Today’s Step It Up was learning about new codes and creating our own emoji code. I had loads of fun creating the Emoji code and learning about grid code. I liked decrypting the basic maths code the most as I like maths.
Cipher and Codes Kick Start was a really fun activity. I had to read through the slides attached and use codes to decrypt the encrypted messages. I then had to create my own message using ‘pig pen’ or ‘Atabash’. I decided to do one of each, I hope you have fun decrypting my two favourite places to go in summer.
I found atabash a lot easier to use to encrypt and decrypt. Pig pen was a lot harder for me to understand to start with but once I got the hang of it it was fun too.
I really liked how the slides not only had things written but also had the option to listen to each slide. This was really helpful when it came to new words that I have never seen before.
Today’s kick start activity was to think of somewhere holiday you would like to go on a summer holiday and write a list of things you need to take where you wanted to go why are you wanted to go there and put all the information onto Google draw.
I decided to pick a holiday to Australia to swim with green sea turtles this is my Google draw. I have also added some sea turtle facts at the bottom as green sea turtles are endangered reptiles.
Here is Fun fact about green sea turtles before you read my Google draw.
FACT: Did you know Green Sea Turtles are special among sea turtles because they are herbivores, eating mostly seagrasses and algae.
Green Sea Turtles are an endangered reptile with around 85,000 to 90,000 in the world. They weighing around 65-130kg and are 1-1.2m long. They get their name because of the unusual green layer of fat under their shell. Scientist believe this is due to their diet of plants only.
They can travel up to recorded distance of 2,600 km for mating and nesting. They can be found nesting along the more than 80 countries around the world and lay up to 150 eggs at a time. Adult green turtles breed by the beaches where they were born. After about two months, the babies will use a special “egg tooth” to break their shells and hatch from their eggs. But when they do, they must immediately make it across the sand to the water, avoiding predators .
Green Sea turtles spend most of their lives underwater, where they can rest for up to five hours at a time before coming up to breathe however when feeding or swimming they pop up to the surface every three to five minutes for a few seconds then dive back down into the water. They swim around normally at 3 km but if they become threatened they can reach up to 35km/h.
Green Sea turtles are Suffering Extinction due to hunting, over harvesting of their eggs, loss of nesting beaches, Predators eating the eggs or Turtles after they’ve hatched and also fishing is causing danger with thousands of sea turtles accidentally caught in net every year.
For the Comic Quest Step it up task I made a comic using the Superhero and Villain I created in the Superhero task from the day before. The page of the comic that I have decided to do is one of the first pages where Shu Lan Qigual finds out what damage The Unknown can do.
I hope you like my comic and don’t forget to read all about my Characters in my Superhero – kick start and step it up blogs.
Here is my Step it up task for today. I had to create a Chat story to a friend using the template in google slide, I chose to do a story between friend Tony and I about our boat trip next week I was able to insert my silhouette picture into the chat I also used some emojis. Here is my Chat Story…
Here is today’s Summer Learning Journey Kick Start task, I used a picture of me fishing to turn into a silhouette and I also used a background of the beach I took on my mum’s phone from months back.
I created this picture by using a background removed and editing the contrast and colour of the picture of me fishing so that it was dark and looked like a silhoutte. I then inserted the background picture off the beach that I emailed from my mum’s phone. I can’t remember what beach it was taken at as it was a long time ago and there is to many pictures of the beach and things on my mum’s phone, and this was not one of out normal beaches. I moved myself to the side a little so you could still see the sun behind me.
Here is how it turned out.
Today’s Summer Learning Journey task was to think of a winter location you would like to go to and fill in the google draw with pictures of where you would go, what you would like to do, what you needed to take and why you wanted to go there.
I chose my dream holiday as it is to the Antarctic as they have winter weather all year. I cant wait till I am older and can go to the Antarctic for a tour and be up close to penguins. It will be the coolest trip ever.
I not only want to study the different penguins that live in Antarctica but also the other animals. After my google draw is a list of all the penguins that have been found living in Antarctica and the other animals I would love to study too. My Antarctic trip will have to be months long so I can study everything.
FUN FACT
Did you know out of the 17 species of penguins worldwide 7 are found in Antarctica.
This is my google draw about winter holiday to Antarctica:
There are lots of ocean fish, like Antarctic Krill and ice fish…, and birds, like Snow Petrels,Wandering Albatross and Blue Eyed Shags..
For todays Build A Plane – Step It Up I had to create a powered plane. I was not able to create a plane so I decided to share my Balloon Copter with you and tell you how it works…
The balloon copter works by releasing the air from the balloon = thrust, and the released a causes the blades to spin = lift. The amount of air in the balloon = thrust.
The copter can go up to 20 feet if outside.
Here is a video of my balloon copter flying, because it was raining outside I had to fly it in the living room so I did not put a lot of air in the balloon as it was not able to go really high inside.
I chose a picture of our last time at the beach and used Polyline to recreate the picture. I wrote a poem at the side for my Mum. This beach is our regular beach to go to in summer its the best beach ever. I found this task really fun as I love creating pictures using Polyline, I do it a lot in my spare time. The reason I chose to write the poem to my mum is she was at the beach with us but she just had to sit on the back of the truck on the beach and watch us have fun as she has a broken ankle.
This is my picture I created. I have inserted the original Picture my mum took from the back of the truck with me and my dog, Lochie, having a paddle in the water before going for a swim. I chose not to put me and Lochie in the picture as we are very small so it would be very hard to make out what we were.
Today’s task was to create a postcard using Poem Postcards website. You had to select a picture you liked and I change the type of poem to free verse because that’s the type of poems I normally write myself. I also thought it was the best description of the picture from all the poems it had for this picture. I would send this postcard to my Granny and Grandpa to remind them of our time at the beach with the big waves, from their visit to New Zealand.
I picked this postcard as I love the beach and watching waves crashing. This is the poem that the website came up with to go with the Japanese wave picture.