Online Art

 For Maniakalani today we are talking about this thing called Summer Learning Journey. It is a fun learning thing to do over your summer break. It is a 6 week task and is really enjoyable. I did this last year and it is very fun and is not that hard. All you need to be able to do this is 1. A Device, 2. A Blog, 3. You must have done cyber smart before. For one of the pre tasks we got to go on this really fun app called Art Colouring Book. It is were you see a whole lot of images you can then click on one and make your own piece of art. Here is an example I made.

Original image.

My One

Media Poster

 For Manaikalani we are learning about different types of Media and what is in each type. In Print Media we did things like News Paper, Magazines. For Broadcasting Media we did things like the Radio and The News. For Online Media we did things like Twitter and Tik Tok. In my group there was My best friend's Mayci and Selena. Let me know if you have any more ideas of any form of Media. 

Questions:

Do you have any form of Media? 

Do you understand Media?

Smart Relationships

 In cyber smart we have been learning about how to make quality blog posts and comments. We are learning this to be safe online and be a kind and caring person online.

My learning went pretty well and it was understandable. At some times it did get tricky but it became easier again.

I am Cyber smart but my question is are you Cyber smart?

Surf to Turf

The Actual Day

On Wednesday the 28th of October we did a challenge called Surf to Turf. It is an activity were you run 5.1k then partake in 4 activities, 1 minute Plank, Commando crawl, 50 Sit up and a tire roll. Once you completed the tasks you had to fun to the finish line where the teacher gave you a coca cola juicie. When we had all completed the race and finished our juicies A fire truck was waiting for us at the end of the driveway. The firemen attached ropes then we lined up. We had to pull the fire truck up a driveway. Then the firemen got the hose and started spraying us down. Once we had, had enough of the water we went collected our bags and got some hot dogs from the BCN. We had a lot of fun.

Training's leading up to surf to turf.

But would we have been able to do all this stuff without training. Of course not. We had 3, 7-8 am training's then got a amazing breakfast at the BCN (Belfast Community Network). We had 6, 3-4 pm training's where for 2 weeks one of the teachers made us an afternoon tea. We also 3, 2-3 pm training's. We had training's 2 times a week, one on Tuesday which was the 7-8 and 2-3. Then we had training on Thursday which was 3-4. 

With us doing so much training and having to work so hard on the day we ALL obviously had sore muscles.

Hot dogs Yum.

Before We Started.

Please give me some feedback on how to improve my blog posts.

Poems

 

I made this slide on poems. They all have something in common. They are all about animals.

Crash

 

I have made an acoustic poem based on the book Crash. I then added a picture of a car crash and the cover of the book.

Letter to the author William Taylor

 Maia Collins                                                                                                                                                  22 Google Ave                                                                                                                                                  Belfeast                                                                                                                                                              Christchurch                                                                                                                                                      N.Z

Dear Mr Taylor,

I have just finished reading your book Crash as part of our group literacy circle. I really enjoyed it and I give it a 5 out of 5 star rating.

I like the way that each chapter flickers by one chapter being about the crash and one being about what life is like at home.

This made me wonder what part of NZ this book is made from. It also made me wonder how long it took you to complete the whole book.

Maybe next time you could describe what the car and the characters looked like. 

What was your message you want people to think or know about reading this book?

Yours sincerely 

Maia Collins

3 Brothers & The Polar Bear Retell

 Once in a cold icy land, where seals hunted fish, polar bears hunted seals and man hunted polar bears. Sometimes it was the other way around and the polar bears hunted the humans. They can hear the ice cracking.

 On this land there also lived three brothers. The first brother called Bob was a super skinny guy with short black hair, long gross black beard, a blue top and some sweatpants.

The second brother called Nick was a chubby guy with long ginger hair, a short ginger beard, a pink top and some black shorts.

The Third and final brother called John was a good size, had short blond hair, a long blonde beard, a Gray top and some oversized pants.

Once they had finished school they decide on a job.

Bob chose to learn about skeletons, bones and how to piece them back together, he is called a bone expert. Nick chose to study about how to conjure blood, flesh and fur. He became a corpse maker.

John chose to study how to bring life back to the dead. He became a life giver. 

Soon when they had finished they were walking back to their ice palace and came across a pile of bones. Bob decided to piece the skeleton together piece by piece. He then discovered it was a polar bear. He went back to where his brothers were standing and said, “it is a polar bear.” Then Nick went out on the ice and gave it flesh by pouring a magical mixture on it. He then yelled, “IT IS JERRY!”

 Then Bob and John came running on the ice. All they could hear was crying, all they could see was Nick hugging a dead polar bear. Bob and John looked at each other and nodded their heads. 

John then walks over to the dead polar bear and told Nick to go back to Bob. He then bought the polar bear back to life. Nick walked up to John still sobbing and said, “thank you.” Bob then gives Nick a leash for Jerry and they walk home together.

