Visual Art: Tessellations

W.A.L.T: Create a tessellation.

These are my three tessellations that I have drawn along with the rest of my class. The drawing that's coloured in and is made out of squares is the last tessellation that I did, I copied it of a picture from google images. I made my 2nd attempt at a tessellation look purposely like a turtle. And the first tessellation that I drew was, well the first tessellation that I did so when I did that I just played around with it and tried out this type of tessellations for the first time.

Here's how I made the first two tessellations that I did...
What you will need

1.  First I cut out a square/rectangle of card stock.
2. Next I drew then cut a shape/design on on side of the card and on the top side of the card.
3. Then keeping the design/shape where I cut it out of, I slid the shape/design to the side opposite where it was now.
4. I stuck the cut shape/design to the opposite side with tape, I did this for both sides.
5. After that place your stencil on a piece of paper and trace around it.
6. Slot your stencil into the traced version of it, and trace your stencil again.
7. Do this until your piece of paper is full.

If you don't understand these instructions then please watch this video for clearer ones.This video taught me how to make tessellations and tricks that makes it much easier to make them.

I found making tessellations really fun and I had a awesome time making them. For me it was kind of hard to decide on what patterns to do on the card, but in the end I eventually decided on what pattern to do.

Have you ever made a tessellation before?

Visual art: my charcoal drawings- abstract and Jim Dine.

W.A.L.T: Draw a tool in the style of Jim Dine. 

W.A.L.T: Find a artist style or a image we like and copy it in charcoal.

Cybersmart: Camera shots and angles.

W.A.L.T take photos from different angles and explain their purposes. 

Today Me and my friends Isaac and Julia paired up and did this slide for our cybersmart lesson, that we had today with Whaea Donna. We helped each other take the photos and we used different types of filters and angles, such as 'birds eye view' and 'wide shot' you'll see these along with a bunch of other angles in the slide below. The main purpose of this slide was to practice the different angles for when we take photos or video's so we could make a film for the Manaiakalani film festival. It was really fun taking these photos and I hope that we do something similar to this in the future for our Thursday cybersmart lessons.

Feel free to share in the comments any other types of photos, or different angles that we could or should have done in our slide.

Enjoy! C:

My Gabriel Moreno Art!!!

For visual art we had to do a style of art that is like Gabriel Moreno's whom is a famous artist. When we did this art we were told that we had to do it in black and white, which was kind of disappointing because a bunch of us wanted to do it in colour. I didn't actually get to finish my artwork because Mr Pickard took them away from us so he could take pictures of them. But they were still really fun to make and Mr Pickard did eventually hand them back out to us.

So here's how you make them. . .

1. First we had to think about the patterns and textures that were were going to use for our portrait. We also had to think about the light and dark colours that were going to be in it.
2. After that we our picture taken. When our teacher took it he took it of the side of our face.
3. Next he printed them in A3, and we were told to go and get our pictures once they were printed.
4. Once we had got our photos we put them against the window with a blank piece of A3 paper on top then we traced our photo onto it in pencil.
5. Once we had traced our photo we put our photo in our art folder and put the piece of paper we traced in on to on our desk.
6. Then we drew are patterns onto it.
7. And finally after that we went over the patterns in vivid, but we were also allowed to keep them in pencil and go over them in black pen.

I hope you like my photo of my zentangle/Gabriel Moreno portrait. Please share your thoughts and opinions in the comments.

Planning a screencast

W.A.L.T plan a screencastify.

This is my screencastify that I did today, when we had our cybersmart lesson with Whaea Donna. Our lesson was about how to plan a screencastify. The screencast that we planned was based on the cybersmart learning that we did last week. This was all about copyright and how to take a image from google then write the attributes for that image. But what we were told to do for our screencastify was a little different. In our screencastify we explained how to take a image from 'Explore' and 'Google'. Then we compared both the methods and shared our opinion on which set of instructions was better. Either way this is my screencastify that I did today and I hope you like it! Feel free to share your own opinion on whether taking a image from 'Explore' or 'Google' is better.

Rugby League Practice With Jim And Kelly!!!

Today we had another (touch) rugby league practice at school. We usually have these practices on Wednesday around morning tea time which is at 10:30. At these practices we play mini rugby league games and practice our running, throwing and catching skills.
These practices take place at the top and bottom fields in the top court and in the hall, but today we had our practice on the top court heres a picture from the rugby league game we played today.
These are a few of the rules that you have to follow in a game of (touch) rugby league. . .

1. You're not allowed to pass the ball forward.
2. You have to stay behind the person on your team that has the ball.
3. You aren't allowed to kick the ball.
4. You're team has to pass the ball over to the opposing team once they have been touched six times.

There are heaps more rules for this game but that would mean I would have write a long list and that you (my reader/audience) would have to read a long list.  So I think it would be best if I didn't! Either ways I hope you like this blog post.

WALT: Decide on our purpose for writing.

Strange Town

The moon rose on the edge of the horizon.

Then the inhabitants of strange town started to emerge, flowing out of their houses onto the cold smooth cobblestone streets.

They were almost as peculiar as their strange houses, which towered over each other in an array of uncountable amounts of different shapes, storeys and sizes, some with turrets sticking out of the roofs.

Small lanterns hung on their houses in different patterns and heights.

Tall, leafless, spindly trees stuck out of the dark green prickly grass their branches curly on the ends.

A broken sign swung on the one post it still clung on to, it’s lights flickering on and off in the moonlight.

The smooth cobblestone turned to wood as a wooden plank path led to a harbour full of old rotten boats that were anchored in the murky lake that looked and smelled similar to sewer water.

Then suddenly rays of golden light shone out from somewhere on the horizon.

Then the people or things of Strange Town disappeared back into their houses.

This is my poem that was inspired by a photo on Pobble 365: Strange Town. I really like writing poems and that is why I decide to write one. Please share you feedback and thoughts in the the comment section.

Thanks Lola