Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 - Day 1 - Activity 2

For this activity of day 1 we had to write how would I feel on a waka filled with other people on voyage to New Zealand in a letter to a friend. 

Letter: Hi Oh Hsen, I am Currently in a waka with other people, to find a island called New Zealand. I am feeling really scared because I don't really now what this country look like and if I am going to like this place. The people next to me are acting very strange, I have not see that before. I am really worried because we are getting to the stage that we don't have that much food left.

Summer Learning Journey - Week 1 - Day 1 - Activity 1

                                   

For the first Activity from the Summer Learning Journey, we had to read the story of Maui and the giant fish. We then have to write 3 facts about Maui and what a other stories that you have herd Maui in.

3 facts

1.  Maui used his own Blood to catch the giant fish.
2. Maui also used a Karakia to catch all the fish.
3. Maui always want to go fishing so he hid in the canoe.

I have heard Maui in other stories like how he slowed the sun.

NEXT FOUNDATION - Summer Learning Journey

The Summer Learning Journey for NEXT Foundation from Next Foundation on Vimeo.

Today The Next Foundation came to our school, during assembly. They were here to launch the Summer Learning Journey for 2017/2018. The Summer Learning Journey is hosted by Rachael Williams. The program consists of many different entertaining and educational activities. The NEXT Foundation have made a mini movie with our school. The main character was Daniel, there were also other students featured in the movie. It was really fun having a film crew filming our class. After assembly, the NEXT Foundation provided us with lunch, that was really nice. I can't wait to complete The Summer Learning Journey for these summer holidays. 

Collaborative Christmas Challenge

In LS2 we have been learning how to work collaboratively with each other. Our task was to research a country and explain how they celebrate Christmas.  The country that we were researching was Germany. We were researching the traditions, food and etc. I learnt that in Germany kids place nice and clean boots in front of their door so St Nicolas (Santa) can visit them and leave a small gift. St Nicolas doesn't really come, its just a family member dressed as Santa. I found that Santa's name is really interesting because it's hard to read. 

Maths - Geometry Co-ordination

For maths today, we were doing some geometry coordination. First of all, we had to complete four pages of reading maps. Some of the tasks were pretty easy like: Draw a snake in the jungle and draw a road from toptown to hilltown. Then, we were given a piece paper with instructions and a piece of paper with a half completed dog. Our challenge was to follow the instructions to complete the dog. We then had to color the dog in. For this task, we had to remember and use the ladder rule (You can't go up and across but you can go across then up).

Google Game - Programming

This morning LS2 went on google and played the new google game. The game involved coding. We were making the bunny go in specific directions. We were inserting arrows and different types of codes into the coding bar to make the bunny move. The game had a tutorial at the beginning to give us an idea on how to code. 

Robotics at Tamaki College - 1/12/2017

Last week on Friday after our normal session of tech, we got spilt into 3 groups. They were Robotics Mr Dunn, PE with Mr Moyes and Social Sciences with Ms Apelu. I was in Robotics we spilt into 4 groups of 3, in my group I was with Oh Hsen and CJ. There was two Mdrone's and two Mbots, we chose to pick one of the Mbots.  We had to challenge the other group programming the Mbot by making the Mbot do a figure 8. At first my group found this very complicated. The more we tried, the more we knew how to programme it. We eventually found out how to make it go in specific directions. We then made some progress towards our challenge and we ended up finishing the figure 8.