Fungi Life Cycle

I created this poster to try and show in a creative way, the life cycle of a fungi. The small ball that is in the dirt is a spore. It lands in the dirt and  grows a small thread. The small thread turns into a mass of hyphae called Mycelium. The fruiting body sprouts, the mushroom matures and releases its own spores into the wind to grow more fungi. This is my poster that I created from Google Drawings. To create the hyphae I used the tool curve. Curve is great to draw things and then add colour into them. Here is my poster. 

Life Cycle Of A fungi

I created this G.I.F to try and show in a creative way, the life cycle of a fungi. The small ball that falls into the dirt is the spore. It lands in the dirt and  grows a small thread. The small thread turns into a mass of hyphae. The fruiting body sprouts, the mushroom matures and releases its own spores into the wind to grow more fungi. This is my G.I.F that I created from tall tweets. Here it is.

Printmaking

Today I finished my first real print for my printmaking. I am so exited because this was my first real one. I wanted to do yellow on blue for my first colour. The process of printing it is simple. You roll on the ink. Not too much, only about a blob as big as your fingernail. After that you carefully flip it and place it on your paper. Grab a dry roller and roll it for 10 seconds or so. Try to keep it in the same place. Carefully pick it up with out smugging. Done. Let your print dry and wash the ink off the lino. Here is my first real print.

Decade of Music

Adding to our topic of 'Changing Times' we choose three question about changing times. I choose to study how music changes. These are my three questions. How has music evolved over time? Why has music changed? Then taking a look at singers and music videos throught the years. The questions helped me stay on track and not change topic all of a sudden. My thoughts on how music has changed is that, personally that old music sound better. New music is more modern and older music does have an organic feel. Some mordern songs are nice though. Whats your preference on how music has changed? Here is my work.

Music

Here is another one of my music creations. This is on chrome lab, the monkey app. The video is cool because the monkey plays the drums and the dinger thing. I loved creating this. This sound like a heart beat. Here is mine.

Incedibox

Today in cybersmart we were learning how to create music. This was my favourite app to use. Its called Incredibox. You should check it out, it is very fun adding different sounds to the people. This is my first hit. I am proud of this hit because I will actually use this for something oneday. The hardest part was finding another sound for my last person because i felt that it was missing something. Listen To my Incredibox Mix here

Incredibox Mix

Today in cybersmart we were learning how to create music. This was my favourite app to use. Its called Incredibox. You should check it out, it is very fun adding different sounds to the people. This is my first hit. I am proud of this hit because I will actually use this for something oneday. The hardest part was finding another sound for my last person because i felt that it was missing something. Listen to my incredibox mix here

Printmaking

This term our maths focus is printmaking. We used the stencil process. Printmaking is an artistic way of printing a photo  on to a texture. We created a simple photo that we then sketched and copied four times. We then copied that onto our picec of nuetral coloured lino by placing the sketch onto the lino and pressing hard with the pen. Then we went over it a few times to really get the ink on it. Went in with the lino cutters to cut out parts of the lino that we no longer need. I am still up to this process. I will show the finished product when  finished. Here is my work so far.

Fungi Slow Writing

                                                    Fungi Slow Writing

To add to our journey learning about fungi, we decided to try slow writing about a type of fungi. We each picked a photo of a fungi that some students took around our school. There was a variety and most photos were different. I choose a picture that I thought to be Velvet Foot. Then we created sentences using the instrutions that we were given. The first setence used a question. Mine was Where does this colourful treasure call home? Then we created similies and metaphors. I enjoyed this writing because it allowed us to use imagination.
Here is my writing.

How Yeast Works GIF

Today for cybersmart we created a GIF. To link with our fungi inquiry we made a GIF on how yeast works. We based this off our experiment with a balloon on a bottle using different temperatures of water, to see how yeast reacts. The temperatures we used were 13 degrees, 32 degrees, 39 degrees and 51 degrees. We used slides to create the first part of the GIF's. Like the start of an animation, using 15 slides as the max. Then we used 'tall tweets' to transform the slides into a GIF. I enjoyed making a GIF. My GIF show how to make the yeast mixture then how it reacts. To see an extra realistic GIF visit Hayleys Blog.
Here is my first ever GIF.

Reading Picture Books

We had to make an online picture book for the younger students of our school. I used screen castifiy and read 'I love animals', by 'Flora Mcdonnell'. I choose this book as it appealed to me, because I love animals. I also thought that the book had lots of pictures and not to much writing so it was ideal.  It was fun and hard to not make mistakes, but at the end of the day I decided that if I said the wrong word or got something wrong, to just continue and act like that didn't happen. This is my online book. 

Street Art

This week we had a poem about my street. It was about the diverese houses and describing his street. We did some discussing and thought about it. We decided that some of the words like 'bay'. Were a coastal town in NZ. Then our next task was to draw a picture of this street. We added bright water colours and pencils. We added power lines and clothes lines. Hayley did an amazing piece. She added water colour and it was 3d, like a beautiful villa. Here is my art.  

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                                                                        My Art