The Bright lights - Wearable arts

Wearable Arts 2017

Tonight is the night of us sharing what we've done for Wearable arts this year and by we I mean : Jessie, Shakanna and Wyatt they are the people that are in my group. What is wearable arts you ask well it is a project that you work on during topic time at school and you study a festival and transform that in to a dress/ costume/ head piece.

This year my group chose to study Diwali it is a Hindu festival celebrated all over the world but mainly in India. The festival is all about celebrating light over darkness (good over evil) and it is also honoring Lakshmi the goddess of fortune and prosperity, it also marks the start of the financial year in India. We chose this festival because the was many candle it seemed bright there was rangoli (dyed rice patterns) and we could tie that into the costume.

To make this we started with a plastic bag for the top and paper for the bottoms we layered each with paper-mache then paint and glitter here and there. to tie the pieces together we plaited pieces of string and looped it through some holes like a shoe lace.

I think that it went fairly well and we put in a good effort what went as expected was probably the top and the string. If I had to change anything it would probably be the style and the materials and we would have started earlier (we started a bit late.)

Eye report for writing

The past two weeks in writing we have been working on reports that have to do with parts of the body and I chose to write a report on the eye out of our three options (eye, heart or pancreas). I transferred the report from a google doc to a google slide to present it. Did you know that silver isn't a shade of blue? Read on!

ART Workshop

This week in school there was a special art workshop for some of the more talented children in our school and I was one of the lucky ones and was chosen to be in this workshop.
We had to draw still life and that is basically when it isn't a living or moving object like teapots or flowers. After we sketched out our perfect composition we brought out a big piece of cartridge (painting paper) and we did two versions of our piece we did a warm color version and a cold color version.

Also we have begun to prepare our props for our big school production it is based on a history class that soon turns into a music history class meanwhile a child is getting bullied behind the scenes. and its called:

Hanmer Springs Camp 2017 Woo Hooo

Last week was the best ever because it was... Camp Week YASSS.
Last week on Wednesday our class went to Hanmer Springs camp officially rated the best camp in HISTORY!! We went tree climbing to the hot pools to the lolly shop orienteering mission impossible mountain biking conical hill walking

This is my team doing mission impossible. Mission impossible is a whole bunch of different and hard challenges that you need to solve in teams the first puzzle was an actual puzzle, it was awesome we did this on the Thursday it was really challenging and cool!

Here is some pictures of the beautiful scenary!!

This is my group doing tree climbing. We are all supporting the person who is on the tree and using the clasps that are connected to the harnesses to support her and keeping climbing supporting mentally physically and verbally was a big part of the activity.

The hot pools are probably the main attraction in Hanmer Springs. It's kind of what it is famous for. We enjoyed ourselves while on the hydro slides especially the Super-Bowl stay tuned in to my blog to see a brochure about Hanmer in the future.

Hands up for Henna! - Literacy reflection

 This week has been a bit messy starting off with ANZAC biscuits then going into testing and then the week ending with mufti day. Enjoy my presentation of the literacy work we have done this week!


This week we were reading journals and then we had to write and answer questions about the story we read. one of the stories were called Hands up for henna and it was sort of like a documentary about henna and the person was called Asli and she explained how it was special to her.

Family fiesta and Cupcakes!

Cupcakes
This year due to me moving up into Totara, I got the chance to make a cupcake to sell for the Family Fiesta. I decided to make some basic cupcakes with raspberry essence, some pink vanilla flavored icing with some sparkly decorations on top. Not only do we sell our cupcakes but we also get a chance to be 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and highly commended (4th). This activity also gives us a chance to get points towards a special badge (we have to get a certain amount of points to earn our badge). (For more information on the family fiesta read on!) Here is a picture of my cupcakes:  

Family fiesta
Every year we have Family Fiesta. The Family Fiesta is a day that we have fun and we look at everyone's creations that includes cupcakes, windmills, eggs and creatures. Some of the things you can eat are: Candyfloss, Beef curry, Cakes, Ice-cream, Vege-korma and while you eat you can watch a live performance on stage. The performance could be singing, dancing, playing the  piano  or even an orchestra! It could be anything! Something that I particularly like is the horizontal bungee and the candyfloss. It isn't packaged you can get fresh from the machine! Also some of the teachers will dress up for the event just to make that little bit more fun, from previous years they have dressed up in crazy pink with a wig and sequin jersey. The Family Fiesta super fun and the biggest fundraiser that Grey Main School does!

Animals at War

We have begun to work on Anzac celebrating the soldiers that went to war. I have completed one of my activities. It is called Animals at war. It has information about the animals the went to war and helped the soldiers during battle.

Some of the animals that were mentioned are: Horses, Donkeys, Camels, Dogs+

Here is my work:

Diary Entry for writing!

These past weeks we have been working on past New Zealand Disasters and we had to write 2 diary entries and 2 newspaper articles about a disaster that happened in the past.

I wrote about the TEV Wahine in my diary entry I hope you enjoy my blog post and comment down below what I can work on next.

TEV Wahine

The TEV Wahine is a ship that existed a long time ago but it unfortunately sunk on the 10th of April during a tragic storm:

Have a look at the slide for more information

My Art

We had to do a art either like a colorful spot or a whole page full of color I decided to do a spot of color:

The 1960's By ME!

For the past week or two I have been working on a slide that is called the 1960's and it has pictures and a short description on what it is so here is my slide all about the 1960's:

My TEV Wahine slide