Step it up/Cicada Pizza

Do you like eating food ? Or are you not a big eater? Well this post is about food  In more descriptive words Cicada Pizzas. Did you know some people across the world eat cicadas and their food. for our learning went off and saw an article with people making FRIED CHOCOLATE CICADAS!. Now with the creation we had a template with a picture of a bowl in this bowl we had to make a meal of anything but the twist was we had to add cicadas. And of course as you probably would have I made my favourite food…. Pizza .

At the start I had no clue what food to make but then I thought of a pizza. My favourite bit when I made the pizza was  adding the cicadas and the labels for them. The hardest bit was thinking what toppings to put on it. That's why there's only one topping. BUT i can admit It looks kind of good.

Kick Start/Exploring the world of Cicadas

On with the topic of summer. We're going to look at Cicadas. For our learn we watched a video of a cicada shedding its skin. I found this video a little yucky if you were to ask me but it's normal to them. Then we learnt about their skins that they leave everywhere. After that we had to look for cicada skins and make art out of them! Though it said if you couldn't find any then you could draw a cicada. So I went for about a 5 min walk for some and couldn't find any at all so I went to plan B drawing a cicada.

I really enjoyed drawing the cicada becuase there so colourful ! X. I found It hard to draw the legs of the cicada because there like.. Sticky and skinny I had to start a million times. If you want to learn how to draw one Here's a video you can follow. Matewa

Step it up/Summer Collage

For this step it up task we had the challenge of making a collage out of things that remind me of summer like the summer essentials task. Some of the things I put in my collage were An Ice cream, sunglasses, A pool And some other things I’m not gonna spoil.

I liked this task because summer is my favourite time of year and is also what season I'm born in. But the best bit of this task was probably finding the photos that looked the best to me. Honestly  this task was very easy for me. The hardest bit was trying to think of what photos to put in and making sure they all fit on the page. Also if you would like to comment witch season is your favourite are you a hot person or do you like the cold

Kick Start /My Summer essentials

Now that summer has sunk in we need to write down what we need this summer. What do you pack in the car when you're off to go to the beach? What are your summer essentials?. For this task our wonderful SLJ team gave us another task related to summer. To help us out we had a slide created for us to write in all the things we need during summer.

I really enjoyed the side of this task that I got to express what Unique things I do in summer that other people don't. I found this a challenge because I have lots of summer essentials but not 12 of them. Though that was probably the hardest part. Comment what your top 3 summer essentials are and I will be sure to reply if we have something in common. Matewa!

Step It up / Stickman, THE JOURNEY

For the next step of my Favourite task is to make a stick figure animation. This animation had to have a stick figure doing activities. For my animation I decided to take some ideas from my Day in the life of my Stickman picture. I chose walking a dog simple isn't it? Well in the animation it went from simple to completely weird and unexpected.

My favourite bit about this task was that I got to use my imagination in my own way and got to create a crazy story/animation. I found it a little bit hard to move the stickman and dog on each slide. One click then another then another then another. Though next Time I would probably change the fact that it was so long because people might just leave and not finish it

Kick Start/ The day in the life of a stickman

This activity has probably been my favourite so far. Why because when it comes to drawing my isn't very good so the only thing I can make look perfect is something simple. And stickmen are the most simplest thing you can get if you draw a person. A circle and lines. For this activity we had to draw a stickman doing different activities we had to fill the HOLE page. 

What I liked about this task is that I could make the stickman do things I like to do like skateboarding and walking a dog. Though what I did find challenging about this activity was thinking about what actions to draw and filling up the whole page. 

While I made this post I thought about how I could make it more interesting. Then I thought about it being the day  in the life of a stickman. So read through it and see what my stick man does everyday!

                                               Gaming     Mowing the lawns            sunbathing

Kick Start ,Found Sound

 Kia ora, For today's kick start we have been learning about making music out of weird and wonderful things like chippy packets, cups and random things you find everywhere. When I was thinking of some items I could use I just walked around my room to see if I could find something. I found a ruler, dartboard and darts, cup, pen and an old race car I don't use anymore. At first I didn't really know what to play but then I figured something out. Try to guess if you know what I played, even repeat the video if you need to.

I really enjoyed this task because I am a musician myself. I play the ukulele. So when I found this task I was very excited  and was busting to get into it. Though I found it challenging to get everything in the camera and found it hard to think of what to use for the video.  Again Comment if you Found out what song I was playing. Matewa.

