Whakanuia te Raumati .... celebrating Summer

The 20-21 Summer Learning Journey reached its destination last Friday 22nd January. It has been an awesome six weeks. Well done to everyone who has participated.  

The team will be working this week to tally up all the points for completed activities that have been shared and schools will be notified of the Summer Learning Journey Prizewinners, including the Top Blogger and Outstanding School for each cluster, in March.

The SLJ Team have really enjoyed reading and commenting on your posts. The videos, drawings, images and writing that you have created and shared on your blogs have inspired, entertained and also helped us to learn. Ka mau te wehi.

I will leave the final word on this post to Georgie @ Oruaiti School and her poem That Was Summer

Whānau Tent Time

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Read: How to make a blanket fort Watch: Maisy goes camping Watch: How to make a homemade tent Watch: Cozy blanket fort  Create Time to go camping! Put up a tent or create a fort. This could be inside or outside. Invite your whānau to join you. Share  Upload your pictures of your tent or fort to your blog. Write about your experience on your blog.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn Read: Camping in New Zealand Read: How to camp at home Read: Camping games  Create  Put up a tent or create a fort, inside or outside. Design a programme of events for your whānau. This could include games from the list above.  Use Google Draw to make your programme, or another app of your choice. Here is a template you could use Invite your whānau to join you for tent time! Take a picture of your Fort  Share Share a photo of your fort on your blog Insert your Programme of Events Write about your experience.

Summer Picnic

Activity 1: Kick Start   Learn Read: The Picnic Place Read: The Summer Picnic Watch: Freda Plans a Picnic Watch: We're going on a picnic Create Pack a picnic basket, bag or box with food for your picnic Set up a picnic area and take a picture Create memories by sharing the picnic together. Share Upload your pictures of your picnic to your blog. Write about your picnic, describing what happened.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn Watch: The Bears’ Picnic Read: How to write a delicious menu Watch: Summer picnic snack ideas Create Design a menu for your picnic. You could use canva to create your menu (click download when you’re finished), or create your own.  Assemble your picnic snacks  Create a fantastic setting for your whānau to enjoy their picnic together Share Upload your screenshot of your menu to your blog. Describe the food that you created for your picnic.

That was Summer

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Ideas for your poem Read 5 Senses in Summer Listen to the 5 Senses in Summer Explore this Slidedeck to learn about nouns. Create Create your That Was Summer Poem using this Draw Template.  Share  Download your Draw as a PNG File and upload it to your blog.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn  Watch All About Nouns. Explore this Slidedeck to learn about nouns. Create  Plan your That Was Summer poem using this Slidedeck. Bring your poem to life with your words and pictures using this Slide Template. Create a Screencastify of yourself reading your poem. Remember to display your Slidedeck in full screen while you are reading.  Watch this video to help you create a Screencastify.  Share  Embed your screencast into a blog post. Watch this video to help you embed a Screencastify in a blog post.

Gliding Time

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Watch: What is a glider?  Read: How gliders work  Create Build a glider out of recycled materials. Test your glider. Whether your glider flies or doesn't fly take a photo of it.  Insert your photo in a Google Draw  Use text boxes and arrows to label parts of your Glider to help readers learn about what worked or what didn't work and why your glider flew or did not fly. Share  Download your Google Draw as a PNG and share on your blog.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn  Watch: How to make a glider Create  Plan a design for another glider that you think will fly. Use any recycled materials you can find. Draw your design on paper or on your Chromebook. Save an image of your plan to share on your blog later. Test your glider and video what happens. Write or record yourself talking about why your glider flew or did not fly.  Share Share your video on your blog Upload the image of your design  If you write about  why your glider flew or did not fly, add your text in your blog post too.

Pixel Art

 

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Read:How do digital images work? Watch:What are pixels?    Create  Create your own summer pixel art image Share  Share your pixel artwork on your blog and write about your summer images.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn Watch:What are pixels and how do they work? Read:What are pixels and how do they work Create  Create your own animated pixel tree  Share Share your artwork on your blog and write three facts you learned about pixels.

Mondrian

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Learn how to make Mondrian Art using Google sheets. Watch Deconstructing Mondrian. Watch Mondrian  Create Create Mondrian Art: Make a copy of the Google Sheet Click the Directions tab in the spreadsheet to read the instructions. Click the Create tab in the spreadsheet to create and colour your art. Take a screenshot of your Art to share on your blog Share  Upload the screenshot of your Art to your blog. Remember to also describe what you learnt, what was fun and what was challenging.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn  Learn how to make Mondrian Art using Google sheets. Watch Deconstructing Mondrian. Watch Mondrian  Create Create Mondrian Art: Make a copy of the Google Sheet Click the Directions tab in the spreadsheet to read the instructions. Click the Create tab in the spreadsheet to create and colour your art. Area: Find the area in square units for each of the colours used and record on the Create tab in the spreadsheet Fractions: Find the fraction that each colour represents and simplify to the lowest form. Record on the Create tab in the spreadsheet Take a screenshot of your Art and your Maths to share on your blog.  Share Upload the screenshot of your Art and your Maths to your blog Remember to describe what you learnt, what was fun and what was challenging?

