End of year reflection 2011

	Name:Robert Date:30.11.2011
Look back What did you do? What could you improve?	I could improve the speed I work. This year I made a movie on earthquake safety for preschoolers and a paper mashé dragon named Drago.
Questions What questions have you answered? What questions do you still have?	Can I make a huge paper dragon? ( I was correct ) Could I finish it in time ( yes I could )
Pull it apart What factors contributed to your learning? What challenged you?	I spent every Wednesday apart from morning tea and lunch time working on my dragon. The technology challenges challenged me a lot.
Make connections What did you learn to do better? What sort of thinking helped you?	I learned to cooperate with others better The technology challenge helped me learn to cooperate better with others.
Make judgements My progress was...	I made progress in art with my awesome dragon Drago and in movie making with my earthquake safety video.

Crackle crackle

This morning I have crackle painted Drago. Soon I will be touching up the copper. When you apply the crackle paint you put two colors on. First you put the gold on then you put the black on while the gold is still wet then it
cracks.

Drago

Hello this is my papier mache dragon I just named Drago.

So far I have primer painted him and put metallic copper acrylic

on him. There are only 3 days to finish him before he goes in the bank art gallery Invercargill New Zealand. The exhibition starts on the 5.12.2011.

Art Talent development

This is my paper mache dragon so far. So far I have made the skeleton out of paper tape newspaper and wire and the top of paper mache.

This is going to be displayed in an art exhibition at the Bank art gallery over Christmas

Art talent development

Hi Robert
You have done a great job of your dragon so far and I have been really impressed with the way you problem solved and persevered when you were making the wings. He will look great when he is finished so keep up the hard work!
Darryn

final What to do in an earthquake for preschoolers

This is our final movie of What to do in an earthquake for preschoolers.

My papier mache skeleton

Today I made a papier mache skeleton for talent development 2011 which is art.

It is a dragon.

So far I have made the legs and the tail of the dragon. To give it shape I made it out of newspaper and rolled it tight then covered it in paper tape.

First I am making a skeleton made of paper then I will coat it with two layers of paper mache.

Teacher comment

Robert your passion project got off to a rocky start but you overcame this and worked hard to finish it really well and I was really impressed with the way you coped with the variety of set backs that you faced and how you over came these to produce your earthquake safety movie. Not only was I impressed with your resilience, determination and problem solving but also I was also very pleased to see you blogging far more regularly. Great effort Robert. Well done.
Darryn

what I did on Wednesday August the 3rd 2011

Today I have started my talent development which is art. For art we went to the museum and sketched tuataras then we went to an art gallery and looked at some paintings. We only have 37 hours to complete our talent development.

Passion project term 3 2011

My passion project is to make a movie to educate preschoolers about what to do in a earthquake.

our expert is Cue T.V.

Before we went to Cue T.V we made a practice movie ( The movie is at the bottom of the post ).

The final movie will be posted in a later post.

P4C

Today I did P4C. P4C stands for Philosophy for children. This P4C workshop was about can small things that make a difference. We watched a video about a guy who is careless and him again being careful. Our main question was "can small things make a big difference?"

Please post a comment about what you think and why you think it. Remember this; there is no right or wrong answer.

P4C

P4c stands for philosophy for children philosophy means: " the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence."

We have looked at questions like would you take power or pleasure? and would you choose friendship or wealth?

Today we talked about whether you can lie to yourself? These are hard questions that have no clear right or wrong answer. We do this as mental edge to help us sharpen up our thinking skills and to listen to others ideas and to justify our own answers.

People to people interactions mind map

Here is my photograph of people to people interactions at home in a mind map. At Karate, gym, swimming, school and enrich are the places I go regularly and find lots of interactions. I realised how many different interactions there are from people to people.

Tessellation

Hello here is my tessellation I did in one of the workshops today. A tessellation is an image repeated again, again and again with no space in between each image or any overlapping.

We started by looking at other tessellations by people like M.C Escher. We talked about how the picture needs to be repeated. I started drawing some lines and came up with this design for my tessellation, it is rockets.

Multiple Intelligences

Hello and welcome to my blog for 2011.

Here are my results to my multiple intelligences quiz.

From the results it shows I am number smart, this means that you're good at using numbers and I am self smart. This means you know a lot about your self. We will explore these more so that we understand more about what they mean and how to develop our smarts overall.