SLJ 2020-2021: Fishy False Teeth

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I will be doing another post for the Summer Learning Journey. For this activity, we needed to create a comic for a video which was attached to the activity board. But before that, we had to read an article to learn more about the video, which was called Fishy False Teeth. The video was about two people fishing in the middle of the lake and a series of funny events happen. After doing that we had the choice to choose what website to use to make our template. I chose to do the template on the slide. 

SLJ 2020-2021: Your Comments Count

 Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I will be doing an activity for the Summer Learning Journey. For this activity, we had to do a quality comment on a student's blog and then post it on our blog. I decided to comment on a blog from Waikowhai Primary School in the Ako Hiko Cluster. After commenting we had to describe why our comment is a quality comment.

"Hi, Brittany! My name is Lyan and I from Hornby High School from the Uru Mānuka Cluster. I loved reading your blog post, it was very inspiring to read your chorus. The chorus was written very well and I especially liked it when you mentioned the subject of standing tall, I found it very motivating. When reading your chorus it reminded me of a poem I have read recently, which was called Stand Tall was written by Chrissie Pinney. 

Next time if you ever do this again, I would suggest decorating the picture up a bit so that it could attract more viewers to look at your blog. Other than that your blog post was a pleasure to read. I hope to see more quality blog posts in that future! Have a great day!"

Positive: For the comment, I started with a  greeting and then I talked about the blog post and talked about what It thought about the blog post. I also complimented her on how she had written her chorus. 

Thoughtful: I made a connection from the chorus to a poem I have heard about before.

Helpful: I gave her feedback on how I thought about her blogpost and gave her something she could improve on in future blogposts. 

Summer Learning Journey 2020 - 2021 : Starter Activity

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. This year I decided to participate in the Summer Learning Journey again. Before the event starts we there were some starter activities that were set for us. I chose to do a post about the Art Colouring Book where we can colour some famous artworks. After colouring some art we needed to put both the original art and our coloured art on our blog. 

Can you guess which is the original and which is mine?
Left < Right 

Answer:
ʞɹoʍʇɹ∀ pǝɹnoloƆ:ʇɟǝ˥

ʞɹoʍʇɹ∀ lɐuᴉƃᴉɹO:ʇɥƃᴉɹ

Health : Discovery - Schizophrenia

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. For the past few weeks in health, we were working on our discovery topics where we get to research a topic of mental health and then do research about that kind of topic. Firstly we had to choose some big questions to answer that relates to our topic of mental health, then we had to research some information to answer the big questions we have chosen. The answers that we wrote had to be well thought out and the information has to include some key concepts we learned about this year. After that, we did some more research about some strategies to cope or cure that specific topic of mental health. While researching about it we also had to think about how we are going to present our work. Finally, after finishing all that work we had to post our research with our choice of presentation for our work. 

For this project, I decided to work in pairs, so I working with someone else. We decided to do our research on schizophrenia. Like the process above, we all did the same and things and wrote about schizophrenia. From there we then had to choose our choice of presentation, in other words, we needed to pick how to present the information we have gathered. 

Strategies and Choice of Presentation:

Artworks:

Hallucination

Schizophrenia was said to be a colourful type of mental health.

Strategy to cope with schizophrenia: Therapy/Doctor

Reflection: This project was really fun, and I got to learn more about something I didn't know about before. I am really proud of my friend and I's artworks. Next time I would include more about the key topics in the research. 

The Black Death - Fleas and Rats

 Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today we are learned about how fleas and rats affected the black death during the middle ages. During the lesson, we learned about what fleas and rats carry around and how they infected the human with black death. After learning about fleas and rats we then did a task to learn more about rats and fleas. We did that by sorting out some characteristics of a rat and flea, then we made a diagram on how the disease was spread. Then we made a basic body paragraph about the fleas and rats during the black death. 

Rats in General	Black rats	Brown rats	Fleas
Two of the most common types are the black rat and brown rat.  Rodents, Rattus  Can feed on almost anything edible.  Tend to stay near people. Poison, gas and traps are ways of killing them.  Dig and burrow and are good swimmers.	Also called Roof and Climbing rats Jump as much as 200 times their body length. Weight about 450 grams	Also called Sewer or Wharf rats  Weigh up to 200 gram Commonly found in cities, especially seaports in upper storeys of house and buildings.  Do not rely so much on people.  Are heavy breeders. Fleas are less infectious.	Will often move from one host to another.  Feed on the blood of the host.  Lay eggs in the hair of animals, in dirt and rubbish.  Fleas are very infectious.  Can go without food for several months is necessary.

Basic Body Paragraph:

During the black death fleas and rats had a tremendous part in the cause of the black death. Rats were commonly seen during the Middle Ages, whether it be on the trading ships, homes, churches, farms and castles, they would often be seen there. Fleas and rats are dirty creatures and they come from gnarly places were filthy objects accumulated and these were seen everywhere. Because during the Middle Ages the environment was not clean, there were a lot of places that were full of people and people had very little knowledge about hygiene. The black death started when fleas suck the infected blood of the rat, after that, it would then jump to a human and it would vomit the infected blood on their host’s body, which would then start the domino effect of the black death. Because places were crowded the black death was spread in a few years of time. The black death was also spread because of the trading ships and cargo being shipped across the continent and these cargo/ships also had rats in it that had fleas inhabiting their body. Concluding my past statements rats and fleas were very dangerous beings during the black death and they were something that can cause a downfall of a nation. 

Art : Photography

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. For the past weeks in art, we have been learning about photography, we looked at different photographs taken by famous photographers, we even took some photos ourselves. After that, we then got to learn how to use photoshop and how to apply some different styles to our photo using photoshop.

Slinkachu

For the first few weeks, we were learning about Slinkachu. Slinkachu is an artist from the UK who creates his own mini figurines and then creates a little plot for the figurines, he then leaves the figurines behind. His work embodies the elements of street art, sculpture, installation art, and photography. So by using him as an inspiration, we took some photos using small figurines and some objects to create a scene with the figurines.

For each of our photographs, we thought of a theme to go along with that a specific photo. For example, my partner and I thought that we should take some photos that represent the theme "Crime Scene". Where either one of the figurines would be hurt, dead or were surrounded by soldiers. Another theme that we did was "Another Self" where we used identical figurines and used a platform to make them face each other. 

Scene: Woman captured by soldiers.

Scene: Crime scene - Woman left to deteriote by
suspicious people.

Crime Scene like the photo above. 

A photograph we like to call "Another Self"

One of my favourite photographs were when we used blu-tack to stick to the figurine because we were supposed to hide the blue tack we thought that it was pretty hard since the figurines were small. So we thought "Why not use the blu-tack to model with the figurine?" So we came out with this outcome:

Inspired by a photo from Slinkachu.

Different View of the previous photo.

Theme: Someone drowning.

Theme: Someone Drowning in something toxic.

After taking some photos we then used the photos and created some thumbnail drawings with it. In the drawing, we highlighted the focal point and the leading lines of the photo, we also labelled the picture if it was symmetrical or not. 

Photoshop & Overlay or Collage 

For this topic, we also used the photos we took from the previous topic and use photoshop to apply overlay and collage techniques to edit the photos. We also learned some new skills from using photoshop and applied these skills to editing our photos. Some of the artists I covered when applying these skills were Chad Wys, Aliki Braine, and Randy Grskovic.

Inspired by:

Inspired by: 

Reflection: In my opinion, I did well in this topic because I work hard to complete the work that was set and I think that the photos we took were pretty cool.

Question: Which photographs did you like the most?

Sources: https://slinkachu.com/