Summer Learning Journey : found sounds

I have been busy today because it is New Years Eve! but I did get to do this one it is the challenge - found sounds. It is where you make instruments by using things around the house to make an instrument. I made 4 shakers. I will tell you what is in them, paper in one, cardboard in one, beads in one, and sunflower seeds in one. I did a video to show you.  

https://watch.screencastify.com/v/l803zhRewKEkichzf8u7

Have you tried making instruments?

 

Summer Learning Journey: stick people

 This challenge was to draw stick people and then take a photo and label all the things there doing. The things I found hard was 

1.) taking a photo

2.) thing of thing they could be doing

3.) drawing somethings like  hopping, drawing, reading 

here is the photo so you can see what I mean.

If you choose to do this task I wonder what actions you will choose?

Summer Learning Journey : Summer is...

 Today I did a google drawing about summer you had to get a google image and then write 5 words about it so I did that and here is mine-

Do you like it ? it is really fun and easy so you could try to do it. oh here are my 3 top tips

1.) Put the word colour so you can see the words

2.) Get word that describe summer

3.) Try to get a clear background

Summer learning Journey : fingerprints

I am doing the Nanogirl's fingerprint challenge. We have to take a photo of your fingerprint and share it on your blog. There are three types of fingerprints loop, arch and whorl.

My hands were too clean so it was hard  to get a good fingerprint. I dipped my finger in baking soda but as you can see you can't see a pattern because it just looks like a big blob. 

After that I tried to rub my fingers together to get them a little bit sweaty and that worked better I have uploaded both photos so you can see the difference between them.

Mine looks like arch but then it also looks a bit like loop what do you think?

This is the baking soda one

This is the sweaty fingers one!

Summer Learning Journey : Kennings

I have been learning about Kennings poems. I did have a video to show you some of my Kennings but it wasn't working so I will make a google drawing and put it on my post instead

 

Summer learning Journey: make something that fly's

 This time I had to make something that could fly. I made a kite and here are my 3 top tips -

1.) Do not put a tail heavy tail on the kite because them it will not fly

2.) Put some string on the back so you can direct it well it fly's 

3.) Just have fun with it 

it is really easy to make and when it is done it is really fun. I will show you mine now here it is -

Do you like the bit that says summer because I do. you try to make one and Remember my 3 top tips.

Summer learning Journey : geometree

 This  week for the summer learning Journey  I made a geometree.It was really fun and a little hard to make but I made it. I didn't know that I would be able to do it. I really liked the Idea I don't think mine turn out how it was supposed to though  but I am still proud of it. I want to show you it. Here it is-

Do you think you could do it? I think so. Have a go it's fun trust me.

Summer learning Journey : Christmas decoration

 With the summer learning Journey you could make a Christmas decoration. I made a decoration about an elf on the shelf because I have one and I want to show that I love it .The decoration is supposed to hag on the tree or maybe on a window or a door if you do not have a tree. So here is my decoration -

 Do you have an Elf on the shelf ? If so what is it's name ? hope you liked my decoration. 

Summer Learning Journey. E hia ngā mea?

E hia ngā mea?

This week I am doing something for the summer learning journey. The create I did is counting in māori  so you had to do something like this- It goes clockwise from tahi.

Did you like it? If so you could maybe try something like it. Thanks for looking at my post come back for more.

Christmas around the world

 This week at school we have been leaning about Christmas around the world and all the different cultures it has been very interesting so we made a create about it and I would like to show you it so here you go-

letter to wendy McDonald

for my create task this week is we get to  pick from lots of different things here is one of them I have to write a letter to the author who is Wendy McDonald. So here it is.

Google drawing of great sentences

Over the past few week's we have been learning about descriptive sentences and today we were told to make a google drawing about it so here is my one - 

 

math mat place value

 Hi,I have made this math's mat with place value. So I hope you like it.

 Hello this week I had to make a math's mat with place value .So here it is I hope you like it.

have you done place value before?

Noah's panic

Hi, I have been writing a story like Noah's ark. Here it is:

One sunny day when the sun was bright and the sky was blue, Noah heard a huge crash from the lower level of the ark. He sprinted as fast as he could down the stairs eager to see what had happened. When he reached the bottom of the stairs he saw the elephants looking scared and the tiger looking sheepishly at him. “What happened?” shouted Noah. He could see the huge tusk of the elephant stuck in the side of the boat and water was rushing in. He suddenly knew what had happened, the tiger must have escaped from his pen and chased the elephant into the side of the boat.

