For this Summer Learning Journey KickStart Activity, I listened to a story called The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Something that was interesting was that the book was published years ago in the 1900s. I was challenged to draw my own Rainbow Fish swimming in the ocean with other sorts of fish around it. For this challenge I used Adobe Express for the background of fishes and I traced my own Rainbow Fish which is on the bottom. I traced the Rainbow fish by using the curving tool and used all of the rainbow fish but for the scales I used circles for some. The colours I used for this activity were different colours of blue, orange, pink, light purple, grey and green. But for the tails I used a colour that was mixed together which was light purple and light blue to make it like a type of mermaid colour.

Something that I enjoyed about this activity was making the Rainbow Fish because I like looking at different colours.

Something that was difficult in this activity was finding a background for the Rainbow Fish to be in because there were some that didn’t match and some that did.

Something that I found interesting that I found out about fishes was that most fishes don’t have eyelids except for sharks.

Questions :

• Have you seen a Rainbow Fish? Would you love to meet one?
• What’s your favourite Subject?
• What do you think about this activity?

Tell me your answers in the comment!

For this Summer Learning Journey Kickstart Activity,I watched a video about a Water Obstacle Course in real life. Something interesting I found in the video is that it’s very big and how people can make it to the end! The items I would include in a water obstacle course would be a big slide, monkey bars and other sorts of things that are already included in the original. For this Activity I was challenged to design my own Water Obstacle Course. The option was to design on google drawing, google slides, scratch, Canva or anything. I picked Adobe Express because it has lots of options to design or generate. I designed this course by writing down the list of things I need for my water obstacle course and it came out to look like this.

Something that I found fun about this activity was designing this water obstacle course because it had lots of options and it already looks fun with the slides and monkey bars. 

Something that I found was difficult was the description (telling what to add) because it was so hard to find a picture that looks like a water obstacle course.

Questions :

• Have you been on a Water Obstacle Course before? Would you like to go to one?
• What’s your favourite thing to do in the holidays?
• What’s your favourite subject?

For this Summer Learning Journey Step it up activity, I watched 3 videos about how to manu, big manu splashes, picture help, background remove, animation help and an example. I also researched how a manu looks to make my character position the same. I was challenged to make a real manu, movie, animation, or yourself doing one. I picked animation because it’s way easier. For this activity I created a google slide and started creating waves in different colours of blue. I also created planks for the people to jump off, ladders for people to climb up and a character. For the waves I created it by using the curve tool, ladder by using the polyline tool and shapes for the plank.

I enjoyed doing this activity because it was so fun to create and use new tools.

For this Summer Learning Journey Kickstart Activity, I watched 3 videos about a head dunk, big manu splashes and google draw splash which is the important video. I was challenged to make a copy of the google draw template and to make splash shapes, layer them and build my splash. To create the splashes we got to use the tool box and use curves. For this activity I used the background that was optional in the template to put the splashes on. I used 22 splashes for the activity and layered them together to make it realistic.

I enjoyed doing this activity because it’s really fun and it helped me create my own manu splash just by watching the videos.

For this Summer Learning Journey Kickstart Activity, I was challenged to choose 2 options to create a submarine which was using pen and paper or using a tool like google drawings. For this activity I watched 2 videos about how a submarine works and how to draw a submarine if you chose to draw it on paper and pen. I also read information about submarines and what happened back in the days. Something I found interesting about this activity was it helped me more about submarines. One challenging thing about this activity was it was hard to draw because there were lots of details. The colours I used for the submarine I created were yellow, gold, blue, white, red, grey and black. I added 3 circle windows, details in the ocean and bubbles.

3 facts about submarine:

• Submarines can go deep than 2,600 feets.
• The first submarine was invented by David Bushnell in 1775.
• Submarines can stay underwater for weeks or months without surfacing.

Questions:

• Do you like submarines?
• Have you ever experience to be in one?
• What’s your favourite activity?

For this Summer Learning Journey kick start activity, I was challenged to write a postcard to share what I saw and to imagine that I have been diving in the Hauraki Gulf. For this activity I chose 2 animals which were the jellyfish and orca whale from the video I watched. I got to write a message to someone describing what I’ve seen under the ocean. The 2 videos I watched were about the explanation of today’s task and where the Hauraki Gulf is. I enjoyed doing this task because It was super fun to do and it felt like you were writing a card to Santa but about the ocean. One challenging thing was creating the animals but I did it. One thing that I found interesting in the video is that Rangitoto is New Zealand’s youngest island which is 650 years old. And right next to it is Motutapu which is New Zealand’s oldest island which is over 160 million years old.

Here’s a question, have you been to Hauraki Gulf before and have you dived under the water to explore?