My Special Place

My special place is my dads truck because it has taken me all around the north island of new zealand and I like riding in it. Another reason why I like the truck is because I like looking out the window at the view as we ride past the mountains and sites like the big L&P bottle in paeroa and the big dog shed in Tirau. Thats just another reason why the truck is my special place but one more reason is that whenever i'm hungry I can just ask my dad to pull over and get something to eat and whenever I ask my attempt is usually successful.

The artist that I have decided to paint my artwork in is Henri matisse. The reason I choose to do my painting in the style of matisse is because I like the style of fauvism. Fauvism uses bright bold colours and I liked that idea so I chose it. The colours red, blue and green usually come into Henri matisse artwork and when I saw his paintings I wanted to copy or try to copy in that style. Originally I was going to paint my work in the style of Claude Monet but once I actually started painting, my use of mostly bright colours made me change to Henri Matisse.                                        

The Tesseract

The year was 5012. In a town called Vissurge lived a man who hid with a sniper rifle, killing anyone who came into sight. No one knew where or why this man hid. Afraid of being killed, all the citizens ran and got out of Vissurge. His aim like every other villain. To get within reach and eventually take hold of the most powerful weapon imaginable. The Tesseract.

The army was called in to hunt down this man but no one could find him. Then suddenly the ground started shaking and every building in the city fell to the ground. The mysterious sniper man was killed. A new enemy to the public armed with only a powerful Sledge hammer came to his world from outer space in search of the Tesseract. The only thing keeping his world from being destroyed. His leader demanded that the Tesseract had to be returned at once, but after a couple of months it didn't show. That’s why he sent down his strongest and mightiest warrior “Thor”. He searched high and low, day after day, with no luck. Then suddenly a strike of hope. A blue laser shot up into the sky. Thor knew straight away who the person was who had stuffed it up. “The only reason the weapon did that was because someone had used it wrong” Thor mumbled with a determined look on his face.

While jumping, leaping and sprinting towards the blue checkpoint, he was stopped 10 metres short by his own blood brother from the same world and army. Spongebob. “What are you doing!” Thor angrily shouted. “Stopping you from taking what's mine!” Spongebob said with an evil grin. Spongebob struck Thor with the Tesseract instantly killing him. Spongebob thought it was all over, so he ran. He ran continuously day and night till the point that he started flying.

The leader that no one knew his name flew down right in front of Spongebob and the Tesseract. Spongebob shot at him but he summoned a force field saying him from being struck. He jumped up and hooked Spongebob in the face knocking him down, the leader picked up the Tesseract while he could and killed Spongebob, although he thought. The Tesseract along with the leader returned to their world saving it from self destruction.

“I shall return” Spongebob said.

Compare and Contrast

Our task this week is to compare two very famous paintings by Van Gogh and Henri Matisse. We are comparing Van Gogh's ‘Sunflowers’ and Henri Matisse's ‘La Musique’. Henri Matisse's style of art is Fauvism and Van Gogh's is Expressionism. These two talented artists like others used bright colors to express good feelings and darker colors to express being angry or down.

The Sunflower painting by Vincent Van Gogh uses dull colors, making me feel sad and by painting this piece of artwork at the time he would have been a bit down. Throughout his life Van Gogh was sad painting different portraits of himself and other things, although these painting are amazing now back when he was alive he only sold one of his famous paintings. In one part of his depressed life Van Gogh cut off his ear and sent it to his girlfriend for some unknown reason. Van Gogh had a unique way of painting using lots of small strokes to make the painting look as if you could touch it and would be able to feel the bumps in the picture. The main colors are brown and yellow.

Henri Matisse’s painting ‘La Musique’ gave the feeling of joy because of the bright colors he used. The use of colors and curvy lines in this picture stood out because the way he used them. The style fauvism in french means wild beast. This style uses basic drawing with strong colors to make them stand out. The main obvious color or colors in Henri Matisse’s painting are blue, yellow, green and red.

The ‘Sunflower’ and ‘La Musique’ both have a couple of things in common like the colors, both using yellow and both are paintings. The difference between the two famous paintings are the style. The Sunflowers one is expressionism using a lot of little brushstrokes giving it an emotional effect giving up the mood. The La Musique uses powerful colors and bold drawings giving the happy feeling.

I think that these two pioneers of the art industry would have inspired many to take up painting and encourage more to as well. Despite the differences between the two artists and their styles, the painting and the similarities amazed me like the colors used and how they both made me feel differently.

