Summer Learning Journey Week 1, Day 5, Bonus Activity

I looked around the room. Nothing seemed unusual, but then...
Jake woke up with a gasp, and scrambled out of bed towards the bathroom, before splashing his face with water. He heard his parents running up the stairs, and his father reached him first. "It's okay son, it's okay, we're here, we're here." His mother hugged him. "Did you have the dream again?" Jake nodded. His parents looked at each other. "Have you written down what you saw? You know that's what Dr. Max said to do." His father said. Jake sighed. "Not yet, I'll go do it now." His parents shared another look. "We'll leave you to it, Jake." His mother said. Jake sat down at his desk, and started writing about his constant dream that turned into a nightmare, which plagued him every night. Just as he picked up his pen, he heard a growl, but not before his arms were covered in goosebumps. "I thought Dad turned the heater on?" he thought to himself, but then he turned, and came face to face, with a real life version of what chased him every night through his dreams. The wolf. Midnight black with grey eyes, a growl started deep in its throat, and it leapt.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1, Day 5, Activity 2

For this activity I had to read the reviews of three books that are currently really popular in Canada and decide which one I would like to read the most and explain why. I chose that I would like to read Hunger Games: Catching Fire (#2) by Suzanne Collins because it is more action packed than the other two options, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth (#3) and Matilda by Roald Dahl.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1, Day 5, Activity 1

For this activity I had to think of all of the books I have read this year and recommended one of them for Curious Kiwi. I have chosen to recommend to Curious Kiwi The Hobbit written by J.R.R Tolkien, which is about Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who doesn't like adventure, who gets visited by Gandalf and some Dwarves and eventually helps them take back a Dwarven castle.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 4 Bonus Activity

For this activity I had to, using the words from the activity before this one, make a world cloud, which is where Tagul, or Wordle, use the words you input to generate a picture.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1, Day 4, Activity 2

For this activity I had to list all of the things that I would need when flying to another country, with a star beside the important objects.
Spare clothes (Winter Gear if possible since Berlin is cold)*
Money native to the country*
Toothbrush and Toothpaste
Photo from home in case you get home sick
Sunscreen (If its a hot country)
Camera
Phrase book of the native language*
Tourist guide-books
Map*

Summer Learning Journey Week 1, Day 4, Activity 1

For this activity I had to use the site AccuWeather to find out what the weather was going to be like for the capital city of the country I have chosen, which is Berlin in Germany, for five days in a row. I found out that in Berlin today and on Sunday it will be snowy, before being cloudy on Monday and rainy and snowy at the same time on Tuesday and cloudy with some sun on Wednesday.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 3 Bonus Activity

For this activity you have to take the cost of the flights, which is in the own countries money, and convert it into New Zealand Dollars.

Name of City	Cost of Return Flight
Canberra, Australia	826            AUD              Australian Dollars
Tokyo, Japan	147172      JPY                Japanese Yen
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	7182          MYR             Malaysian Ringgit
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	7219           AED             United Arab Emirates Dirham
Cape Town, South Africa	27296          ZAR             South African Rand
Berlin, Germany	2182            EUR             Euros
London, England	1442            GBP             Great British Pounds
Santiago, Chile	1 582 030    CLP              Chilean Peso
Mexico City, Mexico	90 664         MXN            Mexican Peso
Ottawa, Canada	2064            CAD             Canadian Dollar

This becomes:

Canberra, Australia: $859.015 NZD

Tokyo, Japan: $1,817.17 NZD

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: $2,312.52 NZD

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: $2835.63 NZD

Cape Town, South Africa: $757.535 NZD

Berlin, Germany: $3,309.17 NZD

London, England: $2,569.56 NZD

Santiago, Chile: $3,405.654 NZD

Mexico City, Mexico: $6308.39 NZD
Ottawa, Canada: 2.216.19 NZD
The most expensive country to visit is Mexico City, in Mexico, which costs $6308.39 NZD, and the cheapest flight is to Cape Town, South Africa, which costs $757.535 NZD

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 3 Activity 2

For this activity involved creating a logo for an airline if I had one of my own.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 3 Activity 1

For this activity we have to watch 2 videos on plane safety with the idea of getting some ideas on how to be safe on a plane. I learnt that when the plane is going to crash if there is a seat in front of you then you lean forward and put your head against their seat with your hands in between the seat and your head, while if you have nobody in front of you then you lean until your head is in front of your knees and then put your hands on your head as well. I also learnt that when the plane hits the water you pull a life jacket out from under your seat, pull the red seal off and put the jacket on, only inflating it once you're in the water and blowing into the pipe if it doesn't inflate enough.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 2 Bonus Activity

