Pendulum Art

Title: Pendulum Art               By: Bridget, Tara, Mary & Elsie 

Aim/Hypothesis: We thought that it would look like how it looked on the video.

We also thought that it would be easy and we would get it first try.

Method: First we got 2 chairs and then we put a 1 meter ruler and tied it  to the 2 chairs after that we got some string and a paper cup and tied that to the 1 meter ruler so it would hang down in the middle. We put a hole in the bottom of the cup so the paint would come out then we mixed pink and blue in the cup with someone holding a piece of paper at the bottom of the cup so the paint wouldn't come out. We had some newspaper at the bottom of the the good paper that we were going to use. After that then we swung the cup on to the paper and it turned out like this.  

     

Results:  On our first attempt the cup was a foot away from the ground.  It was quite messy and unorganized, the string was every and didn’t end up like the ones in the videos. Once we let go of the string to let it swing and do it’s thing, it just ended up doing blotches of polka dots.  It wasn’t flowing properly and it ended up looking like a mess. Our second attempt was a little bit better, but wasn’t what we wanted. It had the same problem as our last attempt, polka dot blotches and no improvement. For our third attempt we decided to change the pendulum by sticking a pencil through the cup and adding a bigger hole.  We secured the string to the ruler and it seemed to work wonders. We aced it at the third attempt. 

Conclusion: Overall in the end it turned looking pretty cool. It took a couple of tries to get it right but we got it in the end and it worked.  Next time to make it successful we should do the same process as third attempt, but make the hole slightly smaller.

Miranda Jane Caird Art

In class we have been looking at Miranda Jane Caird's art. We have tried drawing some pictures of landscapes with big black bold outlines like Miranda Jane Caird. 

 << My Art         Miranda Jane Caird's Art>

The thing I like about my art is how its not identical to Miranda Jane Caird's art but it's also in my own style. It doesnt look exactly realistic, but I'm still happy with it. I followed Miranda Jane Caird's  stlye by using bold black lines and making it look half realistic half cartoonish.

Mining History In The West Coast

Snow Camp Report

On Monday the 19th of August Te Kinga and Kotuku set off on their journey to Arthurs Pass. When we arrived at Arthurs Pass we had a safety briefing then took our luggage to our rooms. After that Te Kinga went on a walk at Temple Basin but not the mountain just a small walk on the other side of the road. Kotuku went on a mini bird orienteering activity. After we got back we just played games and talked, for dinner we had pizza and for desert we had self saucing chocolate pudding with ice cream. Everyone got up really early on Tuesday the 20th so we had to sit out in the dining room and played games. Since everybody was up early and we didn't have much to do we had some more free time. There was a delay when it was time to leave because the road to Mt Cheeseman was closed. In that time we had a person from DOC come and tell us about what she does. We also did some team activities, then we had some morning tea then it was time to leave. It took a while to get up to the top of Mt Cheeseman where the lodge was but we made it in the end. When we got to Mt Cheeseman some of us went outside in the snow, it was very windy but I made a small igloo/mini cave with Zak & Kaeyln. For dinner we had a mince thing, corn, beans and potatoes. For desert we had a nice apple rhubarb and berry pie it was delicious. The next day Wednesday the 21st was our last day there and that was the skiing day (or playing in snow). I went skiing and it was really fun I had to half teach myself how to ski again but I did pretty well. I went up the T-bar with Tui and it went really well. Then I went up the T-bar with Mary... and we fell off the T-bar. We continued for a couple more hours then it was time to go home. Overall the only part of this camp I enjoyed was skiing and hanging out with friends.

Work Interview Comment

Recently in class we have been interviewing people in the community about their work life. Today we interviewed Zak and Cameron's dad Jarred. 

I think it was interesting how Jarred has done lots of volunteer work. I also thought it was interesting how he worked in the air force and how for work experience he blinked a fish eye puppet for a kids T.V show. I thought the story with the pot plant was funny as well. Jarred also mentioned that we should have technology, communication, leadship, and attiude skills for our working life.

Inchbonnie History

Fix It Project Home Links

Home Links Matariki Animation

Google Slides Animation

In class we have been learning how to use google slides for animations. I've made these before but I still made another one. My one is about cheese and a mouse.

Home Links Fire Safety Scratch

Home Links Animations

Fair Trade Learning

At school recently we have been doing a lot of learning to do with Fair Trade. First off we started with learning what Fair Trade is. I learnt some new information about what happens in other countries. I can't believe kids my age are forced to work all day and get no education. We made fair trade poems in groups or on our own. I paired up with Tara for our poem, we did an accrostic poem. We looked at examples of Fair Trade poems and got some insparation off of them. We wrote down our poems on fair trade sacks using Indian Ink. When Karen was making the sacks flat, she found a few Fair Trade coffee beans! Along the way we also got to try some Fair Trade chocolate, looked at some Fair Trade packaging. Some people used stencils to write down their poem, others did it free hand. Also next time your at the supermarket try buy some Fair Trade items. 

Here are some photos of Tara and I's poem.