Soundtrack of Summer

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Watch or read: How to create the perfect summer song Watch: how music brings people together Create A top 10 playlist of songs that people could sing together to celebrate summer at your place. Instructions Share  Embed your Top 10 presentation into a blog post.  Here is a reminder of what you are sharing on your blog. Watch: Create your blog post

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn  Watch or read: How to create the perfect summer song Read: The most-streamed music of the Kiwi summer 2019  Create  A survey to find out about people’s top songs to celebrate summer - Instructions  Share Embed your survey into a blog post.  Watch: Create your blog post

Fishy False Teeth: Step It Up

 

Activity 2: Step It Up

Learn

A fish with teeth? Is this a hoax? Research and prove or disprove that this article is real or fake.

Create

Create a poster/infographic to explain to your audience whether it is real or fake.

Share 

Share your poster/infographic or other creation on your blog.

Did you try the Fishy False Teeth: Kick Start ?

Build a Super Seesaw!

 

 

 

 

Activity 1:

Learn 

A seesaw is an example of a lever where the fulcrum (the tube) is right in the middle, and the two sides are the same length. When two people sit on a seesaw they provide the force pushing with their legs when they are on the ground. In your catapult, you provide the force to throw the projectile by pushing down on the end of the spoon with your finger.

Enter nanogirl's lab here

Create

Use your webcam and screencastify to record video and images to share on your blog.

Remember to write about what you discovered, enjoyed, found tricky or any helpful tips.

Share 

Share what you discovered today on your blog. 

Share what you discovered today on your blog. 

Take a look at Jessie's post to see how you can share with video on your blog

• Jessie @ Glen Innes School

Also see how Maddison has added helpful labels to her image for her blog post. 

• Maddison @ Waikowhai Primary School

It's a Balancing Act

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Watch: Balancing a rock tower Watch: Tips for stacking- How high can you stack? Create Build a balancing tower using stones, pebbles or rocks. How many rocks high can you go?  Take a photo of your tower Insert your photo in a Google Draw Use text boxes and arrows to label parts of your Tower to help readers build a tower and share your tips for stacking. If you don't have any rocks or stones are there any other objects you can find to safely stack and create a tower?  Share Download your Google Draw as a PNG and share on your blog.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn  Read: Balancing Act Create Create your own Balancing Art using stones or sticks or both At least one of the objects in your art needs to be balancing. Take a photo of your Balancing Art.  Insert your photo in a Google Draw  Use text boxes and arrows to label parts of your Balancing Art to help readers learn about balancing and share your tips for balancing. OR Video yourself with your art, talk about how you created your Balancing Art and share your tips for balancing. Share Share your Digital Learning Object on your blog

Do Something New

 

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Watch: Create a Map Watch: How to open a Map Read: How to create or open a map  Create Plan a trip around Aotearoa.  Choose a journey: Option A or Option B Create a Map and drop pins on the locations  Share  Watch: How to embed your Map on your blog Embed  the map of your journey on your blog.  Write under your map  which place you would like to visit the most and why.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn  Watch: Google Earth Tutorial  Create  Plan a trip around Aotearoa.  Choose at least 15 locations to visit.  Open Google Earth and create a New Project Add the locations and photos of the places you will visit to your Google Earth Project  Share Embed your Google Earth project on your blog.  Record a screencastify to tell us about your journey and share on your blog. Screencastify Help

Are Summer Holidays the same around the world?

Activity 1: Kick Start  Learn  Read: Summer Vacation Research what happens in New Zealand in Summer. These links are helpful The Seasons  Holidays in New Zealand  Holiday Activities    Create New Zealand is missing from this Summer Vacation page Find an image for your writing using only Smart Images (usage rights labelled for reuse). Write a section for New Zealand including relevant information. Use this Google Draw template Share  When you are ready to share your Draw on your blog File - Download as a PNG and upload your PNG image to your blog post.

Activity 2: Step It Up  Learn  Watch the Screencastify tutorial.  Create  Promote celebrating summer in NZ - Create a Screencastify video of yourself reading your New Zealand information from the Kick Start Activity in the style of a travel video.  Choose one of the other countries and compare and contrast to New Zealand using a copy of this Jamboard.  Take a screenshot of your completed Jamboard or  Save Frame as image Share Upload your video to your blog. Insert the Jamboard image on your blog too.