Level 1

We are now in level one and I am super happy and excited. All the way back on March 26th was when we went into lock down. We stayed in lock down till April 27th, then the next day we went in to level 3. We stayed in level 3 till may 13th, then on the 14th of may was when we went in to level 2. On the 8th of June was the last day of level 2 and a couple days ago it was the first day of level 1. For 18 days we have had zero cases of covid-19 and when level 1 was announced we were also told that there is zero active cases in the whole of New Zealand which is amazing.

In level 1 we can do a lot of different things. We don't have to stick to our bubbles, we can travel domestically and we don't have to social distance anymore unless you want to. We are now allowed to hug our friends and see family.  But even though we don't have to social distance any more we still sanitise and wash our hands to keep clean. 

Powerful Paragraphs

Recently we have started doing powerful paragraphs. Powerful paragraphs is where we are given an image and then we have to right a detailed paragraph about that picture. We don't just have to describe what we see, we can also write what we think is going to happen next or we can write as if we were there or if there was an animal in the picture we can write as if we were the animal. When we are writing our paragraphs we try to add in some similes and metaphors to make it more interesting. We have been doing this to help us improve our writing and learn about similes, metaphors and other things like that. We normally do them in the mornings as a starter activity and they are also really fun to do. We normally get around 10 to 15 minutes to write our paragraphs and then in the middle of that time we will stop writing even if we haven't finished and some of us will share what we have written so far. We have done about 3 powerful paragraphs so far but here is a photo of one of the pictures I have written about and also the writing I did for it. For this one I wrote what was happening and what I could see.

I can see the beautiful sunrise the sky's lighting up and all of the trees growing above. " What a great way to start my day ". There is bright green grass, chocolate brown trees and marshmallow looking clouds in the sky. I see the bright yellow sun blinding my eyes as it slowly rises.

Emotional wheels

One of our tasks last week was to make an emotion wheel. The emotion wheel has lines that make 6 even triangles. In each different triangle there is a different emotion. We have to colour and do patterns to that represent that emotion and we are not allowed to use words or people we can only use patterns and colours. The emotions that we used were happy, sad, angry, proud, excited and scared. You have to picture what patterns and colours you think goes best with the emotion.

Here are the colours that I thought went with each emotion. For sad I did blue, angry I did red and orange, Proud I did light and bright colours, for happy I did rainbow colours, For scared I did mostly grey and for excited I did blue and yellow.

I first started with a draft and then published the things I liked from it as well as adding some new ideas. I drew out my ideas lightly with a pencil and once I was done I coloured it in. Once everyone was finished we put them up on the wall. Here is a photo of mine.

Fitness Circuit

This week we had to come up with our own fitness circuit to do. You can have star jumps in it, high knee's, running you can put whatever you'd like. Everyday when we are doing our fitness circuit we try to beat our time from yesterday or complete more rounds.

My fitness circuit is 20 star jumps, 10 burpees , 20 second plank, high knees and jogging on the spot. I also run up and down my driveway. I try and go at least 3 times through and up and down my driveway 3 times as well.

When I am done with my exercise I sometimes take a walk and run around the house with my dogs which is super fun. I like to do my exercise in the afternoon because by then I am not as tired as I am earlier in the day and it has been super cold in the mornings recently.

Concrete Mural Art

This week we made concrete murals. A mural is a big creation of your own on a large surface. It could be little drawings put together to be a big drawing or it could be just one big drawing you can make it how ever you'd like. Since we are making concrete murals we used chalk or chalk paint to colour over the concrete. I started my concrete mural yesterday and finished it today. Here's how I made mine.

I first found a concrete place where I would like to have my mural. Then I got out my chalk and thought about what I might draw. I first started by grabbing a dark pink chalk and drawing and outline of A flower. Then I filled in the outline with a light pink. Once I had done that I grabbed the green chalks and started drawing a stem for the flower. Then I added a leave to the stem and I was done with the flower. I only have small chalks and the flower was big so it used up 2 light pink chalks to colour it in. Once I had finished the flower about 30 minutes had already passed by. Then I moved on to the words I wanted to write and then I added some more pictures. Once I added some pictures I did some colourful dots all around the mural and that was it for that day.

Today I decided to add some more pictures to it. I first started with drawing a donut, then a rainbow with clouds and lastly some lollipops. Once I had done the lollipops I did some colourful swirls around them, then added some colourful dots around the new pictures. Once I finished doing the dots and swirls I did a swirly boarder all around the mural. Once I finished the boarder I was done. Here's how my concrete mural turned out.

Poppy Art

On Saturday this weekend is Anzac day, so some of our work is about it. One of the tasks that we have to do was make some poppies out of the things we have at home. I made mine today and here's how I made them.  

The things I used for the poppies were red card for the petals, green card for the stem and I used black card to go in the centre of the poppies. Since I didn't have any red card I painted some white card yesterday with red paint on both sides. I let the paint dry over night so it would be dry and ready for me to use today. I first used a pencil to draw an outline of a poppy on the red card so I would know where to cut. Once I had cut the outline of the poppies out I moved on to the green card. I first counted how much poppies there were so I would know how much strips of green card to cut out. Once I had cut the strips of green card I moved on to the black card. For the black card I needed to cut it in to little circles so I folded the card in half and cut the card out like I was cutting half of a circle but when I unfolded it, it was a circle.

When I had all the bits I needed I glued them in place. First I grabbed a red piece and used a glue stick to glue the black circles in the middle on both sides of the red piece. Then I grabbed a green strip and glued it on to the bottom of a red piece and i did the same to all of them. Here's how they turned out. 

Home Schooling

Back in March, we found out that we were going into lock down meaning that we would have to be home schooled for a week. I have never ever been home schooled in my life but because of the coronavirus we have to stay home. The first day I was home schooled was on a Tuesday It was sad that I couldn't work together with my friends but we did face time lots. Everyday for home schooling I got up and started working. After the week of home schooling it was the holiday's but we didn't do much because we had to stay home. The holidays have now finished and we are back to home schooling. Today is my second day of home schooling this term. I got to see all my classmates on a call which was really cool.