For this activity we have to write whether we have gone to Wellington, and if so, some things we enjoyed doing there, or if we haven't some things that we would like to do there. I haven't been to Wellington yet (emphasis on yet), but from what I can see on the site I would like to go to Te Papa, because it has exhibits about Maori, our native people, and also because they have created something called Bug Lab which seems very interesting. Another place I would like to go to would be to go to the Mount Victoria Lookout, to check out Wellingtons scenery from high above.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 2 Activity 2

For this activity we have to decide whether we think Bull fighting should be banned in Spain. I think it should be banned, because both the person and the bull could get hurt. For instance, if the Bull ran straight into the person running around and stabbed them, everybody would be angry or sad that they got injured, but if the Bull got hurt by running into the side of the arena nobody would care. This shows that how the Bull feels about the sport is not taken into account. Another reason is that nowhere else in the world holds Bull fighting as a sport, except for Spain, showing that maybe the other countries think it's a bad idea, which is why they don't do it.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 2 Activity 1

For this activity I have to find out some facts on the country I have chosen, which is Germany. The name of the capital city is Berlin, the Population of Berlin is 3.5 million people, in Berlin the weather is usually cold in January, Berlin is located in the North East (top right) of Germany and the languages mostly spoken in Berlin are German, English, and Russian.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 1 Bonus Activity

For the bonus activity this time it was to write a letter to a family member telling them about how we're going to visit the country we have chosen and maybe even invite them. This is my letter:

Dear Grandmother,
I am writing to let you know that I am travelling to Germany, and from what I have found out so far it sounds like a very interesting place. It has had quite a lot of famous people born there, such as Beethoven, Bach and Einstein, all three famous people, Einstein for his genius and Beethoven and Bach for their music.
I hope that you can come and visit,
Thomas

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 1 Activity 2

For this activity we have to research the country that we have chosen and listed some interesting facts about it. One fact was that Albert Einstein, who discovered the general theory of relativity, was born in Ulm in Germany. Another fact is that Ludwig van Beethoven the musical composer was also born in Germany, and also Germany is surrounded by nine other European countries.

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 1 Activity 1

Day 1 Activity 1 - Choosing a country
I have chosen Germany in Europe because it is a country that has very little similarities between New Zealand and it, as well as the language not being to different, since it is part of Europe and German uses the same alphabet.

Graduation 2016

This is my collage of Graduation this year. We started off by having dinner, which was Lasagna and Salad, and then dessert, which was Pavlova and Ice cream. After waiting a bit for our stomachs to settle, we moved on to the dancing. We started with a Cha Cha and then moved on to the Rock and Roll dance, which is the most complicated with the thread the needle, where you and your partner have to keep turning this way and that and then spin the girl out before she comes back and you continue. Another dance we did was a partner dance where we danced with everyone by moving counter-clockwise in a circle. It was a very fun night and I will remember it for a long time.

2016 LS2 Collage

This is a collage I created about my year in LS2 so far using Google Drawings. I included a picture of Rhythm Interactive, the tip left picture, where we played on some traditional African drums, a picture of our buddy writing, the top middle picture, in which Latham and I took turns writing sentences to make a story about half an hour in the life of a Search and Rescue helicopter paramedic, as well as a picture of hockey, a picture of a fun maths activity we did by measuring the distance if paper planes, and an image of our Cyber safety activity we did when Mrs Ogilvy came to Panmure Bridge. These are only a few photos of a very fun year.

Labyrinth Movie Study

This is my DLO about the movie that we studied yesterday, called Labyrinth. We started off by talking about Epics, which are stories where the Hero/Heroine sets off on a journey to get something and come back, normally slowed down by a Villain and his/her evil Sidekicks. The main reason we studied Labyrinth is that David Bowie, who plays Jareth, the Villain, died earlier this year.

Tamaki College Rockets Collage

This is a Collage that Shannon and I made using photos that Mrs Anderson took during the day we stayed at Tamaki College. The top left photo is of us working on our DLO, and the the top right one is where Mr Dunn displayed what the straw rockets could do by having Mrs Ferguson fire one and try to hit the red circle.

Multi-Modal Reading

Link to Multi-Modal Site

Today we continued on our Multi-Modal task on Godwits. We had started off our research on migration yesterday by writing down some questions using the 5 W's and the H, and words like will, could, are, etc. The next activity we did today was about travel, (since migration is basically animal travel) and we used our prior knowledge (what we already know) to write down some ways we travel today, some ways humans travelled thirty years ago and some ways human travelled one hundred years ago, as well as some problems that would have come with the transport, such as for planes today, a delay for them taking off. Another activity we started was a reciprocal reading task about Godwits. We only got up to the prediction stage and will continue with it after.