ART!!

 

Recently we got made to do this art, which as you can imagine was very messy because we used pastels. We all got to choose a type of sport/hobby that was a silhouette that we would have to trace. Then we had to choose two opposite colours off of the colour wheel, then we got to choose another random colour of our choice if we wished to have another colour for the silhouette. This was very boring and annoying in my opinion because the pastel got all over me and it took too long to do and now we have to do another one for our calendar art which is horrid. Ta Ta

Careers Buzz Quiz

 

This term we are working on careers. For T- Shaped Literacy we have to do heaps of things about careers like writing about careers we think would suit us and the pros and cons about them also. Today I made a mini-review on what we think about the Careers Buzz quiz. I talked about why we think the quiz is inaccurate because of what type of careers came up and how the questions led up to the wrong answers. 

Anzac war photo montage

Anzac War Photo Montage

Kia ora, it's almost Anzac which means at school we have to do Anzac literacy and maths. For literacy, we have to choose 3 out of 6 activities to do. The second activity that I chose to do was a war photo montage. We had to put links on each photo that leads to the site it was from. So when you press one of the photos it leads you to the link to the site. I really liked doing this because it was interesting looking at all the photos and what they had to go through in war. Maybe I could've improved it by adding more photos to it. 

Couple accidentally vandalised artwork

 

Kia oraaaa, Every week we have to do a quiz about most of the events that happen in around the past week. Every time we finish the quiz we have to choose one of the topics about the question that we want to do. Today we had to do two but I only ended up finishing 1. I chose this one that was about a couple in Korea that accidentally vandalized a painting that they thought they could add paint to art as a part of it. I really liked doing this because it was interesting and I got quite a bit of second-hand embarrassment from just reading it.  Maybe next time I could make this BTB (Better Than Before) by adding more information and color, and I also wish we didn't have to rush this so it would be BTB.

Anzac Day Morse Code

Today we had to complete one of the 6 activities our teacher us upon. It is nearly Anzac Day which means we have started to do Anzac activities. I decided to choose the morse code activity because it looked the easiest and most fun. We had to find a fact about Anzac day and translate it into morse code. Try Decoding it without looking at the sentence! I found this really fun because I like doing activities that include finding the answer. Maybe next time I could improve by having more time instead of rushing because I did it in my book and didn't know that we had to post it.

 

Our project video

Our Project Video

For the past week for our T- Shaped literacy we had to make a model of one of the buildings in our school that used electricity. We put solar panels on top of our building so that the building wouldn't use energy. Grace and I decided to recreate the tech room. The thing I most enjoyed about this is was the create part because it was fun to make a remodel of the tech room. I found the most challenging thing the hot gluing 

This is our video explaining our project.

 

Tokelau

 

For our T-Shaped literacy, we had to write a few sentences about a tiny country called Tokelau. Tokelau is a country that only uses renewable energy. They used to use diesel to make electricity but they stopped in 2012. This country is doing the right thing because they would burn fossil fuel and now they stopped to use a better and alternitave way.

5 Health Benifits of Exercise

Kia ora, Today our teacher and the class belows teacher challenged us, two classes, to make a quality blog post, caption, and 5 reasons why exercise is important. We only had 20 minutes to make one and a quality blog post.  My five reasons were that exercise can reduce your chance of getting heart diseases, increase your chances of living longer, improve your mental health, strengthen your bones and muscles, and it can improve your sleep. I found this activity really fun and informative because now I know that I need to exercise more to become an even more amazing person. Next time maybe I could improve and make it BTB this by having more time to work on it and adding more information and colour. I also hope this post makes people think about the amount of exercise they are getting into their daily life. 

Don't forget your Solar Panels

 

For the past few weeks, Grace and I have been working on an energy song. It took us many tries to complete it, clearly. We thought this was really fun because singing is our main quality of life. By doing this, it made us understand the meaning of energy more clear to us. Hope you like our song!

Kaiteriteri

 Kaiteriteri

Kaiteriteri is located in the Tasman Region of the South Island. If you’re looking for a relaxing holiday Kaiteriteri is just the place for you. Kaiteriteri is well known for its amazing beaches and tourist-filled activities. Summer is the best time to visit Kaiteriteri because there are many things to do on sunny days, such as kayaking, swimming, eating, fishing, boating, hiking, watching the sunset, and many more.

In the daytime, the water is always warm and refreshing for the perfect swim. The Kaiteriteri beach is always busy, especially on sunny summer days. If you ever find yourself looking through your bag and you see you forget to bring your togs there is no point whatsoever to even be in such a beautiful place known for its amazing beach. Kayak rides are really fun to go on in Kaiteriteri because the water is always so clear and warm, perfect for a quick dip in the water. Another amazing thing about being on holiday in Kaiteriteri is the hikes. You can walk for hours and you will never get bored of the beautiful nature and views on Kaiteriteri hikes.

Night times in Kaiteriteri are the best because there will always be an amazing sunset on sunny nights. Even though it's past daytime there are still many things to do like, roasting marshmallows, watching the sunset, nighttime walks, night swims, and way more.

