Lino Cut/Print Evaluation

Over the past four weeks Marama have been cutting out lino prints and then stamping them with ink. You had to do a practice then you got to pick your size of lino. Next you had to sketch a self portrait then start cutting out with a lino cutter. I enjoyed this piece of art because cutting the lino was fun, and also printing and experimenting with different colors was fun. Next time I would like to cut out a background onto my lino to show more detail. Here's a picture of my lino cut and lino print:

 

Milestones

Today I achieved my blogging milestone, I had to check that my blog had two posts a week, that it had pictures/movies on it, and that it had to have weekly reflections on it! I also had to have some sort of feedback from family/Friends, so I got my Mum to take a look at my blog at tell me what she thought of it. Secondly I got my Digital Design Milestone because I made a 40 second ad about 'Spray on shoes' To get that Milestone I had to have made/create something digital and edit it using a computer! Also a couple of weeks ago I completed my Oral Presentation Milestone, because I shared my speech with my writing group, and that counts as a mini audience. Last term I achieved my perfuming arts Milestone by performing J-Rock! In total I have four Milestones and have five left to complete! My goals for next term are to achieve my 'Be Published' Milestone and my 'Careers Pathway' Milestone. The way I ma going to complete these two Milestones are by entering work/art into the Upstart Magazine, and to complete my Careers Pathway Milestone I am going to try get some sort of work experience down in the junior of school - (Because I want to be a teacher) I'm hoping to achieve my other Milestones too in my spare time in school.

MADE Awards

For the whole of this term - (Term 3) Everyone in Marama have been working on either a Commercial, music Video, Drama, Static image or Manipulated image. The MADE Awards is a comp against other schools and collages. I chose to do a Commercial with Maddy, Lucy and Yvonne. Our Commercial topic was 'Spray on shoes!' We shot our Commercial in the school playground, and edited/Added voice overs in the blue room. This took us five weeks to plan the story board, Plan/Learn our lines, Shoot the seances and edit it! Our short 40 second Commercial about why you should buy our non-existing product, made it into the Made Awards! Now we just have to wait and see if we get a place. 

Blokes' day

Today was Ngatea Primary schools Fathers day! In the first session I was with Kennidy and her Popa, We had to make a stretcher out of news paper! Our strategy was to try and roll up news paper, stick them all together, then and handles - Also made of news paper. We did just that but it looked as though it was going to break any minute, Our creation proved us wrong! We ran the obstacle course with a weight on our stretcher finishing on 19 seconds! Then afterwards when we got to break them all up, I sat on our on and it could hold me - For a little while...  After that challenge we had lunch and my Granddad and Dad arrived. After lunch we did another challenge, We had to make a base, then add height, then add a marble hanging off string at the end. Ours was really tall, but it wasn't strong enough, it just kept falling over, so when the judges came to look..... We got disqualified! But it was fun!

Polyostering Ink Printing

For two weeks now we have been using Polyostering to print fishes with. This is to practice for our real lino print. For the lino print we are going to be printing a portrait of ourselves, but for now we have just been painting a piece of paper as our background, and using black ink to print our fish. You only have to have on retested but I have two, here they are:

  

Before I printed the polyostering.

After I printed the Polyostering.

Mi Planning

Each week all of the Marama syndicate has to create on of these docs and timetable in the slots, what they are going to do. In my Mi Plan, each week I link everything onto it, so I don't need to surf through drive. By Link I mean: Say if I was going to do writing, I would link my writing onto My Mi Plan, so that when it came to the time to do my writing, all I need to do it click on the link and it will take me to my writing doc. The reason the teachers have got us to use this online planning tool, is to teach us to manage our own learning. If I have a Maths meeting, the teachers don't call out 'Maths Group 5' They just expect us to be there on time, and if we aren't we get our gold card taken off us and have to go onto our maths doc and catch up. I enjoy using docs to plan my week because I get to pick when I do things and If I am a little behind, I can slot it in at any other free time.  Also I have color coded my Mi Plan, Pink is the time of day, Blue is my own planning, Yellow is everything that I HAVE to attend and Thursday is just plain green because it is a day for IMPACT. My Impact project is to get kids eating healthy breakfasts.

Here's a picture of my Mi Plan:

Cross Country

Last Monday I did Ngatea School cross country! I came 11th and missed out on going to Haruki plains by one place. I enjoyed going up the mud slide hill, and I also liked going through the creak, but I didn't like having to run up the killer hill. My race was the last race so after we got to go straight back to school instead of having to wait and watch everyone else races. I enjoyed it the most because I got muddy and super wet!