Clerihew Poem - Poetry Slam - Step It Up - Summer Learning Journey Wha Tekau Ma Toru

Today for the summer learning journey I wanted to do the Poetry Slam Step it up for this week. We had to do a Clerihew poem and animate it. I chose to make my poem from scratch. It was about my sister who jammed her finger in the door then had to go to the hospital. I actually wrote about this earlier this year. I have a blog about it, check it here. Don't worry, the doctors have stitched my sister's finger back on so it is still there.

I used scratch to code my clerihew poem and used screencastify to record me saying the poem as well as the code running.

A Clerihew poem only has just a few simple rules: They are four lines long. The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person. They are normally for fun.

I enjoyed making it a bit funnier because it was scary at the time but we can laugh about it now that it is back on. I did not find anything tricky. I thought this task was really fun and I did not find anything tricky.

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my Clerihew Poem Step it up:

Scratch Project - Seasonal Greeting Poem Summer Learning Journey Tekau Ma Waru

Today for the Summer Learning Journey I made a game on Scratch. It was a Seasonal Greeting Card. I used Vector art to make myself, the character in the game. I actually made this at my grandparent's house, so you might hear them in the background if you listen hard enough. I made this interactive card for my Nana and made up a poem.

I enjoyed creating myself on Scratch because I could be as creative as I wanted. Did you know that the character's clothes were the actual clothes I wore today? I wore a weet-bix shirt and purple overalls.

I found it tricky to share my project on scratch because the button that would normally appear did not appear and I could not put it on my blog. I thought about what I should do for a while, and I came up with screencastify. I could record a video of it then put it on my blog. So that is what I have done.

Next time I would add more Christmasy stuff like Christmas trees in the background to give it a more Christmasy look.

Here is my poem:

And here is my game:

Vector Art Summer Learning Journey Whetu

Yesterday for Summer Learning Journey we were making vector art. I could not finish it due to seeing it late at night. But for the step it up we had to make a superhero using vector. I learnt how to use Vector art on scratch. Vector art makes your art seem more smooth. Using scratch you can choose between Vector art and Bitmap art. Bitmap is not as good and when zoomed up it is really pixelated. I also used scratch to make my vector art. Not google Drawings.

I enjoyed making my superheroes because they turned out super funny looking! I did Captain Underpants and Batman and Captain Underpants was closest to normal! Batman just looked like a funny looking person with a mask in a black costume!

I found it tricky to make them look normal because they kind of just looked like blobs with faces. So I used a special tool on scratch to move circles into body shapes like legs, arms, face and the body. I also found it tricky to make them say their quotes like "Tra la laaa" for Captain Underpants. So I searched it up and found an image with the right code. I found it really quickly and I am shocked I did not already know the code because it was so easy!

Next time I would make up my own superhero and not an already made up one. I had an idea for a sock superhero called Super Sock Finder that would find a pair of socks when you need them and can't find a pair! I thought it wouldn't be able to save the world but it would be able to save me because I can never find two socks at most times!

Thank you for reading my blog. Here are my Superheroes:

Captain Underpants:

Batman:

Cicada

Today I was learning how to apply knowledge and how to code on Scratch. We coded animations and mine was about cicadas. The instructions are green flag, space, up then down I enjoyed getting to code again because I have not coded in ages. I found it tricky to code them because again I have not coded in ages. Here is my Cicada Animation:

Ice Cream Maori

Today for my summer learning journey I had to make a scratch game on ice cream in moari. I drew the ice cream truck and the girl. It was really hard!

I liked filling out the slides because it was the easiest bit.

It was hard to make the game on scratch because there was not much I could do on it.

Next time if I had to do it again I would do different flavor ice cream

Here is my slide deck:

Scratch Songs

In the holidays on a very rainy day I got bored so I went onto hour of code and looked at what I could do. I saw that I could make music on scratch and I clicked on it. It took me to scratch and I watched the tutorial.I thought I could make 3 and asked my brothers and sisters what their favourite song was. I chose Dance Monkey by tones and I, My sister chose Rainbow by Sia and my brother chose Happy by Pharrell Williams. So I coded 3 scratches and sang the songs. I took a screencastify of them working so I could post them.

I enjoyed singing the songs.

I found it tricky to code them.

Next time I will change the background of Dance Monkey.

My digital learning object shows that I can code on scratch.

Here is Dance Monkey:

Here is Rainbow:

Here is Happy: