Stuff that I have not posted yet this year

 This is the Curious Fish animation.

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour! How are you? I hope you are doing amazing.

This year (2021) I have not posted some of my work, so I have made this slide show so I can still show the work I have created over the past year. There are different reasons why I have not posted this stuff this year already. It could be because I forgot, I didn't have time or other reasons. I have counted the things I have not posted and put them into the slide show. This was fun to do because I still got to show my work. This was difficult because I was trying to find things but it was manageable with the ones I found. 

Hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.M

Stick Figure Art - Animation - Picture

Kia Ora, Hello,Bonjour! How are you? Are you excited for next year (2022)? 

This is another SLJ (Summer Learning Journey) activity. It is called Stick Figure Fun. I was scrolling though the SLJ activity site, then I saw this activity and it looked quite fun. First, we had to draw stick figures on a piece of paper doing different things then take a picture using a phone or on your webcam on the Chromebook. I took the picture on my Chromebook. I drew stick figures waving, jumping, Swimming, Baking/Cooking, Basketball and Drawing. If you look closely at what the stick figure is drawing, you can see that it is also drawing a stick figure. After we did that we had to make a slide show of your animation about your stick figures activities. I choose to use the waving one, basketball one, jumping and Baking/Cooking. I enjoyed making this lots because I like doing art (     I am not that good at it though :)    ).

Making the slide show animation was a bit tricky but it was still fun. You should try this out. 

Hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.M

How to make a boat - Summer Learning Journey

This is a picture of the ship. 

Hello, Bonjour, Kia Ora. How are you? Hope you are amazing!

This is another Summer Learning Journey activity. This is the second Nanogirl challenge. We had to try and make a ship/something that floats. I watched the other video that Nanogirl recommend us to watch as well and it helped a lot with the sail/flag. I did not know how to do it but now I know. You get a piece of paper and fold it but not press hard down on it and make a hole through each side with a pencil/pen or scissors (Have adult supervision). I enjoyed this activity a lot because I like to make different things in my spare time. This activity taught me a lot because it was a bit windy so the pencil and paper kept on not sticking but I managed to do it. 

Hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.M

Learn a MAGIC TRICK by watching this video!

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour! How are you? Hope you're doing amazing during the summer or winter break. (depending on where you live). 

This is a Summer Learning Journey activity for the 16th of December even though I am doing it on the 17th. I was so excited to see this on the Summer Learning Journey blog because magic looks so interesting to learn. I did the step it up activity. We had to watch an instructions video on what to do with this slide that we got to put our video in. Then it said that we have to watch this video of someone teaching us magic card tricks. There were three in total and we got to pick one. I choose to do the one that she explains in the middle. I choose it because I didn't want to get salt or crumbs everywhere and the other trick looked like it was going to take too long to record a video to teach. I used Screencastify to record my video and the limit amount on filming time is five/5 minutes. I enjoyed this activity so much because I showed my family and they were confused. This was difficult because I couldn't remember what side was supposed to be flipped on. The right or left side.

I hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.M

Here is the slide:

Here is the video if you can't access it on the slide:

Summer Learning Journey - Day 1 activity - Ring Glider

This is the first video to watch. 

This is the second video to watch.

Kia Ora, Bonjour Hello! How are you? Hope you are doing amazing.

This is the first Summer Learning Journey activity. This activity was actually for yesterday but I didn't finish it. I tried making a ring glider yesterday with goose paper (spare paper) so I can know how to do it without wasting expensive paper. The two colours I choose to do were yellow and orange because it reminded me of summer! I choose to do a ring glider because I have never made one before and it looked interesting to make. Today I decided to make a video, teaching other people how to make a ring glider. I found out that if you point the little ring first and the big ring behind then it goes faster than the other way. I enjoyed this activity a lot because I go to make something that can fly out of Paper and we also got to make a video teaching others. This was difficult because I was using Screencastify instead of We video. Screencastify had a limit of 5 minutes recording so that is why I have two videos. 

I hope this video and blog post can teach you how to make something you didn't know existed. (I know I sure did!)

I hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.M

Day 1/activity 1 (What we would take on a three day trip) Day2/activity 2 (About ourselfs and our culture)

Kia Ora, Bonjour and Hello. How are you hope you are amazing. 

This blog post is a summer learning Journey activity. We did this yesterday but I didn't realize that we had to post it on our blog. We had to think about the food that we would take with us on a three-week trip in a canoe. Takutai came to our class because Takutai was learning how to blog post. We registered a buddy that we choose and I choose Alyssa. I enjoyed this because it was fun to think about the food we can bring. This was difficult because we had to think about what could actually last in three weeks. 

Hope you enjoyed :) 

Today we have done another Summer Learning Journey activity. Takutai came to our class again today. Before we did the activity we had to choose our buddies and Miss Farr (our teacher) explained the activity we were doing today. The buddy I choose was Asha. We decided to right our cultures on google slides, she had her own slide and I had my own as well. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to learn that my last name actually comes from Scotland. This was difficult because I couldn't find that many pictures of my family.

Hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.

Key word hunt - Fly me up

 

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour everyone. How has your day been? Hope it has been good.

This is another Diwali (said like Divali) activity. We had to read an article about this girl called Tiffany and about the art that brings people together. It is called fly me up. This activity is to help us with summarising and make us be better at understanding the text. We had to write what was said in the article in order with our own words. Then we had to think of keywords and phrases. Then we had to use those keywords and phrases to make a brief summary. I enjoyed this activity because it feels like it has helped me to understand the article a bit more. This was difficult because it took a little while. I decided to put a picture her because this work is basically about her and her heroic act.

Hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn

Rangoli Patterns

 

https://sketch.io/sketchpad/

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour! How has your day been? Hope it has been good.

In class, we are going to be doing the Christmas concert/dance about Diwali (Said like Divali). Miss Farr (our teacher) decided that we could learn about Diwali. I have enjoyed this so far because I am learning lots and lots of stuff about Diwali. I have seen a rangoli on TV before but I never knew what it was called and the meaning of it. We had to draw and create a rangoli pattern in our maths books, then on google drawing after that, on a drawing site. I enjoyed making this because it was so much fun thinking of and drawing rangolis. The drawing site/game was probably the most fun because there is a drawing tool that can make it easy for it to be the same shape everywhere, it is called the mirror brush. This is was difficult because it was hard to get it symmetrical in my maths book but with the squares, it was a little bit easier.

By Katelyn.M 

Hope you enjoyed :)

Diwali vs Matariki

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour. How has your day been? Hope it has been amazing!

Recently in class, we have been researching about Diwali (said like Divali). This is another activity, compare and contrast. One side is where we put all of the information about Diwali, on the other side is where all the information about Matariki is and in the middle is where we put the information that is the same on both celebrations. I got the information from the links at the bottom of this blog post. This was enjoyable because it was very easy for me to learn more stuff about Diwali and Matariki. This was difficult because it was kind of hard to find more facts about Matariki, there was a lot about Diwali.

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Matariki video - English

Diwali Video - English

Diwali Article

Diwali Article 2

Diwali Article 3

https://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/kids/index.php/2016/06/14/matariki-what-is-it-all-about/#:~:text=Matariki,%20the%20M%C4%81ori%20New%20Year,and%20starting%20a%20new%20year.&text=The%20full%20moon%20was%20celebrated,making%20the%20start%20of%20Matariki.

Matariki Article 2

Diwali brainstorm

 

Kia Ora, hello, bonjour.

Lately in class, we have been researching about Diwali (it is said like Divali) because we are going to do the Christmas concert about Diwali. This is a brainstorm about what we know about Diwali so far. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to put all my ideas about Diwali on my Chromebook. I am excited to look back at this after learning more about Diwali and find out all of the stuff I have learned. This was difficult because I put too much of the text boxes so I had to get rid of some. I did this activity a few days ago but I keep on forgetting to post it on my blog.
I hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn.M

Palindromes Poem

Unicorns

Fluffy and pretty

Powers with horn

Amazing

horn with powers

Unicorns

This is a palindrome poem. These poems are when you write something in a poem style but it is backwards with the wording. I decided to make a palindrome poem about unicorns because they are my favourite animal. I enjoyed making this poem because I like how I did it and how it turned out. This was difficult because it still needed to make sense both ways. 

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Quatrain Poems

In libraries there are books
You can get out or return
There are so many things to out-look
Bookworm is what you can turn

The butterfly
Fly through the sky
Its wings spread
Then the caterpillar will try

I like fries
They're much better than guys
Fries are nice and crispy
But guys are too talkie

Calendar art galore
Pencils and Pens
Paper and card
The summer begins

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello everyone! How is your day?

In class, we have recently been learning how to make different kinds of poems. This is a quatrain. The key thing to make it a quatrain is to have it rhyme in different kinds of patterns. It is usually four lines. My favourite poem is probably the library poem. I enjoyed this activity because it was really fun to make poems because I like the way it sounds when it rhymes. This was difficult because I could not think of words that rhyme. 

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Limerick Poems

There once was a unicorn
She was always scared of corn
Magic Powers that she do
She did a colourful poo
She had clothes that she outworn

There once was a girl named Elise
Her friends Dad is a police
She loves to draw lots of cats
Once she has seen rats
She sometimes and usually says please

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour everyone! How is your day?
Recently we have been learning how to write different kinds of poems. This is a limerick. A limerick has 5 lines. The pattern of what words ryhme is AABBA. Which means that the two top lines and the bottom line rhyme and the third and fourth lines rhyme. I enjoyed making these two poems because it is really fun in general. It was hard to try and think of things that can rhyme though. Soe of the sentences don't really make that much sense, but it rhymes.