When they arrive back in the village they get straight to work they have to make an igloo as big as an elephant for Jerry. Jerry soon settled in.  Jerry had forgotten how to be a pet so training came along.

 This first thing they taught him was how to play games like fetch and catch. They then taught him some things fun like dancing and talking and singing. Once he was fully tamed and very friendly they took him into the village. Everyone was screaming as loud as thunder and running as fast as cheetahs. 

They then went home and went to sleep in their nice big igloo house. They then lived happily ever after. The end

Long Division Questions

For Maths we are learning long division. We had to complete 15 and then make 5 by yourself. Do you know how to do long division? Let me know what answers you got and I will reply the correct answers.

Have fun answering and always love MATHS!

 

Literacy Circle Week 4

 At school I am reading the book Crash. It is about a down syndrome boy called Poddy. The book flicks through chapters, what I mean by that is it starts at a scene of the crash and then is a scene about home and keeps changing.

About the crash, in the crash scenes Poddy, his older brother Jack and his dad are going to a sports event or something like that. Then they hit a cow and go sliding down a hill. Jack is semiconscious and his father is completely unconscious. Poddy then goes to find help and make friends with some cows. Help finally arrives in chapter 13 but Poddy does not want to leave his family and the people trying to help do not fully understand Poddy.

About at home, at home Poddy wants to be like his brother Jack but Jack does not want to turn 50 and have Poddy 49 years old still in his shadow. They do fight a lot and then Jack talks to his mum about his girlfriend and how they want to have a kid but do not want it to be like Poddy with down syndrome. Jacks girlfriends name is Jacqui.

Have you ever read the story Crash if so let me know what you think of it and give me feedback on how to improve and what I did well in this blog post please.

Literacy Circle week 3

For reading at the moment we are doing something called a literacy circle. A literacy circle is were we get assigned a job and we have to complete it as well as read up to a certain chapter The jobs you can be are: Passage Picker (My one this week), Summariser, Word Master, Discussion Director, Connector, Illustrator. 

This is what I did.

  

Passage 1 

Page - 48/49

Paragraph 4 line 27 / 32

Why did you pick this passage? 

Because it shows how brave Poddy is and he is using things around him to calm himself down.

Passage 2 

Page 53

 Paragraph 1 / 3  line 3 / 21

Why did you pick this passage? 

Because it reminds us that we do not need to smoke and that it is bad for us. It also makes me wonder why we even need to smoke.

Passage 3 

Page 57

Paragraph 1 line 3/8

 Why did you pick this passage? 

Because he is remembering things that Jack and his dad say that may make him happy or sad.

A Blank Canvas

One particularly sunny day I went to the art museum. As I slowly walk into the art museum. I can see nothing but people it was like a pool of people. I walk around the corner to see millions of people I wondered what was going on. As I jump as high as a bird flying in the sky and bend down as low as the dirt deep beneath the solid ground. I soon realise what was going on. 

When I finally get in the art museum I stand in the museum listening to two great artists deciding what their next master piece will be, a parrot, a unicorn, an elephant, a giraffe? As they decide that I wander around the corner. I can smell the fresh paint. I can see artists painting or telling the other people in the art museum about their painting or drawing and why they decided to make it. 

When I finally get back to the 2 artists who were fighting about the art piece who had decided to included it all in one. In the bottom right corner there is a pirate ship with the parrot on the captains shoulder. On the bottom left corner there is a giraffe in a forest poking its head through the trees to look at the elephant which was on in the top left corner jumping in some water puddles. Last but certainly not least a cute little unicorn jumping from cloud to cloud.

I keep walking and see there is a spot that has my name on the bottom. It meant that it was reserved for my artwork. I went with a flower without colour. Instead of colour I used shading. 

Can you finish my story for me?

Let me know of some more ideas to finish my story.

Thank you for reading.

 

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My Day Of Marching

On one beautiful sunny Monday morning I wake up and get ready for the big day ahead. First I have breakfast, then I make my bed and do my room, I had a shower and got dressed. Once I had finished getting sorted I packed my bag and got in the car to go pick up my friend. You may be wondering where I was going while I was going to my marching. We did a whole day. 

As mum walked us in I could see the other 12 girls and my coaches. I could hear the girls talking about what they had done in the holidays so far. The most funny story was a couple of the girls went to Hamner Springs together and got dared to fall into the cold pool at night they did it and came out shivering. I felt super excited and nervous. I was nervous because I was scared to stuff up, I was excited because this is my first season of marching.

Once we started we learnt our positions. We then learnt our counts. My counts are - On the spot, Up 1 pace, up 1 pace, on the spot, up 1 side pace right, 4 paces to the right, 1 side pace right up 3 paces, cross through 15 paces, up 3 paces, up 1 pace, left 1 side pace. These may sound confusing but I understand them almost perfectly.

