A trip to Japan

 

Greetings from Japan!

I am writing to you to inform that I am having the most wonderful time. Summer here is like nothing you have ever seen before. The blossom trees are in bloom, I love having picnics under them. The food here is out of this world, never have I tried something as different but delicious as what they sell here! I hope that soon I can come here again and I hope that I can bring you along!

Hope you are doing ok back in Gizzy. 

See you soon.

Your friend,

Estella

The Majestic Wolfus

 

 On the news a local named Estella was out exploring the great Caribbean waterfall. She was busy taking pictures and selfies of the beautiful waterfall and the view down below, when she heard a rustle in a nearby bush. She was not scared because she had been on many many previous adventures, so she quietly tiptoed up to the bush and peeked inside. She couldn't believe her eyes, inside was a strange hybrid. It was a creature mixed between a wolf and a walrus. She scurried backwards as the weird creature moved towards her. It couldn't move very fast because it was kind of flopping around the water. Estella tripped over a loose rock as she was running, the creature approached. It lowered its head, opened its mouth and...started to lick her. She named the creature the majestic Wolfus Estellarus, named after herself. These special creatures are extremely endangered from naughty poachers, who stalk them and kill, as they are very slow movers. The message we need to send out around the world...

Don't be scared of the Wolfus Estellarus, it is extremely friendly.

By  Avie Harris & Estella Hepburn-Van Zyl

Frida's Makeover

 

This is my colouring that I did of Frida Kahlo. I used a tool called Art Colouring book where you can find famous paintings and re-colour them any way you want. I think that for my colouring I got random colours and saw if they worked or not. I am not the proudest of this one, I think that if I had more time I could have really made it look the way I wanted it to look. I found it hard to find colours that were ok for this painting but I found it easy to pick out her hair colour. I really liked this task, it was fun and different and I hope to do something like this again sometime. 

King Kitty

Behold the new ruler of northern Denmark, King Kitty. With power so big, he can rule them all if he chooses, destroying everything that is in his way to victory. King Kitty does not give any mercy and many have begged at the foot of his fluffy paws and been thrown into a dungeon. Who's side shall you support in the years to come, a side of utter power and destruction, or the side you've known your whole life. The choice is yours. 

Media and its forms

 

For Manaiakalani yesterday we had to create a poster, video etc etc, to explain the different forms of Media in whatever way you wanted to. I thought that I should list the forms of old and new Media. I really like this activity, it was a very good idea to let us choose what to make our project on. I did find it hard to make my lists the right size so that it didn't go in the pink area. I really like the final result and I look forward to your tips and feedback.

Mr Bean

This is my scratch game. Scratch is a website where you can make your own games, videos or anything else through coding. Coding is basically when you make a script for what you want your game to do. You have to find the right blocks to make it work though. The purpose of my scratch game was to teach people a little bit of  te reo maori. We could do whatever we wanted to do, we could design our own characters, choose our backgrounds and write what we wanted our custom character to say. I found it really fun and easy to code and make the game, but when it came to customizing the backgrounds and music and stuff, it got quite frustrating and time consuming. Although it was a great experience. I think that my next steps for this game is to make a voice for my character, it will give it originality and character. This game overall took me about three days so yeah. I look forward to hearing all your tips and feedback!

My intro video

Using the learning tool WeVideo, my Classmates and I have recently been making intro videos to put at the start of other videos that we make. WeVideo is a website where you can make your own videos however you want, wherever you want. If you have ever seen any particular youtuber you will notice that at the start of every video they make there is the same little clip they play. Even though my intro is very random, I really like how it turned out although it was very hard to think of the thing I would do in it. Do you think it is random or fine? Sadly, this video took me so long to make even though it was only supposed to be five seconds. I look forward to seeing all your tips and feedback!