Matariki on scratch

 This week and last week we have been learning about coding on scratch. Since its Matariki Mrs Torri - our cybersmart teacher - told we had to do it Matariki themed. She said we could make your your sprite and a star go for a journey and look for all the other stars of Matariki. On scratch my sprite was a astronaut dog called dot. I used space back grounds and voices that you can listen to.

I enjoyed coding my sprites and chosing my back grounds. I found it difficult to code and make them talk and change the back ground. Next time I would change some of my back grounds and my sprite. On my scratch game I haven't finished making and coding it yet so you will only get to see a little bit of my game.

Have you ever been on scratch? If you have then maybe you could make your own Matariki scratch game. If you haven't maybe you could ask your teacher if you and your class can go on it and create your own game. 

Tropical Island Breeze

For the past week or so we have been learning about descriptive writing. Miss Hickling - my teacher - said that we had to write about a tropical island picture that she had on her computer. I decided that my writing would be called Tropical island breeze!. 

I enjoyed writing about what it looked like and what it would smell like if I was really there. I wished that I was there for real because it would be much easier to see, smell, hear, and feel if was really there.

I found it difficult to describe what I could feel because there wasn't that many things to feel that were shown in the picture but the only thing that was there was the sand so I decided that I would do that as a part of the feel bit.

Next I would change what I could feel, hear, and see and maybe how I wrote the writing because there isn't that much detail and I think I could add more.

Our digital learning object is to write descriptive writing.

I hope you enjoy it!

Tropical island breeze!

Tropical island.

The lovely smell of the salty sea water, hanging around in the fresh island breeze. There is also the smell of the sandy floor on the islands. The tropical island smell is the best smell ever!

You can see glossy green palm trees swaying in the wind, and crystal clear warm salty marine water. Jagged mountain tops and a boat slowly trailing through water.

Birds happily chirping is a sound you will be hearing a lot. Leaves rustling in the breeze, and waves lapping against the side of the mountain and the islands.

You feel clear aqua-marine water slipping through your fingertips when you have your hand in the water. The sandy beach under your feet tingling your toes, the leaves on the coconut trees blowing in the wind. Driftwood slowly drifting through water and dancing in the waves, the warmth of the air against your skin giving you a joyful tingling feeling filling you with happiness.

The taste of the salty sea air is a surprise to people arriving for the first time. The salty taste of leaves as they hit your mouth tastes terrible, like salt, water, and leaves all together.

A tropical island is the best place to be!!

By:Molly

 

2022 Home learning book cover!

Last week for art we were drafting, drawing and colouring a cover for the home learning book covers for 2022. Home learning books are home work books that we put our spelling and home work in. The seniors have a competition to see who does the best cover and the teachers vote for the best one and the best one gets put on the cover. You have the choice for if you want to put your picture to be voted or not. I want to be one of the people who put their artwork in to be voted and I hope that I win, but there are lots of good artists at our school so it will probably not be me. 

I enjoyed drawing and colouring it in but our class had a lot of pressure because we only had 2 days to work on it! And in those 2 days we only had 1 hour to do it!

I found it difficult to come up with a background because there were so many colours to choose from. In the end I decided to go with the house colours at the top. A rainbow on one side and rays of the sun on the other side because Gisborne is first to see the sun.

I did our school crest in the middle a rosary on the side and our house symbols are on it in some places. I wrote our school motto at the bottom - "Do whatever Jesus tells you"  - our motto is something that John said.

Oil and water. Do they mix?

About two or three weeks ago we did a science experiment about oil and water and do they mix? We had to split our group in half just before we made the slides because two more people came into our group. When we did the experiment there were three roles to do: Camera, recorder and experimenter. I was on camera which meant I took pictures and videos that we downloaded on to the slides, but I couldn't manage to download the video on to the slides so I added in a link that you can click on. The link is called link but in red and underlined, it's on the slides.

I enjoyed videoing and taking pictures of the experiment while 2 of of our group did the experiment and 1 person in our group recorded what the experimenters were doing.

I found it difficult to finish the slides off in time and also when our group was doing the experiment we only had just enough time to finish it.

 Next time I would change how I described some of the things that we did in experiment that I typed down on the slides.

I hope you enjoy it!

Do you want to know about the covenant? Now you can!

Hello bloggers! For the past week we have been learning about the covenant. The covenant is were God makes a promise and the persons he makes the promise to has to do something in return. My group - me, Alexis, Theodora - made a poster. We used a A3 size of paper and glitter gel pens, gel pens, double sided markers, pens, and a gray coloured pencil. 

I enjoyed designing the poster colouring it in and drawing the patterns all around it.

I found it difficult to decide what we were going to write on it and what certain types of patterns to do.

Next I would change some of the facts on it, patterns, colour and the type of handwriting that I did because my handwriting on the poster to me looks very messy.

Me and my friends worked on it together so there is three different types of drawing, colouring, and writing on it because we all worked on it together. 

Before...

We took lots of pictures will working on it but I chose these 2 to be our before and after pictures.

Theodora and Alexis both have pictures and a blog post on there blogs so maybe you can go and check them out.

And after.

                                                                            

My awsome bedroom!

For the past week we have been learning about desciptive writing and Miss Hickling told us to do it about our bedroom I love my bedroom it's so cozy! We had to write wether we liked it or not and if it was warm and comfortable or cold and boring and if we shared it with sisters or brothers and what it smelled like and what we heard in our room. 

My awesome bedroom!

My favourite place in my house is my cozy bedroom. My bedroom is my getaway place, it's unique and usually tidy except when I'm doing art. In my room I like to bounce on the bed and read until dark.

I have a squarish room and 2 beds. I usually have things on the floor like books, paper, and clothes. I have a big window and a blue chandelier and a big desk. I love to jump on the bed and sleep under my pink circus print dufay. My bed is usually messy, but I like it that way. My dad sometimes shaves in my room because it has a big window with no gutters underneath.

I sometimes smell things cooking downstairs, especially dumplings. When I'm waking up I either hear my parents clanging pots and pans together or I hear the chickens and the birds chirping and making noise outside my window. When I wake up I can smell my breath in my warm bed sheets that feel like warm puffy clouds. My room smells pretty fresh because I have the window open a lot of the time. Most of the time in my bedroom I'm reading and sleeping and listening to my cd's on my karaoke. And I don't have to share with siblings.

What annoys me most is when my little sisters leave their clothes in my room or play in it without my permission. My bedroom has white walls and 4 pictures along the walls. I have a chair with a heart cushion that I love to read on, I also have a 4 shelved wardrobe. I have a light above each bed and fairy lights hung across them.

I still think my room is the best in the house and I like the way it is. It's so comfy, warm, fresh, and cozy. It's also very easy to fall asleep; in. My bedroom is awesome!

By: Molly