Summer Learning Journey: Week 1 Day 3 Activity 1

For this activity, please watch this short introductory video from The Water Project.

On your blog, share what you have learned about The Water Project with us. What is the goal of the organisation? Where do they work? What have they achieved?

For the first activity of the third day I needed to research and write about the water project which is an African organisation that's trying to give young girls in Africa a proper education. After watching the video on the organisation I found out that millions of people go without clean water every day, and many people die to water borne illnesses. 

Tessellations

Today for maths we were making a tessellations with the object on the slide. The object that I use was a shape that look like a L. For my design I was trying to make it reflect so that it look like there are two design.      

Romeo and Juliet

This week for reading and writing we were learning about Romeo and Juliet. We were making a summary after watching a video. After the summary we made a DLO about a animation. The animation that we were doing was a Stick man animation. The animation was about Romeo fighting Tybalt.

Market Game

This week for maths we are learning about marketing and budgeting. We played a game called market game. It to learn more about budgeting and if we will get a profit or a loss. This was hard because some of the question was hard for my partner and I. In the end my partner and I got a loss by 20 and 18 dollars. 

Rules of Staying safe while doing fireworks

Today Learning Space 2 got into groups and each created a presentation that gave 5 rules about safety when it came to fireworks as it is Guy Fawkes. For this activity I worked with Alex and Jack and we had a lot of fun creating this presentation. Once we had completed our presentations we would go to another class and present our rules to them. We chose to present our slideshow to room 1.

Summarising the Main Ideas

This week for current events we were asked to find a news item that interested us. After reading it we summarised it in our own words before making it more succinct in five 10 syllable sentences.

Article here:

Keywords from the title	Keywords from  sub- headings	New words I need to look up
Box, cheating, Exam	Exam, student cheating.	Officials, allegedly

Write down 20 important words from the text	Box, cheating, Exam, cardboard, indian, Students, looking, experiment, other, school, viral, 15, 20, minutes, onehour, removed, Bhagat Pre-University College, Twitter, apology, hearing
Chose the 6 most important words.	Box, cheating, exam, Bhagat Pre-University College, viral, school
Turn these words into sentences to summarise the text	People who go to Bhagat Pre-University College, in indian has to wear cardboard box in exam. It is because to keep them from cheating. So that they don’t look at the other people answer sheet. The picture of the student was posted on twitter and it went viral. They say that there were doing an experiment, because that saw other school did it.

10 syllable sentences:

In In-dia schools use card-board box-es. They use the box to keep them from cheating. So that they don’t look at others answers. The picture on Twitter and went viral. They saw other schools did it then copied.

Writing Explanation

Don’t Judge someone

Respect…. Kindness…. Empathy, they are the three most important values that you need to show. Don’t judge someone by it cover, it is because something bad might happen to them like losing their job. If you show the three words you could make their day. It is because they might need a friend to talk to and share their feelings.

Respect: you should always show respect when you see someone on the street instead of disrespect them like this for example ( look at you why do you need the money you problem going to buy some drugs but instead he probably need the money to buy food for his family). You should ask what's wrong first instead of disrespecting someone.

Kindness: some people don't show kindness it is because they judge people that are homeless to quickly. This is why they don’t give money to them. In a video that I watched was an experiment if people will give a rich guy money for baby food or the homeless guy to buy baby food for his baby. Most people give money to the rich guy it is because their are probably think that the poor guy is lying and don’t need the money.

Empathy: I should say that this word is the most important word, you know why let me tell you. Imagine you are on the street and I read you sign and I say it not true you are lying and I walk away (The sign was you ask for money). How would you feel if this happens to you. The right thing you need to do is ask what's wrong and also share each others feel about what happened to him in the past. You should also help him if he needs money and one important thing you should do, it is to make him have a happy day.

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This week for writing I were writing an explanation about using respect, kindness and empathy towards other people. In my explanation I talked about don't judge them if there are poor and also we should away talk to them how they feeling and share feeling.       

Water filters

This week we were making Water filters l was working with Avalon, Karlos and Joel. We made a DLO that explained about water filters and people who don´t get clean water. We were creating our Water filters to find out how to turn dirty water into clean water by using our own ideas and things to make one so we can find out how we can make dirty turn into clean water. We created our own plan that had some ideas of what we could do then we draw what we wanted it to look like. We cut a whole bottle into half then we added chuxs cloth at the cap part where the water was going to come out of to stop the dirty and sand.

