Magnetic Haiku - 2 - Poetry Slam - Summer Learning Journey Toru Tekau

Today for Summer Learning Journey we had a Poetry Slam task. We had to make magnetic poems. I really like this task so I decided to do another haiku magnetic poem. I made sure I remembered syllables 5,7,5 because if I didn't it wouldn't be a haiku.

Did you know that Magnetic Poetry was invented by Dave Kapell, who was a songwriter? He wrote words on pieces of paper and rearranged them, hoping to use it as a starting point for lyrics. To keep the arrangements of words from being accidentally disturbed, he thought to glue the paper to magnets.

I enjoyed making the poems because I could write whatever I want. It was also hard to make the poems because I only had certain words to use. I made sure that I had a bit of a plan before making them so it was much easier knowing which words are where.

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my magnetic poem:

Magnetic Poems - 2 - Poetry Slam - Summer Learning Journey Rua Tekau Ma Waru

Today for Summer Learning Journey we had a Poetry Slam task. We had to make magnetic poems. I really liked this so I tried to do another one.

Did you know that Magnetic Poetry was invented by Dave Kapell, who was a songwriter? He wrote words on pieces of paper and rearranged them, hoping to use it as a starting point for lyrics. To keep the arrangements of words from being accidentally disturbed, he thought to glue the paper to magnets.

I enjoyed making the poems because I could write whatever I want. It was also hard to make the poems because I only had certain words to use. I made sure that I had a bit of a plan before making them so it was much easier knowing which words are where.

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my magnetic poem number 2:

My Summer Tanka - Poetry Slam - Step It Up - Summer Learning Journey Tekau Ma Iwa #2

Today for the Summer Learning Journey we had to make Tanka poems.

Tanka's were first written in the seventh century and were one of the first Japanese poems. I thought that Haiku would be older but tankas are 1000 years older!

I enjoyed writing my Tanka because tankas seem really cool to me and they are like haikus which I really like doing. It was also really cool learning that Tanka's were so old yet I am doing one in the distant future of it being invented. I also made a Pivot sentence.

I found it tricky to make what I want to say in the right format. If you don't know, tanka's follow a pattern. Its syllables go from 5 to 7 to 5 again then 7 and 7 again. A few times I thought of something then it was eight syllables so I had to think hard to make it fit and use different words. I used the online thesaurus to help.

Here is my Tanka:

Blog Log 2

Today we are reflecting on our learning from this week. Have you ever done a reflection on your week? My favourite task was Stop Motion Animation that I did on Wednesday. Did you know you can schedule posts on blogger? My Father's day card is scheduled for Sunday so keep an eye out after lunch.

I learnt that it is good to reflect on your learning because it helps you to review instead of just carrying on doing things as you have always done them. I also learnt lots throughout the week just by doing tasks.

My favourite part of reflecting on my learning is getting to see how much I have done. In my slide each task I did got me five points. and I got 80! I did all 15 blogs! I am really proud I did that much! This is Number 16.

I found it tricky to keep focused because my brother kept jumping on me and I get a bit distracted. So I went to my room or Caravan and close the door and I could not hear anything they were saying or doing.

Next time I would do more extra tasks because it gets us extra points. I did one extra blog. I made a VR game on a site called CoSpaces. Learn more about it on the link I put here. Hope you like this blog!

Bouncy Egg 2

I decided to try the egg with coca-cola as well. If you have no Idea what I am talking about, Go to this link. Here. It sunk right to the bottom! It also shows that coke eats away at teeth like how it will with the shell of the egg. I enjoyed watching them because it looked really cool! I did not find anything tricky! Here it is: