Jackdaw - I Am David

After we finished reading out books for novel study we had to create a 'jackdaw'. A jackdaw is something our teacher made, and it's a poster showing the characters, theme, plot, setting, and moral (If there's one) in your book. 

I enjoyed getting to read the book and create the jackdaw. I found it challenging to pick a layout.

Energy Inquiries - Black holes

 For our energy inquiries, Miro G and I decided to study the energy around black holes. As well as answering five questions we had to create a model to show it. For our model, we made a 'black hole' and drew something before attaching them to strings. There's a hole in the side of our model which you can stick your hand in to 'suck' the objects in the 'black hole'.

I enjoyed getting to make the model because I got to do the drawings and I love drawing. I found it challenging to pick five questions because we couldn't work out the fifth one. To be BTB (Better Than Before) we could have repainted the model so it looks nicer.

Scott Base - Weekly quiz, week 5

 After doing the weekly quiz this week I chose to research Scott Base. When we did the quiz I was very surprised because quite a few people didn't know where Scott Base was! I found so many facts that I could include them all. In the end, I chose four facts- Where and what is Scott Base, why is Scott Base green, when can you visit Scott Base, and how can you get to Scott Base. Mrs. Gibson, our teacher decided that we could get 200 house points if our blog post and caption were mistake-free. This meant that there were no spelling mistakes, no incorrect punctuation, and it all made sense!

I enjoyed getting to read so many different websites because they were all very interesting! I found it challenging to chose which facts to do, and how to lay out my post. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could add a few more facts by changing the layout and size of the text. 

Sea snake in northland - Weekly quiz

 After doing this week's weekly quiz, I decided to research the yellow-bellied sea snake found in Northland. It was the SECOND one found in the past ten days. I enjoyed getting to research the native sea snake, as this story was surprising. I found it challenging to find facts about it. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could add more facts.

A few days ago the second yellow-bellied sea snake was found, less than 10 days since the one found before that. This is extremely strange because the snake found before these two was found in 2018

An 11 year old boy was with is family when they found the snake. They put it in a bag and drove to the local dairy to ask what it was. After they found it it was a highly venomous snake they put it in a buket of sea water and started the drive to their family home. After the hour the snake was dead so they cut off it’s head

Clinton Duffy, technical advisor for marine species at the depatment of consevation said “Yellow-bellied sea snakes should not be handled because they are highly venomous and a bite from one is likely to be fatal without access to snake anti-venom. However, bites from them are extremely rare because their fangs are small and located at the back of their mouths."

Maori contingent poster

 For my third, and final, ANZAC task, I decided to make a poster encouraging people to join the Maori contingent. All art is by me if you were wondering. I enjoyed getting to draw this as I don't normally draw humans. I found it challenging to chose inspiring words. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could have done this on paper before soaking it in coffee and burning the edges. I would have done that but I didn't have much time as I was at kid lit.

Poppy Growing Animation

 For my second ANZAC task, I decided to do an animation of a poppy growing.  In artist speak, it's a PMV style short-frame animation. For those that aren't artists, it's a short animation with gaps between frames. I enjoyed getting to create this because I love drawing. I found it challenging to animate it because the smallest space between frames was 1 second when I wanted to do 0.3 seconds. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could make it longer or use a gif make to animate it with shorter FPS (Frames Per Second).

Taika Waititi voices Ralph the rabbit in a new film

For my second weekly quiz activity, I chose to research Taika Waititi voice acting as Ralph the rabbit in a new film telling people to stop cosmetic testing on animals.  I enjoyed getting to watch the short film as it was very heartbreaking. I found it challenging to think of what to write because I had so many ideas but not enough room. To be BTB (Better Than Before) I could make it a slide rather than a drawing.