Koi Fish SLJ

This task we did was creating a Koi fish out of paper. With this we used paper to make Koi fish there was links for us to watch the video and informations. There were two different activity fishes that we could create the fish I choose was Koi-Fish, In my opinion making this fish out paper was a but difficult but soon I understand the reflexs I got the hang to make it. Soon as we were finished we looked for 3 facts about koi-fish something interesting I found about Koi-fish was that they could live up to 200 years, and also the fishes patterns with there colourful coloration and scale patterns they were called “schooling” fishes, last facted about Koi-fish is that people in Japan believe that Koi fishes symbolize wealth, Love and good successful career and helps them with those values.

I found this Summer Learning Journey activity Interesting because I learnt many new things from a Koi-fish and there living with facts this also helps me to be creative to make my own fish and designed it.

Stone fish Poster SLJ

For this task we had to create and design a poster about Stone fish. This is the poster I created with 3 facts that I learnt. Something I found interesting about stone fish is that they are really good camouflage, they blend in with corals and stones. Stone fish also used their fins to bury themselves in sediment. When seeing a Stone fish many people mistake them for a rock or a coral. Designing this DLO was really interesting because the facts I found were amazing and good information. Stone fish may look beautiful but they  are dangerous and are poor at swimming. I enjoyed creating this poster because the information was good to read and I learnt so much about different creatures including this Stone fish. 

Exploring AI and Writing

Today we use papyrus AI that helped us with our narrative writing, Papyrus can be a genertive that creates something  and predicts pattern in word using LLM which is Large, Language, Model. We watched two fairy tales of Snow White and Red Riding Hood and we had to combine the fairy tales together to get our idea.  I really liked how the Papyrus AI gave me feedbacks on what to write and add and helped me to add details.

Little Red’s Adventures in the Enchanted Woods.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Red Riding Hood. She and her mother moved into a small village near a dark, shallow forest with a sign that read, “Be aware from this woods” She looked at the sign and ignored it, but she couldn’t get it out of her head. Night came, and the moon shine. It was midnight, and the whole village was asleep. It was quiet and silent until she heard a loud rustle in the forest. She looked at it but ignored it, knowing that if she went to discover the noise, her mother would worry about her, so she didn’t give in. Morning came, and the sunrise appeared. She asked her mother if she could play outside. Her mother agreed but told her to stay near the village and not to go far. She listened and said yes. As she played, she saw a butterfly and tried to catch it.

 It led her to the forest, but she didn’t realise she had entered it. As soon as she lost sight of the butterfly, she stopped and realised that she was somewhere else. She was scared and cold, with only her red hood that her grandma made. As she walked, trying to find her way out, she saw small shadows running through the bushes and trees. She was frozen but started searching for something to use as a weapon. Then, the shadows jumped out, revealing the seven dwarfs. They asked, “What are you doing here in the forest?” She replied, “I chased a butterfly, and I followed it in here.” The seven dwarfs were shocked because they knew she couldn’t get out and that she might be stuck there forever. As they told Red Riding Hood, she cried, knowing she might be there for years but the way to get them out is to search for a lost princess named Snow White they began their journey. Day after day they kept searching for the princess until they bumped into a brick white wall they looked about and it was a Castle they were shocked seeing a castle in the woods so they made themselves in the gate but the castle looks abandoned like no one hasn’t been their they knocked on the door but no one answer so they push open the door and saw how beautiful inside was they didn’t hesitate they explored the place to find Snow white.

Talking and laughing they heard coming towards them so they ran and hide walking past them was a the Big bad wolf and the stepmother saying that ” Snow White can sleep in the basement” curious they were they had to be quiet and found the door to the basemeant to going down they saw snow white in their crying white her dress is ripped Little red Riding Hood asked ” Are you Snow white?” Snow white replied with “Yes I am and I’m the long lost princess” Little Red Ridding Hood was shocked knowing thats the princess everyone was looking for years. So the Little girl and the 7 dwafs had to think a way to sneak her back up without the woof and stepmother knowing so they tiptoed upstairs and through the door and out the gate they ran before looking back at the castle where the big bad wolf came chasing smelling the sence of Princess they had to look for the way out because they have the princess. They saw the way and ran out of it with princess finally there save with the princess and the 7 dwalfs everyone in the village was happy and Snow White was thanked with this they celebrated with cakes foods and balloons. Until this day no one entered the Woods Snow White and Red Ridding Hood with the 7 dwalfs are save with a happy small family The End.

 

Why is Sleeping Important?

We were challeneged to research about (why is Sleeping Important) We watched many videos to get a better understanding and to get some information. We were given questions to answer and worked in groups to make DLO explaining the facts and information. One of the questions were (Why was sleeping healthy?) We learnt that technology can cause effect to our body and not having the good mind set to sleep with. We learnt other more like what effects our sleeping, and do we all have chance to have a sleep.

I enjoyed this activity because I learnt many facts about sleeping and why its so important in life.

 

Hauora

For Inquiry, we learnt about Hauora. Hauora is the 4 walls of well being. There is Taha Tinana (physical well-being), Taha Hinengaro (mental and emotional well-being), Taha Wairua (spiritual well-being), Taha Whanau (social well-being).

Taha Wairua is the spiritual well being and it helps with the connection with your religous and helps that bond grow stronger.

