Jabberwocky

This weeks poem of the week was to read "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. Once we finished reading the poem we were asked to create a digital collage of one of the fanciful characters.  Polyline, cropping, the explore tool and remove background on Google Drawings were my main tools to create the Jabberwock (the Dragon) from the poem. 

To create the background I used a light green felt texture for the grass and denim blue for the sky. I fitted the patterns to size of the drawing. I searched for two different green fabrics on the explore tool, and cropped them into a cloud shape to use as the leaves of the Tumtum tree. I then used poly line to do the trunk and branches of the tree and coloured the shape a dark brown. I decided to incorporate the Tumtum tree as its an iconic tree from the Jabberwocky poem. 

For the actual dragon I used Polyline, the explore tool and Remove bg. I started with inserting two golf balls of the eyes/eye sockets, then used two wheel rims for the pupils, two light green plates/bowls for behind the eyes, frog legs for the arms and legs of the dragon, and rabbit teeth for the mouth as the inspiration I used from google had large teeth, pointed outwards teeth. I also used a large green wing for the dragons wings. A green hay bale for the dragons body, and a yellow circle on top of that for the stomach. Overall the creature/dragon looks quite weird, and its defiantly not my best creation, however I did have some fun, inserting images and creating it. 

These are the two reference photos I used to create the image. And my final result.

(Above reference images and below is my picture)

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Boy Overboard animation

 On my last blog post I mentioned that the we had a series of tasks to complete about our class novel, Boy Overboard. Here is the animation I created using Google Slides, the and Explore tool. I choose the scene from the book when Bibi, Jamal's younger sister kicks the soccer ball, landing near a tank, and then standing on a landmine. I couldn't even image standing on a land mine! Luckily the mine was just a old dud and Bibi was safe. Overall, I used 120 slides to create the animation...here is my work! You can also use the arrow keys down the bottom of the slide to make the animation go faster. Have you ever created an animation? 

Boy Overboard

JUST before lock down, we finished reading our class novel, Boy Overboard. In class we created a animation or comic-strip about the novel. I chose to do a novel at the time but I have started drawing a comic, now we are at home. More tasks were set over lock down to complete such as book reports, drawing the setting of the book, character tasks, writing a letter, timeline and a few more. However I chose to a book-report as I quite enjoy summarising the book afterwards. Anyways here is my finished book-report....

I forgot to add who I would recommend this book to however I'd probably recommend the book to anyone who is interested in soccer, sports, adventurous sailing etc. 

Poetry Ideas

If you haven't seen my recent blog post, I explained that our class was writing a variety of poems to create a poetry collection slide. I also showcased my work alongside the explanation. We have written poems such as, Limerick, Haiku, Acrostic, Diamante, Alphabet, Cinquain and Colour poems. Here is how to write them, and the structure needed. Maybe even give them a go?

Have you ever written or attempted any of these poems? 

Poetry collection

Through out the year, especially in term 2 and 3, we started writing and creating a collection and wide variety of poems. Poems we have written so far, have been, Sound poems, Diamante, Acrostic, Limerick, Haiku, Alphabet, Cinquain, and Colour poems. My favourite have probably been the Limerick, or Acrostic poem, as you can be very creative (not to say that you can't be creative with the others) But I find that its easier to write, and that I feel I can create a better poem. My least favourite is Haiku poems, as its quite short, and you have to stay between 5 and 7 syllables. However I love learning new ways of learning, like learning a new structure/type of poem. 

After writing the each poem, we transferred, if we hadn't already written the poem straight onto a Google Slide. Added a picture/background and repeated that for every poem so we could end up with a collection like this..

I met a Dragon face to face...

Today I wrote a poem inspired by "I met a dragon face to face" by Jack Prelutsky. The task was to write our own poem using his format, and think about adventures we have encountered while reading. After I wrote the poem on Google Docs, I copied it onto a Google Drawing and added images to help picture my writing. 

In the poem by Jack, the character was 10 years old, however I changed this to my age so it was like I lived the adventures.

By Hayley

Tui Collage

 This term our learning focus is based around plants and native animals. Recently we were asked to try and create a native bird using collage materials. Everyone in class got a different animal to recreate. I chose to do a Tui. To make our collages we used Google Drawing, then using the explore tool we searched up different textures and cropped them as shapes to make our bird. For example... I searched up "Cardboard" and used the texture of that to make my harakeke, and brown silk fabric to make the breast on my bird. Anyways here is my finished result...