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

Do you want to know about Abraham and Sarah?

We have been learning about Abraham Sarah and the promise they made to God and what they did in return ( it was be patient).

We did the role play because we were learning about them and what they did to make them remembered by the religous community.

My group made a role play about it. Here's the link to find out about Abraham and Sarah.It's supposed to be a comedy. In the play I am God, Alexis is Abraham, and Emma R is Sarah.

I created a We video but it isn't uploading so I created a link to connect it to the video. 

Me and my friends learned a lot about them like how Abraham lived to the old age of 175!

Do you know about Abraham and Sarah? If you don't then click on the links and watch the video and the play.

I enjoyed creating the play and learning my lines of by heart and organising the props.

I found it dificult to speak loud enough to the camera because if we didn't speak loud enough then you wouldn't be able to hear us

Heres a video about Abraham and Sarah so you can learn more. Gods story: Abraham and Sarah This video transports you to youtube so you can watch the video. 

Have you ever wanted to make a cool Mothers Day card? Now you can!

On a Sunday every year its Mothers Day!!!!!!                                                                                               So in class we have been working on Mothers Day cards. To make the cards we we started with cutting out a heart shaped piece of paper and traced it on a black A4 size of paper. When we finished tracing we got a skewer and started poking holes in the heart that we traced on the A4 black paper. When we had finished doing that we got 2 arms lenghths of yarn and taped a end of the yarn to the end of the skewer and thread the skewer through the bottom hole then pulled it up to the hole at the top then thread it through the hole next to it, then pull the yarn down so you have it going across each other and so on, until you get to the end. But if you run out of thread while your making it don't panic, just cut of the end and tie a knot and then add more thread to the end of the skewer and start where you left of.

I enjoyed writing on the white piece of paper we stuck in the card that we used to write on and decorating the border that I created with a ruler. I also enjoyed doing the heart out of yarn. It was easy once you got the hang of it.

I found it difficult to poke the holes in the heart traced drawing because I ripped some bits in the inside. It still worked though.

Next time I would change the colouring and the patterns on my white card border.

On the day we took the pictures it was jammies for June so we were in our PJs. I was in my dressing gown.

I hope you like it!

What is it?

Hello! This term in class we are working on our past, our present, and our future. So for cybersmart we have done: what is it? Slides. We had to get an image of an old picture like a car, washing machine, piano, toy, and computer and then we had to get an image of those items from nowadays. But we didn't have the future bit on it becuase that would be very difficult.

I enjoyed making my own slides and choosing the new version of every thing and begining at the piano.

I found it difficult to get an image of the washing machine because well, it was just dificult. I do not know why.

Next time I would change some of my images.

I hope you like and enjoy it because it took me a while to post it to my blog. Personally my favourite was the piano because I play the piano and I'm actually getting pretty good. At the end I found a lot of toys I liked so I decided to have more than one in. I hope you know what each of them are!