For the laser maze kick start challenge I had to design laser maze in my back garden and I am created in the Step It Up. Here is my kickstart challenge.
Here is my laser maze activity. I used streamers for the lasers as they are delicate so if you touch them too much they would snap. Here is me trying it out and trying to get to the other end. It was not easy as it was very windy and I had to modify it a bit from the picture on the Kick Start.
Over the past years I took part and did the Minecraft tasks so I decided to look at other monthly Challenges and I chose to do this one. I had to build a simple house to live in. I created the house by using wooden planks and logs and used the stair blocks to create a roof. I put a fence around the garden and based it off one of my old builds of a huge house.
I decided to take part in today’s Te Reo Māori although I don’t speak Māori I was able to know a few words making me understand that the task was to create a family tree. Here is my family tree, It may become clear from my tree why I do not know Māori.
Here is my Notan Step it activity. The step up was to create a Notan art with a theme, i chose a butterfly as it is the first thing I saw when I looked out the window this afternoon. I what looks like shards of glass, circles and diamonds, along with some other lines in shapes that I have created. I really enjoyed this task and love how my butterfly came out, I hope you like it too.
Today I learnt what Notan Art is and got to create my own Notan Art. Notan art is a Japanese art form that means light and dark harmony/balance. It is created by forming a shape in black outside a black box and mirroring it onto the black box in white. I found it really fun to do and I plan to make some more later but this is what i created for my Kick start task.
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…
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..