Week 3, Day 2 (SLJ)

For this activity, we would like you to select one of the pictures below and to study or observe it closely. What do you see?

Image Attribution: Day and Night, 1938, by MC Escher. Images courtesy of Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag/the MC Escher Company.

The first thing I noticed were the birds. The white birds are facing the right and are flying over the black part of the picture. The black birds are facing the left and flying over the white part of the picture. There are less black birds than white. As the birds get closer to the floor they start merging with it. The reflections are the same but one of them has been flipped.

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For this activity, we would like to hear about a time when you, or someone you know, experienced a challenge and overcame it.

Back in 2018 Ruapotaka held a powhiri (Maori welcoming ceremony) for our current principal, Mrs Hamilton. This was our schools' first time hosting one and I was the kaikaranga or caller, a person who calls on the guests. I was extremely nervous as I dislike speaking in front of crowds and raising my voice. 

A few minutes later after a pep talk with the other prefects I mustered up the courage to begin the karanga.

The rest of the day I spent being embarrassed because I had thought I'd done a bad job. The next week I got over it though.

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For this activity we would like you to give coding a try. Click on the link for the website: code.org. If you try an activity and it is too easy, try a harder level!

I thought that this coding app was okay but I would not use this again. I didn't find the instructions to be too clear but I managed to get around. Although I did enjoy listening to the scribbling noises.