Artist Van Gogh

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog. This week I am going to be talking about an Artist. For my Artist I chose Vincent Van Gogh. The reason I chose him was because we did some art about him in room 8 2 years ago. So here are a few facts about him.

• Vincent Van Gogh was born on the 30th of March 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands.
• In a period of ten years he made approximately 900 paintings.
• Vincent shot himself in France but died 2 days later at the age of 37.
• He was poor and was basically unknown his whole life and he only sold one painting in his whole life and was only famous after he died.
• He did not chop of his whole ear he only chopped off a small portion of it.
• Vincent's  brother died when he was born and also had the same name as him.
• He was also good friends with Paul Gauguin who was a famous artist.

My favourite 2 paintings that Vincent Van Gogh did was the starry night and the night club. The reason I like starry night because I did a version of it myself and it's one of his most famous painting. My other favourite painting is the night cafe. The reason I like this one is because it is very well drawn and it would be a place that I would like to go to.

So that's it for this week guys please comment below about which artist you picked for your blog post.

Regional sportsfestival

Hello and welcome back to my blog. This week I am going to be talking about the regional sports festival. Surprisingly this week we have to talk about the sports festival twice, once before the day and once after the day. So lets get started.

Before

At the regional sports festival I am going to be playing the sport table tennis. If you know me well you might think that table tennis for me is not one of my top 3 sports. But I thought through the decision and I decided why not try and play table tennis for a change rather than my other sports I most enjoy. The way I've been practising table tennis is by setting up my net on my dining table and practising with my family (and the odd visitor). We've also been having practises at lunchtime and morning tea. The things I am most looking forward to doing are playing against other schools around the region and having coaching with Robert Chung and Richard Lee. The things I think I can do to help my team is to play well, encourage them and make it fun for all.

After

At the regional sportfest it was a very fun day and there is good news and bad news. The good news is that I had tons of fun and I won six games out of 12. The bad news is that we got 8th in the tournament out of yeah you can probably guess that one. The way I thought I helped my team was by playing some tight games, umpiring some of the games and encouraging my team. The team that won was Brooklyn intermediate which were really good and beat a boy who had a fancy serve and lots of coaching. Overall I thought organisation was really good  and we were constantly playing games. Next year I think they should do the exact same thing because like I said before it was tons of fun.






So that's my blogpost for this week I hope you enjoyed it. Please comment below about how your team went.

The new flag

The Blackjack

Koru and Stars

Silver fern (black, white and blue)

Silver fern (black, white and red)

 

Hello everybody and welcome back to my blog. This week my topic is about the flag debate - in New Zealand at the moment there is a flag debate about changing the flag. Above are my favourite 4 flag options and I am going to be talking about which one I like best and about changing the flag.

My favourite flag 

Out of the four flags I have chosen at the top I have narrowed it down to one flag. The flag that I have chosen as my favourite is the one at the bottom left. The reason I like it is because it has the fern which represents our sporting nature, the  4 stars which represents the southern cross which we see every night and I believe the colours represent our Māori culture. The main reason I like this flag is because it represents our country in a few different ways and has a fantastic design.

Do I want to change the flag ?

Yes I do want to change the flag. I believe it would make our country more recognisable on the world map and we wouldn't get mixed up with the Australian flag which often happens now. It might cost $37M but the government spends a huge amount of money per year on our country's services so it would actually be money well spent. Overall, changing the flag would be a huge success for our nation.

That's it for this week I hope you enjoyed my post. Please comment below and say whether you want to keep the flag or not.



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Art

Art

Welcome back everybody and welcome back to my blog. This week I am going to be talking about Art because in week 8 we have an Art exhibition and our theme is the sky. The first thing I am going to talk about is the sort of art I enjoy doing.

The sort of Art I enjoy doing

 I enjoy most types of f Art but the Art I most enjoy is collage. Collage is ripping lots of little pieces of paper up and sticking them onto a large piece of paper. The reason I enjoy it is because I enjoy the challenge of finding meaningful places for each little piece of paper and it can have a very good outcome. The collage we have done this year is an Aztec mask. My mask has a green and blue background and a black stripe down the middle and a red stripe down the side.

What Art skills do I need to work on 

The Art skills I need to work on are sketching and drawing. The thing I need to work on is being more detailed with my drawing and sketching.  I need to progress from drawing stick figures!  This year we had to draw a sketch of Tenochtitlian. I enjoyed that project and I thought I sketched pretty well but generally, I am still learning to sketch.

Some ideas of what our class could do for our Art exhibition

My favourite idea for our 'Sky Art' project is the one on our back wall - we could have Ranginui the Maori God of the Sky or Zeus the Greek God of the sky as the main character of our art. Another idea I have is for our whole class to make a cardboard plane that can move around the classroom.  When its not moving, it could be hanging from the middle of our classroom ceiling.

So that's my blog post for this week I hope you enjoyed it. Please comment below about some of your art ideas.

2 people I would like to invite over for dinner

2 people I would like to invite over for dinner

Hello boys and girls and welcome back to my blog. This week I am going to be talking about 2 people who I would really like to have dinner with. I am going to be choosing one fictional and one real person. The first person is the son of Poseidon Percy Jackson.

Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson is a book character in the Percy Jackson series and the Hero's of Olympus series. The reason I chose Percy Jackson is because he is a demigod of Poseidon. He is one of the most powerful Demigod in both of the series. He has a lot of special powers such as controlling the water, breathing underwater, talking to sea animals and knowing where to travel when they are on a boat. He is also a very good sword fighter by using his sword riptide. His main features are sea blue eyes and black hair. So onto the point if I could invite Percy Jackson over for dinner I would ask him these three questions-

Which monster do you hate the most and why?

Why do all the Gods ignore you ?

What is your favourite food?

James Rodriguez

My next lucky contestant I would like to invite to dinner is James Rodriguez. James Rodriguez is a professional football player who plays for Colombia and Real Madrid. The way I heard of him was when he played in the 2014 FIFA World Cup and scored the most goals by an individual person (6)
and got the prize for golden goal. After that he went from the football club AS Monaco to Spain's big shots Real Madrid which is one of the best clubs in the world. The questions that I would like to ask him are-

Do you enjoy being an amazing Football player?

What was the best goal you've scored for Real Madrid?

Who is your best mate?

And that is my blog post for this week I hoped you enjoyed it. Please comment below and tell me which people you would like to invite for dinner.