My Calendar Art

\WALT present a piece of artwork for our parents to buy.

Success Criteria

• Take our time, show patience (GRIT)
• Plan our piece of artwork
• Take care with the painting and dyeing
• Research for our inspiration
• Explain the steps you took to make your artwork on your blog
• How do you feel about your artwork?  
• What was  a challenge?

Since it is nearly end of the year of course that means it’s calendar art time. So Mrs Miller came up with a really cool idea for calendar art this year. It was hand print and footprint ideas, we went to uncle google to get some ideas. I chose this really cool green monster and you may notice it from Monster university.  Now I am going to tell you the steps we had to do  to make our calendar art:)

1. First step was that we had to get an A3 piece of paper and our buddy had to draw our hand print or footprint. Well to make my monster, my buddy Ella had to draw my hand except my middle finger
2. After you have done that you needed to show Mrs Miller, so if Mrs Miller thought it was good then you could get your good copy
3. Step three was you had to dye your piece of paper the color you wanted it to be. I chose a darkish blue for my background

One Week Later

After It was a week, all of room 12’s backgrounds were done, so we all just needed to get Mrs Miller to paint our hand or foot and put it on the piece of paper that we dyed. It really was ticklish for me because Mrs Miller used a really new and soft brush on my hand.  After Mrs Miller hand painted my hand green she said that it looked like I was bleeding green. It was  Monday and some people just needed to do their detail like me. I just needed to draw two trees and color them in and cut them and glue it on. But that’s not all, I needed to add an eye, mouth and two horns:) I was really proud of myself when my calendar art was finished because I put a lot of effort in it and so did Mrs Miller, so thank you Mrs Miller. One of the challenging things were to draw the trees, I found it challenging to draw the trees because I did not know if they would fit my piece of  paper and it was hard because I wanted my trees to look the same and they did.

Passion Blog - Nail Art With Steps

Do you remember when I did a passion blog and I told you that I had two passions and they were quite girly but they were hairstyles and nail art.   Mrs Miller is so kind that she gave everyone another chance to do a passion blog again, so thank you Mrs Miller.   Today I will be sharing my passion which is nail art - step by step.

1. First step is to get an aqua green and paint it on your thumb and little finger which is of course is your last finger.
2. Then for your second finger you need a nice pink, not that dark and not that light just perfect.
3. For your middle finger and 3rd finger you need to paint it white, let it dry because we are going to put on some detail.
4. For your thumb, last finger and second finger you need to get a thin nail polish brush and dip in black nail polish and put a little dot on your fingers that you are supposed to do
5. For your middle finger and and 3rd finger that you have painted white you will need to do this leopard type of design, it will be hard, so practice on a piece of paper. 
6. First on your middle finger you will need to put 5 green spots on the bottom and then kind of do brackets around them with black nail polish if you don't know what brackets are - here they are ( )
7. Now for step 7, our last lucky step, on your 3rd finger do the exactly same but you just need to put 5 pink spots on your 3rd finger and brackets just like you did for your middle finger

Thanks for reading my blog, and If you try my nail art out, please tel me or comment down below. By the way I have tried this nail art and It was awesome and I was proud of myself :)

This is the nail art  we are trying to do :)

It Makes Sense Poem

WALT entertain the audience

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for the writing task
2. I write sentences that make sense
3. I have colour, taste, smell, look, sound and feel each on a new line.
4. I use specific words in the poem.
5. I attempt to write words I don’t know by using my sound/letter knowledge or a dictionary.
6. I use commas, exclamation marks, capital letters and full stops correctly.
7. I will present my poem on an A4 paper from the tote tray.  I need to think about making sure the reader will be able read my writing.

Sadness

The colour of Sadness is sky blue

It tastes like freshly baked cake

Sadness smells like bubblegum

It looks like her tears coming down her face

Sadness sounds like quiet

Sadness feels nice and gentle

Sadness makes me Sad

My Passion Blog Term 3 Week 10

This week Mrs Miller said that we can do our own choice passion blog and I was really excited about this to share what my passion is. Well my passion actually is quite girly - I have got two passions. 
Number one is making hairstyles and number two is doing nail art. But I actually like making hairstyles more so I will give you step by steps how to do a fishtail braid, this is my favorite hairstyle to do in the summer time.

