Calendar art

 Goal:  Produce a piece of art using mixed media.

 What I did: I got a piece of paper and put red, orange and yellow paint onto a nice piece of paper. Then I mixed black paint with Indian ink and painted the tree with that colour. Next I painted on green leaves and red flowers. Finally I took a picture of myself and glued it on the tree.

 What I liked: I like how my picture and my background go well together.

Writing Goals

   Writing goal setting

Goal - Use poetic language to add description(simile,alliteration,  exaggeration,personification).

Reason - I chose this goal because I don’t add exaggeration and personification. Also because it is quite hard to do it.

Speech Board Reflection

  
Speech Board Reflection What I spoke about - I spoke about when my house was renovated. I told the lady that the Aden Larsen builders had renovated our house. My favorite part was when I told her that there was 9 people in family. What I did well - I spoke about when they ripped apart our kitchen well and I put lots of information in about where the old things used to be and where the plan said the new things were to go. I also started my speech well. I spoke fluently too. How I would improve my presentation next time - I would tell the lady a bit more about what my old house looked like and I would finish with a firm ending. I would also tell them what we changed outside the house as well as inside.

BIG vs BIGGER

Big vs Bigger - Complete story from Ministry of Education on Vimeo.

GOALS:

W.A.L.T - retell stories in our own words.

-   Organise our writing with a clear beginning, middle and end.

-   Use google apps for online writing.

                                                                             

                                                                      The story:
 

The kids who ruled the neighborhood

In Shantytown there was a big bully,  his name was Sean. When I am talking big I don’t mean big I mean enormous.  He simply ruled the neighbourhood. One day he was waiting on the street for a bus to come. When it finally came he picked it up with his bare hands and lifted it way above his head. He started shaking the bus then suddenly he threw it onto the ground, the kids came out looking rather dazed. He caught hold of one of the kids and said.  ”Did you bring my lunch today?” The kid shuddered “Um,you can have all my chicken nuggets Sean.”Thanks little friend”teased Sean. Then big Steve walked up, an even bigger kid that had moved into the neighbourhood.

He walked  up  behind Sean and gave him such a fright that Sean dropped the kid and the lunch box flung out of the kids hands and landed neatly in Sean’s. Big Steve was so big he was as big as a bus. He asked in a gruff voice. “Can Big Steve smell chicken nuggets?” Sean without answering threw the lunch box high into the air and it landed in his mouth, lunch box and all. “All gone “ he said smartly. This made Big Steve ferocious, he pulled a tin of pink paint out of the bag that was on his back, and held it above Sean’s head and poured it on top of Sean. Now Sean wasn’t in his green uniform he was now in his pink uniform. All the normal sized kids burst into fits of laughter. Big Steve looked at them and grumbled,”what are you kids laughing at? Lookout or you’ll be next.” The kids instantly stopped laughing and stepped back. The kids had, had enough of one big kid bossing them around but two! They just couldn’t handle them. It was time for the normal sized kids to fight back.

One of the kids took out a phone and looked up the number for chicken nuggets. The kid asked for a special delivery. A few seconds later a truck arrived in front of big Steve and Sean. Then they both gobbled it all up. But the chicken nuggets weren’t just normal chicken nuggets. They were super inflatable chicken nuggets! But they didn’t read the box, then Big Steve and Sean burped and started blowing up.Big Steve was terrified.” The normal kids said. “Jokes on you two it's volleyball time”and they floated away.”Oh oh this wasn’t supposed to happen” “It’s all your fault”sulked big Steve. “Yeah but you poured pink paint on me” “If you just gave me the chicken nuggets in the first place I wouldn’t of covered you in pink paint and we wouldn’t be here” said big Steve.  They both were very disgusted at their bad behaviour towards the normal sized kids.  “If we want  to get out of here we will have to pop” said Sean. Big Steve didn’t like the idea he thought it would be to messy, but he

co - operated. Sean saw a satellite in a distance and so he took Big Steve’s hand and they floated to the satellite. They started swirling around and around. Finally they were at the satellite. Sean hesitated for a moment but then just flew at it and… Popped! They started flying at full speed onto New Zealand. When they landed they were the normal sized again. Big Steve had , had his bag on his back the whole time even when they were blowing up. The normal sized kids were getting to like Big Steve and Sean being there size and so asked if they wanted a game of something. The kid who Sean had stolen the chicken nuggets from said that he was keen to have a game. Life was going well now in Shantytown. That was until Big  Stewart an even BIGGER kid came into the neighbourhood. Big Stewart was as big as a giant and everyone was afraid of him.

Handwriting reflection

W.A.L.T  complete a piece of handwriting displaying my best work.
Set learning goals to improve my handwriting.


What I did well?

- Show neatness and care in presentation
 - Form letters with the correct shape


What are my next steps?

 -  Neatly rule off on the line
-  Slope letters consistently

Calf And Lamb Day

W.A.L.T - Reflection on our Calf and Lamb day work.

What I did - This year I did a rock art creation for the hall of creativity. First we had to choose a rock. Then we had to put our initials on the back of our rock. Since my brother is C.H. I wrote C.H. Room - 5. The next day Mrs Fergus sprayed white paint on our rocks. After that we went on the internet to search up what we were doing. I chose a chicken standing next to a egg. After we had chosen we traced it onto our rock.Finally the next day we coloured in the pictures we drew with special felts from America. I coloured my chicken yellow and my egg white. We also had to have background. Since chickens lay in straw I did a brown background for the straw.

What I would change - I would change the background because I just coloured it in.I could make it look a bit more like straw by crisscrossing the brown.

Other comments - I am proud of my chicken because I drew it by hand and I have never done it before. I also think I can work on the shape of my egg because it was a bit hard drawing it.