Kick Start Magic Math

Mornea, Today I am posting on another kick start. This kick start is on Magic Math. So for this task we had to make a copy of a slide template that had three math questions on where all of them would land on a certain number 5,6 or 10. I got my mum to do all of them and she did them really fast. We both had our minds blown once we figured out all of the answers would be the 5,6 or ten.

This task actually taught me how to divide by sign on my keyboard .I really enjoyed this activity because I got to see how fast my mum could work out math problems and got to learn new things. Though what I found challenging was having to type all my mums working. Please comment if you are surprised two about this activity and what you like more  math or magic?

Kick Start

Today I started my second summer learning project. My task that I chose was How to make a forced perspective image. This part of the project its called the kick start. It is the simpler  side of the task but there is another side of the task where you have to make a video using wevideo, Screencastify, Ect to explain how you made the images. Before we took the images we watched a video to get a better understanding of it. So From that video I learnt that with making the images it is all about making something that's small big or something that's big small. 

I really enjoyed this activity because I love taking photos And I do It all the time with my nanna. But I also found it challenging to get my objects in piston because I had know one to help me. So I just ended up getting shoes and pillows to stabilise them. And shout out to Mum who also help me!

Step It Up

 This post is the second part on my activity which is the step it up task. The step it up task Is more challenging then the first one I did which was the christmas decoration. For this new and Very challenging task we had to choose a hero/Idle I chose sky brown. I chose sky because she is one of the best kid skaters in the whole world. And have won a bronze medal for team Britain. But she's not just my idol because of that. I chose her because she is a brave,Kind, Inspiring person and she tries to get more girls to skate. Which has also made me wanna skateboard to which I do now.

Now onto what we did in the activity. First we had to polyline our hero then find an inspiring quote that our hero has made Then of course post it to our blog. This task got very hard when it got to the eyes because I just could not get the shape right and the nose was also very challenging but it still looks great And I am very proud and that's all that matters. Meri Kirihimete

Kick Start

 Today I have been working hard on my Summer learning journey task. We were learning about the difference between vector art and Raster art. Firstly  Raster art are pictures made up of tiny little pixels/Squares that you can't see until you zoom in. But when you zoom in the quality of the picture gets lower. But Vecture art is not made of tiny pixels and when you zoom in everything stays the same and it all looks better. After we watched the video for our kick start activity we had to make a christmas decoration or if you don't celebrate christmas then make a decoration for you house. In the decorations we Had to put something like how your family is unique Ect. 

I had a difficult time thinking of what to put on mine but after a while I finally came up with the idea of putting a stag in a circle ball becuase my family are outside a lot so It resembles nature and christmas. And If you would like to please comment on what sort of christmas or house decoration you would make. Matewa

Link to Raster vs. Vector – What's the difference?

Diwali

 Have you ever heard of  dawli or the season of light? well in india its one of the biggest events of the year. Recently we have learnt about it for reading. Diwali has its own little story behind it click Here to learn about it. So every year on those same five days india and many other country's celebrate it. After we read other stories of diwali we got to make a Rangoli pattern witch they make out side there doors on the day of diwali. The hole class had two options. You could either use chalk or make you own design on paper I choose to do the chalk task in a group with two other people. We got our inspiration of google and it took us a while but we got there in the end. Because Diwali is such a colourful and bright celebration  we used bright colours like orange,blue,red and a bunch of other colours.  

Calendar art!

In my school every year in every class we do something called calendar art were every class makes some very cool art and when there finished our parents can bye them as a calendar,sketchbook,mouse pad and more. For our class is was also sort of based on our maths to, geometric shapes. And with our geometric shapes we put them into NZ native birds . This was a long process of drawing ,colouring ,dying and gluing pieces of crate paper on them. My favorite bit for this was choosing the native bird I chose a weka. The hardest part for me was drawing all the triangles into the bird and shading the colours but other then that I found it all easy and hope to do it again. Please comment your favorite NZ native bird. Matewa!

Rongora

 This week for our shared reading we have been learning about maori medicinal plants. For this activity we have to read a few books about many medical plants. it wasn't long before most of us started our create. for our create we had to make a sign with a barcode (witch was optional) with some fact of there chosen plant on it there were at least  10 there to choose from  Because there were so many to choose from I had a hard time deciding. But over my decision was Manuka becuase it smells nice and when you think about it It's actually really helpful. I really enjoyed painting the sign but next time I would try a different plant becuase why not try find facts for all of them.

