Category: Hanga | Create

Summer Learning Journey – Comic Style – Kick Start

 

For this SLJ (Summer Learning Journey), we were asked to find a creature with a unique superpower. I chose the Panther Chameleon because of its amazing ability to camouflage. Chameleons can blend into their surroundings when they sleep or sense danger, making it hard for predators to spot them. This special power helps them survive in the wild, especially when faced with deadly hunters.

The Panther Chameleon also has an interesting diet. Adult chameleons eat live insects such as crickets, roaches, and silkworms. Baby chameleons, however, eat much smaller prey like bean beetles, fruit flies, and pinhead crickets because of their tiny mouths. Learning about what they eat helped me understand even more about how these creatures live.

I really enjoyed this activity because it helped me understand why some animals have “superpowers” and how those abilities help them survive. This task truly interested me and showed how much I understood the topic. I also feel like what I learned can inspire future ideas and projects.

How life has changed for women in NZ

For literacy this week, my class learned about how life for women in New Zealand has changed a lot since 1870. We made a Venn diagram to compare the past and now. In 1870, women mostly stayed at home, didn’t have many rights, and couldn’t vote or work many jobs. Today, women can choose almost any job, vote, go to school, and have laws that protect their rights. Even though things have changed, women have always been important to their families and communities. It was cool to see how much things have improved and to think about how women’s lives keep getting better.

Maths – Integers

For maths, this week me and my group learned all about integers! Integers are whole numbers that can be positive, negative, or zero—so numbers like −3, 0, and 5 are all integers. We explored how to add, subtract, and multiply them, and even used a number line to see what happens with positive and negative numbers. For example, with subtraction, 5 − 3 moves three steps left on the number line to 2, and 5 − (−3) moves three steps right to 8. For multiplication, 2 × 3 jumps two steps of +3 to land on 6, while 2 × (−3) jumps two steps of −3 to land on −6. Using integers helps us understand better.

AI Day/Night Movie

For Inquiry, LS2 learnt about how time works and how it is connected to the Earth’s movement. We explored how the Earth spins around and how this causes day and night. To help us understand, we made an AI video showing the Earth rotating, with sunlight on one half and darkness on the other. It takes 24 hours for the Earth to turn all the way around, which is why a full day and night takes one whole day.

We really enjoyed making this video because it helped us see what actually happens when the Earth spins. Watching the sunlight move across the Earth made it easier to understand day and night, and it was fun to make our own video to show it.

Idioms

 

For writing, we learned about idioms, what they are, their meanings, and how to make our own. We explored the difference between literal and figurative meanings and the purpose of idioms in language. Our task was to create an idiom by choosing an object (like an animal, food, or weather), adding a funny or unusual action, and giving it a special meaning.

One example we learned was “it’s raining cats and dogs,” which means it’s raining very heavily. We enjoyed this activity because we got to be creative and combine words in new ways. We also learned that idioms can be hard to translate because their meanings are often unique and sometimes hard to understand.

Ancient Timekeeping

For  this inquiry task, In groups of three we learned about ancient telling time (hourglass, sundial, clepsydra). We used our smart searching skills to research and create a DLO that tells us about ancient timekeeping devices. We were challenged to get into groups of 3, and to find out what our device will be. An hourglass was used in ancient times, some people call it sand time or sandglass.

Sundial was created in Ancient Egypt around 15000 BC, people use this to connect to natural time or to teach them about the Earth’s rotation. Clepsydra is an ancient water clock that measures time. We watched a video that tells us the brief history of keeping time. We enjoyed doing this activity because we get to learn and understand the history of ancient times.

Waltzing Matilda Poem

For this task, we created a DLO about a poem, Waltzing Matilda. The paragraph represents the events that happened in the poem of Waltzing Matilda. For the full story, there was a swagman located in the billabong, he steals a sheep and was caught by the troopers. But when he was cornered, he made a decision to drown in the lake because he knew the outcome if he were to be put in jail, as poverty was inside there.

 

Shearers Strike

This week, for reading, we were set on a task. In our reading groups, We read a story about Shearers Strike, After we answered all the questions, We got to make our own opinion based of what we read, We made a perspective A perspective B and our own Opinion. In the story the shearers workers boss was not paying them enough money from the job, to feed themselves and their familys, So some workers quit, and they told other workers to stop working, and they stopped. But some had to go back to work, they still needed the money.

 

Dinosaur Egg AI

This week for our learning adventure this week we had form a little video showing how we transformed a dinosaur egg picture into an amazing dinosaur egg hatching video.  Also, this video shows how a dinosaur egg from centres ago look like and might hatch like   This had help me and others learn how to use adobe or hailou to create a video or edit photos or pictures.  And for the dinosaur egg that we had hated we had discovered that this dinosaur fossils/egg is a Dilophosaurus dinosaur bone.