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Diwali

A few weeks ago was Diwali. Diwali is an indian celebration with, dancing, singing, and yummy food. For Diwali, sometimes neighbours would give you cooked food. Diwali is can be celebrated anywere, but mainly in india. Women also use powered rice with food colouring to make a Diwali patterens  outside there door, or some were else. Did you know that Diwali is the Indian vestival of light? For this task we had to create a rangoli - the thing with powered rice - but we had the choice to do it on paper, with chalk on the concrete, or digitaly. I chose to do it on paper. For the rangoli we had to watch a video and copy what it was doing. We were able to do any shape we wanted. Heres a link to see a Diwali presintation, and heres another link to see a book on epic all about diwali. Heres a video link that takes you to youtube to watch a video about Diwali. I enjoyed drawing and colouring in my rongali. I found it difficult to choose which shape I was going to use. I hope yoy like my rongali and please leave a comment if you do.

Portrait art

 For the past few weeks we have been making portrait art. For this task we had to get a picture of ourselfs taken and then put it behind a laminat sheet, then outline the picture witha sharp pointed vivid or sharpie, sharpie is best. After that, take the picture out from under neath the laminating sheet and flip it over, and start mixing the paint colours to match your face. Then when you've done start painting you're face, neck and ears. Then make the colours of you're shirt, and paint that. Then make the colour of your hair, paint your hair, then make the colour of your eyes, then your lips, and finally,once ypur dry, put a sheet of coloured paper behind you and your done. I enjoyed painting my self and chosing the colour of my background. I found it difficult to mix the colours and make my face, and eyes. In the end the skin that I created eneded up looking a bit sun burnt. If you want make portrait art, be warned, some bit's are harder than others, espeically the skin. I ended up with the inside of my mouth blue, and part of my eyebrow blue as well, because the back ground that I had choose was blue, and buy the time I was done there had been bits that I had for gotten about. We were learning how to blend paint to match our skin, or our hair.

Service poster

For the past few weeks me and my class have been working on service posters. We chose a template, and made a different background, fonts and colours so it didn't look like the origanal. My favourite part was deciding on the background and changing the fonts. I found it difficult to come up with what I was going to put on the poster for what you should do to show service. Our cyber smart teacher told us that on our posters and videos that we make on canva, we should have no more than 3 colours, and 3 fonts.  My service poster includes, what showing service means, what you should do to show service, and 5 things that you could do. Have you ever been on canva, at home, or at school? If you don't know what canva is, then you should get it, and be able to make lots of cool posters, videos and much, much more. I hope you like my poster as much as I do! Our DLO - digital learning object - was to learn to use canva.

My 2021 Acievements

For the past week or so we have been working on canva. In case you didn't know canva is an amazing thing that you can use to make posters and videos. For this task we had to make a video of ourselfs then make 3 more tabs with our 3 2021 achievements. On the tabs we had to add our achievements, audio, animation, and coloured background. Our cybersmart teacher told us that we should never have more that 3 backgrounds, no more than 3 fonts, and no more than 3 colours. I enjoyed adding audio, adding back gronds, adding animation, and chosing fonts. The only thing that I found difficult was chosing my last achievement that I was going to do because I couldn't think of anything. Have you ever been on canva before? Because if you haven't then you should definitally get it. I hope you like my canva slide as much as I do!

Is chocolate one of the best desserts ever?🍫

 Do you like chocolate? My speech is all about it! But my speech is not a happy speech about chocolate, its about the sad story of chocolate. When I read my speech in front of the class I got into the semi-finals and then the finals. My favourite part of writing my speech was doing the research and watching the video about the bitter side of chocolate. Do you even know what the bitter side of chocolate is? Read my speech and learn all about it. When I read my speech in front of the whole school, I got 3rd place. I hope you like it. And remeber, chocoate is not all that it's cut out to be. 

                                                                                                                                                                                       Is chocolate the best food ever?

Who likes chocolate? You probably do, but have you ever considered where it came from? I´m here to tell you the bitter side of chocolate, but first the sweet side.

Firstly, chocolate is delicious, it's sweet and perfect for dessert. It’s difficult to imagine that the chocolate chip cookie, one of the world’s most beloved sweet treats, was actually invented by accident in 1930 when Ruth Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, were running the Toll House Inn on Route 18 near Whitman, Massachusetts. Mrs. Wakefield prepared all the food for the guests at the inn and had gained an enviable local reputation for her impressive range of desserts.

Secondly, here's the bitter side. The journey from cocoa bean to chocolate bar is rife with corruption, violence, and exploitation. People, many of them children, are being forced to do illegal work just so we can eat chocolate. Unfortunately if you know how it starts then it might not be  possible to enjoy chocolate. People are forced to be slaves because of it. 60 percent to 2 thirds of the world's cocoa beans come from west africa, mainly in two countries, Ghana and Ivory Coast. The people in Africa have to cut the cocoa pods off the cocoa trees without using machines, only machetes, which are a big knife. Cocoa pods have cocoa beans in them, which are mandatory if you want to make chocolate. Once the farmers have 30 - 35 tons of chocolate they take it to the port where the beans are shipped off to big chocolate companies that you've probably never heard of. 400 cocoa beans = 1 pound of chocolate. The cocoa farmers get less than 1 dollar a day or about 200 dollars a year which is about as much as adult workers can get here in a day. The big chocolate companies get a huge amount of money from the chocolate we eat. I think the farmers should get more of the money because they work every day, their children work every day, and they barely get 1 dollar.

Lastly, Ivory Coast has lost more than 85 percent of its forests because farmers destroy the native trees to grow the cocoa trees. Cocoa trees make about 30 pods a year, which is enough for 2 tons. Each pod contains about 40 seeds. If a farmer has the choice of protecting the rain forests or feeding their families then they don't have much of a choice at all. Sadly sometimes bad people come and kill the farmers if they know that they have money that they want. 

What I'm trying to tell you is that chocolate shouldn't make people slaves or destroy forests. I think we do need chocolate, but the farmers should have a choice if they want to work at the cocoa farms or not, and if they do then they should be paid a whole lot more. Thank you for listening to my speech and I hope you agree with me that chocolate shouldn´t cause slavery.

My saint is Joseph

For the past few weeks we have been learning about saints. Our RE our task was to create a google drawing about our saint. We also had answer 4 questions that were, what is your saint called? Why do you think your saint is important to our school? What is and interesting fact about your saint? What is one saying of your saint that we can use to guide the way through our lives?. My saint is St Joseph. Did you know that his favourite colour was either red or gold?

I enjoyed learning about my saint and creating the google drawing. I found it difficult to get his hair because when I tried polyline, it didn´t work. When I tried scribble, it didn't work. When I tried curve, it didn't work. So then I finally decided to use a shape and it still turned out bad, but it was better than trying to make it myself. My DLO ( Digital learning object) was to create a google drawing about my saint including facts around it and a picture of Saint Joseph. For this task I got the eyes from google search, I used shapes to make the head, hands, legs, and body, and I polylined the mouth. Theres also a picture of Saint Joseph in the background that you can look at if you want.