Week's Work

 Hello Readers, 

This week we had a bunch of activities, we got to choose a couple and do them, one of the ones I did was ordering a burger in Maori, I made an animation on slides, I put the translation on the second slide and then the animation starts on the third slide.

Here's the slide-  

I also made a  slide for literacy where I had to explain 9 different film

 shots from a scene of our choice, I chose a scene from Stranger Things, the scene with Joyce

 and the Christmas lights to be more specific. 

Here is the slide I made-

That's all for this week, Bye!

Chocolate Boxes

 Hello Readers, 

On Tuesday for math we were given a couple of biscuits, pieces of candy or chocolates and we each had to create a box to put whatever we had got inside, I got three mini Cadbury bars, we first had to make a net of the shape we were wanting to create, I decided I wanted to make mine a triangle box that would fit a slightly smaller triangle inside that slides out with the chocolates inside. 

There was a couple of things that our packaging needed to have, the box needed to fit correctly for the product so that it does not move around too much and the box needed to have a lid or close, when I put my box together it was able to close and it fit the chocolates inside quite well, there's a bit of room left over but they don't seem to move very much, Here's a picture of the box- 

What is your favorite chocolate? 

That's all for now!  

Korowai's and Kākahu's

Hello Readers,

This week we have started our inquiry, this week we have been looking at New Zealand culture, we had to choose from three different things to learn and write about, the choices were Tā Moko, The Haka or the Korowai, we chose the Korowai, we had to write about the past and present of the use, design and the materials. We wrote all our stuff on a slide.

Have you ever seen a korowai in person? 

That's all for now! 

Our Rocket Video

 Hello Readers,

Last term we created a rocket that got launched using pressure and water, we learnt about Newtons three laws of motion, we were taught them among other things by our instructor, I worked with 3 other friends, I forgot to to post this last term so here's the link to the video-

Rocket Video 

I haven't got anything from this week to share, apart from the fact that I started writing a script I'm writing for a movie I'm making, but I will share that when I'm finished!

I didn't do much during the holidays, I just had some family over and had my birthday,

 Did you do anything interesting that you'd in the holidays? 

That's all for now!  

Percy the Penguin

Hello Readers,

This is a penguin that we have been painting for the past couple of weeks, its not completely finished yet but it's close to it! The penguin is named Percy, he will be put in town, he has a New Zealand themed cloak that looks like patchwork, we painted things like a kiwi, a fantail, the longest drink in town, a koru, a poi, the bee toy and many more! We also painted jandals on his feet because those are very kiwi.

 What do you think you would've painted on one? That's all for now, bye! 

Teenie Tots Furniture

Hello bloggers,  

On Wednesday we had to come up with a business start up, I worked with my friends, Daisy and Kasey,

We made a slide to answer some questions about the business. we had to present it in front of the class.  here's the slide we made-

If you could start your own business what would it be? 

That's all for now, Bye.  

Python Coding

 Hello Readers,

last Wednesday and today we  have been creating an interactive PSA using python coding, I created mine to spread the message of washing and sanitizing your hands because the message is particularly important in these times, the sprite spins onto the screen and says "Wash and sanitize your hands!" when you click on it, it says "Please wash or sanitize, It only takes 30 seconds to do" and bubbles floating to the top of the screen, since I cant let other people view it here are some screenshots 

That's all for this post, Do you know how Python coding works? bye!

Rude Richard

Hello readers, Last week I created a picture book for children, we had to include rhymes or repetition, I used rhymes and a little bit of repetition, I drew my own pictures for it digitally here it is-

Do you like children's books?  

That's all for now, bye!

Samoan Language Animation

 Hello bloggers

Today we created a slide animation to show a conversation between two people in Samoan,

Here's the conversation in English- 

Person 1: Hello

Person 2: Hello 

Person 1: How are you?

Person 2: Well, how are you

Person 1: I am fine also, thank you 

Person 2: Have a good day 

Person 1&2: Goodbye 

END

can you speak know any Samoan?  

That's all, bye! 

My Work form last Week

Hello Bloggers,

last week for numeracy we have been learning about coordinates, Here's something we did to show our understanding 

For Literacy we made wrote a story in a Dr. Seuss Writing style containing at least two different rhymes, here's what I wrote 

There once was a pig named Fig,

Fig was a big pig, 

Fig liked to dig,

One day Fig dug a big hole in the garden, 

He met a worm named Wig, 

“Hello there” Fig said to Wig

“Why must you intrude?” asked the tiny slimy creature named Wig

“Oh I'm terribly sorry” Fig apologized to Wig

Fig put an end to his dig,

He called it a day and sat by the bay

That's  all for now, Bye!

