SLJ - Summer Song Maker! - Birdsong

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today is a SLJ post! It's been a while.

If you don't know already, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is a set of activities that you can complete over the summer holidays. Earn points by commenting and doing these activities and you might just earn some prizes!

Today's SLJ activity was about making a song on Song Maker. You can find the activity here on the SLJ blog.

I have lot's of experience with music, since I have been playing both the piano and trumpet for over 4 years each. I also love creating songs so this was a breeze for me.

My song is called Birdsong. The upper register is the bird singing, with it's chirps that come in at random positions. My middle area is where I have a constant rhythm of chords that go up and down tones throughout the piece. They show the movement and keep the song flowing. My lower register has a few specks of others sounds that may come out and any moment in the scene! 

I have chosen a marimba and wood block, both percussion instruments that are light and portray the feeling of summer well.

At the end, I have added a nice chord to finish off. 

Unfortunately, my first piece that I made was so long that I couldn't save it, so I made a shorter version that I was able to save properly.

Do you play instruments?

Would you want to learn an instrument?

I think that music is a universal language, do you agree?

Enjoy!

Here is the link to my song!

SLJ - Which face is real?

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today's blog post is another SLJ post!

If you don't know, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is a set of activities you can complete over the Summer Holidays. By completing activities and commenting you gather points! And by gathering points you can win prizes!

Today's activity asked me to look on this website and guess which face is real ten times. Then, I screenshot one of the ones that I answered and added it into a google drawing where I showed how I knew one was fake and the other wasn't. You can find the activity here on the SLJ blog.

I got 8/10 correct.

What do you think this kind of digital technology is used in?

What do you think the future of this will be?

Enjoy!

SLJ - Tastes of Summer - Yum! :D

 

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Welcome back to my blog!

And to another SLJ post!

If you don't know, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is some activities that you can complete over the summer holidays. By completing the activities and commenting on other SLJ participants you can earn. Earn enough points and you can win some prizes!

Today's SLJ activity asked me to make a collage of summer foods that me and my family enjoy. You can find the activity here on the SLJ blog.

I picked a few foods that are both from my own summer culture (Japanese) and some more traditional New Zealand summer food.

What summer foods do your family enjoy?

What do you think the theme is with summer foods?

Enjoy!

SLJ - Ultraviolet - Let's not get sunburnt! D:

 

Hello Viewers!

Welcome back to my blog!

Today's blog post is another SLJ post!

For those who don't know, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is some cool activities you can complete over the summer holidays to earn points. You can earn points by completing the activities but you can also earn points by commenting on other SLJ participants. Earn lots of points and you could win some prizes!

Today's activity was called Ultraviolet. I learnt some things about what UV rays are and about when they are most harmful! They are mostly harmful in the summer so I make sure to put on sunscreen, wear a hat, stay in the shade, or anything to protect me from the UV rays that come from the sun. You can find the activity on the SLJ blog.

I made my own UV indicator for my home, using some cardboard and markers.

What do you do to protect yourself?

Do you have any tips for keeping yourself safe?

Enjoy!

SLJ - It's Cool to be Kind :)

 

Hello Bloggers!

Welcome back to my blog.

I've been busy these past few days and so I haven't had time to do any blog posts.

I'm hoping to cram in lot's of work this week before I get busy again afterwards.

So here's a SLJ post! (Finally... -_-)

If you don't know already, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is a set of activities you can complete over the summer holidays. You can earn points by completing these activities and commenting. If you earn enough points you can win some pretty cool prizes!

Today's activity asked me to look at my blog and have a look at my comments, find one that's kind and leave a reply. You can find the activity on the SLJ blog.

I didn't have any fresh comments on my blog (I already had replied to all my comments) so I decided to pick one that I have done and screenshot it.

Do you leave replies?

Do you like bloggersations? I sure do!

Enjoy!

SLJ - Summer Haiku - A summer morning!

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today's blog is yet another SLJ blog post!

For those who don't know, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is a set of activities that you can complete to earn points. You can also earn points by commenting. If you earn enough points, you could be up to win some super cool prizes!

Today's activity asked us to create a Haiku about Summer.

A Haiku is a traditional japanese poem that consists of three lines. Haiku's are written about a certain topic, idea or theme. The first sentence must have 5 syllables; no more, no less. The second 7 and the third 5 again. You can find the activity on the SLJ blog.

