Calais- Street Art

 

save the sea and our sea creatures

For the last few weeks, the class has been learning about graffiti and street art and I found some of the questions hard to understand this was my last task to make a piece of artwork that tells us something behind it and mine is about to save the sea and the animals every day many of our sea life are dying because of plastic. 

Hunter- Capture the flag

 

 

The hardest part of the video is trying to get everyone to be doing what the script says. The easiest part was filming because all you had to do was have the  camera facing the right way. If you look at the Capture the flag post you will be able to read the rules.

Clara- Banksy Profile

 

Banksy

 

Here is our activity 3. We had to create a profile for Banksy. For the past few weeks, we have been looking at street art. This activity was based on Banksy and his experience with Street art and graffiti. I found this really fun because I learnt a lot more about Banksy and art back in the day.

Eden- Before and After

  Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a wonderful day! So we are focusing on art for literacy and I'm finally on task 5! So task 5 is when you have to create a piece of art, dance, drama, or anything to do with art and we have to make it with something to do with something that you want to change in this world. So the picture that I made meant before humans ruined this world the animals and plants were having a great time but then after we started building they were living a horrible life. So this means we have to stop ruining animals' natural habitats. This drawing that I made is called Before and After because it looked good before than bad after. This took me about half an hour. I really enjoyed making this because I enjoy doing art. AI found this easy cause I knew what I was doing. Thank you for reading this have a great day and please go and check out my work below. Do you enjoy art? Thank you bye. From Eden. 

Clara- Street art or crime

 Task 2 Steet art or crime?

 I think graffiti has many good and bad sides. I agree that street art and graffiti are very different things. Graffiti shouldn't be a crime all by itself but I think it should be a crime in many other ways. Lots of people use the term graffiti sometimes for vandalism such as someone writing stuff on a private piece of object. The difference between street art and graffiti is that street art looks more professional even tho both of them take a lot of time and effort. Usually, street art looks more realistic and mostly has more meaning. The man in the article should have been put in jail for the graffiti because what he did was illegal, just because they become famous artists after that it doesn't mean that they should have been put in jail.

Miro G- Snowball

 After I made the blog about how to play snowball, I had to write a script so I could turn it into a video! I got some other people to act in it.
To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could have made more videos to explain it more.

Calais- Banksy

 

Banksy

 Banksy is a graffiti artist and no one knows who he is and he is a famous artist and he calls himself Banksy when he turned 18 he went and painted a train with his mates down near the train station he started drawing flowers in vases and rats and other animals bits and now he draws a woman on a wall and it's pretty amazing how much work you put in the art the more it gets realistic and more people to admire it and want to do and make art but Banksy started off with graffiti  and now others like his art it sells for a bit of money because no one knows his personal identity it is hidden and you might have seen Banksy but you thought it was some random and did not care so him keepping his identity make others think like me is he old is he young when did he start his art and lots more we don't know because it is hidden from the public and I think it was a good choice to kepp it a secret but he should have asked to paint in some of the places he did was illigal and should of never done some places if he was found he could of been sent away to a place called jail. I don't think Banksy should let anyone know his identity because that might of been famous because no one knows and you should not be arrested for graffiti because others might like it. 

Banksy Artist Profile

Banksy Artist Profile

This is my artist profile on Banksy. It was my 4th task for T-shaped literacy. I had to research him and transfer the information into an artist's profile.

My favorite part was looking at some of his artworks. The shredded 'Balloon Girl' is probably my favorite. The hardest part was adding more detail and information. If I could add one more thing, it would probably be added more about his personal life. To be BTB, I could have added more information.

Banksy Artist Profile

Banksy is the famous multi-millionaire street-artist who chooses to hide his real identity. People are still trying to figure out who he really is. Bansky started spray-painting walls in Bristol, 1990. Some of his most famous pieces sell for millions. The most famous artwork was painted in 2002, Girl with a Balloon. This painting depicts a girl with a red heart-shaped balloon. Whether you see the girl as losing the balloon, or about to catch it, the meaning can be interpreted as a loss of innocence or the arrival of new hope and love. This painting sold for 1.37 million dollars. 

