Digital Technology

At tech, year 8 are learning to program a plat-former game. We listed all the properties and special points of several examples on the website Scratch, then brainstormed ideas which we made into a survey. Currently, we're designing the themes and giving general ideas.

Little Red Riding Hood

Press the green flag to start again.
References and music is at the end of the project.
I made this on Scratch for homework.

Term 1 Highlights

The thing I enjoyed most about term 1 is art and maths, because it was really easy.  I learnt how to ask people how are you in Maori. It was tricky reading with my buddy in Room 4, because she wouldn't talk.  My favourite thing was going to food tech, because we get to eat all the food we made.  I'd like to improve the way we did maths because some groups didn't get much time with the teacher. I'm looking forward to learning Japanese next term.

3D Hand Art

1. Trace you hand with a pencil.(NOT VIVID)
2. Draw straight, even lines with vivid(If you want to you can do pencil first) in the background. Not on the hand.
3. Connect the lines with an arc over the space of the hand.  Don't do it too arched, or too straight.
4. Your end results should look like the picture, but without colour.
5. Choose two colours, and colour it in switching the colours every line.
6. Shade the colours to make the picture look 3D.

We made this piece of art to add to the Class Treaty.

Name Art

This is a picture of my name mirrored.  If you turn sideways, you can see 'Mengchun'.

All About Me

This is a poster I made with Mrs Paton.I learnt how to change the outline to dotted or dot-slash.

Collaborative Art

We made a huge piece of art using little squares, each containing a quarter of a circle.  Each person in my class made 2 pieces, and then we put it together.  We measured the quarter circles using compasses, and colored it in using pastels.

Confidence

It is important to have confidence because if you don't, you'll never learn a new skill because you'll be too scared to try it.

Language Features in Music Lyrics

Holiday Reading #2 - Choose your Own

Book title: How to Train your Dragon
Author- Cressida Cowell

My choose your own is about creating my own dragon.  The original book is so different from the movie, in fact, they actually capture a dragon when they're young and tame it.  I'm currently reading Eragon, as well.

My own dragon:

Color - Gray/Silver/Violet

Favorite part: Wings

Special Points: Spikes in a line all the way from head to toe, a huge spiked ball at the tip of its tail, transparent and messy wings.

3 Unique Words that Starts with Q

Dihydrogen Monoxide Poster

In April 2013, two presenters at Gator Country 101.9, a radio station in Lee County, Florida, told listeners dihydrogen monoxide was coming out of their water taps as part of an April Fool's Day hoax and were suspended for a few days by the station's general manager, Tony Renda. Renda later told NewsPress: "It is one thing when radio stations change their format or other crazy things they do. But you are messing with one of the big three, food, water or shelter. They just went too far; I just knew I didn't like that." The prank resulted in several calls by consumers to the local utility company, which sent out a release stating that the water was safe.

Make your own warning poster about this substance to put above the tap in the classroom.

Are Farm Animals Important to Us?

Holiday Reading #3 - The Crowfield Curse - Crow

Holiday Reading #2 - The Secret Life of Codes - Luigi's

This is a non fiction book written by Kjartan Poskitt.
What I think Luigi's look like:

A sentence that describes Luigi's:

Behind Luigi's counter a green curtain hung across a doorway leading to a back room,

Think big poster

Transformation Art

This is my transformation art.

It uses 3 media- Pastel, Crayon & Dye and Paint.

The first row is reflected

The second row is rotated

The third row is translated

I really like my first row.

Next time I would be more careful with my paint.

The Tamaki Area

The Tamaki area goes from Point England to Mt Wellington down to Panmure and along the Tamaki River.

We will Rock You Brochure

I did a Brochure about what our class is going to do for production. Also I included some information about the landform we're learning about: Punakaiki.

Types of Rocks