Arts Survey.

Arts Survey

Describe your ability as an artist. What do you like about Art?

I like the imagination and creativity because it’s fun drawing/ sketching. I think I am alright at drawing. What I also like about art is that you can draw things of your mind.

Describe your ability as an actor/ presenter. What do you like about acting/ presenting?

I think i'm alright but not the best. Acting is alright depending on what you're acting for.

Describe your ability as a dancer. What do you like about dance?

I don't like dancing because I find it embarrassing. I don’t like to dance because I can’t dance and because it’s very hard too.

Describe your ability as a singer/ musician. What doe you like about music/ singing

I don't like singing at all because one I think I sound flat and two it is very hard. But I like listening to music different types of music.

My Acid Rain Comic.

My persuasive text.

Should Mp3 music be free?

I think that Mp3 music should be free because who would want to buy music for $10 - $20. Music artists already make money from there concerts so why don't they make mp3 music free. By the way some people can't afford to buy music for some of the prices. So why should Mp3 music be free? I reckon that more people will listen to music if they made it free to.

Even though it would be nice for music to be free it wouldn't be fair for the music artists who created the music and if it was free how would the music artists put food on their table to eat.

Plus millions of dollars go into making music albums so they would need more money to make music and food.

About 15 years ago a app come out called Limewire. It only runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other operating systems like java software platform. It allows you to go onto other people's music devices from your own device and download there music. The cons of the app is that it gives your device loads of viruses and it could ruin computer/device forever. The app was banned in 2010 and started in 2000.

Shakeout Inquiry.

My mihi

WALT: Present our mihi and pepeha confidently

A time with whanau

Peeeew!!! peeew!!! peeew!! the fireworks flew high into the pitch black night sky. The fireworks sounded like missiles were being shot all over the sky. It lit up the sky with blue, red, yellow and other colors. It looked as if paint was being splashed. Roger stood there amazed at the sight with his uncle, nan, mum and little brother.

“Let’s light some on the road” said his uncle Tyrone

Roger grabbed the lighter and some little guy fawkes. He set off the little circlular ones and put them on the road. He seen them starting to spin like balls of fire. They dashed all over the road.

“Wow!!! those ones are cool” said Zack as he sat down on the grass in amazement.

I saw our neighbours lighting their ones up too. Boof!! Boof!!! Boof!!! they sounded like gunshots.

“Let’s get the sparklers” said Mum.

She lit ours up and gave us one each. Roger was trying to pretend that he had a wand. He was acting like I was doing spells on Zack. Later on We grabbed the roman candles out of the box of fireworks. Zack held one and my uncle set it off. It glided into the sky and exploded into a fiery explosion. His Uncle Tyrone grabbed another roman candle and set it off. Again it made a huge outburst as it blasted through the sky.

As the night went on we had run low on guy fawkes. That night was a really fun night with my whanau and we got to spend so much fun with them. We had fun seeing guy fawkes all over the sky and ground. That’s a night we will never forget.

Animation advert

                                    Here is a photo of mine and journey's planning worksheet.
On our planning sheet we had five scenes. The start, middle and end. These are the scenes we are going to put in our animation.

Scene 1: The dog named Chopper goes to the bone that the pet owner throws out to him.
Scene 2: The other dog comes over and gets jealous so he bits the other dog.
Scene 3: Chopper bites the grey dog and gets his bone back.
Scene 4: The owner of the dogs come and brings out a packet of tux and shows it to the dogs. The dogs are both happy.

Creating the advert.

WALT: create a 30 second advert.

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Create a 300 photo shot  advert.

I or 2 close-up shots on your character - portrait or close-up on facial shot

Audience must know what you are advertising. Image and slogan must be provided.

Movements of character or characters must be fluid, slower, more body movements shown.

Add Title at the beginning and credits at the end. Don’t forget the music that reflects your mood for your advert.

My Reflection:

The things I think worked well was how the dogs were standing and how they didn't fall over. I also think that the barking in the video went in sync with the dogs. Capturing the scene went good because we didn't get our hands in the video, so our teamwork worked out good.  What I am proud of is that we were able to get the video animation to 30 seconds plus which doesn't include the introduction and credits.  What I think I should do better is make the shots more closer together so its not jumpy and try to get more light above the scene so it's there's no shadows. So all in all we did a good job and we were able to advertise the dog food Tux. 

My first animation

By Haihana & Journey.

Rugby World Cup 2015.

Spelling test.

Steven Adams

A trip to school.