After we had learnt our positions counts and actions we had lunch. We had PIZZA! When the pizza arrived we went out to the hall to eat. I could smell the pizza and chips making me super hungry. I could hear my stomach growling like a bear coming out of hibernation telling me it was time to eat. I could feel the heat on my hands as I pick up a single slice of pizza that is as hot as a heat pump when turned on. I could see the cheese and toppings spread and melted all over the Pizza. I could taste the cheese and feel it getting stuck to the roof of my tongue. While we were eating I drank my drink I had an up and go chocolate flavour. Once we had finished our food I felt as big as an elephant.

Going Under

It was a beautiful clear sunny day and my 2 friends and I were about to take a swim in the ocean. As we get into our swim suits I start to feel excited but nervous, happy but sad, worried but fearless. It was like I was on an emotional roller coaster.  I could smell the salty water.

It was finally time to dive into the water. I touched the water with my toes to see how cold it was. To be honest with you it was actually pretty warm. So we dived in. As I dived in I felt like I was falling deep below the air surface. I was so excited to see all the amazing wildlife that I took off without my friends.

 As I went lower and lower into the water I saw sharks with jaws as big as a truck, Whales that were as long as a train, Fish as round as a drink bottle. 

I finally found what I had been looking a stingray. I touched the stingray and got stung by the stingray. I had to try get back to find the others luckily they were following me and managed to get me back to the shore. When we were back on the shore 

We walked to the life guards who said that I would be ok. I sighed in relief. We then went to get burgers, fries and ice-cream. My burger was so small it was about the size of my hand and was only about 10 cm tall. I got about 92 fries in my large pack of fries. My ice cream was about 30 cm tall from the bottom of the cone to the top of the ice cream. My ice cream was just plain vanilla so I scrapped my fries along the sides of it.

We then headed home and I went to bed. It had been a very long day.

Poems For My Grandad

I made these first three in remembrance of my grandad who passed away last year. 

Poem 1. The news

I wake up the next morning clueless

To find out the bad news

I start crying, I am going to school regardless

He was gone he made a big move.

Poem 2.  Britians got talent

Hear the music play 

Watch the people dance and act

Feel the need to dance

Taste the hot chocolate with dinner.

Poem 3. Painting

I remember painting

Seeing the colours and nature on a canvas

The colours of the mixed paint

The master pieces on my wall.

Maths Challenge

For my maths challenge I had to create a game using fractions.

What you will need:

A copy of your own Fractions Addition Board

A dice

A counter for each person 

A friend or two to play with

 How it works is ...

add up the fractions for a score of 4 go over and you are OUT!

1. pick a counter and get a dice. You then take turns rolling the dice.

2. The number you roll you is the one on the top of the fraction equation.

3. Place your counter on the fraction you are on.

4. Add up your points

The rules are 

- Remember it is just a game

- Have FUN!!!

BelFeast 23rd June

On Tuesday the 23rd of June we went to BelFeast. BelFeast is run at the BCN (Belfast Community Network). Today Matua George and the servers served us up some delicious burgers. The burgers were created like this, toasted bun bottom, cheese, lettuce, patty and a toasted bun top. We also had some super yummy chips. Thank you so much servers and Matua George the food was amazing. Something you might want to know is that we dont even pay to have this food it is all for free. It is free because he is giving to others and is a nice caring human. 

Lasagne Recipe

For our maths problem solving task we had to find a recipe of something we could make in the slow cooker for 40 kids. I chose to make Lasagne because I love eating and making lasagne. My group also had to try get the lowest price my price was $68.55.  Do you enjoy eating Lasagne? 

Star Art

For art we had to make a star art. On the black paper we had to write I am a star because ..... and why we thought we are a star. My ones are, I am a star because I care for others, I am a star because I am good at maths, I am a star because I am unique, I am a star because I take risks, I am a star because I am good at colouring, I am a star because I can dance, I am a star because I can sing, I am a star because I play sports, I am a star because I am a good friend, I am a star because I am good at spelling, I am a star because I coach netball, I am a star because I am good at reading, I am a star because I am Maia.

I challenge you guys to make a star yourself. 

You will need:

- Black Paper

- Star template

- Chalk

- Pencils / Felts

- Glue stick

- Positive Attitude.

- Piece of white paper

Method:

Step 1 - Colour in your star with patterns.

Step 2 - Write why you are a star on the white piece of paper.

Step 3 - Fold your star inward on the small dotted lines. Fold out on the big line.

Step 4 - Press lightly on the star and trace around the star on the black piece of paper.

Step 5 - Write why you are a star on the black piece of paper.

Step 6 - Glue the edges of the star and put on to the paper.

Step 7 - Use a pencil to press on the edges of the star to make it stick.