Month: January 2023

Kōwhai Drawing – Kick Start

Today for the SLJ I did Kōwhai Drawing – Kick Start. It was really fun drawing this type of flower and knowing some facts about Kōwhai’s! Here are some facts that I’ve learnt about Kowhai’s.

Fact 1: Kowhai’s are best known for their brilliant yellow flowers that appear in profusion in Spring and stand out among the forest greenery.

Fact 2: Trees of this Kowhai’s are long lived with one proven to be 460 years old and others thought to be up to 1800 years old.

Fact 3:  The bark of the kowhai tree can be used in a bath to help with bruising and has long been used by Māori to help with broken bones as well as itching, shingles, and dandruff.

Thank you very much Michelle Tate for making this task I’ve really enjoyed it!

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Seaside Stories – Step it up!

Seaside Stories

I am writing a story based on this picture here! 

Warning!: Not based on a true story – I made this up!

Information about the story

This story is about me and my family going to this beach where no one goes and exploring the beach to see if there’s anything mysterious. My family was shocked when they saw the mysterious problem. They tried to help but couldn’t do anything. Until they had a really big plan in mind. 

 

Stay tune to read the story

Warning!: Not based on a true story – I made this up!

Enjoy the story 

 

Part 1

 

One day, me and my family went to the beach. We went to this beach that nobody goes to. And I’m Serious like where nobody goes. When we went it was so empty. Not even one person was there! I asked my dad “ Dad, why doesn’t anyone come here?”. 

 

My dad replies “Sweetheart, everyone thinks this beach is a mysterious beach, They think that this beach is so scary and creepy”. “Oh, I get it! Can we explore it?” I said “We sure can, that’s why we’re here today”. The beach was called the mysterious beach. 

 

It didn’t look that scary to me though. I was really excited to explore this cool beach. It was so lovely, quiet but messy. It was a nice teal colour of water. My siblings were excited too!We went to the car to grab some equipment to explore the beach. We grabbed 5 shovels, 5 metal detectors, some gloves and 5 magnifying glasses. 

 

My mum, my baby sister and my big brother weren’t coming because they went to my cousin’s house. We first started to grab the metal detectors and scan the sand to see if there were any metals, jewellery and more.We scanned for about one hour and we found a lot of things. We found metal cans, a lot of jewellery, some coins, and a treasure chest. 

 

Part 2

 

My siblings were confused. My dad asked “ Who found this treasure chest?”. I replied “ Me dad Me, I did!”. My dad was confused and said “ Where did you find it hunny?”. I said “ right here, Right here under the water of the beach”.

 

We started to scan more around the beach and in the water. We found A LOT of treasure chest. We opened the treasure chests all up and in each treasure chest, there was a piece of note that we had to put all together to create a note. 

 

The note said “ grab some magnifying glasses and look far down where the flag is in the water”. We looked and we sawed the red flag. We went to grab our magnifying glasses and looked at the red flag. 

 

THERE WAS SOMETHING REALLY SHOCKING!There was a mermaid! She was crying but I didn’t know why. SO I told my dad “ Hey dad let’s go get the jet skis to reuse the poor mermaid”. 

 

My dad said “ alright let’s go”. We went to grab the jet skis and went into the water to save the mermaid. When we arrived at the red flag the mermaid disappeared. 

 

I was so scared that the mermaid might have been hurt! We looked around into the distance to see if the mermaid was around. My dad sawed a pirate boat. We headed to that boat and sawed the mermaid tied up! I was really Scared at first. Everything started to get weird.

Part 3

 

Then an evil pirate jumped up and said “ You mighty people have no respect for us pirates, We are going to kidnap you all one day! Hehe”. I was shaking! I asked, “What is your name?” My name is Ace” Replied the pirate. “Wait but how do we not give respect to you pirates? You guys are basically humans like us” I said. 

 

The pirate replied “ You guys don’t even give us a house to live in, that’s how disrespectful you humans are!” – “ You pirates never tell us that you want a house to live in,” Said my brother yunas. The pirate gets angry and yells “ I WILL RULE THE WHOLE EARTH, AND MAKE YOU PEOPLE TURN INTO ALIENS!” My family and I were really shocked at what he said. 

