Winter Learning Journey ~ Day 2

Day #2: New Zealand by Land and Sea

After a short ride through Auckland it is time to start exploring the rest of the country. Today you are going to venture around the north island of New Zealand to look at active volcanoes, gorgeous beaches, windswept coastline and lush, green bush. As a group, you will start at Rangitoto, the largest volcano in New Zealand before driving west to Karekare, a stunning beach on the outskirts of Auckland. You will finish the day by driving north to visit Tane Mahuta, the oldest living kauri tree in New Zealand.

 

Activity 1: After a very busy day of sightseeing you and your group drive from Tane Mahuta to your hotel in Dargaville. When you arrive you decide to sit down and record your thoughts in your travel diary.

 

 

Before you start writing, take a minute to read more about Rangitoto island, Karekare beach and Tane Mahuta.  On your blog, tell us which of the three places you most enjoyed visiting and why.  

I think Rangitoto Island is or would be more funner and more cooler because there are many variety of activities and things you could do there including swimming climbing and other and also I love that it's in Ireland pretty much well I think it's an island yeah I think it is also It looks quite beautiful then the other ones, the other ones are pretty cool too but this one I would more prefer.

Activity 2: As an island nation, New Zealand is completely surrounded by water. It is the perfect place for people who like to swim or to sail! While in Dargaville, recovering from your busy day of sightseeing, you notice a number sailboats going by. One of the boats is manned by a young German girl named Laura Dekker. At the age of fourteen she sailed around the world the entire world by herself. You can watch a short video clip about her adventures here: Laura Dekker sailing trip.   

Let’s imagine that you had the chance to interview Laura while in Dargaville. On your blog post five questions that you would ask her.

1. What made you want to Sail?
2. What is your favourite thing about Sailing?
3. What was your favourite country you sailed to?
4. How long did it take you to Become such a great sailor?
5. Lastly, If you could meet any Professional Sailor in the world who would it be?

Bonus Activity: When you finish your interview with Laura, you decide to keep on interviewing people. For this activity, your task is to conduct a real interview with an actual member of your family. Please ask them to think about their five (5) favourite things to do in the out-of-doors. They can be things that they enjoy doing on land or in the water. Post the list of outdoor activities on your blog.

Sister

1.  Swimming
2.  Walking
3.  Sports
4.  Playing with friends
5. Random

Mum

1. Swimming
2. Having a Spa
3. Walking
4. Go karting
5. Driving

Bonus Activity: 10 points

I am so sorry if there is mistakes and edit difficulties.

Winter Learning Journey ~ Day 1

Day 1: 100% PURE New Zealand  

Well, the time has now come! School’s out for the holidays and your tour of New Zealand is about to begin. I hope that you are ready and excited! Curious Kiwi certainly is – he can’t wait to start the Great Kiwi Road Trip! Before you all hit the road, let’s take a minute to review some key facts about New Zealand.

Activity 1:  Go to the Tourism New Zealand website and click on the ‘Facts - New Zealand People’ tab. Read about the people of New Zealand and then choose three interesting facts to post on your blog. The facts must be written in your own words. Do not simply copy and paste the facts from the website☺.

Facts

1. First Fact, Us New Zealander are usually called Kiwi’s - New Zealand People Fact
2. New Zealand is quite a small country, it is actually similar to Japan, or Great Britain - Fact
3. New Zealand was a very loud place, or would of been a loud place, before humans came and settled in - New Zealand Animals Fact
4. When us People came, Birds were hunted down including predators.                 - Animals Fact
5. As, everyone knows, Maoris were the first people to find this beautiful piece of land. History Fact
6. Over the many years New Zealand has been a human country, there have be many different people from different countries,Europe,Asian,Islanders in other word polynesian and many more - Fact
7. New Zealand is a beautiful place filled with Theme Parks, waterparks, Parks in general, Beaches, and Other
8. Very Last one, New Zealand is a proud country of the All blacks which they have one 2 - 3 ( Sorry I forgot ) world cups

  

Activity 2: Your tour of New Zealand is going to start right here in Auckland. Watch the Tourist video for Auckland to learn about the awesome things that you can see and do in the city. Once you’ve finished, choose your favourite five activities from the video and list them on your blog.   

1. Elliott Stables
2. Rainbow end
3. Auckland domain
4. AUCKLAND ZOO YESSSS Sorry Auckland Zoo
5. Sky tower

Bonus Activity: Now it’s time to start your tour! Curious Kiwi decides to start by taking you on a short tour through downtown Auckland. You stop at the Sky Tower, the tallest building in all of New Zealand. When you look up, you see a huge New Zealand flag on the top of the tower. This flag was created back in 1902. That makes the New Zealand flag 115 years old!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand#/media/File:Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg

Last year, the Prime Minister of New Zealand suggested that we should replace the flag with a new, updated design. He invited everyone in New Zealand to come up with their own flag design and submit it.

For this activity, it is your turn to design a new flag. Use any drawing programme that you wish.  Once you have finished, post a copy of your design on your blog. Describe the flag, in words, below the picture. Be sure to tell us what is on the flag and what inspired your design.   

This is my flag I have created, I decided to start from scratch and make it one a google drawing. Here I have the flag I have created, I wanted it to stay similar to the one we have already, so I stuck with Blue Background, The Union Jack, and the 4 stars. The changes I have added it the start are not Just red and also Photos in the stars, Oh and the words We are one in the middle. Anyways the Brown Star represents our Beautiful Country, the Black one means to never stop asking why, the white one means to love one another and lastly the last one means to stick together. Oh and the reason why I have done different shapes and color for the stars is because it means we come in different shapes and colours pretty much.

The text is pretty self explanatory!!

Bonus Activity = 8 points

I am so sorry if there is mistakes and edit difficulties.

My Maze Game

 In the context of Sustainability I have designed and produce a Maze Game for 10 - 14 year olds to be used to for picking up rubbish and then putting it in the Bin/Finish Line.

My Maze Game is able to work as the Character ( Sprite ) is able to navigate though the maze to the rubbish bin

P.E ~ Netball

Today, on Monday the 8th of May 2017 My class and I went to have P.E on the court as soon as we got to the Netball courts we had a brief strength and then we had a small talk about the rules. Next we all got in to teams for the first game I was a sub, but soon we swapped over for the next 6 minutes.

Today I learnt a lot of thing like how to pass, defend and heaps more also I learnt a little bit on how to coach a GAME.

   

Glenbrae Kids Visit

On Monday the 28 of March 2017 Room 7 visited Glenbrae Kids when we got their we sang our Maori song, Toro Mai. After that we all got ourselves a partner and then we played on the park. Then we played with the bamboo instrument and we sounded fantastic. 

Then my partner and I played in the sand-pit for a while and built some cool sandcastles. Next we went inside for a bit to play dress ups I was wear a blue blanket, a witch hat, a pink and white scarf and lastly a hanky to finish the beautiful look off. 

Lastly we played with some play doh and it was time to say good bye I hugged some children and said my good byes. Then we went outside, lined up and left to go back to our classes.

Context Brainstorm - Maze Game about Sustainability

This is a context brainstorm is about a maze game that I am going to create about sustainability.

The brainstorm tells me what sustainability means, The brainstorm also tells me what i should include in my maze game.

My Maze Game

Today I created a Maze Game.
I learnt to use direction commands, create backdrops and resize sprites