1. Number one is to put your hair into a high ponytail.
2. Then put your hair into two sections.
3. Now get the right piece and cross it over the left section.
4. Then get the left piece and and cross it over the right section.
5. Then get the right piece again and cross it over the left section. 
6. Then get the left section and cross it over the right section.
7. Keep on doing it when you want to stop and put your hair tie on.
8. Its a really easy hairstyle but it looks really difficult. 

So now your fishtail braid is done,thanks if you comment:) 

Term 3 Week 7 Art Trail

Last week, Kauri Hub, which is my hub, went to an Art Trail. Also, a fun bonus thing we got to do was that we got to go to the Art Gallery. 
In my group there was, Henrietta's mum, Henrietta, Briar and Lake. We were in Mr Kenny's group. First, we had to do the Art trail, then when we were finished we would go to the art gallery. I think it was good that we got to do the art trail first and then go to the art gallery because we would be tired walking around town, by going to the art gallery second, we could rest. 
First, our question was to  name all the birds on the wall by the court house. I can't remember all of them but I can remember the first one which was name all the birds. Then, when we finished the art trail it was time to go to the art gallery. When we were in the art gallery this lady came and told us the rules. My favorite thing in the art gallery was the hands beat, what you had to do was there was this box thing and you have to move your hands and it will make a beat. After we looked at all the things we went back to school. I had a great day.

Here is a picture of my group!!

My Biography Writing - Lorde

 WALT communicate and inform the reader effectively

Purpose: to inform

Text type: Biography

Success Criteria (based on Kidspeak progressions)

• I use a plan to organise my writing (structure)
• I use specific words about the topic (vocabulary)
• I write a variety of sentence lengths (sentence formation)
• I support the main ideas with detail (content and ideas)
• I attempt words I don’t know by using my sound/letter knowledge (spelling)
• I use capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas for lists correctly. (punctuation)

Person’s Name

• Lorde\Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor

Information about this person’s childhood:

Lorde’s real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, Lorde is her stage name. Lorde was born in 1996 November the 7th. Lorde is now 18 years old!! She was born in Takapuna but was raised in Devonport, Auckland. Lorde went to Belmont Intermediate School and was also part of the Belmont Intermediate School Band. She became interested in performing as a child but she did not perform when she was little!   

Information about this person’s accomplishments:

Lorde has sang a lot of songs here are most of her songs she has sang. Royals, Everybody wants to rule,Yellow Flicker beat, Team, Tennis Court, Buzzcut Season, Glory Gore, A World alone, White teeth teen, Ribs, Bravoo, Swingin Party and last of all No better.

Why is this person important:

Lorde is a pop singer and she is a songwriter which means she also writes her own songs. Her songs also make her popular, her most popular song is Royals!!

Week 7 Term 3 Driftwood Art

Driftwood Art

This is what my word looks like

My class, Room12 did some driftwood art for the art exhibition. We were inspired by Jack Marsden Mayer. He makes animal art out of driftwood. So we made our own driftwood names. The day we were going to do it Mrs Miller said that you needed to think of a name for your driftwood art. Mine was Livy so I collected all the driftwood that I needed. So then I sat down and started to make my name. But It didn't turn out right so I thought of sky.I found this super cool S and Y already made. The S was made out of bamboo tree. The Y was just normal driftwood. For the K I just had to find 3 pieces of driftwood, one long and two short ones. Once I had made my word I showed Mrs Miller and she took a photo of it. Then it was time to glue my word together. Then a few day's later we had to tie a string onto our driftwood.


Jack Mardsen Mayer

His name is Jack Mardsen Mayer, he's from Manchester, England but he lives in New Zealand. He attended Gordonstoun International School where he studied sculpture. He has been working with driftwood since he arrived in New Zealand 2008!