Cicadas Do Maths-SLJ

Cicadas Do Maths

(Sorry I have not been blogging a lot of SLJ stuff)

Just letting you guys know that I will try to blog more tasks after Christmas until the  new years because I am going to be busy for a while. 

Hey everyone! 

Today I decided to do a SLJ task! I did "Cicadas Do Maths" because it sounded really fun and interesting!

Activity one: Kick start! I found this activity really fun, it was really cool to think about what I want to do when I get older and who I want to become. It was really cool to think about and to vision what my life would be like!  This Kick Start activity was so much fun to do and I really enjoyed it. I recommend trying this activity if you want a nice and calm thing to do. Here is my "When I am 17... " work!

Activity two: Step It Up  For this activity we had to make a Cicada life cycle. I found this one easy and hard. This was really fun to learn about, as I literally had no knowledge about Cicadas but now I know what they look like, and other facts about them. I created the cycle on a google drawing. This was really fun to and now I know heaps of facts. For example the main fact I learnt was that shortly after a 17-year old Cicada nymph (a Cicada nymph hatches from an egg) hatches from it's egg it burrows itself into the ground. Where it spends it's first 17 years of it's life excavating tunnels and eating the sap from the free roots. I hope you like my work! 

Summer learning journey-Vector Art Decoration

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Today I decided to do one of the activities for the Summer learning journey! I wanted to create a Vector Art Decoration because it sounded like a lot of fun and I wanted to give it a go! Activity 1: Kick start! I was inspired by a hourglass type of shape but I changed the actual shape to diamonds but the same sort of outside shape of the hourglass if that makes sense?  I wanted to make it green and red because I like those colours and I also wanted some short of shape inside the diamond!  Some tips I would recommend is to add different shapes because it makes it look really cool and adds detail. Also maybe a lot of different colours (if you want) to make it stand out. My last tip would be to make it a unique shape and not just a circle for your decoration. Activity 2: Step it up. 

Activity 1: Kick start! This is what I have created! 

Activity 2: Step it up, this is what I have done for this activity! 

I have started to do this activity but I have to stop now because I have to go for the weekend so sorry if I don't finish it.

I don't have any tips so far as I have just started doing it. I have decided to do the rock because I like his acting he does. Even though this is NOT finished I will still show you!

Kiwi Christmas on the beach!

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Today we needed to make a Christmas shape google drawing. This was inspired by summer learning journey but this is not one of the tasks for summer learning journey. We were doing the real summer learning journey but then our Toroa buddies came and we needed to do something easy for them so we made a new google drawing and we had to make a picture. Mine is a Kiwi Christmas on the beach.  My buddies helped me make this too.

Buddy reading!

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This year Ruru and Kotuku (Kotuko is year 2, and Ruru is year 6 and 5) have been getting together for buddy reading once a week? And today we got told we can blog there writing from athletics and this is her writing (her name is Annabelle L) By the way this is her writing from her book i'm just writing it up on my Chromebook. Please comment on what you think about her writing. (Just being aware shes 6 so shes not going to have top grade writing) Here's her writing:)

Athletics

Yesterday we did athletics. We were brilliant. First we are lined up in house groups and Mustang went with Mrs Hefferman. Mustang was doing sprinting, we were running. Then we did relays, with Mrs Coco and Miss Merial. We were running with a batten. Then we did skipping with Elle. Then we went to the playground. Then we did high jump with Mr Williams. Next we did Frisbee with Mrs Rymen. Then we had morning tea, then we did athletics with Miss Thomason. Then we did discus. Then we did long jump.Then it was lunchtime. Then we did the roll. Then we did shot put. Then we did run, jump, throw. Last we all had a movie. Then it was home time. I thought that it was fun  

Camp imovie

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In September Ruru went on camp! We went to Living springs and it was so much fun! We did multiple activities and shout out to the chef the food was amazing! After we got back from camp we started making a imovie from camp on wevideo! I didn't really like using this app because I personally thought it was a bit annoying and a little hard to use but that doesn't mean it will be for you i'm just telling you my experience. Before making the imovie we had to create a plan on paper of what we wanted to do. I will be honest I didn't stick to my plan at all, and I think I could have done a better job!

 

Writing-Hideaway

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This week I started writing a story and i'm really proud of it. I have only wrote one chapter and I have not finished it yet but I really wanted to blog it. I wrote this when we did free writing because we basically did free writing all week. I am  this now because I am waiting for my camp iMovie to finish downloading so I decided to post this while I am writing. If you have any feedback please comment! P.S sorry I haven't posted in a while!

Hideaway

Chapter 1: No time for shoes

“BANG” I woke up with my heart pounding, it sounded like the front door had fallen in. A humming noise traveled through the hallway, followed by loud footsteps banging on the wooden floor. “Thud...thud...thud...” Then silence scattered around. I sat up quickly and looked to my left to see my sister Willow huddled in the corner of her bed shaking with fear. I rapidly got out of my bed and rushed to Willow. But something caught my eye, a letter assigned to me and my sister laying on the floor. I picked it up and I started reading it out loud. “This is your parents, do not muck around! You NEED to escape! Follow the path in the forest at the back of the house and a train is waiting for you. We have been meaning to tell you something our whole lives, we are a part of-” “thud...thud...thud” “we have to go!” I cried. I picked Willow out of her bed and opened the window, the footsteps were getting closer and closer. “Where are you!” a deep scary voice echoed through the walls, “I know you're there!!!” they whispered. I dropped the letter. “Here jump out the window!” I said “what about our shoes!” “There's no time for shoes” I cried once we had both climbed out the window. Me and my sister raced into the forest, disappearing in the trees.

Girl falling down a tunnel

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For the past week we were doing descriptive writing on a girl falling down a tunnel. First we wrote a plan and then we wrote the 5 feelings, smell, see, feel, feel (emotions) , taste and hear (I think I got all of them) Here is my story it's not perfect so if you have any things that could I fix tell me!

Heres my writing

I was going for my daily walk around the block when I saw something in the corner of my eye. I looked to my left and saw a mysterious sparkle in the trees. My curiosity got the better of me and I found myself walking towards it. Before I could reach it the ground below me crumbled open and I fell into it. Suddenly I was falling down a tunnel.

 I saw the beam of light from my world fading away. The cold, stale air pushed against my body. My arms reached out trying to get a grip on something, anything! But the dirt and rocks gathered in my hands and slowly disintegrated soon after. The panic got to me, where was I falling too? What is at the bottom? The deeper I fell the more I got used to my surroundings.Seeing nothing but the light from above fading away. Then I heard voices, multiple voices and before I could listen in BANG! I smashed into the ground. 

Dust filled my mouth and a terrible smell pushed past me. The light above me had completely faded away and I was staring into nothing. I felt numb and still. I finally got the courage to get up. I got up but then I tripped on a piece of wood and suddenly I was falling again. This time I was falling past miles and miles of bookshelves reappearing then disappearing, again and again. I felt like I had been falling for decades. My life was flashing before my eyes.