The driving question for our PBL over Term 2 and part of this Term has been, “How can we as performing artists communicate positive messages to an audience?”

We learnt about The Arts, in particular the elements of Dance, Drama and Music. We read a number of fables and fairy tales and learnt about their positive message. We then took this learning and applied it to our own play writing script. 

In my group there was Claire.L, Leo Wall and Leo Wilson, we planned out what our script, and fairy tale was going to be The Three Little Pigs. Click here to see our script and here to see our planning document  

Once we had planned our ideas, we started to write our play writing script. The fairy tale script is based on is The Three Little Pigs. The positive message that we wanted the audience to take away was hard work pays of in the end.

The Google Slide shows everyone’s performance in Tumu, my group’s performance is on slide 17

Something that I enjoyed about this project was working with people I’ve never worked with before and getting the chance to film.

 Something that I found challenging or would change about this project was trying to write the script because we all had to work collaboratively on a document at once.

I am most proud of this project because we tried are hardest to work altogether and get along

What do you think of our play?

Kia Ora,

This week in writing we did blackout poetry, if you dont know what it is, it is when you have a story and pick some words and colour the rest of the words black. I did one on paper because we had the option of doing one online or one on paper. It was pretty hard because you had to make it pretty short and it would make sense. The story I was using was Alice and the wonderland and made a good story. Unfortunately I can not show because it is on paper.

Have you tried Blackout Poetry before?

Welcome – Two weeks ago we did science in Tumu. There were 3 different types of science experiments to do. We did Squishy Circuits, Torch Power and Battery Power. My two friends and I  did Squishy Circuits and tried to make a tiny light bulb light up.

Hypothesis – I think if we put some wires, tin foil, lay dough and batteries together it might light up.

Materials used:  

• Play dough
• Wires 
• Tinfoil
• Tiny light bulb
• batteries

Conclusion: My hypothesis was incorrect because it took a few ways to make it light up. We tried with play dough but it did nothing, so then we used tinfoil to connect the wires together and we added in a battery and got it to light up for a few seconds.

Something interesting or challenging was trying to make it light up for a long time. I could only make it light up for about 10 seconds before putting the wires in a different position.

Do you like science?

Hello,

This weeks Gospel was about the Transfiguration, I decided to tell what happens in the story, and add a picture if its makes more sense. I did this task on a google drawing as a poster.

Here is the poster:

Did you know this happened?

 

Ki ora,

Every week our hub does a maths board and a blog post, so this week I wanted to do a blog post about my maths board to change it up. The question was 17+6, I started by adding 10 and 5 together and which is 15 and then adding the renaming numbers 7 and 1 which is 8 and 8 plus 15 is 23 so that is how i did it. If you want here is the real maths board:

Did you learn anything?

This week in cyber smart we had to do a collaborative document to show if we could work together or not. Kayla and I did one together, we played tic tac toe and had to write a story and write word by word each. Here is our document: Link

 

Can you collaborate?

 

This weeks gospel I chose to do a bookmark, the gospel is about how God knows you more than yourself. If you want to see my bookmark click here

Do you like my poster?

This week we have been doing alot around plays, we also got to make one! But first we had to plan, so we got a template of a google drawing with all the stuff we needed on it like all the Charters,the setting, the problem and the solution. My story is based around a girl with her hand stuck on her head, if you want to see more click on this google drawing:

Would you watch this play?

This week we have been learning about fables and fairy tales, all fables have a setting,characters,problem,solution and a trickster. We have been learning about, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Greedy Dog, the Sun and the Wind and the Lion and the Mouse.

If you want to see more info about them click onto my slide underneath:

Whats your favourite fable?

This term for writing we have read Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Phillip Pullman and using this as a model for our writing. We have learnt how to use a number of different language features such as similes, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and personification. 

Something I have learnt is what a complex sentence is because I did not know what it was before but now it makes perfect sense to me. An Example is Aladdin fell asleep with tears in his eyes and awoke still being blurry eyed, to find nothing had changed.

Something that I am proud of Is learning new words because it will help my writing be better.

Something I would like to improve on for next time is changing the words because you want it to be different from the teacher mode.

Here is my writting:

Shivering with nervousness Aladdin couldn’t wait to enter the cave. Anxiously, he skipped towards the cave’s edge. The cave was gooey and gloomy. Dark and dusty. Smelly and small. Aladdin dived into the hole like a swimmer diving into a pool. 

 

Underneath the pink Blossom of an oleander tree. Bees were sipping nectar Adjacent to the tall pine were glistening streams sparkling in the night air. Aladdin listened carefully, he heard a bubbling drip echoing through the cave and a strange creature scuffling in the shadows. Why am I here? He thought to himself.

 

Rocking mysteriously in the golden gazebo was a shimmering but slightly dusty lamp. Aladdin’s attraction peaked. As he grabbed out and snatched the lamp the water danced, the leaves moved and the trees waved.

 

Crusty, dusty  ground. Aladdin saw a plain ring with a note attached. The note read ¨This ring is enchanting, so enchanting, extremely enchanting. This ring is powerful,so powerful,extremely powerful. This ring is unique, so unique, extremely unique¨. Uncle screamed ¨Hurry up! Where is it you flea-ridden peasant!¨

 

As fast as a flash, Uncle yeeted a magical powder- blue billowed, orange overflowed and pink popping. The Earth groaned and shook and the entrance to the tunnel closed.

 

The cave was Dark. Darker as dark as a bat’s wing. Sobbing with rage he realized there was no way out. As days merged into nights a sense of helplessness began to seep into him. The walls reeked of blue cheese. The ground smelt as putrid as rotten eggs and a depressing stench of anger and loneliness hung in the air. Aladdin fell asleep with tears in his eyes and awoke still being blurry eyed, to find nothing had changed.

 

Yawning and stretching his hand lightly touched against the iron ring in his pocket that he’d forgotten about Crash, roar, bang! The cave exploded. A disruptive cold and raging storm had started. He could see it. He could see it vividly. He could see it vividly through the shards of darkness. With gleaming red eyes the Jinnee stared at him and boomed “I can give you anything in your wildest dreams!”

 

Aladdin, who was shocked and excited, Stammered. ¨I order you to give me freedom!¨ Urgently, the Earth trembled, tore and grumbled Aladdin out. If only he stayed home, if only he had been blind, if only he never did this, the entire drama could have been avoided.

Have you ever read Aladdin?