Something new

I did my blog in different format today.

Something new ?

" Can I please borrow your book Emily?" I  called from across the room .

"Why?" Emily called back . 

"I want to sketch" 

" Ok" Say Emily.

Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge. I traced it SSHH!. 

So I trace the horse in complete secret (so don't tell Emily). But in the end she caught me red handed. I named it Toby ( which is her horse's name ) . I thought I had the right colour but no it needs to be darker so I put black in it. YAY I got the right colour. I haven't finshed it yet .

It is really cute! 

Bye

Flick that Brush!

Black with      makes abstract art. You water down the paint colours that you want to use so that they can flick onto your black paper. Dip that paint brush into the paint and flick it on to paper. Sorry this is so short !

Tick Tock Goes The Clock

Time, Time, Time. Our last sesion of time BOO WHOO. It was really fun to do the activities especially the techie challenge to measure a time of one minute. It was really fun today because we had a big discussion about whether or not time is what you see when you look at a clock, or is time what you remember to see in your mind. I learned that you never see yesterday or tomorrow!

Time for Prezi

"Go on to Prezi and make an account to make you prezitation" Katie said, so that is what we did. We made a Prezi account ( by the way if you don't have a clue what prezi is it is a website where you can make posters). Theres a lot of templates to chose from. I chose a world map to show the places i've been here it is.







Here is the link!!!  http://prezi.com
 

Hi, 

My writing style is a bit different today because we were learning calligraphy. It is really fun. First we did the practice figures and then we moved onto the tricky letters. It was really hard.Now we are can do a wordle - a shape of calligraphy  letters or a picture of letters. I’ve always wanted to do calligraphy so this was prefect.

Thanks for reading,

Ali

Custom Glitter Text

Long time no see. Sorry I have not posted in a while we were doing reflections so we did not have time to post. Where was I at last time oh yeah I was posting about poetry but we finshed that so I will go on to Art. We were printing our lino prints. This is what you: your first print is a fully black one. Then you go and choose you ink to do a insurance print. An insurance print is a print so even if you mess up on your others you still have a good print. It is lots of fun!

Long time no see,

Ali 

Mad Pad

I'm not posting about talent development today. Insted I am posting about poetry. We did a workshop on the Ipads. We did lots of apps that I had never seen before: like Mad Pad and others. We published our poetry on an app called Pic Collage. These are my poems: 

Talofa,

You know how I keep posting about art, well today I'm still posting about art but for a treat I will post some of my poetry I have been doing over the last 2 weeks. We had done everything that Darryn wanted us to do. So guess what we did we when to the art gallery and Darryn said to learn art you have to see art so that is what we did. Next, we got back and we started a lino print. I'm doing two flowers.

Okay, Okay, that's enough of art! Onto poetry. We did free verse and haiku. Haiku is a poem of 3 lines with 5 - 7 - 5 syllables.

This is mine about chess:     

Chess

Pin forks and skewers

Scholars, en pesant moves

Stale-mate or checkmate.

This is my free verse:

A dull wet day hangs over the world.

Rushing and bustling, not caring to say to say hello.

Grey clouds drifting through the sky.

Droplets fall from the sky, hit the cold hard ground.

A pattering on the roof

And me curled up in bed.

5 + a day

Vegetables?
Zucchini my worst fear! 
No not really we're just sketching. We learnt that you start with light pencil strokes, then when we are finished we will have dark lines. We had to shade in the parts that were darker  than the rest. We also learnt that we had to stay in the same spot because if we move our perspective will change. This is mine:

No paint shirts?

We all got our paint shirts out but Darryn say that was amusing to watch but we were going to be sketching today instead. He said to start lightly so we can rub out if we need to. Then we make them darker once we are happy with the shape. After that we shade in the parts that we can see have shadows or that are darker than others. It was hard to get the shape right and the proportion.

A swipe of a brush

With a swipe of a brush and a flick of a pencil we started art. First we had to draw a cartoon face and make it actually the same. Then we started painting.  I just had to paint the plate and do some touch ups.      
My apple looks like the apple I chose, it was hard because it was tricky to get the colours exactly the right shades.  I am happy with my end product.

Art

"Get your art shirts on and get ready to paint" says Darryn. Today we kept on painting our still life apples. I had already painted my backround a dark grey so now it was time to paint the light colour on the apple. The colour was a greeny yellow colour. Then it was on to crimson colour we had to lightly put the crimson on. I havent painted the plate yet. 

PS It's the first day back =)

Splat

Splat!

The Art group we skecthed and and painted an apple. We had to mix some colours to make the colour for the backround which was a greyish black. The core was a brown. The light colour on the apple was  yellowish with a tint of green. For the red part of the apple we used crimson. The hardest part was drawing the plate because it is hard to get the right shape.
We learnt that the light colours go on the page first, and that you always start with the things that were there first.

P.S. We needed more black paint so we got the big bag and it went splat!

Art with Jenny

Guess what art we did today? We did colour blending with the primary colours. Those are blue, yellow and red. We had a strip of paper and some paint. The colours  were Blue, Yellow, Red, Black and White. We had to start with a very dark colour then we finished with a very light colour.

Bye!!!

Art time!!!!!

We started Talent Development and I chose art. We are going back to the basics of and we are learning how to mix colours. We started with the three primary colours, then we mixed them. Our final product will be working towards producing an exhibition of all of our work! 

Caine's Arcade

Ali from Enrich news here. At Caine's Arcade, a flashmob has appeard outside where they have queued for about 4 hours to played some cardbroard games. Whoever thought a 9 year old boy could make an arcade with cardboard boxes. His first customer was a film producer and he set up a Facebook page to get people to come to Caine's Arcade! He also raised almost $250 000 dollars for a  scholarship for Caine!

Here is a link:

http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/faIFNkdq96U

Welcome back

Hi again,

Yay back at Enrich.

The Wilson game was Picadilly circus.

This is how you play:

You stand in a circle and with at lest 13 people.

1 person starts with the ball runs to a person then the person how ran to the other side sits down. You keep going around the circle 'till everybody down then the last person standing runs to the middle then runs back and sit down.

Bye!