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Calendar Art

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello Everyone! How has your day been?
Every year we make a calendar art of a different kind of style. If you don't know what calendar art is, it is a piece of artwork that every class does if your school does it. Each class makes different kinds of art. This year Miss Farr (our teacher) has decided to take a picture of us pretending that we are thinking of something. Miss Farr said that we should draw a picture of our favourite place that is anywhere in the world. I choose to do Raglan. Raglan is a beach that is great for surfing. We didn't go surfing there, we did do boogie boarding. It was always so much fun. We had to put our name and 2022 because that is next year and these calendars are for next year. I am really proud of the bubble writing I did of the words. I enjoyed making this artwork because I think that it's so cool and I am proud of the whole thing. This was difficult because when we were planning on what our favourite place is, I could not remember what it was called. I asked my Mum and then she said Raglan.

I hope you enjoyed :)

By Katelyn

Transformations

 

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour. How has your day been?
Miss Farr (our teacher) showed us this video and tasks to do bout this particular maths task. We are learning about transformations. A transformation is changing something into something else. The transformation part is rotation, reflection and translation. We had to make a slide for these three transformations. We had to find three logos of a company or something else that has a logo. We had to explain the logos about what they are and how it relates to rotation, reflection and translation. After we did that, we had to make a logo for ourselves and the class. I made it on this drawing app on my Chromebook then took a screenshot and now posting it on my blog. The logo that represents me is 5 unicorn horns. And the one that represents Whenua (our class) is a mountain and a river across it. I choose to do that because Whenua in Māori means land. The picture that represents me is rotation because they are all the same. The one that represents Whenua is a mirror image, the green part (mountain) is the same from top to bottom and the river is the same if you flip it so standing up. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to make my own logos. This was difficult because it was hard to find logos that have either rotation, reflection and Translation.

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Cleirhew Poem

Katelyn
Her Dad loves bacon
She was born on Thursday
She wears hearing aids.

Little red riding hood
Her Mum sent her with a basket because she could
She wore a red jumper
To visit her Grandmother.

The three little pigs
Their names were youngest pig, middle pig and oldest pig
They have twisted tails
Going on trails.

Garfield
He doesn't like running on fields
Lasagna is his favourite food to eat
He has ginger feet.

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello Everyone!!! I hope your day has been going great, amazing, fantastic, wonderful, splendid and magnificent. 
In class, we have recently been learning how to make different types of poems. This poem is called a Cleirhew poem. This poem is a poem that has two lines at the start that rhyme and the bottom two lines that rhyme. Miss Farr (our teacher) said that we have to make four poems. One about ourselves and three about made-up characters. I choose to do little red riding hood, The three little pigs and Garfields. I choose Garfield because when I was little I watched Garfield all the time. I enjoyed this because it was fun to make it rhyme. This was difficult I could not think of anything that rhymes with Katelyn, I finally thought of bacon after a while. I kept on wanting to write woods for the little red riding hood but that does not rhyme because of the s.

I hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Epitaph Poem

Here lies a man named Garry Bositions

He always spills positions

He's really smart 

Until he does a great big fart

Here lies a man named Borey

He went to a stream and was swimming

He found a fish named Corey

He realized he was underground dreaming

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour. I hope your day is amazing!
We have recently been learning how to make different kinds of poems. This is an epitaph poem. It is a poem that is usually serious for people's gravestones. Miss Farr said that we were going to make funny epitaphs. I am not sure if the poems I made were funny or not, I tried to make them funny. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to make the poems in general. This was difficult because it was hard to think of funny words that rhyme. 

I hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Acrostic Poem

One Word UNICORN POEM

Unique

aNonymous

Incredible

Cute

pOwers

hoRns

aNimal

Sparkles

Best friends around

I get cake

Ready to party

Today is someone's birthday

Happy birthday song

Do fun party games

Awaiting for guests

Yummy cake

Kia Ora, Hello, Bonjour. How has your day been? Hope it is going well.
For the rest of term 3 this year, we are going to make different types of poems. This is an acrostic poem. It is when you choose a topic and choose different words that go with that topic word. You put the topic word down the page. I choose to do one of my poems about unicorns becuase I like them and my other poem is about birthdays, I choose thsi word because my birthday is coming up. I nejoyed making these poems a lot. It was fun to think of words and sentence's for unicorns and birthday. This was diffiuclt becuase sometimes I couldn't think of words for them.

I hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn

Paralympics - Lesson 9/10

 

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello everyone! Hope you are having an amazing day!

This is another Paralympics lesson. This is the last lesson for this whole Paralympic activity. First, we had to brainstorm ideas of what an ad tries to do and where you can find ads. Then we got to make an ad for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. It was really fun to make and I am really proud of myself. I enjoyed this because it was fun to make the video because I like to make videos and I do it a lot. This was difficult because it was hard to think of places where ads are because I could not really think of that much for it, but I still really enjoyed it.

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn.M

Paralympics - Lesson 8

 

Kia Ora, Bonjour, Hello Everyone! How has your day been?

This is another Paralympics lesson, this is lesson 8. First, we had to look at the medals that the athletes get for winning, we had to write 3 - 5 words that describe the medals. Then we had to read an article and watch a video about the medals. We had to answer questions and write one-two sentences. We had to read another article about the athlete's village. We had to make a brainstorm about the accessibility of the athlete's village. I enjoyed this activity because it was fun to answer the questions and make the brainstorm.

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn