Summer Learning Journey Fishing False Teeth

For this Summer Learning Journey activity, the task was to read the story (The Fishing False Teeth). In this story, a fisherman named Cor Stoop lose his teeth, when leaning to the side of a paddle boat, when having the sea sickness feeling. The other guy (Taxi driver) faked news, saying the fish had huge teeth, but got caught later. Read our DLO to find out what actually happens:

L.I: to get a greater understanding of the text

For today's the first Summer Learning Journey task, we were to read a story called Fishing False Teeth. It's a story about fake news, a fish with the mans fake teeth. This story was quite funny in my opinion. The first part was to read the story, as it helps you understand each part, and helps you get an idea of what the story is about. Next was to fill in the blanks. Who is the character? What part did they play? What was their outcome? We managed to figure out what each characters part were. Lastly we watched a video with no talking, but laughing from when the fisherman drops his teeth in the water when leaning on one side of the boat from sea sickness. I was working with a room 5 partner named Jebrael who's a year 4 student. I was helping him with this weeks couple of Summer Learning Activities, because it helps him in the future with blogging, commenting, and taking part in the next Summer Learning Journey events. This activity was quite fun, and challenging. Something we learnt new was that you can get onto the news for faking fish teeth being big. Something we found interesting is making the comic with the video.

What would be the first thing you would do, if you knew there were fake teeth inside the fish?

Summer Learning Journey Blog Commenting

 

L.I to create a quality blog comment

Today for another Summer Learning Journey task, we were learning about blog commenting. We were to create a quality blog comment for the task. I decided to comment on a friends blog named Matthew, he did the same work as us. To make a quality blog comment, you need to greet them and say their name. Next talk about what you liked, and keep your comment positive. 

Summer Learning Journey Nano Girl Challenge

L.I To collect materials needed to successfully complete our weekly superpower building missions with Nano Girl.

This morning LS2 worked in groups with our Year 4 students to help them create their first Summer Learning Journey blog posts. PBS are still at school this week so finding some of the materials we needed for our treasure hunt was easy. Our challenge is going to be able to find all the materials we need at home now. Something I found this activity fun because I got to find materials. I am looking forward to being able to blog at home during the holidays. What would you use instead of a paper towel roll?

Christmas Board Game

                               

L.I to create a digital board game for the junior students

Yesterday I created a board game in the theme of Christmas. It was for the Junior students. The junior students were very nice and were going to present some of their work for us, so we decided to create a digital board game for the juniors in return for being awesome. I wanted to make a snakes and ladders, because I like that game, and I could be creative. If you land on a santa hat, you have to go forward 3 spaces. If you land on a candy cane, you go back 3 spaces. If you land on a yellow candy, you go forward 10 spaces, if you land on the bottom of the ladder you go to the top of it, and of you land on the head or top of the green snake, you have to go to the bottom of it. I loved making this game, because it was fun, and I got to play it with the juniors.

Operation Christmas Drop

L.I to write a summary of the story behind the Operation Christmas Drop in your own words

This week for reading, we were learning about OCD (Operation Christmas Drop). It is a misson where different militay people drop crates off to islands that have nothing. It all started 68 years ago, and has still been running, where a B-29 aircrew saw native villagers on an island waving at them, and the aircrew dropped a crate to help them. I loved learning about this because people (Military and Volunteers) like to help fundraise and pack supplies like food, and clothes for them. The OCD is still running and people can donate to help the volunteers purchase the equipment for the supply drop. This helpes both becausde the military practice supply drops, as well as the villagers being able to help themselves live with the supply crates. What I found interesting about OCD is that each crate is packed 1 week before the drop, and weighs about 250kg.

Giovanni Design Evaluation

L.I to create a christmas decoration

These past 3 weeks, we have been learning and designing a christmas design for the schools christmas tree. We first found designs we liked, for an example christmas presents, and put them on a google drawing so we had a rough idea of what we were going to make. We next drew them on a planner on a peice of paper, to see if it was in the measurment of the clients acpected measurment. We then practiced stitching by stitching a game of knots and crosses. This helped us gain knowledge of stitching, so we know what to do when we stitch our designs. Lastly we drew our designs on the felt, cut it our, and swewd it together and put stuffing (cotton) inside it. This was fun and cool because I love learning how to do new things, and something I would change is the equipment used to cut out the felt, becuse the felt was a hard material.

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List three positives about your product and three possible improvements in the table below to help you reflect on your decoration design.

Positives

Improvements

Using traditional colours

Make stitching smaller

Adding effects

Make edges sharper

Easy to handle

Make design bigger

What would you say are the strengths of your product? The strengths of my product was the look, and the feeling of the design (the cotton).

Does your product meet your original criteria? yes How? By following the specifications ( 3D effects, 10cm)

Did you change anything during the making process? yes What? Added extra 3D effects to the design.

Was it hard to make? yes Why/ why not? It was difficult cutting shapes from the felt

Are you pleased with your finished product? Why? Yes, because we did a good job, and it looks amazing in the end (Looks just like the expected design).

What would you do differently next time? Use a different equipment for cutting out the shapes out from the felt, because the felt was a hard material to cut.

2020 Tech Reflection

I am a year 8 student, and I have been doing tech at Tamaki College for 2 years now. Since tech is only for intermidiate students, I am sadly not able to do tech anymore. Today was our last tech session for the year. I have been doing 4 tech rotations this year. 1 is Metal work, 2 is Robotics, 3 is Graphic Design, 4 is Cooking. I enjoyed all of these tech sessions this year. My 2 favorite tech sessions were Robotics, and Cooking. This is because I am good at programing, and because I like eating food. We (Panmure Bridge School) are so lucky for Tamaki College to let us go to their college to do tech, because I love learning new things, and generating new knowledge. Thank you Tamaki College!