Tag: Literacy

Whai Māori String Games – Step it Up

Today’s Step it up was to try more challenging Whai.  I watched the videos but after not been successful with the Kick start I did not successful try it.  However I did do some more reading into Whai Maori String games.  This is what I learnt:

Similar sting games played all around the world but Whai is a bit different as I learnt that there is chants (Karakia)/ songs (Waiata) that are sung to remind you how to move the strings.  Traditionally the string was made from flax. Whai is a fun activity for both girls and boys and for all ages, women were better than men.  By doing Whai  it is excellent training for the skill of weaving and net-making, was also a way warriors could practice hand eye coordination.   Whai was passed down by Maui and the patterns represent Mythological stories.  Whai can be done on your own or as a bit of a competition with someone else.

I am going to ask my family to try to make the simple Whai at the weekend and see if they can do it.  I need to work on my hand eye coordination to be able to do Whai.

 

Whai Māori String Games – Kick Start

Whai Māori String Games kick start activity was do string games by watching the You Tube videos on how to make a  butterfly, star and 4 triangles with your fingers and string.  I was not able to make these shapes i got so lost and tangled in the string.

This is as far as I got it dose look like 4 triangles but not the way the guy did it.  I did have fun trying and getting in knots though.

The Rainbow Fish – Kick Start

The Rainbow Fish Kick Start was to go around your house and find anything  you could use to make a collage.  I was not able to find any recycling things as we had a huge clear out last week so had none however I did manage to make this with my brothers playdoh and glass stones (my brother dose not like his playdoh colours mixed so I had to be very careful).

This is my rainbow fish

Summer Holiday 101 – kick start

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.

 

Comic Quest – Step it Up

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.

 

Silhoutte Art/ Chat Story – Step it up

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…

Winter Holiday 101 – Kick Start

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:

 

 

  • Penguins
    • True Antarctic (bread on or near Continental Antarctica)
      • Emperor
      • Gentoo
      • Adelie
      • Chinstrap 
    • sub Antarctic (further south in this sub Antarctic islands)
      • King
      • Macaroni
      • Rockhopper
  • Whales
    • Orca/ Killer Whale
    • Blue
    • Southern Right
    • Sei
    • Humpback
    • Minke
    • Fin
    • Sperm
  • Seals
    • Weddell
    • Crabeater
    • Southern Elephant
    • Leopard
    • Antarctic Fur

There are lots of ocean fish, like Antarctic Krill and ice fish…, and birds, like Snow Petrels,Wandering Albatross and  Blue Eyed Shags..

Poem Postcard – Step It Up

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.

 

Poem Postcard – Kick Start

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.