SLJ Thanks

Thank you Summer Learning Journey team, my teachers, classmates, friends and family for the wonderful year I had. To my future year 8’s, keep working hard and you can do anything you put your mind to. To everyone, enjoy the rest of your holiday and God bless!!

Here are some of my favorite moments of this summer Learning journey.

Fun Art – Step it Up!!!

I have created a Google Draw of red pandas watching another red panda on a trampoline. This was a fun, funny and easy task to do as the last posted SLJ task.

I want to say thanks for the SLJ commenters, my fellow bloggers, SLJ creators, and supervisors. This year’s SLJ I will never forget!!!

Did you know giving animals human characteristics is called anthropomorphism? Did you ALSO know red pandas stand up to intimidate others and to make them look bigger?

What do you think the Red Panda on the trampoline is thinking?

Hybrid Sports – Kick Start

For this activity, I created my own hybrid sport – rollerblading + basketball. I call it basket-blading! The hardest part of this activity was making my own sport. I was set on using rollerblades and hool-a-hoop, but it was really difficult for me.

The goal is to throw as many ping-pong balls into a basket before the timer of 1 minute ends. Try to break your own records or challenge your friends to see who’s faster!

I put a timer in the bottom corner of the screen so you could track the time.

What would you call this hybrid sport?

Laser Maze Challenge – Kick Start

I created this laser maze using Google Drawings. My laser maze will be on the left side of my house. This was really easy to make. I have posted the Step it Up challenge, check out my real life laser maze!

How fast do you think you could complete my laser maze?

Laser Maze Challenge – Step it Up!

I created a laser maze for my brother and I to complete as a challenge. It was really fun creating the maze and completing it. I used plastic string and taped it onto the fence.

The hardest part of this challenge was doing the maze, mostly because I needed to jump really high to not touch the string.

How long do you think you could complete my laser maze?

Connecting with Your Whenua – Kick Start

I have created a nature collage using pictures of nature in my backyard. I used the polyline tool to trace around a tree I made to cover up some parts of the picture, making the pictures look like a tree. The pictures I took of were a guava tree, feijoa tree, the sun, and palm tree leaves.

Facts about your Whenua(nature):

  1. Our Whenua has been here before us and will be here after us. We need to protect it for the future generations to come
  2. Our Whenua improves our well-being. It is living like us, and it gives us a sense of calmness and resources too

Do you have any other facts about our Whenua?

Sunny Sundials – Step it Up

For this activity, I have made a sundial using some thin cardboard. I have marked 10 am, but realised the dial was supposed to be facing south. I changed its position and wrote 10:30. The black line marks 10:30.

The first picture is of 10:30 am and the second 11 am.

What I found interesting was that you have to point the gnomon(triangle or pin in the middle of the circle) North or South, depending on where you are. I pointed it south, because New Zealand in the South of the world.

What do you find interesting about sundials?

Summer Chat Story – Step it Up!

For this SLJ activity, I have created a summer Chat Story about going ice skating on Google Slides. I hope you have enjoyed the story, please comment on my blog if you can!

God bless and enjoy the rest of your holidays my fellow bloggers, friends, SLJ commenters, creators and the rest of the team behind SLJ – thank you for this lovely -and busy- Summer!!!

What cool things have you done during the summer holidays?