Week 1, Day 1: In the beggining - SLJ

WEEK 1: A Place to Stand...

First of all I would like to say welcome back to this years summer learning journey. After
Joining this programme I finally realised that blogging can help you to extend your learning
and loads more. From me to you I extremely recommend everyone to blog in the holidays
and to enjoy it this 2018 - 2019 summer blogging. Enjoy it and start blogging!

DAY 1: In the Beginning…

Activity 1: The Legend of New Zealand [4 points]

According to Māori mythology, much of Aotearoa New Zealand was formed when
Māui, a powerful demigod, fished it out of the sea. In honour of this legend, the North
Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Ika a Māui or ‘Māui’s fish’ and
the South Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Waka a Māui or
‘Māui’s canoe’. To learn more cool facts about New Zealand, check out the
Tourism NZ website. Read the fun facts posted on the website and choose your
‘Top 3.’ On your blog, post your ‘Top 3 Fun Facts’ about NZ in your own words.

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For the first task of the week every blogger were given the task of reading the
Tourism NZ website to choose their top 3 fun facts they found on the website. Here
are my top 3 fun facts, Hope you enjoy!

1: In our country ( New Zealand ) we have a total of 30% forest here in Aotearoa / New
Zealand.

2: The most well known / popular films in New Zealand are ‘Once were Warriors’, ‘The
Whale Rider’, ‘The Piano’ and the ‘Lord of the Rings’( trilogy ).

3: In New Zealand we have the amount of 2.5 million cars for the right amount of 4 million
people, which makes New Zealand one of the countries to have the highest car ownership
rate in the whole entire world.

Activity 2: North and South [4 points]

The country of New Zealand is made up of two main islands – the North Island
and the South Island. There is about 77% of New Zealand population live in the North
Island. Many of these people (including our Summer Learning Journey design team)
live in Auckland city. Auckland is a great place to live with lots of amazing parks,
beautiful waterways and stunning scenery to enjoy. It is also a busy, vibrant city with
many cafes, museums, galleries and theatres to visit. I feel lucky to call Auckland
my ‘hometown.’

Now it is time to think about your hometown. What is special about where
you live? On your blog, describe your hometown. Be sure to include lots of
describing words (adjectives) in your post.

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For the 2nd activity we were told to do a task which was to write a description of
our hometown and how much it is special to you and your family.

The community I live around means so much to me and my family as we´ve
lived around Glen Innes for quite a long time. My hometown I live around is East
Auckland, Auckland is such a beautiful place to be going on walks, cruises in the
car and having little picnics. My favourite locations around East Auckland would have
to be walks on the beach ( mission bay. Etc ) visiting the museum, cruises through
the city, shopping and most of all eating at places like ( KFC, Mcdonalds,
Burger King. Etc ). The school I recently go to is Pt England I´ve been here for
over 6 years now and that's how much you know why this community is so special
to me. Pt England is such an amazing school as it's how we become better learners,
getting these incredible opportunities and spending time with friends and family.
Did you know that Pt England is part of 12 manaiakalani school clusters and is
supported by so many awesome workers/helpers. This is such an amazing
opportunity for you and your family as you would love the locations I have pointed
out and the work experiences we have all around Auckland. So If you´re ready to go
on a fantastic journey through Auckland, Experience the work opportunities than
feel free to come along and visit our awesome places around Auckland. Really
hope this helped you of visiting Auckland as it is a one of a kind place for me and family
members.
Enjoy Auckland!

Activity 3: Ice, Ice Baby [10 points]

Antarctica is the world’s coldest continent. Even though it is made up of ice, it
is also the driest continent in the world. In fact, it hasn’t rained there for nearly 2
million years! It is home to many animals such as whales, seals, birds, and fish.
There are no permanent human residents (people who live there all the time) in
Antarctica, however scientists do visit and stay in Antarctica for a while to study it.

This year the airline, Air New Zealand, filmed their safety video in Antarctica. They
used some fabulous actors from Hornby Primary School in Christchurch. Just like on
aeroplanes, we also need to keep safe and be smart online. We need to think about the
type of information we are sharing online, who we are sharing information with, and how
to have a positive digital footprint.

On your blog create a positive, digital footprint. What do you do to stay smart online?.

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For the final task of day 1 we were to create a positive footprint to help all those
people who are not being cybersmart online, so everyone who is struggling I
encourage you to be more cybersmart for the future and I really hope you enjoy!

Here are a few reasons why we should all be cybersmart online, not just at school but at home as well. Hope you enjoyed day 1´s post can´t wait to share more!

Have an awesome Christmas everyone!!!
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Task Description:
Kia Ora and welcome back to this years summer blogging. I am really excited to be getting back into the habit of blogging and enjoying it. For the first day of our task description we were to list down 3 facts about New Zealand, write a description about our hometown, where we live and how we feel about living here and finally we were to write a few reasons why we should all be cyber smart online and how it´ll help you in the future. I really hope you enjoy this years summer blogging and that you keep visiting for more. Enjoy the first post of week 1, Day 1:

How to prepare for the cross country:

How to prepare for the cross country:

Hinerangi

Introduction:

If you are looking for ways to prepare yourself for cross country, then you have
come to the right place. Cross country is a very hard event to complete as all your
doing is running. I am really confident that this will help you as there are so much
things you could do to prepare yourself.

Mentally prepare yourself:

Mentally preparing yourself is all about thinking positive and stop thinking negative,
for example. “Think strong”, “Give it your all” & “Focus on your running”. Mentally
preparing yourself is all about believing and thinking positive throughout the whole race.
Self talk is what most people do to get over there nerves and only focuses on the race,
self talk is mainly about the conversations you would have with yourself. Doing this
and it may help you a lot during your cross country performance.

