Thursday 19 September 2013

Music

For music we have been doing electronic music.  For a lot of us this is something new, but we have all had a lot of fun.  Some of us worked individually and some of us worked in pairs.
We started with Soundation and created our music, we then recorded it onto Audacity.  We found images that we thought went with our music and attached these and our music onto moviemaker.  Tell us what you think.
By Tayla
By Otis

Calendar Art

We have just finished our calendar art.  These will be sent away to be made into calendars for our families to buy for 2014.
We painted the background first with blue and white.  We cut out a branch and leaves from cardboard and glued them onto the background. We painted the gheko like the colour wheel, then cut it out and attached the gheko to the picture.  Lastly we added wobbly eyes.
Some left the gheko plain so some of it will blend into the picture and some drew a black line around the outline to make it stand out a bit more.
Tell us what you think.


Art with Jenny Chisholm

Jenny Chisholm, a local Wanaka artist came into our classroom and gave us an art lesson, it was a lot of fun

Our Toys

For Technology we have designed toys which include at least one simple machine.  We had a lot of fun designing and making these.  Here are a few photos of us constructing our toys.










































Here are some of them once they are finished.  Let us know what you think.
Lachlan's Tractor
Simple Machine: Wheel and Axle
Issy's Game


Roman's Army Tank
Simple Machine: Wheel and Axle

Lily's Giraffe
Simple Machine: Wheel and Axle

Mia's Ferris Wheel
Simple Machine: Wheel and Axle

Ben's Marble Run
Simple Machine: Inclined Plane

National Transport and Toy Museum, Wanaka

After our learning on simple machines was finished we organised a trip to the National Transport and Toy Museum which is located just out of Wanaka, beside the airport.
Everything in this museum has been collected by one man and is the largest private collection in the world.  It has taken 50 years to collect everything and holds 3 hangers of things from the past, including rare and unusual aircraft, cars, trucks, motocycles, fire engines, military vehicles and tractors.
One hanger is dedicated to toys which include clockwork and battery toys, porcelain dolls, teddies, pedal cars, money boxes, lego and hundreds of barbie dolls.