My Score On The Maori Language Quiz

On the maori language word quiz I got a 62/100. I think that's pretty good for somebody that doesn't know much te reo. I was mostly just guessing the one that I didn't know, and I think I even got a few right. I think that anything that is over 50/100 is a win. Here is a link to the quiz if you want to have a go, and you can tell me in the comments what your score was. 

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The Olympic Sprints Finals Writing.

This writing was from 4 weeks ago, and my writing group kind of forgot about it during lockdown so today we are finishing it off. Our task was to write a moment in time about the olympic sprints, except we were the runners. I did it like I was an old Grandparent telling his grandchildren about the time, Like it says at the end "Can you tell me another story Grandad?" I thought that it added a bit of a finishing tough to the writing, and I think its really cool. I found it easy to use my descriptive language to make the reader interested in my story, because I read a lot of books and I learn lots of new words from these books. I found it hard to find a quiet place to record my video of me reading, because lots of people were outside recording too. Next time I think I should add more visiols into my publishing, like maybe more detailed people and different designs rather than copy past and change some colours up.

All About ME Poster.

I picked this task from the Team Toroa choosing board, and the task was to make a poster all about us. I will write what I wrote t the end of this post. I enjoyed polylining my minecraft steve because he has lots of squares, and when I colourd him I did some shading, and i think that it looks really cool. I fond it hard to find a good picture of myself, but I found this photo with my guitar. I found it easy to find pictures using the explore tool and making sure that they are free. Next time I think I should polyline more than just one picture.

(The writing on the Drawing)

My name is Toby, I'm 11 years old, and I love Minecraft, Bass Guitar, and my pets. My favourite genre of food is Mexican and my favourite movie is Avengers: Engame. I like to read sci-fi and fantasy books like the Chaos Walking series, and Ready Player One.  My favourite cartoon is Adventure Time, and my favourite TV show is Brooklyn 99. I Have 7 pets, 4 at my dads and 3 at my mums. My favourite color is Light Blue and my favourite animal is a Tiger. My hobbies are cartooning, biking and video games. I hope that this is enough information about ME.

The Fight Against Covid-19 (Covid V.S Pfizer)

This lockdown we have been set 2 writing tasks. This is one of them. Our task was to make a comic book about destroying covid, so I did covid v.s the vaccine. Its only weakness. I did a simple one panel comic, its not an animation. Its a comic. Some comics have both one panel pages and some long panels, and some normal panels. I found it easy to make my characters with shapes and polyline, because I chose to do simple designs so I Can focus on the story. I really like making comics, and I even made one during lockdown. I found it challenging to do the news report part of my comic, because the words would always go really tiny, and I would have to keep on pressing the button to make them bigger until they were at 90. And my stuff wouldn't group properly. For my next comic (If I make one) I might make it longer, and make the story more interesting.

My Spring Rap.

Right. I made a song. I call it Spring. Or something like that. Anyway, we had to make a poem about spring, but I made it even better and made it into a rap. I actually don't own a microphone (Unless a gaming headset counts.) So I used a soup spoon. I even recorded my "Rap" and put it into the flipgrid site. There will be a video down below, underneath my poem. Man Eminem would be proud. I think that I did a really good job with it. I had, song, comedy and tea. Can't forget about the tea. Drinking tea as we speak. This poem is basically how I see spring. I mean rap. When it rains, Netflix is my mate. When it shines.... Netflix is still my mate. Lets face it, we all spend the majority of our time inside during lockdown. And everyone's best friend is netflix or disney+. I found it hard to make my words rhyme, and to make the words sound good together. Because if it doesn't sound good,then whats the point of making it. 

My Olympic Torch

In this activity we had to make an olympic torch. The original torch from the 2020 games is made out of recycled aluminum. I have chosen to make mine out of copper, and the Rings are made out of silver. I really enjoyed making this because I could use my creativity to remake something real. I found it challenging to get the rings on top of the torch, and to have the fire at the back. It was really stressful and it wasn't co-operating with me. I finally made the decision to make a copy of the top of the torch and wedging the fire between the torch and copy. Next time I think that I might make the design more complex.

Meet Paihere, My Olympic Mascot!

 In this activity, our task was to make a mascot if NZ ever hosted the olympics. I think that I did a really good job on this polyline creation, because I didn't trace anything! How I got my name was I went into google translate, did English to Maori, then I did the word Beautiful and I got Paihere. I don;t want to spoil my mote so I'll let you go and have a listen to that. I found it hard to do the lips, because I couldn't get the right shape, but I got there in the end. I decided to add a little olympic symbol on her dress, just to clarify that it was and olympic mascot. I was going to do a headband but I decided that I didn't need one. Next time I think that I should add more words into my mote so it's more interesting for you guys.