Nature Scavenger Hunt! Summer Learning Journey Rima Tekau Ma Whetu

Today for the Summer Learning Journey my family went out on a nature scavenger hunt. We printed out the list provided five times so all five of the kids in my family had one, even my 1-year-old brother! We drove to Grays Bush once Dad finished work and did our scavenger hunt!

Many people believe that Elsa Maxwell created scavenger hunts as a fun party event in the 1930s. Scavenger hunts can take place pretty much anywhere, from parks to forests to even your backyard! Scavenger hunts can make something a bit boring, a bit more fun and it makes you really look at your surroundings. 

I enjoyed running around Grays Bush seeing all the native trees and bushes! I even saw a lot of Kawakawa everywhere (Which is something I don't see often!). My siblings all had fun climbing around fallen tree stumps. Grays bush is a native walk we have here in Gisborne. It's about a 5-minute drive from our home and is protected by DOC. I have put a little bit of information about Grays bush in my video. 

I found it challenging to edit this video. I used my Mums' phone to take the videos and when I uploaded them to the computer they didn't work very well with MOVAVI. It took a while and I had to get my Mum to help me stop the videos from glitching but together we worked it out so I could then edit them. I think I was working on my edit of the video longer than we spent in Grays Bush! 

Next time I would use our camera instead of the phone so I don't get the strange issues with the video.

Thank you for reading my blog. Here is my video:

Nano-Chameleons

 Watch this video for my reflection!

As promised, here is the link! Click here.

Super Seesaw!

Today for the summer learning journey I had to make a super seesaw out of a wooden spoon, some string, a toilet roll and a ball of paper. Nano girl gave us this task too! Did you know that a seesaw is an example of a lever? I learnt that you only need one finger to make it go! This was quite hard because the string kept rolling off. Did you know that  I enjoyed making the wevideo because there was lots of backgrounds I could choose from so I chose three of my favourites. It was tricky to hit the spoon and make it go far because I taped it to the ground. So I thought, I should use my poi rakau stick! Then I held it down with my foot and it worked! It went so high! Next time I would make a target for it to hit so I could see how well it worked.

Here is my Wevideo:

Gravity Defying Bucket and Cup Trick

Today for summer learning journey Nanogirl task I made a gravity defying bucket and did a cup trick that meant I could turn the cup over and the water didn't escape!

I decided to make and edit a video on how to make the bucket. I really enjoyed making the first video about Tolaga bay, I decided to try editing another video using Movavi.
Both tasks were nice and simple to follow. My favourite of the two was the cup flip trick. I thought I was going to make a mess all over the table! The cup and card trick is pretty cool! I wanted to know why it worked. It's to do with air pressure! With the card there is no air being pushed into the water so the water stays in the cup upside down! pretty cool huh! I have sort of discovered the bucket trick before by accident once when I spun my drink bottle in a circle and no water came out.

I'm getting better at editing my videos and it was easier to work out what to do. I didn't even need my Mum to guide me this time! I had to split the audio to the video lots of times to make the volume higher when it was going into time lapses and lower when I was talking so you could still hear me over the music. Next time if I was do do this task again I would make the string slightly shorter because I had to have it wrapped around my hand lots of times because I had made it too long. I would also make sure I was doing a task when my little brother wasn't around. He tried to grab the scissors! 

Here are my videos.

   

   

Cool Looking Red-Headed Yellow-Winged Bird

(Please look at the video first for laughs! and a tiny problem with two wasps!)
Today my brother (The one with NO glasses) saw a bird from out the window and said 'TEE TEET!' We came to see what it was and saw two really cool birds (The Green Bird and the Red-Headed Yellow-Winged Bird). I turned on my laptop and we all ran outside. They flew away as soon as I got ready for the photo. Then after a while we saw the Red-Headed Yellow-Winged Bird flying from place to place. So I got us together and took the video. I was so excited when we caught it on camera. I have researched what kind of birds the Red-Headed Yellow-Winged Bird name was and it was the European Goldfinch. They eat seeds of weeds and strawberry seeds better watch out!
We enjoyed catching it on camera.
We found it tricky to find the bird.
My digital learning object shows that take a video outside.