’t have Scooters, skateboards…..  Because kids have been hurt. Also you have to look out of the way. 

Day 5: The sky's a limit!

Activity 1: Environment Day - Beat Plastic Pollution

Three things of how to save the planet

1.  Stop using plastic that can get into the sea and kill the fish.
2.  Stop leaving rubbish everywhere. 
3.  Don't use plastic straws 

Activity 2:  Adoption Day

Three animals I would like to adopt 

1. Snowy owl  
2. Arctic Hare 
3. Cheetah 

Similar: They are all very soft and fluffy. Different: The Snowy Owl can fly. The Arctic Hare can jump around and Cheetah's are very fast.

Activity 3: Concluding The Journey

I didn't know that the earth was having problems 

The one thing that surprised me was how big the Tāne Mahuta is.

The one thing that upset me was how some country's have smog all over the Place and some people couldn't breath.

I would pick up rubbish and planting trees.  

Day 4: Making promises

Activity 1: Campaigning for Conservation

Predator Free New Zealand: Pests-Lets get rid of them

Activity 2: The Plastic Pledge

My mum is happy that Countdown and the other supermarkets are stopping plastic bags.  She has been bringing her own plastic bags to supermarket for over 10 years.  She is unhappy how plastic bags end up on our farm.

Activity 3: Restricted Access
I think the governments idea of restricting the number of tourist is great, and is right because of how much damage they have done to the place.  Cut down the numbers of tourist coming to Machu Picchu and hopefully the place will go back lovely again.

Day 3: Taking Action

Activity 1: Predator Free 2050 - A call to arms

The video I liked best was Predator Free Video #3 because how there going to kill them and how to do it.

My Idea of how to portent bird eggs
My idea is that we should make little cages for the birds and eggs. And you would have them in trees not to high up so in the morning you would have the cages open and when night comes you would have the cages closed with the bird and the eggs in it. But kiwis can't fly so you would have to a cage for them and have a little robot to keep an eye on the eggs.

Activity 2:  Protecting the Most Vulnerable - Fact or Fiction?

Fact or Fiction?

• Māui dolphin only live up to 20 years 
• Females grow to 1.7m long and weigh up to 50 kg. Males are slightly smaller and lighter.
• Māui dolphin are the smallest of the world's 32 dolphin species
• Māui dolphin have distinctive red, white and black markings and a short snout.
• They produce just one calf every 2 - 6 years, making population increase a very slow process.
• Māui dolphins may only be able to grow their population by 3% a year. That means that a population of approximately 55 can only increase by 1 individual per year.

Activity 3: The power of ten

Top 10 

1. Amur Leopard: Because there is less than 70 left.
2. Gorillas:  There is less Gorillas in the world then there used to be.  Their babies are cute
3. Sea turtles: I don't know a reason but I want them to be safe
4. Orangutan: I think they are cool, hairy and have such long arms.
5. Sumatran Elephant: I think they are cool animals and so big as they are the only things that are that big
6. Tiger: Because they are cool cats and they are one of my favourite cats.
7. Dolphins: Because they are very cool and they are beautiful 
8. Blue Whale: Because they are the larges animal in the world and its incredible they are very loud and you can hear them from hundreds of miles away.
9. Arizona Agave: Because I've seen them before and I think they are cool to look at.
10. Black Lion Tamarin: Because they look so cute and fury.

Day 2: Protecting our own

Activity 1: A flying fox

I would love to go on the flying fox because it would be really fun.  I would see the trees going past me. I would be really fast and make it fun.

Activity 2: A Protective Plant
I have a bit of a garden myself but its only strawberries and tomatoes.  My brother has a bit of a garden because he is growing apples trees that are growing really well and he and my sister have pumpkins.  My mum has a big garden, she has corn, peas, carrots, potatoes, chives, mint, lettice, broccoli, red onions and trying to grow capisum.

Activity 3: A House is Not a Home
Conserving Chuilexi Conservancy within Niassa National Reserve
I have chosen this project because it's a bit interesting how they are protecting areas where animals are and if they didn't protected that area they would be killed. They are protecting Lions, Wild Dogs and elephants.



