Famous artist

This week we had to choose a famous artist and write about them.  I chose Leonardo da Vinci.


Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, but commonly known as Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Republic of Florence.  He died on May 2, 1519 (aged 67) in Amboise, Kingdom of France.  His strengths were painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, invention, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history and cartography. 


This is the first artwork I like from Leonardo da Vinci is the Mona Lisa.  I chose it because it was one of his most famous paintings.  This artwork was made, "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". It is believed to been painted between 1503 and 1506. 












My second piece of art that I liked is called The Last Supper.  It was panted between the years of 1494-1499.  This is one of the worlds most famous paintings, and one of the most studied, scrutinized and satirized.








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SPORTSFEST!!!

BEFORE
For Sportsfest I am doing Netball with my normal netball team, but instead
of Siena, we're having Charlotte.  So far we have been doing practices, but
when we try to, other people want to join in and its hard to practice.  I think
we need to stay positive if we are versing hard teams, and just enjoy the day
and play well.


AFTER
It turned out that Charlotte and Catherine were sick and we were left with 7
players.  We needed another person on our team so we could sub and we got
Grace T.  I don't think we connected as well as we usually do because we did
have a few of our players missing.  We lost 4 of our games and won our last one
27-5.  It was also really really hot at one point then it got really windy.  If I was
to do it next year I think I would've brought more food and water.


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The new flag

I think it's a good thing that we're changing the flag, but I also think its bad.
It's good because we won't have a flag that looks nearly the same as Australia's,
and it will make us more individual.  The bad thing about it is that we went to war
with that flag and everyone is used to it.
These are four of the new flag options I liked:



I liked these because they all still show a part of our old flag, but they also have a bit of Maori culture in them.
My favourite flag option would have to be this one:


Because it has the blue part and the stars from the current flag and it also has a fern on it which kind o symbolizes our country.


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Art activities!

The art we have done recently was the Ancient Aztec masks that we had to collage.
Although many people don't like collaging, I actually like it.  Even though it can
take a lot of time, but I like ripping up magazines. 

I think the type of art I need to improve on is drawing because I sometimes

find that quite difficult. 

Our class also has a lot of great ideas for the art exhibition that I think

will look really cool.

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Famous Dinner guests!

This week, we were asked that for our blog post, if we could invite a fictional character and non fictional character, who would they be.  We also have to ask each character a few questions.

MIRANDA SINGS!
My first dinner guest is Miranda Sings because she would be really fun to interview.

Questions:
1) Is it true that you are the most beautiful and famous person in the world?
2) Who is your favourite bae?
3) Do you love your uncle?






DORA THE EXPLORER

 My next guest is Dora the Explorer.

Questions:
1) How come you never grew up until about 2 years ago?
2) Can you teach me more complexed Spanish?
3) Do you ever get tired of being an explorer?





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My Cousin!

I basically only have my Nana as my only grandparent left.  Although I have lots of memories with her, I have way more with my cousin.

When my cousin, Tamera and I were little we liked a lot of the same things such as Princesses.  My Mum told me that we used to have shared birthdays when we were little.  When we ere really young she used to live in Fiji (where she was born) so it was really hard to spend time together.  But when she moved to Auckland (where I was living at the time) we would spend almost every day together.

When we used to go up to Auckland when I was younger, we would sleep over at either her house or our Nana's house. We thought that since we went to bed late, that we were "cool".  We also used to play the teacher game where we would pretend to be teachers, and my other cousin, Leilani (her little sister) would be the student.

A slightly more new memory with Tamera would have to be our dad's cousin's wedding, and also Christmas.  For the wedding we stayed at a cool hotel in Paihia with an awesome pool.  In The mornings I would run down to her hotel room and us and our brothers would go get breakfast and then go straight to the pool before anyone else.
For Christmas, my family, Tamera's family and our Nana went to go stay at a family friends Motel.  WE were the only ones there so it was really cool. It didn't really look like a motel.  It just had one main house thing with a kitchen, dining room and lounge room.  Then outside were all the rooms connected to each other.  There also was a gigantic grass area and Pizza oven.  The grass area connected to the owners house so my brother, my cousins and the owners kids played spotlight every night.

So those are just a few of my favourite memories I've had with my cousin.

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