Peer Mediator Video

My Reflection

I was learning how to be a peer mediator. I found this work tricky because people kept laughing and ruining the video. Also, I messed up just as much as them, but they went to the teacher because apparently they never did anything wrong and all the failed videos were MY fault. My next step is to solve a real problem because they never turn out like this.

Term 1 Week 5

This year we have been portraits of ourselves out of patterns. This probably has some sort of really fancy name specially designed so that people writing a blog post about it will forget what it is. We'll call it patterportrait for now.  This art is actually really fun.  ONWARD!

First the teacher took photos in black and white of us. This was confusing for me because she said to do a "cool pose*". When it was my turn I was told to look to the right. People are strange

Next we drew a grid over the photo. This was because each square needed to have a pattern of it's own. This doesn't mean patterns cannot be repeated, they can but not right next to a square with the same pattern. We also made a paper window so we could focus on one square at a time.

Now we are copying each square from the photo onto a much bigger piece of paper. This part is interesting because for dark bits we are using small and close together patterns to make the illusion of darkness and big and far apart patterns to create the illusion of light. I decided to have 6 squares with a letter of my name as a pattern in them. They are arranged like this:     C.
                                                                      A
                                                                      L
                                                                      V
                                                                      I
                                                                     N

I think that might be the last step. It's the step we're on at the moment so I can't write about anything else. I am really liking this artwork even though it's quite difficult. Can't wait to put them up. Bye!

*I do not understand this strange word

The Legend Of Paikea Retelling

My Reflection
I was learning to retell a legend in a new way. I decided to retell it from Ruatapu's point of view. I found this tricky because it was difficult to translate the story into my own words. This version was different from the draft because I wanted it to be more from Ruatapu's point of view, not just a story that gave him a little bit of slack. My next step is to retell a story from another culture, not Maori.

Basic Facts Graph

First day of school description

My Reflection

I was learning to use my senses to add detail to my writing. I found this difficultish (That's a word now) because I had to do it twice AND I had to remember to skip lines in the draft. My next step is to take a better picture (Curse you Chromebook camera!).

Year 6 - 2016

WELCOME TO YEAR 6

ROOM 20 - MRS GRAHAM

My Own School Report

My Reflection

I wasn't really learning something. Now I think there's some sort of really obvious thing I was learning that just popped into existence when I said that. I found this tricky because I don't like talking about my behavior just in case I say it's great and it turns out it's terrible, which would probably lead to me getting in trouble. My next step is to add a better comment.

WOW SMALL TEXT!!! This was not done with a template. Rock melons.

WOW MORE SMALL TEXT!!!!! This goes with the behavior bit. Watermelons.