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. 

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!

My piskel character

This is my Piskel character that I made. We were learning to make our own characters for our own scratch videos. We haven't made the actual video yet though but I really liked making it as it was fun but a little frustrating and challenging. I found it easy to think of what character to make, a unicorn, I did find it quite hard though because I didn't actually get it to look right the first time I tried many attempts to make it look right. My character in this gif is trying to do its job every night, bring out the stars. I really liked doing this. It was a fun experience.

Holding your chromebook properly wevideo

Today we got to make another wevideo encouraging little kids to hold their devices properly. I was very fun to make and I had a lot of fun doing it since I got to do it with my friends. I think next time we could speak a little louder into the screen. But it was overall a very fun experience and I can't wait to do another one.

My Covid-19 WeVideo

This is my covid-19 Wevideo about some of the things that happen during lockdown. I found it very fun to do because I overall like doing WeVideos and I got to do it with my mum and sister. I found it quite challenging when embedding it on my blog but I eventually figured it out. I overall loved doing this project but next time I think I will try and make it so that when one of me finishes talking she does not just disappear. I hope you enjoy it because it took me four days to make. 😀

Anzac backround art

This is my ANZAC background art. I found it very fun to do. It was challenging to do the background on a new tool but I managed it. I think next time I should try to get the sunset lines more even. I am very happy of how it turned out.

My war Animation

This is my war animation about my Grandad. We had to make any war story we wanted to but it has to be about war. We could chooses to make it about someone in our family or from a war book. I found it fun and easy to make. Though it was challenging to polyline all of the tanks and soldiers and planes. You can switch from slide to slide if it is going to fast. I hope you like it.

All about me

This is my cybersmart all about me. We made it as the first blog post this year. I found it quite hard to polyline my face and such but it was quite fun also. We did this activity called cybersmart missions that Mr Forrie, our cybersmart teacher, had set up for us. I found this challenge pretty fun to do and challenging me also because I was a little rusty on remembering how to post it on here but I managed to get there. I think next time I will try harder with my polyline face to try and make it look more realistic.

The Miracle of CTRL Y

                                      Today we made fake news reports using Wevideo. This is my first time using Wevideo and I found it fun and hard. Our one was about using CTRL Y if CTRL Z does not work. I made mine with Romie and Rosanna and I was a lot of fun to do. I found it hard to record myself as a different person almost losing everything but found it fun to put in music, draw the intro and put it all together. Next time I might slow down in talking when I record myself instead of zooming through talking.

My fortune teller app

This is the fortune teller app that I have made. It is not finished but I will update it as soon as I can. I found it very fun to make but challenging to make my plan because I had quite a lot of things to plan.

My definitely real postcard ;)

Today we were to tell the difference between real and fake things online. We had to make a postcard and get people to try and tell the difference between real and fake. What do you think? I found it fun and quite easy because I have been to Thailand before.

My polyline profile pic

At school for cybersmart we had to create a picture of ourselves using shapes. I quite like how mine turned out. We had to take a photo of ourselves and put them on a slide. We then had to polyline half of our face and when we finished half of our face we could decide if we wanted to do half of our face and leave the other side of our face a photo or we could cover our whole face. I had lots of fun doing it.

Don't leave your chromebook somewhere unsafe.

We are learning too make animations! Here is my animation on not leaving your chromebook somewhere unsafe. It is the first animation that I have ever done.

kawa of care

Public vs Private

We are learning to know the difference in public information and private information.

I learnt that you have to ask your parents and siblings if they want their names on the internet

I found this learning interesting because we were sorting out what we thought was public and private. except the information that we all know is private.

Top tip

We are learning to create drawings to do with devices and top tips. We had to create a drawing with a chromebook tip that we thought was top and useful for everyone else to know