Boy ~ Week 3

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for Reading. So for reading this week we had to read from page 60-84. We also had to write our summaries for each chapter describing separately what they were about. We also had to go into a group discussion and talk about questions that were on a slide and then we had to create our own question.

The questions me and my discussion group made were...

What are adenoids, our answer was : I found out that adenoids are things that are high up in the throat nearly near the nose, and some people get them infected so you have to get them removed, and that is what happened to Roald Dahl.

another question was how do we think Roald Dahl felt leaving home, our answer was : he felt bad and scared bad because he was upset that he had to leave home and his family, and scared because he has to make friends all over again but he also might've been excited to make new friends and to get away from the people at his old school.

Gymnastics ~ Sport

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for PE. So today we have been practicing on the single bar. We were practicing flipping over the bar and putting one leg on the bar and flipping over it. I learnt a new way to flip over the single bar, which was the way with the one leg over the bar.

Here is a video of what we were doing....  

I hope you enjoyed this blog post :)

Abstract Art

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for Art. So for art we have been creating multiple different arts pieces. We have been learning about abstract art and have been learning about the six elements. The first element being lines meaning different types of lines curved lines etc. The next element is textures which means it looks like something that you can touch. Two other element is Shapes these can be organic shapes (made up) or geometric shapes (normal shapes). Another element is tones which is like shading and different colours ombred together. The last element is colours which is just using different colours like red, blue, yellow and more. 

My favourite part of these lessons was creating the last piece of art which was making a piece of art using two contrasting words and somehow connecting them. For instance Cold and hot and Light and Dark. A part that challenged me was using my imagination to connect the two contrasting words. Some advice for if your wanting to try abstract art don't try and use all of the elements if you're a beginner because it's quite difficult I would suggest choosing 2-4 and just focusing on them. 

For the first abstract art piece we had to use the words Fear, Growth and Aroha making three separate art pieces that would come together and for the second task I chose to use the words, Day and Night. 

Here is my first piece of art work....

Here is my second piece of art work......

Do you have any feedback for my work ?

Drama

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for drama. We have been learning about freeze frames. The focus' for doing this were Levels, Facial expressions, Spacial Relations and Posture. By levels I mean we had to have some people low other higher and some medium height like maybe on their knees or something, Facial expressions to show how the character feels. Spacial Relations to show the different things people are doing, and posture to show a clearer image and to look proper. 

Here is an image of us doing the freeze frames.......

In this image we are using the technique of level's and spacial relations. The techniques we didn't use were Expressions and posture we didn't use these because we started to laugh and got distracted. 

Boy ~ Reading Week 2 Task 2

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for reading. So the task that was given to me for reading was to create a character description for myself and the main character of the story I'm reading called Boy.

Here is the D.L.O......

Boy ~ Reading Week 2

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what I have been doing for reading. So for reading we have been reading novels as you may know I have been reading the novel Boy by Roald Dahl it is based on what has happened in his life. The task that I had to do today was create a travelling brochure about Norway and then find some information about the place. We were given questions to research and find answers to.

Here is my brochure and the information.....

Puggle ~ 100 word challenge

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for Wananga today. So for Wananga we were given a task to create a story based on a visual prompt this story could only be 100 words long. I struggled finding an idea but once I did I automatically new what to write about

This was the prompt we had to use...

 

Here is my story......

The night was cold and I was walking alone. I hear a faint sound in the distance…. I walked further into the mist. I was surrounded by darkness. I suddenly became more aware of my surroundings. The owl in the tree to my left on the sixth branch. I walked further into the darkness. I saw the end of it and ran and ran trying to chase the exit, but it just sunk further and further into the distance. I couldn’t stop, I wouldn’t stop running. But wait I hear whining I whipped my body around. I saw a pug.

Novel Study ~ Boy Week 1

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for Reading. So for Reading we have been reading novel study's I have been reading the story Boy by Roald Dahl. I am up to the fast finishers task and for this task I have to answer questions that are on my reading slides.

The story boy is a work of non-fiction. I think Roald Dahl wrote this story to share his past and to show that famous or well known people can have an upsetting pasts and that they aren't perfect and neither are their lives. 

I don't read many autobiographies but I have read some in the past I can't quite remember the names of them but I'm pretty sure I read one about Tina Turner. I would like to read an autobiography about Anne Frank.

Here is the front cover of the novel I'm reading...

Digital Black Out Poetry

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for Art. So for Art we have been learning about Black out poetry, we have already done it with news paper and today we were to do it with an online website. Here is the link to the website. This website has classic novels but there is an option on where you can use your own stories.

The classic novel that I wrote my poem from was Heart of Darkness. I also made a couple more from the other novel selections. 

Here is my work....

Blackout Poetry

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for Art. So for Art we have been learning about and creating our own blackout poetry.

 In case you don't know blackout poetry is when you get a piece of newspaper and circle the words that you want in your poem and then with a black or dark colored marker you colour in around the words so it pieces together and creates a poem / story. The purpose of doing blackout poetry is to learn how to visualize writing before you actually write it and also learning how to focus on things.

My experience in creating blackout poems was I found it different and interesting to do but it was also confusing because you had to go through the article and select few words and it was difficult to piece together. I enjoyed creating them because you could make something new out of something old. Another thing that made it difficult to do was you had to find an article that inspired you to create something and there were some ones that were difficult to create a poem out of.

Altogether I enjoyed doing blackout poetry but I am keen to move on to the next part of the lesson.

Here is my work...

Badge Of Honour

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what my activity is today for Wananga. So for today's activity we had to read a story called Badge of honour and then choose an activity to do out of the two that were given to choose from. These were the two options.

I chose the second option.

So this is the situation I was in when I had to be an up stander, it was when my friends and me saw a kid being picked on and instead of laughing or videoing the situation me and my friends went to find the nearest teacher, and even though the people around the situation were saying don't be narks we still did the right thing and told a teacher, and we avoided going near the people and saying stuff like shame on you and rubbing it in their faces that they got told off. 

P.E

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post.  For today's blog post I will be sharing with you the rules that come with doing PE.

1. Those people without their PE gear will not participate and receive a consequence. 

2. Before coming into the gym you must line up as a class outside the door.

3. Once you are changed into your PE gear you must come and sit down as a class in the place you were asked by the teacher.

4. All gear must be left alone until the teacher has instructed you to use it.

The Tea On Pink Shirt Day

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what we have been doing for Wānanga. So for Wānanga we have been learning about Pink Shirt Day and how it started. We had to create a D.L.O sharing 5 pieces of information on Pink Shirt Day I worked with my friend Hayley for the project. 

Here is Hayley and I's D.L.O....