summer learning journey day one week one activity 1

top 3 facts in the tourism New Zealand website

summer learning journey day one week one activity 1 

1. New Zealand is one of the last country's to be found 

2. To become a New Zealand citizen, you must swear an oath of loyalty to Queen Elizabeth.

3. The Auckland City Sky Tower is the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 meters high.

germany summer learning journey

Hello bloggers. This week we did an activity of the summer learning journey. it is a site where you do activity and you have to blog about it. and there is a spot prize for the person who wins it altogether but there are prizes for every school. And if you do a lot of posts you will get a prize at the end. So for the first activity we have to chose a country and write facts about it. the reason why I chose Germany is because they are really good at football and they won the world cup for 2014 and my favourite sport. and another reason is that it is a very big country because it has 16 federal states and 3 city states.
last year from our school Sam came first and he got a big prize from Megan she is from the summer learning journey.

https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome

Movie making

Hello blogger world. Last term (Term 3) we made movies for the Ako Hiko film festival. About three movies only get picked from each of the senior classes. Before we got started we had to learn what kind of shots there are like Medium shot, close up and large shot. They all mean like for an example close up means when the person is talking really close to the camera. And when we learnt those kind of shots we had a group of four people making a movie. Then we made a google doc on our Chromebooks and planned what our movie was about. So once we did that our teacher gave us the iPad's once we were done we had to share the movie with our teacher.


Here is my groups movie

Our thinking hats

hello bloggers. Yesterday the whole senior syndicate went to watch waikowhai intermediate production called THIS IS ME. when we got there we saw hay park and may road school and a lot more schools. When we we got there we saw friends and people who had left the school so we said hi to them. And the intermediate gave us free buses to get there and to get back so that was kind of them. when we got back to school it was two a clock so we got lunch play but not as long and lunch eating after that we did the DeBono six thinking hats about the show




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literacy tumble

Hi bloggers. 3 weeks ago we started our literacy tumble. It is where we have tasks to finish by Friday and if we have not finished the 4 tasks by Friday we have to stay in and do it in our own time. So we have to have done the 4 red ones by Friday they are called must do's   those are the ones we have to finish.  And then we have should do's  you dont have to do but if you have finished your must do's you have to do it. And there is could do's you dont have to do those.

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In our books we have a timetable and it shows us what we are going to do. This is what it look like. 

Our tecnolgy rotation

Hi bloggers. For three weeks we had a class rotation. It was based on technology. So every class had to start of with there own class. So in my class we did something thats called a Geo board.  We had to saw a piece of wood and measure it and it had to be 12 cm on the side and we to measure 12 cm of where we wood cut it then we had to get some nails and hammer it into our wooden piece of would the hammers were't enough for everybody. So we used big sticks at first I thought it might not work but it did and I was surprised. we had to only nail in 25 nails in the board but before that we had to get a pencil and mark it before we nailed in 25 nails.

Here is the one I made in class


          In the second week of us doing our technology class and the next class was Waitemata   we had to make a design with some pieces of string and some pieces of ice block sticks and a plastic cup and we were not allowed to break the ice block sticks because so the other class that was going to come could use them.  We had about 45 minutes to finish we did not come first but we did finish.






In the 3rd class we had to get any metal pieces and make a led light work for a long time . I had the longest piece in the class and there was a batterie that with the led light we had to put the long piece in the bottom and the short piece in the top. At the end we had to put all the pieces away and put them in the right place and we had to give the batterie back and the led light back.

We learned to never give up not go into frustration and we learned how to preserver all together.
So next time when we do something similar to the I will remember these rules.
Why we have to follow these rules is that when we get really frustrated and we lose hope we can remember this and stand tall again.

Stop motion

Hi bloggers. Firstly we got some Play dough or some Lego to play around to our make stop motion video. But I used Lego. Our whole syndicate had to come and do it. The stop motion app is where you go to the white circle down beneath just click that and if you don't have it you can just search up stop motion animator and it should be there.  We could not put the play dough on the ground because it would of smudged on the ground.
When we got on our app there was a button that said capture but you could also press space to capture
in my video I had my hands in there a lot so can you just ignore that. [sorry] next time I will try and take my hands out.
I hope you like it. Thanks


                                           

       

New basketball hoops and new playground

Hi bloggers. Last week we had the new playground coming out so we decided to have a grand opening for it. So all the classes came out at 10 clock we set up mats for everybody to sit down. Then our teacher said you have to pick a junior with you to go together on the playground for a little bit.

After everybody had turn going on the playground we all went back to class and we went to morning tea. 

We also had the basketball hoops come out onto

to the courts as the same time as the playground was open. 

So we had to move the soccer posts to the other courts.

         

Improving blog comments

Hi bloggers.  This week we had a cyber smart lesson about how to improve our blog comments. So we learned many things of how to improve your blog comment and I will be sharing the stuff I learnt with you.

We learned the PTH which is something positive something thoughtful and lastly something helpful.
And we always have to have them in order like positive first in your comment then thoughtful, lastly something helpful.

We had to always follow these six rules
- Does it make sense ?
- Does it convey meaning ?
- Did you check it with a buddy or teacher ?
- Does it ask a question ?
- Keep your comment brief and polite ?
- Have you checked it fully and included PTH ?

In my comment I had a little mistake in my comment that was i had not put what it had reminded me about.

WATER PROOF HOUSE

Hello bloggers. Its Qais, three days ago we read about Samoa and the tsunamis so we made a google drawing or we could do tinker cad. I did google drawing because it seems more easier to me. we had to make a waterproof house and say how that makes it waterproof and label it with the features we gave it to the house.

...Here is the google drawing... 

TIRITIRI MATANGI TRIP

Hello bloggers Its Qais. Last week we went Tiritiri Matangi for a trip. we had to leave at 7:50 in the morning for the ferry. first we had to wait for the bus to take us to the ferry so we are in time to reach the ferry. It is a island for all the native birds in New Zealand. The day before the trip we got a notice, we had to give it our parents  to read. It said no dirty shoes because it might have little bugs in it, so could you please clean your shoes the night before .And they might kill birds on the island. On the island we are not allowed to eat while we are on the island because we might drop some food and the birds eat it and they get really sick and die. When we got there we had to get into small groups that the teacher said every group had a guide to walk them and see all the native birds and all about them. We were not allowed to run because it might make the birds think that it is really noisy and they might leave the island and go somewhere else.

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