Many people think that Banksy's real name is Robin Gunningham, born in Yate, 19 km from Bristol, but other people are not so sure. Banksy’s identity is still mainly a mystery to the world. Banksy’s paintings are a symbol of hope and emotions, but also of what is wrong with the world. His work should bring comfort to the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable. Banksy’s paintings are normally spray-painted and stenciled.  

Banksy is an artist, not a graffitist.

Kalani- Street Art or Graffiti

 I've learned a lot about this topic like how graffiti is good for filling spaces that need filling and helping distract people like in Christchurch nowhere is everything

 my thoughts are that it's fine as long as it doesn't actually harm someone it should mainly be used in all ways or places that people can see it but if it's not in anyone's way it's a cool and great thing to do but as long as it's not in the way of anything its fine and a cool thing that people do but where it because a crime is when you do it on someone's house without permission or on private property or on a vehicle without permission because then if they want to remove it they have to pay to do it and that could actually hurt them but as long and non of that happens or if you have permission it's cool and amazing what you can do with paint

and that is all I've learned and agreed with 

The Tui- Lachlan

 

Tui

 The tui

Tui is medium-sized, common, and widespread birds of the forest They look black from a distance, but in good light, tui has a blue, green, and bronze color to them and white throat tufts. They are usually very beautiful, with a mix of tuneful notes interspersed with coughs, grunts, and wheezes. In-flight, their bodies slant with the head higher than the tail, and their noisy whirring flight is interspersed with short glides.

The tui also has a good habit of singing in its surroundings. But they only sing when they have landed in a tree or on the ground.

Calais- The Green Puppy

 

The lime green puppy

 

Today we had to do a quiz and we had to research one of the questions or answers and Tahlia and I choose to do about Pistachio the lime green puppy and he was born on the 9 of October so he will be nearly 4 weeks old. 

Harrison- Valerie Adam

 

Valerie adams

Today in Whenua We had 30 minutes to research as much as we can about somebody from the quiz that we did earlier and I decided to research Valerie Adams. The easiest part for me was getting the information because she does shot put and there's a lot of information about her medals and achievements. And the most difficult part for me was getting enough information in 30 minutes. By Harrison 

Beatles- Taj

 The Beatles statue

The Beatles were a rock band that made a lot of music and they were very successful and there is now a statue of them in Liverpool's Waterfront in December 2015 donated by Cavern Club. the statue is seven feet tall and weighs more than 1.2 tonnes. The statue was revealed to the public in 2015. When the Beatles Broke up in 1970 Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980 and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001. McCartney and Starr are still doing music.

Today my class did a Quiz and I wanted to do the Beatles statue and it was fun because now I know some stuff about the Beatles and it was a bit hard to because I did not know that much and it was sad because one of them got killed.

Valerie Adams- Quaid

 

Valerie Adams

 

Today at school we did a quiz and we had to write about someone and I choose Valerie Adams and this is what the information I got. It was easy and hard but I got it done. Hope you enjoyed.

Miro G- Armageddon

 Today we had to do a quiz about the current events and then research the thing one of the questions was about. The question I chose was, "Armageddon Expo celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. What is Armageddon expo?". I researched everything I could find about the convention. I would have added more but the school blocks the Armageddon site. To be BTB I could have searched more on different websites.

Katelyn- Current Events

 

A Green Dog named Pistacchio

 

Today we did a quiz. My group got 6 out of 20. The quiz is really hard. After the whole class did the quiz Miss Farr (our teacher) said we have to research and put it on our blog about one of the questions. I choose to do the mysterious green dog because I love animals and it is crazy that a dog can turn colors in the wound.

I enjoyed this activity because it wasn't how we do the quiz thing because Miss Farr usually picks one of the questions from the quiz and pick one that is interesting to her. 

It was difficult because we only had 30 minutes to do this.

I really hope you enjoyed it :)

By Katelyn.M

Dion's Ōhau News Report

 Hello, this is some news that I and my friends made a news report about the fires in Ohau that just happened the hard part was getting the information for the news report and the easy part was saying it to the camera the plus side was it was fun and we worked in a group so to me it wasn't working it was just fun!  

Position and direction

On Monday we began our unit on position and direction and started exploring the idea of Cartesian co-ordinates. We had a lot of fun trying to work out how to explain where we thought the counter was before adding any form of grid to our paper. We then learnt about René Descarte, the story of the fly and  how he invented the Cartesian plane. 

