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...

Ngahere Writing

To incorporate our study on plants, biodiversity and native bush this term, we recently did some slow writing about our native Ngahere. Slow writing is small 7 sentence writing exercise however it helps to enrichen our writing by using things such as similes, metaphors, questions etc. After writing, I added it to a Google Drawing and from there I placed on a background of New Zealand native bush. Here is my writing...

Would you read Pax?

Recently our class finished reading our class novel Pax. While reading this book, we were asked to share our thinking and predictions about what we think is going to happen in the book. One of our tasks was to draw each character in our reading books (Pax the fox and Peter the boy) With one character per page, then rule the page in half and on one side write what we know about the character and on the other our predictions and what we don't know about them. We also had to visualise and use our imagination as there were no pictures of the characters in the book for us to use and copy while drawing them.

After we read the story we had to write a book report on the novel. To publish/create my book report I used Google Drawings. When I had finished typing the blurb I took photos of my drawings in my reading book, removed the background and added them on the side. Here is my book review... Would you read Pax??