Summer Learning Journey: Week 4 Day 5

For this activity, watch this video of their award winning performance. What do you like about the performance? What did the dance crew do well? What could they work on?

On your blog, write a review of The Royal Family performance. Please talk about the dance, dancers, costumes, and the music. What did you like? What didn’t you like as much? What do you think could have been improved?

I found the dance performance a bit odd (No offence to the dancers). Some of the dance moves (Like the pelvic thrusting) just seemed a bit weird to me. I've no problem with the music, it's just not the kind that I listen to. I did like the back-flip one guy did, and I don't know what could be improved.

For this activity, please choose your favourite inspirational quote from this website. Create a text graphic using this quote.

On your blog, share your text graphic and underneath it, explain what it means to you.

I think that this quote is telling people to live their lives as well as they can.

For this activity, please reflect on your experience with the Summer Learning Journey programme this year.

On your blog please tell us:
Which activity you enjoyed the most

I liked doing the venn diagram activity because I learnt a bit more about Amelia Earhart and Jean Batten.
Which activity you enjoyed the least

I can't say that I liked the story writing activities since I don't really like writing stories.
Three things that you learned while completing the programme

I learnt that the clothing brand Twenty-Seven-Names got their name from the people that started the company.

I also learnt that Shakespearean English is a lot different from today's English.

Einstein helped with the creation of a type of fridge.
What changes/improvements you would make to the programme for next year

Maybe don't do the teaser week, or if you do, grant points (Even just a small amount per day) for completing the activities. Personally, I didn't even bother with them (And I'm pretty sure lots of others did the same) because there was no point in doing so.

Summer Learning Journey: Week 4 Day 4

For this activity, please read this article about where some famous New Zealand brands got their names from. Brand names are very important to companies as this is how they are known.

On your blog, tell us how Twenty Seven Names got their name. Looking at their clothing brand, tell us whether you think this is a good name for them, or if they should change it to something else! 

Twenty Seven Names got their brand name from the amount of people that helped the company grow, I think it's a bit of an odd name, but it pays homage to the work that those 27 people did in order to create the company. Therefore I don't have any issues with it.

For this activity please create your own tapa cloth design. You can draw your design on paper or using a drawing app such as Google Draw.

On your blog, post an image (photo or screenshot) or your tapa design and describe what each part of your picture represents (means).

For this activity, take a look at the Christchurch street art website and choose two different pieces of artwork. Look carefully at both pieces of art, and identify similarities and differences between the two.

On your blog, post screenshots of the two different pieces of art that you have chosen. Below the pictures tell us about the similarities and differences that you see in the two pieces of street art.

Similarities: 

Both pieces of art have words.

There's a lot of background detail on both pieces of art.

Differences:

There's only one word in one, and a whole sentence in the other.

One has clouds and a blue sky as the background, the other has a type of black liquid twisting around.

Summer Learning Journey: Week 4 Day 3

For this activity, we would love to know more about your interests (passions) and your future plans. What do you think that you would like to do when you are older? Do you have a specific job in mind?

On your blog, please tell us about your future plans (i.e. what you plan to do when you finish high school or college). Would you prefer to start working right away or to continue with your studies?

When I finish college I'd like to continue with my studies because the higher educated you are, the more money you can make. I would probably take a part-time job like the one I have now and use that to make enough money for bills. I don't really have a specific job in mind, but I have thought about a few: An engineer, a surgeon, a lawyer or an accountant.

For this activity, imagine that you had the chance to write your own movie. What would it be about? Who would be your main characters? What are the important events that would take place?

On your blog, provide a synopsis (overview) of your movie. In particular, tell us the name of your movie, the main events that take place in your movie and the names of the main characters. If you wish, you could do this as a storyboard.

If I could create a movie, I'd want it to be set in the past (ie; roman empire) and follow the story of a family of assassins that travel around killing targets. The family would get caught by an elite group of soldiers and only the son would survive. The boy (Whose name could be Maximus or something related to the time period that the movie is set in) would then be enslaved and sold to a wealthy man who forces the protagonist to fight in an arena as a gladiator (The type of warrior depends on when the story is set). He befriends a fellow slave (Comic relief) and during his first fight, he meets the daughter of the wealthy man (Love interest). All three teenagers escape together and go on the run...

That's a pretty vague idea for a movie but I couldn't really think of names and the setting the story should be in. 

For this activity, we would like to know if you would consider doing a 20 or 40 Hour Famine to raise money for charity.

On your blog, tell us whether, or not, you would participate in 20 or 40 Hour Famine. If you have already participated in a 20 or 40 Hour Famine, please share your experience, including why you decided to participate and some highlights and challenges of the experience. To get full points, please provide at least six sentences.

Honestly, I probably wouldn't do a 20-40 hour famine unless it was for a charity that meant something to me. For example; a family member has a condition or illness, so I would do the famine in order to raise money for them. Also, if I was to do a 20-40 hour famine, I wouldn't really know what to get rid of or stay away from. Overall I probably wouldn't want to do a 20-40 hour famine because a: I'm not famous, and b: I'd rather be doing things that are a bit more productive (Like studying). Although i wouldn't do a 20-40 hour famine, I would donate to others who are depending on the charity and what they were getting rid of. For example: I'd be a lot more likely to donate to a charity for cancer or leukaemia than something for pandas. 