Rugby Pitch Sizes Challenge

This week for maths another challenge was to answer questions on rugby pitch sizes. Some of the other questions were: What is the perimeter of a maximum size of rugby pitch? And, what is the area of a maximum size rugby pitch? After finishing all of the other questions, my group needed to create a DLO on how we found our answer.

Rugby Advertisement

This week for writing, we were making Advertisement for Rugby. We had 2 choices, to either make a video or make a poster. We first planned to make a video, but as time sped up we chose to make a poster. We also chose to use a Rugby Ball as our advertisement. We tried to use some qualities that advertisement had so that it is really relatable. 

Pop-up globe

On Friday we were visited by the pop-up globe workers. They gave us information about William Shakespeare which was interesting. William Shakespeare would always try to make his sentence rhyme. The fourth wall is when the narrator includes the audience. One of Williams Shakespeare acts called Macbeth was extremely cursed. In William Shakespeare's tragedy acts, there is always a death.

Supermarket stopped selling energy drinks to kid under 16

A provocation is an action or a speech that triggers strong feeling about a topic. Recently a major supermarket chain a announced it will no longer sell energy drinks to people under the age of 16. My opinion is recorded in my DLO that show both perspectives what is your opinion and why? 

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic?

65,000 thousand plastic straws have been collected for over 10 years in New Zealand beaches. Did you also know that there about 437 million - 8.3 billion plastic straws in the Ocean. Hi my name is Aung Naing and I think that we should ban plastic straws. Plastic straws are a harm to sea creatures. Its unusual why people throw away plastic straws.

My reason for talking about this is because there are so many plastic straws that are made every day. I feel like we need to change our actions because there are a lot of plastic straws that have been thrown on the ground every single day. After you finish throwing your plastic straw on the ground it could go out to sea and letting the sea turtle eating it or getting it stuck up their nose.

We should remove plastic straws and add paper straws or use other material instead of plastic. It is because paper straw can dissolve but plastic straw are harder to dissolve or break down, it is because it takes 500 year to break down. There are different materials we can use like metal, you can carry it with you and you can keep reusing it, but plastic straws are not that useful, it is because it can bend easily.

Did you know that there are about 500 million plastic straws are used every single day. Wow! I think that there are a lot of plastic straws that are used every day. Well some shops are to be blamed, Mc Donald, Burger King and KFC sell free Plastic Straws.

This is why I would not suck, it is because it is harming the marine animals, out of curiosity, have you ever seen people taking a plastic straw out of a sea turtle nose before.

Tech

This week was our last session for robotics tech, we were finishing off our movies. Our teacher was Miss Munoz. She was awarding out prizes for the best movie, like gift cards chocolate and lollipop. The people in my group were Alex, Neveah and I. We came first place so we got to pick what we wanted. Our movie was about what we can do with the robots, for an example: they can dance. Thank you Miss Munoz for teaching us how to code with the Mblock. 

Point of View: Plastic Straw

This week for writing we were making a DLO about reason why we should ban plastic straws and why we should't ban plastic straws and also in the middle was our opinion. My partner I decided for our opinion we will talk about why we should ban plastic straws. It is because it is killing the sea animal.         

Steam - Catapult

This week for inquiry we were making a catapult out of newspaper, tape, rubber bands, blue tac, a small container, a piece of paper and a vivid to plan what catapults we are making. In our groups we got role my roles was to make cylinders out of newspaper. Our groups tried very hard to make this catapult. When we made the catapult we did a test run. Then we did a competition to see if who can hit the target. After that we change our catapult to see what wrong with it. In our groups was Matthew, karlos, Alex, Sela, Alice and I.         

Swimming

This week on Thursday we went swimming. We learn how to float on a back and the front. The equipment that we use to float was a pool noodles, and kick broad. We also use a technique called streamline to swim. I found floating on my back without a kick broad hard.

Tech - Robotics

This week for tech we were planing our movies about a Mblock. We had options to choose from to make the movie. The options was Autonomous Vehicle (Avoid Obstacles & Follow a Path), Autonomous Forklift (Find & Move Objects and your own idea. 

Coding M block

Today was our last lesson for tech this week. Our last day for tech we were trying to make the m block to move in to a circle, a square and to stop on the x. We also tried to make it move if there an object in front of it and we also tried to make the M block to move on the black line. We added effects to the M block like light and music.   

Multiplication Game

This week LS2 were making a maths game for our classmates to get better at there math knowledge. my maths game was all about multiplication, this was a fun task because when someone plays my game I feel good about it because it is showing my learning to the person who is playing the game, and for them to learn more about multiplication.