My Interview with Reid

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today we had a task called Curly Questions. In this task we had to make up 10 questions and then interview a buddy to unlock new information about them that we might not have know about them. Then we had to film ourselves on photo booth asking each other our questions and us gathering each of our answers.

Here are two of my favorite questions that I asked Reid.

Q. Can you describe a time when you were happy and scared at the same time?

A When I whacked myself in the nee    ewith a cricket bat.

Q.What do you value the most and why?

A. My dog Beau.

The discovery of trees.

The discovery of Trees.

Hello. Today I learnt about trees - identifying different tree types and different tree leaves. This is a before school pick that Katie sent us..... if you would like to check it out, here is the link to the website.    http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Education/ConservationCentral/walk/default.cfm  

If all of the trees in the forest get chopped down, there will be no more homes for all of the animals that live in the swampy lake area. If the trees are cut down, the rain makes the ground slowly disappear and slowly sink or fall into the water. But if we leave the trees where they are, then when it rains the ground will stay where it is and then they will provide more homes for frogs and birds to live in the swampy lakes and trees.

This is some information on what will happen if we continue to chop down all of the trees.

This is some infomation on what will happen if we keep all of the trees in the forest and the swampy/marshy areas.

Today I was so nervous because...

Today I was so nervous because...

I had to present my presentation on Steve Irwin. My name was called out after Briana’s. WOW was I nervous. I was so worried. But when the time came for me to present, I stood up and thought....just get it over and done with so I won’t have to worry about the massive shadow hanging over my back. I had some s-stuttering happening in my mouth. Sometimes I would get confused with the words and have to go back and re-read the sentence all over again. It got a bit easier to talk over the presentation because I started to get a bit more confident.

I’m back and ready to blog.

I’m back and ready to blog.

I am nearly finished with my Affective Domain on Steve Irwin. I just need to gather some more facts and then put them into my Prezi. 

Here are some did you know facts about Steve Irwin 

-Steve Irwin was scared to death of parrots, especially the Sulfur Crested Cockatoo. When Steve was four years old he nearly had his nose bitten off by his father’s pet Sulfur Crested Cockatoo.

-Steve and Terri’s daughter Bindi Sue Irwin is named after Steve’s favorite crocodile and his Staffordshire Bullterrier cross Sui.

-Steve had two sisters, Mandy and Joy.

Here are some of Steve Irwin’s awards that I like.

1997 whilst on a fishing trip with his father, Steve discovered a new species of turtle. Steve was given the honour of naming the newly discovered species and named it after his family; Irwin's Turtle Elseya Irwini.

2000 Awarded the Sunshine Coast Tourism Memorial Award 2000 for ‘Most Outstanding Contribution to Tourism’.

Awarded Honorary Senior Fellow by the University of the Sunshine Coast.

2003 Named Queenslander of the Year.

Clay Day!

Yay! Today I started my passion project which was Clay 101. In Clay 101 we had to make a face for first time clay workers. We had to pat down the clay on the board. When I had to pat down the clay some of the clay would pop out and flick you and it really hurt my knees because my jeans have ripped knees because I would always slide on my knees at home on the carpet. When I was making the facial features I had to keep cutting the nose and mouth in half because the mouth and nose didn't look right and it took me about six tries until it was absolutely right. In the end I had everything in the right spot and it was time to go and blog. 

Bye.

My hippo is here!

My hippo is finished.

Hi. I finished my hippo. Today was also my first try at inking my background. On my first try I had it at least 1cm away from it being smack bam and in line with my background. The second time it tried it the lines were perfect. 

The colours.

The first try: Pink background and grey hippo.

The second try: Pink background and purple hippo.

First Try

Second Try

Grey Hippo on it's way...

Yippee! I finished carving out my background on my lino print of my hippo. I'm thinking of doing the hippo grey and the background blue so it will look like he is swimming around in the sea. When I was about to start inking it Katie said that it was time to pack up and go to lunch. I was happy when lunch time came because I was STARVING because I was working so hard on carving out the lino print. So that is all that I thought was exciting for today. 

Tune in next week for more exciting stories by of course me.