Literacy Term 2!

Hi bloggers, thank you for viewing this blog post. This term for literacy we have been creating websites on The Wizard Of Oz and doing genre studies, so far we have done horror, musical, comedy and sci fi. We still have to learn about western, quest, action and film noir. Next term we are continuing to do genre studies and then we are going to select which genre is our favorite and create a video essay about it. We have been creating our own google slide about what we know about each genre, similarities, movies that fit under that genre and more. What do you know about genre? What genre is your favourite? 

World Hunger Inquiry Term 2!

Hi bloggers, thank you for viewing this blog post. This term for inquiry we have been diving deeper into global issues and researching and creating art on our chosen topic. For my Global Issue I chose World Hunger. I decided to make my final product on a canvas and use paint to complete it. My art is a split screen, one side represents a rich and full rabbit and the other side represents a poor and hungry rabbit. Hunger is a huge issue and needs to be solved, did you know that about 820 million people are hungry right now? Every year about 9 million people die from hunger. There are about 7.5 billion people living on this globe and 820 of them are hungry right now. I am really happy with my final outcome and how it has turned out. We have also had to write blurbs of what our art piece represents and a little bit about our art piece. For our end of term art production our teachers have created a virtual gallery which is in various sections of our different Global issues. The virtual gallery will be easy to navigate and we will be able to see everyones art pieces. Usually we would have an assembly and parents would come in and look at what we have been focusing on, but due to COVID-19 we were unable to do so. What global issue would you do, if you did one? 

Southern Lights Artwork!

Hi bloggers, thank you for viewing this blog post. Today we have been creating Southern Lights artwork and learning about them. The Southern Lights usually occurs in areas known as the 'auroral zone' near the poles in the north and Antarctic in the south. Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere. Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past the Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which gets pulled into the Earth magnetic pole fields. For the Southern Lights art I first had to rip my paper into a mountain like template. Then I had to flick white pain on to make it look like the milky way. Then I had to decide what colours I wanted to use I chose light pink, purple, dark green, dark blue, light blue and yellow. And lastly I added my matariki stars. I am really happy with how this has turned out and love them colour combination. What do you think? Do you like the colours I chose? Have you ever created a Southern Lights art piece? 

I Have Completed All Of My Reading Tasks On Upskilled!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. I have completed my upskilled and have got the reading badge digitly. Upskilled is a website that Mr. Shaw has created and put a variety of different topics on there for us to complete as an extra if we want to, it is just like science badges but online and our badges get added on our linked, we upload them to seesaw. I have got lots of cool tasks on seesaw if at some time you would like to go and have a look. I am now working on painting and baking, I have done one task on painting already. What have you done on upskilled? 

My Seesaw

What Have I Been Up To In Numeracy This Week?

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week for numeracy I have been doing lots of things including testing and bricks. I completed brick 25 today and am know working on brick 27, 30 is the highest that they go. Each week on Thursday we get tested for basic facts in other works bricks, we get 3 seconds each question and have to get them all right in order to move up. For testing we have been doing lots of khan academy and paper tasks. You will see my results on my slide linked bellow for khan academy. What have you been up to for numeracy this week? Do you have bricks? If so what brick are you up to?

My Amazing Wizard Of Oz Website!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. Over the past few weeks for literacy I have been working on my Wizard Of Oz website. I have put a lot of time and effort into this website and taken time to make it the best that it could be. Please take the time to have a look through my Wizard Of Oz website. I really enjoyed working on this website and it has been a lot of fun. What do you know about The Wizard Of Oz? Have you read the novel or seen the film?

Click to view The Wizard Of Oz website!

Inquiry For Week 10!

Hi bloggers, welcome back to my blog. This week for inquiry we have been finalising our ironic art for our inquiry that we want to do as our final outcome. If you are not already aware of our topic for inquiry this term we are diving deeper into global issues. I am focusing on world hunger, so my piece of art is related to hunger. Since I can't draw people really well I decided to do rabbits instead. In the sketch below you will see my final design before doing it on a canvas. Can you see the message that I am trying to spread?