 

“Wait before we leave, can we at least have the mermaid?” I asked. He angrily said” NO YOU CAN’T SHES MINE FOREVER GRRRR!” I was shocked! I was mind blown and scared! We called 1-1-1 and they didn’t even come because of how weird the beach was.

 

 I was so annoyed by this nonsense. So what I did was take a video of the mermaid in the pirate boat, and post it online on facebook. IT WENT VIRAL! Everyone still didn’t believe it. 

 

!!!!THE END!!!!

Seaside Stories – Kick Start

Today for the SLJ I did Seaside Stories – Kick Start. It was really fun filling in the gaps. I was quite struggling hard with the adjectives and nouns. But I used google to help me out a bit. I’m in love with this task now. I really want more tasks just like this one. Thank you very much Matt Goodwin for making this creative task.

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Poetry Slam Ono – Never Poem – Step it up!

Today for the SLJ I did Poetry Slam Ono – Never Poem – Step it up! It was really fun making this beat to go with my poem. I really enjoyed doing this task because this beat came out really nice with my poem. Thank you very much Matua Dave for this task.

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Poetry Slam Ono – Never Poem – Kick Start

Never Poem

 

Directions

To write your “Never Poem,” you will write one sentence for each of the

following, repeating your chosen consonant sound as many times as possible.

  1. Something you would never eat.
  2. Something you would never wear.
  3. Something you would never buy.
  4. Something you would never do.
  5. Someplace you would never go.
  6. Something you would always like to think about.
  7. “And I promise I will never …”

Struggling to find words to match your letter? You can always swap a word for a synonym (a word that means the same, e.g. swap happy for joyous). Check out the online thesaurus or dictionary to help you with this.

 

Here is an Example 

I would never eat tubeless tires. 

I would never wear a tiger tailed t-shirt. 

I would never buy a tie dyed tomato.

I would never trick toddlers into tripping

I would never go to town to trap turtles. 

I would always like to toe tap to tunes.

And I promise I will never turn turnips into toasted tractors.

 

Write Your poem 

I would never eat pork.

I would never wear a bikini.

I would never buy pork or ham.

I would never treat others like dogs. 

I would never go to South Sudan.

I would always keep my hijab on.

And I promise I will never kill the environment. 

Creature Creation – Stories from around the world – Step it up!

Today for the SLJ I did Creature Creation – Stories from around the world – Step it up! It was really fun making these trading cards. I had to make these trading cards for my SLJ task. I made a Beauty dragon and a Sad dragon. I had to put a little description about some facts about the dragon. Thank you very much Naomi Toland for making this task.

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Creature Creation – Stories from around the world – Kick Start

Today for the SLJ I did Creature Creation – Stories from around the world – Kick Start. It was really fun making my own creature or monster. I decided to do a DRAGON! I’m in love with dragons. They’re really cool! I love how they bring fire out of their mouths. My dragon’s name is Nuri. It means “my fire”. Thank you very much Naomi Toland for making this creative task.

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Artistic Math – Step it up!

Today for the SLJ I did Artistic Math – Step it up! It was really fun making this impossible triangle shape. I was actually struggling to find out how to make the triangle. I then found out that Cheryl Murphy uploaded a video on the SLJ site. Then It was easy to make this impossible triangle. Thank you very much Cheryl Murphy for making this Artistic task.

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Artistic Math – Kick Start

Today for the SLJ I did Artistic Math – Kick Start. it was really fun making this pursuit square. I actually really enjoyed this task because, i’m inlove with art and also I like to learn new things. Thank you very much Cheryl Murphy for making this Artistic task.

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Amazing Kuaka – Step it up!

Today for the SLJ I did Amazing Kuaka – Step it up! It was really fun finding New Zealand and Alaska on the google mymaps. I’ve learned that godwit go from NZ to China’s yellow sea to Alaska. At the end of the video I said ” the distance between China’s yellow sea and Alaska is” and then I stopped. The distance between China’s yellow sea and Alaska is 10552.22 kilometers. Thank you very much Maria Krausse for making this task.

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