(Kick Start) Rock Painting - SLJ 2021-2022

One of the tasks this week for the SLJ was to create a painted rock. I made a rock with a rose on it in the shape of a heart. Enjoy :)

 

(Kick Start) Snowball Poem: Summer - SLJ 2021-2022

 

This weeks poetry slam task is a poem type called: Snowball Poems. I made mine about summer, in this poem type you have to make a sentence and then make the next a word/letter longer. In the kick start activity, you had to make it a word longer. Enjoy :)

(Step it up) Poetry Slam: Clerihew/Animation - SLJ 2021-2022

 This is my 6th poetry slam task. This week we learnt about Clerihew's, read one of my latest blog posts to learn more. I wrote mine about my cousin Braxton and her passion for the art of song and dance. This time we had to create something like an animation, I used the site scratch. Enjoy :)

(Kick Start) Hidden Colours in Ink: Salt Solution/Purple Marker - SLJ 2021-2022

One of todays challenge was to try out the hidden colours in ink experiment. I tried mine with the salt solution and a purple marker. My marker didn't change much colour, but afterwards it slowly started to change to a pinky purple. This was super fun, check out the video above. Enjoy :)

(Kick Start) Poetry Slam: Clerihew - SLJ 2021-2022

I am a little late to this, but this is my 5th poetry slam task. This week we learnt about Clerihew's, read one of my slides to learn more. I wrote mine about my cousin Braxton and her passion for the art of song and dance. Enjoy :)

(Step it up) Cicada Dish - SLJ 2021-2022

One of the tasks this week, was to make a dish with cicada's. I made a traditional meat, potatoes and veggies dish. Enjoy :)

 

(Kick Start) Snoozeatron: Something to fall asleep - SLJ 2021-2022

This is the task for making a Snoozeatron, make something to help you fall asleep/wake up. I decided to make something to help me fall asleep. The explanation about the whole thing is in the poster on top. Enjoy :)

 

(Kick Start) Sale Percentages: The Maths - SLJ 2021-2022

 

Since I forgot to do the maths to this blog-post I am doing another one, explaining how much you would buy it for. If you haven't seen the original you can check it out here: http://peskiarahs.blogspot.com/2022/01/kick-start-sale-percentages-slj-2021.html

Enjoy:)

If you have 10% off $50, you have $45 as the ending price. If you have 30% off when you buy 3, that's a bit more complicated. If we multiply 50 by 3 that would come to 150, 30% of 150=45. So 150-45=105. 

(Step it up) Summer Essentials - SLJ 2021-2022

 

This is the task of my "Summer Essentials", I have 10 summer essentials. I chose, sunblock, shorts, fan, hat, Chromebook, jandals, summer umbrella, water (hydration,pool,beach), towel and puzzles. What is something you need this summer? Enjoy :)

(Kick Start) News Reporter - SLJ 2021-2022

Task Description:

Today we were tasked to be a news reporter! We had to pick a story and report it on the news. Everything in this video is true, except for the start (before the story). Here is the link to the article here: https://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/company-fires-900-people-via-zoom-call/

Kia Ora, in todays breaking news story we are heading out of NZ, to see what a US company has done to their workers. 900 of Better.com's workers have been fired, but there's more to the story. Listen to the video to find out - the shocking facts. 

(Kick Start) Sale Percentages - SLJ 2021-2022

For one of the tasks this week we had to make an advertisement for something. Then we had to do the maths of 10% off and 30% off. This is my advertisement, I have done a wall. Enjoy :)

 

(Extra) Origami Bunny+Fortune Teller - SLJ 2021-2022

 Recently I made an Origami box, today I made a bunny+fortune teller. These were both very easy and can be searched online. I made my origami pieces out of rectangle paper, but just cut it down. So you can try it at home too. Enjoy :)

(Kick Start) One is a Snail Ten is a Crab: Drawings+Maths - SLJ 2021-2022

Today we were tasked with reading the story One is a Snail Ten is a Crab. We had to draw the animals/people in the story. This is a story where there are different animals and it counts each of their feet. I drew the boy and the girl, then I drew the animals and labelled each one. 

