Waikowhai Art festival

Hi blogging world James here. On Tuesday night parents came to the Waikowhai art festival. There were different arts from different classes including the train art that the year 6's have been doing for 4 sessions with Ms Sands. There was food that was free and a weaving board were anyone can weave it was called Te Waka Art collaborative art. You guys may know that our class did NZ native birds in my other blog post. There were some waiters that were year 6's, one of them was me. I got to give out yummy food only for the Adults and teachers. 

The bird that I did was a Pukeko because I like Pukeko's because they are Native to NZ. The other bird that I did was a fantail because fantails aren't scared when you stay still and stay quiet then they will come very close to you and try to eat the seeds at the bottom of your shoe and they are very cute. The colours that I used was light green mixed with dark green for the grass and flax, dark blue and light blue for the sky and water, black for the pukeko, sand colour, black, brown mixed with white and white for the fantail. What I think I did well with my work because I love painting and drawing so I am so lucky to have an art teacher her name is Ms Sands.

It was cool because some teachers tried to make me sell my art to them while I was handing the food out. I really liked handing out the food because some teachers or parents that I know said that I am a good artist. It was a huge success because we had heaps of parents come with their children and look at their art. Their was music in the background but it was played on a piano by Rio, Skye and Lavinia they played different kinds of songs that made people wanna sing and dance.

I think that I did really well with my art and handing out the food because heaps of people said that you will have a huge future. I loved handing out the food because the parents didn't wan't anymore sweets because they said that they are going to get sick or vomit so I handed all the sweets to the children.

I made two pieces of art one of them was train art. the train art is going to be in the train station that is going under and over bridges. The phrase was (If you went on a train were would you like to go) So I wanted to go to the depths of Africa. I did this place because I would want see the lions and the cheetahs chasing each other. Here is my train art for the train art.

Another thing that I made for my art and Inquiry was a sign that shows saving the animals and the pacific ocean and the people on the island. Here is my sign.

Here are the rest of the signs by Hauraki.

Here is my sign.

















Here is my train art that is going to the train station.

Here is my painting of the pukeko and the fantail.

I think that I did really well with my art, sign and inquiry because i was on task and I was distracted by my friends sitting next to me. BLOG YOU LATER😋😎.

Installation art

Hi blogging world Yesterday we had to present a slideshow about what we will be doing for the art show. We are building a house to put all the soft plastic in then we will watch it grow. In the first slide we had to write about the house structure what will we use who will help us why are we doing this and how do we do it. The Third slide we had to write the messages in one slide in one text box. The fourth slide we had to write about what should go into the soft plastic that is white. In the fifth slide we wrote what doesn't go into the white bin named soft plastic. The last slide we had to write about some containers , lunch box, bags and snap box that we can re-use for shopping or eating. Check it out my slideshow. 

I liked building the house because i liked the stapling because it was loud and scary at the same time. It was really cool to get to use tools that I don't use at home when I am making a bike for myself or someone else. The people that helped us was Elouna and Leslie that came and helped us build the walls and the roof. I think that making this house was an success because we were working all together.




I think I did well with my slideshow because I put all my effort to make it perfect so I can present it to room 4 and post it on my blog. BLOG YOU LATER.

ART WORK

Hey blogging world, James here. last week we started a art piece of NZ birds. The materials that we used was High School paint not primary school paints because we want our art to be cool for our art show and the other material was the Water strength Cartridge paper. Another material that we used was Chromacryl students acryling. Here are the instructions on how to make the art work.

How the process goes
Step 1) We had to choose a NZ bird to draw onto the the paper.
Step 2) Then we drew it onto the paper but we had to draw it big, "I'm not used to drawing big".
Step 3) After that, we had to draw the habitat of the bird that we choose.
Step 4)  Next you choose the colour of the background , because it will be easier to paint.
Step 5) Then go and choose the colours that you want to use for your bird and background.
Step 6) Next you paint the background what ever colour you choose
Step 7) After you do that you will have to let it dry so you can do another coat to make it stand out.
Step 8) Then paint your bird with the paints.

And that's how you make the Art work for your guys art show, But you will have to do all that with an adult , because you might get silly with the paint.

The thing that I liked about my work is the drawing, because I love drawing at school and home and, because the teachers that I've been with are artist and they inspired me to be a better drawer. The thing that I don't like is the painting of my fantail because I made the eye to big and may have put to much black paint on the face of the fantail. Something that I can improve is taking my time on my piece of art so it can look very nice for our art show. What I would like to change is the NZ birds because I wanted to do a NZ hawk but then it was to difficult to draw on a big piece of paper. Something that I would do next time is put more colour into my birds like the feathers and make my background better than before.

My buddy's opinion about my art piece.)
He liked the way that my background was blended from dark to light. My friend said that he did not like the big feet of the Pukeko.  Richard said I can improve by adding more detail to my birds flying or sitting on the branch. He said to change the feet and make it a little smaller. My buddy said that next time I could make my painting colourful. 

If you are interested in art maybe you could come to Waikowhai Primary School and see all the art work that Waikowhai made in their class rooms. It will be On Tuesday the 26th of June is the opening.  

                                                                  

I think that I did really well with the construction because I was involved in nearly everything. I liked stapling the wood together for the walls. BLOG YOU LATER.

TIRITIRI MATANGI ISLAND

Talofa blogging world, Last week the seniors went on a trip to a Island to learn about the endangered animals. It took about 1 hour to get to the Island because we had to stop at the Hauraki golf to pick up some supporters and guides to take us on a tour around the Island to look for endangered animals. We even got to go on a fairy to the Hauraki golf and to the Island and we got to buy food on the fairy. Something I learnt was when ever Maori's see a Nikau tree they think they are home. Another thing that I learnt was that they had a memorial tree of the birds that had died, and were remembered by the supporters and volunteers. I liked the part when we went on a treasure hunt with our guides and our job was to find little finger puppets.

I saw heaps of tuis and fantails while walking around the Island looking for animals that were our list. We had 14 groups and all the groups had the same list of birds to look for some groups didn't find a white head bird. Other groups did find a white head you have to be quite if you want to find a white head because they are very shy when people are loud because they think that they are going to hunt them. My favourite part was when we came back to Auckland and sleeping in the bus on the way back to school. Something that I didn't like about the trip was when we were coming back, the fairy was going up and down and everyone stood up and screamed then they woke me up. My opinion is that this trip was cool because at the end of the day when we came back to the fairy we got to see the yellow eyed penguins.

Here is a link of the site, where I got all the information from. http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/home

One of the groups that were joined together.

















I thought the trip was really really cool because I learnt heaps more about tuis and Kereru (NZ pigeon).