Medieval times

At school we have been learning about medieval times. Reading books has really helped me learn stuff and also enjoyed watching powerpoints and videos. Recreating medieval buildings and pretending to be be medieval people on minecraft are also really fun and effective ways of learning.

we learnt a lot about people villages and knights in this unit. I feel like we could of focused a bit more on towns and people like kings and knight. Also food and entertainment are two things we could of looked at a bit more

Electives

This year in electives I have done science and now I am doing technology challenge.

I found science a bit boring, though we did learn quite a bit and get to take home some cool things, such as ice-cream, bath bombs and sherbet We did lots of experiments and found out about our body, chemical reactions and heaps more.

In technology challenge we got a challenge to do every. Normally it is to make something out of a range of household materials, such as newspaper, cellotape and string, So far we had to make a caase to protect a egg, a searcher that carries 10 kg and a freestanding tower that is  as tall as possible.  

Tech

At tech so far I have done movie making, electronics and woodwork. At the monument I am making a spoon. I have learnt how to make a movie, and how to use tools such as saws and drills. Movie making has been my favourite class so far 

The Middle ages

Our top at school at the monument is medieval times. So far we have learnt about medieval castles, different ranks in medieval society and about merchants in the middle ages. It has been really interesting. I would like to look at medieval food and cookery, slavery in the middle ages and the basic life of most people in the middle ages. A fun learning idea would be cooking our own medieval meal.

Book group

At school we have book group, or book clubs. My group read running out of time. It was quite good for getting me to qask questions about what I was reading and helped me not to read opn and on and lose sense of time

Art

I think I have made quite a bit of progress in art. I have leart how to handle a paint brush and I am quite good a blending, but I still need to work on making shapes and drawing stright lines

The Treachery of Images

At school this week we painted The Treachery of Images I need to work on the shape of stuff I paint. Mine was far to fat! I also need to watch were my brush goes and what gets on it. But still, I think think the blending was good and the writing okay.