My Comment To Soloia

 Today I wrote a comment to Soloia who goes to Edmund Hillary School in Papakura, Auckland, NZ. The blog post I was commenting on was the Teaser activity for SLJ, (Summer Learning Journey) the teaser activity was coloring in a famous drawing digitally. Soloia colored in the same one I did, the Watermelons.

I think my comment was positive because I said what I loved about it, that the watermelons were similar to the real drawing but not close enough to be copyright. Another thing I liked about Soloias blog post that I forgot to put in the comment was how she said I hope you guys have a great holiday to all of the people viewing her blog in her STEMS 

I think my comment was thoughtful because of how I made the connection between me doing the Watermelons drawing like her! Even though as I mentioned in the comment my Watermelons drawing was not even slightly like hers in colors I chose! 

I think I made my comment helpful because I gave Soloia some feedback on her STEMS. Which I did because her stems were only three lines long.

Maori Shapes

In this lesson of Inquiry we have been learning about the names of different shapes in maori! Which was a follow on from learning all the colors in maori.

Some of my favourite things that during that lesson include the fact that it was so much easier than what I thought it was going to be.

The challenging for me in that lesson was once again finishing it. But because I don't want to be really repetitive another thing that was hard would probably be finding all the different colored shapes on the explore tool then getting the translation for it.

Some things we learned about were obviously the names of shapes in maori. A individual lesson for myself was that if you want to get the latest task done quickly you should finish the last one even quicker. 

Maori Colors

We were learning about all the different colors in maori and had to make a slideshow about them. I did a slideshow with a cartoon girl in a striped yellow t-shirt and striped red, gray and black skirt. She takes you through all of the colors in english and maori, giving you tips on how to remember the names.

I found it easy to spell the maori color names because at my old school (Whangara) we did a lot of things around maori and even did a whole term of maori designs.

I found it challenging to finish this slide because I kept on getting new work to do

Next time I will make this my priority

The Twelve Days of Kiwi Christmas

 We were learning about the twelve days of kiwi Christmas book/poem/song. We listened to the twelve days of Christmas song that Mrs Barker had found on Youtube, here is the link to one of the videos. We were then to get into groups and go onto the slide deck that Mrs Barker had prepared for us. On the slide we had to create our own "Twelve days of kiwi Christmas."

I found it easy to copy and paste the words once we had done our plan slide, which we deleted so don't go looking for it!

I found it challenging to finish on time because at the beginning my group did not work well together. Tania and Amy-Lee had both made a copy of the slide so it took a bit of time before we got started. Burt in the end we all managed to get our blog post finished.

Next time I will take five before I lose my concentration so things don't get even worse than they already are.

Summer Learning Journey Teaser Activity

We were learning about the Summer Learning Journey (the SLJ). On the slide about the SLJ there was a video explaining the teaser activity and a link to it, Mrs Williams did not give us that many instructions about what we were doing, she just told us to watch the video then to do the activity. The activity was a art book with famous artwork in it. This is the link to the site.

I found it easy to color the art book in. I did two drawings it was that easy! The first drawing I did was the watermelon coloring then I colored in the castle drawing. The finished product for both drawings (especially the watermelon coloring) was quite a lot different to the original one

I didn't find it challenging to do anything really but if I had to choose something then it would probably be finding a hard enough drawing to color.

Next time I will choose a much harder drawing and use the template provided in the instructions to put the project in.

A Moment In Time

We were learning about writing a moment in time, this moment in time was based on a video that Mrs Barker had put on our site under the writing button, the video was about a hunt between a hawk and a squirrel. We had to write from either the squirrels perspective or the hawks, I chose to write from the hawks. 

I really enjoyed writing from the hawks point of view because I like bird of prey (birds that hunt other birds) or just any animal that hunts. But my favorites are big cats but anyway another thing I liked about this writing session is that I managed to publish it really fast and on only two slides!

I didn't find it difficult to do anything really but if I had to choose something it would probably be that I found it hard to chose which hawk I wanted on the title page and what background I wanted for my second slide.

Next time to improve I think I will add more detail about the chase rather than getting to that part and skipping quite a lot of the exiting parts. 

What Christmas means to me

We were learning about writing a letter to the Gisborne Herald for a competition. The competition was, in the whole of Gisborne a few schools were chosen to make a piece of writing about what Christmas means to you. Ten people are going through and getting to have their writing put into the Gisborne Herald newspaper, I hope that I will be one of those people.

I enjoyed doing my getting creative part. After we had finished, checked and the teacher had printed our writing we could do anything to get creative about our writing. I made a scratch game with my family, a fruit platter and a roast chicken in it.

I found it challenging to find all the right things to make my scratch game, eg the fruit platter, my family sprites and I also found it challenging to make the roast chicken. I had to get the chick sprite then remove the legs and the beak after that I had to get a bowl sprite to put the chicken in then I put tiny half oranges around the chicken so that it looked like veggies.

Next time I make a scratch that is not just information but fun as well. To achieve this goal I will make my game a quiz or a real game, I could make there be roast chickens and fruit platters, stockings or Christmas trees and that you had to click a certain one or answer questions that my sprite has asked.