My Gabriel Moreno Art!

 WALT: Create an image in the style of Gabriel Moreno.

This is my Gabriel Moreno Art from the start of this term. The key features of this art we texture, light, dark and patterns. Before everyone in my class did Gabriel Moreno art we had to practice doing zentangle art so we could put some of it in our Gabriel Moreno art.
How I made this:
1: Mr Pickard had to take a photo of the side of my face.
2: I had to get the photo and a piece of paper.
3: I then had to go to a window with my photo and paper and trace my face onto the paper.
4: After that I started to draw zentangle patterns or any patters onto my face and around it.
5: I got a black pen and went around it and then finally I was done.
After lunch our teacher Mr Pickard would read a book to us for a couple of minutes while we would do our Gabriel Moreno art. I enjoyed doing this art alot but one thing I could have done was maybe made it a bit more dark and done some more interesting patterns. Have you ever seen Gabriel Moreno art or at least made your own piece of art in the style of it?

This is one of Gabriel Moreno's pieces of art that my teacher showed us to give us an idea on what to do. It has patterns on it and also it is Light and Dark in places. What do you think of his art?

Rugby League on Wednesdays!

WALT: Revise and create a Quality Blog Post about rugby league.
This term my class and some other classes do rugby league every Wednesday. These are two photos of some people in Totara class (my class) doing rugby league. The first couple of weeks we did rugby league training but last week and this week we did a game. The first game was on the field and it was tackle but since we're not allowed on the field today we played on the court but it had to be touch.

I always tell people not to throw the ball to me because then i'm just gonna throw it to whoever. Whenever people throw the ball to me I freeze and then take a few steps forward and then throw the ball to someone. We have two people that come in and teach us how to play. The man's name is Jim and I don't know the lady's name. When there was no music gear (which is for production) in the hall they taught us some ball skills. One of the drills I remember was when we had to pass the ball under and over. The lady got us into groups of 6 and we had to pass the ball over then under and the once the person at the front  passed the ball under or over had to run to the end and wait for everyone to pass and then it keeps going. One time we were playing on the field and the teams swapped sides and I forgot then someone passed the ball to me and I accidentally got a try for the other team. I got so embarrassed but I was laughing because it was sort of funny. In Term 3 there is going to be a tournament where we have to verse other schools in rugby league. I enjoyed doing the ball skills but not so much the actual games.I think I need to actually start running when someone passes me the ball. If it was netball I would definitely be trying to get the ball.
Have you ever played Rugby League before?

The Floating Dog!

WALT: Understand why we are writing.  This is my writing that is about an evil witch who makes dogs float high into the sky until her good sister stops her and make her fly. We could write anything we wanted such as Narratives, Letters, Poems and also a piece of persuasive writing. We had to make sure our spelling and punctuation was correct and that our writing made sense. We needed to understand why we are writing so we can see if our writing is to entertain people or persuade people etc. One thing I could have done was made my writing a bit more interesting and made it be more intense. What is your favourite things to write about?

My still life drawings!

Visual art: WALT use proportion and accurate outline.

Explain:

This term in Totara Class we have been doing still life drawings for our art. To make the hammer drawing I: 1: Searched up tools on the internet and selected the hammer photo. 2: Made the lines so my proportions are correct. 3: I then looked at the hammer on google and copied the outline of it. 4: Lastly I did the shading of the hammer. I did the same thing with the spoon but I actually used a real spoon. My drawings aren't that good but I just need to keep practising.  One thing I could have done was shaded my drawings a bit better and made it look a bit more real. 

What do you think is the easiest thing

 to draw for still life?

Example of a screencastify

Walt: Create an example of a screencastify. 

This is a quick example of a screen castify. Screen castify is a app sort of thing which you can download and record your screen. We had to do a screen castify of our black and white photo that we used for our Gabriel Moreno art.

Should adults be able to hit their kids?

Did you know that 30 years ago it was legal to abuse your children?

Luckily that stopped. I believe that kids shouldn’t be hit.

My first reason is because you could seriously hurt your child,

the second reason is because your child may get taken away

from you and my third reason is that people that hit their kids

could go to jail.

I strongly believe that kids should definitely not get hurt by

their parents. Every year about 1600 children die due to abuse or

neglect. Children could die if they were kicked, smacked or punched

in the head to many times because they could get brain damage.

Some kids can’t go to school because they have bruises and

marks all over them. Once the kids have been beaten more then once

from their parents they start to lose trust in them

and they also start getting scared of them.

My second reason is because your

child could get taken off you and

given to a random family or someone from your own family

that can properly take care of them. There are company’s that your kid or a

neighbour could call. If you’ve beaten your kid/s they

could give your child to a different family until you’re ready

to properly take care of her/him.

Lastly you could go to jail. If you have really badly

hurt your child or somebody else’s you would or

might be in serious trouble.

There was once a small baby named Nia Glassie

who got tortured by about 3 people.

The baby got beaten, put in the washing machine,

hung on the clothes horse, put in the sandpit

with no clothes on and some days

they would leave her on the roof. The people that abused her turned

up their music very loud so they neighbours couldn’t

hear her screams and cries.

They eventually went to jail because the baby

had passed away.

I don’t know how anyone could ever do that to

a baby or any aged child.

Therefore I think adults should never be able to hit their children.

I have talked about why people shouldn’t hit kids.

My 3 reasons were because your child could get seriously hurt,

also because you could get her or

him taken off you and lastly because you could go to jail.

WALT: Use the correct structure for our argument writing. This is a example of a explanation writing. The topic was Should adults be able to hit their kids. I think kid's shouldn't get hit by adults. We had to think of an introduction, 3 reasons and a conlcusion. We then had to write it into our books then our google docs.

Digital Footprint

WALT: Learn how to navigate my device and Google apps helps me to do things faster. I enjoyed reading the shortcuts and putting them into the slideshow.