Holidays

During the holidays I went to see 2 movies The Martian and The Scorch Trials. I went to see The Scorch Trials with Bernard, Renzo, Anthony, Paolo, Arthur, James and I. We went because it was Bernard's goodbye party because he was going back to Papua New Guinea. The Scorch Trials was an okay movie and I would rate it a 7 out of ten.

The other Movie I saw was The Martian, it was a great movie. I saw it with my Brother and my Mum. I would rate the move a 8.5 out of ten and I would recommend this movie to everyone especially if you like sci fi movies. The movie is about some Astronauts on Mars collecting samples. Then a storm comes and they are forced to leave. As they are getting to the ship one of the astronauts, Mark Watney is hit by debris and the crew think he is dead so they leave without them. The rest of the film is about him trying to get back to earth and surviving on Mars with limited supplies.

                                                                                                                                                

Art!

Over the past few weeks the entire schools has been working hard to produce many pieces of art for the art week. Art week was a big success and all the art looks very good.

The X wing
 

This is the x wing that Rm 12 made, it took many hours to make but in the end it looked great and It was a favourite at the art exhibition. I made some of the wings and did some of the papier mache. To make the X wing we first had to make all the parts out of chicken wire then papier mache it. The papier mache took forever but after that we painted the parts and hot glue some of the parts together. lastly we stuck all the parts together using metal poles to hole the wings in x shape.

The planet landscape 

The planet landscape was made by all 3 intermediate classrooms and was based of the Mars. Was made very quickly only 2 days (I think). We also added small aliens on them that were based of darklings. 

Poems!

For the past few weeks we have been learning about how to write poems. We have wrote a few different types of poems including I hear poems and emotion poems but my favourite would have to be my haiku poems.

The wind

howls in the cold night  

the trees are unprotected

Lonely Earth

Clouds fill the blue sky

Spinning slowly

I like these poems because I think that the Haikus were the poems that I wrote the best and the others that I wrote were a bit rubbish.

Anyway thank your for reading my post and goodbye 

Famous Artist!

For this weeks task we had to write about one of our favourite artists and since I am a massive comic book fan I chose Jack Kirby. Jack Kirby was a American artist that drew for many comic book companies including Marvel, DC, and more. He has drawn many famous heroes including Captain America, X men, the Hulk, the Fantastic four and so on. He also helped create some heroes such as Iron Man, Thor and Captain America.

Sportsfest!

(Before)

This week on Wednesday some of the schools in Wellington will be competing in a sportsfest. There a few sports that your can play including basketball, dodgeball, football, netball, table tennis, and badminton. I chose to play dodgeball and I got put in the dodgeball boys team. I think that if we play fairly and play well then we will all enjoy ourselves and have lots of fun.

(After)

Yesterday we had our dodge ball Sportsfest tournament. The rules were a bit different than the one that we use at school but we quickly adapted and we played very well. Both of our teams came 3rd which was pretty good considering that we had such good competition. There were many teams from schools all over Wellington such as Raroa, Postgate, Kahurangi, Newlands, Holy Cross and more.

If there was anything I would like to be changed about the dodgeball is probably having more courts to play on because we had to wait a long time between games. I would also like to have some more balls on the court.

New Flag!

For the past few months the Government has been deciding what flag we should have to replace our current one. Personally I think the entire thing is a big waste of money and that our current flag is good enough but out of the 40 designs that have been selected I think that some of them are really good and these are my three favourites.




This flag is called the Black Jack and was created by Mike Davidson. I like this design because has the Union Jack but it still incorporates a Maori design.




This flag is called the silver fern and was created by Kyle Lockwood like this design because it still has the southern cross from our current flag and I also includes the fern, a proud symbol of  New Zealand.




This flag is called the Unity Fern and was created by Paul Jackways. I like this flag because it got all the colours from our old flag and it also includes a fern one of the most commonly known New Zealand symbol, the fern




This flag is called the Unity Koru and was created by Paul Densem. I like this flag because it includes the colours from our old flag and it also includes a koru in the middle which is one of New Zealand's native plants


All in all my favourite flag out of the all the 4 that I have written about would have to be the Black Jack because it incorporates a Maori design while still having our old flag's appearance.

Why we should change the flag

• Changing the flag would symbolize our independence from Britain
• The new flag would incorporate strong Maori influence
• Our current flag is often confused by flags of other countries especially Australia's.
• The new flag could symbolize a change for the better for New Zealand

Why we should not change the flag

• It cost taxpayers 27 million dollars even if we decide to keep our old flag
• Our soldiers in fought and died under our current flag
• Our current flag is a New Zealand artefact
• I like the old flag and so do 99.9999999% of people

Anyway thanks for reading and comment down below what is your favourite flag!

Art !!!

What I'm good at

I think that the best things I'm good at in art are drawing and sketching. We have just finished sketching our astronauts and I think that my one is quite good.

What I would like to work on

I think I would like to work on painting and using pastels because I usually make a mess of my art work.

Art ideas

For the art exhibition I think that we should make model sci fi space ships and maybe some people could make models of famous space ships from movies or books e.g. Star Wars/Star Trek.