When we came back to school one of our first activities was to write about somewhere we went in the summer holidays. I chose to write about Kaiteriteri because that was the furthest place I went to and it was also my favorite place. Our piece of writing had to be a descriptive piece of writing. I really enjoyed this because I find descriptive writing really fun.

Mobile about energy

 

For the last week, we have been learning about energy, and 1 out of the 5 activities that we had to do was to make a mobile about all the types of energy. Grace and I made one and put on it all the different types of energy and some little pictures of things that create energy. I found this really fun because we got to make a mobile out of sticks, strings, and cardboard. We put a lightning bolt and a windmill on our mobile.

Kawa of care

 

 For the past few weeks, we have been looking at the kawa of care. I wrote many of the things that are important in the kawa of care. The kawa of care is basically a treaty that you and your parents have to sign for you to keep your Chromebook. This is a bunch of things that you need to know so that your Chromebook is kawa of care safe.

Djibouti

This week for French we had to learn about another place in the world that spoke french. I chose Djibouti. French is a new subject that we have been learning in school and this is our 3rd week. I really enjoy french because learning new languages are very interesting because they sound very unique and different. Next time maybe I could improve by adding more colour and information.

 

Cinderella comic

 

For the past few weeks, we have been starting to learn how to make comics. Our teacher made us choose a story that we already knew and we had to turn that into a comic. The app that we use is storyboard that. I chose to do cinderella because I figured that would be easy. I really enjoyed this because it was fun to see how many backgrounds and characters there are. 

Snowmans

 On Christmas Eve they came…

She had first seen them through the sitting room window, as she peeked out cautiously through a gap in the curtains.

Opening the front door, the little girl took a sharp intake of breath as thousands upon thousands of snowmen stared at her. Many of the small, white figures carried signs, written in different languages.

They must have travelled from all over the world to be here, on this special night of the year. But…Why had they come? What did they want? Why had they chosen her?

She slowly shut the door as they watched every movement she made. She peeked through the peephole in the door, but where were they? They aren’t there anymore. Her brain started spinning in circles, maybe she was just daydreaming. She sighed and turned back around heading to her bedroom. “Ahhh!” The snowmen were staring right back at her. Her heart was beating as fast as the broken clock in. 

She sprints to the door and slams it behind her hoping the snowmen couldn’t catch her. She turns around looking at the door… The door stays shut. She sighs a sign of relief. She turns back around and once again the snowmen are staring right back with their beading eyes. 

She screams “ What do you want from me?!!??”  One of teh snowmen standing at the front turns it’s head and says “You don’t remember us?” Then all of a sudden memories flashback and she starts seeing pictures of her as a child building thousands of snowmans. “ We came back to visit you,” says the snowman. She answers “ I don’t want to see you again!!”. She doesn’t even hesitate to run into them whilst knockingall of them over. They’re all gone. But not for long.

Today our teacher chose a pobble for us to do. She chose a snowman one. The pobble already had a few paragraphs to start the story. Then everyone had to add their own story to finish it off. After we had finished writing the story we had to create our own snowman on our computers. I chose to make my story more of a horror story to make it more interesting. Maybe next time I could've made it BTB (Better Than Before) by adding a bit more detail to my snowman.

T Shaped literacy Task 5

 

This week for task 5 we had to create a piece of art such as a video, a painting, a song, or a drawing that had a message in the piece of art. I decided to create a drawing. The message in the drawing was about the traditional career mentality. 

NASA space potty

 

Every week our class does a quiz with our house groups. After we have done the quiz we get to choose a topic to research about, that was on the quiz. Today I chose to do one about a space potty that NASA has made more suitable for women while in space. I tried to make this really good because whoever out of everyone in my class does the best research gets 500 house points. I found this really fun because this is quite an interesting topic to research about.

Banksy

 

Here is our activity 3. We had to create a profile for Banksy. For the past few weeks, we have been looking at street art. This activity was based on Banksy and his experience with Street art and graffiti. I found this really fun because I learnt a lot more about Banksy and art back in the day.

Task 2 Steet art or crime?

 I think graffiti has many good and bad sides. I agree that street art and graffiti are very different things. Graffiti shouldn't be a crime all by itself but I think it should be a crime in many other ways. Lots of people use the term graffiti sometimes for vandalism such as someone writing stuff on a private piece of object. The difference between street art and graffiti is that street art looks more professional even tho both of them take a lot of time and effort. Usually, street art looks more realistic and mostly has more meaning. The man in the article should have been put in jail for the graffiti because what he did was illegal, just because they become famous artists after that it doesn't mean that they should have been put in jail.

Painting the town

 

For the past few weeks for literacy, we have been researching art. This week we had to read an article about street artists and answer the questions on this google drawing. The questions were all based on the article so it took a while because we had to keep on going back to the article after reading the question a lot to try to get it. These questions were pretty challenging, like half and half because half of them were easy to answer but the other half was a bit difficult. Maybe next time to make this BTB (Better Than Before) I could maybe add more information. I really liked looking at all the artwork because they're really cool. This was sort of based on the earthquakes in Christchurch that happened a few years ago.