Oh no, my bow broke!

On Thursday 6th of August, Room 7 had a great time gathering the materials for our sport sculpture.

First, we had to make a presentation that included these questions:

• What sport are you presenting?
• Why did you choose this sport?
• What are the rules?
• Which New Zealand team is doing this sport?
• And what is one technique for your sport?

It took me a long time to write the rules since some of the sites I searched from, gave different informations about the sport I was researching for (which was archery). My group and I worked together to share the data we collected from different sites. While we were looking for more data for archery, I looked up different techniques for archery. I just found out that there were different types of draws so I wrote down the techniques which I thought would be useful for our presentation.

After I finished my presentation, Salome, our art teacher, let me start on my bow sculpture. I followed the diagram which our group drew.  I needed to change some parts and pieces from the plan like the riser which on the plan was made of straw. I had to change it into a twirly piece of cardboard. I asked Miss Chao to help me glue the stick of cardboard onto the milk bottle (which was used as a grip). There was a problem when the glue connected the piece of cardboard to the milk bottle, it started to bend a bit so I had to rip it off and glue it again using the hot glue gun and  with the help of Salome. This time, I used a popsicle stick but it broke apart because it wasn’t sturdy enough. Unfortunately, it was nearly home time so I had to leave my unfinished project behind, helped  tidy up the classroom before we  said our ‘karakia’.

Getting to work on our sculptures was amazing yet challenging. But I am determined not to give up until I have produced my sculpture. I wish though that  our bow didn’t break apart while we were working on it because this means that we will have to re-do it, yet again.

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the appropriate language features in our recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use past tense verbs to describe our Thursday art lesson.

Do you like how metallic my bird is?

Thursday Art Lesson

On our 10th art learning session, we had another great time improving our art skills and painting our epic sculptures!

We continued adding on some odd but useful items to our sculptures that were used in many different ways like wings or heads. I planned to add some polystyrene foam to my sculpture’s wings so it can be water proof. The original wings were made out of cardboard. It took me a long time to cut the foam since it was thick and very long. I asked Siliga if he can glue the foam to my wings so it wouldn’t break apart since cardboard isn’t water proof.

After that, I began to cut out some tail feathers from polystyrene foam. The tail feathers were thin at the top and wide at the back creating a wide tail feather. The only problem was that the tail was bent on top, making it look like it was falling. When I was nearly done sticking my tail feather, I created some feet (which were also made out of foam) and stuck them on my terrific sculpture!

Next, I was at the painting phase. I painted my sculpture in brown except for the head and body. I painted the tail black and topped it with brown paint when it was dry to create a brownish- blackish colour. When I was finished painting, I grabbed the body of my bird and brought it outside where Salome was spray painting. I politely asked her if she could spray the whole body grey. She started painting quickly when Alessandra and Justice came to test their splendid sculptures if they can stand. I told them to back away since Salome’s spray paint had a wide radius for the paint to spread. I did not want them to inhale the paint fumes. Then, I also asked Salome if she can coat the beak yellow. The spray spreaded and created a metallic style bird with a yellow beak.

I returned to the classroom to finally do the last job of my sculpture and that was to paint the dichroic eyes in black. When time it was almost home time, we all quickly cleaned up our mess so we can happily say bye to Siliga and Salome and thanked them for helping us in our sculptures.

Working on our sculptures and getting to paint them was spectacular! I wish I had more time to paint the bottom parts white. My favorite part of the afternoon was when I got my sculpture spray painted gunmetal grey!

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use descriptive language in our writing.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use verbs and adverbs in my recount about our Thursday art lesson.