Taha Whanau is about the people that matter to you, like your family, friends, and community. Taha Whanau is about strengthening relationships within families, and caring for others.

Taha Tinana is the physical well being, and is one of the four walls connected to the other three walls. Taha Tinana is about maintaining your physical health by burning fat and fueling your body.

Taha Hinengaro is one of the 4 walls of well being. This wall is associated with mental and emotional well being. It is creating a sense of fair play and is expressing your thoughts and feelings.When this wall falls, athletes lose the ability to think and make good choices.

I enjoyed doing this task because I learnt what the 4 walls meant their meaning of it, this helped me understand the basic of walls and their well-being.

Cooking Tech

This week Firday the year 8s and 7 went to tech at Tamaki college to do fun activities like sewing, cooking, and art and the year 7 did the activity steam. The year 8s were split up into 2 groups so others went Art while me and my group did Cooking. For this week is cooking is Sweetcorn Fritters, We had a temple of a cooking recipe to follow and had to grab all of our cleaning supplies too. We used 2 lids of oil and spread it on the pan we also learned to turn on the oven and to be careful around it. We had to Mix and use tablespoons to measure the supplies. When the oven was heated we used spoon to scoop how much amount me need and to let it fry. When every Sweetcorn Fritters were ready we had to clean our area of the kitchen and also we were partners when we cooked, Soon as everything was ready and clean we had toppings like Sour cream and sweet chilling we placed it in the box and closed up to eat and tasted good. 

Comrades Marathon Reading

This week’s reading was the Comrades Marathon. We Predict our thinking on the comment box we learnt and define those words that we were unsure of. As a group we read the story and we had a question to answer and it was what do we know about the Marathon. We talked about the idea of a Marathon. Our Sentence idea for the marathon was “The Marathon race is 42 kilometres Endurance Race. We answered the questions and had to write our thoughts on the picture, For Example How would they feel and what are they thinking during the race?” We reflected on the image and shared our thoughts. We also wrote a 25 word summary of the inspirational story of Mntambos. And our summarise was. “As I summarised Mntambo’s inspirational story, he has truly captured the hearts of the nations with a performance he had made in the year 2010. At last we had to answer the question “was our Prediction correct?” 

I enjoyed this task because I learnt the story of the Comrades Marathon and had to define some words I was unsure of.

 

Tivaevae Design

Our challenge was to design a Tivaevae to celebrate Cook Island language week. I created my one by getting ideas of the design on google and trying to get inspirations as I saw many pictures had flowers and patterns. I picked one and tried to get idea on how I would create my one. Many of the photo didn’t give me ideas expect for the flower I created my own flower by using the curve and drawed my pedals. I also created the leafs and added colors to it to stand out. Soon As I was satisfied with my designed I added little bit of detail to make it look gorgeous.

I enjoyed this task because I created a Tivaevae Design by being creative and while I was creating it I learnt many stories and facts about Tivaevae Cook Island.

Ancient Greek Olympic

LI: To use our smart searching skills to help us explore the Ancient Olympic games.

LI: To work collaboratively in groups as an active participant and contributor.

For our challenge we learnt about the Ancient Greek Olympic. As a whole class we came as groups and watched videos and read information about the Ancient Greek olympic. We learnt every event it had back in 776BC and also learnt the women weren’t allowed to compete in the olympic because how mens were un clothes in every event except for chariot Racing which were the only event that had clothes on. Back in the 776BC if you won every event and you became the 1st you would receive a statue of yourself and an olive wreath leaf, as you get a statue of yourself that represents the sport that you compete in. We learnt many of the Ancient Olympics, and one of the reasons for the Ancient Olympic was to honour Zeus the greek God. As womans weren’t allow to compete in the Ancient Olympic their jobs was to prepare food to feed the mens, they had to sacrifice 100 ox’s to once again to honour Zeus. The events that were in the Ancient Olympic 776BC was Running, Boxing, Wrestling, Pankration which was (No biting and Eye gouging) there was Discus throw and Chariot racing as last.  We had questions to explore like ( What were some of the most popular and unusual events thats held during the Ancient Greek Olympics? ) My group created a presentation that explains so much of the Ancient Olympics, on how it started and how it ended. It also explains how Pierre de Coubertin brought the Olympics back.

I found this task so Interesting because I have learnt so many facts and stories of the Ancient Greek Olympics. This has also helped me to know more about the Olympics because it’s kinda different to the Modern Olympics.

 

Poros of Malila – Reading

LI: To make connections (self, text, world)

LI: To identify the main ideas – negotiation game

LI: To make inferences about the events in the text using the clues provided by the author.

For this Reading task we read the story of “Poros of Malia” . This story was about a man competing in the Ancient Olympics. We collaboratively worked as a group to know more of the story and to share our ideas. We commeted our prediction in the comment box and had to also reply to others’ ideas, we had to ask questions like “What made you think like that?” We ask about their thinking and their ideas. We read the whole story and talked as groups on what we learnt from the story and had to define some words that we were unsure with. For example the word (accelerated means start moving faster than before) We also had to show our strategy on how we told the story but in our own words. My strategy was reading two texts of the story and grabbing ideas from it to make my idea. We use the strategy of skim and scan which is to look for the answer. 

I enjoyed this task of reading because I learnt many words that I didn’t know before and had to define it which helped me alot to know more of the word.