Visual Arts Task Term 2 Week 1

We are learning to: Develop ideas by developing and revisiting visual ideas, in response to examples we have seen, and ideas that we can think of for ourselves.

Learning Challenge:  Create a series of pencil or pen drawn faces using the hints from Vexx’s video. 

Many of you already know the artist, Vexx. Watch the video link where Vexx demonstrates how to add expression/emotion to doodled faces. Video link.

Here is my art I created.

Te Hurihanga Wai / the water cycle using Te Reo Māori words

This week for your learning at home Te Reo Māori work
we created a slideshow that shows Te Hurihanga Wai / the
water cycle in action. We labelled our water cycle using the
following te reo Māori words with English translations: 

Ua     Kapua   Maunga   Tama-nui-te-rā       Awa
Moana Whakaeto 

Rain   Clouds Mountains Sun  River Ocean
Evaporation Precipitation

Here is my slideshow.

Letter to Mrs Robin

Dear Mrs Robins 

The month is now April and a lot has changed.

School is not the same, there is no sound of a bell at 9:00, no teacher standing in front of me and no friends or games of American football at lunchtime.

Visits to Nana and Grandad’s are different, I wave hello from outside the sliding door, Nana leaves her baking outside for me to collect. 

I’m missing biking to Kumara and the start of hockey season but most of all I’m missing hanging out with my friends.

It’s not all bad, I like that I am allowed to stay up later, have breakfast and lunch whenever I want. I have enjoyed playing motorbike games on cool maths games. 

I’ve been really slack and have not read a book but I promise Mrs Robins I will start reading. I have watched a funny movie called Yogi Bear and spent a lot of time at the horses.

I now realise how much I miss sport and my friends, and that my sisters ain't too bad.  They are fun to play with just a little bit annoying. My Mum and Dad do a lot of housework while we are at school and I live in a kind neighbourhood that put teddy bears in their windows for kids 

like me to see while out walking.

Look Forward to seeing you standing in front of me again

Sam D.

Weta House

Sam's Hawk Writing

In NZ we have hawks and the hawk can Kill baby rabbits.  The hawk can Kill Some baby lambs and the hawk can fly very fast in the wind. The eagle can eat fish. When they're hungry they eat fish. His wings  are big and he has a sharp beak to catch and eat his food. It can rip off your skin if it lands on you and you are not wearing a glove.  

The End 
By Sam 

Sams Shantytown writing$

Weta Writing

I have been learning about weta. Here is some of my writing about weta.



Weta are carnivores which means they eat other animals. They are also herbivores which means they eat plants. They like to eat flowers and seed heads and snails. A weta is an insects. They are Omnivorous And eat little  insects and plants. The weta has a hard shell To keep it safe. It has long legs So it can feel with the legs. A weta lives in a treend in Hollow tree trunks and under houses.