Labour weekend Wriitng

In our wananga session, we've been doing fun activities around writing and gaining more tips and tricks about writing. But for today I will show you what activity we've done and how it is related to writing because we will have our upcoming test (E-Astle Writing Test). 

So the challenge was to explain our labor day with the word S.P.I.L.E.S. in each letter we had an example and they are related to the things that we were doing during the long weekend. For example, the word S is turned into social, so we have to write things about social activities. 

The challenge was very different and interesting because it had a twist but had examples to give us backup information. 

Here is my work:

Labour Weekend (S.P.I.L.E.S)

S - (Social Activity) In the labor weekend my family went camping and gathered with friends and families.

We had seven family members and haven’t met for a really long time. We gathered at pak n’ save first then traveled for fifty minutes to Ashley Gorge Holiday Park. 

P - (Physical) As a family we proceed to go hiking uphill for two or more hours to see a waterfall.

We also played some of our Filipino’s childhood games such as Tumbang Preso (Fell Prisoner).

While we were hiking up, the terrain was extremely frightening and difficult because of all the rocks, roots of the trees, and the gravity pull we were having.

Another physical activity that I remembered was going to the river and going for a swim in the river where the current was tremendously powerful. 

I - (Intellectual) Furthermore as a group of seven family members we helped each other and built our tent which was exceedingly tricky because we didn’t have any instructions.

In addition to this, I learned how we should clean our house first before going somewhere else because when we got home we were so tired but still had to clean the mess in the house. 

L - (Likes) I truly enjoyed swimming in the river with very strong waves.

As well as sleeping in the tent and eating lots of food.

I also enjoyed gathering with my friends, having a laugh, and asking how they have been doing.

Another thing that I most appreciated was seeing the waterfall and getting some physical exercise by climbing uphill for two or more hours. 

E - (Emotional) I was feeling happy because I got to meet my friends and go camping with them for two days.

And I felt satisfied when I swam in the river because it was cold when the weather was hot.

Moreover, I began to feel tired when we were hiking uphill and extremely exhausted when coming back home.

Another emotion that I felt annoyed because the waterfall wasn’t that high but the water was so fresh.

But at the end of the day, I felt fantastic because I actually think that I won a medal for climbing a mountain and seeing my friends which were worth it. 

S - (Success) The success that I had was not losing my jandals when I saw in the river with a strong current.

Therefore I was also successful when I climbed, helped set up the tent, and climbed up the mountain.

Also, the successful thing that I did was drinking fresh water and doing some physical activities.

I think that that was a fantastic experience and would love to do it again.

Would you enjoy climbing up a mountain and camping?

I think this activity was cool and a fun way to explain our Labour Weekend experience. And I conceive that I did pretty well on my work and had lots of information. I really enjoyed doing this activity and love to do more of this, this will actually make me prepare for my writing test. 

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Chamois, Chamois, Chamois (Uncle Don)

 Welcome back viewers, in today's blog I will be giving you information about an animal that I researched about and will be sharing with you a presentation that I made for them. And the animal that I learned and am talking about is called a Chamois. 

These animals that I've been researching are from Uncle Don's book the one that says (Uncle Don knows heaps of wacky stuff). 

For today's activity, we had to choose a topic that we wanted to research on pages 23 - 24. And I think this will be our last session about Uncle Don. And an interesting activity that was all required to us was doing the unscramble activity which had a cool twist.

I think that the activities that we have done are interesting and unique because of the other animals and topics that I learned and research. I hope we get more time of doing kind of this activity because of all the knowledge that I gain from them. 

In addition to this, I created my presentation on canvas. 

Here is my presentation:

I hope this was an interesting last session of Uncle Don, I hope you learnt a lot of stuff within my blog post that I've done about Uncle Don. I think that I learnt a lot of things and get to know the different types of animals. And on my presentation, I think I did amazing and have lots of facts and information about Chamois. 

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7/8 Art (Water Colouring Painting)

 Today I will be sharing the watercolor work that I completed and the watercolor paintings that I haven't finished. I will be sharing the progress that I made during this art session. For all of the paintings I will show you I will be putting captions on how I made them. 

Here are my paintings:

For this watercolouring painting, I tried drawing multiple flowers one braches and getting creative with it. This drawing is very basic and I think I did alright on painting the flower and drawing it. I didn't really use a technique here I just painted it and mix it with different colours. But sadly I didn't finish it. 

For this flower, I didn't actually paint it because I didn't have much time and it was probably the most difficult one. But I just drew it with a sketching pencil. 

This painting was very interesting to do because I learnt I lot of techniques, like adding salt to have texture. Wash technique (one stipe and dipping it into the water to make a lighter shade. Then the others were experimenting and mixing the colours. The last technique that I did was painting, soaking the paintbrush in the water, taking out all the water and just stroking it on the painting. 

This painting was one of the paintings that I did because we used a palate and mixed different colours. And the technique that I did was scraping the paint to make a lighter shade. 

This drawing is also not finished because I didn't paint it. But I think I did pretty well on this drawing, no technique is needed on this one. 

I think that drawing and water colouring is pretty satisfying and all the technnique you use. It was fun doing this kind of topic, I wish to learn more techniques. 

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WHAT ARE HAAST EAGLE'S | why did they become extinct?

 Hello readers, 

Welcome back to my blog. In today's blog post I will be sharing information about these species of vultures called Haast Eagle, and why did they extinct. 

These species of eagle are my favourite animal but I mostly like the Philippines Eagle because it's the national bird. And they are so big and interesting. What is your favourite animal? What kind of birds do you like? 

So this is another task from our hurumanu class which is about Uncle Don. And unfortunately, the Haast Eagles made me interested, so I picked carefully and researched them. And I used the apps called canva because it is the most creative and enjoyable app to use. But the bad thing is I can't download it to the blog because it's too small. (Please bare with me)

Here is the link to the sound of the bird since I can't upload it.

Haast Eagle Sound

Here is my work:

I think that this task is again very fun and enjoyable because I get to learn different stuff and species. I would love to do more of these. And I think this is a good way of learning other fauna and flora and such a good habit of presenting it.

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