Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 1 Activity 1

This week we started on our first activity for week 1. For this activity we had to list 10 foods that we would choose to take on a ocean voyage. I picked food that wouldn't need to be refrigerated, this was quite hard as most of these foods are not really tasty to people.

Activity 8: When the Rubber Hits the Road

Karlos - I have accomplished being confident while speaking in a crowd. I feel like this is a great achievement because now I can talk without feeling nervous

Jayden - I have accomplished getting better at tennis by the years. I think this a good achievement because I think I can become a professional tennis. 

Giovanni - Winning a reward in the First New Zealand Lego League Competition. This was a great accomplishment for me because it was my first time experiencing.

For the 8th activity we had for the task today was to learn about 3 people's accomplishments. Something I found interesting was Jayden getting better at Tennis and wanting to become a professional tennis player.  

Summer Learning Journey : Week 1 Day 2 Activity 2

For this activity, please think about this issue of the gender pay gap carefully. It is quite controversial (some people agree with it and some people disagree with it).
On your blog, tell us what you think. Is it fair? Why or why not? Be sure to explain exactly why you feel the way that you do.

I think that the gender wage gap (at least in sports) is false, the amount of money that a sport receives is based on the attention that it gathers. Football is the most watched sport in the world, and therefor, its players will earn more money than players of rugby. You might say that it's sexist for women to be paid less than their male counterparts but I say that it's just the factor of attention. The main reason why females are paid less than men is because they're weaker. Men are genetically stronger than women, and that's why whenever a transgender man joins a female league, they'd dominate the competition. Tell me, when the male and female rugby world cups were on; which match lineups would you pay more attention to? What team would you care more about? The reason for male sports being more popular is due to their strength, in a sport like rugby it's far more entertaining to see huge guys crash into each other, than it is to watch smaller women do the same thing.

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

Today we started on the teaser task for the summer learning journey. The first activity was based about lorde. I needed to research about lorde and list 5 facts about her. The topic of this year summer learning journey is about change makers.

Kiwi Sport

This week for Kiwi Sport we played Ki o Rahi, in order to play this game you need to be in 2 teams, 1 teams is called Taniwha. Taniwha is the attack team, they have to throw the ball against the defending team. The defending team would block the Taniwha from getting a goal.

Maths / Problem

During this week for maths, there was a challenge. A challenge that required 4 people in a group each, Jayden, Sela, Giovanni, Angela and I worked as a group. First off, we had a budget of $200, we had to use that $200 to survive a whole week with food. This was kinda of difficult because we had to feed each person in our group.

Tennis

This week we had another session of Tennis. Before we got into the actual practice, we were given a warm up to stretch our arms and legs. After the warm up game, he taught us a skill called (volley). It is when you strike the ball before it bounces towards the ground.

Market Day

This term PBS planned a market day, each class made their own products. Those products would be sold at school. The currency was tokens, to get tokens you would have to exchange real currency. Our class (LS2) used wasted crayons to create Rainbow Crayons. They were formed as a Butterfly. Most classes were selling plants, Room 1 plants sold extremely fast. After the market day, we came back with $96 dollars. We also spended $6 dollars on plastic bags, so the total amount of our earning was $88 dollars.

Atheletics

This week on Wednesday we had athletics day. I qualified for 100m Sprints and 400m Sprints. During athletics, wearing shoes were a requirement which was a huge disadvantage, because I couldn't go to my fullest limit. In 100m sprints I came 4th place, and for 400m sprints I either came 3rd of fourth.

William Shakespeare

On friday we were visited by the pop-up globe workers. They gave us information about william shakespeare which was interesting. William Shakespeare would always try to make his sentence rhyme. William Shakespeare also did something called fourth wall, fourth wall is when the narrator includes the audience. One of Williams shakespeare acts called macbeth was extremely cursed. In William Shakespeare's tragedy acts, there is always a death. 

Thanks Giving

The Mayflower sailed out of Plymouth Harbour in England on September 6, 1620. The small sailing ship carried 102 pilgrims across the Atlantic ocean for 65 days to plimouth in the New World . They had religious freedom now but life was hard, as they had to build or  make everything they needed for survival from scratch. The winter made life hard and many people lost their lives, crops failed to grow and spirits were low. Some of the wampanoag tribe helped by giving advice and by bringing food. That next year the pilgrims harvest was much better. To celebrate they hunted for meat and turned many of their crops into delicious food,  and invited the wampanoag tribe to join them in a feast of thanksgiving.

The Mayflower sailed out of Plymouth Harbour in England on September 6, 1620. The small sailing ship carried 102 pilgrims across the Atlantic ocean for 65 days to plimouth in the New World . They had religious freedom now but life was hard, as they had to build or  make everything they needed for survival from scratch. The winter made life hard and many people lost their lives, crops failed to grow and spirits were low.

