Night at Kanagawa

I made Hokusai's painting darker and more dramatic.

I changed almost all the colors except the canoes so they still stood out in the dark scene.

           

Under the Wave off Kanagawa 

- Colored by Blake.R

Under the Wave off Kanagawa 

Painted by Hokusai

Mystery animal

Click to second slide and then back to first to play audio.
It dose not work properly.

Volcano Art

Volcano Art

This term we have been learning about volcanoes. We have been learning about how they're made, what they are made of and how they shape our country. We learned about the types of volcanoes on our earth and which ones are dangerous and safe. To wrap up our study we decided to do some water color art. We haven't used water color often so first we did a bit of experimenting. After that we picked a volcano shape started painting our masterpieces. I chose to do a cone volcano in a sunset and it turned out really vibrant and cool hope you enjoy.

Making Music

Music making!

Our cybersmart focus at the moment is making original music. First we had to pick an image to base the mood of our song on. I picked a lion and a snake. Next we went onto the really cool website Soundtrap and started exploring the thousands of tracks. We each pieced together our own songs. It was hard finding the right tone but really fun. Everybodys ended up sounding really unique 

Hope you enjoy it.

My Music

Today we were learning how to make our own music WE used an app called chrome music lab. I choose the setting ARPEGGIOS and my tune worked out really well. Some challenges were trying to get the timing in my music right. Im really happy with the outcome Hope you enjoy!

Art

ART

Today me and Charlie followed a video to make some art. The art is in the shape of a triangle. We got 5 different colors and put the into our triangle. The colours were yellow pink white light blue and dark blue

Then we used a comb to swish all the colours together. We are really glad with the out come because it looks really cool when you get close to it. If you want to try this art and more visit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79hXV-0KD10

Marvelous Animations

Watch twice to watch with music It is a bit glitchy

Best Lockdown Moments

Pinwheel Scones

PinwheelScones

(a short poem)

Flour, cinnamon and sugar too,

eggs, milk, butter in a thick pale goo.

Sift in the baking powder to make them rise,

yummy mixture makes my appetite hit a high.

Squish, knead, roll;  there's your dough,

sprinkle on the cinnamon and in the oven they go.

15 minutes I sit and wait,

for the most  perfect scones to bake.

Delicious smells start to drift,

on my plate in a perfect twist.

I open wide and take a bite,

my mouth is filled with the sweetest delight. 

YUM!

By Blake 

Ridiculous Rocky Road

Ridiculous Rocky Road

For school tech we had to create our own flavoured ice cream. \
The plan was we could use chocolate and marshmallows but
we had to use 1 fresh ingredient like mint and berries.



 We made Rocky Road, in our chocolate flavoured ice cream we

had marshmallows,frozen berries and a sprinkle of roasted peanuts.

It was hard thinking about what flavour to do because there's so many
flavors of ice cream to choose from.

Our ice cream turned out well and was delicious.

This activity was really fun but there was a lot of beating
involved (you probably will get a sore hand at the end of it).

After making our Ice cream we made a poster
on Postermywalll.com to advertise our masterpieces.

Sunflowers

Swaying in the wind like a yellow Anemone in the deep ocean current. 
Watching the sun intensely in jealousy as others give in and bow to the mighty yellow orb.
 Bee’s tickle me until my petals start to fray. 
Once staunch flowers look down and cry as they disappear with summer. 
A dark cloud smothers the yellow beast as the last flower drops his head and surrenders to winter.
 Months pass then; a seed, a stork and a new army faces the robust sun.

Blake

Holiday Writing

Nose Like… A light green leaf covered in large and small yellow and black warts .

Eyes like... A dragons with bright yellow scleras and deep black pupils.

Ears.. like endless holes carving into the sides of a small  triangular head.

Feels like… A slippery green bar of soap slithering out of my loose grasp.        

Sounds like a small bark somewhere down below beneath the reads in the dark water.
       

A Frog

RWC Tour

Animation Action

Today I was learning  how to animate on google slides.

I enjoyed making my mascot kick the ball over the posts.

I found it challenging to get it good in the short period of time.

My digital learning object shows I can Use slides to animate.

Next time I would change The detail of my animation And the scoring of the try because its a bit hard to see.

Te Wiki o Te Reo

Mascot Madness

Today we were making a new mascot for one of the Would rugby teams. Me and Hohepa had Ireland.

I enjoyed making shapes with poly line, it was fiddly but fun.

I found it challenging to  get all shapes right so it would look detailed.

My digital learning object shows that I can use polyline.

Next time I would change pet deer.

Matariki Madness

Today I was learning about animations on Brush Ninja and how to make them.
I enjoyed seeing the animations when they were finished they were really cool.
I found it challenging to Get the black background because the black came up as gray so I had to do lots of gray squares to make one dark black square.
My digital learning object shows that the time limit of 15 minutes made it hard to get the animation done properly.
Next time I would put on more detail to make my animation more interesting. This post shows I am a Stepping Up blogger. Have you ever made your own animation before?

Creating original images

Today we worked on creating original images,
I enjoyed using the site luna pic and making a unique piece of artwork.
I also liked taking images of random things.
It was A cool task.
Enjoy!

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My Dream Vehicle

Our task was to be imaginative and write about your dream house, vehicle, job, superpower and so on. I picked a vehicle and this is what I wrote
Enjoy!

My Dream Vehicle

My dream vehicle would be a massive hast eagle. It would be shiny metal with hundreds of different layers. Deep blue eyes with red edges. It would have 35-foot wings to thrust it forward. Talons like knives hanging off large muscular legs. A beak with a deathly curve like the sharpest pickaxe. Inside its head, there would be a small high tech cockpit for me to sit in.

When I'm flying over water. It would transform into a large grey megalodon with teeth like sharpened spears. It would have a powerful tail making it travel at marvelous speeds( like 275 km, that's quick). It would run on a turbine on the front of the tail that when going through water would spin and create its own energy.

The hast eagle would also run on turbines that again when flying would spin because of the force of the wind and create energy. The hast eagle could fly at a speed of 350 km and when it dives it could reach the speed of 700 km. The hast eagle would have individual metal feathers. The megalodon would have a sensor 1000 times better than a normal shark.
That's my dream vehicle.

My Profile

Hi, my name is Blake and I go to Matawai School. I am a year 7.  I am in Room 4. I enjoy playing All Sports and looking at bugs. I have two brothers. There are 5 people in my family. I like reading fact books and my favourite series is the Unwanteds.

I am trying soccer for the first time, not rugby and hockey like last year. I enjoy mathematics, art and writing. I  like bugs sharks and snakes. When I’m older I want to be an animal scientist and work with some of those creatures. I really like how they are all very unique. We are going to the war memorial theatre and playing the ukulele at a concert.

 I live on a sheep and beef farm. We have seven dogs and a pet cat. I am a Centre forward in soccer and I enjoy playing in that position. I enjoy hunting, cooking and making things out of wood am taking part in Aims games I am going to run the cross-country and I am very nervous.  I like watching the All Blacks and cannot wait till the World Cup this year. My favourite player is Ben Smith or Beauden Barrett.