Maths talent development and debating

Today we were learning how to increase and decrease 2D objects using ratios and grid paper. We increased a picture of a house. I made my house five times larger than the normal house. I also did an extra workshop for debating. My team had to debate on why families should only have one car. Some of our examples were.
Because it costs too much.
Because it is polluting the air.
So families can travel together.
My team won in the debate.

Cartooning

Today was week one and I did a pick workshop called cartooning. For cartooning we watched a video clip of someone using a photo and drawing a cartoon picture of that photo. We were taught to draw the eyes and mouth on the bottom half of the face. Then we got to copy off a cartoon picture of an All Blacks rugby player. I drew Dan Carter into a cartoon, it was hard because the teeth were hard to draw.

Two Stars and a Wish - Term 3 Reflection.

My two stars are what I liked about term 3 and my wish is what I want to happen in term 4.

My two stars are:
*  Writing talent development.
*  Mind mapping workshop.

My wish is to have more maths workshops

Halloween cartooning

Today I did a pick called cartooning. I had to draw or follow instructions to make a cartoon picture. I drew a U.F.O, a ninja animal, a dragon, a cartoon ship and a whale. I made a picture on comic life with most of my drawings (above). My favourite drawing is the dragon. I titled it scary animal freaks and halloween cartooning because it is green and black and looks a little scary. The U.F.O (top) is beaming up a radio so he doesn't get bored.

Hi Jake.
You had a busy day of writing today!  It was great to see you focussed and on task for the whole session!  You and T-J worked co-operatively to get the illustrations organised for the production of your story.  It will be great to see your finished product using Garageband.  Keep up the great effort Jake, and I am confident you will get your entry completed by next week.
Katie.

Making pictures on Active Inspire

Today we did our usual talent development but Alana and Darryn weren't here so Ruth and Jenny were here. I made pictures on Active Inspire and found some images on Google images. I sent T-J lots of images and pictures I made for our movie we are going to put on the MADE Awards. T-J made an alien called Gobstopper and used a gumball for his head and we used lines to draw his body. We got our pictures from cruzine.com and macmcrae.com. These pictures are bubblebobble and flying monster from macmcrae.com. T-J didn't like bubblebobble.

Dinoscopes

We have been using dinoscopes for the past few weeks. Dinoscopes are like a digital camera, but they can take really close up photos.  We used the dinoscopes to make a "What Am I?" poem.  We had to choose an object around the classroom, take photos using the dinoscope and then use these photos with clues to see if the reader could guess what the object was.  When you use the dinoscope it saves the pictures it takes as a screen shot.  Here are some pictures of what I took with the dinoscope. The top picture is a normal photo and the bottom picture is a picture taken with a dinoscope. Dinoscope photos show more details as they can zoom in 200 times closer than what we are able to look at an object with our own eyes.