Year: 2024

Yesterday afternoon, I did an activity called Code or Cipher Step It Up. Like the last task, it was still on Code or Ciphers but this time, I had to solve a basic fact one and grid code one. The basic facts one is where you have to decode the message by figuring out the answer to the equation and that number will be a letter unless the answer was wrong. The grid one is where you are given coordinates of a grid as that will be a letter and figure out the message. I solved another few, made an emoji Code or Cipher and made a message relating to the question to ‘my favourite SLJ activity so far’. Also, I think it is talking about this year. Plus, I challenge you to solve it.

Which of my activities do you think is the best?

This morning, the task I did was called Code or Cipher but I did it in the afternoon. Both Code or Cipher are secret messages passing around through your team. I used a template and inside, there was a dictionary of a few words, an atabash plus pig pen explanations. An atabash is when a becomes z, b becomes y and so on. Basically, one row goes abc… and the other which is underneath goes zyx… which is just flipping, I guess. A pig pen is a tic tac toe/knots and crosses with alphabets on it, a big cross with another few, and the same thing but with dots on it. I solved a few and made my own Code or Cipher relating to the question of ‘two favourite places’ using atabash at the end. I challenge you to solve it.

How did you go? What did you get right? Also, where is your favourite place?

Previously, I had done this task called Summer Chat Story. It is Step It Up to another activity I have done called Silhouette Art. This was about creating a story on what you/I did or are going to do in the Summer Holidays and also using some emojis to replace some words. The emojis could be some of the pictures on the template but I deleted them when I was finished. So what I did was make a copy of a template, get inspired by an example, create my own and share it. This is how it looks.

What would you like to do in the holidays?

Previously, I did this task called Summer Holiday 101. Like before, this task was to complete the template and fill it with your winter destination. But instead of winter destination, this time is changing it to summer. I chose Fiji for my destination, and this is my Summer Holiday 101.

What do you think/is the temperature is like in the summer of your Summer Holiday destination?

Previously, I did an activity called Silhouette art. A Silhouette art is like a shadow of something for an example a cat, and is on a piece of background. It is also a type of art, it looks like a figure on backgrounds. Most Silhouette art I have seen goes on either a sunset background or a sunrise background.

To create it, you first need an image you have, or take a picture on your device. Next, using remove.bg, remove the background so you only have your figure. Press download. Then, using Google slides, insert your image without the background. Google drawings will also do.

After that, right click on the image and click on ‘format options’, adjustments, and set the brightness to 0. Your picture will then be black. Insert a picture of a sunset/sunrise by searching it on Google, or insert one from your device. Your Silhouette art is ready!

I enjoyed this activity as I found it very easy to do. I had followed an instructional video while doing it. My favourite of them all is the rainbowed background.

Which background would you choose?

Today, I did a task from this week that I hadn’t completed. It is called Tessellations – Step It Up. Previously, I have done the Kick Start and so this is after the Kick Start. This task is about creating semi – regular tessellations and irregular tessellations. The differences between the two types are that a semi – regular is multiples of different polygons/shapes and a irregular tessellation is made of irregular polygons/irregular shapes. I have made all three types, regular (Kick Start), semi – regular, and irregular. I used Mathigon to create them, using the polypad function. The hardest to make was the irregular, the most fun was finding the shapes/polygons.

Can you tell which pattern is what type?

Answer: irregular, semi – regular, regular.

How obvious did the answers come when looking at the tessellations?

This morning, the activity was called Winter Holiday 101. This task was to complete the template and fill it with your winter destination. Inside the template, it had instructions so you wouldn’t get lost. I chose Antarctica for my thing, and this is mine.

Which part of the world would you go to?

This morning, the first task I did for the day was about making a postcard on “google arts and culture”. I went on the link and watched the video as I did it. I learnt how to pick my own image and pick my own type of poem when watching the video.

I would send this postcard to my friend at school, who owns a farm and of what I think, love horses. He also owns some, and this white horse reminds me of one of his ponies I have rode on before. Those are reasons why I have picked this image.

This is my “google arts and culture” AI generated postcard. If you click on the postcard, it will bring you to the actual one.

What thing do you think your person would like?

This morning’s activity was about creating a regular tessellation. A tessellation is like patterns for an example floor tiles or driveways. Tessellations are split into two parts, regular tessellations and irregular tessellations.

The task: Using Mathigon, create your own regular tessellation. A regular tessellation is using one regular polygon only but repeated. The only possible shapes are triangles, squares/rectangles, and from pentagons to dodecagons plus anything in between.

I chose my shape of a hexagon but with patterns originally on it is because it is having a cool effect of what I see. It applies to the regular tessellation rule as it is in the shape of a hexagon even though with patterns. I found two different patterns on the hexagons and I couldn’t decide which one so I did two of them for this task. All I did was copying and pasting as it had to be the same shape over and over again. I thought the orange pink and green standard out really well together so I chose those colours on it. The result turned out to be this.

Which would you choose and for what reason?