Diary Post T2W8

Diary Post T2W8

This week we have been doing lots!

The first thing you need to know is Terrific Tuesday.

I may have told you about this in my last post but in this post I am going to explain it in more detail so you understand. 

Terrific Tuesday is when you go to a different classroom to learn something new.

There are 6 different classes that you can go to.

They are:

• Science

• Vintage Games

• Board games

• Art

• Putiputi (Making flax flowers)

• Japanese

You are supposed to choose up to 3, and the teacher puts you in 1 of your preferences.

I chose:

• Japanese

• Board games and

• Art!

I got put in number 2.

 Which is board games. 

Mrs P, (The teacher) calls it co-operative games.

The second thing I am going to tell you is about this new book we have been reading as a class.

 It is called the Green Book.

It is about this group of people that have moved out of earth to live on a new planet called shine because the earth and the sun were dying. 

They could only bring 4 things each and a book.

We are reading this because we are learning about the Solar System and what would happen if the earth suddenly became uninhabitable or unsafe for us to live on.

It's very interesting to read.

That is all for now but I will be back with more interesting stuff in the next one or two weeks!!!

Alyssa  

Diary post T2W4

This week at school we have been doing Agamographs.

Agamographs are when you take two pictures, say, a dragon and a bunny, and you make it look like the dragon is turning in to a bunny. Here is how we did it:

• We figured out what pictures we were going to draw.
• We drew the pictures.
• We got some cardboard and folded it in to a consatina fold.
• We ruled and cut up our drawings.
• We stuck our cut up drawings on to the consatina fold and then...
• WE HAD OUR ART!

We have also been doing heaps of other stuff but I will only tell you about 1 more.

We have started this thing called SDL.

SDL is when we have a slideshow and it tells us all of the things we need to do over the course of the week.

We usually have things like:

• Handwriting
• Spelling
• Writing
• Maths (We usually have 2 math ones. A fractions one and a problem solving one.)

All that kind of stuff.

I will tell you more next week.

Bye!!!

Alyssa and Zoe Maths Evidence

Reflection

We were learning about equivalent fraction, adding fractions with different denominators, and adding fractions with the same denominator.

It was hard because you have to change the denominator if they are different, to the same number.

I got stuck when we had to change them.

I could probably do a different strategy next time.

My next step is to think more deeply about this and show some more strategies. 

Grid Value Portrait

Grid Value Portrait

WAL (We are learning) About value in art: - We learnt how to make light and dark pictures light and dark.

Last term we did grid value portraits. 
Grid value portraits are a picture that is made of patterns.

These are the steps.

• We studied Chuck Close. Chuck Close is the artist we were inspired by.                                         He was born on the 5 May 1940.                                                                                                       He was dyslexic and had face-blindness                                                                                             He was partially paralysed
• We took a line for a walk. We got a piece of paper and literally scribbled on it. 
• Then we drew light and dark patterns in the loops. To make the dark patterns we put lots of small things close together and to make the light patterns we did big things that were not close together.
• Then we had a little picture and we had to make it bigger.
• Then we did the artwork!

I think that the hardest part was trying to enlarge the picture.

I think that the best part was doing all the patterns.

Persuasive Techniques in Commercials

I was learning how to use Persuasive Techniques.
We had to make an advertisement.
Zoe and I had to:

• Make a slideshow
• Film the testimonials and then put them on YouTube
• Find images of fighting kids 
• Find the images of playing kids
• Put them on the slideshow
• Post the slide on my blog   

The persuasive techniques were:

• Testimonials
• Expert opinion
• Bandwagon
• Emotional appeal
• Slogan
• Repetition 

We used:

• Slogan
• Testimonials
• Bandwagon

We could probably improve the Testimonials.

Alyssa