I enjoyed making my poem! I generally enjoy writing, including poems. I have also written Haiku's before. I also like using descriptive language in my poems and writing.

Have you written a Haiku before? About what?

Do you enjoy writing poems?

What kind of poems?

Enjoy!

SLJ - Which one doesn't belong?! Well... It could be ALL of them...

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today's blog is another SLJ post!

Just to make sure everyone's on the same page here. The Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) are some activities that you can complete over the summer holidays. As you complete activities and comment on other SLJ participants, you get points. If you get enough points you can win some cool prizes!

So, today's one is called 'Which one doesn't belong?' You can find the activity on the SLJ blog.

I had some fun trying to think of lot's of reasons and I think I had a pretty good amount.

Also have a go at mine and leave a comment about it! It's on the first page.

What do you think doesn't belong in the one that I made?

Do you agree with my statements?

What kind of other things can you think of?

Enjoy!

 

SLJ - Insect Art - Meet the Yama bug!

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about the Yama bug!

 This is part of the SLJ.

Don't know what the SLJ is? Basically, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ for short) is a range of activities you can complete over the summer holidays, not only is it fun, but it helps your learning stay or even improve over the holidays. BUT! As a bonus, you can even get some prizes if you do enough posts and comments.

This activity was set a few days ago, and I really wanted to do it, but I didn't have time that day. So instead I did it today!

It says to create a bug or summer scene out of twigs, leaves, petals etc... I decided to make mine a bug! I made my bug out of a leaf and twigs. You can find the activity on the SLJ blog.

Do you like bugs? 

What sort of bugs?

Enjoy!

SLJ - OpTicAl iLLuSIonS

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about Optical Illusions. This is another SLJ post!

If you don't know already, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is some set activities to complete during the summer holidays. When you complete activities, you earn points that lead to some cool prizes that you can get. You can also earn points by commenting.

Optical illusions are really trippy! They make my eyes hurt looking at them for too long. It's also very challenging to create them yourself.

So for this activity I made an optical illusion, it's a pretty basic one that I learnt how to make in my math class a while ago. You can find the activity on the SLJ Blog.

How do optical illusions make you feel?

What do you think makes them so confusing?

Enjoy!

SLJ -Tānerore - Mountains, beach and nature, all in one!

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Finally! Here's a second SLJ post!

For those who don't know, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is a set of activities that you can complete over the summer holidays. As you do posts, you get points and there are some excellent prizes up for grabs. You can also earn points by commenting! So if you're a SLJ participant this year, drop down below and leave a comment!

Today, I did an activity called Tānerore. Tānerore is the son of Tama-nui-te-ra and represents the shimmering air in the light when he performs a haka to his mother. The shimmer represents the movements of the hands in haka and other waiata called wiriwiri. You can find it here on the SLJ Blog.

I had to make a kowhaiwhai that represents summer. A kowhaiwhai is a repetitive Māori pattern.

I worked hard on my kowhaiwhai and tried to use lot's of symbolism, it was a really fun activity and I enjoyed doing it a lot.

What kind of patterns do you like?

What kind of places do you see kowhaiwhai?

Enjoy!

SLJ - Your Comments Count... up to points! :D

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Yipee! It's the summer holidays and you know what that means! It's time to do some activities for the Summer Learning Journey - the SLJ.

For those who don't know, the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) is a set of activities during the the holidays that you can complete to earn points. You can also earn points by commenting! If you can get enough points then you can be up to win some spectacular prizes!

Today's activity for the SLJ is called Your Comments Count, you can find the activities here on the SLJ Blog. It says to write a comment on a blog and describe why it's a quality comment.

Now I had a little bit of a problem.

I wrote a comment and published it to the blog like any other person. But then! I had to wait for an approval to be able to see my comment on their blog. So I'm not really sure whether this counts...

So since I can't really take a screenshot, I can show you the comment that I wrote.

Do you write comments?

What do you think it good about commenting?

Do you enjoy it? Why?

Enjoy!

Tyres aren't meant to squishy....

 

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Today I will be talking about tyres.

This is another homework blog post, it's about how to check tyre pressure in a cool video I made just for this blog.

I think that checking tyre pressure is important, afterall, no one wants to be riding a bike or anything with a flat tyre. It can be dangerous and can pop easier. So I would not recommend it.