A TRIP TO SCHOOL.

“Wake up Haihana” “Get up, you're going to be late,” Mum said.

“Yes I will ” I responded. I looked up at the clock to see that it was only 6:30. I thought to myself I will just lay down in bed for ten minutes. I felt really drowsy and tired so I dozed off back to sleep.

“It’s 7:00am” Mum said.

I jumped out of bed and felt a chill go through my whole body. I walked into the kitchen. I felt as if I were a zombie. I made my breakfast then got changed into my clothes I would wear to school. I grabbed my bag and chromebook and walked to the sitting room to sit down.

“It’s not time to sit down it’s getting late Haihana” Mum said.

“Hurry up Brock we are leaving soon it’s nearly 7:30,” I snapped at my brother

We put on our bags on and ran to the bus stop in hope of getting there before it left.

“My chromebook I left it home,” I realised. Brock and I were already halfway to the bus stop

We sprinted home and grabbed the chromebook. “Quickly Brock we might be late and miss the bus,” I said.

“If we miss the bus, it’s your fault” Brock said.

We took the alleyway to the bus stop. I saw one of the Okaihau students and he said to me that the Tautoro bus left. I thought it had left but then I saw it hidden behind the building with all of the Tautoro students in it. We ran there and sat down

I thought to myself what a morning, we could have missed the bus.  

Mrs Simeons Europe Tour 2015

Here are some of the places in Europe, that Mrs Simeon will be visiting in the next holidays. WALT: research for information and share with our community facts and photos related to the purpose.

Flag Presentation

15 Te Reo Maori Facts

Te wiki o te reo maori

Writing Sample 2015

Cross Country by Haihana

“Its greens turn” Mrs Simeon shouted. I stood by room two waving the flag. Green team got onto the court and lined up. We were all loud and proud to be in the green team with our faces with green words and symbols on us. We walked around the court saying our chant. I heard the crowd laughing because our chant was hilarious.

After the parade we walked over to the farm where we would race.Massimo and I got into a little conversation.

“Massimo are you racing” I asked

“Nah because I can't race with the stitches in my chin the doctor said ” he replied

As we slowly made it to the farm, Mrs Paraha told us to sit on the tarpaulin and not to stand. I sat down and watched the five year olds getting ready to race. After them went the six year olds and so forth. After sitting on the tarpaulin for what it felt like hours, I got up and did some stretching because the year 8’s were next.

“Are you all ready?” said Whaea Rosina.

“YES!!!” we all shouted.

“On your marks, get set, GO!!!” Whaea Rosina shouted,

I took off a little bit slow. I saw Esmonde right up the front sprinting like a bullet. I speed up because I heard everyone cheering for us. I passed Tipi and Jade. I felt my heart pumping as fast as a train. I caught up to Harlym and Te Ari Jack around the corner by the fence next to Mr Lindsay and passed them which put me in third place. I already felt my stomach tighten up as I was coming up onto the hill. Esmonde just came down the hill and said “Good on you Haihana”

I responded back saying “you too”

I saw Journey right in front of me. We both sprinted down the hill around all the corners and finished our first lap.

“Run Haihana!!!” Mrs Simeon shouted

She tried to encourage me to come second place or third. I started picking my pace up. Journey was right next to me. We jogged up the hill around the cones and through the paddock. I saw the finish line up ahead. I heard  Massimo and everyone screaming and saying Go Haihana and Journey. I sprinted really fast as I could. But Journey just passed me and made it into second place. I came third. I sat down huffing and puffing and thought to myself  that I did better than I expected.

To sum up I was Happy and proud to have run and come third. I had fun and it was the best cross country.

Mihi 2015

Unit 1-4 Waea Mai Video.

Creating my own game.

Hi everybody

My aim was to learn about computer programming, particularly how to design my own game.  I used Tynker, Code and Sploder to research and gain a better understanding of how it works.  I looked at a few YouTube video's on-line but found I learnt more by just jumping in and exploring.

My game:

So the aim of my game is to pass all of the levels. You only get three lives. The games an RPG shooting game and the other game is an adventure parkour game. The games are still not finished but I hope you will enjoy it here is the link to play it 

 1st game:  http://www.sploder.com/?s=d004l3pw 

2nd game:  http://www.sploder.com/publish.php?

PHPSESSID=bc3af922e92e49f0fed67960122356c1&s=d004lb3t#kickdown

What I need to improve on:

I need to make more levels and maybe make a scoreboard, so people can see who has the top score or to improve on their performance.