Photo from Zambie.com

Week 4: Protect and Preserve

Day 1 Preserving the pass 

Activity 1: World of wearable 

5 questions I would ask Dame Suzie Moncrieff.

1. What dress do you like best?
2. What material did you use to make the dress?
3. When did you start making dress?
4. Where were you born? 
5. How old are you?   

Activity 2: Guardians of the sea
No I don't believe there are Taniwhas.  Because I've never seen one and watching the video it could have been a big fish.

Activity 3: The Sky in Shanghai

China is a good place but
Having smog around the place would be terrible
I wish it didn't happen, China is a bit of a cool place
News says that the smog is killing people
And I'm a little bit scare about going there with the smog that's killing people.

Day 5 Here to Stay

Activity 1: Persistent Pollution 
Three new I learnt:

1. Some pollution can be from volcanic eruptions or fires and allergens. 
2. Greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane and fluorinated oxide trap heat from the sun in the earth's atmosphere. This make high temperature for the earth.
3. Warmer weather leads to more pollen, and then more pollen production. 

Activity 2: Changing Climates

Things I do on a rainy day

1. Run around and made my parents mad.
2. We play board games, cluedo, rummikub, yahtzee and cards
3. Go on my chromebook
4. Watch TV like spongebob square pants 
5. Read books
6. Sleep on my bed

Activity 3: Let it Rain

I opened the door and... I see trees with no leaves and the plants around me were all brownish and the ground wasn't like grass anymore.

I went out to the lake and went to see some fish and they were all dead.  That was terrible. I felt sad and annoyed by the acid rain.  My family were shocked. It smelled disgusting. 

When I went on my walk I find that all my familiar parts are gone. And now all my good views are not good anymore.  

I fell terrible all that fish are all dead and some of my favorite things are ruined. I hope this doesn't happen again. THE END

Day 4: Like a Scene Out of a Movie

Activity 1: The Southern Lights

Lighting up the lights
In the night sky
Guide the place
High in the sky
The sky is bright
Sky gone dark

Activity 2: The seven sisters

Mitai and his brothers went hunting then they found 7 beautiful women, then they fall in love except Mitai.  Then the men take them to their houses as wives and then women didn't let them eat.  Mitai  was getting interested  in the women as they never left their houses. Then one of the Mitai turned into a kereru and followed some fantails and the fantails turned into the women.  Then that man heard what the girls were saying about the men starving to death. Then he went back and told the men that they were going to make them starve to death. Then they made this magic net and then they scooped the fantails which were the women and then the women kept begging to get out to their husbands.  Then they brought them to the god of the stars.

Activity 3: Crazy, cool clouds

I choose picture 2. I see in this cloud is a tornado.

Day 3 taking flight

Activity 1 Bird of the year

Kea:

Keas eat roots, leaves, berries, nectar, and insects. Keas live in mountains that are in the south island. You often find them in ski places.

Keas are dark green and light green. Also Keas are very sneaky. Keas can live up to 50 years. Keas are a type of Parrot.

Photo taken by mum at Arthurs Pass look closely

















Activity 2 flying foxes

My superpower would be a thinking brain because i'm not the best at thinking.

Activity 3 Wind Beneath My Wings

Day 2 The air up there

 Activity 1: Bee Informed

• The word 'bumblebee' is  a compound Word (bumble + bee). The word "bumble' means to _hum, buzz or drone_.
• Bumblebees can fly very quickly. They can reach ground speeds of _54_ kilometres per hour (km/h)
• Bumblebees are very strong! They carry up to _90 Percent of their body weight food with them  to avoid starvation!
• Bumblebees can do more work and carry more pollen then other bees, including honeybees. In fact, they can do up to _50  times as much work as a normal honeybee. 
• The number of bumblebees is declining in New Zealand Due to a number of factors, including the removal of wildflowers and flowering trees, habitat loss and extensive use of pesticides.

Activity 2: Carbon Sinks Don't Stink

• tomatoes 
• Avocados
• Bugs and slugs
• hoho grubs
• Chinese food

Activity 3 Flying fungi 

7 moulds x 5 days = 35 days

or 5 weeks.