Zaeeda-SLJ-Week 1 Day 4

Thursday, December 17, 2020 

Welcome back, to day 4 of the Summer Learning Journey. I'm glad you're here with us as we complete 2 new activities. I had a lot of fun doing these unique and creative tasks, I especially enjoyed the Rise-Up challenge. 

Activity 1: Rise Up
For this task we were asked to compose the chorus of the song. If possible we were also asked to record it. I enjoyed writing this song very much however, I wasn't able to record it due to complications.

Activity 2: Te Reo Maori

This was a bit easy, and I didn't really find it much of a challenge. However it was still fun to do and practicing Te Reo is always important

That concludes day 4 of the summer learning journey. I'm enjoying the Holidays a lot. Keep safe and have a Merry Christmas!

Zaeeda-SLJ- Day 2 Week 1

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

It's day 2 of the Summer Learning Journey. Yesterday was heaps of fun, let's see what we're doing today!

Activity 1: Fishy False Teeth
This task was quite interesting, I enjoyed it very much. It was similar to our reading comprehension tasks we do at school in class. I liked how the topic was completely different and unique. ;)

And that concludes day 2 of the Summer Learning Journey. This task was fairly easy, but from what I see on the site. The work is going to get a bit trickier. Knowing me I love a challenge, so let's give it our best shot. Stayed tuned for more!

Zaeeda-SLJ- Day 1 Week 1

Monday, December 14, 2020

This year, despite it being the end of my time at Pt England, I am going to take part in the Summer Learning Journey. To keep my learning UP! I'm excited to see what the creators have in store for us this time!

Activity 1: Your Comments Count
Blog Commenting, is a way for us to re-act to some of the amazing work people share with us. During lock-down blog commenting was something we had to do quite regularly because it helped us stay connected. However there are certain things you must remember when, Commenting on Blogs. 

For this task we were asked to craft a well written blog comment. Which we would then leave on someones blog. I enjoyed this task a lot because it's something we continuously practice in our class as well.

Here is my blog comment. I started with a greeting, there was no need for an introduction because, I know this person in real life. I then started by complimenting his work. I then pointed out something specific to post. I related to his work and I also asked 2 questions in order to be helpful. I finished with a formal goodbye and wrote my name.  

Here is a link to Valeli's blog. Check it out

This brings us to the end of day 1. I enjoyed commenting on peoples blogs and will surely continue to do so. I loved how this activity allowed us to practice our cyber-smart skills. 

Prize-Giving ~DUX~ 2020

 Today we had our 2020 School Pt England Prize-Giving. I got DUX (1st Academics), it was a lot of hard work. But I'm glad I managed to do it. Thank you Teachers, this might be the last post for the year/ ever. Thank you to everyone! 

I've had fun with my time at Pt England, and for the future readers and Pt Englander's MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR TIME AT PES ;)

Term 4 'Art Alive' Art Exhibition

This term the theme was Art Alive. This meant that the whole school, would focus on art as an area of learning. As it's the end of the term and year our whole school put up an art exhibition to share the art

portraying the theme.

Room 4 focused on the artist Vincent Van Gogh. His art style was post-impressionism. His technique included small short brush strokes, different from pointillism. So we re-created his famous starry night painting. It was different from how he did it, but still used the same technique. I found it really tricky, but I think it really, enjoyed it. I also painted 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' in Vincent Van Gogh's style, and I was really proud of it. Overall I think Vincent Van Gogh is a genius and very patient for having his art style.

My favourite Art was from Team 4. They focused, on doing different kinds of Cultural Patterns. There were Niuean, Fijian, Tongan, Cook-Island and Maori patterns. Each on was different and unique. I enjoyed their descriptions and I learnt that even the colours they used mattered!

I'd like to point out that, Ngatokoa's art in Team 3 had different colours and a silhouette. They created a silhouette art, with blending colours in the background. It was an art interesting art style and the silhouette was very nicely cut out. I loved how he blended the neon colours in the background despite the fact that they were so different and he still managed to blend them together. 

I also vividly remember seeing some beautiful Rangoli Elephants. They were beautifully coloured with patterns. I learnt that these were elephants that Hindu's used, to decorate their home during Diwali. It was very interesting to see how fancy and unique each on was.

Overall, each and every piece art was amazing. The school did a great job. And I for one know that I could definitely improve. I also love how so many of the art styles were inspired by famous artist!

Limericks ~Writing~

This week in literacy we looked limericks. These are usually poems that are humorous and contain a beat. They are usually 5 lines long and the number of syllables matter too. 

 

Term 4 DLO, Extension :)

The theme for Term 4 was Art Alive. So as usual in extension we focused on a certain area of Art. Our task was to create, a digital art work that reflects aspects of Kiwiana. Which is iconic New Zealand item, such as Pohutakawa, Harakeke and L&P. We also had to add, items that reflect our culture, and our family heritage,

My artwork is something that reflects me and my lifestyle. Because, I decided to put to beaches and kind of create a harbor like effects. But 1 side of the beach is, covered with things from fiji. We’ve got palm trees and turtles and a rocky tropical landscape in the background. If you look closely enough you can see that the turtles shell on the beach has Fijian patterns on it. 

