Summer Learning - Task 2

Dear Mr Hadnett,

Lately, I have been thinking of traveling around the world. One of my main goals is to travel to Japan. The reason why is because they have very unique and different types of foods and culture. I was thinking of traveling by Airplane, only because its more quicker. Did you know that Japan is made up of 6,852 Islands and has the population of 126.8 Million.

Summer Learning - Task One

Japan 
Reasons why I choose this country: 
When im older I want to go to Japan.
 I want to learn more about Japan.

     

    

Mindfulness #2

For Inquiry, we are learning to show Mindfulness and how others can show Mindfulness.

I did a poster on ways I show Mindfulness. This is how mine turned out!

Mindfulness General

For Inquiry, We learnt how to show mindfulness and how to relax. 

This is how mine turned out!

Daffodil Reflection

This is my amazing daffodil art. It look lots of work and patience. I really like how mine turned out. We started our daffodil 3 weeks ago. We made 3 daffodils, a vase and borders. We coloured the 6 pieces of papers and dyed them 3 times. 1 was for our trumpet. 1 was for our petals. 1 was for our vase. Another was for our stem and 2 others were for our border.

 For our petals, we had draw a petal shape 18 times and cut it out. We glued the petals to the paper and made a daffodil. Next was to make the trumpet. We got one of the papers and drew a cylinder shape and cut it out. Later, we glued it together and cut the outside of the trumpet.

 We made our stem, by cutting half of it then we rolled it tight and glued it. While the glue was on, we had to hold the stems tight for 30 seconds. After I was done with the daffodil flowers, I was given 1 A2 sheet of black paper. I had to draw a border 2 cm wide. I had to do the same with my two background borders. I had rule the border up into 2cm strips.
I cut out the strips and ripped them into pieces to glue them on to make the border.

Overall, making the daffodils were very fun. I really liked how I did something different and unique. I really like the process of the daffodil, and I hope to do another one in the future.

Zoo Recount

On Friday 31st August, we went on a trip to the zoo. The first animal we saw were the otters. They were very small and cute. The otter’s area was very spacious and beautiful. In the Tiger's area, they were doing construction on the place to make it more entertaining for the animals and people. Later, we went into a gate and saw lots of Australian animals like the kangaroos, wallabies and the tasmanian devils. After that, we stopped for a little snack and watched the alligator.  After morning tea, we went into the classroom to find Polar bear and Lion skins. The man (Fraser) told us that the polar bear died because he was growing mould on him due to the temperature in Auckland.

Even though Polar bears are supposed to be living in cold weather, in Auckland it is very very Hot. That's how the mould came, so they decided to put the polar bear down. We got to touch their skin to feel what they felt like. He also showed us a real live kiwi egg in an incubator. After this, we headed to the NZCCM, (New Zealand, Centre for Conservation Medicine). It was a pet lab, where they helped out animals from the zoo and rescued animals too.

 In addition, while we were looking around, stopped to eat lunch. While we were eating lunch, we were watching the elephants play around and eating its food. As we were on our way to the african animals, we saw were the lions. The lions were sitting and resting.

Overall, the Zoo trip was pretty cool. My Favorite bit was when we went through the meerkat tunnel. It was pretty short but worth it. I hope next time when I go to the zoo, I could explore more and visit the newly constructed areas around the zoo.

Zoo Photo Slide

Today I decided to make a Zoo photo presentation. This was all our photos from our Zoo trip and our expirence with the animals!!