Captain Cook Causes and Effects Animation

We had to make an animation about something that has happened because of Captain Cook coming to New Zealand. I did mine about how trade was impacted after Captain Cook's arrival and departure.It still a work in progress.

Animation Thing

In Integrated Studies, we had to make an animation. Mine has no plot what so ever, but it was fun to make.

Tin Poem

So, we started the poem making with a warm up the whole class did. The poem we wrote was about the colour blue. For that we each wrote a line about the colour. After that two of the girls in my class placed the lines in a order that makes sense.Then we got the tin with the objects in it. We had to write 40 words about the object we got. I got the key. It's a lot harder to describe a key then I thought. Then we chose our best twenty words, those are the words we had to use for our poems. I wrote my words down on pieces of paper and mucked around with the order of them until it sounded good. Then I got rid of two of them, because the first word of the poem is an anagram and the last word is the object the poem is about. I drafted my poem on a paper copy of the cards we wrote our poems (The poem cards are the ones in the pictures above). Finally I wrote my good copy in a really nice gold pen on the actual card.The poem writing was a nation wide activity that 96,000 students participated in, called Get New Zealand Writing. My classes poems are being sent to a school in Birkenhead, Auckland.