Picnic

On Friday the 24 of February Pt England school got ready to go to the Pt England reserve for a wonderful day at our picnic. In the morning the whole school got into their class lines and sat in a row in the hall, awaiting the principle Mr Burts arrival. As the big catastrophe in the hall was going on the teachers were checking to see if every pupil had a hat. The teachers were equipped with school hats and prepared to give them to the people that didn't. Mr Burt got us all to quieten down so that he could speak, he said his words about how he wanted the day to go, and then told us to take off our hats, bow our heads before saying the prayer. After he got that done, Mr Burt said the year seven and eight students could leave first following by the years 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.

Walking from oldest to youngest down to the Pt, the beautiful view of the glittering water surprised me as the other people ran around chasing each other. I looked at the front of me and it seemed like there were thousands of people, and in my mind I thought that it was the whole school until I took a look behind and there were even more, it looked like they were all raging bulls chasing me all the way to the beach. After finally getting there I took off my bag and dropped it on the ground. I noticed that the grass was shiny and was like aye?, so I felt the ground and it was wet, in my mind I was like “oh no” then I picked up my bag and the bottom of it was damp. The whole school eventually joined at the Pt. The teachers told us to get into our class lines again and sit or kneel down on the wet grass. I chose to sit because at that time the grass was dry. We were given our talk by the principle and we were on our way but first we had to go with our class and pick a spot to dump our bags. After doing that we could go and play.

I didn't know what to do so I just sat down, my friend Joshua came past and said “come” so I went with him and he we went onto the beach and started digging a tunnel like thing for the water to come into, so I started helping him. We did our best at digging but hardly no water was coming in and the reason why was because the tide was going out. So instead of wasting my time on nothing I went back up onto the grass to my bag. I got out some chips and ate them, then Joshua and some other boys came and started eating some of their lunch as well. I reached into my bag and grabbed the T-shirt that I had put in there before the picnic and replaced the school shirt with the one in my bag, and went looking for a game to play. As I was walking along the path I saw some of my other friends playing hit and roll, so I asked if I could play. They gave me a positive reply and I was the pitcher. I pitched a little bowl and the batter hit me a easy catch so I caught it and got him out. Hitting a couple of big and minor hits I got bored and went to play some thing else.

There was a lot of games to play but I didn't want to do any of them because I was to exhausted, and before I knew it a teacher walked up to me and said get ready where heading back to school now. In my head I was thinking “oh what we have to go back already”. Every class lined up their class lines and Mr Burt said his words then we were on our way back. The leaving was just like how we got there with people chasing people. I reached my class and the teacher Mrs Lagitupu said we could have free time on our net books for about 10 to 15 minutes. I thought the day was pretty cool and I enjoyed it. I want another picnic this year.

The Treaty Of Waitangi

This was going to be a historic day, on the 6th of February 1840 the Maori and Pakeha were going to come together in peace to sign a treaty. The signing was about the three P's protection,partnership, and participation. The treaty of Waitangi is a agreement between the British crown and the Maori. The treaty introduced a foreign British law into the country. To remember the day the treaty was signed, there is a public holiday in New Zealand called “Waitangi day”.

The Maori chiefs and all the British people participated an agreed on the document. The missionary Henry Williams translated both the Maori and English versions of the treaty, allowing the natives and the overseas people to understand the writing.

Over 500 Maori signed the treaty writing the names of their moko onto the document. From between February and October the European missionaries, traders, and officials took the treaty all over the north island of New Zealand resulting in 50 or so treaty meetings. Some chose not to sign. 9 copies of the treaty were made because they were afraid that they might lose the original. The reason the treaty was needed in the first place was because of the three P’s.

The Treaty Of Waitangi

This was going to be a historic day, on the 6th of February 1840 the Maori and Pakeha were going to come together in peace to sign a treaty. The signing was about the three P's protection,partnership, and participation. The treaty of Waitangi is a agreement between the British crown and the Maori. The treaty introduced a foreign British law into the country. To remember the day the treaty was signed, there is a public holiday in New Zealand called “Waitangi day”.

The Maori chiefs and all the British people participated an agreed on the document. The missionary Henry Williams translated both the Maori and English versions of the treaty, allowing the natives and the overseas people to understand the writing.

Over 500 Maori signed the treaty writing the names their moko onto the document. From between February and October the European missionaries, traders, and officials took the treaty all over the north island of New Zealand resulting in 50 or so treaty meetings. Some chose not to sign. 9 copies of the treaty were made because they were afraid that they might lose the original. The reason the treaty was needed in the first place was because of the three P’s.

Bar Graph

This week Room 21 created and completed graphs on a site called create a graph. This is my bar graph of the most favourite sports within the class. The sports that came out with the same results are Netball and League, and the sport that came out victorious were all the other sports.