Calendar Art 2015

Last week we started to make our calendar art for this year.Then we carried on this week. First we traced our hands onto a peace of paper. Next we drew four lines and there were nine boxes and in the nine boxes we had to do designs. Then we had to color it in. Then we went over the lines with black vivid. This is my 2015 calendar art.

My Sketching

This week and last week our class have been doing sketching before school. Our teachers printed out pictures for us to sketch. I sketched a dragon, batman and a dog from Marmaduke. These are all of my sketching's. 

The favourite sketch that I did was the dragon because it looks very cool.

Something that I learnt from sketching was that you have to press lightly with your pencil so you can rub it out if you make a mistake.

New Zealand Flag Debate Presentation

Last week we created a New Zealand flag debate presentation. We had to include facts and questions. This is the New Zealand flag debate presentation that I created.

Limerick Poems

This week we learnt how to write limerick poems. Limerick Poems have 5 lines. Line number 1, 2 and 5 all rhyme with each other and have 8 or 9 syllables. Lines 3 and 4 both rhyme with each other and have 5 or 6 syllables.  

This is all 5 of my limerick poems.

Limerick Poems

Number 1

There was a man with a beard

Who was really weird and disappeared

The man was called Stan

and he lived in a can

Then he found a deer and shaved his beard

Number 2

There once was a young person in red

and then he got hit in the head

His wife almost cried

because he nearly died

Then he layed on his comfy bed

Number 3

There was a lady named Claire

and got hit in the head with a chair

She had a friend called Bob

Then pulled off a doorknob

She also likes to care and stare

Number 4

There once was a old man from the west

He lived in a dark gloomy nest

He played with his brother

But didn’t like his mother

And people thought he was the best

Number 5

There was a man with a red nose

His friend gave him a rose

He went away to France

He got a chance to dance

and he ran away with his clothes

My Digi Award Entry 2015 With Michael

Last week Michael and I recorded our Everyday Hero Rap. We recorded our voices on garageband and then we recorded ourselves and put it on i movie. This is our music video.

This is our description of or process we went through.

During term 2 we learnt about heroes. We also learnt about different types of heroes like      personal heroes, community heroes and ourselves as heroes. We also learnt about the difference between Idols and Heroes. Then we planned our category.

We did a rap. First we had to find keywords that have something to do with heroes. Then we found rhyming words for the keywords. Then we learnt our words off by heart. Then we did our storyboarding and when we did our storyboarding we did our rap on garageband. Once we did our rap we filmed our rap on imovie.

The Digi Awards process helped me learn how to write a rap.

New Zealand Flag Debate Writing

Last Term our class room 5&6 (West Wing) learnt about the New Zealand Flag Debate. We learnt about how John Key wanted to change the New Zealand Flag and how it will cost $26,000,000!!! This is what I wrote about the New Zealand Flag Debate.

New Zealand Flag Debate

In New Zealand right now there is a enormous New Zealand flag debate. John Key would like to change the New Zealand flag. Plenty  people in New Zealand would not like it to change. I think it is not a good idea to change the flag. Everyone in my house thinks it is a stupid idea to change the flag, including myself. A reason why the New Zealand flag should be changed is because it is too similar to the Australian flag because we both have the Union Jack and stars. The only thing that is different is the amount of stars and the colors of the stars. Another reason why we should change the flag is because there is hardly any Maori culture included in our current flag.I think the flag shouldn’t change because it will cost too much money. People are saying it will cost $26,000,000. I think we shouldn’t change the flag because with that money we could fix things from after the earthquakes for example buildings, roads and houses. You could also save endangered animals like Kiwis, Rhinos, and Keas. Another reason why we shouldn’t change the flag is because the stars represent the people that died in WW1 and WW2. Overall 48% of people think we should change the New Zealand flag. But 52% of people think we shouldn’t change the flag. I think we shouldn’t change the flag because it will cost $26,000,000 and you could use that money for more important things.                                                                       John Key

                                                                                                                 

                                                               

Book Character Day

Today we had Book Character Day and everyone dressed up in a costume. I dressed up in my Warriors top and Warriors shorts. My teachers Mrs McGuinnity and Miss Mcleod dressed up as Minions. This is a photo of our entire class in their costumes.