SLJ Culture, Customs and Climate Week 2 Day 6

Students from Te Ngahere (including me) did some Summer Learning Journey Activities. For Activity 1, Before we leave the airport and go to our hotel, we will want to learn how to say hello in the language of your country. We had to answer What language does your country use?. We had to use Google translate to read and listen to simple phrases in our country's language!. Then Write 6 -8 useful phrases in our country's language we chose to 'visit' and Record the english version and the translation. If we were going to Canada, United Kingdom or Australia, we had to try and find 6-8 useful slang words/phrases. For example ice block is ice pop in Canada and ice lolly in England. For Activity 2, once we read these phrases we will be ready to leave the airport and head to our hotel. We had to Take a moment and imagine how we might feel if you were standing in the airport in a foreign country and you had to figure out how to communicate with people in a brand new language. Would we be scared? Would we feel confident?. We had to write a short poem that describes how we might be feeling (i.e. excited, happy, scared, nervous, etc) or Take a selfie that captures how you might be feeling and write a descriptive paragraph about how you may be feeling. For the Bonus Activity we had to Translate the following five basic travel phrases into Spanish, German, Malaysian, Japanese, Arabic or Afrikaans. Use the (Google Translate website) to do the translations.
 - When is the next bus?
 - I'm from _______ in New Zealand
 - Sorry, I don't speak (German/ Spanish etc).
 - Which direction is the supermarket?
 - Thank you, have a nice day!
Here is my Summer Learning Journey Activities: Hope you enjoy it!
Ka Kite!

SLJ Boarding the Plane Week 1 Day 5

On April 23rd students from Te Ngahere (including me) did some Summer Learning Journey Activities. For Activity 1 we had to Think about all of the books that we have read this year and recommend one for Curious Kiwi to read. We had to List the title and author of the book and then provide a short description of it and say What is the book about?. For Activity 2 we had to Read the following three reviews of books that are really popular in Canada (Book 1: Catching Fire - The Hunger Games #2 by Suzanne Collins, Book 2: Matilda by Ronald Dahl and Book 3: Diary of a Wimpy Kid – The Ugly Truth). We had to answer this question: If we had to choose one for Curious Kiwi to read on the plane, which one would we choose?. Then we had to Post the name of the book that we would choose and Below the title explain why you would choose that book. For the Bonus Activity we had to use our imagination to write a short story. Our teachers provided us with three different beginnings for a story. We had to Choose our favorite beginning and finish the story. We had to answer this question: What happens next? We could use our imagination and create any ending that we want. We had to post, at least 10 -12 sentences and Think about our writing goals before we begin!
- I looked around the room. Nothing seemed unusual, but then…
- I knew it was going to be an unusual day when my mom came into my bedroom and said...
- The spaceship was out of control and only one person could save us....
Here is my Summer Learning Journey Activities for Week 1 Day 5.


 

WALKING WITH AN ANZAC

On April the 22nd, students from Te Ngahere (including me) created a WALKING WITH AN ANZAC Slideshow. First we had to click onto this website called (WALKING WITH AN ANZAC). Then we had to click onto that link, then we had to read the 3 steps, then click onto this link that says (CLICK HERE TO FIND YOUR ITEM). After that we had to choose our item, After that it will say someone's name who went to War. Next we had to scroll down to read the person's story and gather information about them and make a digital learning object (DLO).
Here is mine: Hope you enjoy it!
 Ka Kite!

SLJ (packing up) Week 1 Day 4

Kia ora everyone my name is Angela. At Paihia School we have been doing some Distance Learning since Covid 19. On the 23rd of April we have been doing some Summer Learning Journey Activities. For Activity 1 we had to find out more about the weather in our chosen country. We had to go onto this link called (Accu Weather website). It told us what the weather is going to be like in our country of choice. On the website we had to Provide a five day forecast for the weather in the capital city of your chosen country and Check if your weather is shown in degrees, celcius (we use this in NZ) or degrees farenheit. For Activity 2 we had to Post a list of everything that we need to pack for our trip. We had to Think about clothing, toiletries and entertainment and Make sure we don't overpack!. We had to put a star (*) beside the 5 items that we think are the most important. For the Bonus Activity we had to Make a word poem called a ‘wordle’ using our packing list we are taking on our trip. To make a wordle we had to click onto the link to make the wordle and it was called (the word art website). The website will create a wordle for us. We then had to Save the wordle and then post it on our blog. Does your school do Summer learning Journey?
Here is mine: Hope you like it!
Ka Kite!


 

SLJ (buying a ticket) Week 1 Day 3

On the 19th of April students from Te Ngahere did some Summer Learning Journey Activities. For Activity 1 we had to watch both of the current Air New Zealand safety videos. (Air New Zealand 2020, journey to safety) and Air New Zealand 2019, Air All Blacks). Once we had finished watching both the videos we listed three things that you need to do to stay safe on an airplane and say why its Important. For Activity 2 we had to Imagine that we have been asked to create our very own airline! and what we would call it?. We had to Design a simple logo for our airline and post it on our blog. We had to include an explanation of our logo that was at least 5 sentences. You will see what my logo looks like below. For the bonus Activity we had to use the (XE currency converter website) to find out how much each ticket would cost in New Zealand dollars [NZD $]. On our blog, we had to tell you How much it would cost in New Zealand dollars to fly to each country, Which country is the most expensive country to visit and Which country is the least expensive country to visit.
Here is my SLJ Activities for Week 1 Day 3: Hope you like it!
Ka Kite!



 

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 2

On the 16th of April, students from Te Ngahere (including me) did some activities for Summer Learning Journey. For Activity 1 we had to fill in the 5 sentences with the information we got from google online about the capital city of our country we chose to 'visit'. My country I chose to 'visit' is Australia and Australia's capital city is Canberra. For Activity 2 we had to have at least four reasons why we think bullfighting in Mexico/Spain should be banned or keep going. My four reasons were about me wanting bullfighting to be banned and stopped completely. For the Bonus Activity we had to write down 3 things you did when you visited Wellington. If we haven't had the opportunity to visit Wellington we had to click onto this website about Wellington called (Discover Wellington). Then we had to think of 3 things we would like to do, Why we want to visit that place in Wellington and who you would go with. Then we had to click on the website called (google earth) and pin where we would like to go and take a screenshot.
Here is mine:
                    

Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 1

On the 15th of April some students in Te Ngahere (including me) had to pick a country to describe and say why they picked that country and add some facts. The country I chose was Australia because I have never been to Australia and my cousins live there and they enjoy it!. Then I had to research on google 3 interesting facts about Australia and write down the ones I would prefer. The 3 facts I have chosen are It would take around 29 years to visit one new Aussie beach every day (there are 10,685 of them!), Australia has the world’s longest golf course measuring more than 850 miles long and Australia is home to 21 of the world’s 25 most venomous snakes. Then we had a bonus activity which you had to write a letter to someone about you going on a little holiday to the place you have chosen. Next time I’m going to challenge myself by doing most of the bonus activities because its extra work and fun. And did you know that there are over 60 different types of Kangaroos and Australia is the 6th largest country in the world?.
Ka Kite!