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.

Insect art

This is my insect art creation. It is a beetle made of sticks and leaves from my garden and the hot glue gun too. It was fun to make. I liked watching the youtube video about nature art. I made it by myself.

Making paper stars

 I tried to make paper stars. It was hard. I need to practice more. It would be easier with longer paper. My tip is to use longer paper and don't use cardboard and practice a lot. If you had lots of different colours you could make a chain of them and hang them across your wall.

My kitten oscar

My kitten Oscar is 9 weeks old. I got 3 days after Christmas. He likes sleeping, watching t.v, playing with me and eating.  He chewed off 2 bells on his favorite toy and he nibbles my fingers. He has a squeaky meow.

The other night I was in my bed asleep and he came into my bed and woke me up and I snuggled him for a little while and then gave him to mum and dad and went to bed.

Oscar is grey, and very fluffy with green eyes. He wears a blue collar with white polka dots and a bell on it. Its good he has a bell because we can hear him wherever he goes.

The people we got him from put a black collar on him but we changed it. When we went to pick him up I was wearing my reindeer headband and when he saw me he was hissing and all fur puffed up and he was scared and mum told me to take off my headband in case he was scared of it and when I did he stopped hissing. He thought I was a dog with the headband on.

He liked the car ride home.

I think he is very cute, and I love him. I love having a pet I haven't had one for three years. 

When I was holding him in this photo I did not know he was poking his tongue out.