Today for the Summer Learning journey I completed the pixel art task.
I first went to the summer learning journey blog to see what was my task for today.
After watching the video about the basics of pixel art I quickly went on the website and started drawing a sun.
For my drawing I used the colours yellow, dark yellow, blue, black and white. Yellow for the sun, dark yellow for the shade of the sun, blue for the sky, black for the glasses and white to make the sun look brighter.
Here is my art:
Today I completed the Tama-nui-te-ra task for the summer learning journey. This task was an maori task.First I went on the summer learning journey blog to see what I have to do. I watched the video to get more information on what to do.
After wards I went to site called word art. This is what I used to create my picture. I had to list words in Maori that mean a lot for me. Some of the words I used were: Kia kaha, whakaipo and whanau. After that chose what shape I want to use, the word layout and the font.
I found this task really fun because I get to show whats important to me the most.
Today I completed this weeks Nano girl task. For this task I had to try create sundial. A device that shows the time of day by the position of the shadow cast onto a marked plate by an object with a straight edge.
First I watched a video that Nano girl made to show how to make a sundial. I used cardboard and tape.Instead of using regular tape, I used duck tape because I didn't have any other tape I could use.
Then I made my shapes by drawing a circle and a right triangle on the cardboard. After that I used scissors to cut out the shapes. I used tape to stick my right triangle onto the circle. Afterwards I wrote 2 different times. One that the tells the time when I should wake up, and another which tells what time I should go to sleep.
Then I tested my sundial using my torch. It was quite interesting because I wondered how did people think of this thousands of years ago. I surprise some that was used thousands of years ago, stills work.
This task had to be one of the most fun task I've done yet.
Today I completed the happy new years in different languages task.
In different languages we had to say happy new year.We had to used 5 languages.
The languages I used to say happy to celebrate the new year were: Tongan, German, Dutch (Netherlands), Samoan, and Hawaiian.
The Polynesian languages I knew because my Mum and Grandma are Tongan, Samoa and Hawaiian. The both of them started teaching me when I was a little baby.
The European languages I knew because when I was little my Grandfather used to teach words bit by bit in German and a little bit of dutch.
I found this task easy because most of these languages I learnt how to speak in them from family members.
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:
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.
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.
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.