Noah had no time to explain to the animals, he rounded them up as fast as he could and pushed them up to the top level. The boat started shaking as it filled with water. There was chaos in the ark. Every animal was scared. As the boat started filling up it started sinking and the animals ran to the edge. Just then it started to rain. 

“Oh no! This is not good”, said Noah. Then the animals started to fall off the boat. Off went the frog, zebra, goat, cheetah and the wombat and it looked like the tiger was next. Luckily, Noah could see an island in the distance, so he called out and told the animals in the water to start swimming. They swam and swam until they finally reached the island. The other animals and Noah got the planks from the arc and made a raft from the planks and bits of seaweed poking up from the water and sailed there safe and sound.

The end.

Have you heard about Noah’s ark?

Reading week 7. Fungus

Hello, I have been leaning about fungus this week, it is a bit yuck but interesting. Here is my poster.

Have you seen any of these in the forest?

 This week in reading I have been writing questions about this book the day we got a dog so it is here

 This week in lockdown I have been writing about pangolin's here it is -Pangolin’s are sometimes known as scaly/spikey anteaters.They are insectivorous which means they eat ants,termites and maybe some other insects. They are the only mammals that are fully covered in scales.Pangolins are sometimes mistaken as reptiles, but they are actually scaly mammals. When in danger they can roll into a ball. 

They are nocturnal which means they sleep in the day and come out at night. They are like hedgehogs because they have lots of things alike like - they are nocturnal, they have spikes/scales and they eat insects. One of the Pangolin’s THREATS are they are hunted for their scales/spikes and meat.

In June 2020 china made the size of protection for the natvie chinese pangolin bigger. Up to 200,000 are taken from the wild every year in Africa and Asia.there are 8 pangolin species in the world 4 are in Africa and 4 are in Asia all are under threat and all protected from trade. 

Some companies are trying to stop people selling wild pangolin at the 2 biggest markets like China and Vietnam.

Save the bees!

This week I have been learning about honey bees and how important they are and how are can help them survive. I hope you like my brochure.

Can you plant some flowers and plants and trees at your home or school to help the bees? 

Persuasive writing. Why I should be allowed a pet echidna.

This week for writing I have been doing persuasive writing about echidna's here is my work:

I think I should get a pet echidna. These are my reasons why.

Firstly, I should be allowed to get echidna because it would keep the house clean.  If I got a echidna it could eat all the bugs that got into the house like ants, spiders, grasshoppers. This is a good thing because it would stop the spiders making webs in the house and the house would not be full of bugs. Secondly, an echidna could eat all the food scraps and this would stop food waste and I wouldn't have to spend as much money on food for it.

Another one of my reasons is for company. If I got a echidna I would play with it in the backyard and at the park. If I was lonely it would cheer me up. I would let it sleep on my bed and on my lap. I would cuddle it every day and this would stop me getting bored and bothering my parents all the time.

Another one of my reasons is responsibility. I feel that it would teach me responsibility by looking after it. I would take it to the vet and all the other stuff it will need. I would clean up after it and all the things it eats.

Therefore in conclusion, having a pet echidna would keep the house clean, it would  keep me company and it would teach me responsibility to look after it. These are the reasons why I should have a pet echidna.

Do you think I should be allowed a pet echidna?

All about me

 Hi I am Emilie have made a poster all about me in cybersmart. 

I hope you like reading it. 

I have a question do you like reading? If you do I do too.

A balancing act

 I tried stacking cups because I didn't have any rocks or pebbles. We are going to go to a beach with flat stones but it is after the summer learning journey so I won't be able to write about it. 

The pyramid shape was the sturdiest and it was 6 cups wide and 6 high. I tried stacking like a tower and I got it 8 cups but I didn't get a photo of that and my kitten knocked it down. Here are my photos. 

Step up camping hacks

This is my duper duper solar swatter invention.

It has a solar panel that charges it up, then you push a button and it starts spinning and swatting. You put it at the front of your tent or you could buy 4 and put them all around the tent. They squash the bugs so they do not come in to your tent and bite or sting you.

