Summer Learning Journey 2019-2020 • Week 2 • Day 2 - Activity 2

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I will be doing another post for the Summer Learning Journey. Enjoy!

Activity 2: SCHOOL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE

You may have heard people talking about an issue called 'Climate Change'. Climate Change refers to an increase in the temperature of our planet. Warmer temperatures can cause natural disasters (floods, storms, droughts, bushfires, hurricanes, etc), rising sea levels, and the extinction (disappearance) of plants and animals.

Many people in New Zealand (and overseas) are worried about climate change, including Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old girl from Sweden. She believes that climate change is not only real but that it is a "crisis". She is upset that adults, particularly governments and powerful people, are not taking climate change seriously. In 2018 she began protesting outside the Swedish government buildings every Friday instead of going to school. She inspired the School Strike for Climate protests and, in 2019, spoke to United Nations about her concerns. Not everyone, however, is convinced that climate change is really happening.

For this activity, we had to explore a website called School Strike for Climate Australia, then we had to list three facts that we learned. Along with that, we had to include a photograph of something that we are doing around the home to help the environment.

Three Interesting Facts:

1. Going to school simply isn't doing anything about Climate Change.
2. They are students from Australia.
3. They are striking to tell their politicians to take their futures seriously.

I took a picture of a shower because I am taking less time to shower so I could save some water. My family also takes less time to shower and that really helps us conserve our water.

Summer Learning Journey 2019-2020 • Week 1 • Day 4 - Activity 2

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, as you can see from the tittle I am again doing another activity for the Summer Learning Journey. Let's get started!

Activity 2: WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest boxers of all time. He started boxing when he was 12 years old and went on to become the World Heavyweight Champion numerous times in the 1960s and 1970s.

Muhammad Ali was an African American man born with the name Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. When he was a young man, however, he became a Muslim and converted to Islam. When he converted, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali. During his life, Ali gave a lot of time and money various charities. He also helped to feed more than 22 million people across the world who did have enough food. Despite all of his charitable work, Muhammad Ali is still best known for his aggressive boxing style, his confident personality and his inspirational quotes.

Changing your name is a big deal! If you were to change your name, what would you change it to?

For this activity, we had to imagine that we were allowed to change our name to anything we wanted, after that we had to explain why we chose that name.

I would change my name (full name) to Celeste Elyseum. I chose that name because I thought it sounded enchanting. I also chose that name because Celeste mean heavenly and Elyseum means Arcadia (uptopia) or paradise. So with both names combined it would be a heavenly paradise.

Paradise TTT by Unknown is licensed under cc-by-sa 2.0

Emotions

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today in drama we learned about emotions, what it is and describe how we feel. Like for example right now I feel calm and happy.

What are emotions?
Emotions are feelings that impact on your thoughts and behaviour. It also is associated with your personality, mood and motivation. Like when you feel sad you have no motivation to move or do anything.

We also show emotion with our bodies. For example, when you're watching a horror movie and a scary person suddenly popped up, some people may flinch, and some people may not.

Credit: https://positivepsychology.com/positive-negative-emotions/

In that drama lesson, we also did an animation or a performance on our bio poems which you will know about in this video.

Changes and Challenges

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post today, I will be sharing with you some information about slam poetry. This week in drama we also learned about who we are and how we are changing. We also got to make a bio poem, which is a single poem written about a person, that person could be you or you're a friend.

Here is my bio poem:

Lyan

I am lazy, polite, intelligent and positive.

The big sister of Lyah, daughter of Lyn and Joaquin and the best friend of Alliah, Jolly Rose and Lauren.

I love food, playing the piano and my bed.

The emotions I normally feel are happiness, sadness, and anger.

Things I fear are the dark, losing people who are close to me, and spiders.

One of my most recent achievements is I reached a really high level on reading plus.

I want to go travel around the world and help make the world a better place.

I was born in the Philippines but now I live in Christchurch, New Zealand.

De Guzman

Along with that we also learned things about the changes in our body, how boys voice changes when getting older and how girls voice somehow get higher.

During drama we also learned about Slam Poetry, you might have heard people using it around the world to protest and teach people more about climate change and the problems of our world. I really like slam poetry but in my opinion, I think it is really hard to make one. Here is an example of slam poetry about beauty.

We also needed to answer a question. The question is "What do you need to do to perform a poem?'

Well, I think I am going to use a DLO to make it and I am going to use Animatron which is a site to make animations. I also want to use powtoon. 

I hope you have enjoyed my post and learned something. Have a great day, bye!