Koru Creation

Hi readers!

Something I have really been enjoying this week is art! We are making koru art. I quite enjoy art and was really glad when we started doing art again.

We used pastel, pencil, vivid, and dye. We started by drawing our koro design lightly with a pencil. Then we went over it in vivid to give it a darker outline. Then we used pastels to colour it in. We used an ombre effect to make it look a bit 3-d and shiny. After that, we used dye to colour in any leftover space.

I used cold colour pastels like green, blue, purple etc... and finished it off with a black dye background.

Here is what it looks like

Here it is

I would just like to mention that for some reason my picture is upside down.

What do you think? What colours would you choose? Have you done koru art before?

Until next time!

Amazing Angles!

Hi Readers!

This week in maths we have been looking at angles and polygons. We have been determining the interior angles of shapes as well as drawing some shapes using a compass- not a North/South compass, but a pair of compasses that you draw circles with.

This is some of the things I learned

Here are some of the examples of the work we have done

 What do you think? What do you know about angles? Have you ever drawn something other than a circle with a compass? 

Until next time!

Back At School!

Hi readers!

It is the first week back at normal school and it was great to see my friends and the teachers again. I'm going to show you what I have done for the first week back at school again.

For literacy, we have continued our theme of wizard of oz. This we started our essay, which instead of writing a normal essay we are making in the form of a website, which is something I have never done before. I think it is going to be a fun way to make an essay and I hope my website turns out good. I have only just started making my website I can't show you anything, as all you would see is empty pages, but hopefully I while be able to give you the link to my finished website soon.

For numeracy, we have been learning about angles. We have continued something we did during online school, which was putting our work onto a slide. So I will show you one of my slides.

The first slide is about the different angles, but the second slide is about the rules of angle.

Finally, Inquiry. For inquiry, we have been working on a box that someone will open in 40 years' time. We have been working on a letter about COVID-19, our experiences in quarantine, and the benefits it had of the environment that we will put in a box for the students of 2060 to open.

Here is my letter.

How was your first week back at school/work? What have you learned/done this week? Are you happy you are back at work/school

Until next time!

Terrific Tech, Marvelous maths, Lovley Literacy, and Fun friday tasks!

Hi readers!

This week I have been doing a lot of stuff, and it is that time when I share with you some of the stuff I have done this week! This includes my maths, literacy, my friend tasks, and my tech tasks!

I am going to start off with my literacy. For this activity, we were asked a question that was "if you needed and evil animal to help you what creature would it be?" It could have been anything, lots of people made animals up, we had to make our character, you could draw it or dress up family members, pet, etc..

Here is what I made!

That is my dog,  you can read the description to see what it is.
This activity was based on the wizard of oz because the wicked witches had winged monkeys to help her capture Dorothy.

Next is my maths.
For maths, we have been learning about the map. We learned how to find the coordinates of any place on the map. For the activity, I am going to show we were asked to pick we thought 7 places/things that we found interesting/cool or fun in New Zealand and find the coordinates and write a small description about the place. Here is mine

These were the places I chose, the coordinates, a small description, and a picture

Next is my Friday activity I chose to make a drawing of a house on the back of any animal. I chose to make mine on the back of a turtle because their backs are quite flat and the move slowly so the house doesn't fall off.

Here is a picture of it

 Now because it is on the back of a turtle it is falling over a bit. I and my family would live in this house with me and we would travel the world on the back of a turtle, which can swim with the house on it's back.

Finally, my tech activity.
I choose to make a set of jewelry with stuff I could find around the home. For the necklace, I used string and wooden pegs. Here is what it looks like.

For the ring and bracelet, I used the same string a twisted it round and pined it together as I wanted to keep a theme as it was a set and the peg were too big for the ring and bracelet.

This is what it looks like!

What do you think? Are you excited to go back to school/work? If you have to build a house on the back of an animal what animal would you choose? Have you had any takeaways yet?

Until next time!

Lots of Literacy, Maths, Tech, and Tasks!

Hi readers!

I have been doing a lot this week so I am going to show some of the things I have done, this includes some maths and literacy work, along with my Friday task and tech task!

For my maths work this week I decided to show my favourite task I did. Although a did take a long time it was fun.  I put all my work into a slide. Here it is!

I'm sorry if it is hard to see. We had to make and design our own room, but before we could do any of that we had to find the surface area of each wall in our room, minus the doors and windows from the wall. 

For literacy, every day we learn about a new theme about the book wizard of oz. We are then asked three questions about the theme and we answer it on a slide. I chose to share with you the slide I did on the theme disappointment. 

Here are the questions 

Here were my answers

Next is my tech task. I chose to make a stained glass window with paper. My design was the ocean with a sunset in the background. I used paper, vivid, and crayons. Sadly I didn't have any linseed oil, so I could not get the seethrough effect of the paper.

Here it is

Lastly my Friday task. I decided to design my own cake. My theme was red and white. It has two different flavors. Red velvet and vanilla. I personally don't like a lot of icing on the cake so I didn't put very much icing on it. 

Here it is

What do you think? What have you done this week? What is your favourite flavour cake?

Until next time!

Brilliant Board Game

Hi readers!

Even though we are still at home we still have to do tech! You get given many different options for you to make during the day. Today I chose to make a board game! Although it took a very long time I am happy with how it turned out. I am planning to play with my family tonight! 

Here is what it looks like!

The aim of the game, like many other games, is to reach the end. But you may face some challenges. Roll the dice and the number you get is how many squares you move your piece forward, but if you land on the blue square or in the green lake you have to do a challenge. To do so you must pick up a white card, which you can see on the right. The challenges can be good or bad. Some of the bad cards are to eat hot sauce, move back ten spaces, etc.. Some of the good cards are to go to the nearest ladder, go forward ten spaces, etc. If you land on a space with a ladder, then quite similar to snakes and ladders, you can go up the ladder to get ahead of the other players. 

I used paint for painting the cardboard and the 3d trees. I used paper and tape to make the 3d trees and the dice and drew the challenges onto paper slips with felt. I used the player pieces from a different game for player pieces on my game. My game does not have a name yet. 

What is your favourite game? If you had to make a game what would it be about? Where would it be set?

Until next time!