Year: 2025

Pourquoi Story – Why Maungerei Sleeps

Many hundreds of years ago in a country across the sea, there lived a medium sized cone volcano. This volcano was not the normal volcano, it would erupt when it wanted to, and how it wanted to. So the other mountains respected her incase of her temper being lost even more of what it already has. The land around it was covered in old volcanic rock. The so called clouds being full of ash and dust. Anyway, the fire mountain was having a rest when.. BOOM! a mountain erupted and had awoken the fire mountain. The mountain was full of red lava and bloodshot eyes. It exploded creating one of the largest eruptions since the start of time. The whole north island was covered in ash and lava was shooting out down to the pacific ocean. The other mountains quickly evacuated under the ice cold water that lies below them. The fire mountain had calmed down after a long 2 weeks. The other mountains avoided it creating a episode of loneliness to the fire mountain. It had realised the damage it had caused and felt a big wave of guilt. It sat there sad for days, weeks, months.. until, a mountain coming from the ocean called out her name

 

“Maungarei!”

 

She turned, confused and happy “Huh?”

She had a very very short temper causing her to be horrifyingly angry, this caused her to have no friends and always be alone. Nobody knew that they could fix her anger just by being a friend. She was the one in the family that was ignored all the time, as a baby mountain she still erupted in emotions, She basically grew up by herself even though she had 4 siblings.

She started to sleep after being lonely for decades, during her sleep the mountains played and had fun, and she could hear it. They still avoided her incase of waking her up again.

 

The image shown at the start is a photo that I made using a prompt in Adobe Express AI, I asked for the AI to genarate a image of a angry volcano with smooth volcanic rock surrounded by it

 

 

Volcano Animation

Li: To understand how a volcano erupts.

 

This week for Inquiry I created a Google slide to showcase a volcano eruption as a animation.

First, I found myself a group from 2 – 4 people (2), I figured out how it erupts through scientific videos on youtube. The tectonic plates hit creating a reaction from the magma stored in the earth.

Next, I started by adding a cone to simulate a volcano and added smoke partials, and orange and red shapes to create lava.

Lastly, I finished the task and bloged my work.

Diary WW1

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there

This week for writing, I created a diary from the view of a person that may have lived through WW1. LS2 has been looking through old artifacts from WW1 left from the ANZAC’s creating basic knowledge to make a diary from the POV of a soilder.

 

First, I had to have some basic knowledge of the ANZAC’s in galipoli, which I didn’t; So I learnt that they had arrived to golipoli in 1915 April 25th, using that to start my diary.

 

Next, from what I had learnt I used it to create a diary that sounded slightly authentic. There was some unrealistic parts like how my character didn’t write in his diary for 3 months, and some realistic parts, like him feeling terrible for his first kill.

 

Lastly, I made a video to speak the diary I wrote to make a visual learning experience, that is for another blog though.

(blue part is a grammaticly correct version)

Time Traveller’s Podcast ft Samuel Marsdon

For Literacy we have been using our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden had we had the chance to meet him and talk to him. This was a fun activity because we took on the roles of Samuel Marsden and the Time Traveller’s Podcast team. It was like we experienced actually meeting him.

We learned that when you are recording a podcast expression is everything! It makes what we have to say more engaging.

 

The Kuaka

LI: To create an infographic that tells others about the migration of the kuaka

This week for reading I created a infographic that explains the migration of the Kuaka Bird.

First, I of course learnt about how they migrate for such long distances without stopping and where they end up. I used a story that our teacher had sent us earlier.

Next, I made the DLO, I added a image and set up a text box to later explain where they go.

Lastly, I added where they go, including contries such as China, Japan, Indonesia, and more in Asia.

Mapping The Migratory Flight Of The Kuaka

LI: To use Google My Maps to show the migratory flight path of the Kuaka.

This week for reading I have created a map showcasing the flight of the kuaka bird. (NZ – Alaska).

First, I reasearched about their migration, it’s a stunning 12,650kms NONSTOP! Very impressive right?

Next, I went onto google my maps, and marked the countries that they travel to.

Lastly, I linked it onto my groups doc for reading and bloged.

 

Dot To Dot Connections: The Kuaka

LI: To understand the concept of visual storytelling

This week for reading I created a dot to dot connection with the kuaka bird, using their apperance, habitat, journey, and more of what they do.

First, I thought of a couple words that connect to the Kuaka to compare to eachother. I chose mostly words that are about their migration.

Next, I started by connect a word to another, and the other word to another, creating a cycle. It was quite hard to read due to all of the words being quite crowded.

Lastly, I bloged the task and also created a Infographic. I will be blogging about that very soon.

I enjoyed this task for collecting all of my knowladge into one making it very easy to reasearch about this bird.

I need to improve on making my task easier to read.

I was good at completing it very fast.

Photo Story

LI: To understand the concept of visual storytelling

This week Panmure Bridge went for a walk to Pt England Reserve. To show what we did we created a photo collage in time order.

First, I downloaded 10 images to show what we did inside of a time order. It was a image of LS2 crossing Dunkirk Road.

Next, I put all of them inside of the slides. I made the time order go from left to right.

After that, I faced my first problem, I didn’t have enough space to fit the images. I had to make them very small which didn’t look very well.

Lastly, I bloged this task.

 

A Moment In Time

LI: To write a poem that describes a moment in time

This week after camp LS2 made a poem describing what they felt during one of the task.

First, I downloaded a image of the activity I wanted to write a poem about. (Raft Building) I mostly focused on the weather and water during the poem.

Next, I thought about some rhymes adding it into the poem, such as, amazed and phased, and blow and flow.

Lastly, I designed the background and image, font, and colours.

Exploring AI

LI: To identify and understand how descriptive language is used to create a clear picture of a setting in a text.

This week I have made a AI generated imagen inside of Adobe Express of a alleyway.

First, I read the setting that our teachers have written. It inspired me to create a after war insparation thing. I asked the AI to make the sky rainy, creating a old and abandoned setting. I asked for the buildings to be graffitied indicating people have been here and no longer care about the buildings.

Next, I started to add objects like metal scraps, abandoned broken down cars, and moss. The moss had created a post apocaliptic scenery sort of thing.

Lastly, I added some effects like a tint. I then bloged my work.

I enjoyed this task due to the AI being very active and smart allowing my imagination to work. I found making the vehicles a realistic size. I was good at using creativity.