Swirly Line Storm

 Today for cybersmart we were getting a taste of the summer learning journey. This was a task we tried.  The original art was by Mohammed Melini and the art is called 'Composition'. I chose the first green colours to join together and the yellow to kind off join. I choose to make the outside lines dark blue to hold together the lighter colours in the centre. 

                  

                                                          Composition coloured by Sophia

                                                        Composition by Mohammed Melehi

Jet Boating Collage

 What did you do in the holidays?  I went jet boating in Taupo at the Huka Falls. It was fast and adrenaline rushing. We spun and nearly hit objects many times. The Huka Falls had so much water flowing out of it but we were told that it didnt have much flowing out. I created a collage to demonstrate my experience. I removed background on a few images and included a trout jumping. The water fall in this picture is the Huka Falls. Beautiful isn't it? 

Bill Billy Bob

This is my crazy animal collage. We were given the fun task of creating a fun animal or creature from other parts of animals. As you can see mine consists of many different animals. This lead on to creative writing about your creature. Digital skills we had to use were, remove background, cropping into shapes and screen castifiy to record my voice. I even gave mine a name. Bill Billy Bob. I enjoyed finding fun images and texture and making them into shapes. My clouds are red velvet and my dino spikes are made from a green scale texture. I really enjoyed doing this task because it was different and you could have free rein over what you created.

Build A Brand We Video

Today we were learning how to create a jingle that builds a brand. We used We Video, which is an awesome tool to showcase your learning. I have used we video before and I didint know you could animate and do so much things to enhance your videos. My video is of a remove the background selfie of me, with texts coming in at different times. My texts say how to draw a horse and Sophias Super Stuff. My jingle includes music and a narrate of Me and Rylee. I enjoyed creating a jingle because you had a fair amount of free rein over what you made it about. I would love to create another jingle.  

DIY Masks

For the last two sesions of sewing tech, we have been creating masks. One of our kind teachers gave us some awesome material, with detail pictures of deer, goats, stags, trout and more. I choose a material with goats on rocks. It was a reasonably simple process. The hardest thing was making the pleating. Pleating is the folds on the front. We had to pin them, then iron and sew. The best skill that I've learnt was probably pleating, but I've learnt lots of other tips and tricks. This term in sewing has been a blast. I even learnt to make pants. They are quite big on me but at least they will fit me for a long time. Since I am a year eight, this is my very final tec session with sewing. Thanks Anne for teaching me sewing skills that will last a life time. Here is my mask. 

If I Were A Volcano

For poem of the week last week we had a poem called 'If I Were A Storm' By Katie Bloom. It was a poem about if she was a storm and what she would do. The piece had parts of personification and very descriptive parts. We decided to put our own twist on this writing. We have been studying volcanoes and how our earth works. So we created our own decriptive pice of writing called 'If I Were A Volcano'. Here is my piece of writing...

If I Were A Volcano

If I were a volcano,
I would tower above rolling hills, forests, valleys, seas and cities.
I would sit in silence, waiting and watching, for the perfect time to strike.
Suddenly. When it's least expected I would groan and bubble, puff and smog.
My body would tremble with rage and fury.
Smoke would escape out my ears with pace.
I would suddenly toss and hurl my hot rocks, kilometres through the bleak air.
Burying deep into pulpy earth.
I would be fuming with exhaust and flaming lava would hunt you down.
Slowly I'd soon settle, but rocks would pounce if you get too close. 
I would be miserable as my blistering, orange, lava dress  slowly diminishes.
I would stand proud and staunch as the world admires my harmful actions.
When suddenly a drowsy, somnolent feeling hits me.
For once in my life, a calm tempered ease fills my body. 
My eyes fall shut.

By Sophia

Music Creation

During Cybersmart we have been working on music creations. We have been using an app called sound trap. You can use this app for a thirty day trial for free and make and create or use others music. Famous music artists use this free app and it is reasonably easy to navigate when you get the hang of it. We were trying to make mood in music. I chose a photo of a lion and tried to create music that goes with the photo. I think I could have done better but I tried. Here is my creation.