Then we had to add all of the legs on each animal up, all the way to 33. 

(Kick Start) Weather Journal - SLJ 2021-2022

 

Today one of the tasks for SLJ was to create a weather journal. My Journal is in 3 time slots, from 9 am to 2 pm. I had to go outside and look at the sky, see: What was I wearing?, check the temperature and see what the weather was. Enjoy :)

(Step it up) Point Perspective Art: Summer Scene - SLJ 2021-2022

Last time I did Point Perspective art with shapes, this time I made a summer scene! This is a sunset along a country road. Enjoy :)

Optical Illusions: A Nano-Girl Experiment - SLJ 2021-2022

Explanation of Optical Illusions (From Nano Girl): 

Optical means to do with our eyes, and optical illusion is where our eyes see something that isn’t really there.

Cartoons are optical illusions. Traditional cartoons are made up from thousands of drawings that are shown so quickly that your brain thinks the drawings are moving. 

What I will be doing:

Another way you can do this is using the science of refraction which is where light bounces differently through water than it does through air. If you draw an arrow on a piece of paper and then look at it through a glass of water, it seems to change direction but it’s just a trick on our eyes.

I have decided to draw an arrow, this is how it turned out:

I drew an arrow to the right and as you can see it has become an arrow to the left!

This is my arrow before hand.

I found out that if you put it close enough to the glass, the illusion does not work.

What next?:

An arrow was a practice, so now I decided to draw a stick figure!

My Stick Figure is holding an orange so you can see whether it switches sides or not:

This is how it turned out! It worked :)

(Step it up) Magnetic Haiku: Summer - SLJ 2021-2022

 

This is another Magnetic Poetry task! Instead of a normal Magnetic task, this is a Haiku Magnetic Poem. Kylah L from Saint Mary's Gisborne came up with this amazing idea. Make sure to go to her blog and leave her a comment, she has some great blog-posts. You can check her out at: https://saintmarysgiskylahl.blogspot.com/. Enjoy this poetry slam task :)

(Kick Start) Magnetic Poetry - SLJ 2021-2022

One of the tasks for: Poetry Slam 4 was to make our own Magnetic Poem (words given). The poem had to be all about summer. I have 3 sentences in my poem, Enjoy  :)

 

(Kick Start) Build a Boat - SLJ 2021-2022

 One of the tasks this week was to create a boat and see if it would float or sink. These are photo's of my boat, and if it floated or sank. Enjoy:)

Boat:

I used cardboard tubes for the base of my boat, paper and ice-block sticks for the sail, and then I decorated it.

Float or Sink?:

SINK!

My boat sank, the question is why?

I think my boat sank because the paper tubes had no air trapped inside, it was just a hole straight through. That meant that the water was able to get inside my boat. 

What could I do better?:

I think I could of twisted my sail around, so the wind would push it to the side instead of into the water.

This was a super fun activity, I enjoyed experimenting with all of the different materials! Try it out.

(Kick Start) Origami Box - SLJ 2021-2022

 

One of the tasks this week was to make an Origami box/Cube, I made an origami box. I was inspired by Estherose from Saint Patrick's School to do this tasks. Happy New Year, Enjoy :)

(Kick Start) Target Practice - SLJ 2021-2022

One of the SLJ tasks was to have a target competition with our family/friends. I did it with my brother, and we had the same type of plane, but very different scores. 

TARGET:

4 zones:

Purple=0 pts

Green=5 pts

Blue=10 pts

Red=20 pts 

Paper Plane:

I made mine out of card paper, it is the World Record plane.

We had three throws each, I won the competition with 25 pts (Blue,Blue,Green), Tevita got 20 pts (Purple,Red,Purple). I had heaps of fun and will definitely do this again. Try it out!

(Kick Start) How do other countries celebrate New Years? - SLJ 2021-2022

To celebrate the New Years, one of the SLJ tasks has been to fill in the slides of how other countries celebrate New Years. It was fascinating to learn about different countries and their traditions. Enjoy:)