Kia Ora In Te Ngahere my friend/buddy Jacob and I joined an event called E-Symposium presentation, E-Symposium presentation is an event where different students from different schools joined a google meeting and introducing tool to other schools. Our app was Groove Pizza and the schools involved were Tautoro, Ohaeawai and Kawakawa primary.. After that we have to make a copy of a blog post slide and answer the question. One thing we found hard was writing and creating our slide and script for our E Symposium presentation and one thing I enjoyed was making up my music rhymes. I would like to thank my teacher-Whaea Healen for introducing this website/app to us and supporting us in our presentation.

Have you ever used Groove Pizza before?
If you haven’t used it before, check out the link-
https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza

Here is my Blog slide:

Kia Ora. In Te Ngahere we’ve been making movies, this time we made a quick cut montage movie. A montage movie is a movie that has sped up movement and made the movie a bit funny.The movie we recreated is the scene from Scott Pilgrim getting ready. The shot we used this time was mainly close ups or mid shots. Our movie is called “Gotta go fast” which as about two students racing to sign in to the chromebook and the funny part of our movie is that he took a long time to load and at the end it says wrong password. One thing I thought was hard was to edit our movie because we need to find some sound effect to make our movie more funny. One thing I found easy was to make up our story. If I did this again I would change our story because this story is too used by other people. 

What’s your favorite movie; and why was that your favourite movie?

Kia Ora. Last week in Te Ngahere we’ve been making movies . In movie making we have to make a movie about the Ricky Baker dance movement. Also we have been learning about filming using different shots, like long shot, mid shot, over shoulder shot and close up shot… The 3 main shots are long shot, mid shot and close up shot, long shot is a shot where you take a shot of the scene, mid shot is a a shot where you waist up shot of one or two characters and close up shot is a Neck up shot of one character. After we filmed our video we have to edit it into a movie. We had to mute the video then add a music to it, the reason we choose that music was because it sounded relaxed and the second reason was because it suited the movement in our movie. We also got a chance to change our format, we choose a comic format because it looks cool. I was the filmer in our movie, one thing I thought was hard was to film in different shots. One thing I enjoyed was watching the movie that we made.

What’s your favourite movie?
Why was that your favourite movie?

Kia Ora in Paihia School on 19th of May most of us joined Maromaku Sports Day. Maromaku Sports Day is a sporting event that lets different schools from the northland region chose to play either Rugby or Netball. I played Netball. Also on that day we only got to play 2 games because the weather wasn’t that good and we all got wet. For this event I learnt how to play netball and although we lost we were still glad we had a chance to play with other schools. If I get a chance to play the game again I would change my position.

Do you enjoy playing sports ?
What is your favourite sport and why is that your favourite sport?

Kia Ora. This SLJ activity is called SPY craft. For this activity we could make our own secret code. You have to create your own secret code and write a secret message into that code. My favourite part of this activity was planning my secret sentence and changing them into my secret code, but that the hard point because I have to use a lo’t of time to change into different letters and make them into a word.

Have you made a secret code before?

Here is my secret code, have a go:

Kia Ora. This SLJ activity is called Long Place Name. For this activity we have to explore some long place names and fill the information into a slide. one of the things I learned from this activity was that the longest place name is called “Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu” and it’s from Hawkes Bay in New Zealand, it translate into”The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his kōauau to his loved one.”

After that we have to list out 4 places that we want to go to, my first one is Fujian(a city in China) because that is my hometown and I miss my family and friends so much(PS; this dream is going to become true this year).

The second place I want to go to is Beijing(capital of China) It has lots of things that I want to explore like the great wall, The Palace Museum, Tienanmen square…

My third place that I want to go to is Russia because I thought Russia was cool and I wanted to have a look at the famous building”st. basil’s cathedral.” The fourth place I want to go is Hawaii because that’s a good place for holidays and relaxing.

What’s your dream place to go?

Here is my slide:

Kia Ora. This SLJ activity is called Kowhai drawing. For this activity we have to create our own drawing about Kowhai trees, but before that we have to watch how to draw a Kowhai tree and read some facts about Kowhai trees. Three facts I learned from this activity was that Kowhai trees are a type of small woody legumes of the genus Sophora in the Fabaceae family, also it have 8 different species of Kowhai and it all native to New Zealand. I first drew the outline of a kowhai tree but I also drew a fantail on the tree branch so it won’t look that empty and boring. After that I colouring in my drawing and added some detail for it.

Have you seen a kowhai tree before?

Here is my image:

Kia Ora. This SLJ activity is called Artistic Maths. For this activity we have to create a Pursuit square out of a Google drawing’s poly-lines. What we have to do is keep making the size of squares until you can’t make anymore squares. After that we get to put on some colours, I chose yellow, orange and green because these 3 are my favourite colours( PS. especially yellow). one thing I thought was hard was trying to make the same distance for each gap on each side.

Have you ever seen or made a Pursuit square before?

Here is my Pursuit square:

Kia Ora. This SLJ activity is called Geometry Art. For this activity we have to create our own geometry art. to make the art the we have to include 4 circles with dots in them, a equilateral triangle, two right angles, three parallel lines, two perpendicular lines, one acute triangle and one obtuse triangle. After that we got to colour in our art, I chose yellow, red, orange and black because I thought those 4 colours would fit well. My favourite part of this activity was drawing the shapes but one thing I thought hard was colouring because I’m trying to make the colours spread out so the same colour won’t be adjacent to each other. 

Have you ever tried Geometry Art before?

Here is my art:

Kia Ora. This SLJ activity is called Minecraft Pixel Art. For this activity we have created a self portrait of yourself. I chose to create my portrait in 32×32, so first I made the background with some white blocks and then I made the outline of my face with some blocks that I think are the closest to my skin colour. After that I made the outline of my 5 facial features (eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouse and ears), at the end I fill in the colours and I also fill in my hairs. I also try to use different blocks for my portrait, for my nostrils I place a dragon egg in front of a black concrete and also i use the trap doors as a black gape for my teeth.

Have you ever made a portrait of someone or yourself in Minecraft?

Here is mt portrait and my real picture: