Calendar Art - Zen-tangle

In class for Calendar art we learnt lots of different Zen-tangle patterns, we practised patterns. Once we had learnt some of the Zen-tangle patterns we got to choose an animal outline from the internet and trace the outline, I decided to do a dog. When we had the outline of our animal, we sectioned of parts of our animal and filled them in with Zen-tangle patterns.

Geometric Patterns

Geometric Patterns

In Maths we are learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We created a geometric patterns using diagonal lines, we used protractors to start us off by finding the centre of the circle, and then measuring out on the protractor 120 degrees. The shapes that you can see in mine are triangles, stars and hexagons. After we had ruled all of our lines, we got to colour in all of the segments.

By Harriet Mildon

My inquiry Questions- Voki

For our inquiry we got to choose something that we were interested in and wanted to research and find out about, I chose to do palm oil, listen to this video/Voki below to hear my main question about palm oil.

My Strawberry poster

For our field to table inquiry we have been learning about strawberries. We got given sites, documents and videos all about strawberries. We also had a trip to Scott's Strawberry farm where we learnt all about what strawberries liked and disliked, the process of growth, what tools were used and lots of interesting facts. Once we had all of our information about strawberries, we had to present all of our new knowledge in one way. I chose to create a poster. I have a close up photo of a strawberry below, and an info graphic.

My Garden Design

In class we have been learning about soil and growing plants. We got asked to create a garden, we got to choose between vegetables,fruits,flowers or herbs. I chose to do flowers, I did sunflowers,snapdragons,gerberas,everlasting daisies, poppies and salvias. We got given the Yates website http://www.yates.co.nz/products/seeds/vegetables and had to find out how deep the plant had to be planted, the space between other plants and what type of soil it liked. We could only get certain plants because they all had to like the same soil. Here is mine.

By Harriet Mildon

My Matariki Poster

My Matariki Poster

For the last two weeks in class we have been focussing on Matariki. We had to combine all of our new knowledge of Matariki and combine it to make one way of presenting it. We had the choice on how we presented it. I decided to make a poster, my poster includes what Matariki is, When it is, Why it is important, what it is a time for, and facts about Matariki. Here it is.

Starry Night Art

Starry Night Art

In class we created a piece of artwork called starry night. Starry night is made my an artist named Vincent Van Gogh. I created this by starting with a black piece of paper, we had to draw with white chalk what we wanted on our picture. We had to include a tree, some houses, mountains and a moon or a sun. The technique that we had to use was double dipping, which means to dip the paintbrush in a colour and then dip it in another colour. This gives it a really cool effect at the end. I made the small houses at the bottom out of black paper for the house itself and yellow paper for the windows.

By Harriet Mildon