Today for art I did a zentangle Christmas tree (to fit our celebration theme at school). I am surprised how quickly I got this done, in about twenty minutes. some people took two hours. To make this, I drew a pencil outline with shapes inside for patterns. Then I went over it with vivid and put in the patterns.
My overall impression of the Literature Circles was good because I find that reading a text and then doing a task off it is fun. My favourite task was Artful Artist because if you draw something from a text with no pictures it can be your own image that appears in your head. The challenge I had was directing the discussion because some of the people in my group weren’t very co-operative. The progress I saw in the conversations over time was that people went into more detail about their task. The RISE value I showed the most was success because I finished my task every time. From the Literature Circle tasks, I learnt that changing from one thing to the other quickly can be difficult. From holding the Literature Circle conversations, I learnt that it can be an important thing to be able to do when communicating.
Today for CRT me and a buddy made a clay mushroom house and a box for it to go in. I enjoyed this because I like modelling clay and making the box was fun. I found lining the pictures up on the box when it was flat challenging because they were in different directions. Next time I think I would do something different than a mushroom because everybody seemed to be doing that.
My toy is a mushroom house and it is called a mushroom house. It is suitable for 4-6 year olds and it is for imaginative play. The container is used to store it and is decorated to make it a bit exiting, as opening something up is fun.
On my holiday in Wellington I went up the cable car. When we hopped on the cable car I found out that I had used my dad’s ticket to get in and he had used mine. Then we started moving. We stopped a few times, passed the other cable car and went through some rainbow tunnel lights.
When we got to the top we went to the cable car museum. First we sat on the old cable car (it was open to the track). Then we went to the next room and looked at the Lego replica of the cable car. Finally we went down to the old engine room and saw some huge cogs.
Next we walked down the hill the cable car came up. On the way we stopped at the playground and had a swing. Then we continued walking through some bush. After that we came to the road and started walking down that. We walked by the Prime Minister’s house. Finally we found ourselves back at the Airstream caravan where we were staying.
Today for inquiry-literacy we visited a stardome. They showed us things about the universe, stars and planets. They projected things like the earth and stars onto the walls. They moved and it was dark, so it was a bit like virtual reality. They also told us that when you say tick tock, that is how long it takes for something going the speed of light to travel to the moon and back. The universe is made up of three things, something (atoms), nothing (space) and radiation (light).
We also learned a bit about mars, and they had a little model of Curiosity ( the mars rover) that we got to control to move to a rock that had bacteria fossils in it and inspect it with a microscope. If there was life on mars, they are expecting it to be things like that rock. There was also sandstone and basalt. Do you know about different types of rock?
Today we did a fun activity about Matariki. It was a bit like a scavenger hunt except the things you had to find were Matariki stars and there was a cirtain thing you had to do when you got to a station, like an action. Matariki is the family star, Tupuanuku is food from the ground, Tupuarangi is food from the sky, Waiti is food from freshwater, Waita is food from the sea, Waipunarangi (my favourite star) is the rain star, Ururangi is the wind star, Pohutukawa guides spirits and Hiwa-i-te-rangi is the wishmaker. What is your favourite Matariki star? 