Photo challenge!

a very quick challenge we had to to.. a list of 10 things we had to do in a group 

..>>Creating a creature<<..

..||Creative task||..

this week we are learning around the topic of creative writing, and focusing on describing and painting a picture for the reader through words. one of the tasks to help us warm up for doing our final creative writing task. for this task we had to make up are own mythical creature, we had a look at some legends of creatures and then we had to go on google draw and draw and explain our mythical creature.

this is my creature, its not really mythical creature more of a made up species of mammal that is very similar to dog, I drew this on google draw with poly line and drew a little diagram showing parts and more about this creature. I drew a little forest showing what their habitat might look like, I drew the 3 types of my creature, the middle one (which is the main one.) is the woodlin type, then the top right corner one which is the dark forest one, and the bottom left one which is the sundial one.  I just made up the name of this creature: lilona (lil-o-nah) this creature lives in cool dry forest areas and can survive in harsh weather, their diet includes rats, bunnies, and maybe birds.. but the dark forest type lives in places where the birds don't fly and rats are deep in the soil.. but the habitat it lives in is flourishing with moss, and other plants leading it to live a herbivorous diet. 
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these animals have big feathery ears and tails.. they have feathers surrounded the ear to catch any unwanted dirt and snow.. because their ears are sensitive from being their most superior sense. they have long and hard snouts to dig up dirt to find underground rodents.
the woodline type of lilona has a grey-ashy brown fur, with white ears and a dark charcoal  tail. they can live amongst dead trees and stick but mostly in a cool dry forest.
the dark forest lilona type has dark cocoa brown fur and lives in deep forests with muddy soil.
the sundial lilona is a pale yellow colour that lives in more open meadow like places. 
the lilona is a calm yet couscous creature and isn't aggressive, but more playful like when comfortably. they are very focused on the tasks they set for them self, and they don't go of task. in their free time they like to run around the forest in their small families, they don't group in big packs but more just stay in contact with their parents and siblings.

this was really fun to make I quiet enjoy making creatures and making up backstories for them!

..+*Matariki*+..

..||<>Matariki Animation<>||..

since Matariki was coming we  had a look at what matariki was, there are many legends on how matariki came to be.    Matariki is the Maori new year and it begins in late may or early June, so that is why we have been learning about it and how we used to celebrate it. one of the task was make an animation about one of the legends.. I chose to to the story of the seven sisters..

I used flipaclip on my ipad  to make a start of it, then I finished the rest with slides.

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this is my animation,

I really liked doing this and it took quiet a while to finish mainly because I had drawn all of the characters.. but to be honest  drawing the characters may of taken the most time  but they where actually quiet easy after drawing the first one. I had used slides to draw the characters and I used polyline because that drawing tool is probably the most easiest for me, I first drew Wainui, the mother of the sisters.. she was the first one and I had used a lot of polyline made shapes.. I had started with drawing the face shape.. when I was happy with the face shape I had drawing the eyes and the nose.. to define where facial parts go.. then I picked I colour that I wanted to be the skin and colour the little shapes to appear where lumps and bumbs of the face. then I did the hair and found a neon colour of the skin and outlined it. I think that drawing these characters was really fun and probably my favourite. part. Its like drawing complex thing but you draw them simpler.  they kind of look really abstract.. and they don't have much expression in there faces. 

I really liked this activity and thought it was really fun! 

..+*Lighthouse description*+..

-Creative writing-

today we have started going into a different writing//literacy task, creative writing. We have just started with this task so to get us warmed up for the real task we would watch a video, the video was about a lighthouse, and after that we had to describe the video on a google doc to give the audience the same feeling and understanding that we got from this video, 

we filled in the question that formed up the video and we tried using descriptive words to sink a deeper level when the audience reads it so instead of saying "the person felt angry'' we would not only use a word to make the reader understand that the person was angry but to actually feel the anger so they wouldn't just relate to the character they would feel and be in the environment of the character so that's what we were learning ,

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here is my activity,

this was really cool! it's fun using heaps of descriptive words to sink our senses, and its fun to describe how you felt during when you where watching the video. I really liked this activity and I think it was really fun to do, thank you for reading and feel free to share how you interpenetrated this piece of writing.