Favourite Art

My favourite piece of art work that I have contributed to is...

I like it because we did lots of blending and it looks really pretty and fits with our theme of Skyline!











My favourite piece of art from another classroom is room 12's astronaut! It looks really cool and I can tell it took them a long time. Its awesome how they hung it from the roof.

One more piece of art that I love is Mercedes and Abby's birds and tree thing! The background is really pretty and the tree and birds are really detailed.

POEMS....

I think the best poem that I have written this term is...

"there once was a small little duck,
who had the best of luck,
till one strange day
he lost his way,
and landed in a pile of muck.

I'm not that good at writing poems but I think this is the best one I have written this term, its a limerick. I like this poem because it rhymes and flows really well!

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh is the artist I have hosen to do this blog post about! Van Gogh was born on the 30th March 1853 and died 29th of July 1890 at just the age of 37. The type of art he is known for is drawing and painting. He has many famous paintings such as Starry Night, Sunflowers, Bedroom in Arles and  Sorrow. I remember when I was in room 8 a few years ago our artist that we based our classroom around was Vincent Van Gogh, one piece of art work we had to do was our own version of Starry night. I like starry night because its kind of abstract but you can still tell what it is and Vincent Van Gogh has taken something ordinary like a night sky and turned it into a famous piece of art.

Sports Fest (after)

For sportsfest I played netball. It was really fun but we lost all of our games apart from the last one. We lost our games by about 15 points but the game that we did win we won by 22 goals!!!! We played really well that game and I even played a bit of GD which was really fun. I normally play GA, GS, C or WA. I think the courts we played at was a great location and the weather was amazing (although sometimes we got too hot). I wish I was doing it again next year but unfortunately I'm not going to be at St Bens anymore. The whole thing was organized very well.

Regional Sportsfest

On Wednesday the year 7/8's are going to a sports fest. I'm participating in netball with some of my friends. I think I can encourage my team to make it a fun day and even if we lose a few games we just have to keep our heads up and I think by doing this we will make the most of our day off school. I'm really exited because it's just a day filled with netball which is one of my favourite sports and I'm spending it with my friends (and cousin). I'm sure it will be a fun day for everyone and I hope it doesn't rain and get cancelled.
What sport are you participating in?

Don't change the flag

I personally think changing the New Zealand flag is a very bad idea, even though it looks pretty much exactly like Australia, and why are we putting so much effort into changing our flag can't Australia just change theirs. The main reason I think it is a bad idea to change the flag is because its completely fine just the way it is, it has the blue background for the royal navy, the stars to show our county's location in the south hemisphere and the Union Jacks recognizes New Zealand's historical origins as a British colony and dominion. Anyway if I had to choose my top four if we were going to change the flag it would be.....



But really I think if they changed the New Zealand flag then I will move back to America (not really, just trying to prove a point)
Anyway if you could choose whether to change the flag or not, what would it be?




ART!

The sort of art I enjoy doing is sketching because it only uses a pencil which is easy to use. I am pretty good at sketching and its fun. I am best at looking at photos from the computer then sketching them onto a piece of paper. I would like to improve painting because I am not good with a brush and I normally mix colours and cant paint very straight. One thing that I don't like is collage because it takes sooooo long! But it does end up looking pretty cool, here is my amazing art work