Summer sounds

Today I managed to achieve another blog post, this time about Summer sounds (sounds you can hear in Summer in NZ) 

First, we started off by reading a poem about Summer sounds written by Jenny Bornholdt. Next, we were asked to highlight all of the sound words and words we don't understand. 

Then, the funniest part of this blog post... was to go outside and record summer sounds that we can hear on our Chromebook. Listen back to them and create our own Summer Poem. Anyways, here is my poem...

I also chose to Step it Up and narrate my poem using screencastify. So, here is my screencastify...

Incredible Insects

 December 15th 2020 - Summer Learning Journey - Task 2

Today the Summer Learning Journey challenged us to create a piece of art work using nature around us, the artwork was inspired by Raku Inoue, a Japanese artist who only uses leaves, barks, flowers and other things found from his backyard to create spectacular artwork like these...

If you would like to look at more art by Raku, this website has hundreds of cool photos!

To make the insect in photo 1 I used, a Chestnut seed casing (for the body), 8 small twigs (for the legs), and 2 thorns from a rose bush (for the fangs).

And to make the insect in photo 2  I used, a Lavender (for the body), green/unripe blackcurrants(for the eyes), ferns (for the antennae), 6 sticks (for the legs) and Zinnia petals (as wings).

Here are the final results!

Photo #1 (above)

Photo #2 (above)

I also made some more insects, however this time I chose to make some butterflies. To make the butterflies I used petals from flowers, the pistil, stigma, style and ovary (the middle of the flower). The types of flowers I used were... Nasturtium, Pansy, Alyssum, Chickory, Shirley Poppies, Marigold, and Salvia. Here are the butterflies I made...

                 

A Slice of Nature

This past week has been full of great challenges, one of them being the Mandala challenge. Only using natural materials. Andy Goldworthy is a British sculptor how uses natural materials in his artworks. We used some images of his artwork as inspiration to create ours. I created 2 pieces of art, picture 2 and picture 6 below. Here is our collection...

Mine (above)

Mine (above)

Marvelous Movies

The Summer Learning Journey challenged me to imagine that we had the chance to create and design our very own movie. I am not a big fan of movies (because I just simply can't stay still) however movies that I do like are Matilda, Harry Potter . . . Do you like watching movies? What is your favourite movie? Anyway, here is what I would make my movie about . . . 
I would create a wildlife and nature movie, explaining more about endangered and non-endangered animals and nature (trees, plants etc) I would explore all around the world making a movie about different countries and there nature, I could also include cultures and cuisine. What would your movie be about???