Kiwi Jingle Bell
Bonjour Fishies! Today I'm going to tell you about the kiwi jingle bell task I did for the summer learning journey. I had to listen to this song called kiwi jingle bell then I copied a slideshow and made my own lyrics to the same tune of Jingle Bell. There were 5 slides I needed to make lyrics on. I named my song Christmas Mountains. I think this is the hardest task for me in the summer learning journey!
Pigpen Cipher!
Ola Fishies! Today I'm going to be telling you about the exciting pigpen cipher code I did. This pigpen cipher code is from the summer learning journey, I had to watch a video about pigpen cipher and cipher a code that was on a slideshow. I solved the code and made my own one. I had to make one about a beach but my keyboard didn't have all these symbols so I used a pigpen website to help translate my words into code. Pigpen code is a type of code that represents symbols. To help we use tic tac toe grids and cross grids! I think this is the best summer learning journey task there is.
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Optical Illusion
Summer Learning Journey
Talofa Fishies! Today I'm going to tell you about the optical illusion I did for the summer learning journey. If you don't know what an optical illusion is it is a picture or a illusion that looks like something but is something else. I drew a illusion with a pencil on a piece of paper called hole in the floor, I took a picture of it then made a DLO (Digital Learning Object) to explain how my illusion works. The illusion is really easy to make, why don't you try it?
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Slip & Slide!
Kia ora Bloggers! Today I'm going to tell you about the Slip & Slide we did! During school in the middle block we got split into 2 groups. One group would go swimming in the pool and the other group went to do the Slip & Slide. If you don't know what a Slip & Slide is, it's a homemade slide down a hill or slope. You need dishwasher soap, a hose and a plastic roll. To make the slip & slide you need to roll down the plastic and get a bucket, fill the bucket with dishwasher soap and water. Make sure it over fills and keep the water running, that way it will make the plastic watery and soapy, then SLIDE! I loved the slip & slide but it was cold when I was waiting in line.
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Mindfulness
Talofa bloggers! This time I'm going to tell you about our 4 mindfulness sessions that we have had. We finished our last mindfulness session on Tuesday the 8th of December. We had Whaea Stefanie came in and taught us different breathing exercises. Some of the breathing exercises were candle breaths, balloon breathes and more. Candle breath is when you breathe through your nose and exhale through your mouth, balloon breathes are when you breath though your nose and fill your tummy with air then take a big exhale out your mouth or nose. My favourite breathing exercise was the balloon breath! Maybe you can use these exercises to help you if you're mad or sad.
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Bike Skills!
Namaste bloggers, today I'm going to talk about the bike skill lessons we had! We had bike lessons for 2 weeks and 4 people came from Big Foot. Big Foot is a company that goes around and teaches schools about biking. We had Holly and Shelly come for the first week then Josh and Ella in the second. The first week we learn't how to check our helmets and bikes with Holly and Shelly. Then we learn't about gears and how you can switch then to make peddlading harder or easier. The second week we played loads of fun games with Josh and ella but my favourite game was The Box. Holly and shelly explained to us that this is only grade 1 and when we get to intermidiate we learn grade 2. I can't wait to get to intermidiate!
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Skateboarding!
Guess what we skipped maths to do... SKATEBOARDING! We are having 2 sessions today. The 1st session in the morning and the 2nd in the afternoon. Aren't we lucky? Our 2 instructors Ben and Lawrence, taught us lots of different tricks. They taught us how to get on and ride on it then split us into different groups. My group was with Ben and we learned how to do lunges, crabwalk and lots of other tricks. Then he taught us how to turn on a skateboard. We did some balancing tricks and one of them was to touch the nose (front of board) with 1 hand, it was tricky but I got it. We also had freetime too, we skated around and used the ramps we had.
When we came back we had a discussion about 3 different areas to do with skateboarding. The first one was: what was great about the lesson? What was challenging, next was: what have we learn't, and the last one was: what have we gained from learning to skateboard. We had different ideas for each section and we also had to learn about the growth and fixed mindset for skateboarding. The gorwth mindset is when you say something in your mind like you can do it, you will get this trick right, and something like that. The fixed mindset is when you think bad stuff if your mind like ugh I can't do this, I will never get this right. Only a few people had a fixed mindset.
I have my own skateboard at home but skateboarding is really fun and you should try it! I really enjoyed doing all the tricks but my favourite thing was learning how to turn! Bye bloggers and try skatebording!