Today we were using the Cartesian plane method to mark treasure on a map of our school and then give directions. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed the chocolate at the end of the treasure hunt!

Electricity- Curtis

 

Today we have been exploring the current, voltage, and how it works. Current is the way that electron moves through the circuit which activates and deactivates the light. Voltage is the force that makes the electrical current. The table that we all made is what we used so that we can record the results otherwise it can get confusing. We found out our results by making the light thing and then checking if it works and then what we think it will be like if it is bright we can just say it is bright or something like that. I made those predictions because that is just what I thought because anything can be big or small so the small amounts are what I thought would be big.

Narrative Writing- Dion

NZ Land Wars- Miro G

 

 This is a timeline about the New Zealand land wars.

It was kind of hard because I had to change the words to something different from the book we were getting the information from, otherwise, I would be plagiarising.

Lachlan- Water Wastage

 Water wastage

In the world there is a certain amount of water each little patcall of water is

involved in the water cycle some little bits float out into space but not very

much 75% of the world is water that is a lot but there is a big problem with

the water in the world the water has something in the water that we like to

call water wastage it plots the water and makes the water unhealthy so they

can't drink the water. The solution was to take the water from the sea and d

salt it saw the people had something to drink.

Is Our Creek healthy?

 

this took a little to finish so I hope you like it

we had to go down to the creek and do experiments  to see if it was healthy

my favorite part was when we went to the creek and did the experiments

my least favorite part was when we had to write the facts down

Meka's Amazon River project

 

THE AMAZON RIVER

Hail Storm Fun

Yesterday while we were walking back from the library a hail storm hit. We had a great time playing in the hail with the other senior classes. Here are some photos.

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Liam's Book Review

book review

There was a boy called Eddie who went to school and Miss Marshall said that “they are going to the Kura on the other side of town”. The class filled up with noise, she asked who has been to the Kura before. Nobody puts their hand up, some said that “had Eddie been before because he is maroi right but Eddie” said No. Manse is sitting next to him and he whispers “It's ok, I’m Samoa, and I haven’t even done the sasa. The next day, Miss Marshall gets us to brainstorm what we know about a powhiri and what happens during one “Ask Eddie, he’ll know,” says Joshua. Everyone looks at me, and I can feel my face starting to burn. I think of my marae, and I can see lots of pictures and patterns in my head, but I don’t know what to say.

Aaron's book review

into the labrynth bit one #1

once there were four mates there names were methy, ethy, propy (pronounced p-row-pee), and buty (pronounced b-you-tee). one day they went into the labyrinth so they walk into the labyrinth and they start walking and see three other tunnels, left, right and forwards. ethy, the leader of the group says that right is his lucky direction so they should travel along the path so they travel along and 10 minutes later they come across a dead-end and methy says that he senses a contraption and that they should search for it. they all mass at the dead end and a trapdoor opens below them so they start falling and after a few minutes they fell on a soft floor and get up. when they got up they saw two tunnels, one tunnel had webs for some reason and there were little spiders in it. they went through the spider-webbed tunnel and came across a vast underground cavern and then noticed that it was full of spiders...

Miro H's Word of the Week

Precocious word of the week

This is my word of the week. The word was "Precocious".  
My favorite part was finding a good picture. Finding the picture was also the hardest part.

Lucy's Book Report

Book report - Nest of Lies
Today we had to write a book report about our DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) book. I enjoyed getting to read Nest of Lies. I found it challenging to write what I thought about it even though I really liked it. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could add more detail.

Nest of Lies
Title: Nest of Lies
Author: Heather McQuillan
Type of book: Fiction This book is about a girl, Ashlee Korbes, who is raised to believe that birds brought the plague. I really like who this book is full of adventure and I felt like it could have really happened. I would recommend this book to years 6 and up. Ash My friends tell me where u r. I liv on land and air not water. Come 2 Ded Lake and look 4 me. b alone. 2moro u fly.
Felix
- Page 193, chapter 22

Hushed by Paul Mason

Aoraki have been reading the Hushed series by Paul Mason for reading. We absolutely loved the series and were gutted when it ended on such a cliff hanger. Here are some of our ideas for a Part Three.