Summer Learning Journey: Week 4 Day 2

For this activity, please give us a list of your ‘Top 5’ favourite artists (singers or bands) and your ‘Top 5’ favourite songs. They can be from any time period and any genre (type) of music.

On your blog, post lists of your Top 5 Artists and your Top 5 Songs.

Top 5 Artists: 

- Billy Joel

- Imagine Dragons

- Kenny Rodgers

- The Electric Light Orchestra

- Rupert Holmes

Top 5 Songs:

- Uptown Girl

- Never Gonna Give You Up

- Stayin' Alive

- Escape (The Pina Colada Song) 

- Come And Get Your Love

For this activity, please watch this CBS Sunday Morning Special about BTS.

On your blog, tell us your opinion on BTS. Please don’t just say whether or not you like them, but tell us what it is that you like (or don’t like) about them.

I don't mind BTS, they're an alright band (Although they do seem a bit hyped up) and they make alright songs, but it's not really the kind of music that I'd listen to.

For this activity, we would like to choose one role model and tell us about them. What makes them a role model? They can be people you know personally, people you have seen on television or the internet, people you have heard on the radio or people you have heard about from a friend of family member. You do not have to know them personally.

On your blog, tell us about your chosen role model. Please be sure to tell us why you think they are a role model.

My role model is my Dad, he's my role model because he encourages my brothers and I to study harder, helps us out when we need help and gives us lots of opportunities to learn.

Summer Learning Journey: Week 4 Day 1

For this activity, design a book cover for your favourite book. You will need to think about what needs to be on the cover (the title, author, illustrator), pictures, colour, etc. Please create all of the images yourself (draw or photograph) rather than using images that you find online.

On your blog, share the book cover you have designed.

 

For this activity, we would like you to learn more about ‘Shakespearean English’ - the version of English that Shakespeare used to write his plays. To do this, please write a short recount about what you did this morning in regular (2019) English, and then use this translating tool to turn it into Shakespearean English.

On your blog, share both your English and Shakespearean translation of your recount.

For this activity, we would like you to imagine that you have a diary. In your diary please write a story about your most extraordinary day. What happened? You can tell us about an actual event or you can make one up. It’s totally up to you! Please be as creative as you can.

On your blog, post a diary entry about your extraordinary day. Please start your post with the words “Dear Diary”.

Dear Diary,

Today I woke up at 7:00 in the morning had a shower and then ate breakfast. After that I brought my computer out, started doing the summer learning journey, and have been ever since. I'm getting hungry so I'll take a break and eat lunch in a few minutes.

Summer Learning Journey: Week 3 Day 5

For this activity please watch this video about the Pasifika Aquabots competition that was held in Nelson. The students had to navigate their Aquabots around a swimming pool, collecting things and visiting different ‘islands.’

On your blog, tell us whether you would like to join an Underwater Robotics team at your school. Why or why not?

I don't think I would want to join an Underwater Robotics team because, although robotics is fun and I could hang around with my friends doing it, I'd rather play sports and focus on my main subjects.

For this activity we would like to know about your favourite game. It can be a board game, a card game, a game that you play outside with friends (e.g., rugby) or a quiet game that you play by yourself.

On your blog, tell us about your favourite game. What is it called? How do you play it?

My favourite game is probably CS:GO, it's an FPS game with different game-modes like search and destroy, in search and destroy one team plays the terrorists and the other plays the counter-terrorists. The terrorists' goal is to plant the bomb and defend it until it explodes, the counter-terrorists' goals is to defuse the bomb before it explodes. Both teams can win by killing all of the opposing side. 

For this activity, choose one person and read all about them.

On your blog, provide us with:
The name of the person
A description of the work they do/have done
An explanation of how they/their work has had an impact on the lives of others

The person that I chose is Albert Einstein, he was a German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which is considered one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work on the atomic bomb contributed a lot to the discovery of nuclear power. 

Summer Learning Journey: Week 3 Day 4

For this activity, please follow this link to view the list of Nobel Prize winners, choose one, read about them and then share your learning on your blog.

On your blog, tell your readers who you chose and then tell us about them in five to ten sentences. Who were they? What did they do that was so special? Feel free to include a picture of your chosen Nobel Prize winner on your blog.

Marie Curie was a Polish woman who went to university in France, she studied physics, chemistry and maths. She spent all of her career experimenting and discovering chemical elements, she was the first person to use an x-ray machine on a human body. She won two Nobel Prizes for her achievements. Sadly she died from radiation poisoning due to the fact that she carried radioactive materials around in her pockets.

For this activity please think about your own health and well-being (hauora). What do you, or those in your family, do to stay healthy?

On your blog, share five things that you do to stay healthy and strong.

Five things I do to keep healthy are:

- Go for runs.

- Help my family with heavy lifting.

- Try not to eat too much fatty food.

- Exercise.

- Drink lots of water.

For this activity, we would like you to imagine that John Kirwan, Mike King and/or the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge called you up and asked you to design a new poster for their organisation. You could use Google Draw to help design your poster.

On your blog, post a final copy of your poster and include a description of the poster. What is on the poster? Why did you include the pictures or words that you did? The more that you can tell us about your design, the better!