Matariki workshops (◕‿◕✿)

In school we are learning all about the Matariki Moari New Year. In celebration to the New Year and the culture, we decided to create workshops, and we were given options. Before we started our workshops we were asked, if we wanted to, to create mural of the school for the workshop. I created one and it was all about our spring and how it feeds into our school river. If our art got chosen it would get hung up in front of the school forever! I was delighted when I realized that mine got chosen! Here is a photo of it when it was painted!

My amazing art painted by another class

My art was painted by a different class, however I chose mural art as my workshop so we painted a different mural. Here are some photo's of me and my peers painting our mural:

Me and my classmate Beau painting the mural

Me and our mural art group all painting the mural together

Something that challenged me was being very careful and staying inside the lines when I needed to paint our trees.
The learning muscle I stretched was my noticing muscle because I noticed when my painting was outside the lines and I needed to fix it up.
Matariki was really enjoyable for me and it was very exciting when my design was painted!

Old tired dog ｡◕‿‿◕｡

In class we are learning how to summaries about books we read. Our reading group teacher asked us to create a summary of a very emotional book named old tired dog. Our success criteria was:
1. make the viewer feel as emotional as we did
2. make it believable
3. enjoy it!
I really think my group achieved all our success criteria!
Something that challenged me was trying really hard not to smile because I had to act like I was sad
The learning muscles I used in this video were:
1. My persevering muscle because I had connecting with the book and I realized how the characters were feeling
2. My connecting muscle because I made a strong connection with the book
3. My collaborating muscle because I collaborated with my peers

Here is my video!:

Acting wrting

In Totara Whanau we are learning to do procedural writing. My success criteria was:
1. Hook the reader in with a great introduction
2. Start all steps with a verb (You can't use the same verb more then twice)
3. Over-exaggerate the steps
4. Make sure the steps are in the right order
Something that challenged me was starting all of my sentences with a verb because my brain had to really think about it.
I am very proud of my piece because I feel I worked really hard to make it awesome!
Here is my piece:

How to Act on stage!

Acting! Isn’t that a funny word? Acting is my passion, my dream, my… Life. Although acting may seem heart thumping, it’s actually an exquisite art and the feeling of being on stage and doing it, is just amazing! Do you have trouble with acting or are too scared to do it? Look no further for I have the instructions!

What you need:

• Time (This may take a while)
• Yourself
• A can do! attitude

Steps:

• Face your fears! Gradually take long deep breaths, visualize the crowd cheering your name, just imagine life slowing down.
• Concentrate on your character, you have to make your character believable, if you believe you are that person the audience will believe you are the character.
• Adapt to changes, you may have to pretend that there is a character interacting with you when there really isn’t (Eg: Tinkerbell from Peter Pan).
• Exercise the muscles in your face! Do all expressions possible (Happy, sad, angry, crazy, distureb, scared etc)  we do this so our muscles are prepared for what we are about to do
• Increase the volume of your voice! Be loud and proud!

Enjoy the rush of excitement you get as you explain your story!