SLJ – Octupus Oddities – Kick Start

LI: Create an Octupus using the online colouring tool or craft of your own!

For this Summer Learning Journey challenge, I’ve started off with an Octopus with no colouring, and as for this task; It is a requirement to colour it in with a certain colour that represents an Octopus. While colouring in, I have learnt that Octopuses have eight arms and no tentacles from beliefs; their arms have sucker muscular suction cups that they use to grip (Also used with their lenght.) Their tentacles think independently, which the Octopus was given the name of a multitasker! Their tentacles can also have a strong taste like a tastebud, which helps them taste things like us humans and other animals! These sea sticking creatures are quite huge, which they could grow up to 9 meters long, alongside three hearts and blue blood!

I found this activity really interesing because I get to learn more facts about the Octopus.

SLJ – Legs Legs Legs? Kick Start

LI: Mosha wants a new leg!

For this Summer Learning Journey Challenge, I have structured a new prosthetic leg for Mosha using Google Draw. As I continue to build this new leg, I’ve learnt that she stood on a landmine when she was just 7 months old, leading her to a penalty of losing her front leg on the left. A various amount of citiczens thought she would never have a chance of surviving, but she was saved by people that worked as a group, that gave her a chance of life.

I found this activity enjoyable because I get to create a new prosthetic leg for Mosha whilst also learning new facts about her.

SLJ – Leg Tally Kick Start

LI: To learn about giant centipedes.

For this Summer Learning Journey challenge, I’ve picked the Kick Start version of the Leg Tally using my Maths Knowledge for this assessment. As I carry on with my Maths Knowledge, I’ve also learnt new facts about this insect. It seems to be a large, and venomous predator coming from around the tropical regions, this predator seems to have been calculated to be 12 inches long. It also has a typical amount of animals to prey on which are; Lizards, Frogs, Bats, and Rodents. Talking about the typical amount of prey it eats, this insect has an ability that includes their front legs with venom, the front to paralyze animals it eats.

I found this activity really enjoyable because I get to share my Maths Knowledge and what I have learnt about the Giant Centipede so far.

SLJ – Art In The Web

For this Summer Learning Journey, I have structured on how to draw a spiderweb on a piece of paper using a marker to structure both webs at the same time. With the use of drawing the web; I have learnt that spiderwebs aren’t just any type of trap, they pose to be a work of art made by those little insects. While people not only pronounce their webs as traps and art, spiders are said to be experts at structuring their work of art using their webs and talent despite them being so little you could step on it.

I found this activity really enjoyable because I get to learn new facts about spiderwebs whilst also structuring my own on a piece of paper.

Summer Learning Journey – Animals With Superpowers

For this Summer Learning Journey; I’ve structured a sea water animal called the Red Lionfish using Google Draw. I have chosen this sea water species because it contains poison at the base of their spines. When confronted by a hazard, this type of fish releases the dorsal fins and faces the toxic spines in front of the cause of the hostility towards it.

I found this activity really enjoyable because I get to make the Red Lionfish using tools in Google Draw.

The Polynesian Panthers Voiceover

LI: To create a 3D image that depicts a moment in time.

This is my voiceover about the Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids, the Dawn Raids seems to be stated as the most racist act towards Pacific people and has been going around since 1974-1979. Since then, the Polynesian Panthers were formed and structured as allies and a team, protesting against the corruption from that year of time.

I found this activity really enjoyable because we get to research about world from all around the world. (alongside the dioramas that are based off the chosen events we have  picked.)

AI Movie Day/Night

LI: To understand how the time moves.

For this task, we learnt how the time changes from time to time. This first step is to show how the sun and moon shifts the Earth from morning to night with the use of PixVerse.ai. One part of Earth facing the sun makes us face daytime, whilst the other half faces nighttime, as the moon on the opposite side of the sun makes the others face the dark. This pattern continues on and on without stopping, which is called the alternation of day and night. Our Earth spins around from both sides at a time (with the help of its axis) In order for our planet to make a full circle, it was estimated to be about 24 hours to make its full spin.

I enjoyed this activity because we get to learn the process of how the day and night shifts across different places.

Ancient Time Telling – Sundial/Clepsydra/Hourglass

LI: To explore how our ancestors measured time

For this task, we were gathered into a group of three, and was seperated to do three different task for each person. The options were; Sundial, Clepsydra, and Hourglass. As you can see, the Google Vid shown on the top of the paragraph explains each of every detail for the clocks that carries on with our voiceovers. An interesting fact I learnt about the Sundial is that it can only work on sunny days and not at nighttime nor cloudy weathers.

I found this activity interesting because we get to learn more about the clocks from the past.

Summary Waltzing Matilda

LI: To understand the story within the poem.

For this task, we made a DLO of Waltzing Matilda. The paragraph represents the events that happened in the poem of Waltzing Matilda. For the full story, there was a swagman located in the billabong, he steals a sheep and was caught by the troopers. But when he was cornered, he made a decision to drown in the lake because he knew the outcome if he were to be put in jail, as poverty was inside there.

Something I found interesting about this text was how the swagman chose death over being caught.

LI: To understand both sides of an perspective

LI: To Making Sense of Unfamiliar Text

For this task, we learnt about the Shearer’s Strike; The Shearer’s Strike first took place in a farm where people worked there to earn money. The problem was the fair price of payment, where there lies the Pastoralists, they were the people that owned the farm and was the cause of the problem of not paying the fair amount of cash. Shearers there thought it was unfair and made a decision to stop working; thinking it could solve the problem of cash. Unfortunately the outcome of their decision only led them to where they started; in which they never got their fair pay. A few decided to return back home and ended up with an outcome of returning back to the farm, since the lack of money prevents them from affording food, charges, or any resources that can be bought with cash.

Something I found interesting about this text was their outcome; in which is the worker’s process were risky, they still didn’t get their fair pay as the ending.