Calendar art!

In my school every year in every class we do something called calendar art were every class makes some very cool art and when there finished our parents can bye them as a calendar,sketchbook,mouse pad and more. For our class is was also sort of based on our maths to, geometric shapes. And with our geometric shapes we put them into NZ native birds . This was a long process of drawing ,colouring ,dying and gluing pieces of crate paper on them. My favorite bit for this was choosing the native bird I chose a weka. The hardest part for me was drawing all the triangles into the bird and shading the colours but other then that I found it all easy and hope to do it again. Please comment your favorite NZ native bird. Matewa!

Rongora

 This week for our shared reading we have been learning about maori medicinal plants. For this activity we have to read a few books about many medical plants. it wasn't long before most of us started our create. for our create we had to make a sign with a barcode (witch was optional) with some fact of there chosen plant on it there were at least  10 there to choose from  Because there were so many to choose from I had a hard time deciding. But over my decision was Manuka becuase it smells nice and when you think about it It's actually really helpful. I really enjoyed painting the sign but next time I would try a different plant becuase why not try find facts for all of them.

Portrait art

This week for our art. We were doing a very hard sort of art , Portrait art. Before we actually started our art my teacher showed us some of the art she made which looked very good. To start off with, we had to take a photo and trace the lines with a sharpie very carefully. Then this is what I thought was the hardest part was mixing colours to match your skin colour and this was the learning focus and what I thought was the hardest part. When we mixed the all the colours together the colours we used was yellow white and red and If you had a darker skin colour you would use a little bit of black. My favourite bit for this art was sketching the out lines on my shirt, face and hair. Please comment what you liked about my house  and if you think I got close to my actual face.

My 2021 Achievements

 Lots of the learning we have been doing this week has been on Canva. Before we did the fun bit of the task we were learning some cool tricks that you could use on your presentation like shaping your video and lots more.when we started on our slides  We have to choose a video template or we wouldn't have been able to put our starting video on there.

Onto our creation, for it we had to make three slides to fit three school achievements on it. Each slide had to look cool and the pictures had to relate to your achievements. I Liked this activity a lot because all the pictures on canva make you want to replay the slide show over and over again. But when it came to writing all the subheadings they slowed me down a bit. if or when you comment, add what you think I did well with my presentation and  what you liked about it.

Using Canva

Have you used Canva before? Well for our RE this week we had a new focus we were learning about, service. For this task we have also learnt how to use Canva which has made this project even better Because it brightens our posters up and you can make it very eye-catching. After we logged into canva we had to choose a template and write service somewhere on the page so we knew what it poster was about. After we chose our template we had to add on the poster what  service looks like, sounds like, and feels like.

 I think I have successfully completed my poster and I really like it. But I did find it challenging to write in what service feels like. Please comment on what you like about my poster. Matewa

Beatitudes

 This week was social justice and we were learning about the beatitudes. We chose a quote from one of the beatitudes and made a poster with the quote and eye-catching colours and pictures. I really enjoyed this activity because I have never in my life heard of the beatitudes and I found it challenging to  choose which saying to choose because there were SO MANY! To choose from. Please when you comment tell me what you like about my poster and if you have ever heard of the beatitude.

Speaches

 SO this week was speeches . And we were learning in our writing how to write a persuasive piece and write the right sort of  paragraphs for this sort of writing. Obviously we learnt how to do this because we had to say our speech in front of our class. For this task we read our cameo for this week and wrote down the things we thought were most important for our writing. Like emotive language ect. I found it very challenge to write my speech but I enjoyed  presenting it.Please comment if you like speeches or not. Matewa.

Having a growth mindset is best 

Kia ora, ni hou,Malo Lelei,and hello this is my speech about why Having a growth mindset is best

Do you know what a growth mindset is? Or Do you always know you're gonna Come first and smash everyone or know your gonna come last and don't even try in an activity? Or do you even play differently to everyone else Like having goals to reach with things you find hard and being an awesome team player? Well I firmly believe that everyone should have a Growth mindset.

First of all Having a growth mindset is much better when you are trying to Achieve  your goals. Say if I had a fixed mindset And I was trying to fly to the moon If you had a fixed mindset I would say something like “I could never do this and should just give up or instead, if I do this, I will become rich,famous and  own the world. like that's TOO big of an expectation. But if you had a growth mindset you would break it into baby steps and not worry about how famous and rich you get and only enjoy that you have achieved something that was impossible before now. 

Secondly, having a growth mindset is healthy and good for your body. I know that when you have a fixed mindset about, say Maths you become very  confused and lots of pressure is put on you. Sometimes you can even end up throwing a tantrum not just at home but at school too.And I When you do this you're stressed and it is not good for you body and everyone else around you to listen to.

Lastly, having a growth mindset makes everybody happy. You may be wondering how having a growth mindset makes people happy? Well it is very simple. When you have a growth mindset your happy and you bring a good mood . Which is what everybody wants. SO when your happy it makes other people smile

So I think Everybody should strive for a growth mindset because it helps achieve your goals,Makes your brain healthy and puts you and other people in a good mood. I have one question before I leave: what sort of mindset do you think I have?