Waikowhai Art Festival

Hi guys Richard here. On Tuesday the schools Art Festival was on. You guys may know that my class painted individual birds that are native to New Zealand.  I used blue for my background as the sky and had a sparrow as my bird. My favourite part of doing the bird painting was the flower because my teacher told me how to shade it and make it look more effective. The reason why I did this bird is because it was really easy to draw and there wasn't that much to do with it. I didn't go to the Art Show so I can't tell you guys what happened but here are is a photo of people weaving at the Art Show.

We also made signs for our house that we built for the Art Show. The sign had to persuade people to stop polluting our country and helping us make it more healthy for our animals. Everyone else did it on their chrome books except for me and my two friends. I enjoyed drawing the sign because when I draw I get more ideas and brainstorm them in my head, then I get one big idea. 

Before I did my sign had to do this thing called Train Art which me and my art group made for the new train station that is going to be built underground. The subject was where would we go in a train for mine I did "To the islands of Samoa". My favourite part of doing this was colouring in the drawing I did.


There was one big piece of art that the whole syndicate helped to make it was our big weaving board.  I really liked weaving because I haven't done it before in my life so this is probably my highlight of this term. There is a teacher that helped us and is really good at weaving her name is Mrs Paki.

My Samoan Fale

My Samoan Fale

Hey bloggers, last week in reading we were learning about a tsunami that happened in Samoa. We had to watch a video that gives us some ideas about what happened there. There was a part of the story when the chief of the village had a talk with two scientist they had a talk about how they could make the village safer, one of their ideas were to move the village to the other side of the land. When I finished the video which took me for ages I had to either make a tinkercad or draw the house that would withstand a tsunami or a storm I chose to draw the house. My favourite part of doing this was drawing the house and adding the detail onto it and making it strong enough. Drawing the house was really funny, because when I was drawing it I thought that it was a real house but my friend said that it was a key chain we started laughing it was so funny. HERE IS A PHOTO OF MY DRAWING:

 

Hauraki's Installation Art

Hi guys, this week my class have been working on our piece of artwork for our school art show.  My class has just built the house all we need to do is put the plastic onto the house so when we put the rubbish in it won't fall out. We recently put the plastic on and painted some flowers on it the flowers didn't stay on because of the rain. It was fun stapling the plastic onto the house but it was scary because I was standing on the stool and stapling the roof. So after making the house and stapling the plastic bags on it we finally added some decorations and all the rubbish we have been saving since the begging of the term. If you want to find more look at the slideshow I made.  

Auckland Zoo Trip

Blogging about the Zoo

 WALT: Report, Recount, Reflect

When:We went last week on Thursday the 14.

Where: We went to the Auckland Zoo which is near Western Springs.

What: We went and looked at some animals and even went into the bug lab.

Why:  We went to the Zoo to learn about the animals and we also went for our Inquiry we are learning about "CURIOUSITY".

Who: We went with some parents that volunteered to help with the trip.

How: We travelled by bus but it wasn't a small one it was a double decker.

One event that I liked was Bug lab, Seals, and the Cheaters.

I liked the Bug lab the most because it was dark and their were these kind of mazes you go through and they have different facts inside of them. My favourite part of the Bug lab was the butter-fly maker you could make planes and put them in this big massive tube and they fly out. I felt happy when we saw the seal swimming in the water. The seal was so big I have never seen a seal in person so it was very cool. The first time we went to see the seals they weren't there but the second time we went one was swimming and the other one was scratching itself. 

I think that this trip was really fun and cool because we saw different animals and their species. When I saw the Cheater there was only one but then the other one came and I was amazed, like 1 Cheater is cool but 2  you don't get to see that every day. I wanted to see the Cheaters run but I think they were tired. 

I would definitely go to the Zoo again because I haven't been to the Zoo like  around four years so it was very fun to go back and look around again. 

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ART

Hi guys, last week we had a task given to us by our teacher. She gave us a big piece of paper called water strength cartridge paper, we also used high school paint brushes to paint with. Then she told us to draw a native bird to New Zealand onto the piece of strong paper but as always we had to practice it in our art book. I drew a Sparrow for my bird. So after we did all that, the next day we drew the background for the picture. The week after we got to paint, I was so exited to paint, because I haven't painted since last year like literately. My favourite thing about  this whole process was the painting part, the reason I liked the painting better is because I really enjoy mixing colours and making things very colourful. The thing I don't like about my artwork is how I did my bird so terrible. I really wanted to redraw my bird but I already painted it. I could improve my bird because the drawing of it was really poor and I know that I could do better.


What my partner James thought:
My friend liked how my flower was drawn and my bird.
My friend didn't like the tree because a real tree doesn't have zig- zag twigs.
My friend said I could improve on making it better and more colourful.
My friend said that I could have made my grass bigger because he said that all he could see was blue sky.
He said that I could draw the bird bigger and practice the colours in my art book before I put it on the good copy. 


If you are interested in art, you could come to Waikowhai Primary Schools special "ART SHOW". Every class in the school has a piece of art to show. So come along and enjoy your time looking at our artwork. 
Opening night : 6:15-8;15 Tuesday night 26th June.

                                                  This is my piece of art                                               I think I did a good job. keep scrolling down to see my friends artwork

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                                             This is James' artwork 

Tiritiri Matangi Trip

Talofa lava blogging world, last Thursday we went to Tiritiri Matangi Island for a senior school trip. We went to the island on the ferry. We each got to go to the top of the ferry in the groups we got put into. When we got to the island we sat down in our groups and the instructor from the island told us about it and what happened. We went for a walk in our groups again and were looking out for birds then writing them down on the piece of paper. I learnt that when the Maori first saw the Nikau they thought there would be coconuts on them but actually there was nothing so they called it the Nikau tree which means no coconuts. When I was on the island I found out a lot of new things about it. We also did a treasure hunt to find little finger puppets. I didn't find that many, I only found one. After all of the hunting and looking we went down to the beach so we could chill and have some relax time but I got injured. After all of that we came back to Auckland and went home. I saw a lot of birds that I didn't know about so it was a great experience to see those birds like a Takahe, Tui, and a Pukeko. 

Here is a link to the Tiritiri Island website:  http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/home