Category: Hanga | Create

SLJ – Hearing Colour

Wow, what fun, I learnt a lot today, the new screencast app by google is neat to use to record with. Creating music using specific instruments and stamps to make the music or sound. Here is an image of my music using colour.I picked in the Sky for this piece because I love blue and the idea of flying and being free.

click the link to check out my music – 

Or you can watch this video of my first attempt…

This piece was made with ‘On the Street’ and seems a lot darker, even looking at the colours it comes across as frenzied and dangerous. What kind of music would you make?

SLJ – Paint with Music

I used ‘World Cup’ by Ishowspeed because I enjoyed the high notes that were inspiring. Here is how I see the music. I heard the music without knowing. the name of the song and had green at the bottom, once I knew the name of the song and the focus I added the football.

I really enjoyed using sumo paint as I haven’t used it for a while.

I also listened to ‘Here to Stay’ by General Fiyrah. The beat was neat and fun to listen to here is my colour image for the song.

This was fun making my own piece of music.

Pinching the Pot

As part of our cultural diversity study we created a pattern on paper from our country of investigation.This pattern we then had to try and make on a piece of clay.

Our teacher forgot that the bell goes at 12:50 and we packed up early.

Navigating the Journey

WALHT Navigate the Journey?

Which journey you ask, the life journey we all undertake. We are looking at the decision we might make and how they could affect our lives. Who we can turn to for assistance and to guide us when making big decisions.

Rewriting a Tale

We are trying to change a story from 3rd person / narrator to 1st person. We had to:

  • Pick a fairy tale we know so we can rewrite it.
  • Brainstorm a fairytale from another characters point of view. I choose to do mine from Hansel’s view.
  • Add words to describe my character Hansel – oldest, brave, gets lost, aware of step mother’s feeling.
  • Add the pronouns I need to use for 1st person perspective – I, we, me, my, our.
  • Check we have the main events from the story and number in order to remind me to use paragraphs.
  • Then we had to write the open paragraph.

Here is my first paragraph:

Gretal and I woke up to fighting. They were at it again, Dad and our new Step Mother were arguing about food and how she thought we all wouldn’t survive. I remembered times when Mum was alive and she would go without so Gretal and I would have enough to eat. I’m sure that was why she got so sick she died, but I couldn’t tell Gretal that. 

I found this easy once I put myself in the position of my character.

Operating Systems

In Robotics we are learning about operating systems. We used scratch to show 3 different operating systems and explain what they operate.

Check out my Scratch DLO to find out what I know about operating systems.

Language Week

This week being the end of term was full of a range of task to do and complete, students had the choice of investiating chinese Language or Tuvalu Language.

 
This presentation was complete by Tina and Shannon. They had fun creating the information they found in canva and converting to Google Slides. Great work Ladies.

Camp Week

Last Week Wesley Intermediate went to camp. Well most of them, a few had to stay at school. This is a recount of what I did at Totara Spring Camp

Wednesday

On Wednesday I:

  • Travelled to Totara Spring,
  • Listen to instruction for the activities
  • Rushed to set up my cabin
  • Returned to here about the activity groups and went on our way
  • Forgot the key for Kayaking
  • Was helped out of the river by Tau’ataina
  • Dinner was Lasagne

My favourite part of the day was being on the water, I love to kayak. I didn’t think I was going to get a chance to be on the water because the first instructor asked us ot be on land. But we decided the right turn needed ot be modelled so student could see how to do it against the current.

The worst part of the day was swimming in the current, it was stronger than I thought.

Next time I would ensure we have a person behind us with the rope to help when we get runaway kayaks.

I was pretty happy we all had great time even if the water was cold.

Water Care

With our Inquiry about water we had a visit from Katherine from Water Care again today talking about water use and filtering water. It is amazing to think that individuals use 170 litres of water per day and only 2-3 litres of that is what we are required to drink.

The water was yucky, and we had mixed results for the filtering systems. From the systems I have seem before the water passes through the course objects first like bark and then sand, as you don’t want the dirt or sand going throught hole into the water tank. Then it should go through the cotton balls and then the paper last. We learnt that the harder the filter is packed the slower the water will run through.

Character Profiles

We have been investigating Characters I  the books we read. we started by listening to Mrs Mundy Read a book by Tim Shoemaker and had to record what the main characters were like. We talked about the Protagonist and Antagonist.

Then we investigated what we know about different characters we know from the TV. We looked at a couple of clips of Popeye before we completed a character Profile, which is really useful for knowing about our characters before we write, and to see how they have developed during reading a novel.