This Weeks Work

Hello Readers,

This week my friend, Daisy and I made a weeks shopping list for a family of four, we had a budget of

$170 dollars but 3 members of the family cannot eat certain foods, here's the slide we made to show our work -

For literacy we made a slide were we chose a Movie from the genre Film Noir and chose a movie (or series) from a different genre then we compared them and looked at what they had in common (the writing in the middle is the things they had in common)
I chose the Film Noir movie the Maltese Falcon and from another genre Sherlock(BBC), here's the slide-


That's all for this week!

Aurora Australis

Hello Readers,

Today we have been making  art of the Southern Lights\Aurora Australis, an Aurora is a display of lights in the sky, They are usually green but can be red or blue, Auroras are made by high energy particles from the sun that come down to earth, as they come closer they interact with with our planets magnetic field, the magnetic field pushes them toward the south and north magnetic poles.
We made our art by ripping some paper to look like a mountain range then we stuck it onto a black piece of paper, we flicked white paint onto the black paper by using a paint brush to make it look like stars, once the paint dried we got chalk pastels and coloured the ripped piece of paper and then smudged it onto the black piece of paper so you could see the shape of the mountains. Then we added the Matariki star constellation.
This is how mine turned out-

Do you find the Aurora Australis interesting?
That's all for now, bye!

This Weeks Post

Hello bloggers,

On Wednesday we are learning about Binary and ASCII.

Binary is a number system that uses 1’s and 0’s to represent all of our normal set of numbers. You can use the place values as multiples of 2 to work out how to do it for yourself! Try watching this video to give it a go yourself!


ASCII is set of encoded symbols that a computer uses to turn Binary into letters and other symbols from the English language (like what is on our keyboard). I turned my initials into binary numbers, and then turned those binary numbers into an ASCII code! Using colors to represent the 1’s and 0’s, my initials in ASCII can be represented by the pattern you see in my image below!

What do you think? Have you ever tried encoding anything in binary or ASCII?

And for Literacy we wrote a introduction for a horror story, it could be as short or as long as we wanted it to be, here's mine-

Pitter patter, rain lightly spat onto the roof, it was a dull Saturday morning, Jenny woke up to the sound of her alarm going off shrilly beside her, she reached over to turn it off when she heard a big thump coming from another room, Jenny lived alone but since she had only just woken up she brushed it off and continued to stopped her alarm and go back to sleep. BANG another loud noise came from her kitchen, she decided to get up and investigate, she walked out of her small, dark room and down her narrow hallway her short, dark curly hair bounced upon her shoulders, when she got to the end of the hallway she turned to the kitchen, she looked down at the floor, one of her beloved house plants had taken a fall from the kitchen counter to the cold tiles, the clay pot smashed all over the floors, who, or, what had done this? she thought to herself, she didn't have a pet, she was in the apartment alone, or so she thought… 

That's all for this week, Bye!

Irony

Hello Readers,

For Inquiry we have still been looking at irony in world issues, there were 12 images and we had to write about one explaining why it was ironic, here's an example of irony in global warming

This is ironic because its being submerged by water because of global warming. Sea levels rising is a big part of global warming because the ice is melting. The ice is melting because the temperatures are getting warmer due to the global warming.This shows how global warming is a big issue and is happening fast.

That's all for this week, bye.

Wizard of Oz Website

Hi Readers,

This term I have been working on a website about the book the Wizard of Oz for my literacy, I mentioned it in one of my earlier posts and I finally finished it, I had to write about 3 themes, 3 symbols and 3 characters from the book, I wrote about the characters Dorothy, Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch; For my symbols I wrote about Emerald City, the Yellow Brick Road and Dorothy's Silver Shoes; Then for my Themes I wrote about Home, Friendship and Perseverance.
This is the link to the site.

whats you're favorite character from the Wizard of Oz? (if you have ever watched or read it)
That's all for now, Bye!

Ironic Comic

Hello bloggers,

For inquiry we have been focusing on world issues, we looked at irony, there are three different types of irony, Dramatic irony, Situational irony and Verbal irony, we had to create  comic which showed one of these, here's what me and my buddy, Daisy made.

"This is situational irony because you didn't expect her to get stung by a jellyfish right after she says 

she likes jellyfish"

Do you know what all three types of irony mean?

That's all for now, Bye!

Koru Art

Hi bloggers,

Over the past few Friday's our class has been making koru art, I made a video with a voice over to show what I have been doing, it also explains some things about it, here it is


have you ever made something using clay?

see you next time.