Do you ride bikes often? I don't, but I ride my unicycle!

What do you like about riding bikes?

Also,

Tyre? Or Tire? Which do you use?

Enjoy!

Whitebait Media! Part 2. There's still no whitebait :(

 

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Today I will be talking about Whitebait Media! Again...

This time, all of the year 8's went and we got a full tour around the really confusing hallways of the Whitebait Media building. I recommend reading the first post before coming to this one.

It was a really cool place, they had lot's of cool stuff! Including equipment for the Brain Busters TV show. I really enjoyed seeing all the cool things that they had and also being able to watch our final year 8's video properly!

Have you been on TV?

If yes, what kind of experience was it? If not, would you want to? Why?

Enjoy!

Whitebait Media! There's no whitebait sorry :(

 

Hey Bloggers!

Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about Whitebait Media. It is a tv show company, they film shows like What Now.

Sorry, we asked, but there is no whitebait at Whitebait Media :(

Yesterday we visited Whitebait Media to do some singing, to record the song for our year 8 leavers video! How exciting! The five of us, Nikita, Grace, Abby, Maddie and me went.

It was an interesting experience!

Have you done recording before?

What does it feel like? Scary? Exciting? Relaxing? 

Which do you prefer, being filmed? or recorded by voice only?

Enjoy!

Whitebait Media by Mia

Puzzling over what to give as a gift to someone?

 

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Welcome back to my blog!

It feels like I haven't posted for while, probably because I haven't. So, sorry for the delay!

Today's blog is a homework blog.

This blog is all about choosing a gift that the receiver will  appreciate!

For me, I appreciate all my gifts, because all my gifts have really thought about. I think that it's important to think of how they would feel receiving the gift. I think that it's also important for the receiver to appreciate the gift as well.

What has been one of your favorite gifts? Why?

How do you choose gifts for others?

What do you think people appreciate about gifts?

Enjoy!

Thank you! (To who...?)

 

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Welcome back to my blog!

Today's blog post is another homework one.

It is about 'How to write a thank-you note'

I never really thought about this to deeply, mostly because I've never needed to write one (although I have received a few). I think it's mostly because I say my thank you verbally. So it was interesting to look into this a bit more.

Have you written a thank you note? What for?

Why would you write a thank you note? Who to?

When do you think you might use it?

Enjoy!

Everyone's a builder... somehow

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about our Cybersmart session with Miss Morgan. Today we learnt about what kind of internet media is fake and why it is fake. Then, we went to finding a quote (that is actually said by the person) and illustrate it. Here is the instructions for this on the Uru Manuka Site.

I chose a quote by Milton Berle, and American comedian and actor.

What do you think we need to look out for when looking at media?

What kind of tips can you give about images and text?

How can you find proof?

Enjoy!

Read. This. Sentence. Very. Slowly

 

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Welcome back to my blog!

How long did it take you to read that sentence?

Probably not that long right?

Reading fast is good, it's smooth and feels good.

But!

Reading slow is really good practice too. So today, for my homework, I chose to do how to read slowly. I think that this was a HUGE challenge for me, since my typical speed is 300 words per minute. Which is above average. So reading slowly for me is quite challenging. But, I also think that I need to be able to do it more often.

Are you a fast reader?

Do you like reading? Why?

Why do you think reading slowly helps?

Enjoy!

Let's write an article!

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about one of our Cybersmart session with Miss Morgan, you can see what we did on the Uru Manuka site.

We had to make our own article about Athletics Day this year.

Creating an article is not too hard, you just have to make it engaging and have the key points. Headline, Date, Image or video and of course the article itself! I found it fun, but the hardest bit for me was actually writing the article itself.

Have you written an article before?

What did you write it about?

Where do you see articles? Do you read them?

Enjoy!

Where would we be shouting and cheering really loudly? At NYLD of course!

 

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Welcome back to my blog.

Today I will be talking about NYLD.

I'm sorry this came out late.

A few weeks ago on Friday, we went to NYLD, National Young Leaders Day. The year 7 and 8's and a few year 6's attended fro the day at Horncastle Arena. We all really enjoyed it, and found it entertaining and a good learning experience. We played games, listened and did a fair amount of shouting and cheering.

Have you been to NYLD before?

If yes, what was your favorite part of going? If no, then would you like to go and why?

What do you know about being a leader?

Enjoy!