Spectacular Spooky Story!

 Hi bloggers! Back into lockdown again, hopefully this one doesn't last as long. In literacy at the moment we're studying different movie genres, the first one that we are looking at is horror. I'm not a huge fan of horror films but it's very interesting to delve into the themes and conventions of the genre! Yesterday we were made to write a spooky story. I found this task extremely challenging to say the least. 

In order for me to have any interest and motivation while writing this, I had to make it a fantasy story of sorts, and it sort of just went downhill from there. Turns out writing tension is extremely difficult and I have no idea how to make anything seem scary so it just came out as lighthearted. Plus my writing overall isn't great. 

I tried. I can say that much. Anyway here's my "Spooky" story:

Please give me feedback in the comments! What's your favorite film genre? Mine is probably fantasy!

Have a great day and remember to stay safe.

-Zoe

Perfect Production

 Hey Bloggers! How are you? I know I haven't been active at all on here but I have a reason for that. As you might know, we have recently finished performing the Aladdin production! This was so much fun so I thought I might share some of the photos that we got of the show.

That's all the photos I'm going to be sharing, did any of you get to go to the show? If so then did you enjoy it? I really loved this experience and I will definitely miss the whole experience but I look forward to going back to normal learning (That's a lie). Anyway, thank you for reading, and hopefully, I'll see you soon!

-Zoe 

Marvellous Matariki Kites

 Kia ora Bloggers! Happy Matariki! How are you? On July 2nd we celebrated the Maori new year, meaning that the days get longer and spring is approaching. 

The Matariki star cluster has many, many different stories attached to it around the world. There were two we looked at. One about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts to the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow coloured.  

In order to make our kites we mixed these stories to make out our kites. This is mine:

What other stories about Matariki have you heard?

-Zoe

Marvellous Matariki

 Kia ora bloggers! How are you? What have you been up to? You might not know this but Matariki is coming up next month and to prepare we have created prints of the Matariki sky. This was my first time trying to create a print and I think I did ok.

 When we drew out the constallation we had to make sure we drew it in reverse so that when we printed it, it turned the right way and the constallation made sence. First we had to draw our desgin out on a bit of paper and then we had to draw that out on foam. From there we got to print it on a bit of paper. 

Then we had to make a frame. I'm absoulute trash with a craft knife so naturally this was extremely difficult. I got there in the end but it's safe to say that this wasn't the highlight of my experience. The image below is my complete print, in the end I made 5. Two were green and black and the others purple and black, I'm extremely proud of them!      

Heres my final print!

It's upside down... Blogger won't let me change that so I guess thats that. Please give me feedback in the comments and if you don't know what Matariki is make sure to reasearch it, it's really interesting! Thank you and see you next time!

-Zoe  

Super STEAM!

Kia ora Bloggers! How are you? On Wednesdays, we are looking at STEAM which stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. We had to complete an egg drop, my group absolutely failed. In fact, we broke the egg before we got it in the drop thing. But we got another egg and we still failed, it was fun though so that's fine.     

This slide has all the information that we needed to learn about the egg drop. Has this taught you anything? Please leave me feedback in the comments! Have a great day.

-Zoe 

Awesome Aladdin

 Kia ora Bloggers! What have you been up to? Recently in school, I signed up for the production. This year we are performing Aladdin so I've been pretty busy with that. We have a slide of activities that we are expected to complete, so far I have completed a pixel art portrait of our favorite Aladdin character. I don't actually have a favorite character so I just did Aladdin. In all honesty, I am pretty terrible at pixel art but it was fun to do anyway.

So. It's not great but I enjoyed making it seeing as pixel art is definitely not something I would normally use or even consider using. Who's your favorite Aladdin character? See you next time!

-Zoe

  

Hundertwasser Art

 Hey Bloggers! How were your Easter holidays? Did you do anything interesting? During Wednesday afternoons we have been looking at an artist named Friedensreich Hundertwasser who lived in NZ for a large portion of his lifespan. He designed multiple different buildings and his paintings were often inspired by children's dreams. They were made to try and make people happy because  "People don't need more problems"  His painting usually contained little to no straight lines and lots of colors.

We had to create an art piece inspired by his art style and this one is mine.  

As you can see there are not many straight lines if any at all and the whole thing is extremely colourful, we were meant to use complementary colours and things like that but in all honesty I just kind of went for it. Still, I think it turned out ok. Make sure to google Friedensreich Hundertwasser and find out more about him! Do you know your complementary colours? 

-Zoe