Summer Learning Journey

 In Room 1 we were looking at things that we could do over the holidays, this is a digital colouring book.

This is the original

and this is my version of it,

This painting is called Woman reading a letter, by Johannes Vermeer in 1663.

In a quiet, private moment, a young woman stands, engrossed in reading a letter. It is morning, and she is still wearing her blue night robe. All the other colours are subordinate to its radiant lapis lazuli; yellow and red hardly make an appearance. Vermeer rendered the different effects of the cool light precisely. For example, he was the first artist to try soft grey for flesh, and to paint the shadows on the wall light blue.

WALT: explore a new google tool.

 

International Evening

On Tuesday night we had an international evening, this means each class throughout a couple weeks had to research 2 countries, make some traditional food and come up with a performance to share with the school all from those countries. Room one chose Italy and South Africa as our countries, we had about a week and a half to practice our performances and get ourselves ready. For Italy we did a traditional Italian dance and for South Africa we sang shosholoza, but we didn't finish there. We also did 2 Korean dances and our cultural elective performance. After we perfected our dances we tried out doing some traditional art and drawing our own Mona Lisa. The night quickly rolled around, we ate a lot of delicious food from all over the world and before I knew it we were up on stage with our last performance. This was really fun and I enjoyed seeing all of the effort being put into each performance! 

I want to say a big thank you to all of the parents who made food and all of our teachers who put in a lot of time to help us with this!

 

parts of speech

 

In room one we are looking at the different parts of speech.

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Rosary

 

WALT: to identify the parts of the rosary and what they mean.

The rosary is a form of prayer to celebrate Mary 

Cultures

 

Italy 

South africa

Samoa 

Food 

Pasta

Pizza

Bread sticks

Lasagna 

Risotto

Truffles 

Malva pudding-baked sponge cake

Amarula don pedro -indiginous marula fruit liqueur mixed with ice cream

Melktert- custard tart

Fa´apapa - coconut bread

Panikeke - sweet banana fritters

Panipopo - homemade bread rolls

Kopai - sweet dessert dumplings

Clothing 

Italian peasants wore practical clothing for their daily activities, with simple pants and shirts for the men and blouses and skirts for the women

long skirts and aprons in beautiful printed or embroidered fabrics. Elaborate beaded necklaces called ithumbu are worn around the neck, as well as beaded bracelets and anklets

The traditional ladies clothing is the puletasi which is a matching skirt and tunic with Samoan designs. The lava-lava is a sarong which may be worn by men or women. They are of different patterns and colors, but tend to be plain for men who may wear it as part of an official uniform.

Art 

Mona lisa

Starry night

Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci influenced the  Renaissance as Bernini and Borromini influenced baroque Italy.

African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent

Siapo. One important and oldest traditional Samoan art is siapo, or tapa. Siapo is a type of cloth that is made from bark from the paper mulberry tree. 

Music 

Traditional music  

National anthem

Pollution song 

National anthem

Somewhere over the rainbow

National anthem 

Building 

Leaning tower of pisa

Colosseum 

Doges palace 

Sun city resort 

The palace of the lost city 

Cape town city hall

Museum of samoa

Talofa inn

Aga reef resort 

History 

Italy originally was rome but then julius caesar was murdered and the fall of rome had happen then after that italy was finally called italy and a few years later they had a triple alliance with france and britain they participated in world war one and in world war two 

People believe that the first modern day humans inhabited africa after the south african war  South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 

For many Samoans, Christianity and Fa'a Samoa are interwoven. In 1899 after years of civil war, the islands of the Samoan archipelago were divided.

 

Helping the earth

 WALT Building our knowledge on whats happening in the world and how to help. 

Ocean, Air and land have been affected by pollution. Using lots of water affects the Ocean because we use so much water.  If we have less smoke and bad things in the air then the air can be cleaner! The land gets affected by everyone cutting down trees and littering. Ice in the Antarctic is also melting faster.

 Animals are going extinct at an alarming rate because of deforestation, climate change and over hunting. Examples of animals that we could lose to things like this include Rhinos, Tigers, Orangutans, Elephants and so many more.

Coal, oil and gas are a big part of climate change. Coal, oil and gas are bad because they affect the air, land, animals and people. When excessive amounts of pollution goes into the water, land and air it can make natural resources dangerous to our animals and ourselves.

Poorer communities are affected more by climate change that richer communities, 

We need to reduce water waste, recycle correctly and help each other in order to help ourselves.  If we reduce water then there can be more water in rivers & lakes etc. By recycling correctly we can have less waste. 

Volcanoes

 

WALT see the reaction between baking soda and vinegar

In room one we have been doing science for about the past two weeks, we started by using multiple layers of paper mache to create the shape of our volcanoes. Next we painted them. Lastly we had the actual experiment, we filled our volcanoes 2/3 of the way with water to make sure we could see the reaction, then we added baking soda which a base and on top to make the reaction we added vinegar which is an acid when they mix they create a gas, the gas is carbon dioxide. Sadly it wasn't as cool as we hoped the eruption was small and we couldn't see it that well. Maybe the water diluted the vinegar? Next time I would add more baking soda. even though it didn't work, it was still fun.

Would you ever try this experiment?