Today I finished the tastes of summer task, for the summer learning journey.
Before starting task I watched the to get an Idea of what to do.
For this task we had to pick 3 favourite foods that we like to eat during the summer time.
I had to make sure to use adjectives to describe how it feels while eating our favourite food.
This task was really enjoyable to do.
Today I completed the dam task of the summer learning journey.
First I went on the summer learning job to find out what a dam is. I watched both to understand what a dam is.
A dam is a barrier that stops the flow of water.
After getting a better understanding of what a dam is, I started doing my template. After completing my dam on the template I wrote what materials I used and why I used them. My materials were sticks, mud, rocks and leaves.
In my template you can see why I decided to used these materials.
Today I done the Hana koko task for the summer learning journey task.
I first watched the to see what I have to do. Before starting the task I read the article.
Afterwards I went on the template to begin my design.
In my design it includes: Shorts, a t-shirt and sandals.
Lastly I gave my reasoning on why I used these clothes for my design.
In this activity for the summer learning journey we had to make 2 xylophones. I created one xylophone using a glass cup and water and the second using paper and tape.
For the first xylophone I used 3 cups. Then I poured different amounts of water into the glass to make different pitches. A pitch is the vibration from the cup which makes the sound.
How much water you have, depends on how much glass can vibrate. Like if the glass of cup is halfway fulled of water it makes a low pitch, but if there is a small amount of glass it make a high pitch sound. Lastly, I tested my xylophone using a pencil, by gently tapping the glass.
For the second and last xylophone I made was used out of paper and tape. To make the xylophone I used 5 sheets of paper. Afterwards I rolled the paper into a tube, then used tape to secure the paper from it opening. I had to cut the tubes smaller and smaller from each other to make the different pitches. Similar to what I did on the first xylophone. If you have a long tube it would most likely make a low pitch sound. If you have a short tube you most like to get a high pitch sound.
Here is me using my xylophones:
Commenting on others blog is a great way to share your idea learning with each other.
I commented of Deysen's blog post of his Kawhaiwhai blog post.
His blog post was amazing. My question to Deysen was how did his colours represent summer. The colours that he used were white, black and green.
For the third activity we made a optical illusion.
I went on website about optical illusions, to get an idea on what to use to draw my illusion.
The shape I used for my optical illusion was shape. I started with a big square, then I copied and paste the square multiple times. Then I made the squares smaller and smaller.
Today I did the Kowhaiwhai art task for the summer learning journey.
Before starting the task, I watched a video to get a understanding on what to do.
I made all of my Kowhaiwhai's huge to represent a big wave.
Lastly I made the background half blue, half yellow to represent summer.
This summer learning journey task I was called insect.
We first went outside to find twigs, petals and leaves. After we found all the materials we needed, we had to make a insect.
The insect that I made was a butter fly.
Here is my creation :
For our second activity we did a task called fishy false.
I first watched a video that gave me a understanding on what to do.
Afterwards I watched a video about 2 men fishing and one of them lose teeth. I watched the video to get a idea on what to write on my comic strip. Then I wrote my comic strip.
Here is my comic strip:
In the first part of the summer learning journey we were introduced to nano girl, also known as Michelle Dickson. She is a educator who teaches kids in New Zealand about science.
For our first task with nano girl, we had to go for a scavenger hunt to find some materials that we would be using with for the next 6 weeks.
We used screencastify to showcase we found during the treasure hunt.
Today my group presented our presentation about our shelter to get the contract.
First we got prepared by practising our lines from our speech. We had to make sure that our speech persuades our clients.
After that we presented our speech. In our speech it involved why should they invest in it, the alternatives of each material, how we designed the shelter, and what we used to create it.
Our feedback was about most of the time being used by saying nothing like forgetting lines. Our second feedback was not showing our cardboard prototype while presenting. Our last feedback was about the look of our presentation.
Our feedback taught me to be fully prepared. It also taught me to pay more attention to the work. Next time I will learn to speak with more confidence.
Faulty Reasoning is giving a reason which didn't strongly convince another side of their argument. There are 5 types of faulty reasoning: illogical or simplified assumption, circular reasoning , over generalisation, contradiction and biased argument.
Circular reasoning is supporting a claim with the same claim.
Contradiction is providing evidence that goes against the original argument.
Illogical or simplified assumption is making a global statement when there are likely exceptions.
A over generalisation is making a global statement when there are likely exceptions.
A biased argument is making a claim that is influenced by your own personal feelings or experience
The first activity we did was to find a sentence that involves a faulty reasoning. We had to try figure out what faulty reasoning that the sentence was using.The second activity we did was where we had to guess what faulty reasoning that a sentence was using. The last and third activity we did was where we had to make a faulty reasoning sentence for the 5 faulty reasoning's.
For this activity we customise a image of a landmark or art.
I used these colour to represent some countries in Europe. The colours represent Ireland, Columbia, Italy and France flags.
This week my group started filming using our screenplays.
Before filming we practised our lines. We used our story boards to figure out what location that we are are going to film at.
After that we started filming the scenes of our narrative. I found filming fun but hard because sometimes we forget what to say.
LI: To film a screenplay
