(Not) The True Story of Hansel & Gretel

So... last Friday after morning tea, we used a bus as a transport so that we could watch the Hansel & Gretel ballet. I mean, It was really fun we got to watch one of the best ballet people in New Zealand. But... we only got to watch the 2nd half not the 1st half and 2nd half.

One thing though, the ballet ticket is supposed to be $50/ more for one person. The price goes higher depends on where you sit. But... we watched it for free, we were sitting inside and watching for free. We only had to pay $2 each person for the bus, even the bus fee lowered down.

So After Ballet, we went back and done.
At Monday for Writing, we had to try and make our own type of Hansel & Gretel. And we can make it as funny as we can, scary, interesting, or whatever.

I found it hard to add my own characters, and it took me a really long time to come up with what topic I should do.

I found it easy to recreate some parts.

Here's what I made. Unfinished and don't know how to fix it.

Mousetrap Invention (First one to make it? IDK)

For Reading we had been reading of a fictional story called Mousetraps. It's really fun to read because it's not like other stories where, there are only humans and not a bit of animals.

The story is about a person who has a dad and he's a softie, which means he doesn't like killing things. The person's mum doesn't like mice, but they keep on showing up and poops in the cupboard. (Let's use mouse droppings). So the dad decided to make a trap, but it keeps getting the same mouse all over again and again.

So the main thing I'm doing is making my own mouse trap!! Yes my own one. I still don't know if I was the first person to invent this but I hope so.

I found it hard to create one and figure out how to design it.
I found it easy to draw and to explain it.

I hope you like it.

Harmless Collar ( For Non-Fiction Passage "Penguin Hospital"}

For Reading we had been doing a Non-Fictional Passage, which is called "Penguin Hospital".

It's about a woman called Viv Hextall, who lives at a beach near Wellington. Last year there was a family of penguins who came and lived under their house, after the nesting season they left and went to the sea. Except one.
This one penguin was sick, and Viv Hextall took care of the penguin and made it better. Her house became the "Penguin Hospital" because many injured and sick penguins was washed up in her garden, or sometimes they walk to her doorstep.

Anyways that's what the passage is about. So what I'm trying to do is make a gadget to keep the penguins there, safe.

I found it hard to come up with my own idea, so that people wouldn't think I copied theirs.

I found it easy to draw examples, and write them down.

Here's the picture of what I did.

Descriptive Writing Prompts.

For Writing we had been doing a lot of things, one of it is Descriptive Writing Prompts, it's when you get a picture in a slideshow and you use writing stuff to describe it. Like Alliteration, Metaphor, etc.
It might not be finished but I'm trying to.

I found it hard to make 4 sentences on each picture.
I found it easy to come up with an Onomatopoeia.

Here's my work.

The Tame Eels of Anatoki Automatic Cage

For Reading we had been given a non-fiction passage, and it's called "The Tame Eels of Anatoki".
It's about a girl called Margaret McCallum ast 1914 she saw a huge eel on her parents' backyard, so she fed him. Sooner and sooner there were more than one eel, she has been feeding eels for 50 years.

Oh, and by the way we had to make our automatic cage for them that's the point.

I found it hard to think of what I should do, because there are so many good options.
I found it easy to draw.

It might be blurry, but I might find another way to make it unblurry.

National Flower Printmaking Work

For Integrated Learning we had been learning about our National Flower, The Philippines' National Flower is "Sampaguita" and it looks like this.

And there are also some other forms.

So the point is, we had to make our national flower and put 3 different layers on it. Layer 1 can the be the Petals, Layer 2 can be the Leaves (If you want to put some), and Layer 3 can be the circle in the middle.

1st you have to draw it (make sure it's 10cm x 10cm)  ,and 2nd trace it, 3rd cut it out, 4th put it on a 10x10 square paper, 5th paint it with black ink or red ink using rollers, 6th put the painted paper on a paper and press down hard so that the ink would go on the paper, 7th carefully take your flower off, Then done.
To make it easier let's call it Printmaking.

I found it hard to try and make the flower, because it's kinda hard to add different layers because my one didn't turn out the way I drawed it.

I found it easy to paint it and putting it on the paper so that it's there.

There were some mistakes, It was when 1 layer (The circle thing on a flower) it went off and so the last one looked like a flower but a shadow.

I forgot to mention that there is a competition of doing this so uhh.. yeah.

Here's what I've done so far...