Learning in the making conference

Learning in the making conference

On Friday we had the learning in the making conference. The learning in the making conference is about using your learning powers and  collaborate with others.  At the start, we handed out our lanyards and went over to Marma to listen to a guest speaker.  After that, we went to our first break out.

Break out one

My first breakout was funky corner bookmarks they were really easy to make once you got the hang of it. My favorite thing about them was that you could personalize them any way you want. I made a cat, unicorn, and a fox.

Break out two

For my second breakout, I did funky room decoration for that, we could make a spider, a flower, things out of paper or a butterfly. I made a spider. For the body of it, you used a flower pot. You could stick sparkly things on. You could draw faces on we even used googly eyes!  We went  around the sparkly things. Then we attached legs with a hot glue gun we also had to use the hot glue gun for the antennas. My spider ended up looking like a lady bug/spider. My favorite thing about this workshop was that there were so many options.  

Break out three

For break out there I did my life weaving. For my life weaving, you would find  lace to tell your life story. I chose to do mine in a pattern. I had mint lace then I had fabric that was white and had a flower pattern at the end I covered my canvas in two different colors but the same fabric so it would look like patchwork. Then you would stick the cardboard to your fabric. My favorite thing about the workshop was that there was so much lace you could choose from.  

                                     Break out four  

For breakout four, I did cooking we made caramel slice. The first step was to put in the flour then the oats then sugar. We melted the butter so we could put in with the condensed milk which made caramel. While we were making caramel we put the oats in the oven to cook. After the oats were cooked we put the caramel on top. We made the icing to put on the top but it would not be cold enough. So she had made one at her house so we could eat that one and she could take the one we made home.  My favorite thing in cooking was you could eat it.

What I thought

My favorite workshop I did was cooking because it was something I don't do much and you got to eat it. I had learned lots of things from each different workshop special cooking. I think the learning in the making conference is a great idea and I can't wait until next year.  

Photos

Before the Day

Handing out land yards

Listening to the guest speaker

My spider/ladybug

My life weaving after

The finished project

My Hoilday

Whangamata

It was the  second Sunday in the holidays and I was going to Whangamata to stay with Georgia and Freya. When I arrived we played capture the flag we got bored after a while. So we went in and watched a movie called Joy. The next day we went  shopping. We decide to prank the others so we bought fake blood. We did the prank the next day but they didn’t fall for it. That day we went for a swim at the estuary. That same day Freya left the beach. Later on we heard a siren go we thought it was a tsunami and started to freak out turns out they were just testing them.

We went for two other swims the next day and meet a pug called Darcy. The last night we went out for dinner and went to the movies. The movie we went to see was called Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children. We also decide to watch Eddie the Eagle and we wanted to do an all nighter so we did. We played monplay which took about five hours and we just talked the rest of the night.We ate pancakes the next day and then left the beach.