Friday 24 June 2016

Term 2 Week 8 Diary Post

Dear Diary,
For the last fort night our class have been doing some new learning that includes Art,Reading,Writing and Sports.

Reading
Last week we were entered into a new book called the Green Book. Our teacher Mrs Graham decided to read the book in E book. E book is a website where you can read books online. We read the first few chapters and we found out that in the story they were moving to another planet because the sun was dying. It sounded really interesting and I'm hoping that they will love the new planet.

Art
We're also doing another art project and this time it's about Space and the Solar System. Mrs Graham explained what we were going to do and then we got into groups. The new art project was making paper mashay planets. Paper mashay is a creation. It's made using bits of teared paper and gluing it layers by layers. Our group decided to make the planet Uranus. We didn't start the project yet but it sounded really fun.

Writing
Next term we're having our speech finals and I am soooo nervous. Sometimes I freak out when I'm in front the whole school doing a speech because I think it's embarrassing. But anyways we started writing our planner for our speech and mines is starting out well. YAY. My speech topic is Bullying needs to stop. I thought this topic was a persuasive topic and it was.
I can't wait to see the final speech it's so exciting but also nerve racking. 

Sport
I also want to talk about our amazing netball game last week because it was AMAZING!!
Our netball team had gone to the school Star of the Seas and versed their A netball team. We put our bibs on and rock the game. At the end it was 13 nil. That means we scored 13 and they scored 0 goals. It was a great game and to celebrate we got bags of lollies.

So those were some of the learning that we did for the last few weeks. I know it wasn't much but you will learn more in my next diary post which is coming soon...

Thursday 23 June 2016

Speech Plannner


Reflection

I am learning to make a speech planner.
I had to make a structure of how a speech planner looks like.
I found that there was a lot of points in a speech and that's what I am aiming for in my speech.
My next step is to start writing the beginning of my speech. 

Friday 17 June 2016

Diary Post Term 2 Week 7

Dear Diary,
Our class have been doing some extraordinary learning this term. 
We have been doing games, watching videos and making new creations.

We have been doing a new art project. It's called Agamographs. Agamograph is an artwork and Agamograph is the name. This artwork is kind of like an illusion but it's not. At first it looked tricky to make but I realized that all you need to do is draw a picture, cut them to pieces and glue them onto a piece of card. I had fun making Agamographs and at the end it really did turned out great.

An event that we have been doing through the last couple of weeks was Terrific Tuesday. Terrific Tuesday is an event that we made and we choose a subject and learn about it around the term. I chose to make putiputi flax flowers. Putiputi falx flowers is a moari creation and you make flowers out of flax. I did this with Mrs Melville.

A couple of weeks ago it was Matariki so we decided to do a Matariki rotation to learn a little bit more about it. Matariki is the Moari new year. We made cookies that were shaped as stars that represents the seven stars of Matariki. We also made kites, learn to make a maori instrument etc. I think that having a rotation is a much better way to learn about Matariki because I learnt alot more about this event.

Those were some of the activities that we are doing through out this term.I really enjoyed doing these activities. Hope you enjoyed my diary post and learn a little bit more about learning at school.





Wednesday 15 June 2016

Grid Value Potrait

Grid Value Portrait

W.A.L about value in art.


 In the beginning of the year our class made Grid Value Portraits. A grid value portrait is a drawing of yourself that have grids with different patterns in each square.


 We first saw some examples of how a Grid Value Portrait looks like when it's complete. Then we learnt a little bit more about them. We looked at information about Chuck Close who is a famous Artist that made this art work and then test it out.


 We first did a test and see the tones of shades. We took our line for a walk. Taking the line for a walk is just a way to say that your taking your pencil and drawing a scribble. We then tried it out.
 To make it easier we took a picture of our-self and drew grids around it so that we can copy it. We then enlarged it and drew the portrait in a bigger paper. Each of us made one and we drew little patterns some different and some the same.


The trickiest part of this artwork is drawing myself. I found that the head was the hardest because I tried making it at least symmetrical so that it looks nice.


My favorite part is doing the patterns because I can get creative when I choose the patterns.


I loved doing this Grid Value Portrait and I hope that you like it too.