This Weeks Work

Hello bloggers,

 This week I have been working on my Wizard of Oz website for literacy (I talked about it in my post from last week) here's the home page of the website

 

Also this Friday we did some Koru art, we used pastels and then dyed them, here's how mine turned out

(it is upside down)

Do you like using pastels?

That's all for this week, bye!

Interesting Angles

Hi bloggers,

This week for math I have been learning about angles, We have been learning things like how to find the interior angle of any polygon and what the exterior angle of any triangle adds up to.

Here's a showing of some of my knowledge.

And here are some pictures of some work I did in my book

Do you like drawing shapes with compasses?

That's all for today bye!

First Week Back

Hello Bloggers,

I have been back at school this week, I have a couple of things to share so i'm going to be mashing them both up into one blog post.

For numeracy I have been learning about angles we have still been doing our math work on slides, here's  a screenshot of some of the work I did:

And for literacy we are making a website about The Wizard of Oz, we are writing about the themes, the characters and the symbols and we have to write about three themes, three characters and three symbols and we write a short T-E-X-A-S for each ( T-E-X-A-S stands for T- topic sentence E- explain X-example A-analysis  S-summary)

That's all for this week, bye!

Round Animals

Hello bloggers,

Today I drew a couple of round animals that were inspired by this video for a Friday task, here's the pictures I drew

I think that if a lizard were to be this size that it would struggle run around swiftly like they usually do 

And if a bird was this size it probably would not be able to fly or at least would not be able to fly easily and it would probably struggle to stand too because their legs are so thin. 

Are you excited to go back to school? 

That's all for this week, bye!

Abstract Artworks

Hello Bloggers,

Today I made a few 90 second artworks using the website Color Push, its very easy to use and helps you produce something colorful and interesting, here's some ones I did:

                                                           Do you like abstract Art?
                                                            That's all for now, bye!

Hedgecrow

Hello bloggers!

Today I created a creature for a task we had for our online schooling, on fridays we do different tasks than the usual, we get a couple of different choices and I chose to create my own animal, you could either mix diffrent animals to make a new species or you could make a new one all together, I chose to mix two diffrent ones, I chose to mix a Hedgehog and a Crow, Its called a Hedgecrow (my Mum came up with the name)  heres the steps I did to making it and how it turned out:

       This is the messy sketch (though its probably one of my cleanest sketches I have ever done)

                                          this is the slighly cleaner (but still messy) sketch

                                              And last but not least, the finished drawing

                             Do you know any real animal hybrids? If so whats your favroute?

                                                            Thats all for now, bye!

Oz Art

This weekend I did a drawing for school, it had to do with the wizard of Oz because that’s what we’re reading for literacy soo I drew Dorothy. Here is the drawing.

First I drew it on my device, then I printed it out and then I painted it with watercolour.

Have you read or watched the wizard of Oz?

That’s all for now, bye. 

My Time Table

Hello everyone, I hope you had a good holiday.

Today I made a time table for every school day so I can get everything done within a reasonable amount of time, here it is.

what have you been up to these holidays?

That's all for today see you in my next post! 

Hello Bloggers,

Today I have been working on a paint by numbers picture, it’s rather large so it will take me a while to complete but here’s what I have got so far:

                                And here’s what it will (hopefully) look like when I finish:

That’s all for now till next time I post 

(I will be posting the results when I am finished)

Game Froot

Hello Bloggers,

For this activity, I made a game using Game Froot, it was quite simple and I only made a short game, I'm trying to put the link to it on here but it doesn't seem to work. if I figure it out I'll put the link on here but in the meantime try to make your own games on Game Froot, its easy and its fun.
Have you ever coded before?
Anyway, that's all for now, see you next time.

Super Symmetry

Kia ora Bloggers,

For this activity, I made symmetry with my name, I folded a piece of square paper, then I folded it in half, then again, then I folded it to make it into a triangle and wrote my name in sharpie and traced it in each of the triangles folded lines, after I finished I coloured it in making sure that I was colouring each of the same letters the same colour. here are the results:

That's all for this post, see you in my next post.

Animal Crossing Artwork

Kia ora Bloggers,

This activity that I did was to create a piece of artwork by following a tutorial or to create your own, I decided to create my own. I didn't have any inspiration for anything to draw so I decided to draw an animal crossing character as a human. To be honest, I don't really like how it turned out but I decided to post it anyway considering it took 2+ hours to complete.
(The quality of the drawing and the colours of the drawing don't come out very well on here) 

(Here's the speed draw, I couldn't get it upright sorry)

That's all, bye!

Terrific Tessellations

Hello Bloggers,

for this activity, I created a tessellation, a tessellation is an arrangement of shapes that are fitted together without overlapping or any gaps between the shapes, the one I created was quite simple and I decided to make it colourful to make it more interesting. (The flowers don't have anything to do with the shapes)

                                                                 (I used the app Procreate to make it)

                                                                                      That's all For this post, stay safe!