Next time I would like to think about, changing the layout and making the page landscape. I would also like to,  have placed everything a bit better. I am quite proud of the shading on the harakeke though. Overall I think that this piece of art was done well. And I enjoyed making it!

Solubility

Today in Maths we looked at solubility. It was a lot of fun and we dissolved water in sugar.

~Euphoria~

It was a typical November evening, the sun was setting. It was utterly beautiful ‘ARGH THIS IS SO HARD’ Jack sighed in frustration. He had spent hours, days and possibly weeks trying to get the same book written. But this is the worst case of writer's block Jack had ever gotten.

He’d been struggling to get a single idea written on his blank page. It was as if his mind was either blank, wondering about something else or dealing with the issues that come with life. His wife had left him, 2 weeks ago. Now that can leave a man with mixed feelings.

After a few moments of staring at the blank page. He thought about how much easier it would be if he’d kept his mouth shut. Jack sighed in frustration ‘I keep messing up, messing up my marriage, messing up this stupid piece of writing’ he looked out side at the shining sun. ‘I’m miserable and I feel like giving up’ Jack spoke to his dog.

Bella was Jack’s golden retriever. She was always energetic and even on the darkest days she made Jack smile. Bella came to live with Jack after he moved out of college and got his own place. His parents had gone into retirement and they were probably sick of having ‘ a mangy old mutt prancing around in their castle of gold’.

Jack came from a wealthy family, his dad was a lawyer, and his mother practiced in medicine. Jack grew up in a busy household, even though he was an only child. His parents were always popping in and out as their occupations required lots of time. But it’s what made them happy, and who was Jack to question that.

After leaving college Jack decided to travel the world. He has a strange ambition that drove him to see the many wonders the world had to offer. He spent 10 years traveling. He went to Hawaii and surfed the tropical waves, he studied music in Tokyo and met the love of his life in Paris.

She was a lovely woman. Jack knew the minute he laid eyes on her that he’d marry her one day. From that day on, they were like 2 peas in a pod. A loving, happy couple that moved to North Carolina where she'd continue to record music and he’d write.

Jack stood up from his desk. He walked over to the window. He looked at the moon, the wonderful crescent moon it seemed so peaceful. He walked outside, the moonlit path and the cold air on his face. He was flooded with euphoria as he slowly strolled through the darkness of the night.

In The Bag

Today we had maths and in maths we looked at probability yet again. This lesson was pretty chill and easy and we got to play a game and go out and play with a parachute afterwards. This task required us to go around and randomly draw out some cubes and guess the different coloured ratio. E.g 1:5 (1 pink 5 whites).

Figure it Out: Statistics and Probability

Today in math we looked at probability once again. It was a lot of fun because we played a game with a coin and looked at how likely we were to win a carnival game.

Statistics and Probability

Today we had a maths lesson it was a lot of fun and it was a topic we had already been looking at. Look forward to doing more!

Alberto Giacometti ~Art Alive~

This term we are doing art rotations. In room 2 we learnt about Alberto Giacometti, his nationality is Swiss and he lived for 65 years. We looked at his biography and tried to interpret what he was portraying in his sculptures. We then got the task of choosing 2 art pieces of our choice and writing our initial reaction to it.

Algebra Everywhere

Today we looked more algebra. It was a lot of fun, but really repetitive. looking forward to doing more. ;D

Niuean Language Week

Fakalofa lahi atu This week is Niuean Language Week. The theme for this year is Lay the foundations - give rise to Vagahau Niue for generations. We had to share 10 interesting facts about Niue. I found the one about political parties most interesting.

 

Algebra + Probability

This week we learnt about Probability and Algebra. We had to find the rule in a number pattern we also revised a couple of things like finding the average and 24 hours time. This week we are going to have our maths test so its important we practice things like this :))

Agile Algebra 2

Today we had Maths. We looked at algebra and finding a rule in patterns. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it a lot. But I now know that this is something I have to practice more, as I did struggle in the beginning.

Agile Algebra 1

Today we moved into doing angles. We also looked at line graphs. It was pretty easy but I did get confused on the last question because my brain was over complicating things.

Vincent Van Gogh

This term our theme is Art Alive. We have a term full art based work in which we will be having many fun activities which will incorporate art. This is Vincent Van Gogh who is a famous artist, we had to create profile to portray what we've learnt so far about Vincent Van Gogh. There is so much to this mysterious artist like how did he think and if there was a bigger reason behind his terrible mental health. And what exactly happened during the incident in which he accidently cut off his ear?

 

Last Day Of Term 3

 Wow, and just like that Term 3 is over. This term was so interesting and I've got some mixed feelings about it. We're only a couple of weeks away from Prize-Giving, Graduation, High-School. 

We had a lock-down this term and that didn't help our learning at all. But of course we recovered from it very well. However many of our main events we cancelled, Hopefully we won't have one next term!

This week, I was really stressed because, even though it was the last week of term we still got the normal amount of work. On Thursday especially I was all over the place just trying to get things done. I know this is just the beginning of it and next term will probably be worse. But a future reminder to myself and a message to all TAKE A BREAK FROM TIME TO TIME.

And that's it for now, have a happy holidays everyone and keep safe!