I do not like sandflies or mosquitoes. 

Here is my photo.

Camping checklist

 Things that you might need if you go camping 🏕 

1. Sun screen 🌞

2. Toiletpaper🧻

3. Soap🧼🧽

4. Food🍳🍲🌭

5. Sleeping bags 🛏

6. Pillows 💤

7. Mini smoker or bbq🔥🥓🥩🍗

8. Airbed🛌

9. Tent ⛺

10. Clothes 🧥🧦👗👗

11. Torch 🔦 

12 .first aid kit 🩹💊🩺

13. Good walking shoes 👞 

14. Reef shoes🐡🌊

15. Togs🩱👙

16. Hat👒

17.Rain jacket🌧

18. Chlli bin 🧊🧊

19. Blanket 🧺

20. Bowls cups plates cutlery 🥣 🍽🍴🥄

21. Matches for campfire 🔥

22. Marshmellows🍡

23. Bug repellant 🦟

I have never been camping before but I would like to. I have been in two campervan trips before and I loved it.  We found this park called Orton Bradley park it is a good place to camp if we ever buy a tent we want to camp there. If you have a tent you should go there it is really cool. It is where I built my dam I've got a blog about it.

Favorite summer foods

This is a college of some of my favorite foods 🍕🍳🍗🍨

Pizza is yummy, tasty, mouth watering, cheesy and rich.

Raspberries are sweet ,sour, delicious.

Eggs are gooey, rich, yummy

Ice cream is cold, creamy

Making optical illusions

We visited the art gallery and tried to draw some optical illusions. It is a bit tricky. We decided to take optical illusion photos. It is a bit frustrating because you have to keep still or move left or right but it is fun. I planned to do an ice cream idea we saw online but the clouds were not fluffy enough or kept blowing away so I made this instead. What do you think of me drawing in the sky and my tiny sisters? This was fun

Outside the fudge cottage there were statues of birds. They were quite small about the size of a cat. I asked my dad to do an optical illusion for me. I layed on the ground far away and he was really close to the bird which made it look big and like it was eating me! 🦤🐦🦅

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Three interesting facts about Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

His father was a painter.

He started out making stain glass windows in churches.

He made is art look like a picture one way then also look like a new picture the other way around. 

My dad helped me with my vegetable and fruit art. We had to balance it carefully and take a picture quickly. It was my plan but he just helped me with balancing some of it. I made it both ways. Upside down it is a man with a beard and maybe headphones on. Do you like it? It was a lot of fun

Finding symmetry in nature

I found flowers leaves fruit and vegetables in my backyard. They are all symmetrical. Some straight through the middle  and some are symmetrical in lots of ways. I chopped a cherry tomato in half and it was perfectly symmetrical even the seeds and it kind of looked like a dogs face inside. When I chopped a yellow cherry tomato in half long ways it was not symmetrical inside. It might have been if I chopped it the other way.

I found an orange flower that is symmetrical more than 8 ways.

I tried to make a symmetrical flower arrangement of some of the things I used. It was almost symmetrical but some parts were a bit wonky.

These were symmetrical:

This first picture was the green tomato that was symmetrical in the inside when cut open. It looks like a face. The yellow one was not because I cut it long ways.

Here are the lines I did in Google drawings

 and my arrangement

My Summer Sounds Poem

 

Summer learning journey building a dam

My family and I went to Orton Bradley park. There was a playground. Me and my sisters played floor is lava and went on the flying fox.  Then I said can we go down to stream and build a dam and  my mum and dad said yes.  I used rocks and sticks . My  sisters helped too .We put big rocks on the bottom and squeezed little rocks in the gaps .We managed to slow down awater but not stop it . Beavers build a dam to make a pond to keep them safe from predators.  All the family helps to build it. Here are some photos. 

Summer collage

This is my summer collage. I picked these photos because they remind me of what I did in the summer. I picked these words  because they make me happy. I did it on my mums phone because I don't have a chromebook yet and google draw wasn't working well on the tablet.

Paper boat

Here is my paper boat. It was a bit tricky to make. I had to try a couple a couple of times and mum had to help a bit but in the end I did it.  It floated for a little while. A tip is to make it out of cardboard so it floats for longer because I made mine out if thin paper and it got soggy quickly.