Art Session

Ever since this year started we've been working on perspectives and optical illusions. Maybe with a hint of shading. We've gone from self portraits to 3D shapes to buildings and illusions. I've enjoyed doing the illusions because you'd think they'd be drawn a different way as to how they're actually done.

If you can't tell, they're stairs.

First Day With KiwiCan!

Today we had our first lesson with KiwiCan. We were being taught by Miss Tuia and Mrs Mac (who was filling in for Mr Matt).

This term our theme will be based around integrity, meaning doing the right thing even if no one's watching. However, for the next three week's, our topic will be focused on honesty.

To get to know us, Miss Tuia got us into a circle and made us call out our names. After that we played bang. Kotipi won the first round and the second was a tie between Agueer and Leanah.

Our next activity was changes, where we were asked questions and if our answer was a 'yes', we had to swap seats.

Lastly we had a General Knowledge Quiz (GKQ). Then we got to ask our supervisors questions.

Sammy V.

Last week we had a Duffy assembly which starred Sam Verlinden. Like any other Duffy assembly, he came to talk to us about why reading is important, but it came with a twist. He talked about how he wanted to impress a girl, Hannah, but Noah would always one up him. That's when he realised he should sing her a song, so he read books which helped him with lyrics. The way he told the story drew students in and also cracked us up.

Shortly after that he showed us a clip of people dancing to his song, Jumble. Everyone was captivated.

I was surprised to find out that he was majoring in  music. He was our first guest to choose a different career besides being an athlete and author.

Tick Tock For The Clock

We have finally started working on creating our clocks!

First we started off with drawing an 80mm by 80mm square on a piece of card. Next we had to draw our design around it. That is going to be the back. Many of us were going to trace our design but it was too small so we had to draw it bigger.

Thirdly, we had to cut out the outline and the square. Then we were to trace our outline onto another piece of paper and cut it out. That is going to be our front.

After cutting out that one we had to draw two 40mm by 80mm rectangles. We had to cut them out and fold them in thirds. We then glued the front piece to the back piece using the two rectangles.

Unfortunately I'm still stuck on tracing my design around the square so hopefully this week I can move on quickly.

Week Seven's Assembly

For every school assembly, one class will have to host it. This has been going on for four weeks. Yesterday's assembly it was Room 6's turn.

Besides the usual, badges were given out to classroom monitors, acknowledgement for the road patrollers and library monitors, and principal awards were handed out.

When it was time for the prefects to give their messages, we were assigned the job of speaking about something that we are grateful for. I am grateful for growing up in a safe, friendly and loving environment.

Compare and Contrast

Today our tech teacher Miss Ferguson was away so we had a reliever, Mrs Apelu. Miss Ferguson sent us our task over email, which was to add two different clocks to a google drawing and write the differences and similarities between them.

Designing Our Clocks

Another week of Tech. We've moved onto sketching out designs of our soon-to-be-clock. We were given a piece of paper and had to fold it into quarters. Each square was for one idea. After sketching we were to colour all four designs in.

Of course it took a bit of time to do one sketch, so our new task was to colour in whatever we had managed to get done.