Creating A Comic About A New Zealand Inventor

Today, the whole class did a a challenge in teams of 4. What was that challenge you may ask? To find a New Zealand inventor, and create a whole comic strip about that person and their invention. I decided to work with Julian, Ofa, and Joseph for this activity, and we wanted to create a comic about the first successful person to take flight Richard Pearse. We chose to use Google Drawing to create this comic and we had a lot of fun working together, and loving the turnout. After everyone had finished their comics, we had to find a few things out about the person and their invention. In the end, we found out that it was the 31st of March 1903 when Richard Pearse made his first attempt to fly. Although we did not find any information giving the date he succeeded.

City Of Sails Challenge 5|Coat of Arms NZ Labelled

For my last activity for one the City Of Sails Challenge I was to label the Coats of Arms NZ. I was to explain what the pictures in the Coat of Arms NZ symbolizes for example the hammer represents the mining industry in New Zealand and the sheaf of wheat represented the land industry in New Zealand. I learnt that the three vertical lines on the boat symbolizes Cook Straight which is what separates the South and North Island of New Zealand. 

City Of Sails Challenge 4|Alphabet Key of Auckland

For my fourth activity I did the Alphabet Key of Auckland. This activity was basically filling each of the alphabet letters with things that are based on Auckland. For example the letter N could be the New Zealand Breakers because they come from Auckland, NZ or F can be Farming since we have a lot of farming industry. It was pretty hard because it was hard to find a topic based on Auckland that started with the letter x, y, and z, but then I figured out X Mas, Yellowhammer Bird, and the Z Gas Station was one. 

City Of Sails Challenge 3|Welcome Sign

For one of the City Of Sails Challenge I made a Welcome Sign for tourist or any visitors from other international countries. The Kiwi symbolizes New Zealand, the boats symbolizes Auckland because of how we are the City of sails city, the bridge is the Auckland Harbour Bridge and the starts on the 4 side of DLO represent the stars from the New Zealand flag. I have drawn these pictures which meant I didn't need to attribute them. 

City Of Sails Challenge 2|Rotorua NZ

For one of the City o Sails Challenge I decided to do what suburb I would live in New Zealand and why I would live there. I decided to choose Rotorua since I've been there multiple times. I would want to go to Rotorua because of the huge activities there are especially the Skyline and Lodge which is where I've been in the previous holidays. Not only that, but the camp site is really amazing especially Tui Ridge. Tui Ridge is a camping facility and they have a lot of fun activities to do during your holiday or weekend there. You can do mountain biking and high ropes as well. 

City Of Sails Challenge 1|Welcome To Auckland Sign

This week LS2 have been doing the City Of Sails Challenge. There were numerous of task to choose from. The task were based on Auckland and our challenge is called the City Of Sails Challenge because Auckland has over 135,000 boats or yatches. We were to pick from 48 activities and only do 5. For my first activity I decided to choose to make a collage based on the landmarks of Auckland. The activity I enjoyed the most was the Welcome Design because I got to be creative and imaginative.

Victorian Era

This week we have been learning about the Victorian era. The Victorian era was based on Queen Victoria's time. Our first activity was to choose one of the task from Victorian time and Junior, Mataio and I decided to choose to research about the Children working in factories. We researched about this because we wanted learn how life was hard for children back in the Victorian times. I found out that kids who are age 5 to 6 and are skinny would have to climb to the chimney and clean all the yuck chemicals. In my perspectives we are lucky because back in the Victorian time if the kids spoke to each other they were smacked, but in nowadays we don't get smack for doing bad things in schools. Some of the kids doing the chimney sweep had rotten teeth because of the chemicals. After this activity we were to draw a steampunk which was based on the Victorian era. A steampunk is when modern technology is mixed with technology back in the Victorian times. I have drawn a owl that has a hat and a google that is on the hat. Our last task was to make a DLO based on what steampunk art is and facts about it as well. I really enjoyed all activity especially drawing the steampunk.