Photo by Jxson CC BY 2.0

A Journey with a Shoe Life

My mouth was wide open, only to be filled by a huge stinky socks. I liked my hair messy, until tied my owner tied it tight. I didn’t really like him because he kept getting gum, dirt and lots of things on my bottom. Everytime he kicked a ball, it would hurt my face especially my nose. When I got exhausted, he just kept getting stinkier. My owner was annoying, he was so fast he always got my hair untangled. Getting back home was a relief, I could just sit down and sleep. As my owner grabs me, he throws me to the garbage, as I was falling I saw another pair of flash shoe.

 This week for Writing, we were giving Objects inhumane quality (Personification). As for the object, we chose a shoe. Te Pounamu and I were paired up. This was also a challenge because we had to face back to back, no communication was allowed either. 

Greek Mythology

This week for reading, we had to choose a Horrible Histories book. When chosen, we read the whole book, then we made a DLO sharing the information we gathered. Te Pounamu and I chose the Groovy Greeks. Talking about the greeks had a number choice to choose from, the spartans, athens, trojan and Greek God. We chose to talk about the greek gods because it shared some interesting facts.

Transformation

 This tuesday math's was quite fun. For maths we have been learning about the different type of skills for Transformation. There 4 type of Transformation, rotation, translation, enlargement and reflection. As you can see this Presentation gives an example of all 4.

Food Print

Yesterday on Thursday we were visited by Michal Garvey, who was a friend of Mr Ogilvie. She is a small business owner who planned for 2 years, and has only opened her business recently for 6 months. Her business is based on Food Waste, 1/3 of Foods that is produced is wasted every year (1.3 Billion). 

Tech / Wood Work

Today on friday we were continuing on with our wood work. I was working on a Skateboard, I was making it for my collection. I wasn't make that progress because the the measurements were incorrects and usually the line were not Straight, but eventually I finally did it. Next session I will try do better with my Measurements.

Current Events: Summarising The Main Ideas

This week for Current Events, our challenge was to search the internet, and find an article that we found interesting. With this information we then found keywords, 20 important words, 6 of those words that are most important, and then make a 5 sentence summary about the text. Once we had written our summaries the final challenge was to turn those 5 sentences into 5 10 syllables sentences. I worked with Alex, Joseph, and Karlos for this activity. This was an interesting challenge, and I enjoyed learning about this new found organism. If you would like to read the article I have linked it below.

Link To Article Here:

The ‘Blob’

Keywords from the title	Keywords from  Sub- Headings	New words I need to look up
Blob, Organism and Solve.	There are no sub-headings.	We didn’t find any words we didn’t know.

Write down 20 important words from the text	Blob, Organism, Solve, Yellowish, Scientists, Paris, Zoological, Park, Animal, Fungus, Memory, Maze, Form, Searched, Regenerate, Slime, Merge, Behaviour, Consumes and Researchers.
Chose the 6 most important words.	Blob, Researchers, Memory, Regenerate, Animal and Fungus.
Use your words to write a 5 sentence summary.	Researchers in Paris have discovered a blob. They aren’t sure if it’s an animal or a fungus. They don’t even know if it’s in between. It has a memory and can regenerate from being cut in half in two minutes. The Blob has such an interesting behaviour.

Now using the words you wrote down summarise the text in 5 sentences. Once you have done this turn each of your sentences into sentences with exactly 10 syllables.

People in Paris discovered a blob. - 10 syllables

Is the blob an animal or fungus. - 10 syllables

They don’t even know if it’s in between. - 10 syllables

With memory it can regenerate. - 10 syllables

The Blob has got such a weird behaviour. - 10 syllables

Water Filtes

 

This week and last week for inquiry LS2 was learning about water filters and how to make them, we needed to find out what water filters need to work and how we could put the filters together.  All of the groups used plastic bottles, sand, rocks and charcoal to try and dilute dirty water. Although none of the groups completely filtered the water, some of them managed to get lighter coloured water.

Rugby Advertisement

This week for writing, we were making Advertisement for Rugby. We had 2 choices, to either make a video or make a poster. We first planned to make a video, but as time sped up we chose to make a poster. We also chose to use a Rugby Ball as our advertisement. We tried to use some qualities that advertisement had so that it is really relatable. 

Rugby World Cup

This week out theme was about maths and our topic was about the Rugby World Cup. There were 7 challenges, most of them were quite difficult. After completing all the challenges, we choose one of those challenges and make a DLO about it. We chose the last challenge which the question was: If all the stadia are sold out each time then what will be the total number spectators for all the pool matches combined?