Pretty cool puzzle

Hello Bloggers,

This is a puzzle I made, I did it c couple of times to try and get faster, I ended up with one minute but the record for the puzzle was 7 seconds.

I did another one that took 33 minutes to do, it was 60 puzzle pieces but I lost the tab.
That's all for this post.

Beautiful Book Cover

Hello Bloggers.

Since we have to stay at home due to Covid-19 we have been asked to complete 3 tasks a day, for this task we had to create a book cover, I decided to make a  new book cover for Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone, here it is:

                                                                 and the back one

Have you read Harry Potter? 

That's all for this post, see you next time 

Kia ora bloggers, for math this week we have been learning about mean, median and mode, we had to make this on scratch to show what we have learnt. 

All you have to do is ask him an average to learn. 

What have you been learning in math? 

Thats all, see you next time!

Super Samoan Numbers

Hello bloggers, 

For the past few weeks on a Wednesday, we have been learning  Samoan, this week we got to programme something on scratch where you can ask a number between 1-10 and it will answer with the Samoan word for it, I find remembering the Samoan numbers quite easy because I know my Maori numbers and they're both quite similar. Can you count to ten in any other languages? 

Anyway, here's what I made:

Instructions:
Ask the magical wizard toad a number from 1-10 and he will convert it into Samoan for you. If you ask a number above 10  or something irrelevant he will simply ignore you.


That's all for this post, See you next time!

Superb Samoan Numbers

Hello bloggers,

Today we made a video on how to count up to ten in  Samoan,  it's quite similar to the Maori numbers and pronunciation so it was not hard to learn. here's the video:

I made this with my Friend Daisy,

Do you know how to count to ten in Maori?

 See you next time I post!

Beautiful Binary

Kia ora Bloggers,

On Wednesdays, we have been learning computer language (coding)
this is called binary coding, I created an image an then I made it into code:

0000000000

0011001100

0000000000

0001001000

0001001000

0000110000

0000110000

0000110000

0100000010

0110000110

0011111100

0001111000

0000000000

0000000000

The white in the picture are zero's and the black on the picture are ones, you can create a table on google docs and see what the picture I created is!

That's all for today, see you in my next post 

My Special Sestina

Kia ora bloggers,

Today in literacy we learned how to write a Sestina poem this is how it works-
you write six sentences, each sentence has six words, the first sentence is something you saw, the second is something you remember, the third is a person you were with, fourth is something that you made up, the fifth is the reason you went on the journey, the last sentence is something completely random this is mine:

I saw the floating bubbles above

I remember the small pop sound 

I looked across to Daisy’s bubble-hair 

Majestic glowing jellyfish fell from clouds 

I was hallucinating, losing air, Drowning  

A dinosaur fell from the sky.

that's all for today, see you in my next post!

Interesting Identity

Hello readers,

for inquiry we have been looking at our family trees to see where we came from, here's mine

you can probably tell which flags are the Australian and New Zealand ones but in case you did not recognise the one with the red cross on it that is the flag of England and the red one with blue in the corner is the Samoan flag and the yellow and green one is the flag of India.

Do you have family that are not from New Zealand?

that is all for this week, see you next week

Special SPCA

Kia ora readers,

For inquiry we had to choose one of the local places to get help from and create a poster about it because its important to be aware of these places. I created this with my friend Kasey, here's the poster- 

If you didn't know the SPCA is a charity and an animal shelter that rescues abandoned, abused and injured animals and once the animals have recovered they give them to new responsible owners.

Have you ever adopted an animal from the SPCA?

that's all for now see you in my next post!

10 ways to have a better conversation

Hello bloggers

last week we watched a ted talk about 10 better ways to have a conversation then we had to make an animation showing them, here's the animation




That's all for this week, I'll post next week.

Samoan language animation

Kia ora bloggers

Today we had to create an animation to show the Samoan language, I worked with my friend daisy to create this, I hope you enjoy!

















That's all for this post, see you in my next post

Personality Portrait

Kia ora everyone!

This is my first blog post for this year.

At the very start of this year, we had to draw a portrait of our selves using bright colours, drawings of things that we love (in the background) and a cartoony/abstract style, our inspiration was Romero Britto, though mine does not really look like his art at all.

I'm not particularly proud of my portrait, it's not even close to my best artwork but it was the best I could do for the time that I had.

as you can see on my drawing I love my four pets, to do art, reading, music, Netflix, seafood and I find marine biology interesting and I am from Australia.

do you like to draw?

See you next time I post!