SLJ D3 - Fantastic Beasts

For this activity, please watch this cool book trailer. Year 7 and Year 8 students in South Auckland, New Zealand helped to make it. Once you have watched the video, use your imagination and create your very own beast. What does your beast look, smell, feel, and sound like? On your blog, post a description of your beast. Use interesting adjectives (describing words) to tell us about your beast.

Kimbodrous Dragon

Description - 

It is a very large beast weighing 5 tons and can grow up to 50 feet long and 30 feet high. If you see one there will be no escape for it can smell scents up to 3 km away and can go up to a speed of 100km per hour. These creatures live anywhere and everywhere. They are a burnt red/ rusty colour with spikes as sharp as knives all the way along their spine down to a bombay knocker at the end of the tail. The only way to tell them apart is that a male has a bigger tail. Their breed is endangered and there is a population of only 80 left.

The Kimbodrous Dragon

SLJ D2: Weird and Wonderful

On your blog, tell us how to solve this maths problem. You can write your answer in words, use a Sketchpad image, or post a video explaining how you would figure it out. Be sure to give us your final answer in millilitres (ml).

It was actually quite easy, all I did was... there are 365 days in a year so I times that by 3 then add ml on the end to end up with 1095 ml (one thousand and ninety five)

SLJ Day 2 Activity 1: Giants Among Us

On your blog, tell us whether you would like to go and visit Tāne Mahuta one day. Be sure to tell us why you do (or do not) want to visit this endemic tree.

I would like to visit Tāne Mahuta because it is incredible how big and different trees can be.

I have visited what is called ' The Biggest Rata Tree In NZ' in Reefton with my Grandparents and my Parents. It took quite a few of me to get around the large tree.

SLJ D2 A2: Fabulous Ferns

On your blog list three sports teams that have the word ‘fern’ in their title. Beside each team’s name, post a picture of their uniform. Then, at the bottom of your blog post tell us which of the three uniforms you like best and why.

I chose three teams that wouldn't really be heard about, before this I never even knew about the Ice Fernz or the Kiwi Ferns. My favourite uniform would be the white ferns because you could wear this outfit most days.

Ice Fernz - NZ Women's Ice Hockey

White Ferns - NZ Women's Cricket

Kiwi Ferns - NZ Women's Rugby League

SLJ Activity 3: Ice Ice Baby

On your blog, make a copy of this footprint and, inside the footprint, explain how you create a positive, digital footprint. What do you do to stay smart online?

SLJ Activity 2: North and South

Now it is time to think about your hometown. What is special about where you live? On your blog, describe your hometown. Be sure to include lots of describing words (adjectives) in your post.

My home town would be Moonlight/Atarau. Back in the 1800's Gorge Moonlight sailed across from Scotland and ended up down south in otago, Moonlight/Macraes Flat, where he started a gold rush. After that he started to travel up and ended up on the West Coast. He found himself up in the Paparoas, where he found gold and created a new gold rush. He because of that, everyone started to build houses along the tracks, shop started opening like a butcher and a greengrocer and there was a school. The place was there for named after him. He had a wife and two children. Afterwards they moved to Murchison to own a hotel.

What is really awesome that I am the 7th generation female to live in Moonlight which is pretty cool.

Where I live it is mainly farmland and beautiful bush. There are many rivers and creeks around us where we can fish and swim. There are heaps of tracks around for a tramps and day walks. In our bush there are many rare and endangered things like the great spotted kiwi or the yellow rata, which my Grandad and I spotted and got a helicopter ride to see them up close and to get some photographs. 

I am so gratefull to live in such a beautiful inviroment and i don't think there would be any better place to live.

SLJ Activity 1: The legend of New Zealand

To learn more cool facts about New Zealand, check out the Tourism NZ website. Read the fun facts posted on the website and choose your ‘Top 3.’ On your blog, post your ‘Top 3 Fun Facts’ about NZ.

There are so many maori legends about NZ. Different tribes have their own myths and legends about our beautiful Aotearoa, The land of long white cloud. Here is my top three favourite facts off this website.

1. Gisborne is the first city in the world to see the sunrise because it is 496.3 kilometers away from the International Date Line.

2. It is one of the three countries in the world that has two official national anthems of equal standing. The first is God Save the Queen and the other is God Defend New Zealand.

3. It was the first major nation to have universal suffrage. In 1893 all male and female citizens are legally allowed to vote.

Another cool fact is that New Zealand was once governed by the territory of New South Wales and later was a part of Australia.