Summer Learning Journey Descriptive Writing

 The next step of learning about the summer learning journey was to find another picture, colour it in and describe it. e.g shapes, lines, colours, texture, whats in the background... 

You can see that this drawing is pretty plain. But the paint has a good texture on the pyramid and a little bit of texture on the sand. The background is just a blue sky with the pyramid and sand. My eye catches onto the little mountains on the right hand side far back behind the pyramid. There are lines that separate the sky from the sand and the 3 dimensional triangle. The colours there are not to many of either but they blend together nicely and they look good side by side.

Creating My Own Music

Last week with our cybersmart teacher, Room 4 got introduced to a song website called 'Soundtrap'. First we had to find a picture of either an animal or a sport or something that we like. I finally chose a picture of a running cheetah. When we were making our music it had to match the mood of your picture. It was really confusing at the start for all of us, so we all struggled a bit but also had a lot of fun playing around and making beats. When we had finished our sound we had to fiddle around a little bit so we could add our beats onto the picture. The one main thing that I found challenging during this process would have to be getting the hang of the whole app.

AND HERE'S MY FINAL PRODUCT . . .

Hypertufa Pots

Last Thursday with Mrs Allan room four started to make Hypertufa pots and how we did that was . . .
Firstly we got a bit of cardboard and we shaped it into any kind of shape, I just did a simple square. Once you had your shape you put tape on it to keep the shape in place. Then you completely cover the cardboard on the outside and the inside. Once you have done that you grab another bit of cardboard to place on the bottom. You stick the bottom to the shape with loads of tape so it doesn't leak out. We had to make a small hole with our pencil at the bottom of the cardboard for a place for water to drip out of.

Then we mixed together perlite, concrete, water and Pete so it was in between lumpy and watery. Before we put any concrete into the cardboard we got some blue tack and a round container that fits perfectly inside of the cardboard. We made the bit of blue tack about 2cm long and stuck it into the hole we made and balanced the container on top. We carefully packed the concrete down the sides and at the bottom of the cardboard.

After 1 week we went up to the shade house where we had kept our Hypertufa pots. Room four rushed back to class to destroy our creations so we could get our pot out.
They look really cool but now our class smells like a garden centre.

Best Tech Yet

Today for tech the year 7's woodwork teacher was sick so our principal was going to do something with us. Mr Knight choose to do robotics with us. We had one and 1/2 hours to complete out robots and we were going to have a soccer game with them. Our teams were Duncan, Maranga and Jaimee then Hayley and myself. The skill we were focusing on was teamwork. Neither of the teams had finished our creations so Mr Knight said he will find some time so we can finish our robots and have a big soccer game. It was really hard to find the pieces that we needed and also how to connect the batteries. Overall it was really fun and a great way to fill in our tech time.  

Here's the robot Hayley and I are close to finishing . . .

A Great Thursday With Mrs Allan

Today is Thursday with Mrs Allan we made a table on a doc and put what we were going to do for the day and what time we do that. We also were learning print art in maths. I started off with some maths because I brain doesn't  work as well when its the afternoon. next up I did some writing and we had to ask some questions about a sport and a friend had to answer the questions. Reading and Genius Hour. It was a great day back with Mrs Allan.
This Is My Table from Today . . .

Quiz

The Gisborne SIX60 Conset

One Saturday me and my family went to the beach to see SIX60's new album they shared with Gisborne. I'm one of those people that I just really love music and singing. Do you like music and singing? Do you know who SIX60 are? Whats your favourite music?
I could name all of SIX60's songs if I really wanted to thats how much I love music. On Thursdays in class room four have a incredible teacher Mrs Allan who takes half of the school for singing. I'm one of the best lead and harmony girls.

At the SIX60 conset people were going wild and people were also going to their cars with their mates and drinking. It was great I could of lissened to them sing for hours and hours. But sadly they were only there to stay to sing their new album since Gisborne won the voting on where they would be. At the end there was a massive line with a coulpe of thousand people in the line paying $20 to get a picture or something signed.

By the way I've been listening to SIX60 this whole time I wrote this story.
SIX60's full playlist . . .

- Don't forget your roots in Maori
- Don't forget your roots
- Rivers
- Don't give up
- Someone to be around
- Up there
- Closer
- The greatest
- Only to be
- Green bottles
-  Vibes
- Special
- White lines
- Forever
- Rolling stone
- So high
- Rest of you
- Rise up 2.0
- Lost
- Finest wine
- Mothers eyes
- Purple
- Windy days
- Stay together
- Please don't go
- Raining
- Hard for me
- In the clear
- Don't go changing
- Exhale
- Universe
- Choice of the chosen
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=six60
SIX60 songs

SIX60

Harakeke, Kumara and Kawakawa Learning