Miro G's book report

Attack of the Furball

Today we did a book report about our DEAR (Drop everything and read) book. The book I did was Star Wars- Attack of the Furball. It was hard to find a book because I haven't finished my DEAR book yet so I had to choose another one.

Jedi Academy- Attack of the Furball

Title: Jedi Academy- Attack of the Furball
Author: Amy Ignatow and Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Type of book: Fiction

This book is about a girl called Christina Starspeeder who goes to a Jedi Academy on Jedha. It is a story about Star Wars.
She is in a forest destroying illegal loggers when she finds and rescues a baby Nexu, which is a type of animal from Star Wars.
Then her Nexu gets stolen, and she has to save it.
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves Star Wars!

Harlem's Orographical Rain

For this week we learnt about Orographical rain

Luke's conversions

For maths we have been learning to convert measurements from millilitres to litres

Curtis' Facts about Matariki

6 true facts about Matariki
There are more than 7 stars in the cluster if you look at a picture of it then you should be able to see more than 7 as proof.
the 7 stars are named Pleiades clusters, or seven sisters, or m45.
The 7 stars are all sibling but in the seven sisters myth, one is their mother.
The Pleiades star cluster is made from gas and dust some were 100 million years ago.
The Zuni of New Mexico call the Pleiade stars the (Seed Stars)
To see more than six or seven stars in the cluster you need to have very good eyesight.

Today for my literacy medals I have chosen to do the Matariki facts.
I liked how it was kind of easy.
I disliked that it was hard to find the facts.

Dion's Literacy Poem

Literacy poem

My little trike my big motorbike
My grandmas chair my brother's dirty underwear
My TV my RV My bright my light
My fishing my distancing
My PlayStation my train station
My toasted my roasted
My toast my roast
My hunting my blunting
My Xbox my trash box
My chair my scary dare
My I born my eatin corn
My book my cook
 My pram my lamb
My sister my blister
My dad my rad
My yelling my spelling
My clock my TikTok
My controller my friend troller
My led my bed

This is my poem about some of my life that has happened in the past the hardest thing was trying to think of words that rhyme and the easiest is choosing what I wanted to write from the past like I chose to do it from my whole childhood. 

Water Worries- Emily

water worries

How its started
It started where people had longer showers  and after the Christchurch earthquake people learnt that water is one of our most basic needs


Where are we water from?
Like rivers ,streams, lakes,springs,and  even rain water on the roof.

How is it  dirty?
This means everything  you put down your drain ends up in the water supply household: cleaners, paint,animals,waste this dirty water is then back in the water cycle.

Probables they had
They had  their water slowly going away because there had been no rain for a wee while now. Many countries such  as  Australia already have serious water shortages.And some of the worlds biggest rivers are  drying up. Although this hasn't happened in new Zealand, climate change has meant that our rainfall patterns are less reliable.


There solutions:
They  have collected the sea water and Separated the salt to make the Water drinkable  because There  running out of water Scientists have been inspired by coastal plants that suck moisture from the sea fog.

Other water futures:
in the meantime you can help have shorter Showers always think about what your tipping down the drain turn off the tap  when you are brushing your teeth and never Waste that glass of water


Thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed

Miro's Ecosystem Vocabulary

This is my ecosystem vocabulary slide. I had to explain what the words on the slide meant, then take pictures of them. I found it hard to take the pictures because Chromebooks aren't good at taking them and it was raining outside. My favorite part was looking around outside for birds. (I didn't find any). Next time, to be BTB, I could take better/more photos.

Harrison's Ecosystem

literacy medals

Today for literacy medals we had to go outside and draw a picture of our garden and then label things with our ecosystem words. the easiest part for me was drawing the picture because it only took 10 minutes. And my favourite part was going outside and drawing the picture. And the hardest part for me was probably remembering what a consumer and stuff like that is but now I know how to do it.

Ecosystem Drawing

Ecosystem drawing

After learning about the ecosystem yesterday we had to draw an ecosystem near our house. I decided to draw the paddock beside my house. After drawing it we had to label everything. I enjoyed getting to draw it. I found it challenging to get the cow the right length(I did it too long.) To be BTB(Better Than Before) I could outline everything in pen.