Portrait art

This week for our art. We were doing a very hard sort of art , Portrait art. Before we actually started our art my teacher showed us some of the art she made which looked very good. To start off with, we had to take a photo and trace the lines with a sharpie very carefully. Then this is what I thought was the hardest part was mixing colours to match your skin colour and this was the learning focus and what I thought was the hardest part. When we mixed the all the colours together the colours we used was yellow white and red and If you had a darker skin colour you would use a little bit of black. My favourite bit for this art was sketching the out lines on my shirt, face and hair. Please comment what you liked about my house  and if you think I got close to my actual face.

My 2021 Achievements

 Lots of the learning we have been doing this week has been on Canva. Before we did the fun bit of the task we were learning some cool tricks that you could use on your presentation like shaping your video and lots more.when we started on our slides  We have to choose a video template or we wouldn't have been able to put our starting video on there.

Onto our creation, for it we had to make three slides to fit three school achievements on it. Each slide had to look cool and the pictures had to relate to your achievements. I Liked this activity a lot because all the pictures on canva make you want to replay the slide show over and over again. But when it came to writing all the subheadings they slowed me down a bit. if or when you comment, add what you think I did well with my presentation and  what you liked about it.

Using Canva

Have you used Canva before? Well for our RE this week we had a new focus we were learning about, service. For this task we have also learnt how to use Canva which has made this project even better Because it brightens our posters up and you can make it very eye-catching. After we logged into canva we had to choose a template and write service somewhere on the page so we knew what it poster was about. After we chose our template we had to add on the poster what  service looks like, sounds like, and feels like.

 I think I have successfully completed my poster and I really like it. But I did find it challenging to write in what service feels like. Please comment on what you like about my poster. Matewa

Beatitudes

 This week was social justice and we were learning about the beatitudes. We chose a quote from one of the beatitudes and made a poster with the quote and eye-catching colours and pictures. I really enjoyed this activity because I have never in my life heard of the beatitudes and I found it challenging to  choose which saying to choose because there were SO MANY! To choose from. Please when you comment tell me what you like about my poster and if you have ever heard of the beatitude.

Speaches

 SO this week was speeches . And we were learning in our writing how to write a persuasive piece and write the right sort of  paragraphs for this sort of writing. Obviously we learnt how to do this because we had to say our speech in front of our class. For this task we read our cameo for this week and wrote down the things we thought were most important for our writing. Like emotive language ect. I found it very challenge to write my speech but I enjoyed  presenting it.Please comment if you like speeches or not. Matewa.

Having a growth mindset is best 

Kia ora, ni hou,Malo Lelei,and hello this is my speech about why Having a growth mindset is best

Do you know what a growth mindset is? Or Do you always know you're gonna Come first and smash everyone or know your gonna come last and don't even try in an activity? Or do you even play differently to everyone else Like having goals to reach with things you find hard and being an awesome team player? Well I firmly believe that everyone should have a Growth mindset.

First of all Having a growth mindset is much better when you are trying to Achieve  your goals. Say if I had a fixed mindset And I was trying to fly to the moon If you had a fixed mindset I would say something like “I could never do this and should just give up or instead, if I do this, I will become rich,famous and  own the world. like that's TOO big of an expectation. But if you had a growth mindset you would break it into baby steps and not worry about how famous and rich you get and only enjoy that you have achieved something that was impossible before now. 

Secondly, having a growth mindset is healthy and good for your body. I know that when you have a fixed mindset about, say Maths you become very  confused and lots of pressure is put on you. Sometimes you can even end up throwing a tantrum not just at home but at school too.And I When you do this you're stressed and it is not good for you body and everyone else around you to listen to.

Lastly, having a growth mindset makes everybody happy. You may be wondering how having a growth mindset makes people happy? Well it is very simple. When you have a growth mindset your happy and you bring a good mood . Which is what everybody wants. SO when your happy it makes other people smile

So I think Everybody should strive for a growth mindset because it helps achieve your goals,Makes your brain healthy and puts you and other people in a good mood. I have one question before I leave: what sort of mindset do you think I have?

Is mr wolf guilty?

 I am sure you have heard of the childhood story about a little red riding hood. Do you think Mr Wolf is guilty or do you think he is innocent. This week we have written a persuasive piece of why we think Mr Wolf is guilty and not guilty. I thought he was guilty. For this task has kind of merged between reading and writing. For our reading we had to write our plan on our chromebook.I found this really fun because the hole class had different opinions. I found it challenging to write my plan because I never really thought if he was guilty or not. We are writing in persuasive because speeches are coming up and are learning how to structure it. Please comment if you think he is guilty or not.