Term reflection

Learning In The Making Conference day

Last Friday we had Learning In The Making Conference day. Conference day is a day we normally have once a year on a Friday. You can buy different coloured T-shirts of our house colours. The colours of the T-shirts were yellow, red, blue and green. There were four different breakouts. For the first breakout I did claymations. You had to make something out of playdough then you had to get an I-pad and take pictures of you design. After we took pictures and we put the pictures together and it was like a video.

For the second breakout I did sharpy tie dye. We got a piece of fabric then got a glass cup, put the fabric on the cup and tied a rubber band around the glass cup. Then you get some sharpy pens and do a easy design. After that you get some rubbing alcohol and drip some into the middle so it spread's evenly. Rubbing alcohol you don't drink so please don't try and drink it.

Then for the third break out I did little stitches. We made a badge out of fabric. You got to pick your designs like squares or triangles. Then you got to pick if you wanted to do a jelly stamp. There were a lot of things like owls and arrows. After that you cut out two shapes you like and put a little bit of glue just to make it stick a bit more on the bottom of the fabric. Then you hand stitch around the fabric with thread.

For the last breakout I did cooking. We made lemon honey for your toast and pudding. It has really easy to make. After we had finished making the lemon honey it was really hot and it burned my fingers. We got back early from our break out so we had a little play with a skipping rope on the front court. Then we packed up from our big day. The conference day was lots of fun!

        

iDrive refelction

In iDrive today I did cards with Ella, Alexa and Elizabeth. The games we played were go fish and last card. But there was a little problem, Alexa and Elizabeth wanted to play bull but I did not know how to play. So Elizabeth showed me how to play but I did not get it. We had a little fight. Then someone let them play knuckle bones. The thing that I achieved was problem solving.We solved the problem so Elizabeth and Alexa were playing knuckle bones and me and Ella were playing cards. My skills were playing fear and solving problems that were hard to solve. I won two games and Ella won two games too.

  

Princess Diana

Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris. She has two children, Prince William and Prince Harry. Princess Diana was born in July 1 and the mouth she was born in is 1961. Princess Diana is the youngest person in her family. Diana was married to Prince Charles. They were married for 18 years. Her birth name was Diana Frances Spencer. Diana was married in 1981 but sadly when Diana was about 6 years old  when her parents had a fight. She liked helping others when they were in trouble. Princess Diana grew up in a place called Park House. When Diana left school she got a part time job as a nanny and a cook.

iDrive refection

This week for iDrive I did play dough. My skills were making it tidy and agreeing of what the other people wanted to do.
We made a magical zoo with a seal, tiger, rabbit's, and a penguin. The play dough was mixed with different colours like blue, green and white. The play dough also smelled nice and it was soft too. There was shapers, forks and knives to cut the play dough. I made a tiger and a hedgehog. Savanah made a penguin. Alexa and Ella made some bunny rabbit's. iDrive was fun today!!!




                                                                                             

                                                                                         

Book I've read this term

This term I've read over two book's instead of one book. The book that I read was called Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye by Geronimo Stilton. It was about Geronimo Stilton going on an adventure with Geronimo's sister Thea. They went looking of the emerald eye and when they went home of there adventure in the plane they found the emerald eye in the sky. I like reading books from Geronimo Stilton. You all should go to the library and try out Geronimo Stilton books. They are good of people who like going on wonderful adventures.  

iDrive reflection

Today it was iDrive time. I was in the graffiti art group. In my group there was Savanah, Scarlett and Anna-Louise. We did graffiti art about pet day and calf club. We got some chalk and drew pet day and calf club in block letters with a border and little animals around it. Then we coloured in the block letters. The animals were sheep, cat, dog, goat and bird. I did cooperation by working together and helping people with drawing the block letters. It took about 30 minutes to do it. My skills that I did were helping people with drawing the pet day and calf club animals.

My idrive reflection 30/07/15

Problem solving.

I solved a problem today that someone needed help on. I solved that problem by helping someone pick the right dress and the colour and helped them with  decorating the paper person. In my group there was Savanah and Anna-Louise. The skills that I did was make a neat piece of art work and try and make it exciting.      
 

Last term's art refletion

Last term for art the Whetu team did lino cuts with different teachers. We all got to pick or art groups. The art teacher's and art groups are Mrs M was doing flowers, Miss Sixsmith was doing birds, Mrs Barker did houses and Mrs Heaven did Pacifica. This is how we made them. First we looked on the internet to find some pictures of flowers to have a look and trace off. Then we picked our design and drew it nicely on a piece of paper. Then we got a lino cut and pinned it to the lino cut. After that we coloured the back of the paper that we did our design on. The picture came up on our lino cut. Then we got a carver and carved out the pencil lines. You had to put your hand behind the carver so you don't hurt your self. When you have done that you get some ink and put your lino cut on a piece of paper. Then you roll a roller in the ink and roll it on your lino cut. After that you get a piece of paper and put the paper on the lino cut. Then you get a clean roller and roll the roller on the paper so that the sides and edges are covered with ink. Then you take the piece of paper off the lino cut and let it dry. After that you go to the sink and wash your lino cut with a scrub brush. Then you can ether put it out in the sun or blow dry it. After that you can do as many prints as you want. That is how you make a lino cut.










    

My recount about the holidays

In the holidays I went to movies. I got to take a friend from next door. Her name is Bronte. We saw the minion movie. We also got some lollies and a fizzy drink. The movie was really funny and cool. We chose to sit at the back row so we could see clearly. After the movies we went into the warehouse and looked at the clothes, and books. Me and Bronte got to have a bag of lollies each. I got party mix and Bronte got party mix too. Then we went to McDonald's and I had a happy meal and Bronte had a happy meal as well. After we had McDonald's we all had candy floss that was a bright pink colour. It was yummy! Then we went home and had diner. For diner we had home made popcorn chicken. Then after our chicken we watched a movie. The movie was Big Hero 6. Then we went to bed and started talking for a little while. It was really fun.

Term reflection

This term I've enjoyed art and discovery block. I like the group activity's that we sometimes do. For art we are doing tile art and its very, very hard. I have achieved my goal that was to keep my things like writing interesting. Every Thursday we do singing that like doing too. We also do basketball every Monday and Tuesday. I really liked our teacher reading books that I have never read before. Plus some Thursday's we do drama, sport and science. For sport we did tennis. It was really fun!

Next term I'm looking ford to doing art because I wonder what we are going to do. My goal for next term is making sure I get my learning completed in time. I need to improve on getting my learning done in time so I'm not in oh-dear. Next term I would like to try getting more into drama. sport and science. I would like to also try doing some graffiti art and maybe some sketching or pastel art. I would really enjoy doing that!!!