What you should be eating:

Eating food with loads of sugar and fat in it can probably affect you when your running
as you can easily get stitches as well as tummy aches. The type of food/snacks you
should be eating are things like veggies, plenty of fruit and lots of meat. These types
of food are very healthy as it gives you lots of protein. I really recommend eating lots
of fruit, veggies and meat as it can help you heaps throughout your performance.

How much sleep you should be getting:

The amount of sleep everyone should be getting before the Cross Country event is
9-11 hours. Getting this much sleep will really help you to be more awaken then
having to be tired for the competition. If you didn’t know sleeping can help you as your
body is whats helping to support your brain/mind to be a more healthy and physical
health person for the next day. Sleeping also helps your development and growth.

Conclusion:

Overall, preparing for events like this can be quite a challenge. When it comes to
preparing for events like this means giving it your all, concentrating on the race and
have lots of fun. Getting to this part of the year event can require lots of training and
try your absolute very best, this is what most people focuses on when it comes to this
particular event. Make sure you keep trying your best and remember to never give
up but to prepare yourself very well. I really recommend you to mentally prepare
yourself, eat/drink the right type of food/drinks and to get the right amount of sleep
each night. Enjoy your Cross country race and do your very best.     

Robot Co-ordinate

In this post there are 2 robots heading somewhere to meet up. The R stands for Red and B stands for blue. As you can see in this co-ordinate the robots have a certain place to rotate around the square, as you can see right there. If you can probably already tell the robots have recently met up twice. This is my way of figuring out co-ordinates but without Mrs stone's help I wouldn't have figured out the 1'st one which was the, R3 & B3. As she helped me it really pushed me to figure out another one which turned out to be the R5 & B5 unfortunately after doing that one I couldn't find another way. By far I think doing square co-ordinates has gotten me really use to it and I am really looking forward to our next session of this!

Treasure Island Co-ordinates

What are the co-ordinates of these objects?

Write down what you can see at the co-ordinates given below:

1. (7,5) = Elephant
2. (9,5) = Island
3. (5,3) = Gate
4. (2,3) = Hill / Mountain
5. (7,1) = Tree
6. (3,3) = Tower
7. (4,2) = Brick Wall
8. (1,1) = Octopus

The words can be used in a special way to find the coordinates of the buried treasure.
Can you work out where it is? (X,Y). (EIGHT,TWO) or (x8,y2). Lighthouse

Extension: Could you give directions to the octopus so it can get to the elephant?

Go Up to (1,5) Across to (7,5) = Elephant (EIGHT,TWO) (x8,y2)

#2 Achieving A New Skill

For the past few weeks my group and I ( Bryana, Irene & Terry ) participated in a team 5 performance. My group and I performed a mixture of dances and had awesome fun. My group performed dances such as, an African dance, Hip Hop dance, Line Dance and a Fun/crazy dance. My group was so awesome as we worked together as an actual team and never gave up. Watching the other groups performed was absolutely incredible and very entertaining. The groups looked funky and had a very excellent attitude as they walked on and spoke as an introduction. I'd say we could've done better performing it but I still had a lot of fun doing it with my group. The challenging part about practicing was teaching Terry how to do the dance we learnt/created. Thank you to all the groups who performed and well done for not giving up, an also big thanks to all the teachers for making this happen and team 3 for coming and supporting us throughout the whole performances. I hope we do more of this in the future and that none gets hurt but has an amazing time. Thanks to everyone for supporting/cheering!      

Perfect Perimeter

How Bees Get Their Stripes

How bees get their stripes?

By: Hinerangi

A few years ago bees were known as fluffy, cuddly honey makers. Bees lived in a huge

wild castle where there lived dinosaurs and loads of brave creatures. Every one of them
loved to talk and make others laugh in many different ways. All the animals are very kind
to one another and loves to go out and hunt for plenty of delicious food.

One sunny and delightful day all the animals besides the bees had setted off on a very
crazy and unknown adventure. During that one specific day the bees had no idea the rest
of the animals had left as the animals sneaked out while they were sleeping. The bees were
very confident and excited about what they were going to do that day, they thought for 10
minutes and came up with a wicked idea, which was not surprising.

The bees played the whole day until they became tired, tired enough they’d fall asleep.
2 hours later. While time had past and hours came the bees were fast asleep in there beds,
they dreamed and dreamed for hours. Suddenly a huge bang which came from the
bedroom door slammed and had woken up all the bees. One of the bees were out of its
bed trying to come up with something to make them look cuter than they already are.

They all got out of there beds and peaked out the door to see what that bee was doing.
“What are you doing”? “I am creating something to make us look even better”, he answered”?
“What are you exactly creating though”? “I am creating a striped jumper which will
make other animals seem that we have now gotten stripes”, “I will be done in a few more
hours”. So the bees went back to bed and fell back to sleep. 4 hours later. The bee was still
working on getting the striped jumpers done, but it was time to take a break and have a little
rest.

The bee only got the chance of a 2 hour sleep, but he still continued with making the jumpers.
“How long do I have before breakfast”? The bee continued to make the jumpers without
breakfast in its belly. 3 hours later. The bee was finally finished making the jumpers. He gave
out all the jumpers to every bee who was cold and who were wanting to have stripes. It didn’t
take longer than he thought. So he continued to share the jumpers and made a very excellent
progress on giving them out, they finally finished sharing out all the jumpers and went
straight to lunch.

So this is the story about how bees got their stripes!