SLJ Week 1 Activity 4

3 Facts I found about dragon flies are that..

they have been around for over 300 million years.

dragon flies don't usually sting or bite.

it is considered good luck when one lands on your head.

L.I: To create a piece of insect art. 

Inspired by art creations Raku Inoue we went outside and collected leaves twigs and other plant debris to create our own insect images. I found it quite hard to let my imagination flow once I had all the items because my options were limited by the items. But I did enjoy using the plants because it was something different for me. Have you interacted with a dragon fly before? 

SLJ Week 1 Activity 2

 

L.I: To create your own comic strip of an imaginary conversation.

This comic strip shows a conversation I created between these two people after one of the men had sneezed and had his teeth fall out during a fishing trip.Because it was a short silent movie, I had to infer what was being said by the expressions and what was going on. I found this activity fun and I enjoyed using my imagination to make them have their own conversation. I think most other people might have the similar idea of what is being said. 

SLJ Week 1 Activity 1

 LI: To collect materials needed to successfully complete our weekly superpower building missions with Nano Girl. Today in LS2, we worked together with our Year 4's to help them complete their first Summer Learning Journey activity and blog post. PBS are still at school this week so finding some of the materials we needed for our treasure hunt was easy. Our challenge is going to be able to find all the materials we need at home now. I found this activity exciting because and now I'm really looking forward to the rest of the activities and what is to come. Were you able to scavenger all of the supplies on the treasure hunt list?

Our Christmas Decorations

A few weeks ago the class first started planning holiday sewing designs for our client, Mr. Johnston, to festively decorate our school Christmas tree displayed in the office. Using different equipment and materials, we were able to make our designs happen. The main requirements were: the size to be 10cm x 10cm, and be able to hang on the tree. And to make the design look aesthetically pleasing: patterns, colour scheme, shapes, essential features. I chose Christmas, and my first idea was mini Christmas tree and the end results were even better than what I had in mind. The first sample (original) turned great due to the days of practicing and experimenting before hand, and so I made a couple more copies. My design required colored felt, gold sequins, colored cotton thread, a needle, and the traced cardboard pieces for the shapes. 

The strengths of my product is that everything is I've used a logically color pattern between the sewing and felt making it look good, and that it's very easy to tell what it is. My product also meets my original criteria in the way it met the circumstances and came out better than expected. I did have to change some material and they way it was attached but nonetheless, it worked out in the end. So it wasn't really hard to make it all although I was almost completely new to doing anything like this, we did a lot of planning and practicing like mentioned d before. I definitely am please with the finished product because it looks like the Christmas tree I intended. Something I might do differently next time is to be prepared for not having all the essential accessories and be opened to try something new with my design.

Overall, this whole experience was an amazing learning opportunity and turned out to be so fun.

Pourquoi Story Animation (Why Flamingo's rest standing on one leg)

 L.I To create pourquoi story using our creativity. This week for writing we have been creating pourquoi stories. A pourquoi story is a narrative explaining why something is the way it is. We chose our own topic to write about and used the writing framework, when we finished writing in our framework we got started on our animation. For our animation we had to tell the story using drawings. Our story was about why flamingos rest standing on one leg, it was about how flamingo's used their popularity as a way to show off. I worked with Florence to get this pourquoi story completed. We enjoyed making thi sas it was fun to use our imagination

Probability Tree

 LI: To use probability trees to find the chances of an event. This week in Math, Sakina, Haylee and I worked together to solve probability questions. We were given three different math word story problems to justify the answer of the probability with our working out. We then created a DLO of one question and explained our thinking with the probability tree method. We enjoyed working these equations out as we tried used a different strategy and learnt a new strategy. 

International Current Events

L.I: To identify author's purpose.
Last week, we explored national current events meaning news about what is happening in New Zealand, right now. This week for Reading, we are now looking at the current events happening in the world around us. We created a map and pin pointed the events we found on kid friendly websites (Kiwikids News, NZ Herald, Radio NZ, Kea Kids News) and thought about what the authors intention writing them was, and how these articles make the viewers react. Something interesting I was able to see from observation is that a chunk of the plots on the map are in the United States region, meaning the country spikes an interest from people all around the world.