Last day of tech!

Today the Year 8’s from Saint Patrick’s School went to Pakuranga Intermediate for Technicraft.

The art room smelt like paint because there were different coloured paints poured out  on the pieces of paper where Mr.B was standing. We all began by talking about tones because we were going to paint our city landscape with the paint we wanted to use into light, medium and a dark colours.

Mr.B showed us how to make a tone with the colour orange. He took two scoops of orange with his paintbrush and placed it with the white paint colour and mixed it all up. It gave us a light orange. He painted one building. Then he added another two scoops of the orange colours to the same mixture so that it would give a bit of a darkish colour. He painted the second landscape. He mixed another two scoops so that the orange colour can become even more darker. The buildings were shaded with light, medium and dark colours of orange.

The skills that I learnt in art is how to blend colours together and what tint and tones are. Tint are colours that are mixed in with grey to become a dark-ish colour. Tones are colours that are mixed in with white to become a light colour.

Astria: Prompt 3

On a scale of 1-5, how successfully did you problem solve with your partner today?

On a scale of 1-5, I would rate a 5 because I was communicating very well with my partner and it was very easy to work with her. I would prefer that it would be better that we worked alone because it was very easy to work with a partner and it would be better to work alone so that it can be a bit more challenging. My partner and I managed to complete two of our missions and we had had a lot of fun problem solving together.

Astria - Prompt 2

Top 5 things to let you know if any news information you read is fake or not.

1.Check other news articles

You will know if a news article is fake by searching for other articles on the internet and checking if the news you have read is the same with the one you have searched up.

2. Sources

The article can be fake if the person who wrote it doesn't say where the article came from or who wrote it.

3. Spelling

Check if there are any spelling mistakes or if the sentences does not make sense. If this does happen, the article can be fake.

4. Sketchy Articles

If an article does not have enough evidence to backup their information then the article is fake.

5. Recycled News

You will know if the article is fake when you read some articles of the same event and one of the article has a change to it, it means that the article is fake.

Astria: Prompt 1

A student in another school has recently blogged that:

“Students don’t learn much playing this game called Astria – Countdown to Impact: Their time could be better spent doing other things”.

Do you agree, disagree or partly agree/disagree?

I disagree that student's don't learn much from this game because this game helps us to read more, problem solve and it helps us to think critically about the problem we are solving.

Mission Day Advertisement!

For Mission Day our Face Painting group made some advertisements 
that we sent to the classes at Saint Patrick's School, to convince 
them to come and get their face painted.