Olympic Artwork

Olympic art work

Here is a unique piece of artwork that I created along with support from Miss Hills and my classmates.

The first step that we had to make was to go on google and find an olympic athlete, after we found our athlete we had to print the picture off.  Then step two was to take a photo of yourself [and we needed our teacher Miss Hills to help us], Ms Hills asked us to look up to the roof like we had just won a gold medal.  Step three was to get an A3 paper and rule 4 cm in on the side and the same thing on the top.  We had to join these to make the border.  Step four was to come up with 2 similes and 2 metaphors for our poster and some speech bubbles and thought bubbles to put the similes and metaphors in.  

On the border of my artwork we had to have the olympic values and they are…

• Excellence
• Friendship
• Respect    

To make the tessellation we needed to measured a triangle with sides that had to be 3.8 cms, I even made hexagons!.  If you don’t know what a tessellation is it’s a repetitive pattern that can’t overlap or have gaps. Did you know that the only polygons that can tessellate by themselves are the hexagon, triangle and square, while the other polygons can’t really tesselate.  A polygon is the posh name for a shape,  a regular polygon is a shape with all equal sides well a irregular polygon is a shape with all unequal sides.

My challenge for you is:  

Can you find the triangles hidden in the hexagons?

Hong Kong STEM challenge

Hong Kong STEM Challenge

           

These are the materials we used:

6 x long sticks

1 x  wooden square

2 x pipe cleaners

2 x straws

1 x 1m ruler

11 x plastic cubes

1 x bunch of popsicle sticks
4 x wooden small flat pieces

Challenge #1 - Build a structure with a cube as the base:

Challenge 1 was really hard because our structure fell a couple of times.  The hard thing about this  challenge is that there was a time limit and if it kept falling we would have to start over again.  I think we did well for our first structure, but now  I think we can do better for the next one.

Challenge #2 - Build the tallest structure that you can and your base can be any size:

Challenge 2 was really hard because we had to build the tallest structure but the problem was it kept tumbling down.  We ended up being disqualified because we had to many of one material.  But at least we participated and tried, we thought we could complete the next challenge and we did. We think it was because the weight was not equal on both sides.  But then we decided to put two blocks on both sides so it would be an equilateral structure..and that was not allowed and we got disqualified.

Challenge #3 -  Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it:

                

Challenge 3 was really easy because the block/stick were sitting on the big flat bored.  The hard thing about it was making the little pieces on top balance.  We could have done better, just by sticking it out more, but at least we tried.

By Philip, Kisayah and Mereana

Moment In Time Week7

Today our teacher asked us to write a ‘Moment In Time’ piece using a picture of a boy in the water.  We planned as a class to make sure we had the 5 W’s and the 6 Senses.  

Before we began our writing in small groups we discussed the importance of using descriptive writing, using similes and metaphors where appropriate, using dialogue and have done our best to make sure our punctuation is correct.  Some of us have even used ‘Show Don’t Tell’ in our writing to provide our reader with more of an experience.

Our teacher gave us 10 minutes for each paragraph and then 10 minutes for editing at the end.  We had so much fun working together!

If you have a moment, we would love you to comment on our writing.  

Boy Overboard!

Jack was water skiing when he saw a group of sharks swimming towards him.  Jack was so frightened that he let go of the rope and fell on his back slap Jack started to drown.  The closer the sharks got to Jack the more frightened Jack became.  He could taste the sea water dripping from his mouth. “HELP! HELP!”

Jack saw the sharks swimming closer and closer “HELP! HELP! SOMEBODY HELP!” Jack screamed.  The sharks finally surrounded Jack when he felt like his heart was going to jump out of his chest. One of the sharks lunged forward and tried to bite Jack but he was too fast for the shark and he just dodged in time.  Then the next shark then the next and so on.

The final shark managed to bite Jacks leg “AHHH” screamed Jack as the blood was oozing out of his leg like a tree with tree sap sliding down the tree trunk.  But Jack didn’t only scream because of the blood he also screamed because the sea salt got sucked into his leg like a vacuum.  It was only Jack and the sharks alone in the salty sea water.  Jack knew this was the end but was it?….

Written by Philip, Eraia and Javahn.

Eraia

What I did well was putting interesting words    

Javahn:

What I did well was sharing my idea and sharing my knowledgeknowledge.  

Philip:

I think I put in some descriptive words to make it interesting for the reader.