Snowball Poem - Poetry Slam - Step It Up - Summer Learning Journey Rima Tekau Ma Ono

Today for the Summer Learning Journey we had a poetry slam task. It was to do a snowball poem. This is the step it up task.

A snowball poem has a lot of lines and each line is longer than the last. Sometimes by one letter, and sometimes by one word- like a snowball rolling down a hill, it gets bigger and bigger as it rolls down! There was not very much information on snowball poems, so there is not much information here but the name pretty much explains it!

I found it tricky to make the right amount in my sentences because I kept accidentally having one word less or one word more. 

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

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:

New Years And How We Celebrate Them Summer Learning Journey Rua Tekau Ma Rima

Today for Summer Learning Journey we had to figure out how other countries celebrate the New Year. 

I had to learn about some countries and put facts into a slide. Then on the Step it up we had to take a photo of ourselves, remove the background, add a picture of the New Year fireworks as the background then add the picture of ourselves with the removed background. I chose to Step up the step it up by making the background a GIF.

I found it interesting that Maori New Year is actually Matariki and it will be an actual public holiday next year. I also found a site that shows each day Matariki is on for the next 30 years. Go check it out here.

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is the Kick Start:

Here is my Stepped up Step it up:

Fishy False Teeth

Today for my summer learning journey I read an article called the bizarre fish with human like teeth. It was about how someone in malaysia found what seemed to be a triggerfish and was. We had to prove if it was real or not. I thought it was real. The reason is in my poster. Did you know that all triggerfish species have teeth? I learnt that the male triggerfish are really aggressive and attack people. I enjoyed researching because there was lots of interesting facts and photos. It was tricky to see if it was real or not because if looked fake and real at the same time. So I went to these slides and found how to know. Next time I would find more reasons it is real.

Here is my poster