SLJ Badge!

Way, way back at the start of the year in the Summer holidays, I took part in the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ). Each day we where given a topic or three to write a blog post about. Over the Summer I managed to write 80-100 blog posts. Then back at school in Term 1 or 2, I was awarded A prize for the TOP Blogger. I won a pair of Headphones (which I was really happy about getting). Recently my Cybersmart teacher awarded me with a Blogging/Cybersmart Badge! Here is what it looks like... 

YAY!!!!!!! :D

DJ Hayley

Today with Mrs Torrie we learnt how to make our own music. We used three websites: Incredibox, Digital Rythm Maker and Turn Art Into Music. I used Incredibox because I found it the most effective and the easiest to use. It was really fun playing around with all the different settings and creating our own pieces of music which were all different to each others.I think this tool could be really helpful for future animations.
I would definitely recommend giving this a go. Listen to my music here.

Print Making

This week with our teacher Mrs Allan we have been learning about the process of printmaking. First, we had to plan the making of it, then once we had planned it all out we could start the art. We each got a tile of lino and a lino cutter. We transferred our design onto the tile and then we used the lino cutter to cut it out. I chose to do a horse shoe design. Here it is...

 

Fascinating Fungi...

This term we are focusing on studying 'Fungi, Yeast and Mould'. We recently went on a fungi hunt around our school, to see how many species we can find. Back in class we did some slow writing (slow writing is a type of writing) Here is my writing...

How Yeast Works...

Today with our cyber smart teacher, Mrs Torrie, we learnt how to make a GIF using Google Slides and Tall Tweets. I didn't really find any of it hard, but I did have a lot of fun making and creating the GIF. 

We got the idea from a science experiment we recently did in class. The experiment was about yeast, we got 4 bottles, 4 sachets of yeast, hot water, cold water, sugar and 4 balloons. We made a bottle of cold water at 18 degrees, a tepid bottle of water at 32 degrees, a very warm bottle of water at 39 degrees and a really hot bottle of water at 51 degrees. 

We then added the sugar and yeast to each bottle and added a balloon on top then we left the experiment to see which bottle would produce the most gas. It turned out that the 39 degrees bottle worked the best and produced the most gas. So, that's is how we got the idea. We also used this GIF idea to show how good our understanding of yeast was. Here is my GIF...

Aurora Leadership Program

Today, the 4th of June 2020, I participated in the Aurora Leadership Program. This is a program that improves skills of Leadership.  Each school gets to choose 1-2 students to participate. Matawai School chose Isabel (https://matawaiisabelr.blogspot.com/2020/) and I. Because of the Corona Virus we couldn't meet together so we used 'Google Meet' to learn together over a video call. We used 'Burn Bright' as part of our learning, we had to complete two modules. The first one was about Leadership and the second one was about Teamwork. We also decorated our very own set of slides called a learning passport. We used this slide to reflect on the modules we had done earlier. I really enjoyed the day and I learnt more about Leadership. We will be travelling to Gisborne soon for another workshop. But, except for the next one we will be meeting in person.  

Street Art

These last couple of weeks at school our art focus has been based around a poem. We read a poem about someone describing there street. It included things like cabbage trees, a gang house, church house, old rust - bucket cars, new cars... We had to use some of those items to visualize a piece of art. We call it 'street art', here is my piece of art... 

My friend Sophia created a beautiful piece of art work above 

 Below is my street artwork

Later in the week I did some art at home of a horse laughing, I guess you would say. Here it is....